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Anti China is back, should we send few mcfers there to join the crowd? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/hong-kong-demonstration-hundreds-thousands-protest-china Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong residents have staged a massive pro-democracy march, marking one of the territory's biggest protests, and one of the most spirited shows of resistance to Chinese Communist party rule, in recent history. Protesters gathered in intense heat and intermittent rainstorms to voice a variety of grievances, from rising inequality and the Chinese government's refusal to grant Hong Kong a more democratic voting process by 2017, to a controversial urban development in the region's north-eastern New Territories area. The complaints had one thing in common: the belief that Beijing is increasingly taking control of the region's institutions, from its financial firms to its newspapers and courts, causing residents to feel politically voiceless and economically squeezed. The protesters, most of whom wore white shirts, moved slowly through central Hong Kong's forest of skyscrapers, shouting slogans and calling on police to grant them more room to march. Signs backing the rally hung from overpasses, saying "Our home, our say" and "Guard Hong Kong people's autonomy". Some juxtaposed caricatures of Leung Chun-ying, the city's pro-Beijing top official, with bold-character messages imploring him to step down. On Tuesday morning, Hong Kong officials held a ceremony to celebrate the 17th anniversary of the region's return to mainland control, after 156 years of British colonial rule, on 1 July 1997. "Only by maintaining Hong Kong's stability can we sustain our economic prosperity," Leung said at a reception afterwards, according to Xinhua, China's official newswire. Blocks away, a small group of protesters from the League of Social Democrats, an outspoken opposition party, burned copies of his portrait. Hours after the protests began, their starting point of Victoria Park was still flooded with people. They sang songs including Cantonese renditions of Imagine, and Blowin' in the Wind, and old Hong Kong pop songs. A full marching band moved through a sea of umbrellas, playing the Les Miserables song Do You Hear the People Sing. Two protesters wearing black shirts emblazoned with the words "f**k the government" gave a television interview. Elderly couples walked hand-in-hand; young couples carried infants. Stoney-faced police wearing neon safety vests stood fanning themselves on the sidelines. "Leung Chun-ying?" a demonstrator shouted into a megaphone. "Step down!" the crowd shouted in reply. The protest's organiser, the Civil Human Rights Front, estimated that 510,000 people joined the march. Police estimated the turnout to be below 100,000. One protester, a 25-year-old man in a blue button-down shirt and khaki shorts, waved a colonial-era British Hong Kong flag affixed to a long metal pole. "This is for the glory days of old Hong Kong," he said, giving only his surname, Leung. He said he saw the flag as more of an anti-Beijing symbol than a pro-British one. "The situation now is worse than it ever was." The demonstration comes two days after the end of an unofficial "referendum" organised by the pro-democracy movement, Occupy Central with Love and Peace, in which nearly 800,000 people voted for Hong Kong people be allowed to choose their own top leader. China's state media called the vote illegal. While mainland authorities have promised Hong Kong universal suffrage by 2017 they will only allow a voting system in which they choose the candidates. Many Hong Kong residents consider the arrangement an exercise in "fake democracy". The Civil Human Rights Front is a coalition of dozens of political and social groups labour, religous and LGBT rights groups many of which were out in force. Adherents of the spiritual group Falun Gong, which is banned on the mainland, were also present, handing out newspapers. "We're fighting for democracy in Hong Kong. Beijing doesn't represent our opinions, and that's not fair to us," said Ian Wong, 20, a member of the Student Christian Movement of Hong Kong, which had sent 20 representatives to the protest. "I'm a Christian, but this isn't about that it's about all Hong Kong Christians coming out and expressing our views." After dark, on Chater road, a thoroughfare flanked by luxury outlets in the city's central business area, hundreds of people sat cross-legged listening to protest songs and speeches by the protest's organisers. Two student groups, Scholarism, and the Hong Kong Federation of Students, announced they would "occupy" parts of central Hong Kong after the protest ended, despite promises by police to take "decisive action" if crowds did not disperse by early Wednesday morning. "Hong Kong has had enough," Johnson Yeung Ching-yin, convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front, said in a speech. "We're done just fighting individual issues we're fighting the government now, to build a society and a government that belongs to us." He added: "We don't want our laws made by people who are 1,000 miles away in Beijing." The crowd burst into applause. Volunteers from the Hong Kong Federation of Students stood beneath tents on the sidelines, handing out snacks and bottled water to the protesters. Some were still deciding whether to continue through the night. "I'd really like to stay," said Jamie Lam, a 20-year-old Hong Kong native and a student at the University of Warwick. "But I also might not if I get arrested I might not be able to go back to the UK." Beijing has shown no signs that it will cede to protesters' demands. Mentions of the protest appeared to be blocked on mainland social media sites. "The central government resolutely supports Hong Kong in achieving universal suffrage in accordance with law," Zhang Xiaoming, director of Beijing's Liaison Office, told reporters, according to Kyodo News International. "This dedication and sincerity will not be shaken or changed over the so-called 'civic referendum' or the size of any protest."

Hi all, Hi all 80s Song/Music lovers, This is my 80s, 1 hundred songs list. Please feel free to comment. If you like a particular song, please let me know too . Thank you very much. 99 Red Balloons, Nena http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZwhzf8NC4o...feature=related A View to a Kill, Duran Duran Africa, Toto All I Want, Howard Jones Alone, Heart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaElnj_nQ-M Another Lover, Giant Steps Betty Davis Eyes, Kim Carnes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Al9blQOhNw...feature=related Big Love, Fleetwood Mac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl6GePRpVlA...feature=related Bizarre Love Triangle, New Order http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7rGNcBt4BE...feature=related Black Celebration, Depeche Mode Blasphemous Rumours, Depeche Mode Bring Down The Moon, Boy Meets Girl China in your hand, T'Pau Circle In The Sand, Belinda Carlisle Come go with me, Expose Crockett's Theme, Jan Hammer Crush on you, The Jets Der Kommissar, After the Fire Don't Dream It's Over, Crowded House http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCqsG1t7RoU...feature=channel Don't stop believing, Journey Down under, Men at Work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT7uZf7lew Every breath you take, The Police Everybody wants to rule the world, Tears for Fears Everywhere, Fleetwood Mac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bEZSKpD7oM...feature=related Family Man, Fleetwood Mac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDgqUrDsnC4...feature=related Forever Young, Alphaville From A Distance, Bette Midler http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAZ0_XakDY8 Goodbye to you, Scandal Goonies'r good enough, Cyndi Lauper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi6rVFVwti0...feature=related Heat of the Moment, Asia Heat Of The Night, Byran Adams Here I go again, White Snake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmvzzFuTfsI...feature=related High Enough, Damn Yankees http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI9ySbj4Uu8 I just died in your arms tonight, Cutting Crew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmR65FHcJ6s I surrender, Samatha Fox http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H_LleizF2s...feature=related I'm Gonna Be 500 Miles, The Proclaimers I'm Not Scared, Eighth Wonder If She Knew What She Wants, The Bangles If You Leave, OMD In My Dreams, REO Speedwagon Is This Love, White Snake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loM99T_XEyk...feature=related King Of Wishful Thinking, Go West Lessons In Love, Level 42 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt7mtdLha-c Listen to your heart, Roxette http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktRsl2hAPhY...feature=related Little Lies, Fleetwood Mac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5rbRg5Beb4...feature=related Love Bites, Def Leppard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7NkYu6SaPo Love Comes Quickly, Pet Shop Boys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9cjyeIed6o Luka, Suzanne Vega http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCXnJIAQd1o Manic Monday, The Bangles Missing You, John Waite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekiZIAqw2Go...feature=related Money For Nothing, Dire Straits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ZEzWwKJnY...feature=related No one is to blame, Howard Jones One Heartbeat, Smokey Robinson Open your heart, Europe Owner Of A Lonely Heart, Yes People are People, Depeche Mode http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPEWf1fuAvc...feature=related Poison, Alice Cooper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4YV5OPBUC4...feature=related Power of love, Huey Lewis Running Up That Hill, Kate Bush http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuLlwUaEyr0...feature=related Second Chance, 38 Special Send Me An Angel, Real Life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6zBjYIyz-0 Shake the disease, Depeche Mode http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgmDJuvZwgA...feature=related Shattered Dreams, Johnny Hates Jazz Ship Of Fools, World Party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdeIZkZo2PM Song Bird, Kenny G Sowing The Seeds Of Love, Tears for Fears http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbvxALFWvHs Straight Up, Paula Abdul http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu4NcgQZucE...feature=related Suburbia, Pet Shop Boys Such a Shame, Talk Talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6PzyqZXBM8 Sweet sixteen, Billy Idol Talking in your sleep, The Romantics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYXzl4IoZ_I...feature=related Tender Love, Force MD's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=260MTsBNfRQ The Living Daylights, Aha The next time I fall, Peter Cetera The Reflex, Duran Duran The Riddle, Nik Kershaw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN04vtNcrek These Dreams, Heart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le90hbVynUE Touch in the night, Silent Circle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtT6rE1A6_A...feature=related Toy Soldiers, Markita True Faith, New Order Turn back the clock, Johnny Hates Jazzhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpcNUfqNBSc Video Killed the Radio Star, Buggles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2AInek4yXc...feature=related Waiting for the star to fall, Boy Meets Girl We don't have to take our clothes off,Jermaine Stewart What About Love, Heart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6U0eueRGu4...feature=related What is love, Howard Jones What's Love Got To With It, Tina Turner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eu3WIXuzmo White Wedding, Billy Idol Wind Beneath My Wings, Bette Midler Wishful Thinking, China Crisis With or without you, U2 Wonderful Life, Black Wouldn't It Be Good, Nik Kershaw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvC2LRTR8UI...feature=related Wuthering heights, Kate Bush You give love a bad name, Bon Jovi You Make Loving Fun, Fleetwood Mac You Might Think, The Cars You spin me round like a record, Dead or Alive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJv5qLsLYoo You're the Inspiration, Chicago Your Wildest Dreams, The Moody Blues Regards,

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Ford wants to change the face of the family sedan with its new Five Hundred model. The automaker gave the media a preview of the new car at the 2002 New York Auto Show, and claims the Five Hundred will offer incomparable passenger roominess, a tall seating position, sophisticated styling, and command of the road. "The Five Hundred is the result of asking questions about the family sedan that no one thought to ask," Chris Theodore, Ford