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Franco Battiato - Fetus CD (album) cover

Franco Battiato

Rock Progressivo Italiano

3.35 | 53 ratings

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4 stars A charming and diverse debut

Franco Battiato falls in that group of great Italian solo musical artists like Battisti, Sorrenti, and Rocchi, who toyed with the RPI movement before moving into other genres and styles of music. Battiato may be the most celebrated of the bunch by producing the most material which RPI fans find appealing; he had quite a string of fine albums. This string began rather early in the Italian progressive timeline, with the material for "Fetus" conceived in 1971 for a very early '72 release.

Despite the less-than-appealing cover art, "Fetus" is one charming piece of work. It is true that it is less realized than his coming albums, perhaps more scattershot, and yet I find it is probably the one I enjoy playing the most. It's a collage work mixing symphonic, psych, traditional Italian pop, avant-garde, minimalism, and electronic sound. Comparisons are sometimes made to Krautrock groups, musical chameleons like Roxy Music, or bands like Neu, Can, Kraftwerk, early Floyd, even Pierrot Lunaire's "Gudrun." Personally I am reminded of Antonio Bartoccetti's Jacula which was also an experimental sound troupe as opposed to a traditional rock band, they had the same approach of cut and pasting somewhat sparse singular ingredients to create a sound painting, as opposed to following the mores of rock n roll. Obviously Battiato does not have the same occult/death imagery of Jacula, understand I'm talking about the creative process and not the actual musical themes. The brevity of the tracks is arguable. Some may disappointed they end too soon, while I've seen others praise Battiato for not getting hung up on endless length for the sake of it, as some of his contemporaries were doing by this point.

"a diverse mixture of progressive rock; lovely and haunting melodies complete with "churchy" sounding pipe organ; soft, acoustic textures (guitar and violin); spacey, VCS3 synthesizer heavy experimentation; some folk music; psychedelic freak outs; and found sounds." -Jeffrey J. Park

As for what "Fetus" delivers to the listeners, the songs are short and sweet, built upon the combination of Battiato's VCS3, voice, and the acoustic guitar. The eerie warbles of the VCS3 are handled masterfully, and even if occasionally cheesy by today's standards they are often evocative and haunting in their strangeness. The embellishments in the form of violin, swelling organ washes, light/minimal percussion, Bach samples, and sound effects keep each track very rich and interesting. Beyond his own rather average singing voice he employs the voices of children, or in another track he uses audio from the Apollo 11 space mission to captivating effect. The songs are like snapshots, all different from each other, and not always transitioning smoothly as other reviewers note. But it doesn't harm the overall effect for me. The irresistible combination of "ideas overload" with obvious affection for nostalgic melodies creates a wonderfully inviting and memorable album. There is also a certain vibe of innocence and naivety contrasting the album's many colorful nooks and crannies, which may pull off the difficult task of pleasing both fans of "difficult" prog and melodic pop/rock. From sounds as diverse as vocal babbling to delicate strings, from wild synths to Orme style strummed acoustic change-ups, the bottom line is that this album is fresh. Fresh in 1972 and still quite appealing four decades on.

Check out Guldbamsen's fine description of the album's sound. I agree with him that this is the perfect place to start your Battiato journey, from the beginning, so you can hear the amazing developments to follow.

Finnforest | 4/5 |

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Mythos - Strange Guys CD (album) cover

2.98 | 13 ratings

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3 stars It's no wonder Mythos was never able to gain any career traction. Guitarist / front man Stephan Kaske was always struggling to keep up with changing times, and when he reassembled the band yet again in 1977 it was the third entirely new line-up in three consecutive albums.

Received opinion says the band, like so many others, lost a step when they simplified their style at the end of the decade. I would argue the opposite, at least for this effort: that once he was out from under the influence of Kosmische Rock guru R.U. Kaiser (on the lam in 1977 after the COSMIC JOKERS scandal), Kaske delivered his strongest album to date.

The sound was far more commercial, to be sure, but at the same time more focused, showing more muscle and punch in a single song than in both their previous albums combined. And because the band (in whatever formation) never had a firm grasp on the underlying ethos of Krautrock to begin with, the shift to a more transparent style didn't seem like such a retrograde sell-out.

That newfound energy is immediately apparent in the opening "Aeronaut", a relentless guitar-and-synth rifferama that I wish had continued for more than its five driving minutes. But the sudden ending makes for an effective transition to the much calmer title track, where you'll find a lingering echo of the band's Krautrock past, in the haunting combination of delicate flute and acoustic 12-string guitar. Here and elsewhere the power chords give way to brief moments of almost pastoral beauty, reminiscent of early GENESIS but in a more Germanic minor key.

Stephan Kaske wisely delegated lead-guitar duties to newcomer Sven Dohrow, who does his macho Arena-Rock thing all over songs like "Aeronaut" and "Powerslide", the latter sounding not unlike HAWKWIND demolishing a discotheque. Kaske's insecure vocals were still a weak link, but with the much stronger instrumental backdrop his singing wasn't such a conspicuous liability as before.

The end of the 1970s were in sight, but for the time being there was more than enough touches of ersatz-Prog Rock creativity to hold a fan's interest: in the pinpoint tempo changes of "Mysterious Scene"; the quasi-Celtic vibe of "Terra Incognita"; and the JETHRO TULL-like jamming of "Backstage Fumble" (gotta love that unexpected, Teutonic doo-wop vocal interlude too...) The album artwork is crummy, and the title itself is a little misleading: these guys weren't strange at all, although I suppose it sounded more attractive than "Derivative Guys". But at the end of the day this will probably be the one Mythos album I return to most.

Neu!mann | 3/5 |

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Marchesi Scamorza - La Sposa Del Tempo CD (album) cover

Marchesi Scamorza

Rock Progressivo Italiano

3.74 | 15 ratings

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4 stars Marchesi Scamorza started out in 2009 as a covers band but nowadays operate as a fully self- sufficient prog rock act. Last year they recorded their first full-length album 'La Sposa Del Tempo' in the countryside around their native Ferrara in northern Italy and I somehow imagine the band standing on the hump of a hill as they survey the surrounding landscape - with an open view in all directions to different topographical features representing the accumulated musical experiences of the boys in the band. As the songs unfold we are confronted with asymmetric structures and Neo-Prog excoriations, flickering tints of Trespass-era keyboards and Hackettian guitar elevations, the cantautori tradition harbouring alongside mellow West Coast vibes, and even some electronic shading to provide real diversity. All are rolled out like a map across the album's nine tracks but its natural essence is the RPI.

This empathy for the RPI of the seventies clearly drives Marchesi Scamorza but while their list of influences reads like a who's who of Italian prog rock one might wonder if they can walk the walk themselves. Well, typical Italian eclecticism is a key principle in their music, as is spontaneous self-expression - vocalist Enrico Bernardini may not be to everyone's taste but he can't be faulted for his passion and his voice has a wistful quality that I find appealing; and he undoubtedly leaves a lasting impression, just ask the boys in the Den - but the combination of dynamism and changeability they so readily embrace can at times result in a disjointed rawness, a certain earthiness that nonetheless makes this every inch an RPI album. For sure there is scope for some improvement but no major surgery is required, just minor tinkering, because there's some great music packed away in here. And if these guys can sustain their current efforts they should have a very healthy prognosis.

seventhsojourn | 4/5 |

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Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever CD (album) cover

Symphonic Prog

4.16 | 679 ratings

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4 stars The big questions facing prog supergroup Transatlantic on the release of their second album, Bridge Across Forever, was could they continue to create such impressive music and could they do it by creating something new? The answer, in short, was yes and no.

Transatlantic's first album is one of my personal favourites and it was always going to be a hard job to beat the excellent SMPTe. Sadly the group couldn't, but they did give it a damn good go at it by doing what, it seems, they do best, big epics. Of the four songs on here, and this is a full length album at 1 hour 17minutes, two of them are over 25 minutes in length and a third song is over 12 minutes, with only the title track being short at 5 and a half minutes.

Of course when a band makes numerous epics like this, they run the risk of having large amounts of pointless noodling that ends up going nowhere and doing nothing other than boring the listener to tears. Thankfully that isn't the case here. I don't know how they do it but these guys, when working together, are able to make a full half hour song seem like 15 minutes, it goes past so quick whilst you enjoy it that its unbelievable, a trait that they have carried over from their first album. In fact this album, musically, is a match for what they have previously accomplished and overall is just as enjoyable with lots of great music.

So why no 5 stars? Well, this album does sound almost the same as its predecessor without any real progress, they haven't moved on and, though they do this very well, it can get boring quickly if they don't change the formula. The other problem is the title track itself. It's a piano only track with Neal Morse doing vocals and seems to have little to no input from the other three members. Couldn't this have been left to one of Morse's solo albums, especially since I find it rather dull and sticks out like a sore thumb here.

What you do get is two rather brilliantly composed epics (Duel With The Devil and Stranger In Your Soul) that have each member of the band firing on all cylinders. The other track (Suite Charlotte Pike) starts off sounding almost like a jam but the structure of the song becomes stronger and more apparent the longer it goes on, very nice. Lyrically it seems that most of these tracks are linked by a common theme (another reason why Bridge Across Forever sticks out on this album, I don't think its linked) with phrases like "stranger in your soul" and "duel with the devil" appearing quite often throughout. I'm not sure what their getting at but it's a nice touch all the same.

Basically the only things wrong with this album is that its completely un-original and that the title track is a very big disappointment, so I give this a well deserved 4 out of 5.

sleeper | 4/5 |

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Panasonic PT-AR100U Home Theater Projector Review

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The reason is that first, Panasonic has done a very good job in overall sharpness and convergence, so it starts out pretty sharp. But the other reason is the competition. Most of those low cost DLP projectors simply haven’t invested in optics as clear as the Panasonic’s, or at least that’s my take.

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Recent Articles The American Prospect - articles by author en How to Judge Globalism

Globalization is often seen as global
 Westernization. On this point, there
 is substantial agreement among many proponents and opponents. Those who take an
 upbeat view of globalization see it as a marvelous contribution of Western
 civilization to the world. There is a nicely stylized history in which the great
 developments happened in Europe: First came the Renaissance, then the
 Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, and these led to a massive increase
 in living standards in the West. And now the great achievements of the West are
 spreading to the world. In this view, globalization is not only good, it is also
 a gift from the West to the world. The champions of this reading of history tend
 to feel upset not just because this great benefaction is seen as a curse but also
 because it is undervalued and castigated by an ungrateful world.

 From the opposite perspective, Western dominance--sometimes seen as a
 continuation of Western imperialism--is the devil of the piece. In this view,
 contemporary capitalism, driven and led by greedy and grabby Western countries in
 Europe and North America, has established rules of trade and business relations
 that do not serve the interests of the poorer people in the world. The
 celebration of various non-Western identities--defined by religion (as in Islamic
 fundamentalism), region (as in the championing of Asian values), or culture (as
 in the glorification of Confucian ethics)--can add fuel to the fire of
 confrontation with the West.

 Is globalization really a new Western curse? It is, in fact, neither new nor
 necessarily Western; and it is not a curse. Over thousands of years,
 globalization has contributed to the progress of the world through travel, trade,
 migration, spread of cultural influences, and dissemination of knowledge and
 understanding (including that of science and technology). These global
 interrelations have often been very productive in the advancement of different
 countries. They have not necessarily taken the form of increased Western
 influence. Indeed, the active agents of globalization have often been located far
 from the West.

 To illustrate, consider the world at the beginning of the last millennium
 rather than at its end. Around 1000 A.D., global reach of science, technology,
 and mathematics was changing the nature of the old world, but the dissemination
 then was, to a great extent, in the opposite direction of what we see today. The
 high technology in the world of 1000 A.D. included paper, the printing press, the
 crossbow, gunpowder, the iron-chain suspension bridge, the kite, the magnetic
 compass, the wheelbarrow, and the rotary fan. A millennium ago, these items were
 used extensively in China--and were practically unknown elsewhere. Globalization
 spread them across the world, including Europe.

 A similar movement occurred in the Eastern influence on Western mathematics.
 The decimal system emerged and became well developed in India between the second
 and sixth centuries; it was used by Arab mathematicians soon thereafter. These
 mathematical innovations reached Europe mainly in the last quarter of the tenth
 century and began having an impact in the early years of the last millennium,
 playing an important part in the scientific revolution that helped to transform
 Europe. The agents of globalization are neither European nor exclusively Western,
 nor are they necessarily linked to Western dominance. Indeed, Europe would have
 been a lot poorer--economically, culturally, and scientifically--had it resisted
 the globalization of mathematics, science, and technology at that time. And
 today, the same principle applies, though in the reverse direction (from West to
 East). To reject the globalization of science and technology because it
 represents Western influence and imperialism would not only amount to overlooking
 global contributions--drawn from many different parts of the world--that lie
 solidly behind so-called Western science and technology, but would also be quite
 a daft practical decision, given the extent to which the whole world can benefit
 from the process.

A Global Heritage

 In resisting the diagnosis of globalization as a phenomenon
 of quintessentially Western origin, we have to be suspicious not only of the
 anti-Western rhetoric but also of the pro-Western chauvinism in many contemporary
 writings. Certainly, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial
 Revolution were great achievements--and they occurred mainly in Europe and,
 later, in America. Yet many of these developments drew on the experience of the
 rest of the world, rather than being confined within the boundaries of a discrete
 Western civilization.

 Our global civilization is a world heritage--not just a collection of
 disparate local cultures. When a modern mathematician in Boston invokes an
 algorithm to solve a difficult computational problem, she may not be aware that
 she is helping to commemorate the Arab mathematician Mohammad Ibn
 Musa-al-Khwarizmi, who flourished in the first half of the ninth century. (The
 word algorithm is derived from the name al-Khwarizmi.) There is a chain of
 intellectual relations that link Western mathematics and science to a collection
 of distinctly non-Western practitioners, of whom al-Khwarizmi was one. (The term
algebra is derived from the title of his famous book Al-Jabr
 wa-al-Muqabilah.) Indeed, al-Khwarizmi is one of many non-Western
 contributors whose works influenced the European Renaissance and, later, the
 Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. The West must get full credit for
 the remarkable achievements that occurred in Europe and Europeanized America, but
 the idea of an immaculate Western conception is an imaginative fantasy.

 Not only is the progress of global science and technology not an exclusively
 West-led phenomenon, but there were major global developments in which the West
 was not even involved. The printing of the world's first book was a marvelously
 globalized event. The technology of printing was, of course, entirely an
 achievement of the Chinese. But the content came from elsewhere. The first
 printed book was an Indian Sanskrit treatise, translated into Chinese by a
 half-Turk. The book, Vajracchedika Prajnaparamitasutra (sometimes referred
 to as "The Diamond Sutra"), is an old treatise on Buddhism; it was translated
 into Chinese from Sanskrit in the fifth century by Kumarajiva, a half-Indian and
 half-Turkish scholar who lived in a part of eastern Turkistan called Kucha but
 later migrated to China. It was printed four centuries later, in 868 a.d. All
 this involving China, Turkey, and India is globalization, all right, but the West
 is not even in sight.

Global Interdependences and Movements

 The misdiagnosis that globalization of ideas and practices
 has to be resisted because it entails dreaded Westernization has played quite a
 regressive part in the colonial and postcolonial world. This assumption incites
 parochial tendencies and undermines the possibility of objectivity in science and
 knowledge. It is not only counterproductive in itself; given the global
 interactions throughout history, it can also cause non-Western societies to shoot
 themselves in the foot--even in their precious cultural foot.

 Consider the resistance in India to the use of Western ideas and concepts
 in science and mathematics. In the nineteenth century, this debate fitted into a
 broader controversy about Western education versus indigenous Indian education.
 The "Westernizers," such as the redoubtable Thomas Babington Macaulay, saw no
 merit whatsoever in Indian tradition. "I have never found one among them
 [advocates of Indian tradition] who could deny that a single shelf of a good
 European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia," he
 declared. Partly in retaliation, the advocates of native education resisted
 Western imports altogether. Both sides, however, accepted too readily the
 foundational dichotomy between two disparate civilizations.

 European mathematics, with its use of such concepts as sine, was viewed as a
 purely "Western" import into India. In fact, the fifth-century Indian
 mathematician Aryabhata had discussed the concept of sine in his classic work on
 astronomy and mathematics in 499 a.d., calling it by its Sanskrit name,
jya-ardha (literally, "half-chord"). This word, first shortened to
jya in Sanskrit, eventually became the Arabic jiba and, later,
jaib, which means "a cove or a bay." In his history of mathematics, Howard
 Eves explains that around 1150 a.d., Gherardo of Cremona, in his translations
 from the Arabic, rendered jaib as the Latin sinus, the
 corresponding word for a cove or a bay. And this is the source of the modern word
sine. The concept had traveled full circle--from India, and then back.

 To see globalization as merely Western imperialism of ideas and beliefs (as
 the rhetoric often suggests) would be a serious and costly error, in the same way
 that any European resistance to Eastern influence would have been at the
 beginning of the last millennium. Of course, there are issues related to
 globalization that do connect with imperialism (the history of conquests,
 colonialism, and alien rule remains relevant today in many ways), and a
 postcolonial understanding of the world has its merits. But it would be a great
 mistake to see globalization primarily as a feature of imperialism. It is much
 bigger--much greater--than that.

The issue of the distribution of economic gains and losses from
 globalization remains an entirely separate question, and it must be addressed as
 a further--and extremely relevant--issue. There is extensive evidence that the
 global economy has brought prosperity to many different areas of the globe.
 Pervasive poverty dominated the world a few centuries ago; there were only a few
 rare pockets of affluence. In overcoming that penury, extensive economic
 interrelations and modern technology have been and remain influential. What has
 happened in Europe, America, Japan, and East Asia has important messages for all
 other regions, and we cannot go very far into understanding the nature of
 globalization today without first acknowledging the positive fruits of global
 economic contacts.

 Indeed, we cannot reverse the economic predicament of the poor across the
 world by withholding from them the great advantages of contemporary technology,
 the well-established efficiency of international trade and exchange, and the
 social as well as economic merits of living in an open society. Rather, the main
 issue is how to make good use of the remarkable benefits of economic intercourse
 and technological progress in a way that pays adequate attention to the interests
 of the deprived and the underdog. That is, I would argue, the constructive
 question that emerges from the so-called antiglobalization movements.

 Are the Poor Getting Poorer?

 The principal challenge relates to inequality--international
 as well as intranational. The troubling inequalities include disparities in
 affluence and also gross asymmetries in political, social, and economic
 opportunities and power.

 A crucial question concerns the sharing of the potential gains from
 globalization--between rich and poor countries and among different groups within
 a country. It is not sufficient to understand that the poor of the world need
 globalization as much as the rich do; it is also important to make sure that they
 actually get what they need. This may require extensive institutional reform,
 even as globalization is defended.

 There is also a need for more clarity in formulating the distributional
 questions. For example, it is often argued that the rich are getting richer and
 the poor poorer. But this is by no means uniformly so, even though there are
 cases in which this has happened. Much depends on the region or the group chosen
 and what indicators of economic prosperity are used. But the attempt to base the
 castigation of economic globalization on this rather thin ice produces a
 peculiarly fragile critique.

 On the other side, the apologists of globalization point to their belief that
 the poor who participate in trade and exchange are mostly getting richer.
 Ergo--the argument runs--globalization is not unfair to the poor: they too
 benefit. If the central relevance of this question is accepted, then the whole
 debate turns on determining which side is correct in this empirical dispute. But
 is this the right battleground in the first place? I would argue that it is not.

 Global Justice and the Bargaining Problem

 Even if the poor were to get just a little richer, this
 would not necessarily imply that the poor were getting a fair share of the
 potentially vast benefits of global economic interrelations. It is not adequate
 to ask whether international inequality is getting marginally larger or smaller.
 In order to rebel against the appalling poverty and the staggering inequalities
 that characterize the contemporary world--or to protest against the unfair
 sharing of benefits of global cooperation--it is not necessary to show that the
 massive inequality or distributional unfairness is also getting marginally
 larger. This is a separate issue altogether.

 When there are gains from cooperation, there can be many possible
 arrangements. As the game theorist and mathematician John Nash discussed more
 than half a century ago (in "The Bargaining Problem," published in
Econometrica in 1950, which was cited, among other writings, by the Royal
 Swedish Academy of Sciences when Nash was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics),
 the central issue in general is not whether a particular arrangement is better
 for everyone than no cooperation at all would be, but whether that is a fair
 division of the benefits. One cannot rebut the criticism that a distributional
 arrangement is unfair simply by noting that all the parties are better off than
 they would be in the absence of cooperation; the real exercise is the choice
between these alternatives.

 An Analogy with the Family

 By analogy, to argue that a particularly unequal and sexist
 family arrangement is unfair, one does not have to show that women would have
 done comparatively better had there been no families at all, but only that the
 sharing of the benefits is seriously unequal in that particular arrangement.
 Before the issue of gender justice became an explicitly recognized concern (as it
 has in recent decades), there were attempts to dismiss the issue of unfair
 arrangements within the family by suggesting that women did not need to live in
 families if they found the arrangements so unjust. It was also argued that since
 women as well as men benefit from living in families, the existing arrangements
 could not be unfair. But even when it is accepted that both men and women may
 typically gain from living in a family, the question of distributional fairness
 remains. Many different family arrangements--when compared with the absence of
 any family system--would satisfy the condition of being beneficial to both men
 and women. The real issue concerns how fairly benefits associated with these
 respective arrangements are distributed.

 Likewise, one cannot rebut the charge that the global system is unfair by
 showing that even the poor gain something from global contacts and are not
 necessarily made poorer. That answer may or may not be wrong, but the question
 certainly is. The critical issue is not whether the poor are getting marginally
 poorer or richer. Nor is it whether they are better off than they would be had
 they excluded themselves from globalized interactions.

 Again, the real issue is the distribution of globalization's benefits. Indeed,
 this is why many of the antiglobalization protesters, who seek a better deal for
 the underdogs of the world economy, are not--contrary to their own rhetoric and
 to the views attributed to them by others--really "antiglobalization." It is also
 why there is no real contradiction in the fact that the so-called
 antiglobalization protests have become among the most globalized events in the
 contemporary world.

 Altering Global Arrangements

 However, can those less-well-off groups get a better deal
 from globalized economic and social relations without dispensing with the market
 economy itself? They certainly can. The use of the market economy is consistent
 with many different ownership patterns, resource availabilities, social
 opportunities, and rules of operation (such as patent laws and antitrust
 regulations). And depending on these conditions, the market economy would
 generate different prices, terms of trade, income distribution, and, more
 generally, diverse overall outcomes. The arrangements for social security and
 other public interventions can make further modifications to the outcomes of the
 market processes, and together they can yield varying levels of inequality and
 poverty.

 The central question is not whether to use the market economy. That shallow
 question is easy to answer, because it is hard to achieve economic prosperity
 without making extensive use of the opportunities of exchange and specialization
 that market relations offer. Even though the operation of a given market economy
 can be significantly defective, there is no way of dispensing with the
 institution of markets in general as a powerful engine of economic progress.

 But this recognition does not end the discussion about globalized market
 relations. The market economy does not work by itself in global
 relations--indeed, it cannot operate alone even within a given country. It is not
 only the case that a marketinclusive system can generate very distinct results
 depending on various enabling conditions (such as how physical resources are
 distributed, how human resources are developed, what rules of business relations
 prevail, what social-security arrangements are in place, and so on). These
 enabling conditions themselves depend critically on economic, social, and
 political institutions that operate nationally and globally.

 The crucial role of the markets does not make the other institutions
 insignificant, even in terms of the results that the market economy can produce.
 As has been amply established in empirical studies, market outcomes are massively
 influenced by public policies in education, epidemiology, land reform,
 microcredit facilities, appropriate legal protections, et cetera; and in each of
 these fields, there is work to be done through public action that can radically
 alter the outcome of local and global economic relations.

 Institutions and Inequality

 Globalization has much to offer; but even as we defend it,
 we must also, without any contradiction, see the legitimacy of many questions
 that the antiglobalization protesters ask. There may be a misdiagnosis about
 where the main problems lie (they do not lie in globalization, as such), but the
 ethical and human concerns that yield these questions call for serious
 reassessments of the adequacy of the national and global institutional
 arrangements that characterize the contemporary world and shape globalized
 economic and social relations.

 Global capitalism is much more concerned with expanding the domain of
 market relations than with, say, establishing democracy, expanding elementary
 education, or enhancing the social opportunities of society's underdogs. Since
 globalization of markets is, on its own, a very inadequate approach to world
 prosperity, there is a need to go beyond the priorities that find expression in
 the chosen focus of global capitalism. As George Soros has pointed out,
 international business concerns often have a strong preference for working in
 orderly and highly organized autocracies rather than in activist and
 less-regimented democracies, and this can be a regressive influence on equitable
 development. Further, multinational firms can exert their influence on the
 priorities of public expenditure in less secure third-world countries by giving
 preference to the safety and convenience of the managerial classes and of
 privileged workers over the removal of widespread illiteracy, medical
 deprivation, and other adversities of the poor. These possibilities do not, of
 course, impose any insurmountable barrier to development, but it is important to
 make sure that the surmountable barriers are actually surmounted.

 Omissions and Commissions

 The injustices that characterize the world are closely
 related to various omissions that need to be addressed, particularly in
 institutional arrangements. I have tried to identify some of the main problems in
 my book Development as Freedom (Knopf, 1999). Global policies have a role
 here in helping the development of national institutions (for example, through
 defending democracy and supporting schooling and health facilities), but there is
 also a need to re-examine the adequacy of global institutional arrangements
 themselves. The distribution of the benefits in the global economy depends, among
 other things, on a variety of global institutional arrangements, including those
 for fair trade, medical initiatives, educational exchanges, facilities for
 technological dissemination, ecological and environmental restraints, and fair
 treatment of accumulated debts that were often incurred by irresponsible military
 rulers of the past.

 In addition to the momentous omissions that need to be rectified, there are
 also serious problems of commission that must be addressed for even elementary
 global ethics. These include not only inefficient and inequitable trade
 restrictions that repress exports from poor countries, but also patent laws that
 inhibit the use of lifesaving drugs--for diseases like AIDS--and that give
 inadequate incentive for medical research aimed at developing nonrepeating
 medicines (such as vaccines). These issues have been much discussed on their own,
 but we must also note how they fit into a general pattern of unhelpful
 arrangements that undermine what globalization could offer.

 Another--somewhat less discussed--global "commission" that causes intense
 misery as well as lasting deprivation relates to the involvement of the world
 powers in globalized arms trade. This is a field in which a new global initiative
 is urgently required, going beyond the need--the very important need--to curb
 terrorism, on which the focus is so heavily concentrated right now. Local wars
 and military conflicts, which have very destructive consequences (not least on
 the economic prospects of poor countries), draw not only on regional tensions but
 also on global trade in arms and weapons. The world establishment is firmly
 entrenched in this business: the Permanent Members of the Security Council of the
 United Nations were together responsible for 81 percent of world arms exports
 from 1996 through 2000. Indeed, the world leaders who express deep frustration at
 the "irresponsibility" of antiglobalization protesters lead the countries that
 make the most money in this terrible trade. The G-8 countries sold 87 percent of
 the total supply of arms exported in the entire world. The U.S. share alone has
 just gone up to almost 50 percent of the total sales in the world. Furthermore,
 as much as 68 percent of the American arms exports went to developing countries.

 The arms are used with bloody results--and with devastating effects on the
 economy, the polity, and the society. In some ways, this is a continuation of the
 unhelpful role of world powers in the genesis and flowering of political
 militarism in Africa from the 1960s to the 1980s, when the Cold War was fought
 over Africa. During these decades, when military overlords--Mobuto Sese Seko or
 Jonas Savimbi or whoever--busted social and political arrangements (and,
 ultimately, economic order as well) in Africa, they could rely on support either
 from the United States and its allies or from the Soviet Union, depending on
 their military alliances. The world powers bear an awesome responsibility for
 helping in the subversion of democracy in Africa and for all the far-reaching
 negative consequences of that subversion. The pursuit of arms "pushing" gives
 them a continuing role in the escalation of military conflicts today--in Africa
 and elsewhere. The U.S. refusal to agree to a joint crackdown even on illicit
 sales of small arms (as proposed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan) illustrates
 the difficulties involved.

 Fair Sharing of Global Opportunities

 To conclude, the confounding of globalization with
 Westernization is not only ahistorical, it also distracts attention from the many
 potential benefits of global integration. Globalization is a historical process
 that has offered an abundance of opportunities and rewards in the past and
 continues to do so today. The very existence of potentially large benefits makes
 the question of fairness in sharing the benefits of globalization so critically
 important.

 The central issue of contention is not globalization itself, nor is it the
 use of the market as an institution, but the inequity in the overall balance of
 institutional arrangements--which produces very unequal sharing of the benefits
 of globalization. The question is not just whether the poor, too, gain something
 from globalization, but whether they get a fair share and a fair opportunity.
 There is an urgent need for reforming institutional arrangements--in addition to
 national ones--in order to overcome both the errors of omission and those of
 commission that tend to give the poor across the world such limited
 opportunities. Globalization deserves a reasoned defense, but it also needs
 reform.

 Sat, 05 Jan 2002 03:39:00 +0000 142399 at Amartya Sen


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Recent Articles The American Prospect - articles by author en Write Down the 11 Million

We’re entering the 99 percent spring, with escalating actions starting across the country next Tuesday targeting America’s biggest tax dodgers. On April 24, shareholder actions will begin at General Electric, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and dozens of other corporations. Americans are renewing the fight to fix our economy and to hold the big banks accountable for the misdeeds that have left millions out of work and out of homes.

Last month in The Nation, I wrote about three issues that allow us to thread different strands of activity through a common analysis of how Wall Street, big banks, and corporations have profited by tanking and then reorganizing the economy: housing, student debt, and the devaluing of work.

Of those three issues, the bravest activists—and the highest stakes—may be found in the housing crisis. Right now in America there are nearly 11 million homeowners who are threatened by foreclosure or are underwater—11 million—who collectively hold nearly $800 billion in negative home equity. In communities of color, overall wealth has been stripped by 60 percent since 2008—largely a consequence of the devastation of the housing market.

These 11 million are struggling, and they are in a lot of trouble. But they also understand what is going on in the economy and are politically aware; they know how they got here; and they’re leading the battle to save their communities. Through the “Occupy Our Homes” movement, some are refusing to leave their homes, nonviolently resisting foreclosure with the help of Occupy, community groups, and religious leaders.

Nationally, coalitions like New Bottom Line and the Campaign for a Fair Settlement are pushing a broad-based campaign to reduce mortgage principals to fair market value, giving the 11 million a fighting chance. By and large, the 11 million worked hard, played by the rules, and through the actions of the banks are now drowning in debt. That negative equity is holding back a true recovery for all Americans, so it should be in everyone’s interest to do large-scale principal reduction. But not surprisingly, the same banks that got us in this mess are resisting.

Several of the big banks agreed to a $25 billion settlement with the attorneys general in February. The settlement opened the door to principal reduction, for some but it’s not nearly enough—and the banks' claim that they can’t afford more is laughable.

Six states are already diverting funds that were meant for underwater homeowners into their general funds, turning their back on homeowners who were guaranteed help. Along with Wisconsin's Scott Walker, Chris Christie was the latest to turn the trick, abandoning thousands of homeowners in New Jersey.

The initial AG settlement doesn’t even address the 60 percent of homeowners whose mortgages are owned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. So far, Fannie and Freddie have refused any principal write-downs—even though it will save taxpayers money in the long run.

That brings us back to the 11 million families who are standing up and increasingly sitting in to defend their homes and communities. In addition to joining growing protests demanding principal write downs, they are going to start asking politicians, "which side are you on? Banks, or ours?"

Two months ago, POLITICO reported that foreclosures could become a “swing state issue.”  In states like Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Ohio and Michigan—where tens of thousands of homeowners are looking for leaders to make some sense of the last five years—the “homeowner at risk” could well be the “soccer mom” of 2012, a group that demands attention, and will vote accordingly.

Political leaders, including the Obama administration, have a clear choice and can do the right thing for homeowners by helping to force a serious second settlement. The choice isn’t hard at all: Many economists believe a second settlement is needed to bolster the housing market and the overall recovery, so in this case the right thing is a win-win for the White House.

As we ready for the 99 percent Spring, there is a simple demand that should increasingly serve as a rallying cry: $300 billion or more from the banks to reduce mortgage principals to fair market value, as a way to lean into the recovery and help America’s underwater homeowners, their neighbors, and their communities.

If underwater homeowners unite, in real numbers, and if the protesters stand with them, we can force the banks, Fannie and Freddie, and politicians to do the right thing. A first step in holding banks accountable, rebalancing the economy, and repairing a democracy threatened by the outsize influence of Wall Street and big banks.

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Impact Wrestling starts off with a video package showcasing Kurt Angle and Bobby Roode. They are battling in a Steel Cage match tonight. Who will be victorious? It switches to Magnus and Dixie Carter as they formed an alliance for Dixie to completely take over the company (as she already taken it over). Sting, however, is the thorn in the side and wants to see if Magnus can be the guy who he really says he is. Magnus puts the championship on the line tonight while Sting puts his contract on the line.

The camera is in the back with Dixie, Spud, and an attorney. Dixie is asking where Ethan is and where is Magnus. Magnus comes into the shot. The attorney states that someone who has an above average job quietly took over shares and is doing a hostile takeover. It has been going on for months. Dixie is starting to freak out. She says it is more about operations on her standpoint then business operations. Dixie says it has to be fair. Magnus questions it. Dixie says they other side asks for someone to be in Sting’s corner. Magnus doesn’t like it but is fine with it. He then wants it to be a no DQ and no count out match. The attorney says he can make it happen. Magnus says Sting is all over this. Dixie questions Magnus about Sting and then the attorney says he doesn’t care if it is Sting but it is an investor and he needs to find out. He tells Magnus to stand down. Magnus gets furious, but Dixie tells him to not to worry about it. He walks away and Dixie tells Spud to go with him. Spud leaves. Dixie apologizes to the attorney.

Music plays and here comes Magnus, Ethan Carter III, and Spud. They get right in the ring and Magnus grabs a mic. He asks if this his how Sting is going to play. Sting put his contract on the line and Magnus thought it was going to be a one-on-one match but Sting going around to the new investor to get his way. Magnus thought Sting was a man. Sting’s music plays and he comes out. He gets in the ring. He grabs a mic. He says Magnus is NOW ready to honor a deal. Is he doing the same deal where he tried to do it to AJ. Magnus says to not flip it onto him. He asks how much he paid but Sting says all he asks was for some back-up in his corner. Magnus says he knows it is no DQ and no count out. All or nothing. Sting has to make Magnus pin or submit. Magnus proved himself at Bound for Glory. He made Sting tap. Sting says he knows but he did what he always does and he got up and got his head in the game. He watched the tape from their match, so he knows Magnus more than Magnus knows Magnus. Magnus drops a mic. Sting says that is what separates champions from paper champions. Magnus didn’t do anything. He didn’t earn anything. He trade honor for greed. The crowd chants, “Paper champion!” Sting tells Magnus that he lost the respect of everyone. Magnus SLAPS Sting right across the face and Spud starts to laugh. Sting starts to laugh and then stops and then goes right after Magnus with punches and chops. Spud and Ethan go behind Sting and attack him. Just then, Samoa Joe’s music plays and he runs down the ramp and gets in the ring. He closelines Ethan and Spud elves. Magnus goes around the ring. They meet on the stage. Sting gets back on the mic and states that Samoa Joe will be in his corner tonight.

Mike Tenay and Taz run down the line-up.

A video plays showcasing James Storm’s career in TNA. It then shows Gunner’s and how he won the World Championship briefcase. He took it from Storm. James says he wants one more match. Hang the case up and fight of fit as he doesn’t think Gunner can do it again.

Christy Hemme is shown as she introduces this match. Gunner walks down the ramp with the World Championship briefcase. He gets in the ring.

Spud runs up to Dixie and starts panicking about Joe being in Sting’s corner. Dixie states that they have to counter this. They need to soften him up. He will fight against someone who has their first match in the United States — Rockstar Spud! Spud freaks out but Dixie tells him how he is. He won the British Bootcamp. Spud leaves to get his gear. Dixie hopes he doesn’t get killed.

James Storm’s music hits and he comes to the ring. The briefcase is hung at the top of the pole.

Gunner vs. James Storm in a Briefcase on a Pole Match

James goes right after the briefcase but Gunner pulls him down and then he goes up but James pulls him down. They battle each other. Gunner whips Storm in the ropes but Storm closelines him down. Gunner gets up and goes to toss Storm out of the ring but Storm flips back in. He goes after Gunner but he knocks Storm down. Storm rolls to the apron . Gunner goes over and punches him and then rams his face on the top turnbuckle. He goes to another corner but Storm kicks him in the face and then climbs. Gunner goes after him again and does some chops to the chest. He climbs the corner and does a headbutt. Storm fights him off. Gunner falls to the mat but he continues to punch Storm. Gunner goes back up the corner. He grabs him and does a huge fallaway slam. Both are down. Both get up and Gunner goes after Storm. He does a suplex but Storm slides behind him and does a double knee backbreaker. Both get up and James takes Gunner down multiple times. He then sets up for the Super Kick but Gunner blocks it and lifts Storm up and slams him down. Gunner crawls over to the side of the pole. He starts to climb but Storm goes per and attacks Gunner. He climbs the corner now. Both are fighting.

Both are at the top. Storm punches Gunner multiple times. He then does a HUGE hurricanrona! James almost landed right on his head! Both are down. Storm gets up and starts to climb the corner of the pole. Gunner goes after him from behind. He lifts him up and does a flapjack but Storm unlocks it from the top. It falls down with him. It is whoever has possession. They start scrambling for it. Gunner starts punching Storm in the face and then jumps over and grabs it to have possession.

Winner: Gunner

Kurt Angle is backstage. He says it has been a rough 4 months. He then states that if he can’t beat Roode tonight then he doesn’t deserve to be in the Hall of Fame or even TNA right now. He needs to win this.

A video plays showing last week’s segment with Austin Aries, Chris Sabin, and Velvet Sky.

An #Impact365 video plays. It has Velvet Sky in her house where she says she received a package from her boyfriend. She wants to open it for us. She reads the letter attached. The letter states that he is sorry and to bring the presents in the box to Impact this week. She opens it and finds a teddy bear and then some type of object. She has no idea what it is. She shuts off the camera.

Austin Aries’ music plays as they show Christy Hemme introducing this match. Aries walks down the ramp and gets in the ring. Chris Sabin and Velvet Sky walk down the ramp. Sky goes in the cage as she has a package in her hand. The referee locks it.

Austin Aries vs. Chris Sabin (c) for the X-Division Title w/ Velvet Sky in a locked cage

The bell sounds and both move around the ring. They lock-up and Aries applies a headlock and then goes behind him to lock the arms and then goes for the head lock again. Sabin backs Aries up in the corner. He backs up to break it out in the corner. They lock-up and Sabin applies a headlock. Aries puts Sabin in the corner this time and then does a huge chop to the chest. Sabin runs to him but Aries does an arm drag and then takes him down for a cover and then another cover but Sabin keeps kicking out. Aries applies a bridge submission but Sabin rakes the eyes of Aries to break it. Aries tosses Sabin to the outside. Aries climbs the corner but Sabin runs to him and knocks him off. He then gets in the ring and rakes the back. He has Aries’ legs locked on the top corner and upside down. Sabin does a baseball slide to the face and then covers. Aries kicks out.

Sabin tosses Aries to the outside. Sabin taunts. Aries goes to the apron and Sabin does a suplex. He covers but Aries kicks out. Sabin tosses Aries over the ropes but he lands on the apron. Chris goes to him but Aries attacks him multiple times with elbow shots and punches. He brings Sabin down and then does a springboard moonsault. He cores but Sabin kicks out. Aries has Sabin and goes for the Brain Buster but Sabin gets out of it. He lifts Aries up but he gets out and puts Chris in the corner. Aries runs and does a huge running dropkick. Aries goes after Sabin but he trips him on the ropes. Sabin goes to the outside and grabs the package Sky brought out. He looks and sees the teddy bear. He yells, “Where is the pipe?” Aries climbs the corner and jumps to Sabin. He knocks him down with a double forearm smash. He brings Sabin in the ring. He puts him in the corner and does a running dropkick and then does a Brain Buster. He covers and wins.

Winner and New X-Division Champion: Austin Aries

A video plays showing Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards. They start talking about Dixie Carter. She doesn’t know what she is doing. Knowledge comes power. She goes over Youtube and wants to give them tryout match while she knew what they were about already. The new investor knows! Next week, the new investor will be revealed to the world! A new genesis begins!

A video plays showcasing Bobby Roode vs. Kurt Angle and their recent history since Bound for Glory. They battled a couple of times but Roode continues to have Kurt’s number. Kurt challenges Roode to one more match. It will be tonight and it is in a Steel Cage! Kurt’s Hall of Fame opportunity is on the line!

Bobby Roode’s music plays and he comes out on the stage as the Steel Cage is around the ring. Roode walks up the steps and gets in the ring. He waits. Kurt Angle’s music plays and he walks down the ramp. He is coming to the ring. The match is next.

Bobby Roode vs. Kurt Angle in a Steel Cage Match — To determine Kurt’s Hall of Fame induction

They go to lock-up but Roode goes right after Kurt. Kurt comes back and whips Roode in the ropes. Roode comes back and kicks him in the chest. Kurt pops up and does a belly to belly suplex. He then takes Roode to the corner and punches him multiple times. He climbs the corner and continues to punch but Roode lifts him up and slams him head and back first into the steel cage. Roode goes right on the attack now with kicks, stomps and elbow drops. He covers but Kurt kicks out. Roode puts Kurt in the corner and does a chop. He whips him into the opposing corner. Roode charges and does a closeline. Kurt falls. Roode gets him up and does a suplex. He covers but Kurt kicks out. Roode stomps on him and then chokes him with his boot. Roode gets him up and puts him in a power bomb formation. He goes to lift him up but Kurt takes his legs out form under him and then does a huge catapult and it sends Roode face first into the corner. Kurt gets up and does a german suplex. He does another. He does the third. He waits. Roode gets up and goes for the Angle Slam but Roode does an arm drag to get out of it. Both get up and Kurt runs to him but Roode sidesteps and goes right into the cage. Roode grabs him and does a spine buster. He covers but Kurt kicks out.

Roode gets Kurt up on his shoulders but Kurt slides out and smashes Roode face first into the cage. He covers but Roode kicks out. Kurt takes down his singlet and then goes right after the ankle! Ankle Lock! Roode stands up and does a huge kick to the back of the head with his free leg. Kurt gets up and Roode does a closeline from behind. He covers Kurt but Angle kicks out. Roode stands and goes to the door but Kurt grabs the leg. Roode pounds on Kurt’s back and then slams Angle face first into the cage. Roode goes to the corner and starts climbing. He is near the top of the cage but Angle runs up and hooks on the leg of Bobby. He pulls Bobby down and they stand on the top rope. Roode pounds Kurt’s head into the cage. Kurt does the same to Roode. He does it several times and Roode falls down onto the mat. Kurt looks around and then starts climbing to the top. He gets to the top and then looks around. He then crawls over to the corner of the cage. He stands on the top. He then does a huge moonsault on the top of the cage!! Roode moves out of the way and Kurt crashes and burns! Both are down. Roode slowly crawls to the cage door. He goes through the opening and is calmest done. He is climbing down the steps. Kurt crawls over and grabs Roode’s ankle. He starts pulling Roode. He is pulling Roode back in the ring. The door closes but Roode pushes Kurt down with his free leg. He goes through the door again. Kurt crawls over again and grabs Roode!

He applies the Ankle Lock on Roode and drags him to the center of the ring. The door closes. Roode rolls through and Kurt goes face first into the steel cage. Roode lifts him up and does the Roode Bomb. He covers but Kurt kicks out! Roode slowly stands. He goes to the corner and starts to climb. Roode stands on the top rope but Kurt gets up and runs to him. He starts pounding on Roode’s back and then does a huge super Angle Slam! Kurt slowly starts to stand but he stumbles to the ropes. Kurt goes to the corner and starts to climb. Roode is down holding his ankle. Kurt reaches the top of the cage. Roode gets up and starts climbing as well. Roode grabs Kurt’s he’d and arm. He starts punching him and dragging him back in the ring. Both are on the top rope. They exchange punches and chops and elbow shots. Kurt continues to hit him and Roode falls between the ropes right between the legs. Kurt continues to climb. He is on the top. He turns to go down. Roode starts going to the door. He climbs on the steel steps. Kurt jumps down and his feet touch before Roode! Winner: Kurt Angle

Angle is down holding his knee. He gets up and the referees raise his arms. He goes up the ramp as replay footage is shown.

Rockstar Spud is backstage. Ethan walks up to him and asks him if he has a minute. Spud says he does but he isn’t sure how much longer he has left. Ethan tries to convince Spud that he is actually something. He is a champion… he is the British Bootcamp Champion. Ethan says everyone knows about The American Dream but Spud is The British Dream. Spud likes that. Ethan tells him to work on the weak points. He says Spud may be small but he is large. He is a lion! He tells Spud to roar. ROAR! Ethan kisses him and Spud is ready. Ethan walks away and makes a face. Spud throws a chair as he keeps roaring.

The Bro Mans get in the ring as well as Zema Ion. Jessie is on the mic and says they are Team Dixie and talks about taking their pictures. Robbie grabs the mic and says The Bro Mans are running things. Hashtag Bro Mans ruling the world. Robbie then says Ion will be the next X-Division Champion. Ion takes the mic and says he is making him blush and then talks about Robbie and Jessie as they are the best tag team champions ever. Ion then talks about Eric Young and his cookie eating friend. Eric Young comes out and runs to the ring. He goes after Jessie, Robbie, and Ion. He keeps attacking them but they finally get the upper hand. Ion does a dropkick to Young and then Robbie and Jessie punch Young while he is on the mat. Just then, Abyss’ music plays and he comes to the ring. He gets in and double closelines The Bro Mans and then does a chokeslam on Jessie and then a Black Hole Slam on Robbie. Abyss then looks at Ion. Ion goes to run away but Abyss grabs him and lifts him up for the Shock Treatment. Abyss gets up and looks at EY. Young gets up and looks at Abyss. Abyss then goes for a chokeslam on EY. Abyss then looks around as the crowd chants, “No, No, No!” Abyss unlocks the choke and Abyss’ music hits. Abyss taunts as EY looks from behind.

Samoa Joe is backstage. The camera man asks him about his knee. Joe says his knee is fine. He then brings up Magnus and says he was with him last year and worked with him. However, Magnus turned on everyone. This is Joe’s genesis and he is going to send a message. The message is pain. Spud will receive that message. His path of destruction starts with Spud.

Kurt Angle is backstage and he says Sting is the cornerstone of TNA. If he loses he may not come back. He says he tried to talk Sting out of it. The camera man tells Kurt to look in the camera to tell Sting what it means for him to be there. Kurt says Sting is important for the company and if they lose him… Kurt starts to tear up. Kurt says he loves Sting and wishes him the best. He hopes he wins, but if he doesn’t… goodbye.

Rockstar Spud’s music plays and he comes out through the curtain. He walks up the steps and gets in the ring. Samoa Joe comes down and gets right in the ring as his music plays.

Rockstar Spud vs. Samoa Joe

Joe and Spud go in the middle of the ring. Spud tries to trash talk him. Joe turns his back to let Spud take a shot. Spud then locks his arms around Joe but Joe spins and Spud flies in the air. Spud gets up and does more trash talking and then does some kicks, punches, and chops. He turns and starts to yell and then shakes the middle rope like a mini Ultimate Warrior. He turns and Joe does a huge chop to Spud’s chest. He starts to yell. Joe continues to attack but Spud gets away and climbs the ropes. He jumps but Joe catches him and goes for a choke but Spud hits Joe in the face and then goes for some kicks to the leg and knee of Joe. Spud continues but Joe isn’t messing around anymore. He takes Spud to the corner, lifts him up, and does the Muscle Buster. He then does the Rear Naked Choke. Spud taps. Winner: Samoa Joe

Joe grabs a mic. He says Magnus faces Sting one-on-one tonight. If Dixie or anyone of her boys in Dixieland has a problem with it then they have to go through Joe.

Sting’s music hits and he comes to the ring. Magnus’ music plays and he comes out. He has the TNA World Championship around his waist but he then lifts it above his head. He comes to the ring. Jeremy Borash introduces each star. Samoa Joe is at ringside.

Sting vs. Magnus (c) — Contract vs. Championship — No DQ & No Countout

Sting and Magnus move around the ring. Sting does his Woo and then they lock-up! Sting is able to knock Magnus down with a shoulder block. Magnus goes in the ropes this time and he knocks Sting down. Both get up. Sting hits him and Magnus goes to the corner for a retreat. Magnus walks around and they lock-up. Magnus works on the arm of Sting. He twists it. Sting counters and works on the arm now. Magnus rolls through and starts working on Sting’s. Sting works on Magnus’ and flips him over. Magnus stands quickly and looks on. Magnus walks around and goes to lock-up again but he knees Sting in the gut and then pounds on his back. He stomps on Sting as he is down on the mat. Magnus gets Sting up and Sting fights back with punches. Magnus stops him though. Magnus lifts him up but Sting slides behind and goes for the Scorpion Death Drop but Magnus leaves. He goes in the ropes and Sting elbows him. Magnus goes in the ropes again and they do a double closeline. Both are down.

Dixie Carter comes out as she tells Ethan Carter III to go to the ring. As he does, Samoa Joe stands in his way. They are face to face. Ethan slowly backs up and goes up the ramp.

Sting takes Magnus down and goes for the Scorpion Death Lock. He does! Magnus is screaming. Just then, Bad Influence comes out and goes right after Joe. Ethan comes out and goes after Sting. Sting breaks the submission. Ethan continues to go after him as Bad Influence bring Joe in. Joe fights back and toss Daniels and Kaz over the ropes. Sting comes back and tosses Ethan over the ropes. All three are on the outside. Joe bounces off the ropes and does a huge suicide dive on all of them. Sting has Magnus in the corner and punches him. He then does a hip toss. Magnus gets up and Magnus goes for a suplex but Sting slides behind him and hits the Scorpion Death Drop. He covers. Just then, Zema Ion pulls the referee to the outside. Samoa Joe gets up and goes after Ion. The Bro Mans come out and attack Joe and toss him in the steel steps.

Influence, Bro Mans, and Ion enter the ring and goes right after Sting. Just then, Kurt Angle runs down. He goes after The Bro Mans and then Influence. He hits Kaz and Daniels with a german suplex and Ion with a belly to bell suplex. He hits Kaz and Daniels with Angle Slams. He leaves the ring and goes after Ion. Magnus climbs the corner. Sting gets up and does a huge superplex from the corner. Sting covers. The referee comes in and counts but Magnus kicks out at two. Sting puts Magnus in the corner and goes for the Stinger Splash but he moves and Sting hits the referee. Magnus climbs the corner. He jumps but Sting grabs him and then locks in the Scorpion Death Lock. Bobby Roode runs out and hits Sting from behind. He then exits the scene. Magnus gets Sting up and hits him with a power bomb type move. Dixie Carter brings Earl Hebner down the ramp. She tells him to to count. Earl slowly counts: 1-2-3. Dixie gets in and starts celebrating.

Winner and Still TNA World Champion: Magnus

Dixie helps Magnus up. Ethan Carter III gets in the ring. Dixie hands Magnus Sting’s contract. Magnus starts ripping it up. He rips it right on top of Sting. He throws the paper down. Magnus grabs his championship and raises it. Ethan and Dixie raise their arms. The show fades.

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4 +1Declaration of Interest /declaration of property
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F.Declaration of interests

The law of 2.5.95 on the obligation to state mandates, functions, professions and make a declaration of property establishes a system of transparency for those in positions of public responsibility. MPs (and, in the future, regional and communal representatives) are required to make an annual declaration mentioning all mandates, directorships or professional activities exercised by them in the preceding 12 months, stating whether the position was remunerated. This list is published in the "Moniteur Belge". A detailed property declaration is also required in the month following taking up the position, which must be renewed every 5 years. These declarations are kept confidential by the Court of Auditors. Only an investigating magistrate is entitled to open these declarations.

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z tym ze declaration of interest jest oswiadczeniem o czerpanych korzysciach :-)

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    Big Grin Nintendo Wii Backup Loader Leaked to the Masses!!

    It appears Waninkoko's Nintendo Wii Backup Loader have finally been publically leaked.

    naes of GBATemp.net (linked above) has posted Wii_Loader.rar weighing in at 1.80 MB (1,892,832 bytes), and since then it has spread like wildfire across the Internet.

    Download: Nintendo Wii Backup Loader / Nintendo Wii Backup Loader [Mirror]

    As a result of the leak, Waninkoko is now quite upset, and announced that he no longer plans to work on the project- meaning very likely no new versions of it will come.

    To quote: Backup-Loader is now an abandoned project. Congratulations, enjoy that version that has lots of bugs (yes, lots of bugs are not fixed).

    How to use it:

    1) Patch the iSO with the .exe that came in the download
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    4) Install Wii Loader
    5) Burn the patched iSO with ImgBurn
    6) Run the loader

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    Guess that's a nice lesson learned... I won't be developing on a computer with internet/handing out beta's if ever I start a highly anticipated project... sorry.

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    At least people won't need to waste money on Wii mod-chips now

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    you really dont get it, right? the iso loader is far from complete and probably doesnt work with all games.

    so we STILL NEED TO BUY MODCHIPS to play.

    without the leak, it would have been possible to abandon mod-chips, yes, but not beeing able to run every game with the iso loader kinda makes your statement invalid.

  5. #5
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    Don't lecture me about valid statements until you can learn to spell being.

    Anyway, for someone to think Waninkoko is the only one in the world capable of expanding on this is ludacris. A quick Google search turns up several sites with Wii hackers already working on reversing the .dol loader and I'm sure it will only increase as more see the potential and desire for their minute of fame... personally I could care less though, Wii is for kids.

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    I guess I will stay with my wiikey (and be very happy so far)... Doing all this process is way to difficult/complicate for everyday carefree user. IF they really follow the step correctly and succeed in it, I think they are in the "scene" for pretty long time already, rather than a newbie without any modchip at all. I guess it is good education/lesson for all of us who is interested in these kinda things...

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    Its great we have this... though I would have waited to still have the support :/ now we have to rely on someone to pick up his work, or make a better loader

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    Personally I don't see the point in this softmod - I mean there were already modchips, there was way to load backups. This softmod is buggy, unstable, irritating to use (every time you should go to HBC...) and in the all ways modchips are superior - great stability, LOTS of features and so on.

    It's just for VERY poor and lazy people.

    AND THE MOST HORRIFYING, that now Ninty will block HBC for sure. Last time they blocked Twillight Hack, but didn't touch HBC, so homebrew scene was alerted, but now Waninkoko crossed the line.

    I doubt bushing admires this softmod too.

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    WiiGator has released his own source code. To quote from the ReadMe file:
    Wii Backup Launcher 0.1:

    * Purpose *

    Launch Wii DVD backups. This is a source code only release. You need to
    compile it using devkitpro (PPC + ARM).

    * Author *

    * Compiling Order *

    Run "make" to compile:
    1. extractpartition
    2. dip_module
    3. copy dip_module/bin/dip_module.elf to cios_installer/data/dip_module.elf
    4. cios_installer
    5. backuplauncher

    * Create DVD *

    To create DVDs you need extractpartition. Don't call this patching. It only
    decrypts the DVD. Patching is done within backuplauncher.

    1. Run extractpartition
    2. Burn output file to DVD-R (raw iso)

    * Installing *

    1. cios_installer - if you get an error message like "-1017" then you need first to uninstall IOS249.
    2. dvdx, choose IOS249
    3. backuplauncher cios_installer will install a custom IOS v6 which is same as Waninkokos cIOS v5. You don't need to install it, if you already installed cIOS v5.

    In this release there is no leaked code included. Only official code is used.
    This is released by WiiGator. The official released dip_module, IOS patches and libcios are used. Other code from Waninkoko is not used!

    Waninkoko is not responsible for this release. Don't ask him about it.
    The backuplauncher included is an inoffical release. This program is a modification of GeckoOS, and is unsupported and not condoned by the original authors of it. The backup loader modification is solely the work of WiiGator. PAL and NTSC is working. backuplauncher can load both original and backup discs.
    Also, ciper of GBATemp has shared Wii Backup Launcher 0.2, an unofficial binary build of WiiGator's source code with changes.
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  10. #10
    I have used the new GeckoOS/Loader and it works well.

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