Thursday, June 21, 2007
US Style: Bully and Carry A Big Stick - a way to get another Twin Towers result ?
Now Japan and India join the EU and Antigua in demanding US compensation. Mainstream media across the world is reporting on demands for compensation by World Trade Organisation member nations against the United States this week, the result of the unprecedented US decision to withdraw decades long trade commitments in order to maintain its protectionist online gambling policies.
A lawsuit has now been filed against the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), which was surreptitiously passed last year and signed into law by the president.
The methods of the US dispute on softwood lumber are very much like the article that describes US methods in the gambling dispute. If the international bodies overseeing trade agreements find against the US the U.S. just refuses to comply.
Why is it still legal to gamble in huge number of Casino's in the US, and moreover why is online purchasing of goods (more at risk from online fraud than online gambling is) still legal!? If this bill was so righteous and correct - why in hell did it get attached to the back end of the Port Security act and whipped through the houses without anyone even seeing it!?
Unfortunately the EU are as bad as USA, all sinking in the same boat.as NGOs denounce EU pressure over new African Trade deals. And certainly no sensible person should want UK casinos, are we down to the level of blowing them up ?
Quite a reasonable but complicated article in The Register.
IMO: USA is behaving like the so-called 'axis of evil' in suggesting something is wrong, gambling in this case, and I heartily agree that it is wrong, possibly immoral, and like cigarette smoking, almost cerainly needs proper control in some way. But then the US goes on and tries to make money out of banning internet gambling, whilst keeping it legal in Las Vegas ! So far from being moral, its leaders are simply hypocrites as we probably already know. These US criminals are like the Taliban, who imposed undue hardships in the name of morals and in doing so rankly defiled the faith of Holy Islam.What's the answer? Well, first of all - not to use rather undesirable activities like gambling to try to regain control of the internet and make dirty profits for their 'big entrepreneurs' (aka 'big crooks') from the suffering of US citizens and others.
A lawsuit has now been filed against the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), which was surreptitiously passed last year and signed into law by the president.
The methods of the US dispute on softwood lumber are very much like the article that describes US methods in the gambling dispute. If the international bodies overseeing trade agreements find against the US the U.S. just refuses to comply.
Why is it still legal to gamble in huge number of Casino's in the US, and moreover why is online purchasing of goods (more at risk from online fraud than online gambling is) still legal!? If this bill was so righteous and correct - why in hell did it get attached to the back end of the Port Security act and whipped through the houses without anyone even seeing it!?
Unfortunately the EU are as bad as USA, all sinking in the same boat.as NGOs denounce EU pressure over new African Trade deals. And certainly no sensible person should want UK casinos, are we down to the level of blowing them up ?
Quite a reasonable but complicated article in The Register.
IMO: USA is behaving like the so-called 'axis of evil' in suggesting something is wrong, gambling in this case, and I heartily agree that it is wrong, possibly immoral, and like cigarette smoking, almost cerainly needs proper control in some way. But then the US goes on and tries to make money out of banning internet gambling, whilst keeping it legal in Las Vegas ! So far from being moral, its leaders are simply hypocrites as we probably already know. These US criminals are like the Taliban, who imposed undue hardships in the name of morals and in doing so rankly defiled the faith of Holy Islam.What's the answer? Well, first of all - not to use rather undesirable activities like gambling to try to regain control of the internet and make dirty profits for their 'big entrepreneurs' (aka 'big crooks') from the suffering of US citizens and others.
# posted by uv : 6:41 AM
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