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 Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject: Why PokerPulse cares about the WTO Internet gambling dispute |
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Why should I care about the gambling dispute between Antigua and the U.S. at the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
The End of Poverty
Economic Possibilities for Our Time
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Foreward by Bono
| Quote: | Toward an Enlightened Globalization
When all is said and done, however, the antiglobalization movement should mobilize its vast commitment and moral force into a proglobalization movement on behalf of a globalization that addresses the needs of the poorest of the poor, the global environment, and the spread of democracy. It is the kind of globalization championed by *the Enlightenment - a globalization of democracies, multilateralism, science and technology, and a global economic system designed to meet human needs. We could call this an Englightened Globalization.
What then would the focus of a mass public movement aimed at an Enlightened Globalization? It would be, first and foremost, a focus on the behavior of the rich governments, especially the most powerful and wayward of the rich governments, the United States. It would insist that the United States and other rich countries honor their commitments to help the poor escape from poverty, as well as honor their commitments to limit environmental degradation including human-made climate change and the loss of biodiversity. Such a movement would continue to shine a spotlight on corporate responsibility, but would urge more rather than less investment by major multinational companies in the poorest countries. Instead of focusing on blocking trade and investment, it would insist that the World Trade Organization follow through on the political commitments made at Doha and elsewhere to ensure that the poorest countries have access to the markets of the richest. (emphasis added) (From the chapter entitled, Our Generation's Challenge, at pgs. 358-9) *More on the wonders of the Enlightenment at Richard Hooker's excellent website, European Enlightenment. |
Consider, too:
PBS Online News Hour
Clinton addresses the WTO
Dec. 1/99
| Quote: | | When people are working together for common prosperity in a rule-based system, they have big incentives to lay the differences down and join hands to work together. So if we just make those two points to our critics, I think it's very important. Number one, the world is a better place than it would have been, had we not had the last 50 years of increasing economic co-operation for trade and investment. And number two, the world of the future will be a safer place if we continue to work together in a rule-based system that offers enormous incentives for people to find ways to cooperate and to give up their old hatreds and their impulses to violence and war. (emphasis added) |
How to apply Antigua's double-win:
Eye on Gambling
BetOnSports Nightmare Has Hope - Interview With WTO Icon Mark Mendel
By Ken Weitzner
July 25/06
| Quote: | EOG 1- How can the case that Antigua has before the WTO help BetOnSports?
Mark Mendel, Antigua's lead counsel- It could be of substantial benefit. The WTO ruled that the US was in violation of its treaty obligations, and although there is nothing in US law that would absolutely require the US to observe this treaty obligation, it is very much in its best interest to do so, as the US is a massive beneficiary of the WTO dispute resolution process. BOS could assert that on the basis of the WTO ruling and past US compliance efforts, it had every reason to believe that the US was going to comply with the ruling and sanction cross-border gaming in one form or another... (emphasis added) |
What to do:
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Worldwide compensation threat starts to pinch:
Call it America's 'OUCH! case
| Quote: | America's High-Stakes Response to the WTO Internet Gambling Dispute
POLICY FORUM
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
11:00 AM (Luncheon to Follow)
Featuring Mark Mendel, lead counsel for Antigua and Barbuda in US-Gambling, John H. Jackson, Georgetown University Law Center, and Sallie James, Trade Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.
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The dispute between the United States and the Caribbean island nation of Antigua and Barbuda over U.S. restrictions on Internet gambling has demonstrated one of the key benefits of the World Trade Organization: large and small nations alike have access to a legal system that protects their rights. But the United States has indicated that it does not intend to lift its restrictions on gambling over the Internet, in defiance of a series of clear rulings that those restrictions violate U.S. commitments to the WTO. At a time when global trade negotiations have stalled and the future of the WTO is in question, a failure to achieve resolution could deal a serious blow to the WTO’s credibility. The lead attorney for the Antiguan government and one of the world’s experts on WTO law will join a Cato trade expert to discuss this dispute and its importance for the international trading system.
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PokerPulse.com summary of the forum:
| Quote: | Hats off to conservative Cato for playing host to the forum and for posting excellent A/V links! Anyone who is still unclear on either the facts of the case or its outcome will find an excellent summary here.
We'd buy a cold one or two for Antigua supporter, Aussie Sallie James, a trade policy analyst whose dad in Adelaide ran the only casino in town and whom she said, not surprisingly perhaps, would have shared U.S. protectionist sentiments. However, we were disappointed the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) declined to send a spokesman. Not surprising, perhaps, given its embarrassingly untenable position, in our view. Nevertheless, it would have been instructive to hear some frontline debate.
Unfortunately, Prof. Jackson, who took the U.S. side, sounds almost as mystifying as his excessively academic articles on international trade. Unbelievably, he was still arguing the U.S. position of two years ago, the laughable assertion that the U.S. won the case on appeal and that the only contentious issue remaining is horseracing, which is easily repaired. Ho-hum. So the long day wore on. To view Mr. Mendel's written reply to that assertion two years ago, scroll down at our Caribbean Forum to
So 'tweaking' the Interstate Horseracing Act (IHA) wouldn't satisfy U.S. trade obligations?
Prof. Jackson also pressed the now ancient wheeze that America never meant to include gambling in its schedule of commitments under GATS, that it was all just a mistake, hence the moniker, "the oops case." For Mr. Mendel to counter that the inclusion of gambling was very much not a mistake and that, indeed, many countries deliberately excluded gambling, was as the great novelist P.G. Wodehouse might have put it, the work of an instant.
In our view, the focus of the panel as well as the audience almost exclusively on the financial consequences to the U.S. for breaching trade obligations to Antigua and, more recently, the GATS (click here), is an indication that the U.S. is feeling the pinch, making this dispute the OUCH! - not the oops - case. |
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Could this mean the end of Prohibition 2.0?
GObama confesses he enjoys a friendly game of poker!
The Audacity of Hope
Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Hardcover
By Barack Obama
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore" ...
SO BELLY UP TO THE BAISE!
Tell the new president how you feel about Internet gambling at the new White House Office of Public Liaison.
| Quote: | The Office of Public Liaison & Intergovernmental Affairs (OPL-IGA) is the front door to the White House through which everyone can participate and inform the work of the President.
OPL-IGA takes the Administration out of Washington and into communities across America, stimulating honest dialogue and ensuring that America's citizens and their elected officials have a government that works effectively for them and with them.
OPL-IGA will bring new voices to the table, build relationships with constituents and seeks to embody the essence of the President's movement for change through the meaningful engagement of citizens and their elected officials by the federal government.
We'll be adding many more ways for you to interact with OPA-IGA at this page in the weeks and months ahead. In the meantime, please take a moment to share your thoughts using the form below. |
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