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[Rob <becidawa AT hctc.com>]

I read this last Thurs (11/11/04) and have seen nothing else on it since 
(but then again I don't read the WSJ). The last sentence in this blurb is 
the one that could affect all of us to some degree or another.
It's a changing world even if you are miles from town...

Rob
becidawa AT hctc.com

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm

>>USA To Appeal World Trade Organization's Internet Gambling Decision
Thu Nov 11 2004 10:00:25 ET

The Bush administration dismissed as 'deeply flawed' a World Trade 
Organization decision that the US has no right to ban cross-border gambling 
on the Internet. The WTO ruling, publicly released yesterday, favored 
Antigua and Barbuda in its fight against the US over a 43-year-old law that 
bans gambling payments across state lines.

The WALL STREET JOURNAL reported in Thursday editions:

The US immediately said it would appeal the decision, and a senior US trade 
official said the administration "fundamentally rejects" an assertion 
within the WTO ruling that countries don't have an explicit right to limit 
services affecting public morals. US trade officials were "particularly 
alarmed over parts of the WTO ruling that asserted that member states had 
to consult with other countries before modifying laws that affect public 
morals."

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