{"id":2736,"date":"2004-03-26T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-26T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2004-03-26T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-26T20:09:00","slug":"mafia-to-join-with-republicans-to-oppose-world-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/03\/26\/16\/09\/mafia-to-join-with-republicans-to-oppose-world-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Mafia To Join With Republicans To Oppose World Trade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/business\/166397_gambing26.html\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The World Trade Organization, in its first decision on an Internet-related dispute, has ignited a political, cultural and legal tinderbox by ruling that the U.S. policy prohibiting online gambling violates its obligations under international trade law &#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s appalling,&#8221; said Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. &#8220;It cannot be allowed to stand that another nation can impose its values on the U.S. and make it a trade issue.&#8221; &#8230; Ronald Sanders [Antigua and Barbuda] islands&#8217; chief foreign affairs representative, said he believes the United States must liberalize its online gambling regulations or risk being hypocritical about its stance on free trade. &#8220;The U.S. says it wants open competition,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But it only wants free trade when it suits the U.S.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wto.org\/english\/tratop_e\/dispu_e\/DS285\">judgement details straight from the WTO<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Trade Organization, in its first decision on an Internet-related dispute, has ignited a political, cultural and legal tinderbox by ruling that the U.S. policy prohibiting online gambling violates its obligations under international&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}