Meet the World Trade Organization-It seems that common sense has not passed away yet some months ago the Port Security Bill. It seems that common sense has not passed away yet some months ago the Port Security Bill made the first step on a war against online gambling. Basically, financial institutions from the US can not process payments for off shore gambling sites. Yes; is that serious. The US government is taking the decision on where can you or can’t you spend your money. Quite rude don’t you think? A lot of things have happened since. A couple of industry giants lost their empire, some people saw their stock fall down like a sky scrapper being hit with a bomber plane and millions of players are pissed off because they are getting a hard time experiencing one of the most popular forms of entertainment in America: GAMBLING.

Sad but true, the US (regardless the thousands of problems they have in their hands like poverty, unemployment, war, a useless president with a power rush) prefers to make sure no one gambles before taking care of, obviously, things with higher priority.

But this is just another obstacle of the gambling industry; most likely this will be left behind. At some point one of these politicians will realize the waste of time this is and the online gambling world will continue its daily duties as usual.


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One thing that has shocked the industry is Neteller’s position. Neteller is probably the most used banking method in online gambling and recently announced that their InstaCash service will no longer be available. InstaCash used to link your bank account to the Neteller one for a fast and reliable deposit method.

This shouldn’t be alarming to anyone. Once upon a time Western Union used to be the most reliable and used method and that changed some years ago. Expect the same things now. It might happen that Neteller may diminish their business, but some wise guys will come with a brand new unbeatable funding method that will replace them.

So, why could the World Trade Organization might be the online gambling industry’s new best friend? Quite simple, the U.S. has ignored almost every international trading agreement with Antigua.  The U.S., according to these agreements, should Antigua and any other country in the W.T.O to operate gambling business with US customers and advertise freely to U.S. citizens.

This brings a lot of problems to the U.S., it seems that the tiny little island of Antigua and Barbuda is right and they are wrong.

The actual situation should concern other countries such as Costa Rica, Spain and others in Europe who have online gambling operations in their territory since this is a clear violation of International Trading Agreements.  This situation has affected directly to Antigua in their economic sector since the island receives lots of its income through online gambling operations.

You as a player or online gambling business man should learn more about how this problem is being handled by the U.S and the W.T.O.  It seems that the U.S., as they usually do, are dealing with this in their old fashioned dictatorial way and are ignoring everything regarding this scenario with Antigua.

Play safe and remember always to go with the good guys, some research before placing your money at your favorite gambling site never hurts.

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