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[Dave Chance]

Must be in the water these days...well once the government is exposed and doesn't really make the effort to right the ship, influence is bound to spread-

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2012/04/12/foods-biggest-scam-the-great-kobe-beef-lie/

"How is this possible?� you ask, when you see the virtues of Kobe being touted on television food shows, by famous chefs, and on menus all over the country? A dozen burger joints in Las Vegas alone offer Kobe burgers. Google it and you will find dozens of online vendors happy to take your money and ship you very pricey steaks. Restaurant reviews in the New York Times have repeatedly praised the �Kobe beef� served at high-end Manhattan restaurants. Not an issue of any major food magazine goes by without reinforcing the great fat Kobe beef lie.

I know the folks at the American Wagyu Association are not going to be happy that you are learning this, but then if they actually think theirs is better than other types of beef, they should have come up with a new name for it, like �Great Great American Beef,� and let it swim or sink in the free market based on its quality. This is how most products are launched. It took Toyota and Honda a long time to build a quality reputation that matched that of American cars � they didn�t get there through the shortcut of calling themselves �Domestic American Automobiles.�

[Dave Chance]

The further cheapening of the states and income gap disparity via the gov't and business-

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2012/04/14/kobe-beef-scam-part-3-why-the-u-s-government-wants-you-to-buy-fake-foods/

But Kobe is just the tip of the labeling iceberg � there are literally hundreds of other food items, from the extravagant, such as Champagne and Cognac, to the more common, like Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, whose production and sale in this country would violate many very old and well-known foreign trademarks � except that these trademarks are not recognized by U.S. law. Like Faux-be beef, this domestic production is undertaken mainly for one reason � to reap the benefit of good will and quality brand reputation created by someone else, namely foreigners who have no recourse in U.S. courts.
And for that we can thank the U.S. government.

http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20120415000290

[Robert Reich] We�re turning U.S. into a giant casino

Why should governments use taxpayer dollars to actively market games to Americans ― many of them low-income and vulnerable to get-rich-quick pitches, who don�t know the odds are stacked against them and in favor of the government?

As if all this weren�t enough, we now have the �Jumpstart Our Business Startups� or misleadingly named �JOBS� Act, which President Obama signed into law last Thursday. It�s almost designed for con artists.

It allows so-called �crowdfunding� by which people whose net worth is less than $100,000 can gamble away (that is, invest) up to 5 percent of their annual incomes in any get-rich-quick scam (start-up) that any huckster (entrepreneur) may sell them.

Forget the usual investor disclosures or other protections. In the interest of �streamlining� investment in small companies, Congress has streamlined the way to fraud.

Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich is now chancellor�s professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley.

[Dave Chance]

The current business climate in the US leading a weasel (aided by a major Korean media outlet) to peddle his idea of why Korea should open itself more to gambling on the scale of Vegas; the usual Kangnam rationale that Korea at its best is a pastiche of the US-

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2012/04/334_109010.html

For those in Korea�s tourism industry and municipal governments, something like the Las Vegas Strip is the dream source to correct the imbalance between outbound Korean tourists and inbound foreign counterparts, boost tax revenue and hire tens of thousands young people.

Their best scenario is that a cluster of integrated resorts near an international airport would draw high rollers from China, eventually helping Koreans enjoy state-of-the-art facilities subsidized with revenue from casinos.

Foreign firms, however, are reluctant to enter Korea unless the country allows local residents to gamble in their facilities. Kangwon Land Resort & Casino in the east of the country is currently the only place that accepts Korean nationals.

For Murren, a highly profitable casino within an integrated resort works as a guarantor for multi-billion dollar investment and the admission of Koreans means more than just higher revenue.

�If resorts are desired for foreign tourists only�the message that sends is that they want to raise some revenue from taxes and investment and employ some people,� Murren says.

[rollo]

There are casinos in North Korea and they are aimed at Chinese tourist, why shouldnt the South get in on the act. Oh I forgot it's a U.S. tactic to take over the world and make people eat fake Kobe beef!!

[Dave Chance]

Both the mislabeling of food and glorification of casino culture are symptomatic of a system where people are cheated out of their money.

[rollo]

Oh!!! What system are you referring to and what system would you suggest to replace the curent one. Casinos are fun for many people and most casinos do not cheat and of course some people win. Mislabeling food is criminal and you seem to suggest that system causes people to commit crimes.