<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Russia bans all gambling and shuts casinos : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/"/><tagline>Russia bans all gambling and shuts casinos : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-12-01T03:21:11+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Russia bans all gambling and shuts casinos]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/126341/1/" /><id>126341</id><summary><![CDATA[Russia bans all gambling and shuts casinos]]></summary><issued>2009-07-01T14:39:17+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-01T14:39:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Russia closed down its casinos overnight as gambling was banned nationwide, a move the industry says could throw a third of a million people out of work.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</script></div><entry><title><![CDATA[Casinos a Bingos]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/28693/1/" /><id>28693</id><summary><![CDATA[Casinos a Bingos]]></summary><issued>2007-07-24T13:07:34+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-24T13:07:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Gambling directory where you'll find detailed information about casinos, bingo, poker, sports betting houses, lotteries and sweepstakes, contests hundreds of free backgammon, free games, bonuses and promotions, tips and tricks for casinos and bingo. Affiliate programs gambling industry for webmasters.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man Fights Casinos Over $14.7 Million Gambling Debts]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/116811/1/" /><id>116811</id><summary><![CDATA[Man Fights Casinos Over $14.7 Million Gambling Debts]]></summary><issued>2009-05-24T17:49:05+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-24T17:49:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[He is accusing both casinos of keeping him in a highly intoxicated state for the latter part of 2007, during which the money in question was lost. <br/><br/>In 2007, he lost $112 million dollars gambling.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[In bad times, Vegas casinos know when to hold 'em]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/90209/1/" /><id>90209</id><summary><![CDATA[In bad times, Vegas casinos know when to hold 'em]]></summary><issued>2009-01-20T17:48:44+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-20T17:48:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Major gambling companies' ledgers have told the same, sinking story for a year: Fewer people are visiting casinos, their trips are getting shorter and they're not gambling as much.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Gambling Man's Wife Anchors Down His Feet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/49885/1/" /><id>49885</id><summary><![CDATA[Gambling Man's Wife Anchors Down His Feet]]></summary><issued>2008-02-08T11:53:24+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-08T11:53:24+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Lai Yingying&#8217;s wife, tired of him Gambling with his buddies, weighted down his feet with Giant Metal Boots, that take 30 minutes to attach. Sometimes we women have to do what we have to do. (This is my first post! Here I go!)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Online gambling takes another blow.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/1341/1/" /><id>1341</id><summary><![CDATA[Online gambling takes another blow.]]></summary><issued>2006-09-27T13:37:54+01:00</issued><modified>2006-09-27T13:37:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Fresh arrest warnings to Louisiana online gamblng chiefs. The battle to get gambling off the internet goes on.<br/><br/>(Alton seems safe for now.)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Russia Will Be a Troublemaker in 2009]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/90390/1/" /><id>90390</id><summary><![CDATA[Russia Will Be a Troublemaker in 2009]]></summary><issued>2009-01-21T22:29:02+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-21T22:29:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The world enters 2009 with Russia in play in a way it hasn't seen in decades. The relevant comparison isn't 1998, when the Russians engaged in default and devaluation but remained within the bounds of their existing political and economic system (as Lenin said, two steps forward, one step back).<br/><br/>*In Soviet Russia, cold catches you!*]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Russia bans kangaroo meat... Aussies hopping mad]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/130344/1/" /><id>130344</id><summary><![CDATA[Russia bans kangaroo meat... Aussies hopping mad]]></summary><issued>2009-08-10T11:43:52+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-10T11:43:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Russia has banned imports of kangaroo meat in its latest bizarre trade embargo.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Antigua Awarded $21m In Damages From The US Law Against Online Gambling.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45639/1/" /><id>45639</id><summary><![CDATA[Antigua Awarded $21m In Damages From The US Law Against Online Gambling.]]></summary><issued>2007-12-31T16:06:19+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-31T16:06:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Sadly, this amounts to a token punishment for what the <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wto" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WTO</a> declared was an illegal ban since it violates trade law by targeting online gambling without equal application of the rules to American operators offering remote betting on horse and dog racing.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The mathematics of gambling]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/130723/1/" /><id>130723</id><summary><![CDATA[The mathematics of gambling]]></summary><issued>2009-08-14T09:55:23+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-14T09:55:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Luck is for suckers. Real winners use math to increase their odds of winning while gambling.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Russia holds first Top Shaman elections]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/106244/1/" /><id>106244</id><summary><![CDATA[Russia holds first Top Shaman elections]]></summary><issued>2009-04-10T12:58:21+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-10T12:58:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The list of candidates currently contains all shamans registered in the Shamans Register of Russia, but any people who consider themselves shamans are also welcome to submit their applications.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Islamic cleric Abu Hamza says Australians are boozers hooked on gambling and prostitution]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/90620/1/" /><id>90620</id><summary><![CDATA[Islamic cleric Abu Hamza says Australians are boozers hooked on gambling and prostitution]]></summary><issued>2009-01-22T20:16:55+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-22T20:16:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Outspoken Islamic cleric Abu Hamza has branded Australians as boozers who are hooked on gambling and prostitution.<br/><br/>In another sermon broadcast over the internet, the Melbourne cleric urged followers to spread the word of Islam to save Australians.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Russia told it's in 'terrible danger' due to AIDS crisis]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/39622/1/" /><id>39622</id><summary><![CDATA[Russia told it's in 'terrible danger' due to AIDS crisis]]></summary><issued>2007-10-26T04:09:41+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-26T04:09:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Russia is losing the battle against HIV/AIDS because of government inaction and a lack of public awareness. The real number of infected people in Russia reaches 1.6 million.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Russia forces USA out from its traditional arms markets]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62269/1/" /><id>62269</id><summary><![CDATA[Russia forces USA out from its traditional arms markets]]></summary><issued>2008-05-18T20:01:23+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-18T20:01:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Russia forces the USA out from the traditional arms market. Russia has won a 4-billion-dollar contract with Saudi Arabia in a competition with the USA and France.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Internet Gambling Ban: Why you should oppose it]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/46078/1/" /><id>46078</id><summary><![CDATA[Internet Gambling Ban: Why you should oppose it]]></summary><issued>2008-01-04T20:12:23+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-04T20:12:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The problem is that the law carves out exemptions for some forms of gambling, such as state lotteries and domestic horse racing, while banning most other forms, most notably poker, the most popular form of online wagering.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Euro 2008 - Classy Russia stun the Dutch]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/66180/1/" /><id>66180</id><summary><![CDATA[Euro 2008 - Classy Russia stun the Dutch]]></summary><issued>2008-06-22T02:36:15+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-22T02:36:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Russia were the better side throughout a match that was ordinary for the most part, with the usual Euro 2008 late drama sealed by a virtuoso performance from little Andrei Arshavin, who must now be the main candidate for player of the tournament.<br/><br/>It was the great game :)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Russia to loan Chavez $1BN to buy arms ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/77648/1/" /><id>77648</id><summary><![CDATA[Russia to loan Chavez $1BN to buy arms ]]></summary><issued>2008-09-25T16:00:32+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-25T16:00:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In addition to the loan to Venezuela's fiercely anti-US government, Russia may also launch a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iiePu64JzQSc5fGJA_zjPpJ4IGIw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">nuclear</a> cooperation with Venezuela.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Russia ahead in race to put man on Mars: scientist]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/46504/1/" /><id>46504</id><summary><![CDATA[Russia ahead in race to put man on Mars: scientist]]></summary><issued>2008-01-09T05:00:51+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-09T05:00:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Russia is leading the race to complete a manned mission to Mars and could land a Russian on the Red Planet by 2025, a leading scientist was quoted as saying on Tuesday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[What are the odds on this happening?  Gambling capital of the world Las Vegas blanketed in SNOW!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/85669/1/" /><id>85669</id><summary><![CDATA[What are the odds on this happening?  Gambling capital of the world Las Vegas blanketed in SNOW!]]></summary><issued>2008-12-18T20:10:03+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-18T20:10:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It's known for its casinos, bright lights and soaring temperatures but yesterday the desert city of Las Vegas was blanketed in several inches of snow following a rare storm.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Is Online Gambling In The US Legal? Well Yes &amp; No.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/82189/1/" /><id>82189</id><summary><![CDATA[Is Online Gambling In The US Legal? Well Yes &amp; No.]]></summary><issued>2008-11-18T11:06:06+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-18T11:06:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The attempt to make online gambling illegal in the US has ran into all sorts of roadblocks, mainly in defining the terms as well as making exceptions for domestic companies such as horse racing and government lotteries. Reading the <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews/idUSN1231176620081112" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">final</a> <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/hp1266.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">order</a>, it appears that Americans will be able to gamble online.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Norway gives notice: Russia to freeze NATO military ties]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/72986/1/" /><id>72986</id><summary><![CDATA[Norway gives notice: Russia to freeze NATO military ties]]></summary><issued>2008-08-20T15:29:13+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-20T15:29:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[OSLO, Norway - Norway's Defense Ministry said Russia has informed it that it plans to cut all military ties with NATO.]]></content></entry></feed>