Why do crooks, thieves illegal businessmen go to a casino? Or why do casinos flourish?

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Its not because they want to enjoy, or relax. But because they are laundering money.   As we have seen in the case of Alcantara.  How do they launder the money. ?

They go to a casino and exchange the cash for chips.  They can do any of these things:

1.  Lose some of the money and exchange some of the cash for managers check and declare the managers

     check as winning

 2.  Arrange for a game where somebody wins and takes out the winning as managers check.

The winning has thus been laundered quickly.  

So as why many laundromats flourish, (there are many dirty clothes and people are tired of washing clothes manually) So do casinos.  Many people are laundering dirty money.  

This post hate casinos.  I do not admire tycoons who are into casinos.  They do not add to the economy but they destroy and subtract.  They are useful only to the owners who rake in billions and help steal billions from the govt coffers through money laundering.   They propagate a false sense of success to the winner and make others addicted.

In many cities in USA where there were casinos, blight has crept in and rise and fall of the casino players  contribute to this.  Also crimes abound.     How much do we know about Vegas lately?

Why Las Vegas is dying

Scams in Las Vegas (and its legal)

If we are wondering how we got into this, casino is one reason.  Like pogos and online games.  , they should have been banned

Manila, the 4th largest city in the world has become the gaming capital of Asia; is gambling good for the society?

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Rizal Philippines
June 4, 2017

According to Casinopedia, Manila, the 4th largest city in the world (in terms of population) many high end casino and hotel operations have moved or considering of moving to Bay City (the reclamation area) even despite some security concerns.  From Casino pedia  The total package has lured many tourists/high rollers:   the theater, the beaches, entertainment, and fun.

Manila has beat Macau and Singapore as gaming city/capital of Asia

However a big question is raised:  while this is good for the country economically, is this good for most of the people?  While the Bible does not directly condemn nor consider gambling a sin, (Bible questions: IS GAMBLING A SIN) gambling becomes addictive for most, especially for those who see lottery bet as the only hope they can get out of financial difficulties, although they know that they can not beat the odds.  Or go to a casino.

 Biblical case against gambling



Hence those who get hooked to gambling:   lottery see no end to their difficulties, and some are driven to take on higher risks, borrow (which they cant repay)  and later on driven to desperate measures:    theft, suicide, and as in case of Jessie Carlos in RWM, driven to revenge and killing people (and himself)

Early on I was consulted on a entrepreneur board game, and when lottery was mentioned as one of entrepreneurial activities in that entrepreneur's board game (a modification of Monopoly) this post made an adverse comment.  Any form of gambling can not be considered entrepreneurial (from a risk taking point of view.   But it cant be, the entrepreneur in this case has all odds against him and can not win)

A lot of debate and controversy has emerged from jueteng, stl.     The govt, through the initiative of Marcos, established PAGCOR for him (not the govt) to control and siphon gambling revenues in the entire country) And PAGCOR now does.  Since this is an edict, no one dare go against it because the PCSO and PAGCOR and even the govt leadership make hay from the revenues of PAGCOR and PCSO.

What is your take?  Are casinos good or bad for your?  For the country

Is this guy trying to chastise the casinos and reminding every one that gambling is an evil

PAGCOR, PCSO try to project good social impact by providing charity assistance to the needy and other social projects.  But their main business keep people poor and in financial difficulties

The Birth of Sin City from Andrew

Bad publicity is a publicity anyway - Steve Harvey Fail at Ms. Universe Finals announcement

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Philippines
December 25, 2015

Merry Christmas

Steve Harvey Fail at You Tube

Epic failure of host Steve Harvey at Miss Universe winner announcement

I thought that such failure can only occur in the Philippines (as was during the announcement of the Manila Film Festival winner during the time of  Mayor Alfredo Lim which involved a beauty queen?)

It did happen though in Las Vegas during the announcement of Ms.Universe.  During the tense moment as to who was the winner, with Ms. Philippines and Ms. Colombia face to face, Steve Harvey announced it was Ms. Colombia.  Three minutes later he announced that he made a mistake and he apologized, saying that Ms. Colombia is the first runner up. And that Pia Wurtzerbach is the Ms. Univrse.

Critics have toasted Steve Harvey for the epic fail, and even included Donald Trump in the tirade.(However it was announced by Steve that Donald Trump has sold the franchise.    The mistake was a great news and publicity for every one -  the organizers, the contestant, the winners, and of course to Steve Harvey.  Even made famous.  He loved probably the attention and media mileage he got, including from this post.

However, Ms Universe Pia made the country proud.  (The President has nothing to do with her winning unless he sponsored her coaching and training for the event)

                         

                           Tweet of Steve Harvey.  Another apology needed for wrong spelling of
                            Philippines and Colombia Philippians, Columbia).  Error prone talaga. Very human!   Hahaha