US lobbied Visa and Mastercard, now the companies shutdown Wikileaks donations

Wikileaks have released cables that show how the US lobbied Russia in favor of Visa and MasterCard, the cables reveal that Russian government was about to bring up its own payment system as they suspected Visa, MasterCard of passing information of transactions to the US government. But the US government  influenced Russia in support of Visa and MasterCard as the companies would have lost billions of dollars had the new payment system gone through. The head of Russian finance ministry said that the law will be re-worked so that they can take care of concerns of the foreign operators.

With Wikileaks releasing cables that reveal the US governments policies and actions, the US government are very unhappy about the revelations.  And have " condemned in the strongest terms" the disclosure of classified documents.

Visa and MasterCard who were once handling the donations of Wikileaks have now shutdown their service for them, the customers of these companies have been severely disappointed by this act. MasterCard have played down any influence of US or any other third parties in their actions saying  “This decision was MasterCard’s alone”. 

It is difficult to overlook the coincidence that the US had bailed out Visa, MasterCard and now these companies have shutdown their services to Wikileaks. 

Why is Sarah Palin so bothered about Julian Assange?

Sarah Palin was outrageous with her views about the Wikileaks founder Julian Assanage, she wanted him to be treated like a terrorist and called for him to be 'hunted down'. She wrote that “His past posting of classified documents revealed the identity of more than 100 Afghan sources to the Taliban. Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders?" and necessitated that the financial assets of Wikileaks should be frozen like those who provide support for terrorist organizations.

And for some reason she just wont understand that Julian is no American and that he cannot be charged with Treason, the sole meaning of the word is lost with her outbursts that he should be charged with treason.

Now what could have outraged her so much? Is it the political motivation? Is she so bothered that the cables are bringing out the truth finally? Or is it just a cheap attempt to get the spotlight on her? Reading conscientiously into her comments, she mentions the name of her book “America By Heart" when it was totally uncalled-for. Looking at the entire saga, its very obvious that her first motive is to play up her book. The very fact that she used up a monumental issue like that of Wikileaks as just a flack to her book exemplifies her heights of opportunism.

But still why wouldn't we stop reading her irrelevant posts on facebook and twitter? Because her feeds are said to be the new American Confu(sed)cius

The victimized

Why? I'm sorry but may be I'm not good enough to understand why, now I want you people to help me out with this. There was a time, when I was a very little kid when I used to do everything you told me, I had so much faith that I blindly did anything and everything you wanted me to. But now that I have grown up and unfortunately I'm starting to think why things are the way they are, I have to say unfortunately because the moment you start thinking it means You are in trouble.You ask questions, questions that will never be answered, questions that will brand you unsocial or anarchist or any of the many other words that people who use to describe that one's who questions them.

Parents who impose rules on a child who is grown up enough to think for himself and asks why things are done the way they are by pure reasoning, now can these parents be held for slavery? Why not? Here are some definitions of a slave from the dictionary

'One who is abjectly subservient to a specified person or influence' -Oh yes definitely, just letting you play on the roads doesn't mean you aren't a victim of slavery, but how many times were you forced to go to some god damn temple when you din't wanna?

'One who is imposed to work extremely hard' -Remember all the kilograms on your back? And the stupid write this paragraph 5 times for homework? I for sure hated them and never got the point why I had to do it.

Yes so you have been victimized. So what can you do about it? What can slaves do? So sad, you are so spineless to stand up to all this. I have a question for you, when your kid starts reasoning about life will you impose your powerless kid to act to your will or?

No, you don't make rules for me

I just told to myself with my first post that I will keep my blog active with at-least one post a month and here it is on last day of October a so damn beautiful month that gives you the rain and all beautiful weather and with that fun comes the nasty roads with water, that pretty much sums up life doesn't it shit comes with everything, like it comes for free with anything and everything you get in life.

Okay so do I have to really post this? I mean is someone imposing a rule that I should with a knife on my neck? Well that always happens, sometimes its the knife, sometimes the arrears, sometimes a pay cut for being late to office! Oh yes the managers want you to be there on time though you wanna enjoy the October weather with a nice sleep. But why? You may be bitching about this too! But you will be a manager someday and you will impose the same rules just because you were forced to let go of your precious sleep by your manager someday when you get the power you wanna do it to someone else.

So can we be completely free? No, there are obviously the rules of nature! Oh fuck we aren't some super natural shit so we have to obey the rules of nature. But what about the rules society imposes on us? I guess there are rules we can break and get away with but not everything. So whats the point then? Is there any use talking about it. No!

But hey there are these rules that we make for ourselves. Sometimes its like what I do here making at-least a post a month, now this is fun, this is something that I do love. But there are times when we get shit on ourselves, but why? Because others will call us stupid, they will make fun of us, but is that a reason worthy enough to get ourselves entangled in shitty rules?(I love wearing loose lousy shirts, I feel comfortable in them, but people feel I should wear some god damn suits and make fun of my lousy shirts. Why should I even bother? Why should I let them make rules for me? Am sure no-one will arrest me for wearing my lousy shirts). Of-course everything in life comes with some shit but why do we get ourselves into shit because some god damn fool thinks we shouldn't do that?

Inception?

What if the lucid dreaming is easy? To put it in a more interesting way, what if you could do what people do in the movie 'Inception'?Think its impossible don't you?But, it is possible! The fact that lucid dreaming is possible is already proven but the techniques to lucid dream is where research is ongoing.

The pivotal thing in the technique to lucid dream is to know that you are in a dream.We know its not difficult to dream, but to know we do? This is where 'reality testing' comes in.You can check for reality by doing simple things and checking if they conform to reality, experts say they bring themselves to doing such reality testing in dreams by doing them regularly in reality.

Why do magnificent things happen in your dreams? I mean the impossible things that your mind beautifully frames? Its because when you dream your creativity increases. I have found myself solving complex calculations in my dreams at school and got pretty curious but I never got to check if the calculations were right, I guess they ought to be! At least more accurate than reality. So can it be used to find creative solutions to difficult problems? Probably yes and that can be very useful.But it puzzles me as the dreams can only work with how much we have reached by reality. I mean take a highway of 10 kilometers and you have explored 4 kilometers in reality, now by dreams you can only work your magic with the 4 kilometers you explored in real world but the rest has to covered in reality to use your creativity in dreams for you have no idea what is there in reality.

I also wonder what impact it will have on our lives. I wonder if reality will hold too little for us to show any interest in it. I wonder if people will use dreams to improve reality or if reality would be lost for so much can be done in dreams. I wonder if people would ever want to come back to reality. Will the world turn into a place where people just dream and live in another world?Now that is scary!

And hey I just got an idea of a reality test, you give me 20 bucks in reality I wouldn't give you a penny back. So what are you waiting for? Remember you are supposed to practice it regularly! Start now

Dogs,our last chance

Now lets be frank, we have this huge ego that stops us from accepting we are animals too. We don't accept that we are just a part of this world.We do these stupid propaganda that we have to save this planet and stuff, we have this huge complicated ego.Pets are probably the last chance that mankind has to realize how simple life is and how simple love can be.

I have always wanted to have a dog and I'm still wanting it.I tried getting stray dogs to home secretly but I always ended up getting screwed.My relationships end on roads with stray dogs and in my friends houses with their pets.But its always been intimate.I find myself more humanely connected to pets than any human for you know they love you with all their heart for nothing more than your love and probably a piece of biscuit.

As if the 'We will save the planet' ego of mankind is not enough, we treat animals like they are inferior! Why because they aren't good with trickery? they couldn't manage a hole in the ozone layer? they can't talk? Of course they wouldn't talk back buckets of words but they do understand, I have always felt more relief in sharing things with pets than with people.There is no fake comforting or emotions.They just put their heart out frankly.Also they have a really good memory and math skills you give them biscuits from packet,get the same packet next day feed them minus 1 and they'll find out because they remember the exact count from the day before.Not that bad huh?

There is so much beauty to enjoy in a dog.Make a strange noise and he will tilt his head at angle, its sure the most beautiful thing next to a dog sticking face out of the car with his tongue out enjoying the wind and curiously observing the world.

Their expectations are less unlike people,they are just a part of your world but you are their world.We always give them very little time that's left out from our lives but they treasure them that's probably why they treasure the bone remains we throw away after eating the meat.

There are very simple things that you do that can give them a sea of happiness.Ever thought about carrying him on your shoulders? you should because he's never seen house from your height, probably from just 3 feet.Fight for him with your neighbor when they complain about or scold him.Just tell him a bye before you leave for work, give him a few seconds once you come back for he's been waiting for you next to door all day long.Ever thought how much your pet that's left back at home waits for you to come back? I think they want you to get done with your work much more than yourself.

If all of mankind had the hearts of dogs world wouldn't be so bad after all.They don't ask for much, they just need such simple things to keep them happy,if only human life was so simple?

For granted

So we live, we search and work to get things we need and of course we complain.Say we complain about our water cooler, we complain the water ain't cold enough and stuff. But hey wait a second we are talking about processed water here and where did water come from? Nah just water and we take it for granted!There are simple things,we use them everyday but we forget to appreciate them and take them for granted.

Now lets start with a pretty small thing that can make you feel embarrassed, your Pant button.Imagine it stopping to hold on to your pant when you are in a team meeting and you holding on your pant that's going down, the Marlyn Monroe pose huh?

Time.Its just amazing as to how we take time for granted except for a few like Einstein I must say.Yes 60 seconds make a minute and a 60 of which makes an hour and so it goes. But is that what time is? Have you ever thought 'What if time decided to take a break and froze?'.Of course its against laws of physics but regretfully laws of physics keep changing.

Now lets take our bodywhich does amazing things and keeps working even when we sleep.What if it goes on strike after you sleep? you'd never see next day.Well take sleep too, what if it just refused to happen? Insomnia.How bad is that now?We had all the time in the world to sleep as kids,get into work that requires you stay awake all night then we'll realize its beauty.

Its really funny to think how highly we think of our lying skills and that the whole world will fall for them.Asked my friend if we could go out for a movie this saturday night(I knew he was going out with this girl so I just wanted to get this outta his mouth) and he tells me he has a family function this saturday night. I asked him if it was after 9pm and he said yes!A family function after 9? What are they going to booze? I laughed my ass off. That lie was a shocker he couldn't make up a better reason,he just took it for granted that his lying skills were good enough to fool me.

Next comes an interesting thing that I took for granted till I had a funny experience in NCC army. Its fun to do things together with friends all right but to shit in open together? Well that's exactly what I found out about how much we took restrooms for granted.

And the most beautiful and undervalued thing,emptiness,silence.Of course its nothing special,its just nothingness.But work in a noisy factory or a woman's beauty parlor(with due respect to their ability to talk to infinity) and you will know how much we have overlooked silence all our lives.

I wonder where it started? Its so interesting to notice how much we take for granted in life? Was it the same even when we were kids when we had a question to everything people told us and we appreciated every simple beauty around? I guess so, at least for me even when I was in my preschool as I always took it for granted that the guy who sits in front of me in the exam hall will come prepared so that i can copy from him.You too took it for granted?

Today

Inspired by children roller skating in Elliots Beach

"Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present;
Which very few of us do" - Jean de la Bruyere

I was just walking by a skating ring where children were having their fun roller skating, it seemed like they enjoyed it despite slipping down to the ground frequently. It never bothered them after all they were enjoying it but I just paused when a parent came running anxiously to take her kid away. I could imagine the parents having fun during their childhood but would they be the same now? Would they enjoy the moment despite knowing they are bound to fall to ground?


They think too much don't they?Or should I say 'we'? Would we skate with the same enthusiasm as we would have in our childhood? Will the thought of falling which might happen eclipse our pure joy?After all life's about falling down and rising up isn't it.

"You have to wake up a virgin each morning" - Jean Louis Barrault

I wonder where it all changes, I wonder if it has anything to do with growing up, of course being careful ain't bad but being too cautious about the future is the killjoy.Are we thinking too much about what the consequences might be?Of course it keeps you safe and may be that's what is intelligence but we miss the moment we miss the fun.

Time is pretty much unforgiving, it gives us just one shot at it and once its past it remains past.Unless Einstein was right with his theory of relativity and we could travel with the speed of light or if idea in the movie 'Inception' is possible then we can live in dreams for centuries and life's long enough for you to ponder over the past and wonder over the future. But hey lets get back to reality, life is short.

"We are always getting ready to live but never living" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now I don't say pondering over the past or planning for the future is bad but overdoing it robs from us the beautiful today.We wouldn't wanna keep thinking too much into the future and then end up finding ourselves having a nothing past.


The past was a bunch of todays that you lived and future are the ones you will.You can make it all beautiful by,So simple ain't it?