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