Bank of America

Just saw a post on twitter by Wikileaks pleading people to stop doing business with the bank.

Wikileaks said that they have dug up some dirt of BoA and the bank said that they will not process any payments intended for wikileaks.

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/17/2528138/bank-of-america-says-it-wont-process.html

I wonder, why one would have accounts or for that matter any kind of transaction with a bank that they are bent upon digging dirt about. I would rather steer clear of it completely.


As an afterthought, interestingly, event Mastercard, Visa and Paypal are not processing payments meant for Wikileaks. Why is the site not asking people to stop doing business with these agencies as well?

Tata Jumps In...

In the last month, a set of audio tapes with the taped conversations between Nira Radia (I am not impressed with the extra 'i') and certain journalists, came into the public domain. Subsequently, Mr. Ratan Tata went straight to the Supreme Court asking for the government to make sure that the tape(s) that have been gathered over the course of the CBI surveillance, not be allowed leak into public purview.

A few observations:

By doing this Mr. Tata has made it quite obvious that he himself has quite a few skeletons in the closet. All the bull about 'I did not start my airline because I was asked to bribe and I could not go to bed knowing that I had bribed'; was all media stunt and nothing else. He is neck deep, if not more, involved in bribery, probably the T&C with the aviation minister did not work out back at that time. It probably was not a 'Win-Win' situation.

Either that or, Mr. Ratan Tata, is the bellwether for privacy protection for those people/entities who happen to be certified frauds.