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Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down
Scrameustache writes "The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government. Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist. The apparent blacklisting came a few days after the Pentagon publicly expressed its anger at WikiLeaks and its founder, Australian citizen Julian Assange, for obtaining thousands of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan."
Religious people usually like to explain things using their "intuition", which basically can just be their imagination. Religious people tend to "create" reasons why the world is the way it is and then "believe" in those reasons they thought up; therefore, there is no real evidence for those beliefs. This is called rationalization. For example, I could say that I believe the world is two dimensional. There is no way to ever prove that. It just means I "created" an explanation.
Rationalize: the cognitive process of making something SEEM consistent with or based on reason. Key word is SEEM.
Here is a good example of this. Religious people will say that when a person has something good happen to them God has blessed them with a gift; although, nobody saw God bless the person or experience the act. This is how many religious people think. They "think" things up. They "create" explanations. They do not really understand what is REALLY happening. I mean, they do not see all of the circumstances that could have caused this person to have something good happen to them. It could just be a coincidence. Mary dropped a $100 bill and Joe picked it up. Joe is not blessed. Joe is lucky. Mary is unlucky. Or, if there is a God, Joe is blessed and Mary just got royally screwed.
I am not saying religious people are wrong, but apparently someone has to be wrong out of all the religions that exist. For all I know someone out there has a direct link to God and I am totally clueless. But I would think that if God wanted me to believe in him or her, he or she would let me in on the secret. After all, that is the best way to get someone to believe in you. Hiding yourself from someone is not very efficient.
Personally, I do not believe in God because of genetic mutations that cause children to be born crippled. Additionally, I do not believe in God because of viruses that kill other living things on a continual basis.
In my honest opinion, people should not attempt to rationalize reality. Science can help explain WHAT is happening, not always WHY. There are many people out there who RATIONALIZE reality using scientific fact. Trying to explain WHY something is happening can become rationalization. Religious people AND some atheists do this. For example, some atheists believe science explains WHY reality is the way it is, when the WHY is just a RATIONALIZATION. Basically, people in general are guilty of this, atheist or religious. Science should only be used to explain WHAT is happening so that it can be applied in the future. It should not attempt to explain WHY because then it falls into the same fallacy of religious mysticism.
Is it just my observation, or is eldavojohn an idiot?
You've got such beautiful hair! You look like such a daring revolutionary. I hope they don't muss it up when you are in prison.
What an asshat, uncovering the nasty things the US military wanted to cover up! Also, we should still be in Vietnam, those damned commies! We should have shot that whistleblower!
il-lic-it/i`lisit/
Adjective: Forbidden by law, rules, or custom: "illicit drugs"; "illicit sex".
Many of us consider the changes made by the PATRIOT act and others to be pretty damn illicit. We've almost to the point where you have to show papers to travel by air inside the country for example, and how many times have we heard that audits show the FBI has abused the national security letters powers the PATRIOT act gave them? Since 9/11 it's become very common practice by law enforcement at all levels to use "combating terrorism" as an excuse to restrain civil liberties. Check out Carlos Miller's Photography is not a Crime blog for lots and lots of examples of that. These are things that are most definitely forbidden by custom, some of them by the law. So yeah, typo on the poster's fault, but sadly, it still works. Al Queda used terror to get the US government to introduce lots of illicit changes to the country.
Yeah, but the Patriot Act *was* an illicit change, so his spelling was correct, it was his grammar that was off. :)
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Your sig -- do you mean Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits, or the fictional Buddy Noone? And why would either of those guys write a nerd joke, anyway?
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