The other night, while mentioning how some big players in the financial world are waging economic warfare on Wikileaks, I was corrected about Mastercard. I was informed that they couldn't have stopped donations to Wikileaks being processed, as Mastercard is a private non-profit organization, whose sole purpose is to issue credit cards to customers in the name of banks - like some kind of financial dating service matching borrowers to banks - that they don't process transactions for merchants, and that even if they did they wouldn't charge a fee for it (being the altruistic non-profit that they are). And ...