Let's be honest, for the criminal mafia that run our countries (into the ground, for their profit), 'Wikleaks' was a nightmare. The last thing criminal mafia want is the cupboard being laid bare, on their many skeletons that are hidden. The Machine wasted no time in attacking the creator, Julian Assange. Do you not find it just a TAD suspicous that not long after Wikileaks came gathered any momentum, he was suddenly wanted in connection with some absurd sounding sex related allegation? Not to mention the rabid politic, esp in the US, who were openly threatening this man, who had committed no offence, just like dictators would threaten the persecuted. And then we have the corporations, the owners of your nation, the owners of your elected Government, and the owners of YOU. In a collective action aimed ONLY at suppression, they unite to ensure that those that wish to donate, which is their right, cannot effectively do so. If you value free speech, and freedom of information, if you hate fascism, in whatever guise it comes, then all should be concerned at this; ********************************************************* The whistleblower website WikiLeaks has announced that it is suspending activities due to a financial shortage. If its campaign to allow the cash to flow again is successful, it will launch a new tamper-safe system for submitting confidential data. The sites cash flow was crippled after major payment services refused to accept transfers to WikiLeaks. The controversial organization will now focus on fundraising and legal action against the blockade. Otherwise it will not be able to operate beyond the years end, it said. The suspension was announced at a media conference held by WikiLeaks management on Monday in the Frontline Club in London. (*)A handful of companies vs the world Founder of the website, Jullian Assange, said the ban by MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, the Bank of America and other institutions has cut 95 per cent of WikiLeaks income, which exists through supporter subscriptions. These few companies are not allowed to decide how the world deals with its wallet, he said in outrage. He added that the financial blockade has no legal grounds in any country in the world, including the US, and so the move is clearly unlawful and motivated by extrajudicial reasons. Assange accused enemies of WikiLeaks, including the governmental and financial establishments, of launching a global smear campaign against the website, as well as carrying out criminal cyber attacks against it aimed at revealing its sources of information and support, and undermining its activities. He also said the example clearly shows that no NGO operating on individuals donations is safe from arbitrary decisions taken by a handful of executives and officials. According to WikiLeaks, the projects revenue at the height of its popularity and before the blockade was implemented was 100,000 euros a month. (*)Checks and mailed cash accepted The organization has filed a number of complaints against the financial blockade, both in the US and in Europe. It is hoping that at least some of those complaints will result in court injunctions against the actions. It is also pursuing some more creative ways to circumvent the blockade, including accepting donations via mobile phones, bank-to-bank transfers, checks and in cash sent via ordinary mail. The optimistic expectation for donations in case the blockade is torn down is $2.5 million in the first half of 2012. The sum would allow the project continue and develop, said Assange. (*)Hacker-proof encryption announced If the plan works and WikiLeaks continues to operate, it will upgrade the way it works with its sources. On November 28, the anniversary of the cablegate, the website will launch a new secured system for submitting data to it. It will not use the encryption system regularly used online, because WikiLeaks believes it to be unsafe and exposed to tampering and outright hacking by governmental bodies. This will protect whistleblowers from persecution, Assange said. The full details of the system will be revealed on the launch date. WikiLeaks came to worldwide prominence after making public a number of confidential materials, relation to the US foreign policies and military campaigns abroad. The largest leak was the exposure of US State Department cables, which made public the inner workings of the American diplomacy. The activities of the website have spurred controversy. A number of politicians both in US and abroad believe the website to be a threat to US national security and called for legal action against it. Supporters of the website praised it for making governments across the world better known to the general public. They say secrecy in politics is harmful for the world, and that is what WikiLeaks is trying to do. Assange is currently under investigation in Sweden over sexual charges and is appealing an extradition from England. Supporters believe him to be a victim of political persecution. (*)Losing WikiLeaks to an unlawful financial blockade would be a blow to freedom of speech, but others will carry on the cause, says Donnacha DeLong, the president of the National Union of Journalists in Britain. It is obviously a very murky affair. Were at the very beginning of the situation, raising questions about what, potentially, members of the US government had suggested or asked of companies, DeLong told RT. Obviously, this has been taken outside any legal process or international political agreements. Yet they seem to have an ability to shut down websites that some governments find troubling. It is deeply unsettling that it is unclear what motivations and powers have been behind it. http://rt.com/news/wikileaks-killed-payment-ban-583/
As much as I don't like the tactics being used, a credit card company can choose to block any potential recipient they want to.
I think it is a little more than that, though, isn't it? It's claimed that it may well be illegal, or have no legal basis. It is obviously agenda based, a clear attack on freedom of information, and Government accountablity, by quashing anyone or anything that threatens their elite position. That is something that should anger people of all nations who believe in freedom of information, and free speech. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvhv7wXiHa8"]Was Julian Assange Of WikiLeaks Set Up? - YouTube[/ame] Also, the US, wanting to try him for TREASON???? RED ALERT - He is not American, and this is not treason. Jeez man, if you live in the US, I would be pretty scared at what your Goverments are turning into.
The treason stuff is just rhetoric. Only a few morons in our government made that suggestion because they don't have a clue what treason really means. Still though, as far as I know, these credit card companies made the choice to withdraw their services from Wikileaks of their own volition. I'm sure there was government pressure, but ultimately, the government doesn't really have the power to force them to do it.
Isn't that like saying that a mugger doesn't really have the power to make you hand over your wallet ?
The treason stuff was just rhetroic. SS, between threats to a non American, not living in the US, by your own admission, by people in Gov, to the macabre sight of Hillary on tv, acting as she did, I would say you are in the grip of something that is nothing short of toxic and evil, right now. Can you imagine the reaction of the Machine in the US, if it were hinted that an Arab nation had made such state threats, so direct, so wrong, so aggressive? Would be more than 'rhetoric' then, would be another excuse to go on a killing spree, for the criminal cartel that runs the US, and much of Europe, for that matter. Those threats were designed to stifle their dirty secrets coming out. They did not work. The ABSURD sex charges were an attempt to do the same. They did not work. So, the elites, who are really the big financiers, they played their ACE, and used underhand tactics to try to suppress freedom of information. If Americans value free speech, all of this should worry you.
The CIA is generally known for it's failures which must be far outweighed by it's successes, otherwise it would no longer function in the way that it does. Credit card companies don't suddenly make a decision to shut out their customers if by doing so the credit card company is a loser in the deal. If it smells CIA, you can bet that it is CIA.
And/or other intelligence agencies. They are all in it together, the intelligence agencies, the career politicians, the so called investment banks, all of them, like a criminal cartel. They do not even hide it any more, that is how arrogant they have become, my friends. Your so called elected representatives are NOT representing your best interest, but those of their criminal cartel friends. If freedom and truth matter to you, this should be a real concern, indeed, it should be your number one concern. Free yourself from the boastful financial vampires who openly brag that they pray for recession, so that they, like the parasites that they are, can make money of your misery. A true patriot would be alarmed by such things, surely?
Congressman Ron Paul used a speaking engagement in Iowa over the weekend to offer his support to whistleblowers, applauding WikiLeaks in particular for exposing political fallacies. Speaking before a crowd at the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) Iowa Straw Poll, Paul saluted whistleblowers for helping the rest of America be in-the-know when the government wants otherwise, noting that even when the government says they are in support of whistleblowers, authorities continue to prosecute people who are only trying to bring transparency to the way the country works. The net results of protecting whistleblowers doesnt work out that well, Paul said on Saturday during his speech. It all depends on what theyre blowing the whistle on. If they dont want that information out, they come down very hard on the whistle blower. Private First Class Bradley Manning has been in the custody of the US government for 16 months now due to allegation that he leaked sensitive military information to WikiLeaks. For his supposed involvement, he has been subjected to cruel and harsh punishment and continued incarceration as he awaits trial. His imprisonment comes, however, during the administration of a president that touts himself as being remarkably transparent in his affairs. Speaking over the weekend, Paul told the crowd that the area that neither the Democrat nor the Republican leadership seems to welcome any whistleblowing is when there is an exposure on our foreign policy. According to governmental agencies, Manning has released information pertaining to United States military operations overseas, including pictures of airstrikes perpetrated by US troops. Paul says that patriots such as Manning are essential for the country. In his lecture, Paul, a current candidate for the GOP nomination for president in 2012, also touched on Daniel Ellsberg, the former military analyst that leaked the Pentagon Papers and exposed the Vietnam War, says Paul, as all rigged. In the same way we get information from groups like WikiLeaks confirming the fact that we actually went into Iraq and there was no Al Qaeda, no weapons of mass destruction, it was all a gimmick to get us into a war that we didnt need to be in, Paul added. The best way to prevent this kind of dilemma for us getting the information after the fact, is we should have the information before the fact, said Paul. That is we should never go to war without a full examination and a declaration of war. In a GOP debate earlier this year, Paul was jeered from a conservative crowd near the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks for saying that the al-Qaeda-initiated incidents from a decade earlier were not an assault on Americas freedom, but rather a retaliation for Americas foreign policy. http://rt.com/emailstory/?doc_id=76...nformation-whistleblowers-301/?fb_xd_fragment
