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WikiLeaks: US Blacklisted Us, Screwed Up Funding -- Assange says US waging financial war
Newser Staff ^ | Friday, October 15, 2010 | Kevin Spak

Posted on 10/15/2010 5:58:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

(Newser) -- WikiLeaks funding has been cut off thanks to what Julian Assange calls financial warfare by the US government. In an email to Assange, Moneybookers, the company that collected donations for WikiLeaks, said it was closing WikiLeaks' account "following the recent publicity and subsequent addition of the WikiLeaks entity to blacklists in Australia and watchlists in the USA."

Moneybookers' decision came on Aug. 13, just days after the Pentagon publicly threatened reprisals against WikiLeaks. Moneybookers tells the Guardian that it "never had any request, inquiry, or correspondence from any authority regarding this former customer," but couldn't explain how that squared with the email's mention of a blacklist. Assange, meanwhile, is furious. "This is likely to cause a huge backlash against Moneybookers," the WikiLeaks founder predicts. "Craven behavior in relation to the US government is unlikely to be seen sympathetically."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: julianassange; waronterror; wikileaks
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Can't use an AP photo, or more accurately, better safe than sorry; but I will point out that I hated Assange in "Doogie Hauser".
1 posted on 10/15/2010 5:58:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...
"Craven behavior in relation to the US government is unlikely to be seen sympathetically."
He doesn't know the half of it.

2 posted on 10/15/2010 5:59:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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Lamh Foistenach Abu!
3 posted on 10/15/2010 6:02:35 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
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To: SunkenCiv

The dude will one day... in a very surprising way... have some kind of accident... of the permanent kind. He has pissed off the wrong people... the kind that do not “exist”.

LLS


4 posted on 10/15/2010 6:04:38 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Awww ... those poor state secrets leakers are crying foul. No tears for the lives they’ve endangered, just for their lost revenue. Cry me a river.


5 posted on 10/15/2010 6:07:28 PM PDT by ri4dc (Obamanomics gives me Chronic Obamasomnia)
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To: SunkenCiv

Hey, Arsenugget, mess with the bull, get the horns.


6 posted on 10/15/2010 6:10:54 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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To: ri4dc

What is it about liberals that escapes them the simple rules of physics?


7 posted on 10/15/2010 6:15:22 PM PDT by mazda77 (Rubio - US Senate, West FL22nd, Scott/Carroll - FL Gov/LtGov, Miller-AK US Senate)
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To: ConorMacNessa; LibLieSlayer
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8 posted on 10/15/2010 6:15:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I always get a kick out how loud the crying is from these little punks when their games end up backfiring big time.

He picked the wrong entity to screw with, that’s for sure.


9 posted on 10/15/2010 6:23:40 PM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: mazda77

Usually it’s their last breath.


10 posted on 10/15/2010 6:23:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Guys makes it his ‘policy’ to divulge thousands of classified documents that could potentially do harm to the US, its soldiers, and allies and he gets teary when the US hits back? Dude, just be glad its the US and cut your loses, if it were Iran you were doing this to, you would have had a bomb under your bed after the first leak.


11 posted on 10/15/2010 6:45:08 PM PDT by LoneStarGI (Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "BAD HUNTER.")
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To: SunkenCiv

Yeah buddy!

LLS


12 posted on 10/15/2010 6:51:07 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

I expect to read how a robbery gone bad has taken the life of this scum. There will be many operators toasting to the headline.


13 posted on 10/15/2010 7:10:25 PM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: SunkenCiv

Consequences.


14 posted on 10/15/2010 7:26:14 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: SunkenCiv

“WikiLeaks funding has been cut off...”

How disturbing. Here’s an idea: you want cash, compete in the marketplace. Uncle Sugerdaddy is cutting back.


15 posted on 10/15/2010 8:03:13 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: crosslink

Wouldn’t surprise me a bit.

LLS


16 posted on 10/15/2010 10:50:20 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: ViLaLuz

It’s a start.


17 posted on 10/16/2010 11:19:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: LibLieSlayer

The way to get to the bastard is to get rid of the jerkoffs who are not in hiding but supporting his sorry ass. It’s all about the money, boys!


18 posted on 10/16/2010 11:19:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: LoneStarGI

I have a suspicion that he’s going to suddenly fall silent, and after an interval (to establish an alibi) his safe-house operators will come forward and claim that something has happened to him.


19 posted on 10/16/2010 11:21:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Marty62

Funny he doesn’t work for a living.


20 posted on 10/16/2010 11:23:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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