Posted on 12/07/2010 11:02:33 AM PST by ColdOne
LONDON -- Visa says it has suspended all payments to WikiLeaks pending an investigation of the organization's business.
Visa's decision is a powerful blow to the loosely knit organization, which relies on online donations to fund its operations.
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Take AMX. This is a political decision by Visa and will in the end bite them.
Well, Mastercard did the same thing yesterday. I really don't think that the number of folks donating to this crap is significant with respect to all the other credit card activity there is. It probably won't hurt either company's bottom line.
This is a direct result of Assange saying he had something on the banks. You can screw with the government and get away with it, but you screw with the banks and you're toast.
They probably have cash in bags, in addition to funds in a variety of hidden accounts.
Pretty soon an announcement will be made that mail, internet access, water, electricity, and other utilities will be cut off from Wikileaks. And if they start building a dome over Wikileaks, cutting off the air will be next.
Yeah but what if one or more foreign governments . or terrorist groups . . are laundering money to help finance this?
why should visa be able to do this?
what next? no donations to conservtive candidates?
Carrying a Visa is equivalent to carrying the chains of slavery.
This is why small businessmen in Europe refuse to use credit card systems and EZPass toll systems, and prefer bank direct debit cards for any electronic transactions in that socialist paradise. (Greece and Italy for example).
A little late, aren’t we?
Interesting take, but here is my theory. Nothing happened with the first two leaks, largely because they embarrassed Bush and some Clinton. Obama did nothing even though he could have ordered the the shut down the website.
The last leak was an assault on Obama. Then all heck broke out on Assange.
Interesting take, but here is my theory. Nothing happened with the first two leaks, largely because they embarrassed Bush and some Clinton. Obama did nothing even though he could have ordered the the shut down the website.
The last leak was an assault on Obama. Then all heck broke out on Assange.
My take is a slight variation on that theme. I suspect Assange was at some pointed courted and funded by Soros albeit indirectly so as not to leave any fingerprints. Assange, although probably a pretty intelligent guy, got caught up in the celebrity/notoriety and made himself a very useful idiot. Although he may have seen himself as a world class whistleblower, I suspect that everything he obtained and released had been deliberately screened and approved for release before Assange ever got his hands on it and he became little more than a conduit for others.
Now that all that was supposed to be seen has been seen, he'll join the ranks of every useful idiot that has outlived his usefulness.
If only it was that easy. /s
Wikileaks is a distributed, loosely-coupled network organization, in some ways much like the internet itself. It knows how to route around damage. It's got its limits, yes, but my guess is that the Wikileaks folks are nowhere near those limits yet.
Watching this unfold, especially the calm way Assange handed himself over to the authorities, is WAY spooky, like the old TV series "Mission Impossible".
There's stuff going on under the surface that we have no idea of.
Which leak? I can’t keep up.
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