{"id":6202,"date":"2011-10-25T00:40:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T07:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/25\/wikileaks-on-the-ropes\/"},"modified":"2011-10-25T00:40:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T07:40:54","slug":"wikileaks-on-the-ropes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/25\/wikileaks-on-the-ropes\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks on the Ropes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">WikiLeaks, the whistle blowing website, may have to close it\u2019s doors, because they are running out of money.&#160; While they have not divulged information that would do any real harm to this nation, they have revealed information that was classified inappropriately, to save leaders from embarrassment, and caused much embarrassment both here and abroad.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"25Wikileaks\" border=\"0\" alt=\"25Wikileaks\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/25Wikileaks.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"216\" \/>Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, has announced that the whistleblowing website is suspending publishing operations in order to focus on fighting a financial blockade and raise new funds.<\/p>\n<p>Assange, speaking at a press conference in London on Monday, said <strong>a banking blockade had destroyed 95% of WikiLeaks&#8217; revenues<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the blockade posed an existential threat to WikiLeaks and if it was not lifted by the new year the organisation would be &quot;simply not able to continue&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The website, behind the publication of hundreds of thousands of controversial US embassy cables in late 2010 in partnership with newspapers including the Guardian and New York Times, revealed that it was running on cash reserves after &quot;an arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade&quot; by the Bank of America, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Western Union.<\/p>\n<p>WikiLeaks said in a statement: &quot;The blockade is outside of any accountable, public process. It is without democratic oversight or transparency.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;<strong>The US government itself found that there were no lawful grounds to add WikiLeaks to a US financial blockade. But the blockade of WikiLeaks by politicised US finance companies continues regardless.<\/strong>&quot;\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2011\/oct\/24\/wikileaks-suspends-publishing\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xVoWOS_yuFI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">WikiLeaks have committed illegal acts.&#160; That\u2019s normal with civil disobedience, and the legal consequences serve to emphasize the commitment to a cause.&#160; I would like to see WikiLeaks survive.&#160; This nation classifies far too much information for all the wrong reasons, so WikiLeaks have provided a valuable service.&#160; Most important, WikiLeaks have been responsible about filtering out the kind of material that should be classified, so needed intelligence operations have not been compromised, and assets have not been killed as a result.&#160; If the US is successful in taking WikiLeaks down, others will take their place.&#160; Perhaps those others might not be so careful.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks, the whistle blowing website, may have to close it\u2019s doors, because they are running out of money.&#160; While they have not divulged information that would do any real harm to this nation, they have revealed information that was classified inappropriately, to save leaders from embarrassment, and caused much embarrassment both here and abroad. Julian <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/25\/wikileaks-on-the-ropes\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}