Visa suspends all payments to WikiLeaks

[Turborama]

Source: AP

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.

Popular online payment company PayPal, Inc. has already severed its links with WikiLeaks. Visa's decision to pull the plug on WikiLeaks leaves the website with one fewer source of revenue.

Swiss authorities closed Assange's new Swiss bank account Monday.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7327891.html

[OnyxCollie]

1. Release the bank info!

Take 'em all down!

[Roland99]

3. +1

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. VISA was started by Bank of America.

But now is separate from them sort of. Which I find ironic.

Now what is their corporate saying?

VISA where you want to be? or is it the 'PRICELESS one?

[tomm2thumbs]

4. All the banksters are running scared - he must have a bombshell

Bank of America or ?

It has to be big.

Huge.

[azul]

5. The corporate ships are encircling their prey,

and flying their true colors. And they be the skull and crossbones.

[CJCRANE]

6. (Insert expletive here) nt

[14thColony]

7. Holy Crap

Every faction of the military-industrial-media-financial-governmental complex is going after him. Behold what a lynch party looks like in the information age.

[Matariki]

35. what you said...

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[cbdo2007]

9. How does Visa have the right to tell me what I can do with their money??

[azul]

10. Why, that sounds like they are trying to control your freedom.

We been creepshowed into financial servitude, and it's a nasty awakening when you find the ties that bind limiting your freedom of action.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. "Their"?

Aren't we talking about donations to Wikileaks through Visa? That isn't Visa's money!

[cbdo2007]

18. Yeah, they let me borrow their money so I should be able to do whatever I want with it...

and pay them back a very small amount over the next 26 years.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. No. Wikilieaks in this case is the equivalent of a business that accepts CC payments.

But you knew that already.

[cbdo2007]

25. Of course I knew this, but it isn't my money. It is the banks money that they

loan to me for the convenience of not having to use cash/check.

[Violet_Crumble]

36. I've got a Visa debit card, so they're trying to tell me what I can't do with my money...

Does anyone know how to donate to Assange's defence fund? Without trying to use my Visa debit card?

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. If noting else, this highlights what worldwide powers the oiligarchy has.

This should remove a LOT of blinders.

Imagine what the world was like when Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers, or
Woodward/Bernstein broke Watergate, and the newspapers actually helped expose the truths!

[suffragette]

12. +1

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. It should help break the illusion

On who really runs this Matrix we live in.

[dixiegrrrrl]

28. maybe....

[Ichingcarpenter]

31. LOL!!!

My x wife in the male position.

I don't know about you but the older I get on this age, wisdom, experience, change and knowledge thing

Its extremely painful......
but enlightening if you go through those in accelerated pace.

But my life has always been that.

I did enjoy that summer in my ancient youth where I helped my Uncle on his Pecan farm
and dealt with the real nuts.

[Turborama]

15. Update, they've changed the story at the link & it's too late to edit the OP...

Better version...

Visa suspends all payments to WikiLeaks
From: AP December 08, 2010 1:35AM

VISA has suspended all payments to WikiLeaks pending an investigation of the organisation's business. Visa's decision is a powerful blow to the loosely knit organisation, which relies on online donations to fund its operations.

=snip=

Visa's decision to pull the plug on WikiLeaks leaves the website with one fewer source of revenue. The move by Visa comes as the legal net tightened around WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange following his arrest in London last night.

"Visa Europe has taken action to suspend Visa payment acceptance on WikiLeaks' website pending further investigation into the nature of its business and whether it contravenes Visa operating rules," a statement said.

A Visa spokesman told AFP: "This is a decision we have taken ourselves. I am not aware that we have come under any pressure from any government."

Full article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/visa-suspends-all-payments-to-wikileaks/story-fn3dxity-1225967318955

[JBoy]

16. Nothing illegal has been done - this stinks of coverup!

[Xithras]

17. This entire thing is beyond disgusting.

Not one country has charged WikiLeaks with a crime.

Not one country has definitively identified a law they might have broken.

Not one country has issued a warrant for any Wikileaks principals for anything related to the leaks.

And yet, these spineless banking cowards, abetted by the media, are treating them like some sort of criminal organization. Forget innocent until proven guilty. Can't we at least agree that you should be considered innocent UNTIL YOU'RE AT LEAST CHARGED WITH SOMETHING?!?!

I'm keeping a list, and will be closing my accounts at every company that jumps on this bandwagon. I closed my Paypal account yesterday, and sent Amazon a letter informing them why I'd no longer do business with them. I guess it's time for Visa and Mastercard to join the list.

[mainer]

19. Yet Visa lets you donate to a Klan-supported organization

From the Guardian blog site:

4.14pm: Charles Arthur, the Guardian's technology editor, points out that while MasterCard and Visa have cut WikiLeaks off you can still use those cards to donate to overtly racist organisations such as the Knights Party, which is supported by the Ku Klux Klan.

The Ku Klux Klan website directs users to a site called Christian Concepts. It takes Visa and MasterCard donations for users willing to state that they are "white and not of racially mixed descent. I am not married to a non-white. I do not date non-whites nor do I have non-white dependents. I believe in the ideals of western Christian civilisation and profess my belief in Jesus Christ as the son of God."

[kgnu_fan]

21. Sorry, Admn, please combine this thread - Visa suspends payments to WikiLeaks

Source: Wikileaks Central

Submitted by admin on Tue, 12/07/2010 - 16:53

Visa became today the fifth financial institution to suspend payments to WikiLeaks, after Moneybookers, PayPal, Mastercard, and PostFinance. A spokesman said: "Visa Europe has taken action to suspend Visa payment acceptance on WikiLeaks' website pending further investigation into the nature of its business and whether it contravenes Visa operating rules," reports the Press Association.

The Guardian wrote: "Charles Arthur, the Guardian's technology editor, points out that while MasterCard and Visa have cut WikiLeaks off you can still use those cards to donate to overtly racist organisations such as the Knights Party, which is supported by the Ku Klux Klan.

The Ku Klux Klan website directs users to a site called Christian Concepts. It takes Visa and MasterCard donations for users willing to state that they are 'white and not of racially mixed descent. I am not married to a non-white. I do not date non-whites nor do I have non-white dependents. I believe in the ideals of western Christian civilisation and profess my belief in Jesus Christ as the son of God.'"

Probably no further comment is needed. (You can still donate to WikiLeaks via other methods.)

Read more: http://wlcentral.org/

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Visa supports KKK, Visa supports racist criminals. Visa is against the truth teller....

[johnroshan]

22. This is infuriating.

I feel so helpless. How else is he getting any funds? This is our fight too.

[No Elephants]

23. Ah, geez. My only credit card. I closed my Paypal acct--more symbolism than anything else as I

haven't used it in over a year, unsubscribed from amazon emails and never used ebay. Now what?

[kgnu_fan]

24. I know... we are totally captured by $$ monster.

[kgnu_fan]

27. Thank you Admin, to take care of this so quickly. You are so good.

[kgnu_fan]

26. Good time to spread words about the KKK connection of this institution

Make everyone aware, that is the least thing we can do.

[dixiegrrrrl]

29. Look at all we are Learning!!!!!!

Reality sucks sometimes, tho.

[GliderGuider]

30. The gloves come off. Any questions?

There you have it - the true face of the power hierarchy is visible to us all.

[harvey007]

32. Visa's Board of Directors

http://investor.visa.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=215693&p=irol-govBoard

[kgnu_fan]

33. Send mail to [e-mail] for their illigal activities..

It is the policy of Visa Inc. to facilitate communications by security holders and other interested parties with the Board of Directors. Stockholders and other interested parties may send communications in writing to any or all members of the Board (including the Lead Director, the Chairman, any Board committee, or the non-management directors as a group) by mail or electronically. All such correspondence can be sent to the director(s) or a committee by e-mail to [e-mail] or by mail c/o General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, P.O. Box 8999, San Francisco, CA 94128. The General Counsel and Secretary will forward these communications directly to the director(s) specified or, if none is specified, to the Chairman of the Board. All communications must be accompanied by the address, telephone number and e-mail address, if any, of the person submitting the communication. Interested parties must state the nature of their interest in Visa. In addition, interested parties who are not security holders must state their special interest in the subject matter of the communication.
Communications that are not appropriate for delivery to the Board of Directors will not be delivered, including:
• communications that do not conform to the above procedural requirements;
• communications regarding individual grievances or other interests that are personal to the party submitting the communication and could not reasonably be construed to be of concern to security holders or other constituencies of Visa Inc. generally;
• communications that advocate Visa Inc.'s engaging in illegal activities;
• communications that, under community standards, contain offensive, scurrilous or abusive content; and
• communications that have no rational relevance to the business or operations of Visa Inc.

[cbdo2007]

34. What illegal activities?

[Anakin Skywalker]

37. Well, f*ck Vi$a, MasterFraud, and all the other banksters and fraudsters!

Don't buy on interest! It only makes Wall $treet $cums richer.