Many people are confused whether to donate Wikileaks or not. It is better to understand first of all that actually what type of services Wikileaks offer to the world. A non-profit media organization, WikiLeaks is committed to bring vital news and details to the public by issuing fact-based stories exclusive of fear or favor. Here are made all efforts to give you important details regarding Wikileaks, including the process to make donation. By donating monetarily, you can support their independent media. You are free to decide any amount for donation depending on your capacity, possibilities or interests as they do not advise any exact amount.
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About Wikileaks:
The material of moral, political and past significance is published by WikiLeaks whereas keeping the identity of their sources unknown, and hence present a universal way for the revealing of concealed injustices. The Sunshine Press launched its website in 2006. Initially WikiLeaks was launched as a user-editable wiki site, but towards a more traditional publication model it has progressively moved, and does not accept user comments or edits. An Australian Internet activist, Julian Assange is described as its director by the Guardian newspaper.
On multiple servers, the site is accessible and diverse domain names following a number of denial-of-service attacks and its severance from special Domain Name System (DNS) providers. In a long list of "leaks" published by the secretive site, the newest is the recent release of thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables that has established a status for publishing sensitive material from governments and other high-profile organizations.
The site released about 400,000 secret US military logs detailing its operations in Iraq in October 2010. To almost 90,000 classified military records, they followed hot on the heels that gave an insight into the military strategy in Afghanistan. Just for example, Wikileaks posted a video in April 2010 on its website, which shows a US Apache helicopter killing no less than 12 people – that included two Reuters journalists – for an attack in Baghdad in 2007.
Wikileaks awards:
A number of awards have been won by WikiLeaks like the 2008 Economist magazine New Media Award, (in the category "New Media"). WikiLeaks and Julian Assange won Amnesty International's UK Media Award for the 2008 publication of "Kenya: The Cry of Blood – Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances" in 2009, in a ranking of "websites that could totally change the news" the New York Daily News listed WikiLeaks first in May 2010 and more.
Donate to Wikileaks:
In order to stay strong WikiLeaks relies on its supporters. They recommend all to keep them at the forefront of anti-censorship and give support by donating as now they still require donations to pay expert programmers, for computers, and other bills. Currently there are four different methods to donate. Select any one that better suits you.
1. Transfer Online through Credit Card: You can use their friendly credit card processing partner Datacell Switzerland.
Please Note: Visa and Mastercard payments are being discarded on their donation system since last week as they have got a notice stating that Visa Europe has ordered their payment processor to postpone payments and undertake due diligence investigation. The payments of Mastercard are also postponed for the same reason. With effect from 8 December 2010 Danish local time the suspension period will be one week and it might be prolonged.
DataCell ehf assist payments towards Wikileaks has decided to take up instant legal actions to make donations possible again. In high figures Wikileaks and DataCell ehf is hurt by Wikileaks and DataCell ehf. To put the payments for 7 days on hold or more is one thing however rejecting all supplementary attempts to donate is making the donations not viable. Now use wiretransfers if you desire to donate. Also ensure that your local Visa partner knows that it is your genuine hope to donate to Wikileaks using your Visa card. In the interim they will do their best to support Wikileaks.
2. By way of Postal Mail: Through a good old fashion postal mail, post a donation to:
WikiLeaks (Or any appropriate name likely to evade interception in your country)
BOX 4080
Australia Post Office - University of Melbourne Branch
Victoria 3052, Australia
3. Bank Transfer - Option 1: by means of Sunshine Press Productions
Skulagötu 19, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland
Landsbanki Islands Account number 0111-26-611010
Bank/swift: NBIIISREXXX
Account/iban: IS97 0111 2661 1010 6110 1002 80
4. Bank Transfer - Option 2: by way of the not-for-profit Wau Holland Stiftung Foundation
Note: This support is tax deductible in Germany
Bank Account: 2772812-04
Iban: DE46 5204 0021 0277 2812 04
BIC Code: COBADEFFXXX
Bank: Commerzbank Kassel
German BLZ: 52040021
Subject: WIKILEAKS / WHS Projek
Exclusively WikiLeaks is supported by donations from the general public, most of that come through PayPal but now PayPal cut off the account used for donations to the whistle-blowing website so WikiLeaks is facing a fresh hazard to its survival as the online payment service. Already WikiLeaks is fighting to stay on the internet. US provider shut down its original web address so it switched its domain to Switzerland, since it carry on to release thousands of classified US diplomatic cables.
Recently, Wikileaks has stopped accepting donations through the US-based paypal (owned by auctions group eBay) because of the following reason. A concurrent press release was issued by PayPal saying that it had "permanently suspended" the WikiLeaks account. PayPal claims that "our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity," even though in all its court proceedings, WikiLeaks has been successful and there are no awaiting proceedings. In a message on its Twitter feed, WikiLeaks blamed "US government pressure" for the PayPal ban.
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks editor, stated that "What we are seeing here are dangerous moves towards a digital McCarthyism. These actions, and the others like it, are not the result of a legal process, but rather, are a result of fear of falling out of favor with Washington."
Last week, subsequent to several similar attacks the move comes preliminary with the elimination of WikiLeaks’ Amazon.com servers after interference by US Senator Lieberman & the Department of Homeland Security.
Video of Paypal Suspends WikiLeaks Donations from youtube:
Source: http://213.251.145.96 (Wikileaks website)
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