The Ku Klux Klan, MasterCard, Visa And Wikileaks.

One of the imperatives to stopping an organisation is to limit its funding, that is a well-known concept in the security services and part of the reason that MasterCard, Visa and Paypal have ceased to forward donations to Wikileaks.

Now consider this absurdity, whatever you think of Wikileaks, both Visa and MasterCard will still process payments to the Ku Klux Klan.

Yes, you read it right. The Ku Klux Klan.

These companies won’t forward payments to Wikileaks, but they will happily forward money to people who dream about doing lynchings and racial mass murder.

Evidence for this can be seen at the KKK website (called the Knights Party) with these links to the appropriate Google cache [best not go there directly, it will only up their site hit counter and please them].

This clip from their site shows it:

Mastercard and Visa allow KKK funding.

It all tells you something about these companies priorities .

Update 1: Paypal now admit they were pressurised into that decision, the BBC reports:

“PayPal has said that its decision to stop users from using its service to make donations to Wikileaks was made after advice from the US government.

A senior official at the online payments firm said the State Department had told it that the activities of the website were illegal in the US.

PayPal suspended payments to Wikileaks last week, and has been followed by Visa Europe and Mastercard. “

The Welsh Defence League, Jeff Marsh And The EDL.

Thanks to Lancaster Unity for highlighting a BBC exposé on the WDL.

They are the equivalent of the English Defence League, but for Wales.

Not unsurprisingly the BBC found evidence of linkage to neo-Nazi groups and plenty of conspicuous racism, despite protests to the contrary.

Read more at the Beeb.

Week In Week Out – Unmasked: The Welsh Defence League can be seen here, and also downloaded.

Julian Assange and Prison.

I really mean to get down to covering the contents of the Wikileaks’ material or at least another topic, but events are moving fast and Julian Assange has been remanded to Wandsworth nick.

Perhaps some of my readers might want to send him a postcard or reading material?

I imagine he’ll be in there for some time, the address is:

HMP Wandsworth,
PO Box 757
Heathfield Road
Wandsworth
London
SW18 3HS

More details can be found here.

Update 1: Assange has released a statement of sorts in the Australian, and I can see why the Swedish Government might be very annoyed at him:

“But our publications have been far from unimportant. The US diplomatic cables reveal some startling facts:

The US asked its diplomats to steal personal human material and information from UN officials and human rights groups, including DNA, fingerprints, iris scans, credit card numbers, internet passwords and ID photos, in violation of international treaties. Presumably Australian UN diplomats may be targeted, too.

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia asked the US Officials in Jordan and Bahrain want Iran ‘s nuclear program stopped by any means available.

Britain’s Iraq inquiry was fixed to protect “US interests”.

Sweden is a covert member of NATO and US intelligence sharing is kept from parliament.

The US is playing hardball to get other countries to take freed detainees from Guantanamo Bay . Barack Obama agreed to meet the Slovenian President only if Slovenia took a prisoner. Our Pacific neighbour Kiribati was offered millions of dollars to accept detainees. “

[My emphasis.]

Update 2: The Indy has more on how he might be shipped to the US:

“Informal discussions have already taken place between US and Swedish officials over the possibility of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being delivered into American custody, according to diplomatic sources.”