{"id":189895,"date":"2010-02-02T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/02\/if-you-have-extra-cash\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T02:17:00","slug":"if-you-have-extra-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/02\/if-you-have-extra-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Have Extra Cash\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might want to give it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikileaks.com\/\">Wikileaks<\/a>, which has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-30685_3-20000030-264.html?tag=nl.e703\">suspended their operations because they have run out of cash<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Wikileaks, which has published anonymously contributed information that is both confidential and controversial, has one thing in common with many more-traditional media outlets: financial troubles.<\/p>\n<p>The site has posted confidential 9\/11 pager messages, tangled with banks and the Church of Scientology, revealed inner workings of the U.S. military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and shared snippets of e-mail from vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, Wikileaks has shut the site down at least temporarily.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To concentrate on raising the funds necessary to keep us alive into 2010, we have reluctantly suspended all other operations, but will be back soon,&#8221; a note on the Wikileaks site said Monday. &#8220;We have raised just over $130,000 for this year but can not meaningfully continue operations until costs are covered. These amount to just under $200,000 PA [per annum]. If staff are paid, our yearly budget is $600,000.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These guys do very good work, whether it&#8217;s uncovering things like money laundering, providing secret draft agreements on an &#8220;IP reign of terror&#8221; treaty, and torture manuals US military manuals for maltreating detainees.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Wikileaks posts <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=wikileaks\">here<\/a>, they have been a source for my scribblings not infrequently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might want to give it to Wikileaks, which has suspended their operations because they have run out of cash: Wikileaks, which has published anonymously contributed information that is both confidential and controversial, has one thing in common with many more-traditional media outlets: financial troubles. The site has posted confidential 9\/11 pager messages, tangled with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997,1129,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-journalism","category-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}