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WikiLeaks Has a New Commercial

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Posted on Jun 28, 2011

The biggest threat to WikiLeaks isn’t the house arrest of Julian Assange or the militaries of frustrated world governments—it’s the financial blockade by PayPal, Bank of America, Visa and other institutions that has cut off $15 million in donations (by WikiLeaks’ estimate).

It would have been nice to see something more creative in WikiLeaks’ first commercial (as far as we know) than a trite MasterCard parody, but then again MasterCard is one of the financial organizations blocking donations.

For more from WikiLeaks on the donation blockade, click here—PZS

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By Peter Knopfler, June 29, 2011 at 4:18 pm Link to this comment

GREAT “F” commercial lots of hints info and
possibilities… very positive ad…. music like clock
ticking away. Pages of history will always be written.
“Truth the first casualty of war”. Julian
“A just(Justice) is a transparent gov`t” Julian Assange
THE NEW “thunder from down under”!

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