If You Have Extra Cash…………

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 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.

Now, though, Wikileaks has shut the site down at least temporarily.

"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," a note on the Wikileaks site said Monday. "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."

These guys do very good work, whether it's uncovering things like money laundering, providing secret draft agreements on an "IP reign of terror" treaty, and torture manuals US military manuals for maltreating detainees.

Previous Wikileaks posts here, they have been a source for my scribblings not infrequently.