is impossible because you're dealing with third parties the payment processors like pay pal visa master card basically how it works is that when you donate to the freedom of the press foundation you'll get one charge on your credit card that goes to the freedom of the press foundation but on our site you can go as you can see on the screen right there there will be sliders next to all these organizations names the default is split evenly in between them but you can change however much you want to go to each group and then are back and. those numbers are anonymous anonymously dumped into a sort of bucket for each organization and so at the end of each bundle we can cut a check for each organization for how the donors. had seen it fit very cool thanks for playing i hope everyone does participate and it's definitely something we need to support and i want to ask you a personally about when pay pal and his credit card has made that kind of political statement i mean it was one of the first times that i had noticed that corporations were going against their bottom line to make a political stateme

and master card. >> you like both the stocks but i believe visay nudges out master card. why? >> yeah, over the long term, we do prefer visa a little bit a little larger. think they incrementally have a little bit better brand. there is an opportunity for them to buy back in their european division, which we think would be a positive transaction for earnings. not sure when that's exactly going to happen but that's something down the road. also, some outstanding litigation, there's this big merchant litigation against both companies. visa is less exposed than master card. but it's a tight call between the two. we like. >> are balances going up again, greg? you are right. i see a lot of people, grocery store, used to write checks or use debit now using credit cards, sure they tell themselves they will pay it all off at the end of the month. my guess is they don't. >> well, you know, we actually don't -- we track the transactions more than anything 'cause visa really doesn't make money off the balances, they make money off the actual transaction but

why one of the things he may talk about could be the continuing blockade of wiki leaks by a visa master card and pay. that's a case that's ongoing at the moment and also a possible further link that he mentioned to me that talking about leaking more documents in the new year watch this space he said. and that sound remains locked within echoed those diplomatic mission washington hasn't stopped its persecution of the whistleblower according to wiki leaks spokesman kristinn hrafnsson well we know about the ongoing. investigation and the secret grand jury in alessandro in virginia there is. an ongoing attempt to find an angle to bring charges against julian and possibly all those working for with police is a very serious matter of course very shameful for the obama administration not to stop that for the man who was right even taken four years ago to increase transparency and what we have seen is totally the opposite witch hunt against whistleblowers. has no first place in history it will continue to work as we have done despite the difficult situation that has been in the ecuador embassy now f

why one of the things he may talk about would be the continuing blockade of wiki leaks by a visa master card and pay pal that's a case that's ongoing at the moment and also a possible further leak that he mentioned to me they're talking about leaking more documents in the new year watch this space he said yeah absolutely it will be a bring the highlights of what is going to so little bit later on after the speech has taken place tonight the battle for transparency is long been a struggle for wiki leaks with the ongoing investigation in the us alone block on donations by credit card companies too but a spokesperson for the whistle blowing web site kristinn hrafnsson told me the front center continue nonetheless. well we know about the ongoing. investigation the secret grand jury you know sundry in virginia there is. an ongoing attempt to find an angle to bring charges against julian and possibly all those working for we believe as a very serious matter of course very shameful for the obama administration not to stop that for the man who was right even taken four years ago to increase transpar

why one of the things he may talk about would be the continuing blockade of wiki leaks by a visa master card and pay pal that's a case that's ongoing at the moment and also a possible further leak that he mentioned to me they're talking about leaking more documents in the new year watch this space he said. and as a sign remains locked within ecuador's diplomatic mission washington hasn't stopped its prosecution on the whistleblower says we collect spokesman kristinn hrafnsson. well we know about the ongoing. investigation and the secret grand jury you know. there is. an ongoing attempt to find an angle to bring charges against julian and possibly all those working for we tell you as a very serious matter of course very shameful for you obama administration not to stop that for the man who was right even taken four years ago to increase transparency and what we have seen is totally the opposite which hunt against whistleblowers. persons in history who will continue our work as we have just by difficult situation that you has been in the ecuadorian embassy now for six months but problems with

is why one of the things he may talk about could be the continuing blockade of wiki leaks by visa master card and pay pal that's a case that's ongoing at the moment and also a possible further leak that he mentioned to me they're talking about leaking more documents in the new year watch this space he said. well the battle for transparency has long been a struggle for wiki leaks with only going investigation in the us and the combinations by credit card companies as a spokesperson for the whistle blowing web site christine told r.t. the fight will continue. well we know about the ongoing. investigation of the secret grand jury you know sandra and jr there is. an ongoing attempt to find an angle to bring charges against julian and possibly all those working for we can use as a very serious matter of course very shameful for the obama administration not to stop that for the man who was right even taken four years ago to increase transparency and what we have seen is. the opposite witch hunt against whistleblowers. first person history will continue our work as we have done despite the difficult

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various corporations and got them to cut off them cut off from their financial support from visa master card and pay pal. and we started talking about ways to solve this problem we just didn't want to become a precedent where if the u.s. government didn't like a certain organization that they could unofficial the censor it without ever going to court but so what came out of this idea was this much broader. much broader idea that we want to support transparency journalism general we're not only trying to help out wiki leaks which is in dire need of support right now because they have been cut off for two years two years but we also want to support a variety of other transparency organizations because you know with government secrecy at an all time high there's no real magic bullet that will end up killing over excessive secrecy but we think we can get at it with the sort of death by a thousand paper cuts approach and so right now we're supporting wiki leaks but we're also supporting three other organizations and we're going to have bundles of organizations every two months that we shift in an

a british court of involvement in a cyber attack on global online payment companies pay pal visa master card would target it after it blocked all funds meant for whistle blowing site wiki leaks the twenty two year old who has maintained his innocence is now facing a jail sentence on his door smith is following the case. the crime is basically a revenge attack against those companies that blockaded wiki leaks pay pal master card fees and other online payment companies they banned wiki leaks from taking payments through their organizations which essentially brought with to its knees and anonymous the act the online activist organization then this put this block on them as well a distributed denial of service attack christopher weatherhead has been convicted of participating in that attack now this is a crime it's a crime that's called conspiracy to impair the operations of computers but it is ultimately a crime of protest would anonymous were doing was saying you know you can't as big organizations cut off wiki leaks from their funding without seeing some kind of retribution and this was the r

why one of the things he may talk about would be the continuing blockade of wiki leaks by a visa master card and pay pal that's a case that's ongoing at the moment and also a possible further leak that he mentioned to me they're talking about leaking more documents in the new year watch this space he said. also ahead for you this out worldwide the rebuke united nations security council says that israel will support new settlement construction with al to build more homes in the palestinian territories details just ahead. flying north with me in this old soviet work course of the helicopter is dr ron amir brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snow a world of us as a boy here suffering from favre and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not one but two babies and their parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a

why one of the things he may talk about would be the continuing blockade of wiki leaks by a visa master card and pay pal that's a case that's ongoing at the moment and also a possible further leak that he mentioned to me they're talking about leaking more documents in the new year watch this space he said. absolutely well you can catch the live broadcast of streaming it right now as a mention of the speech on our website r.t. dot com we'll bring you the highlights a bit later. the u.k. has revealed the staggering cost of its involvement in the war in afghanistan more than seventeen billion pounds and as britain proposed to withdraw its troops the defense secretary says the final price tag could be around twenty billion pounds all this of course coming amid public spending cuts in an effort to try to reduce the country's budget deficit artie's polyploid is on top of the story. seventeen billion pounds the british government has just revealed that that's been the cost of the so far eleven year war in afghanistan now it was a very deal that the same time as a clear timetable was announced for t

british court of involvement in a cyber attack on global online payment companies pay pal visa and master card were targeted after it blocked off funds meant for whistle blowing site wiki leaks the twenty two year old who has maintained his innocence is now facing a jail sentence live now to our it is laura smith who is in london laura what exactly is the man accused of christopher weatherhead has been found guilty of. yeah he's already been convicted as we know but he is waiting for sentencing and the crime is basically a revenge attack against as you mentioned those companies that located wiki leaks. master card fees and other online payment companies they they banned wiki leaks from taking payments through their organizations which essentially brought with you to its knees and anonymous the active online activist organization then this put this block on them as well a distributed denial of service attack christopher where the head has been convicted of participating in that attack and now this is a crime it's a crime that's called conspiracy to impair the operations of computers but it is u

how about visa and master card? both up decently since i recommended them in october. these are both plays in the worldwide switch from paper currency to plastic. visa and mastercard both reported strong quarters in october. they have healthy balance sheets. mastercard is winning new business all over the place. visa announced a $1.5 billion buyback. even though visa has a new ceo, i'm a big fan of both stocks. i think they're both candidates to offer special dividends as the year unwinds. they've got the cash for certain. then there's this sherwin williams. the stock sold off on news of a good quarter. sherwin williams was a victim of great expectations. the stock has come back since this because this paint-maker is a terrific player in the housing rebound. that theme seems to be almost unstoppable. three weeks ago, sherwin williams agreed to acquire co-mex, a mexican-based paint company. meanwhile, as business gets better, the company's outlook on raw materials inflation is moderated, something that will be a boon for sherwin williams margins next year. they open up e

card to buy presents? maybe today. maybe yesterday. as a result, visa and master card are hitting 52-week highs.ill good investments? >>> and if the axe goes to mortgage deductions at the end of this year, who really gets slammed and what happens to our nascent housing recovery? we will get the answer on streets signs. >> see you then, mandy. thank you. >>> the fast-approaching fiscal cliff causing a lot of nervousness among businesses. the uncertainty over taxes causing many of them to pull back on spending and hiring, especially among the small manufacturing companies. our phil lebeau with new and exclusive data on that very subject. what do the numbers look like, phil? >> not pretty, sue. we talked with the folks at pay net, who track about 20 million loans involving 17 million small businesses and essentially, what they have found going back and looking at the data in the second quarter is essentially, this summer, a real pull back by small manufacturers, cutting investment in plants and equipment by 50%. the transportation equipment manufacturing sector, in particular that he saw a big drop

lawmakers prompted several companies like master card visa and pay pal to stop processing donations to the website the lack of funds eventually caused the site to suspend publication now the freedom of press foundation has named three other groups will also be supporting mock rock news the national security archive as well as the uptake all of which promote transparency is behind the group. well the list includes known whistleblower daniel ellsberg actor and activist john cusack civil liberties liberties column is growing wheat greenwald and the electronic frontier foundation trevor tim who will serve as the organization's executive director you might remember him from his appearances right here on r.t. to express disappointment to the huffington post at the lack of support many major media outlets gave wiki leaks stating quote if this happened to one of the other papers visa or mastercard didn't allow people to take a subscription to the wall street journal there would be an uproar the freedom of press foundation is also practicing what it preaches it's making its operating costs tran

i like master card and visas as likely and gap store's gps. others like microsoft and kohl's could do a special dividend. i don't want you to buy either. or apple they bet don't do one. i don't need them to pay a special dividend to tell you to own apple. we don't trade up. just own it. it just owns it. the only news monday will be ford and gm sales. they could be huge. the first half of the month sales were weak as consumers in the northeast weren't doing much car shopping. the second half had to be on fire. sandy may have been the singest biggest car destroyer since katrina. or maybe more, given the fact that so many imparted cars were damaged near the cox of the region's rivers. tuesday morning we hear from the brothers toll. here's the best home builder in the country go. ing to tell you the story of the boom. if you remember there was a time when bob toll of toll brothers and eagles fan came on "mad money" during what turned out to be the early part of the housing collapse. he said he saw the light at the end of the tunnel. but it was mos

it was introduced in 2013 to create a new stem visa that foreign students who graduate with a masters or hpped can receive a green card or -- p.h.d. and stay in this country. to pass legislation that expands opportunities for our stem graduates. if we don't, our national competitive horizon has just narrowed. >> senator? >> thank you, alan let me thank my friends, participants on this panel, the miller center for asking me. let me add my two cents as well on mark kaplan who has been a good friend for a long time. he shows clean living, 96 years olan several years o marriage. i think it is particularly aproper of the miller center to ask me to be here, talk about this topic, since my baurp efforts on fixing the debt and deficit have been so successful. this issue tonight, is tied to debt and dic is important because it is a question of whether our country can stay competitive. we all know, we use the terms whether you are a university, or a private enterprise or looking it from a government stand point. how and where we invest and how we choose to invest in public resources to infrastructure, work force training is goi

visa so that u.s. educated foreign students to graduate with a master's or ph.d. in a stem field and received a green card stay in this country. we hope that senator warner and the congressional leadership will find common ground to successfully passed legislation that expands opportunities for our stem graduates. if we don't, our national competitive horizon has just narrowed. >> senator? >> thank you, alan. i also want to thank terry sullivan and steve case, my friends. and the miller center for asking me. and let me add my two cents about mort kaplan, a good friend for a long time. 96 years old, 70 years of marriage. [applause] and a donor to uva. i think it is appropriate of the maloof center to ask me to be here to talk about this topic, since my bar partisan efforts for fixing the debt and deficits have been so successful. [laughter] this issue tonight, though, is tied it not simply on a balance sheet issue but a country of whether it -- a question of whether the controls the competitive. we all use the terms, whether a university or private enterprise, or looking at this from the government's stand

master's degree or a ph.d. and so we would not add to the net number of green cards that would be eligible, there is 55,000 diversity lottery visa green cards that would be substituted for by these stem green cards. now, we all know that america's immigration system is broken, and, unfortunately, it's a self-inflicted wound in many respects, but in particular by diving away highly skilled foreign workers who want to start businesses and create jobs right here in america. now, this is not about hiring foreign workers to perform jobs where we have qualified americans waiting in line for these jobs. the fact of the matter is, we don't produce enough american-born workers to fill the necessary job vacancies in these fields. many of these job creators and entrepreneurs attend our colleges and universities and you might say the american taxpayer helps subsidize their education because many of them receive world-class training at our public and private colleges and universities, and then reluctantly return home to pursue their careers because they can't get a visa or can't get a green card here in america. we are cultivating human capi