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March 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has his eye on the Senate. Photo: Reuters
THE WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, wants to run for a seat in the Senate despite being under house arrest in Britain and facing possible extradition to Sweden.
”We have discovered that it is possible for Julian Assange to run for the Australian Senate while detained. Julian has decided to run,” the WikiLeaks website announced on Twitter yesterday.
The organisation also wants to run a candidate against the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in her seat of Lalor, which it misspelt as Laylor, earning a Twitter slapdown from the general secretary of NSW Labor, Sam Dastyari: ”Best they learn the seat’s name.”
The organisation said Mr Assange had not decided which state to run in but that it would be announced ”at an appropriate time”.
WikiLeaks claims it has discovered that Mr Assange’s legal situation does not prohibit him from running for Parliament when an election is called, some time in the second half of next year.
Mr Assange is awaiting a British Supreme Court decision on his appeal against extradition to Sweden to be questioned in relation to sexual assault allegations.
Mr Assange, who has not been charged with any offence in Sweden, fears extradition to Stockholm would open the way for his extradition to the US on possible espionage or conspiracy charges in retaliation for WikiLeaks’s publication of thousands of leaked US classified military and diplomatic reports.
Fairfax newspapers reported last month that US prosecutors drew up secret charges against the WikiLeaks founder more than a year ago.
In recent answers to written parliamentary questions from the Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, the former foreign affairs minister Kevin Rudd indicated Australia had sought confirmation that a secret grand jury inquiry directed against Mr Assange was in progress. Mr Rudd said that ”no formal advice” had been received from US authorities.
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