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struggle4progress

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Mon Feb 18, 2013, 07:01 PM Feb 2013

‘WikiLeaks Party will attract the support of many women’: Assange

The nascent WikiLeaks Party will combine a small, centralised leadership with grass roots involvement and will attract many female voters, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said

By Australian Times on 18 February, 2013 4:59 pm
By Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation

... Assange, who is living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations, made the comments in an exclusive interview conducted by John Keane ...

One-time Assange supporter, Jemima Khan, recently wrote that Assange undermined his own agenda by refusing to answer questions in Sweden.

“It may well be that the serious allegations of sexual assault and rape are not substantiated in court, but I have come to the conclusion that these are all matters for Swedish due process and that Assange is undermining both himself and his own transparency agenda – as well as doing the US department of justice a favour – by making his refusal to answer questions in Sweden into a human rights issue,” she wrote in the New Statesman ...
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‘WikiLeaks Party will attract the support of many women’: Assange (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2013 OP
Well at least he's learned pandering. KarenRei Feb 2013 #1
Nice one. mattclearing Feb 2013 #2

KarenRei

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1. Well at least he's learned pandering.
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 07:18 AM
Feb 2013

Careful, Julian, don't use any numbers, because as you wrote about in "Female Mathematics", women's brains can't handle math!

Do you think the fact that you're a self-described god to women (your post "Canberra&quot will help attract female voters?

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