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Assange: Serbia is country where future happens first

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BELGRADE -- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke for B92 TV to say that Serbia is "constantly misrepresented" abroad, and "sometimes by Serbians themselves."

He described it as "a country in-between, a pivotal, pioneering place where the future happens first."

"This is not a position of weakness, but a position of strength," Assange said in a video message recorded at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been stranded for the past two years.

Assange spoke about his book, "Cypherpunks," which has had a Serbian language edition, to say that it was "a conversation between himself and three others involved in the long fight against technological totalitarianism."

"It is a book about how the internet is at once our greatest liberator, and also our greatest potential enslaver," said Assange.

The video message was broadcast in the "24 Hours with Zoran Kesi" show on Sunday:

BELGRADE -- Serbia's outgoing Prime Minister Ivica Dai met in Belgrade on Monday with Austrian Archduke Karl von Habsburg.

BELGRADE -- The Serb Progressive Party (SNS) has offered to the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM) to join the new government, SNS leader Aleksandar Vui has said.

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Julian Assange leaks again to tell all about Google

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The book includes an edited transcript of the meeting during which Assange explained the importance of WikiLeaks, while Schmidt celebrated Googles expansion as a collaboration with the US State Department. Unsurprisingly, Assange isnt a fan technocratic imperialism is what he called it.

Theres no love lost from Schmidts side either. We went to visit Julian Assange when he was on his, shall we say, GPS locator service, Schmidt told a magazine recently. He came away with the view that we dont want random people leaking large amounts of data I dont think that serves society. We asked Google whether Schmidt agreed to the publication of their conversation but have had no reply.

Assanges previous attempt at a book proved disastrous for Canongate Books. It reported a 363,367 loss for 2011 after Assange pulled out of a deal. He had promised a part memoir, part manifesto and received a rumoured 500,000 advance, but after sitting with a ghost writer for more than 50 hours of taped interviews, he decided he wanted to cancel the contract.

The new book is less of a risk for those involved. It will be published by OR Books, which runs a print-on-demand service. If no one buys the book, the only hurt will be to Assanges ego. Not that humility has ever been his strong suit.

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Assange not running in new Australian election

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Julian Assange will not, as previously indicated, run for Australia Senate again.

The part-time Ecuadorian ran as a candidate for The Wikileaks Party at Australia's general election last year, hoping to win a Senate seat in the State of Victoria. Doing so probably would not have allowed him safe passage from Ecuadors London embassy, but might have given him some new legal arguments to pursue.

A second candidacy was raised as a possibility after the Senate election was botched in the State of Western Australia. Last November, the Wikileaks Party announced it would once again seek to install Assange as its main candidate for any re-run election.

Subsequent decisions mean that election has been ordered for April 5th, when Western Australia will return to the polls to elect six Senators.

But Assange is not on the ballot paper because, says Wikileaks Party's campaign manager Gerry Georgatos, Australia's Electoral Commission deemed he is ineligible to run.

Australian citizens are eligible to run as candidate if they are over 18 years of age and are either enrolled or eligible to be enrolled on the Commonwealth electoral roll. Would-be candidates must also satisfy the provisions of Section 44 of Australia's Constitution , that rules out criminals, bankrupts, those accused of treason, foreign citizens and those who work for or profit from Commonwealth enterprises.

Tempting as it is to imagine Assange has become an Ecuadorian citizen or been charged with treason, a stuff-up looks the likely reason for the the leaker-in-chief's failure to appear on the ballot paper.

"He may not have enrolled in Western Australia on time," Georgatos told The Reg. Once Assange's candidature was untenable, WikiLeaks party's 2600-strong membership elected two new candidates: TV producer Tibor Meszaros and journalist Lucy Nicol.

Georgatos but is not optimistic about their prospects, fearing the taint of what he said were incorrect reports of the party's intention to direct preferences to right-wing parties at Australia's September 2013 election.

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Funny ‘Assange endorsing things’ meme pokes fun at BJP’s embarrassment over WikiLeaks’ …

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This meme was begging to happen. After the Bharatiya Janata Party's embarrassment over a document that the party promoted as an endorsement by the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, categorically denied by WikiLeaks, standup comedian Utsav Chakraborty's 'Julian Assange endorsing things' meme was just too ripe to pass by.

Wikileaks' categorical denial that it had endorsed Narendra Modi as 'incorruptible' is yet another proverbial egg on the face of the online Modi fans. In November 2006 the then American consul in Mumbai, Michael S Owen, met the Gujarat Chief Minister and, later, other politicians from that state, following which the diplomat dutifully wrote up a report of his conversations with them.

In this report he quoted Rajkot Congress leader Manoharsinh Jadeja to the effect that Modi was indeed very popular in the state and that Muslims too were supporting him to some extent, because he was "viewed as someone who is completely incorruptible", as the Saurashtra politician put it.

This report was sent off to Washington and Assange's team posted it on the WikiLeaks website four years later. While Modi supporters on Twitter went to town claiming WikiLeaks had endorsed Modi, a poster also surfaced, claiming the Americans were afraid of Modi because he was not corrupt. The poster was a meme to poke fun at Twitterati's gullibility. In a hilarious twist, this was also circulated as additional propaganda by BJP members.

Meanwhile, Narendra Modi's official site quoted him as saying he was "glad to learn that America admits Modi is incorruptible". Check out these memes poking fun at the latest political gaffe that has polarized Twitter and Facebook.

Assange endorsing free and fair Lok Sabha elections.

Assange endorsing inalienable part of Indian childhood.

Assange endorsing progress.

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