Julian Assange has found a new platform on which to press his case againstextradition:the vast "little monster" fanbaseof the popstar LadyGaga,who has visited him for dinner at the Ecuadorean embassy.

Gaga dined with the WikiLeaks founder on Mondaynightafterlaunching a perfume at the Harrods department store nextdoortothe embassy where Assange, 41, has been holed up since seeking political asyluminJune.

WikiLeaks seized on the apparently impromptu visit by one of the world's biggest-selling singers to urge its defenders to "educate her support base", which includes over 30 million followers on Twitter.

Assange broke his bail conditions to evade extradition toSwedenwherehe is wanted to face allegationsof rapeand sexual assault,which hestrenuouslydenies.

He believes he faces imprisonment in the US and hasclaimed hecould be sent to GuantánamoBayforhisrole indisseminating classifiedUS government documents.

Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta,hasbacked several political campaigns,notablygayrightscampaigns inAmerica. Thisweek sheurged her fans, who she calls "little monsters", to read up on fracking, the controversial technique of extractingshalegas,which campaignerscomplaincauses environmental destruction.

Gaga's meeting with Assange was heavily plugged by WikiLeaks, which urged supporters to join protests outside the embassy and kept them up to date about Gaga's arrival. The Bad Romance singer posted pictures of the visit on her website,including one of her withAssange inside the embassy.Hertrademark extravagant dress, including a witch-style hat, made for a stark contrast with Assange's plain white T-shirt.

Assange is able to accept visitors but cannot step outside the embassy because the Britishauthoritieshave posted policemenatthe frontand back entrances who are poised to arrest him if he leaves. He would then be sent to Sweden under the terms of a European arrest warrant (EAW).

Last week, Assange's visitors included a group of financial backers who stood to lose £140,000 in bail money because of Assange's refusal to accept the supreme court's verdict upholding the EAW. On Mondaya court ordered themto forfeit £93,500.

It is understood Lady Gaga was encouraged to meet Assange by MIA,the Britishrapper who scored the music for Assange's chatshow on Russia Today, the Kremlin-funded English language TV channel.

Gaga already has a bit part in the story of WikiLeaks. BradleyManning, the US armyprivatewho isaccused bythe Americanauthoritiesof stealing hundreds of thousands of classified US military and diplomatic documents,once told a computer hacker called Adrian Lamo that he "listened and lip-synched to Lady Gaga's song Telephone while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history". He is facingtrial nextFebruary, by which time he will have spent 983 days in prison without trial.
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Somewhere Madonna is on stage screaming "I was the first to be political, this is redundant, Im the only political diva in this muthaf***"

and flashed her asshole.



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mind you this maybe too controversial for even Donna, as it is something that crosses political parties, liberals and conservatives are split on this.

go Gaga!

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neosoulheart said:

Somewhere Madonna is on stage screaming "I was the first to be political, this is redundant, Im the only political diva in this muthaf***" and flashed her asshole. .....

xperience319 said:

Yes I know, but watch it happen and cringe

neosoulheart said:

xperience319 said:

Yes I know, but watch it happen and cringe

I was actually yawning at the now expected gaga is mentioned so madonna has to be too mantra going on at the .org

very boring...

xperience319 said:

her claim to 'relevance' is been associated with Gaga,

a whole generation know her as that pop singer that disses Gaga

notice its the only time she gets coverage or stripping