IMF chief Strauss-Kahn arrested in US

[Glass]

IMF chief Strauss-Kahn arrested in US
AFP

IMF director general Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been arrested minutes before he was to leave for France, after being accused of a sexual attack on a hotel maid in New York, The New York Times reports.

"Mr Strauss-Kahn, a candidate for president of France, was taken off an Air France flight by officers from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and turned over to Manhattan detectives, according to a Port Authority spokesman," the Times said.

"He was accused of a sex attack on a maid at a Times Square hotel earlier in the day," the report added citing the same authorities.
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Strauss-Kahn, who has not announced whether he will seek France's presidency, was arrested at John F Kennedy International as he waited for his flight to France to depart.

In Washington, an IMF spokeswoman had no immediate comment.

© 2011 AFP


From the Age.com.au (http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/imf-chief-strausskahn-arrested-in-us-20110515-1entu.html)

A sex attack huh? I would like say something flippant about a sex act against the whole world but if charges are proven then it would be inappropriate IMO.

[beefsteak]

power corrupts... Sure seems mighty large bust in the scheme of things. Don't IMF Chiefs have diplomatic immunity or something?

Thanks, Glass.

[sirgonzo420]

Doubt it'll stick, but curious nonetheless.

[Book]

How dare this goy maid refuse the advances of this rich powerful jew banker!

[osoab]

He won't stand for any trial.

Once he leaves the country, he won't be back.

[beefsteak]

Isn't IMF headquartered in WASH DC?

beefsteak

[osoab]

Isn't IMF headquartered in WASH DC?

beefsteak


Yep.

http://www.google.com/search?q=imf+headquarters&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

[ximmy]

This is one of TPTB... he is above the law.... this will be swept under the rug... nothing to see here... move along...

[Glass]

IMF worries as chief quizzed by police
The International Monetary Fund has been left reeling as its chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was set to be charged with sexual assault and attempted rape, at one of the most critical moments in the history of the world body.

The scandal could prove doubly embarrassing for the IMF, one of the pillars of the world financial system, as it has already forgiven its flamboyant leader for a past transgression.

Strauss-Kahn was removed from an Air France jet minutes before its scheduled departure from John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday amid allegations of a sexual assault on a New York hotel maid, officials said.
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The allegations could prove grounds for the IMF to dismiss Strauss-Kahn from his post.

But none of those close to Strauss-Kahn could say whether the fund managing director acknowledged or denied the accusations.

Full article @ the Age (http://www.theage.com.au/world/imf-worries-as-chief-quizzed-by-police-20110515-1enyn.html#ixzz1MPYImDFs)

[JJ.G0ldD0t]

Attempted Regime change?

[ShortJohnSilver]

Tough to read the tea leaves on this one ...

DSK was talking about using the SDR instead of US Dollar as reserve currency, so that could be one source of the strife ...

also was planning to run for high political post in France, meaning he would go up against Sarkozy, so that could be another angle

He probably did it, but usually I would expect that the women get paid off quickly and quietly; so the question is not "is he a perverted scumbag" but "why did this particular perverted scumbag get hit with public charges at this point in time"?

[MAGNES]

Tough to read the tea leaves on this one ...

DSK was talking about using the SDR instead of US Dollar as reserve currency, so that could be one source of the strife ...

also was planning to run for high political post in France, meaning he would go up against Sarkozy, so that could be another angle

He probably did it, but usually I would expect that the women get paid off quickly and quietly; so the question is not "is he a perverted scumbag" but "why did this particular perverted scumbag get hit with public charges at this point in time"?


I was thinking along your lines, apparently there is a lot to this story, he was outside his room running around naked on the floor. He dragged the room maid back to his room naked. Forced her to perform an act and imprisoned her unlawfully.
I just saw this on local tv news, this is what they reported. Most likely there is witnesses and cameras. He also fled immediately
trying to board a flight and left things like cell phone, etc, hoping to make it to France.

[keehah]

Just raping countries is too figurative I assume.

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/lawyer-imf-chief-denies-946395.html

The 32-year-old woman told authorities that she entered Strauss-Kahn's suite at the luxury Sofitel hotel not far from Manhattan's Times Square at about 1 p.m. Eastern time (1600 GMT) Saturday and he attacked her, Browne said. She said she had been told to clean the spacious $3,000-a-night suite, which she had been told was empty.

According to an account the woman provided to police, Strauss-Kahn emerged from the bathroom naked, chased her down a hallway and pulled her into a bedroom, where he began to sexually assault her. She said she fought him off, then he dragged her into the bathroom, where he forced her to perform oral sex on him and tried to remove her underwear. The woman was able to break free again and escaped the room and told hotel staff what had happened, authorities said. They called police.

When detectives arrived moments later, Strauss-Kahn had already left the hotel, leaving behind his cellphone, Browne said. "It looked like he got out of there in a hurry," Browne said.

The NYPD discovered he was at the airport and contacted Port Authority officials, who plucked Strauss-Kahn from first class on the Air France flight that was just about to leave the gate.

The maid was taken by police to a hospital and being treated for minor injuries. John Sheehan, a spokesman for the hotel, said its staff was cooperating in the investigation.

It wasn't clear why Strauss-Kahn was in New York. The IMF is based in Washington, and he was due in Germany on Sunday. His attorney declined to answer questions beyond saying his client denied the charges.

In 2008, Strauss-Kahn, a married father of four, was briefly investigated over whether he had an improper relationship with a subordinate female employee. The IMF board found his actions "regrettable" and said they "reflected a serious error of judgment."
http://www.france24.com/en/20110515-strauss-kahn-charged-with-alleged-sex-attack-in-new-york

It follows the announcement on Thursday the IMF’s No. 2 official, John Lipsky, plans to step down in August when his term ends...

Past controversey

Strauss-Kahn has faced controversy before. In October 2008, he apologized for “an error of judgment” for an affair with a female IMF economist who was his subordinate. An inquiry cleared him of harassment and abuse of power, although he was warned by the fund’s board of member countries against further improper conduct.

Strauss-Kahn apologized to the woman, Piroska Nagy, and his wife, French television personality Anne Sinclair, as well as to IMF employees for the trouble he had caused.

Since taking over the IMF, he has won plaudits for putting the fund, the world’s main overseer of the global economic system, at the center of global efforts to cope with the financial meltdown of 2007-09.

Strauss-Kahn introduced sweeping changes at the global institution to ensure that countries swamped by the financial collapse had access to emergency loans. He was pivotal in brokering a bailout program for Iceland, Hungary, Greece, Ireland, and recently Portugal.

...Lipsky’s planned departure and now Strauss-Kahn’s detention raises questions about a possible leadership vacuum should the IMF chief be charged by U.S. authorities or face possible discipline by the IMF board.

Stock Photo's of crowd reaction:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/IMF104.jpg
http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/ire-imf.JPG

[Neuro]

DSK was talking about using the SDR instead of US Dollar as reserve currency, so that could be one source of the strife ...
Could be that it is time to strengthen the dollar, so they put a banker that doesn't talk about getting rid of the dollar as reserve currency at the helm of IMF. If that is the case expect crash of bonds, stocks, commodities, Euro, Yen, GBP, this summer... Gold will probably hold up reasonably well...

[General of Darkness]

A shocker, a filthy jew rapist. I'm shocked I tell ya. I do feel horrible for the women, I hope she's going to be ok. Women are the givers of life and should be treated as such.

[MAGNES]

This is huge, this guy is done, the business wires are pushing this story and reminding people of past accusations.

Apparently he is accused of forcing the maid to give him oral sex, trying to sodomize her too, imprisoning her
in the bathroom, detectives pulled him off of his flight leaving for France 2 minutes before departure. The police
took this seriously, couldn't ignore it.


Top French politician, International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn charged with attempted rape
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/imf_boss_strauss_kahn_arrested_in_Kbd7uAi594vbej3o ORXfcJ#ixzz1MNXimLth

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13402845
"She told detectives he came out of the bathroom naked, ran down a hallway to the [suite] foyer where she was, pulled her into a bedroom and began to sexually assault her, according to her account."

"She pulled away from him and he dragged her down a hallway into the bathroom where he engaged in a criminal sexual act, according to her account to detectives. He tried to lock her into the hotel room."

Mr Strauss-Kahn then made his way to the airport but left his mobile phone and other items behind, Mr Brown said.

"It looked like he got out of there in a hurry."

By the time police established that the occupant of the room was Mr Strauss-Kahn, the IMF chief was on board an Air France plane at John F Kennedy airport, about to depart for Paris.

"Our detectives requested of the airport authorities that they stop the plane from leaving, went to the airport and took him into custody," Mr Browne said.

"If our officers had been 10 minutes later he would have been in the air and on their way to France."


IMF Chief Dominique Strauss Kahn Arrested
http://www.businessinsider.com/imf-chief-arrested-in-sodomy-investigation-2011-5

Top French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn dragged off flight at JFK,
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/05/14/2011-05-14_top_french_politician_dominique_strausskahn_dra gged_of_flight_at_jfk_accused_of_.html

[mick silver]

Dominique Strauss-Kahn charged with attempted rape
if he did what she said would it not be call rape

[AndreaGail]

the imf is in good hands now :oo-->


May 15 (Reuters) - The IMF said on Sunday its No. 2 official, John Lipsky, will step in as acting managing director of the global institution in the absence of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is charged with sexual assault.

IMF spokesman William Murray said Lipsky will meet with members of the IMF board on Sunday to inform them of developments. The board is the main overseer of the IMF's daily operations.

"In line with standard IMF procedures, John Lipsky, first deputy managing director, is acting managing director while the MD is not in DC," Murray said in a statement. "Mr. Lipsky will chair the informal Board session today." (Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Eric Beech)

Copyright 2011 Thomson Reuters. Click for Restrictions.





http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/15/john-lipsky_n_862148.html

[Neuro]

John Lipsky used to be the chief economist of JPM!

[Horn]

Its an IDB conspiracy. :o

http://www.nationnews.com/images/cached/inc/uploads/articles/IDB_Logo-450x350.gif

[Cebu_4_2]

And the plot thickens:

Police: Maid picks IMF head Strauss-Kahn out of lineup in sex case

By PHILIP MESSING, JAMIE SCHRAM, LARRY CELONA and BILL SANDERSON

Last Updated: 6:24 PM, May 15, 2011

Posted: 6:33 PM, May 14, 2011
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Police say the Manhattan hotel maid who accuses the head of the International Monetary Fund of sexually assaulting her in his luxury hotel room picked the Frenchman out of a lineup.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested last night for allegedly sodomizing the hotel maid yesterday -- hauled off an Air France flight just moments before takeoff from Kennedy Airport, police sources said.

Three Port Authority detectives pulled Strauss-Kahn from the plane's first-class cabin just two minutes before it was due to depart for Paris, according to the police sources.
SHOCKER: IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn (with President George W. Bush in 2008) was arrested yesterday after an alleged sex assault at the Sofitel in Midtown.
Bloomberg News
SHOCKER: IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn (with President George W. Bush in 2008) was arrested yesterday after an alleged sex assault at the Sofitel in Midtown.

Strauss-Kahn, 62 -- who was expected to challenge French President Nicholas Sarkozy in the 2012 election -- was turned over to NYPD officers and brought to the Special Victims Unit's uptown squad room.

Strauss-Kahn is awaiting arraignment on charges of a criminal sex act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. His attorney, high-profile criminal defense lawyer Ben Brafman, said Strauss-Kahn would plead not guilty.

“He denies all the charges against him,” Brafman said. “And that’s all I can really say right now.“

FRENCH POL A WOMANIZER

AGENCY'S GLOBAL MONEY MISSION

The trouble began at around 1 p.m. yesterday when a 32-year-old housekeeper entered Strauss-Kahn's $3,000-a-night suite at the luxury Sofitel on West 44th Street -- apparently unaware he was still inside.

The married Strauss-Kahn was in the bathroom, and emerged naked, chased her down a hallway and pulled her into a bedroom, where "he jumps her," a source said.

"She pulled away from him and he dragged her down a hallway into the bathroom where he engaged in a criminal sexual act, according to her account to detectives," Browne said. "He tried to lock her into the hotel room."

Soon afterward, Strauss-Kahn got dressed and headed off to JFK for a flight to Paris.

When he was approached on the plane by Port Authority cops, he said, "What is this about?" sources said. He was taken off the aircraft without handcuffs.

Two law-enforcement sources said Strauss-Kahn was trying to flee authorities. Police said he left his cellphone and other personal items in the room.

"It looked like he got out of there in a hurry," Browne said.

Strauss-Kahn, who had a meeting planned for today with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, has an arrangement with Air France that allows him to get on any flight and sit in first class, the sources said. He was traveling alone.

Browne said Strauss-Kahn does not have diplomatic immunity. He was expected to be brought to court today.

The victim was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where she was treated for trauma.

The shocking arrest came hours after a Socialist Party ally of Strauss-Kahn accused Sarkozy of kicking off a smear campaign against his longtime rival -- focusing on his lavish lifestyle, including his preference for suits from the same tailor favored by President Obama.

"There is now a totally structured and orchestrated campaign, which has already been announced by Mr. Sarkozy and his closest allies, to attack the character of Strauss-Kahn," Socialist politician Jean-Marie Le Guen told Europe 1 radio.

Strauss-Kahn's stint at the helm of the IMF in Washington does not officially end until September 2012, several months after the scheduled date of France's presidential vote.

But the French political world has been buzzing with speculation that the man popularly known as "DSK" would bring a premature end to his tenure and throw his hat in the ring.

And some opinion polls suggested he would win.

In France's 2007 elections, Strauss-Kahn lost the Socialist nomination to Segolene Royal, who in turn was defeated in the general election by Sarkozy, leader of the right-wing Union for a Popular Movement.

But Sarkozy, who still sees Strauss-Kahn as his likeliest electoral rival, is believed to have maneuvered Strauss-Kahn out of France by backing him to head the Washington-based IMF.

A spokeswoman for the State Department had no comment, nor did a spokesperson for the French Embassy.

Caroline Atkinson, an IMF spokeswoman, issued a statement this morning that said the agency would have no comment on the New York case. She referred all inquiries to Strauss-Kahn’s personal lawyer and said the “IMF remains fully functioning and operational.“

with AP

[JDRock]

just another rich sheeny preying on women......he'll walk :oo--> or get a few monthes in a country club prison and then a promotion....

[ShortJohnSilver]

or get a few monthes in a country club prison and then a promotion....


Dunno, maybe he didn't deliver on some of the promises he made to his masters ...

[keehah]

Round, round they go...

http://www.imf.org/external/np/omd/bios/jl.htm

Before coming to the Fund, Mr. Lipsky was Vice Chairman of the JPMorgan Investment Bank. In this position, he advised the firm's principal market risk takers, published independent research on the principal forces shaping global financial markets, was actively engaged with JPMorgan's key clients, and represented the firm around the world with senior public and financial sector decision makers.

Previously, Mr. Lipsky served as JPMorgan's Chief Economist, and as Chase Manhattan Bank's Chief Economist and Director of Research. He served as Chief Economist of Salomon Brothers, Inc. from 1992 until 1997. From 1989 to 1992, Mr. Lipsky was based in London, where he directed Salomon Brothers' European Economic and Market Analysis Group.

Before joining Salomon Brothers in 1984, he spent a decade at the IMF, where he helped manage the Fund's exchange rate surveillance procedure and analyzed developments in international capital market.

[Neuro]

DSK is probably used to the maid being included in the suite normaly, instructed to resist a bit to arouse him...

[BillBoard]

The executive of the IMF was left without security detail? Where he can just sexually assault a chamber maid?

If you buy this one you are one naive and gullible individual.

You think you aren't trained as a diplomatic corps individual to watch out for situations where you may be placed in jeopardy?

Don't you think hotel managers tell their staff not to put themselves in positions where high profile individuals may be compromised?

My question is, what did DSK try to do to be taken down like this? Did he recognized that the crash that is coming is inevitable without a debt jubilee?

[Awoke]

The shocking arrest came hours after a Socialist Party ally of Strauss-Kahn accused Sarkozy of kicking off a smear campaign against his longtime rival -- focusing on his lavish lifestyle, including his preference for suits from the same tailor favored by President Obama.

"There is now a totally structured and orchestrated campaign, which has already been announced by Mr. Sarkozy and his closest allies, to attack the character of Strauss-Kahn," Socialist politician Jean-Marie Le Guen told Europe 1 radio.

Strauss-Kahn's stint at the helm of the IMF in Washington does not officially end until September 2012, several months after the scheduled date of France's presidential vote.




Why is it that they aren't releasing this womans name?
Did this really happen?

Remember what happened to Elliot Spitzer after speaking out against W Bush policy?

[learn2swim]

The shocking arrest came hours after a Socialist Party ally of Strauss-Kahn accused Sarkozy of kicking off a smear campaign against his longtime rival -- focusing on his lavish lifestyle, including his preference for suits from the same tailor favored by President Obama.

"There is now a totally structured and orchestrated campaign, which has already been announced by Mr. Sarkozy and his closest allies, to attack the character of Strauss-Kahn," Socialist politician Jean-Marie Le Guen told Europe 1 radio.

Strauss-Kahn's stint at the helm of the IMF in Washington does not officially end until September 2012, several months after the scheduled date of France's presidential vote.




Why is it that they aren't releasing this womans name?
Did this really happen?

Remember what happened to Elliot Spitzer after speaking out against W Bush policy?


Yeah, they gave him a higher paying TV gig.

[Son-of-Liberty]

Tag for later.

[jimswift]

His lawyers are saying he has an alibi now, that he and his daughter were having lunch.

[Shami-Amourae]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLFV2Z-X08s

[lapis]

Remember what happened to Elliot Spitzer after speaking out against W Bush policy?





Yeah, they gave him a higher paying TV gig.


Well maybe DSK can have a different gig too after the dust settles:

http://coveringdelta.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/maid-in-manhattan-2-this-summer-austerity-comes-to-america.jpg?w=350&h=520

From this site (http://coveringdelta.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/dominique-strauss-kahn-stars-opposite-jennifer-lopez-in-maid-in-manhattan-2-austerity-comes-to-america/).

[Ares]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfy6s-_eVOI

[Hermie]

He should travel with Al Gore.
They could give each other a hand holding down the maids.

[Ash_Williams]

He must have pissed off the wrong person.

[Hermie]

http://www.businessinsider.com/dominique-strauss-kahn-liberation-interview-woman-raped-parking-lot-set-up-2011-5

This is who he is...

According to Jewish Tribune, he had said years ago that "he gets up every morning wondering how (he can) be useful to Israel."


Three weeks ago, Dominique Strauss Kahn said he could see himself becoming victim of a sex trap.

In an interview with Liberation, a French publication, on April 28, he said he foresaw 3 main challenges ahead for him (the implied thing being, if he ran for President of France).

"The money, women and my Jewishness."

He said the challenges were "in that order," but he spoke about the big one first: Women.

Obviously, he was right to put the "women" challenge first.

Here's what he said about the other two challenges:

On the "money", he said his wife, Anne Sinclair, has "put away the need for ever" with his personal fortune.

Finally, about his "judaicity", he expects that one of his quotes, already viral online, be used against him. According to Jewish Tribune, he had said years ago that "he gets up every morning wondering how (he can) be useful to Israel." "Stupid," he now says, "but I hadn't refuted it at the time"

http://www.businessinsider.com/dominique-strauss-kahn-liberation-interview-woman-raped-parking-lot-set-up-2011-5

[SilverTop]

He must have pissed off the wrong person.


From ZerroHedge comments....

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/no-bail-dsk-next-court-hearing-may-20#comment-1280049
Goldman & JP Morgan CEO's about to be indicted on derivative trash bucketing offenses those institutions have been peddling. Due to evidence turned over to the US SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE...and the Senate Banking committee has recommended criminal prosecution.

Derivatives are on the same level as naked shorting trash.

here's something to chew on, whether you want to believe it or not - the bulk of the evidence turned over against these TREASONOUS SCUMBAG banksters was none other than the the head of the IMF, 2 Days later assested in NY. He may be a pervert but I smell a squid.

[Serpo]

IMF to sell gold to raise bail for Strauss-Kahn
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2011-05-15 22:41. Section: Daily Dispatches

By Ben Dover
Financial Crimes, London
Sunday, May 15, 2011

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/415d008c-7e97-11e0-9e98-00144feabdc0.html

WASHINGTON -- After an emergency meeting of its Board of Governors on Sunday afternoon, the International Monetary Fund announced that it would sell gold to raise bail for its managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, charged Saturday with raping a hotel chambermaid in New York.

The IMF's first deputy managing director, John Lipsky, taking over while Strauss-Kahn was held in a lockup in Harlem pending a court appearance, defended his boss. "The maid was Argentinian," Lipsky said, "and you know how those people are about repaying their international loans. Dominique probably couldn't help it. Force of habit, you know."

Lipsky would not quantify the IMF's new gold sale but he said it would be enough both to obtain the release of Strauss-Kahn and "to ensure orderly transactions in gold, the dollar, the euro, the pound, the yuan, the Swedish krona, the Brazilian real, the South African rand, the Mexican and Argentine pesos, the Mongolian tugrik, and any other currencies in which an actual market might threaten to break out

http://www.gata.org/node/9926

[Neuro]

He must have pissed off the wrong person.


From ZerroHedge comments....

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/no-bail-dsk-next-court-hearing-may-20#comment-1280049
Goldman & JP Morgan CEO's about to be indicted on derivative trash bucketing offenses those institutions have been peddling. Due to evidence turned over to the US SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE...and the Senate Banking committee has recommended criminal prosecution.

Derivatives are on the same level as naked shorting trash.

here's something to chew on, whether you want to believe it or not - the bulk of the evidence turned over against these TREASONOUS SCUMBAG banksters was none other than the the head of the IMF, 2 Days later assested in NY. He may be a pervert but I smell a squid.


Wow, is that true? Did Strauss-Kahn turn over evidence, implicating Goldman Sachs, and JPM, in financial crime, just two days prior to his arrest?

[keehah]

Spitzered?

Although I would not call a real maid (assuming she was) sent to clean a room a 'honey trap.'

IMF chief Strauss-Kahn caught in "Honey Trap" (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28103.htm)
By Mike Whitney May 15, 2011 "Information Clearing House"

In an article today in the Washington Post, Howard Schneider writes that after the 2008 crash led toward regulation again of financial companies and government involvement in the economy, for Strauss-Khan "the job is only half done, as he has been leading the fund through a fundamental rethinking of its economic theory. In recent remarks, he has provided a broad summary of the conclusions: State regulation of markets needs to be more extensive; global policies need to create a more even distribution of income; central banks need to do more to prevent lending and asset prices from expanding too fast. 'The pendulum will swing from the market to the state,' Strauss-Kahn said in an address at George Washington University last week. 'Globalization has delivered a lot . . . but it also has a dark side, a large and growing chasm between the rich and the poor. Clearly we need a new form of globalization' to prevent the 'invisible hand' of loosely regulated markets from becoming 'an invisible fist.'" (Link---http://wcampaign.org/issue.php?mid=625&v=y)

Repeat: "...a fundamental rethinking of economic theory".... (a greater) "distribution of income"...(more) "regulation of financial companies", "central banks need to do more to prevent lending and asset prices from expanding too fast".

Are you kidding me? Read that passage again and I think you'll agree with me that Strauss-Kahn had signed his own death warrant.

There's not going to be any revolution at the IMF. That's baloney. The institution was created with the clear intention of ripping people off and it's done an impressive job in that regard. There's not going to be any change of policy either. Why would there be? Have the bankers and corporate bilge-rats suddenly grown a conscience and decided to lend a helping hand to long-suffering humanity? Get real.

Strauss-Kahn broke ranks and ventured into no man's land. That's why he was set up and then crushed like a bug.

(Note: Strauss-Kahn has been replaced by the IMF's number 2 guy, John Lipsky, former Vice Chairman of the JPMorgan Investment Bank. How's that for "change you can believe in"?)

[Cebu_4_2]

He must have pissed off the wrong person.


From ZerroHedge comments....

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/no-bail-dsk-next-court-hearing-may-20#comment-1280049
Goldman & JP Morgan CEO's about to be indicted on derivative trash bucketing offenses those institutions have been peddling. Due to evidence turned over to the US SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE...and the Senate Banking committee has recommended criminal prosecution.

Derivatives are on the same level as naked shorting trash.

here's something to chew on, whether you want to believe it or not - the bulk of the evidence turned over against these TREASONOUS SCUMBAG banksters was none other than the the head of the IMF, 2 Days later assested in NY. He may be a pervert but I smell a squid.


Wow, is that true? Did Strauss-Kahn turn over evidence, implicating Goldman Sachs, and JPM, in financial crime, just two days prior to his arrest?


Looks to be at the least a heavily circulated rumor. Might have some merit to it, when I first read the story I thought setup.

[Horn]

They're going to need a pan the size of Oklahoma to fry fish this big!!

[Neuro]

He must have pissed off the wrong person.


From ZerroHedge comments....

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/no-bail-dsk-next-court-hearing-may-20#comment-1280049
Goldman & JP Morgan CEO's about to be indicted on derivative trash bucketing offenses those institutions have been peddling. Due to evidence turned over to the US SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE...and the Senate Banking committee has recommended criminal prosecution.

Derivatives are on the same level as naked shorting trash.

here's something to chew on, whether you want to believe it or not - the bulk of the evidence turned over against these TREASONOUS SCUMBAG banksters was none other than the the head of the IMF, 2 Days later assested in NY. He may be a pervert but I smell a squid.


Wow, is that true? Did Strauss-Kahn turn over evidence, implicating Goldman Sachs, and JPM, in financial crime, just two days prior to his arrest?


Looks to be at the least a heavily circulated rumor. Might have some merit to it, when I first read the story I thought setup.
Yes I thought it was a set up as well. These people are really above the law, and can do whatever they want, but if they stray from their leashes, their priviliges are taken away, immediatelly! Him in person turning over evidence against the banksters, could certainly be a possibility, or his challenge of Sarcoma, another... On the turning against the banksters, I doubt it, he knows the rules, he has played by them the most of his life, he knew it would be suicide to do it. On the other hand, Sarcoma attacking him like this, is also be a bit unlikely. Him being a top team player in TPTB. That would most likely come back and bite Sarcoma in the ass...

Maybe it was just policy disagreement, and DSK refused to budge due to megalomania??

[Horn]

Maybe it was just policy disagreement, and DSK refused to budge due to megalomania??


Or an example in the sacrificial meatshield policy.

[mick silver]

just maybe the top has started eating the top ... maybe there done with us bottom feeders

[Awoke]

maybe there done with us bottom feeders


We are not completely enslaved yet. They are still far from finished with us, brother.

[mick silver]

yep i know . BUT dont it sound good the top eating the top

[Book]

Although I would not call a real maid (assuming she was) sent to clean a room a 'honey trap.'



Now being reported to be an "African Immigrant"

:o

[Ash_Williams]

Now being reported to be an "African Immigrant"

Probably got her green card for this.

[DMac]

He's off to Rikers Island.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13420440

He might not get out of there alive.

I am still shaking my head on this one. I have a hard time believing it was just a guy who thought he was above the law and went on a power trip.

He left his cell phone (indicating he was in a hurry to leave).

This is the kind of guy that can buy a country, and he was trying to rape an African maid?

It doesn't add up to me.

[sirgonzo420]

Here is *another* woman accusing DSK of sexual assault:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/52784000/jpg/_52784425_011992064-2.jpg

Note, she isn't particularly african looking.

[sirgonzo420]

He's off to Rikers Island.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13420440

He might not get out of there alive.

I am still shaking my head on this one. I have a hard time believing it was just a guy who thought he was above the law and went on a power trip.

He left his cell phone (indicating he was in a hurry to leave).

This is the kind of guy that can buy a country, and he was trying to rape an African maid?

It doesn't add up to me.


I hear that.

[ShortJohnSilver]

Supposedly he is at Rikers Island, but what proof has been offered that he actually IS ?

[Neuro]

Supposedly he is at Rikers Island, but what proof has been offered that he actually IS ?
Dont come with ridiculous demands!

Proof?!?

I guess you are one of those radicals, who don't believe that OBL was killed by American heroes a couple of weeks ago, just because they didn't publish any evidence either, you homeland hater!

[Ash_Williams]

He might not get out of there alive.

I am still shaking my head on this one. I have a hard time believing it was just a guy who thought he was above the law and went on a power trip.

He left his cell phone (indicating he was in a hurry to leave).

This is the kind of guy that can buy a country, and he was trying to rape an African maid?

It doesn't add up to me.

If he wanted to rape her he would have just done so then had some goons carry her away in a suitcase.

Probably he is to careful for them to plant kiddie porn on his laptop so they had to resort to this.

[lapis]

Here's a couple of new revelations from Zero Hedge:

Does DSK Have The Syph? Strauss-Kahn Housed In Facility For Inmates With Contagious Diseases (http://www.zerohedge.com/article/does-dsk-have-syph-strauss-kahn-housed-facility-inmates-contagious-diseases)

Just when you thought the humiliation couldn't get any worse for DSK (all 5'8", 200 lbs of him)...

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/images/Rikers%201_0.jpg

(Search for inmate 09132366L here (http://a073-ils-web.nyc.gov/inmatelookup/ils/pages/common/find.jsf))

And a quick click through to the description of the West Facility (http://a073-ils-web.nyc.gov/inmatelookup/facility.jsp#WF) yields this...

West Facility (WF)
16-06 Hazen Street
East Elmhurst, NY 11370

Houses inmates with contagious diseases.

Either DSK has the syph (or something far worse... and let the conspiracy theories run amok here - "consensual sex" -> contagious diseases, do the math) or the uber-humiliation campaign is on like Donkey Kong.

Or is it just to protect his cellmates?

Another Woman Steps Up: Former Employee Sent Letter To IMF, Warning Organization About DSK Following Her Own Affair (http://www.zerohedge.com/article/another-woman-steps-former-employee-sent-letter-imf-warning-organization-about-dsk-following)

And so another woman appears on the DSK scene, so far unnamed. As AP (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IMF_HEAD_ASSAULT?SITE=TXHAR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-05-17-15-00-18) reports, "An employee who had a brief affair with IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned the organization about his behavior toward women in a letter sent three years ago." And no, this is no the Hungarian Piroska Nagy who almost caused the downfall of DSK if only the bailout crew had had enough brains to do a little more to the "head" than censure him. But it appears that the two are close: "The person who confirmed the existence of the letter is close to the former International Monetary Fund employee, Hungarian-born economist Piroska Nagy. The person declined to be identified, citing the sensitivity of the matter." As a reminder the so far only known major transgression of DSK, Nagy, had worked at the IMF for decades, and left the organization after the affair with Strauss-Kahn in 2008. An IMF-funded investigation into the affair cleared Strauss-Kahn of wrongdoing but criticized his judgment. If it now turns out that the IMF had been officially warned about DSK, yet completely ignored the charges, we may have another public humiliation ala the SEC and Bernie Madoff, which ultimately will strip the organization of even more "bailout" and dollar-alternative power. Which begs the question: just how far will the powers that be go to make sure the SDR concept is now and forever killed as a USD-replacement currency?

[Horn]

Jew John Lipsky to replace Jew Strauss-Kahn at International Monetary Fund

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics/browse_thread/thread/4ea17786b2088808

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's allegedly wild weekend at a Midtown New York City hotel shook up the Executive roster at the IMF.

For the immediate future, the title of The IMF's Managing Director will fall to former First Deputy Director John Lipsky, a former JPMorgan exec.

As for whom, if not Strauss-Kahn, will take over the Fund next, here are some of the names getting tossed around:

Former Turkish finance minister Kemal Dervis (No direct experience at the IMF)
Pimco CEO Mohammed El-Erian (El-Arian spent 15 years at the Fund from 1984 through 1999)
Other names that have surfaced include South Africa's Finance Minister Trevor Manuel
Central Bank of India headman S. Sridhar
French finance minister Christine Lagarde
Even former UK Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has been proposed (and sabotaged by current PM David Cameron).

But until Strauss-Kahn formally resigns (if he ever does), the main focus is on DSK's immediate stand-in, John Lipsky.

Not surprisingly, the new boss is already getting some peremptory criticism.

Here, we answer some of those questions.

Question #1: "Who is John Lipsky and can he do the job?"
Answer: He's from Iowa and yes, all signs point to, he can.

The 64 year-old Lipsky was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and attended top schools like Wesleyan University and Stanford Business School (from which he received a PhD. In Economics). He has a career chock full of international experience including two years of service as the IMF’s representative in Chile and three years as Salomon Brothers’ Director of European Economic and Market Analysis Group.

Question #2: “ Lipsky is American, but usually a European runs the IMF, right?
Answer: Correct and yes.

The quasi-formalized tradition of having a European run the IMF while putting an American at the head of The World Bank is simply that, an unofficial tradition.

While we want to steer clear of patriotic breast beating, it seems ludicrous to suggest that a proven, globally respected economic voice like Lipsky’s should be muted by a “power-sharing” agreement that allowed an accused sexual predator to head the world’s most influential macroeconomic organization.

In addition to the professional "bona fides" listed above, Lipsky has been married to his Hungarian-born wife Zsuzsanna Karasz, for over 30 years so his familiarity with Europe is both professional and personal.

Question #3: “Lipsky planned to leave his position as Deputy this August. Does he even want this job?”
Answer: Maybe not.

Lipsky surprised almost everyone last Friday by announcing his intention to resign his post at the end of August. Even more people were caught off guard the very next day when Strauss-Kahn was arrested for an alleged sexual attack on his hotel maid.

But perhaps Lipsky’s desire to step aside signifies a type of humble self-awareness that the IMF should be looking for in its new helmsman.

However even if Lipsky is courted by the Fund, he might still retire as his family is still based in Brooklyn, New York and the grind of the job might not appeal to a man who has served for a sum total of almost two decades and made a tidy sum of money in the years that bisected his IMF stints.

http://www.businessinsider.com/5-big-questions-about-john-lipsky-answered-2011-5

[Antonio]

I`ve never thought I`d ever say a good thing about a Jew banker but do you think a maid in a 3000$/night hotel would EVER accidentally enter a room without being asked to do the service? Even in a 70$ motel they know better than that, nobody ever enters or even knocks while the occupants are inside.
This whole story is BS and proves that even people like DSK are small fry to be disposed of when it suits TPTB.

[Neuro]

I`ve never thought I`d ever say a good thing about a Jew banker but do you think a maid in a 3000$/night hotel would EVER accidentally enter a room without being asked to do the service? Even in a 70$ motel they know better than that, nobody ever enters or even knocks while the occupants are inside.
This whole story is BS and proves that even people like DSK are small fry to be disposed of when it suits TPTB.
Yeah being chased around the corridors by naked middleaged overweight jewish bankers would surely be in the job description of a maid working $3000 suites, this is part and parcel of that job...

[BillBoard]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/imf_accuser_in_apt_for_hiv_vics_oZmUkbtouJ14RHw143 4HvJ?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=


The Post has not been able to ascertain whether the maid, 32, has HIV/AIDS because of medical confidentiality laws.



Now more smear for the scum bag, what the hell did he do or who did he pissed off?

[BillBoard]

Some back ground...

On the Political Economics of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Political Death
by Yanis Varoufakis

What follows below is about the economic and political significance of the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK hereafter), the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. It will say nothing about the merits (or lack thereof) of the charges against DSK. All cases of alleged sexual assault brought against high-profile men place two equally important (albeit often counterposed) demands upon the rest of us: the importance of respecting the anguish of the alleged victim (as well as of respecting her struggle with the specter of terror that all women face when it comes to deciding to accuse a powerful man) and the obligation to respect the defendant's presumption of innocence. It is in this spirit that the following will say nothing about the case and concentrate on an important part of contemporary political economics.

Normally, the "elimination" of an IMF Managing Director would have no more than a passing effect on the institution. I suspect that DSK's demise will be different. It is not just that DSK is a heavyweight who has pushed the IMF into a different mode of thinking (taking a more nuanced approach to the deeper causes of crises). Far more significant is the manner in which he seems to understand what makes the global economy tick.

To cut to the chase, I shall give one poignant example -- one whose significance transcends all anecdotes about the greater "leniency" that DSK demonstrated during the EU-IMF-Greek government negotiations over the terms of the massive Greek "bailout" loans. To make my point I shall quote him directly, rather than base my argument on hearsay.

Back in January 2011, DSK was interviewed by a BBC Radio 4 journalist in the context of a documentary on the history of the IMF.1 Toward the end of the program, I heard the distinctive voice of DSK responding to a journalist's question about how the global economy ought to be reconfigured in the aftermath of the 2008 Crisis. His astonishing answer was:

Never in the past has an institution like the IMF been as necessary as it has been today . . . Keynes, sixty years ago, already foresaw what was needed; but it was too early. Now is the time to do it. And I think we are ready to do it!

This was, in my estimation, a bombshell of a programmatic statement, coming from the IMF's Managing Director. What was he referring to? He was, of course, referring to Keynes' powerfully put argument (in the context of the 1944 Bretton Woods conference) that a system of fixed exchange rates cannot survive for long without an automated mechanism that treats (a) systematic trade surpluses and (b) systematic trade deficits as the two sides of the same problematic coin.

Keynes' recommendation was that, to deal with the system-destabilizing effect of deficits and surpluses, the world needed a mechanism that would rebalance them by transferring surpluses from the surplus to the deficit countries. In short, the world needed a Surplus Recycling Mechanism (SRM) (click here for an extensive, though academic, account of the arguments in favor of an SRM).

This was, quite naturally, a radical suggestion. The Unites States, as expected, rejected the proposal -- not, however, because the New Dealers in power at that time did not recognize the importance of an SRM at a global level, but because they did not like the idea of the automaticity of recycling (which Keynes was proposing).2
As I have explained the function of an SRM (and consequences of its absence) in some detail elsewhere (see here for example), I shall desist from repeating it here. Suffice to point out the political and economic significance of DSK's endorsement of Keynes' suggestion and, in particular, his statement that Keynes was ahead of his time but is timely now after the Crash of 2008: "Now is the time to do it. And I think we are ready to do it!"

If the reader requires a little more persuasion on the significance of that statement, consider this: In the European context, DSK's declaration means that, in his viewfinder, Germany is as much of a problem for the eurozone as Greece is. For if systematic surpluses have the capacity to undermine a common currency (or fixed exchange) area, then Germany's development model is undermining the eurozone just as much as Greece's chronic deficits are.

I think that DSK has a good point. But whether the reader agrees with me is not the issue. The issue is that DSK's political death (the announcement of which may turn out to be premature) carries with it unprecedented significance both inside and outside Europe.

Within Europe, the prospect of a French President who believes strongly (and is prepared to back up his conviction with a formidable analytical panoply) that the eurozone cannot survive without a Surplus Recycling Mechanism (which channels German surpluses to the deficit countries in the form of productive investment) has the potential to radically alter the political and economic agenda of the continent. Such a presidency would, in particular, offer an invigorating counterpoint to the current mental incapacity to come to terms with the deeper causes of the euro crisis and to, at long last, recognize that the debt crisis is a symptom, not the cause, of the string of failures that threaten the eurozone's very existence.

More broadly, the global debate about what to do with China's increasing surpluses is also bound to take a different course depending on whether the IMF's Managing Director believes, as DSK declared he does, in the importance of creating automated, supranational mechanisms for recycling surpluses (as opposed to Tim Geithner's insistence that global imbalances be dealt with only by adjustments to the exchange rates).

In short, DSK is one of the very rare officials heading an extremely powerful institution while holding refreshing views atypical of grey, number-crunching bureaucrats. His political passing may go unnoticed simply because his tenure at the IMF has been short and his French Presidency is now unlikely to materialize. However, I suspect strongly that he may well turn out to be the most significant French President we never had, as well as the most influential IMF Managing Director we nearly had.

1 BBC Radio 4, Inside the IMF, Part Two, broadcast on 17th January 2011.

2 The United States proved that it did not reject the idea of surplus recycling itself, by implementing the Marshall Plan (a fabulous example of massive surplus recycling) and taking myriad other steps between 1947 and 1970 to recycle a large percentage of American surpluses into Europe and Japan. What it did reject was the idea of a supranational institution that would do the recycling outside Washington's political control.

Yanis Varoufakis is Professor of Economic Theory and Director of the Department of Political Economy in the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Athens. Varoufakis' books include: The Global Minotaur: The True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy (Zed Books, 2011); (with S. Hargreaves-Heap) Game Theory: A Critical Text (Routledge, 2004); Foundations of Economics: A Beginner's Companion (Routledge, 1998); and Rational Conflict (Blackwell Publishers, 1991).

[BillBoard]

http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2011/05/banker-vs-banker-dominique-strauss-kahn.html

Banker vs Banker - Dominique Strauss Kahn vs Ben Bernanke?
SDR vs US Dollar?
The IMF vs the Federal Reserve?
Banker vs Banker.
This may get ugly.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Saw a picture of him sitting and looking rather miserable.
I imagine a night in a Harlem precinct is a far cry from a $3000.00 a night hotel room.
There seemed a natural kind of justice in that. A poetic justice. I am sure it will be lost on Mr. Kahn.
Oh well, he doesn't get my sympathy.

In yesterday's post I touched on the fact that DSK may have been taken down in a political power struggle over just who will be at the helm of the IMF.

The shifts in the global economic power structure seemed to prelude an end to the practice of giving the IMF’s top job to a European.

Noting the IMF had been very critical of the US. DSK had also instituted changes in the allocation of voting shares


"the IMF overhauled the way it allocates voting shares. China vaulted over nations such as Britain, Germany and France to become the third-biggest shareholder after the United States and Japan. The clout of former European powers such as Belgium was seriously curbed in favour of rising powers such as Brazil. "


I would like to expand on the issues. Issues that may have been behind DSK's takeout.

An interesting article here


The IMF under Dominique Strauss Kahn has been over the past 3 years been planning it’s own currency of reserve. Calling on a currency, called an SDR (special drawing rights) in focus the point that could be the major issue is the SDR bond that allows the IMF to issue bonds that could (and most likely would) compete with US treasuries.

The moment the SDR BOND becomes popular is the exact moment the US dollar loses it’s currency reserve status.

But alas, the guy that was pushing this through finds himself behind bars on what some say are bogus charges.

You could imagine what is at stake. The US dollar itself.

-If Dominique Strauss Kahn was able to pull this off and use the IMF to draw SDR Bonds you will see a dramatic drop in the value of the US debt. ( I do not see this as the real issue because the US is already devaluing their dollar)

- Countries and investors would be buying SDR bonds rather than US treasuries. It will effectively end the USA’s ability to print off the debt.(This is the meat and potatoes of the issue with SDR)

- Was this engineered to keep the US Dollar as the currency of reserve?
Is that the reason Strauss Kahn was taken out?
If the US dollar is no longer the global currency, the reserve currency, how could the US continue on their warpath? How could the US continue to bury all other nations with indebtedness that through their economic policies, the US is deflating away?

Is this the reason as mentioned the US wanted an American at the helm of the IMF?


A quick aside: I see David Cameron is ok with an American at the helm of the IMF. He has suggested looking beyond Europe. Which would on the surface seem an odd position, but, thinking in term of banksters, it isn't.


Here is another article where the writer is making mention of the IMF's war on the US dollar-
Your will find this one quite interesting!

I've been baffled over the past couple years by calls for the IMF to play a greater role in the international economy. Unhappy with the U.S. dollar-dominated global monetary system in place today, officials in China and Russia and some economists have called for the enhanced use of the IMF's SDR as a global currency – the belief being that, backed by an impartial institution, it would be more stable than the greenback, which is governed by national policies crafted to a great degree by the Fed.

The fact that Strauss-Kahn may have tossed away his political career for a hotel maid doesn't give me much confidence in his judgment on issues regarding the life and death of the global economy. Would you rather have Strauss-Kahn or Ben Bernanke making the key decisions that impact the global monetary system? Despite his own failings, I'd put my money on Bernanke


Strauss-Kahn or Ben Bernake? A European or an American? SDR's as global currency or a continuation of the US dollar dominance of the globe?

From the Guardian

Strauss-Kahn allowed his staff earlier this year to attack the US, its main paymaster, for running a bigger budget deficit while others tried to reduce theirs.
He also changed the emphasis of the fund's lending from simply a means to impose neo-liberal capitalism on near-bankrupt victims, to a more sympathetic programme with less micro-management from Washington.
At the IMF's most recent conference in Washington, Strauss-Kahn stressed the failure of western governments to promote job creation as a means of safeguarding social democratic structures. He feared the riots in Athens would spread across Europe.


Was Strauss-Kahn biting the hand that feeds the IMF? Besides the SDR? By allowing the IMF to vocally express their disdain with the US? Job creation is an issue, but, not one that benefits the elite classes of asses. Did Strauss Kahn wish to avoid global collapse of society?

From all I have read over the past few days it is clear, quite clear to me, that DSK was taken out politically. Call it a honey pot, call it a set up, whatever?
Dominique Strauss Kahn was humiliated, worse then he had allowed the IMF to embarrass the US in their public drubbing.
He was removed from leading the IMF, an IMF that was going to use SDR's to challenge US dollar global supremacy.
He bit the hand that fed him. He crossed the Fed.
Bankers vs Bankers.
The fall out shall be interesting.

[Glass]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/imf_accuser_in_apt_for_hiv_vics_oZmUkbtouJ14RHw143 4HvJ?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=


The Post has not been able to ascertain whether the maid, 32, has HIV/AIDS because of medical confidentiality laws.



Now more smear for the scum bag, what the hell did he do or who did he pissed off?


What can you say about that huh? Just amazing. They keep ratcheting it up.

[DMac]

I'm beginning to think DSK's arrest could be a pressure valve release of sorts. Throw a big name under the bus to keep attention off of/away from someone(s?) else.

???

[Awoke]

Question #2: “ Lipsky is American, but usually a European runs the IMF, right?
Answer: Correct and yes.




HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!



"European"

[gunDriller]

He must have pissed off the wrong person.


From ZerroHedge comments....

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/no-bail-dsk-next-court-hearing-may-20#comment-1280049
Goldman & JP Morgan CEO's about to be indicted on derivative trash bucketing offenses those institutions have been peddling. Due to evidence turned over to the US SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE...and the Senate Banking committee has recommended criminal prosecution.

Derivatives are on the same level as naked shorting trash.

here's something to chew on, whether you want to believe it or not - the bulk of the evidence turned over against these TREASONOUS SCUMBAG banksters was none other than the the head of the IMF, 2 Days later assested in NY. He may be a pervert but I smell a squid.


Wow, is that true? Did Strauss-Kahn turn over evidence, implicating Goldman Sachs, and JPM, in financial crime, just two days prior to his arrest?


Ruppert thinks Kahn was set up because he was in favor of bailing out Greece & the other PIIGS countries.

" Whoever set Dominique Strauss-Kahn up wants the EU to collapse. When that happens an enormous amount of wealth is going to change hands violently. And there will be one less seat at the big table. What's more, I'm almost certain that a equally violent disruptions will take place within the United States and -- in short order -- Japan, China and Russia. Fukushima and the death of Japan are driving all timetables now. The dinosaurs are stumbling... They appear to be losing control of the agenda.

So the really useful question to answer now would be, "Who set him up?" All you folks who have been asking me for years,"Who's Mr. Big?" listen up and pay attention... We're getting closer."

http://www.collapsenet.com/free-resources/collapsenet-public-access/item/869-imf-chiefs-arrest-renews-euro-debt-crisis-fears


BUT - Ruppert says 9-11 is water-under-the-bridge, nothing to see hear folks move along.

as end of the world prophets go ... he has some remarkable blind spots.

[Olmstein]

So, the news is saying that the accuser here is a mooslem. This just keeps getting more interesting.

Google Link (http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=muslim+accuser&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=nws:1&source=og&sa=N&tab=wn&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=484b59620932e2cd)

[Shami-Amourae]

There's no way this is happening unless it's the Illuminati having infighting. I honestly think this Strauss-Kahn guy wasn't going along with the NWO show and they threw him under the bus as an example. He can't even post bail. That's really odd for someone that powerful.

[sirgonzo420]

There's no way this is happening unless it's the Illuminati having infighting. I honestly think this Strauss-Kahn guy wasn't going along with the NWO show and they threw him under the bus as an example. He can't even post bail. That's really odd for someone that powerful.


Yeah, and he's a CHOSEN one too!

[Antonio]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/18/dominique-strauss-kahn_n_863517.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk3%7C63726
The woman spit it out and now DSK is understandably on suicide watch...

[mick silver]

the TOP eating the TOP . SEE there almost done with the bottom so now there starting to eat there own . all of us thats on the bottom could only hope the top starts taking the top out ,

[BillBoard]

now DSK is understandably on suicide watch...


If you have ever been a target of government harassment, you will immediately come to know that "suicide watch" is nothing more than a benign sounding euphemism to cover the attack which you will be under. "Suicide watch" is nothing more than the humiliation of stripping you down to the minimum garments and then placing you in a cold, highly illuminated cell where they expect you to break down and submit to anything they wish to put you through.

[Antonio]

now DSK is understandably on suicide watch...


If you have ever been a target of government harassment, you will immediately come to know that "suicide watch" is nothing more than a benign sounding euphemism to cover the attack which you will be under. "Suicide watch" is nothing more than the humiliation of stripping you down to the minimum garments and then placing you in a cold, highly illuminated cell where they expect you to break down and submit to anything they wish to put you through.


It is damn cold in NY prisons, they keep the AC running so people don`t stink as much (no showers of course).

PS. http://rense.com/general94/framep.htm

The Strauss Kahn Frame-Up
The Amerikan Police State Strides Forward
By Paul Craig Roberts
5-18-11

The International Monetary Fund's director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested last Sunday in New York City on the allegation of an immigrant hotel maid that he attempted to rape her in his hotel room. A New York judge has denied Strauss-Kahn bail on the grounds that he might flee to France.

President Bill Clinton survived his sexual escapades, because he was a servant to the system, not a threat. But Strauss-Kahn, like former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, was a threat to the system, and, like Eliot Spitzer, Strass-Kahn has been deleted from the power ranks.

Strauss-Kahn was the first IMF director in my lifetime, if memory serves, who disavowed the traditional IMF policy of imposing on the poor and ordinary people the cost of bailing out Wall Street and the Western banks. Strauss-Kahn said that regulation had to be reimposed on the greed-driven, fraud-prone financial sector, which, unregulated, destroyed the lives of ordinary people. Strauss-Kahn listened to Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz, one of a handful of economists who has a social conscience.

Perhaps the most dangerous black mark in Strauss-Kahn's book is that he was far ahead of America's French puppet, President Sarkozy, in the upcoming French elections. Strauss-Kahn simply had to be eliminated.

It is possible that Strauss-Kahn eliminated himself and saved Washington the trouble. However, as a well-travelled person who has often stayed in New York hotels and in hotels in cities around the world, I have never experienced a maid entering unannounced into my room, much less when I was in the shower.

In the spun story, Strauss-Kahn is portrayed as so deprived of sex that he attempted to rape a hotel maid. Anyone who ever served on the staff of a powerful public figure knows that this is unlikely. On a senator's staff on which I served, there were two aides whose job was to make certain that no woman, with the exception of his wife, was ever alone with the senator. This was done to protect the senator both from female power groupies, who lust after celebrities and powerful men, and from women sent by a rival on missions to compromise an opponent. A powerful man such as Strauss-Kahn would not have been starved for women, and as a multi-millionaire he could certainly afford to make his own discreet arrangements.

As Henry Kissinger said, "power is the ultimate aphrodisiac." In politics, sex is handed out as favors and payoffs, and it is used as a honey trap. Some Americans will remember that Senator Packwood's long career (1969-1995) was destroyed by a female lobbyist, suspected, according to rumors, of sexual conquests of Senators, who charged that Packwood propositioned her in his office. Perhaps what inspired the charge was that Packwood was in the way of her employer's legislative agenda.

Even those who exercise care can be framed by allegations of an event to which there are no witnesses. On May 16 the British Daily Mail reported that prior to Strauss-Kahn's fateful departure for New York, the French newspaper, Liberation, published comments he made while discussing his plans to challenge Sarkozy for the presidency of France. Strauss-Kahn said that as he was the clear favorite to beat Sarkozy, he would be subjected to a smear campaign by Sarkozy and his interior minister, Glaude Gueant. Strauss-Kahn predicted that a woman would be offered between 500,000 and 1,000,000 euros (more than $1,000,000) to make up a story that he raped her. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387625/IMF-chief-Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-
feared-political-enemy-pay-woman-allege-rape.html

The Daily Mail reports that Strauss-Kahn's suspicions are supported

by the fact that the first person to break the news of Strauss-Kahn's arrest was an activist in Mr Sarkozy's UMP party * who apparently knew about the scandal before it happened. Jonathan Pinet, a politics student, tweeted the news just before the New York Police Department made it public, although he said that he simply had a 'friend' working at the Sofitel where the attack was said to have happened. The first person to re-tweet Mr Pinet was Arnaud Dassier, a spin doctor who had previously publicised details of multi-millionaire Strauss-Kahn's luxurious lifestyle in a bid to dent his left wing credentials.

Strauss-Kahn could just as easily been set up by rivals inside the IMF, as well as by rivals within the French political establishment.

Michelle Sabban, a senior councillor for the greater Paris region and a Strauss-Kahn loyalist said: 'I am convinced it is an international conspiracy.'

She added: 'It's the IMF they wanted to decapitate, not so much the Socialist primary candidate.

'It's not like him. Everyone knows that his weakness is seduction, women. That's how they got him.'

Even some of Strauss-Kahn's rivals said they could not believe the news. 'It is totally hallucinatory,' said centrist Dominique Paille.

'If it is true, this would be a historic moment, but in the negative sense, for French political life. I hope that everyone respects the presumption of innocence. I cannot manage to believe this affair.'

And Henri de Raincourt, minister for overseas co-operation in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government, added: 'We cannot rule out the thought of a trap.'

Michelle Sabban is on to something when she says the IMF was the target. Strauss-Kahn is the first IMF director who is not lined up on the side of the rich against the poor. Strauss-Kahn's suspicions were of Sarkozy, but Wall Street and the US government also had strong reasons to eliminate him. Wall Street is terrified by the prospect of regulation, and Washington was embarrassed by the recent IMF report that China's economy would surpass the US economy within five years. An international conspiracy is not out of the question.

Indeed, the plot is unfolding as a conspiracy. Authorities have produced a French woman who claims she was a near rape victim of Strauss-Kahn a decade ago. It would be interesting to know whether this allegation is the result of a threat or a bribe. As in the case of Julian Assange, there are now two women to accuse Strauss-Kahn. Once the prosecutors get the odds of two females against one male, they win in the media.

It has not been revealed how the authorities knew Strauss-Kahn was on a flight to France. However, by arresting him aboard his scheduled flight just as it was to depart, the authorities created the image of a man fleeing from a crime.

The way Amerikan justice (sic) works is that prosecutors in about 96 percent of the cases get a plea bargain. US prosecutors are permitted by judges and the public to pay for testimony against the defendant and to put sufficient pressure on innocent defendants to coerce them into making a guilty plea in exchange for lesser charges and a lighter sentence. Unless the hotel maid has a spell of bad conscience and admits she was paid to lie, or gets cold feet about perjuring herself, Strauss-Kahn is likely to find that Amerikan criminal justice (sic) is organized to produce conviction regardless of innocence or guilt.

On May 16, the day following Strauss-Kahn's arrest, the US Supreme Court threw its weight behind the Amerikan police state by destroying the remains of the Fourth Amendment with an 8-1 ruling that, the U.S. Constitution notwithstanding, Amerika's police do not need warrants to invade homes and search persons.

This ruling is more evidence that every American is regarded as a potential enemy of the state, not only by Airport Security but also by the high muckety-mucks in Washington. The conservatives' "war on crime" has created a police state, and conservatives, who originally stood for limited government and civil liberty, are euphoric over the expanded and unaccountable powers that a conservative Supreme Court has handed to the police.

On the same day the federal government reached the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, which forced the Treasury to "borrow" money from federal employee pensions in order to continue funding Amerika's illegal wars and crimes against humanity. The breached debt ceiling serves as an appropriate marker for a country that has squandered its constitutional heritage and has arrived at moral as well as fiscal bankruptcy.

[Glass]

Strauss-Kahn resigns as IMF chief
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned as head of the International Monetary Fund as he faces charges of sexual assault and attempted rape.

"I deny with the greatest possible firmness all of the allegations that have been made against me," Mr Strauss-Kahn said in his letter of resignation, released today by the IMF.

Mr Strauss-Kahn, 62, said he felt ''compelled'' to resign as managing director, adding that he did so with ''infinite sadness.''
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Next IMF chief
Mr Stauss-Kahn's resignation will intensify the debate over who should next lead the Fund and whether it is time to ditch the tradition, in place since it was set up in 1945, of having a European as managing director.

Emerging market economies, which are anyway demanding a greater say in how the IMF is run, have also been pressing their case for the global economy's financial manager to be drawn from their ranks.

China, Brazil and South Africa have all suggested a new approach to selecting to next managing director.


Full aticle @ the Age (http://www.theage.com.au/business/world-business/imf-chief-strausskahn-resigns-20110519-1eub3.html)

[JDRock]

Spitzered?

Although I would not call a real maid (assuming she was) sent to clean a room a 'honey trap.'

IMF chief Strauss-Kahn caught in "Honey Trap" (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28103.htm)
By Mike Whitney May 15, 2011 "Information Clearing House"

In an article today in the Washington Post, Howard Schneider writes that after the 2008 crash led toward regulation again of financial companies and government involvement in the economy, for Strauss-Khan "the job is only half done, as he has been leading the fund through a fundamental rethinking of its economic theory. In recent remarks, he has provided a broad summary of the conclusions: State regulation of markets needs to be more extensive; global policies need to create a more even distribution of income; central banks need to do more to prevent lending and asset prices from expanding too fast. 'The pendulum will swing from the market to the state,' Strauss-Kahn said in an address at George Washington University last week. 'Globalization has delivered a lot . . . but it also has a dark side, a large and growing chasm between the rich and the poor. Clearly we need a new form of globalization' to prevent the 'invisible hand' of loosely regulated markets from becoming 'an invisible fist.'" (Link---http://wcampaign.org/issue.php?mid=625&v=y)

Repeat: "...a fundamental rethinking of economic theory".... (a greater) "distribution of income"...(more) "regulation of financial companies", "central banks need to do more to prevent lending and asset prices from expanding too fast".

Are you kidding me? Read that passage again and I think you'll agree with me that Strauss-Kahn had signed his own death warrant.

There's not going to be any revolution at the IMF. That's baloney. The institution was created with the clear intention of ripping people off and it's done an impressive job in that regard. There's not going to be any change of policy either. Why would there be? Have the bankers and corporate bilge-rats suddenly grown a conscience and decided to lend a helping hand to long-suffering humanity? Get real.

Strauss-Kahn broke ranks and ventured into no man's land. That's why he was set up and then crushed like a bug.

(Note: Strauss-Kahn has been replaced by the IMF's number 2 guy, John Lipsky, former Vice Chairman of the JPMorgan Investment Bank. How's that for "change you can believe in"?)


yeah...since when does ONE maid clean a room that size?? ive never seen less than 2 or three even in a super 8 type..

[Dogman]

Very powerful and rich man just full of himself with how big and powerful he was in the world.

Made a small mistake! He thought with the wrong (small, non-thinking) head! He is not the first
nor the last man to screw up big time that way! ;D

[Awoke]

What I gather from your post, is that you believe the media story, Dogman?

Have you been paying attention to the contents of this thread?

[Dogman]

What I gather from your post, is that you believe the media story, Dogman?

Have you been paying attention to the contents of this thread?


Have not read all of it , but I do get that he may have been set up for several reasons! Very powerful people do not like him, That I do understand! I just threw in my post as a thought if he was really not setup and he used the wrong head! Now which is true, maybe time will tell!

Sort of setting on the fence on this topic, looking at both sides and not trying to judge. I try not to go with majority thought , and look and research for myself and then make up my mind the right or wrong.

This topic is being played out on the international stage, and who in the hell can tell who are the major players seen and not seen? ? The guy could really have been that stupid.

So my post was directed at the possibility of him being a Dick head! ;D Tho he could have been for real setup by his enemy's.

[Bullion_Bob]

I think on that kind of room the front desk would first confirm the guest(s) have checked out?

If I paid 3g's for a room, I sure as hell would not want to be bothered in the slightest by the maid coming to clean the room.

Should be easy enough to check on this policy?

Also maybe the cell phone was a give away in case the cops didn't catch up with him soon enough?

The no bail thing is not normal for someone with that much money.

[AndreaGail]

The IMF chief & touted French presidential candidate may have more than prison time to worry about. According to the New York Post his accuser may be HIV positive. The alleged victim lives in an apartment rented exclusively to those with HIV or AIDS.
Prior to living in her current apartment the maid from west-Africa lived in another apartment run by Harlem Community AIDS United which sets aside apartment homes strictly for adults with HIV or AIDS.
Due to medical confidentiality laws it cannot be confirmed that the woman does indeed have AIDS, but based on her present and past residencies many have deduced that she does.
The apartments are held exclusively for those who have AIDS or HIV. In order to rent the apartment at least one adult in the unit must be positive for one or the other. Strauss-Kahn’s accuser lives in the apartment with her 15-year-old daughter. She is the only adult.
"The [current] apartment isn't rented under her name. Harlem [Community AIDS] United places their tenants in our building," explained Chaim Gross, an apartment management employee, to the New York Post.
Strauss-Kahn is accused by the woman of forced sexual assault. She told police that he attempted to rape her while she cleaned his hotel room and forced her to engage in oral sex multiple times.
"It is possible for either partner to become infected with HIV through performing or receiving oral sex," according to the Federal Center for Disease Control.
Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers have refused to comment on the AIDS/HIV revelations.


https://rt.com/usa/news/strauss-kahns-accuser-aids-hiv/

[Bullion_Bob]

http://i56.tinypic.com/66w96b.jpg

[Horn]

Wow, talk about body language in that shot... :oo-->

[Antonio]

http://larouchepac.com/node/18243?utm_source=ElectionMall%20Technologies%20Inc .&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=110523_LLPML

[Glass]

Strauss-Kahn DNA found on maid's clothes: reports
Investigators found traces of DNA from former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on the clothes of a hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, US media reported on Monday.

The DNA was found on the shirt of the 32-year-old worker at the Sofitel in New York who has accused Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her, according to NBC and ABC television.

DNA testing on other evidence from the hotel suite used by the French politician is continuing.

Strauss-Kahn has denied charges made against him. New York police and the District Attorney's office refused to comment on the reports which came as Strauss-Kahn raced against time Monday to find a new home. He has also told former staff how he is confronting a "personal nightmare."

Under house arrest pending trial, he has been rejected by one luxury residence because of his newfound notoriety and must soon leave his temporary abode.

Charges that he attempted to rape and sexually assault the chambermaid on May 14 forced him to resign as head of the International Monetary Fund last week and torpedoed his chances of standing in the French presidential election next year.

But Strauss-Kahn again denied the accusations in an email message sent to IMF staff late Sunday in which he expressed "profound sadness" at the way he left his $450,000-a-year tax-free post.

"I deny in the strongest possible terms the allegations which I now face; I am confident that the truth will come out and I will be exonerated," he wrote.


Full story @ the Age (http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/strausskahn-dna-found-on-maids-clothes-reports-20110524-1f19e.html)

[Awoke]

http://larouchepac.com/node/18243?utm_source=ElectionMall%20Technologies%20Inc .&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=110523_LLPML


What total Bullshit. This guy is trying to fool people into thinking that TPTB busted Kahn in order to "save Europe" by stopping the bailout, when we all know that the IMF was designed to be a Global bank since it's inception anyeays.

Who is this "Glass-Steagall" guy that he is trumpeting for?
"Glass-Steagall or die"?? With the flag of the 13 colonies?

[Horn]

http://larouchepac.com/node/18243?utm_source=ElectionMall%20Technologies%20Inc .&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=110523_LLPML



There's been sacrifices in past for pyramid schemes.

I like how the words are delivered as the newscaster's, when you can obviously tell they came straight from La Bouche of La Rouche.

Anything for a temp dollar hold,

[Bullion_Bob]

Wow, talk about body language in that shot... :oo-->




Definitely a 1000 words going on there no doubt. Bernank looks like he's just been plugged into the matrix, and is receiving new programming. Some of the other motley characters have some stories to tell I bet ya.

[Horn]

Wow, talk about body language in that shot... :oo-->


Definitely a 1000 words going on there no doubt. Bernank looks like he's just been plugged into the matrix, and is receiving new programming. Some of the other motley characters have some stories to tell I bet ya.


"See here, Ben. I'm gonna take the fall so you guys can get your ducks in a row, but you better make sure the dough is in the oven where you said it was going to be when I get done with this thing."