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The Strauss-Kahn Character Assassination
To me this seems to be related to this and smells of entrapment.
From the second link, published a week ago in the Irish Times, on the Irish gunshot "bailout" in the financial crisis:
Ireland’s Last Stand began less shambolically than you might expect. The IMF, which believes that lenders should pay for their stupidity before it has to reach into its pocket, presented the Irish with a plan to haircut €30 billion of unguaranteed bonds by two-thirds on average. [Minister for Finance] Lenihan was overjoyed, according to a source who was there, telling the IMF team: “You are Ireland’s salvation.”
The deal was torpedoed from an unexpected direction. At a conference call with the G7 finance ministers, the haircut was vetoed by US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner who, as his payment of $13 billion from government-owned AIG to Goldman Sachs showed, believes that bankers take priority over taxpayers.
Now from the first link published on the first page of today's New York Time:
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken off an Air France plane at Kennedy International Airport minutes before it was to take off for Paris on Saturday and arrested in connection with the sexual attack of a maid at a Midtown Manhattan hotel, the authorities said.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn, 62, who was widely expected to become the Socialist candidate for the French presidency, was apprehended by detectives of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the first class section of the jetliner, and immediately turned over to detectives from the Midtown South Precinct, officials said.
Now it may of course well be that Mr. Strauss-Kahn didn't behave like a gentleman. But does anybody believe that some other high up, for example the CEO of Goldman Sachs, would have been shamed like this over such an issue without the usual official cover up attempt?
I don't think so. The ultimate crime Mr. Strauss-Kahn committed was to suggest to let the bankers bleed instead of small tax payers. He is lucky that his assassination by the U.S. administration is limited to his character.
Good on b for posting that article in the Irish Times by Morgan Kelley, it attracted little attention outside Ireland, it was a illuminating look at the negotiations there.
DSK may have been (been, as he he will no longer be) a rather appreciated director of the IMF. All depends how you look at it, and how one judges the IMF as a whole.
That said, DSK’s penchant for dominating, coercing, and even semi-rape, of any woman about who strikes his fancy, is very well known in F.
It is an open secret, a book even includes aspects about that aspect of his personality, amongst other pol strategy talk (signed by “Cassandre.”) Incidents rather like the ‘NY Sofitel maid’ have taken place many times.
The French are forgiving of this kind of stuff and draw a different line between private/public.
from L’express, about the book, in Fr. and hard to follow, only posted to show it exists and the kind of stuff one can read in it:
http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/le-livre-qui-demonte-la-strategie-dsk_889807.html
See also the Daily Telegraph (all the info there is based on other published ‘facts’ in the French media, not inventions by them), a quick summary:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7701145/Dominique-Strauss-Khan-in-sex-book-claims.html
The complaint that will soon re-surface in the MSM is an old one from a journalist/author (lovely young woman) Tristane Banon, whom he trapped and aggressed, they fought horribly and she managed to run off.
This story is well known in F though it was disappeared by the MSM.
The article is in French, and it explains what happened, very plainly.
The video linked shows her talking about it very frankly on TV – mainstream TV. She did not push a legal complaint for all the reasons one may imagine (explained in her own words, see article) – mostly she did not want to be known for the rest of her life as the woman who ‘had that story with DSK’ and have her books an articles sell (or not) because of her status as a victim. (Possibly failed victim.) She has been effectively cut out of journalism because of it. She never complained, always spoke out if asked without making a big deal out of it.
http://www.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/article/temoignage-exclusif-la-troisieme-46125
DSK’s ‘affair’ with the collaborator / subordinate at the IMF Piroska Nagy followed a similar pattern. (It was a one night stand and not an ‘affair’ as the press like to portray it.)
from der spiegel, in Eng. See the internal workings at the IMF:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,586763,00.html
Assault is not comparable to homosexual / bi- tendencies, consensual mistresses, paying sex workers, children born out of wedlock, etc.
Today, someone asked me, so why not have the porter send up an escort for a quickie, before his flight?
Because DSK has no interest in paid sex, that would be demeaning. His thing is domination, conquering, bodice ripping, semi-rape, someone in his milieu or low down in it, or someone who has a servant role, a relationship where he masters and dominates and then can discard or control, manipulate. That is what gets him off. Apologies for being so crude. And btw gossip about his Maid Fetish has been on the internet since 2009.
Posted by: Noirette | May 15 2011 20:50 utc | 17
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