IMF managing director arrested, accused of sexual attack

[Nordic]

"socialist" and "head of the imf" just don't go together. one of them is a bogus term and we know jis job at the imf wasn't bogus, so i'd say its a fair assumption that his label of "socialist" is.

[JackRiddler]

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the allegations were true and this was a political hit.

That would be a long list of suspects. Not just his personal enemies but the IMF's. Name most of the countries the maid might be from and you already have motive: Mexico, Haiti, most anywhere south of the US border, Greece, Ireland, Iceland...

[cptmarginal]

Synchronicity: I visited cryptogon.com yesterday and read about this IMF director rape case while listening to the song "Chin Up" from the Roots Manuva remix album Duppy Writer, at the exact moment that he said "nations baitin' for spiritual raping"

[cptmarginal]

I notice that when you type in his name on Google, one thing it suggests is "dominique strauss-kahn illuminati"



Translation, anyone?

C'mon, somebody tell us what he said. I think I have a pretty good idea, anyway...

[jingofever]

"socialist" and "head of the imf" just don't go together. one of them is a bogus term and we know jis job at the imf wasn't bogus, so i'd say its a fair assumption that his label of "socialist" is.

Gauche caviar. But I wonder if all of these claims that he is a socialist is just a typo of sociopath.

Is A Deluge Of Latent Rape Accusations Against Strauss-Kahn Imminent? I would say it is already happening.

Short summary:

This young journalist was attacked when she interviewed DSK who made her come to a remote apartment with nothing but a TV, VCR, and bed in it.

He then attacked her and she fought back. He tore off her bra and jeans. She used the words "rape" during the fight to scare him away, but he showed no reaction. She was eventually able to flee, but did not bring charges on the advice of an attorney who showed her a pile of similar cases against DSK but that the other women had decided not to go forward. The lawyer advised her that, if she went forward, she would forever be known as the woman who brought down DSK, not as a journalist.

After the incident and after she had been able to flee, DSK sent her a phone text message, saying' "You fear me, don't you?"

[temp-monitor]

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the allegations were true and this was a political hit.

timing is everything

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/10/imf-boss-calls-for-world-currency

IMF boss calls for global currency
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, thinks a new world currency would calm economic instability and curb the dollar's power

Heather Stewart
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 10 February 2011 15.22 GMT

IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn thinks the fund's Special Drawing Rights could be used as a global currency. Photograph: Larry Downing/REUTERS
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has called for a new world currency that would challenge the dominance of the dollar and help curb future financial instability.

In a speech in Washington, Strauss-Kahn argued that the reserves that member countries held with the fund could be used, instead of the dollar, to price international trade. These so-called special drawing rights (SDRs) could also act as an alternative to the dollar in central banks' foreign currency reserves.

"Using the SDR to price global trade and denominate financial assets would provide a buffer from exchange rate volatility," he said, while "issuing SDR-denominated bonds could create a potentially new class of reserve assets".

The IMF published a policy paper backing Strauss-Kahn's views as it gathered top-level economists for discussions on the future of the international monetary system.

Strauss-Kahn, who has been tipped as a contender for the French presidency next year, also argued that the way SDRs were valued, which is currently based on a basket of currencies – the dollar, sterling, the euro and the yen – be broadened to include others such as the Chinese yuan.

International policymakers have become increasingly concerned about the threat of currency wars as struggling governments try to hold down their own exchange rates as they clamber out of recession.

Strauss-Kahn admitted that there were formidable hurdles to achieving a greater role for SDRs, but he warned that without urgent action, the simmering conflicts in the international financial system could tip the world back into chaos.

"Global imbalances are back, with issues that worried us before the crisis—large and volatile capital flows, exchange-rate pressures, rapidly growing excess reserves – on the front-burner once again. Left unresolved, these problems could even sow the seeds of the next crisis," he said.

China, which holds much of its $2.85 trillion mountain of reserves in US Treasury bonds, has repeatedly expressed unease about the value of the dollar, while American politicians have complained that Beijing gains an unfair advantage by keeping its own currency cheap.

The idea of SDRs emerged in 1969, to support the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system, but when that collapsed a few years later, the role of SDRs was largely forgotten. They allow IMF members the right to swap their own reserves for foreign currencies in times of need.

However, at the London G20 meeting in 2009, in the midst of the credit crunch, world leaders agreed a dramatic $250bn boost to SDRs, sparking speculation that they could play a growing role in the global monetary system.

Strauss-Kahn said the IMF was also examining ways of strengthening international policy co-ordination, and monitoring international imbalances.

[lupercal]

My rough guess at this point is that he got Spitzered, in other words, had a hooker habit intercepted at a timely juncture, timely for his rivals that is. Don't know a lot yet about Strauss-Kahn but I know enough about Sarkozy to also guess that this is bad news for all concerned, including IMF clients.

[jingofever]

Earlier this year: Former Israeli president convicted of rape.

[jingofever]

My rough guess at this point is that he got Spitzered, in other words, had a hooker habit intercepted at a timely juncture

Or a rape habit.

[lupercal]

^ he may have had that too, but from what I've heard it sounds like he was expecting a call girl who surprise, turned out to be a chambermaid who thought the room was empty and waltzed in while he was sans vêtements. I don't think so.

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

Timing...There's a history of spook 'maids' targeting hotel room occupants for discrediting operations. But timing is meant to go with a SF road race and counter
a court case against Halliburton.

Day-of-adjuvant promoting moral outrage for arrest of IMF honcho:
'Naked drunk road race in San Francisco.'

San Francisco Breakers race drinking naked - Google Search

1. San Francisco Cracks Down on Bay to Breakers Race: Run Naked, Not ...
"14 May 2011 ... BREAKERS. Getty Images. This year, officials have banned drinking along the race route, which runs from the San Francisco Bay to the ..."
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704810504576307273357779498.html

Keywords for moral outrage story juxtaposition:
>French
>Socialist
>Chamber maid
>rape
>JFK
>San Francisco
>gay
>drunk
>naked
>liberal

Imminent:
June 12, 2011
Trial date for Jamie Leigh Jones vs Halliburton (drugging, beating, gang-rape, imprisonment)
See 'Franken Rape Amendment'
See CIA-Disney's 'Tangled' version of 'Rape-unzel' fairy tale plus many other decoys

Memetic proximity in news cycle as fuel-on-fire fire for Halliburton/USG:
Early May 2011 (May 3>)court dates for accused in the bullying-suicide of high school student Phoebe Prince back on 1/14/10, just before Halliburton appeal to Supreme Court on 1/25/11. 'Phoebe's Law' proposed in Massachussetts.
See perfectly timed keyword hijacking of "Phoebe" as stroke felling Phoebe Snow 1/19/10 followed by her death 4/26/11, just before court case front page coverage.

Halliburton, like Boeing, is practically the US military government. Yes, they'd protect it from rape charges with even murder, nevermind a rape framing OR ending cover-up of a violent brute acting like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Arnold? Oh, yeah. This week his split-up with wife from the Kennedy family, Maria Shriver, was officially announced in the CIA-press.
Arnold assaulted women all the time in Hollywood. Hence the value of the IMF honcho 'arrested at JFK airport, ' too.

So many psyops birds with one stone. That's why they are pros.

[8bitagent]

@Hugh: Wouldnt this IMF chief be on the side of the gang raping KBR types?

My rough guess at this point is that he got Spitzered, in other words, had a hooker habit intercepted at a timely juncture, timely for his rivals that is. Don't know a lot yet about Strauss-Kahn but I know enough about Sarkozy to also guess that this is bad news for all concerned, including IMF clients.

Only thing is, Elliot Spitzer was one of our only heroes fighting to bring down the Wallstreet bankster elite but got done in by his own vices..here we have a case of an elite on the wrong side being done in by his violent tendencies.

[cptmarginal]

Hugh, I don't think you actually know what the hell you're talking about in this particular case. In my opinion, something much more complex was going on here. I think that even if it did involve DSK himself personally deciding to rape this woman, it happened for reasons which you have completely failed to describe...

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

US domestic social-control agendas can be bolstered by one well-placed hotel employee to ride the moral atmosphere whipped up by the dead-bin-Laden staged show.

This creates 'social capital' to be spent after summer 2011 when the beginning of campaign 2012 begins.

The target was promoted by CIA-Time Magazine as a 'Top 100' figure in 2010.
Maybe something changed since then.

The CIA-Economist wrote that he was at a crossroads in late 2010. Maybe he was going to take the wrong path. Wire-taps would warn of this.

http://www.economist.com/node/17514226

Nov 22nd 2010 | from The World In 2011 print edition


Dominique Strauss Kahn has a big choice to make in 2011, and will command headlines whichever way he jumps. As head of the IMF, his current position, he may be called on to underwrite the rescue of one or more failing sovereigns, with Greece first in line. Or he may leave the fund to seek the Socialist nomination for France’s 2012 presidential election, an option he will consider only if opinion polls give him a clear lead over the main contender, Martine Aubry. If he wins the nomination, he will be odds on to become the first Socialist to win the presidency since François Mitterrand in 1988.

[Peachtree Pam]

A few more details...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... TopStories

...As a top IMF official, Mr. Strauss-Kahn has diplomatic immunity only on official fund business. He was in New York on private business, an IMF official said. The potential sentence Mr. Strauss-Kahn could face if convicted will depend on the number and specific type of charges filed against him.

Police said a 32-year-old cleaning woman accused Mr. Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her in the Sofitel Hotel near Times Square. The alleged victim, a native of Guinea and mother of two, said she entered room 2806, a $3,000-a-night luxury suite, around 12 p.m. on Saturday to clean it, thinking it was empty, according to a law-enforcement official with knowledge of the case.

According to the narrative she gave investigators, Mr. Strauss-Kahn emerged from the bathroom nude and approached her from behind and touched her breast, then threw her on to the bed, the official said.

She told police she broke free but was then pushed into a rear hallway of the suite near the bathroom. Mr. Strauss-Kahn allegedly caught up with her and sexually assaulted her, the official said, before allowing her to leave.

The accuser informed hotel security officials, who showed her a photo of the suite's occupant. After she identified Mr. Strauss-Kahn as her attacker, hotel officials then called police, the official said. The alleged victim was taken to a hospital where she was treated for trauma, tested for sexual assault and later released, the official said.

The official said detectives have recovered DNA evidence at the scene.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn checked out of the Sofitel at 12:28 p.m., police said. But it was his call from JFK airport to the hotel in search of his phone at 3:40 p.m. that identified his whereabouts. Police were then able to locate him and escort him from the plane. Later in the night, Mr. Strauss-Kahn was formally charged with sexual assault and attempted rape, the department later said in a statement. On Sunday, the woman picked the IMF chief out of a lineup at a Manhattan police station, the official said.

The arrest threw into question whether Mr. Strauss-Kahn will be forced to resign his IMF slot. In 2008, early in his IMF term, he was investigated by the IMF's staff for whether he abused his power by having an affair with a female staffer. Although he was cleared of abuse of power charges, several directors said they warned Mr. Strauss-Kahn that such conduct wouldn't be allowed in the future and that he had brought the IMF into disrepute.