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.
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.
UPDATE -
In the several hours since I wrote this article, authorities have announced that Strauss-Kahn, who was refused bail on specious grounds, has been put on suicide watch. Why announce it unless it serves an agenda? From the beginning every statement and action of the authorities is designed to convey the impression of guilt. Is putting Strauss-Kahn on suicide watch a way to paint a picture of a person who can't face the public humiliation of his crime? Is it a way to use the humiliation of constant interruption to break down his character and resolve? Or might it be to plant the idea that should he expire in prison, suicide is the explanation?
Reader Comments
. . . perhaps it's well to remember the JFK assasination and what actually happened, and why . . . The Money Mongers do not like their $$ being messed with.
In the end I think it comes to a point of "Who knows . . ." with the larger matter being to get on with one's own life and let those who play in the mud dirty both themselves and those with whon they play.
He was set up. I dont see how an elite like him would actually be ignorant enough to do this, and get caught. Especially considering the story behind how all this played out.
Anyone can be a target of the PTB
... it seems to me he would have been well above the law anywhere in the Western world. If he is one of those guys, then it seems he was probably taken down. Doesn't mean he isn't a psychopath, too, who may have difficulty controlling his urges for gratification, as described in Cleckley's book, The Mask of Sanity. But as "successful" as he's been to this point, it seems unlikely he'd slip up like that. So, I'm leaning towards the targeted-and-taken-down-for-whatever-reason theory. Now, if that's the case, he could still be of some risk to his superiors, especially if he's a psychopath. He's on "suicide watch," they've said.
I hadn't considered the possibility that Strauss-Kahn might be a "good" guy!
I wondering why the statements being made about him were so blatant and provocative. I thought it was some sort of U.S. - Europe rivalry being played out, as I have seen other signs of that.
But if "they" really want to ruin this guy because he refuses to go along with their agenda, then he better be damn careful and damn smart, or we could witness another "unexplained" death of another prominent person.
...if i find it hard to believe that the head of the IMF, one of the most evil and merciless institutions on the planet, was a "reformer" and "good guy" and had to be taken out...
this is most likely psycho vs. psycho.
It was common knowledge that S-K was going to beat Sarko like a gong in the upcoming election. He had to be compromised. I'm going with the psycho vs psycho working hypothesis until further verifiable evidence is presented.
The real drama going on here is the collusion between the US justice system and the French right wing. It is a peek behind the curtain at the international aspect of the "secret team" in action. Sarko's frenetic flying back and forth between Washington and Tel Aviv during the last campaign was the writing on the wall. France got folded into the Borg.
Replacing a zionist fascist in the French presidency, with a zionist fascist bankster, even if he has "socialist" drapery, hardly seems a step forward in French politics. The socialists will now have to offer a weak sister to confront Sarko, and the UMP will never miss a beat.
After watching the palace intrigues between Sarko and Chirac, wherein Chirac accepted a bargain of not running in the last election in exchange for Sarko not pressing old campaign irregularity charges against Chirac... then reneging on the deal after he won, was quite an insight into Sarko's "honor among thieves" character. I would put nothing as too despicable beyond Sarkozy.
as the world reserve currency seems to also have made DSK more than a few enemies.
IMF boss calls for global currency
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...So, Strauss-Kahn finds himself in the same crowd as Saddam Hussein and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, right? You may recall that
Saddam switched from dollars to euros about a year before the war. 12 months later Iraq was invaded, Saddam was hanged, and the dollar was restored to power. Gaddafi made a similar mistake when "he initiated a movement to refuse the dollar and the euro, and called on Arab and African nations to use a new currency instead, the gold dinar." ("Libya: All About Oil, or All About Central Banking?" Ellen Brown, Op-Ed News) Libya has since come under attack by US and NATO forces which have armed a motley group of dissidents, malcontents and terrorists to depose Gaddafi and reimpose dollar hegemony.
And now it's Strauss-Kahn's turn to get torn to shreds. And for good reason. After all, DSK actually poses a much greater threat to the dollar than either Saddam or Gaddafi because he's in the perfect position to shape policy and to persuade foreign heads of state that replacing the dollar is in their best interests. And that is precisely what he was doing; badmouthing the buck. Only he was too dense to figure out that the dollar is the US Mafia's mealticket, the main way that shifty banksters and corporate scalawags extort tribute from the poorest people on earth. Strauss-Kahn was rocking the boat, and now he's going to pay.
It was also reported that after he left the hotel he had lunch with his daughter a few blocks away. Doesn't sound as if he was in any sort of hurry to get out of town.
So on one hand we have the possibility that DSK was actually a financier with a conscience, or we have a war between psycho bankers, or ...this has it's roots in the French political system.
As soon as I heard he was arrested I knew he had pissed off some powerful people somewhere. The guy could buy any hooker! Rape a hotel maid? I don't think so. Great article.
The well respected senior editor of www.veteranstoday.com, Gordon Duffster, wrote and published an article on May 17th, 2011 in said website that handles the same topic titled 'Rape Arrest of IMF Head “False Flag”, to which I reacted with these words:
"Ken Rechtstein
May 17, 2011 - 6:39 pm
No way Gordon, DSK is JEWISH and he will never have gotten that far, as to sit in the general manager chair in the IMF, without the OK of the Zion Talmudic Mafia Dons, i.e. the Rothschilds-the Federal Reserve Owners and Big Finance in General, on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
It just does NOT make SENSE at all that the people who have groomed him during decades, will suddenly get rid of him because suddenly they discover that he planned to stab them in the back and play by his own rules. Life in that branch ain’t not like this. The top bosses do not play childish games, nor ease their grip one single moment on THEIR high level employees: Nobody advances to the top of the pyramid if there is the sliest doubt about where he or she stands and whose interests he or she will always be defending above any others, including his or her own.
In the Finance world, there is no room for surprises at all, same as in the diamonds trade: Every variation-acceleration-deceleration-inflation-deflation, even minimal changes are known beforehand and even provoked at will to suit the interests of the Dons, who control every aspect of the monetary-financial policy and draw huge benefit from it.
The set up theory does not bother me, it’s the reason for it that does. Come on: ¿DSK, single handed or in conspiracy with China and/or Russia will pull out a Currency Change Scheme without the Zio Dons knowing about it or wanting it to happen?
Let us look at the facts:
1) DSK, just like another famous Zio, ex president of Israel (about same age) MOSHE KATSAV, are ‘quick zippers’ (position of power + the brethren mindset make them think that they are masters of the world and women are created to service them, whenever they want),
2) This is not the FIRST sexual offense of DSK. In 2002, a young journalist and author, TRISTANE BANON, (best friend of DSK’s daughter, being her mother too a close friend to DSK’s family!), was SEXUALLY assaulted by DSK during an interview he conceded her. Here is what she said about te incident reported by the French newspaper ‘Le Figaro’ in its May 15th edition:
“En février 2007, une jeune journaliste et romancière, Tristane Banon, racontait sur le plateau de «93 Faubourg Saint Honoré», une émission qu’animait alors Thierry Ardisson sur Paris Première, comment un homme politique influent avait tenté d’abuser d’elle en 2002. Alors qu’elle travaillait sur un livre, le politique lui proposa de faire une interview dans ce qui se révélera être une garçonnière.
«J’ai posé le magnétophone tout de suite pour enregistrer, il a voulu que je lui tienne la main pour répondre, parce qu’il m’a dit “je n’y arriverai pas si vous ne me tenez pas la main”, et puis après la main c’est passé au bras, et c’est passé un peu plus loin, donc j’ai tout de suite arrêté…», expliquait-elle devant les invités de l’émission. «Ca s’est fini très très violemment, puisque je lui ai dit clairement non non, on s’est battu au sol, pas qu’une paire de baffes, moi j’ai donné des coups de pieds, il a dégrafé mon soutien-gorge, il a essayé d’ouvrir mon jean… »
She ends up saying (my translation): “It ended up in a violent way, given that I clearly told him no, no. We got into a fight on the floor, not only some slaps, I did kick him with my legs, he undid my bra and he tried to open my jeans”,
3) In 2007 when DSK was at the Davos meeting on behalf of the FMI he got entangled with a Hungarian subordinate economist working for the FMI, a married women, like DSK is a married man and on top to a beautiful and wealthy lady, ANNE SINCLAIR, former star journalist at TF1 7/7 weekly program, wich was very popular among the French. Well the husband of the Hungarian lady denounced DSK to the Managing Board of the FMI. He was forgiven, made his excuses to the board and to his wife and admitted that in engaging in the affair “he showed poor judgment”.
Gordon, the odds are against DSK, the guy is not a first time offender and the way French Tristane Banon describes the fight to free herself and get away from him IS CONSISTENT with how OPHELIA, the Ghanean maid describes her ordeal with him: DSK’s VIOLENT approach to a woman’s panties.
Remember the French proverb: “Celui qui vole un Œuf, volera un bœuf”. I do think though that until he is tried, he is presumed innocent. If we say that he was set up, then it means that HE FELL for the TRAP and is guilty like hell. And we should not forget that we have a VICTIM in this drama and she has rights too." Unquote.
Well, the last 3 lines of my above verbatim comment in "Veterans Today" are still valid and important today, especially that we should as well think that there a plaintiff, who might be telling the truth and might be in distress for the dramatic and traumatizing encounter that she had with DSK.
In reply to a fellow participant in the same debate I wrote:
"Ken Rechtstein
May 17, 2011 - 7:31 pm
Brian, you are right on track and your perception of where DSK stands is 100% correct.
One of the first members of the French Zion Talmudic Mafia who went out crying wolf in defense of his friend and co-soldier at the service of Israel is BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY. He didn’t mention any set up but was mad at the USA for cuffing DSK and “perp walking” him. “Bernard-Henri Lévy défend Dominique Strauss Kahn”:
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I think that the Mafia Dons themselves got their life’s surprise, when they heard what DSK’s basic and uncontrolled instincts got him into… More than one of them must have jumped out of his seat and knocked his fist on anything that was near, because what was happening was it in THEIR plans: DSK botched all what they have been working for with him to achieve their long term agenda.
I have one big question lingering in my mind: ¿What will the Power Brokers do now, get him out of the mess or throw him to the wolves?
I think they will choose the last option. DSK messed it all: They will let him rot in Rickers’ Island Prison, arrange SUICIDE for him soon or any kind of illness, that will quickly end his days in a ‘humanitarian way’." Unquote.
DSK was freed on bail yesterday. He claims that he is innocent. The grand jury found enough evidence to press formally charges against him for an array of felonies including rape.
Though Paul Craig Roberts is a serious, well informed and experienced man and might know things, I don't. If such is the case let us read more about what evidence Mr. Roberts has that make him think DSK has been set up, my firm belief being that the Power Brokers will never have let him get as far as did in his professional career if he did not play their game. Noway!
Even a madame of high-priced call girls has come out saying that he was so rough, that they had to send someone else when the first girl said not again! So clearly this guy has a history of criminally aggressive sexual behavior, and has gotten away with it to this point. Spitzer was just an idiot, but didn't hurt the women. The victim of this hotel rape seems very believable ... a muslim woman no less ... and not the sort of femme fatale that would be sent in as a likely target to attract DSK. Sounds like the guy is a real psychopath, so the question is: did he betray someone (and thus is likely to take a full fall), or will he end up just with a hand-slap (but he'll still be persona non-grata because of the publicity)? His agenda of a one-world-currency may be the plan of the bankers, but it would hurt the US considerably (the green cotton/paper blend is our major export, and the trade of oil for $'s is the only reason we are still able to buy oil at all) ... so are the US bankers in a war with the European/Asian bankers?? So many possibilities!
It's definitely a case of the PTB's eating their own young.
If we're lucky there will be a feeding frenzy and many more will be eaten up.
The plan was for him to put the US $ in as the one world currency,and he betrayed that by supporting an alternative?? Or was going to discount the US exchange for such a currency?? I do think the assault was real, based on his overall track record and lack of character, but the powers to be did not intervene this time
I don't agree with this article, I think Roberts is off on that one.
DSK is a psychopath and I don't understand how can someone claim that a sexual predator can have a social conscience (Roberts says this in this article: "Although rich and a member of the establishment, and independently of his behavior toward women, Strauss-Kahn made the mistake of revealing that he might have a social conscience. Either this social conscience or the hubris of power led him to challenge American supremacy. This is an unforgivable crime for which he is being punished." - http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24875)
Seriously. And I don't think they needed to set him up (though originally, that was my first impression but I didn't know about the Tristan Banon case and other cases), though they probably let him down.
Besides, this comment:
"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"
is disinformation. The Tristane Banon (the woman who accused him of rape) case is not new. It has been known (but suppressed) since 2007. She first revealed it in 2007 during a TV show (http://www.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/article/temoignage-exclusif-la-troisieme-46125) and later in an interview by Agoravox in 2008 (this interview was only broadcast on the Internet following DSK's arrest). No media reported it at the time, it was completely covered up (like all the claims of all other victims of DSK). It's not the "authorities" who "produced her".
Furthermore, believe it or not, a recent poll states that 57% of the French think that DSK has been the victim of a "conspiracy"! The mainstream media uttered the very word as soon as the news of his arrest was announced.
This is a bad article, IMO.
Or, he's a psychopath and rapes as easily as he breathes, for sport, on a whim and he happened to get caught (or was expected to react the way he did due to his history and walked into a trap). The disturbing thing to me about Robert's article is the underlying support of the elite of the elites as if such men don't rape as easily as they breathe. Just because a man is 'known' for his seduction does not mean he does not rape - it's a ridiculous premise. Just because a man has readily available women for sex does not mean he does not rape - it's a ridiculous premise. I think Roberts is stretching here, much as he did with Assange. Perhaps it's his job to?