French backers want ex-IMF chief to resume presidential run

[Cheetah786]

Supporters of French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn are hoping their man can go from inmate to candidate - but he'll have to do it quickly.

Word that the Manhattan sexual assault case against the 62-year-old Frenchman was collapsing raised hopes that Strauss-Kahn could resume his presidential run.

"If he's freed, Dominique should be called on to play a major political role in France," Socialist Party leader Jack Lang said on French television.

READ: DSK A FREE MAN, FOR NOW

Strauss-Kahn was one of the front-runners for the Socialist nod to run for president before his May arrest. Socialist candidates have until July 13 to declare, with the primary set for October.

Backers of Strauss-Kahn asked for a delay in the election process if it turns out he will not face charges of sexually assaulting a maid in a pricey Midtown hotel.

"If Dominique Strauss-Kahn is cleared, I ask the Socialist Party to suspend the primary process," said party member Michele Sabban.

Before his sudden arrest, polls indicated Strauss-Kahn was the leading candidate to defeat incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy in next May's election.

Even if his political aspirations are ruined, friends of the Frenchman were thrilled by word that he could avoid prosecution in New York.

Many in France had criticized the U.S. media and public for assuming that Strauss-Kahn was guilty. Polls indicated the French public believed the politician was possibly the victim of a set-up.

Socialist Party head Martine Aubry said word that the case could be dropped brought her "immense joy."

"I hope that the American justice system establishes all the truth ... and allows Dominique to get out of this nightmare," she said.

Leon Lef Forster, a longtime friend and lawyer for Strauss-Kahn, said he welcomed the news.

"Those who know Dominique Strauss-Kahn will not be surprised by this evolution of events," he said. "What he was accused of has no relation to his personality. It was something that was not credible."


Dominique Strauss-Kahn trial reaction: French backers want ex-IMF chief to resume presidential run


Nicolas Sarkozy is history Truth starting to come out

 

[JayAtl]

NEW YORK -- Former IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn walked out of court without bail and free from house arrest Friday after prosecutors acknowledged there were questions about the credibility of the hotel housekeeper who accused him of sexual assault.

Strauss-Kahn had been confined for weeks to a ritzy Manhattan loft on $6 million in cash and bond. The charges, which include attempted rape, have not been reduced, but the changes signal that prosecutors do not believe the accusations are as ironclad as they once seemed.

The 32-year-old hotel maid accused Strauss-Kahn of chasing her through his luxury suite in May, trying to pull down her pantyhose and forcing her to perform oral sex. Authorities have said they have forensic evidence of a sexual encounter, but defense lawyers have said it wasn't forced.

"It is a great relief," said Strauss-Kahn's attorney, William Taylor. "It is so important in this country that people, especially the media, refrain from judgment until the facts are all in."

After his arrest, Strauss-Kahn resigned from his post leading the International Monetary Fund and watched his presidential ambitions seemingly crumble.

The stark turn in the case came after the woman admitted to prosecutors she had made up a story of being gang raped and beaten in her homeland to enhance her application for political asylum, prosecutors said in a letter to defense lawyers.

She also misrepresented what she did after the alleged attack – instead of fleeing to a hallway and waiting for a supervisor, she went to clean another room and then returned to clean Strauss-Kahn's suite before telling her supervisor that she had been attacked, prosecutors said.

She also misrepresented her income and claimed someone else's child as her own dependent on tax returns, they said.

The details speak to the maid's credibility and whether her story would stand up under oath in a prosecution that would rely heavily on her testimony.

 

[Cheetah786]

The French political bigshot, Dominique Strauss-Kahn 62, the French Jewish head of IMF and the man French Socialists hope will be the next occupant of the Elysée Palace, was arrested at JFK airport in New York on Saturday afternoon accused of a sex attack on a Times Square hotel maid earlier in the day.

Tim Perone said in the New York Post (May 15, 2011), Strauss-Kahn (married three times and have four kids), is a well-known womanizer. Last year, French journalist Tristane Banan claimed she had to fight him off while interviewing him for a book she was writting about public figures and their missteps. In 2008, Strauss-Kahn, admitted having sexual affair with IMF married Hungarian economist Piroska Nagy.

A opinion poll conducted by the French Institute for Public Opinion on March 12 showed that more than seven out of 10 French people are unhappy with the performance of Nicolas Sarkozy.

The recent local elections ahead of next year presidential election, the Socialist Party had captured 36% of votes, ahead of Sarkozy’s party with 18.6% and far-right National Front with 11.1%, AFP reported.

Sarkozy is known for its connection with Israeli Mossad. He has become the most hated President of France while in Palais de l’ Elysées due to his racist policies against Muslims and Roma at home and his unpopular military adventure in Libya. Strauss-Kahn, according to several polls – has his leg over Sarkozy’s head when it comes to popularity. I don’t know about you but remembering Mossad’s Honey Trap history including Monica Lewinsky, the Jewish intern at the White House, who was used by Mossad to record more than 30 sexually explicit conversations with then President Bill Clinton and the former New York’s Jewish Governor Eliot Spitzer, the anti-crime crusader and potential Presidential candidate being set-up with a high-priced call-girl in 2008.
The Telegraph reported on May 16, 2011 that Strauss Kahn (Cohen) was a victim of politically-motivated set-up gained around after it emerged that the first person (Jonathan Pinet) to break the news of his arrest was an activist in Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP party.

On Monday, judge Melissa C. Jackson, supervising judge of Manhattan Criminal Court, rejected Strauss-Kahn’s one million dollar bail, contending that he was a flight risk.

Don’t take me wrong. Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported on October 5, 2010 that Israeli Rabbi Ari Shvat has given his blessing to female agents of Israel’s foreign secret service, Mossad, who may be required to have sex with the enemy in so-called “honey-pot” missions.

Incidently, Sarkozy’s ruling UMP party has its own skunks to worry about. Currently, the party’s golden girl, Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, is being investigated for her involvement in dishing out millions in damage to the business mogul Bernard Tapie. In November 2010, then labour minister Eric Woerth was disposed of over allegations of conflict of interest while foreign minister Michele Alliot-Marie was forced to resign after it was revealed that she used a Tunisian tycoon’s helicopter for her holiday in Tunisia during country’s anti-government mass protests.

Strangely, I have not heard the Jewish Lobby whining about Strauss-Kahn as it did for Jew rapist Roman Polansky last year. Marc Tracy, has claimed in the Jewish magazine Tablet that Strauss Kahn is “being seen worldwide as an embarrassment to France, not to the Jews”. Sure, sure, had he been a Muslim, he would had been an embarrassment to the 1.7 billion-strong world Muslim community. However, Marc did lament that Strauss Kahn has empowered the far-right National Front, headed by Marine Le Pen, daughter of the notorious anti-Semite Jean-Marie Le Pen, who denies Holocaust. Marc believes that the sex scandal seem to have destroyed Jewry’s hope of having a Jewish President of France. With Strauss Kahn, a Jew, out of the race and President Nicolas Sarkozy whose mother is Jewish heading right UMP with diminishing popularity – Marine Le Pen will be a viable threat to Sarkozy’s re-election next year.
“The National Front has not shown hostility to Israel in recent years because of its emphasis on anti-Muslim themes. Muslims are a much larger “alien” group in France today, and since Israel is an object of Muslim hostility, there has been no reason for an anti-Islamic party to take an anti-Israel line,” wrote Marc Tracy, May 3, 2011.
Sarkozy’s opponent hits the bucket | Rehmat's World

 

[Cheetah786]

Mon dieu! The head spins. Crazy things happen in New York, but the latest bizarre twist in the case of French bigwig Dominique Strauss takes the cake.
Last Friday, US prosecutors revealed that the hotel maid who had accused former International Monetary Fund chief Strauss-Kahn of raping her in his hotel suite was a serial liar. She had lied about being raped to get into the US, lied on her tax returns, and lied on numerous other issues.

It is unprecedented for prosecutors to discredit their own star witness. The government may have done so because of rumors that the defense, which had assigned a number of crack investigators to check into the maid’s background, was about to go public with the embarrassing information.

Strauss-Kahn (universally known as DSK) has now been released from house arrest under which he had to pay for an armed guard to watch him. His costs to avoid being locked up in New York’s ghastly prison gulag, Riker’s Island, was said to be $100,000 weekly.

US prosecutors say they will still proceed with the case. So will the maid’s damage-seeking civil suit. But legal experts here say DSK is likely to be acquitted now that his accuser has been exposed as a liar and fraudster.

This incredible circus puts the US justice system on trial before the eyes of the world. The Wild West frontier arrest and treatment of DSK, the lynch-mob mood, the media orgy, and his public humiliation make the US look like a nasty third world state. Getting the scalp of a famous Frenchman, not justice, was the goal of US prosecutors.

The judicial near lynching of DSK humiliated France. DSK was expected to win next year’s French presidential election. France’s current president, Nicholas Sarkozy, is highly unpopular with the public and looked almost certain to be defeated by DSK, if he had decided to quit as head of the IMF and run as the Socialist presidential candidate.

Until last Friday, France’s Socialists appeared doomed to defeat. Their assorted candidates induced sleep and yawns, not cheers of support. Sarkozy must have thanked his lucky stars when DSK was arrested on sordid charges that shocked and horrified France.

But now, in an amazing reversal of fortune, DSK may actually beat the wrap in New York and return to France. The able Christine Lagarde has replaced him at the IMF, relieving DSK the decision of staying on there or returning to French politics.

France’s left is beyond elated by the impending collapse of the DSK trial. Not only have the ruinous charges against him been exposed as lies, but DSK may well emerge from the legal ordeal as a martyr. All France noted the dignity and courage with which DSK and his wife Anne Sinclair bore their public humiliation and the threats of 30 years in prison.
So if Strauss-Kahn escapes the legal quick-sands in New York, he could quickly return triumphant to France and begin campaigning against President Sarkozy.

Many French will be convinced that their first impression after DSK was arrested – that he was victim of a nefarious political plot or financial shakedown – was correct. The finger of suspicion will point at those who could have benefitted from his humiliation and conviction.

If the chambermaid episode was indeed a plot, it was conceived and executed with great skill and daring. DSK’s notoriety as a satyr, that is, a man obsessed by sexual desire and conquering females, was artfully used to draw him into this honey trap. Paris has long been abuzz with tittle-tattle about his sexual escapades in private and public. We see the handwork of professionals.

Angry feminists who claimed the maid was a victim of male sexism and oppression will be rightly embarrassed. Those males who claim that women are prone to untruths and fanciful accounts will feel vindicated.

More important, the US prosecutors who allowed this circus to occur should be fired and sent to North Dakota. America’s justice system is embarrassing and desperately needs to be elevated to civilized standards.

The skirt-chasing DSK is an unlikely model, but he may end up teaching the US a lesson in civilized behavior and judicial caution that it badly needs.

30 Copyright Eric S. Margolis 2011

 

[PteX]

Maybe Putin did try to f*ck him over(literally in this case)...
For those not aware one of his coleagues said that the French ex-IMF chief believed Putin was trying to ruin his career and life. While Putin came out in "support" of him the day after the charges.

 

[lem34]

Strauss-Kahn was set up by the americans because he had started publically favouring an alternative to the US $ as a reserve currency. The effects of this would bankrupt america overnight and never mind their wars the americans would have problems feeding their people.

 

[Cheetah786]

Vladimir Putin hints at Dominique Strauss-Kahn conspiracy
Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, has hinted that Dominique Strauss-Kahn may be the victim of a conspiracy to force him from the head of the IMF.
Mr Putin said that he finds it hard to believe that the sex charges against the Frenchman are true and that he may have fallen victim to a shadowy plot to discredit him.

"It is hard for me to evaluate the real political underlying reasons and I do not even want to get into that subject, but I cannot believe that everything is as it seems and how it was initially presented," he said. "It does not sit right in my head."

Mr Strauss-Kahn was arrested at JFK airport in New York on May 14 for allegedly sexually assaulting a hotel chambermaid.

Mr Putin's public support for Mr Strauss-Kahn comes days after a French politician alleged that the former IMF chief had said before his arrest that he thought Mr Putin was actively plotting his downfall.

The politician, Claude Bartolone, said: "He said the Russians and notably Putin had allied themselves with France to try to have him fired from the IMF to stop him running for (French) president." The Russian prime minister's support for the embattled former IMF head is likely to be seized upon by his critics who suspect that he is a male chauvinist, a claim Mr Putin denies.

He sparked uproar in 2006 however when he was overheard joking about rape allegations against then Israeli President Moshe Katsav. Mr Putin was quoted as saying: "What a mighty man he turns out to be! He raped 10 women - I would never have expected this from him. He surprised us all - we all envy him!" His spokesman said the sense of the controversial joke had been lost in translation. Mr Katsav was later convicted of rape and is now serving out a seven-year prison sentence.
Vladimir Putin hints at Dominique Strauss-Kahn conspiracy - Telegraph

 

[Cheetah786]

A new report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Federal Security Service (FSB) says that former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged and jailed in the US for sex crimes on May 14th after his discovery that all of the gold held in the United States Bullion Depository located at Fort Knox was ‘missing and/or unaccounted’ for.

According to this FSB secret report, Strauss-Kahn had become “increasingly concerned” earlier this month after the United States began “stalling” its pledged delivery to the IMF of 191.3 tons of gold agreed to under the Second Amendment of the Articles of Agreement signed by the Executive Board in April 1978 that were to be sold to fund what are called Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) as an alternative to what are called reserve currencies.

This FSB report further states that upon Strauss-Kahn raising his concerns with American government officials close to President Obama he was ‘contacted’ by ‘rogue elements’ within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who provided him ‘firm evidence’ that all of the gold reported to be held by the US ‘was gone’.
Upon Strauss-Kahn receiving the CIA evidence, this report continues, he made immediate arrangements to leave the US for Paris, but when contacted by agents working for France’s General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) that American authorities were seeking his capture he fled to New York City’s JFK airport following these agents directive not to take his cell-phone because US police could track his exact location.
Once Strauss-Kahn was safely boarded on an Air France flight to Paris, however, this FSB report says he made a ‘fatal mistake’ by calling the hotel from a phone on the plane and asking them to forwarded the cell-phone he had been told to leave behind to his French residence, after which US agents were able to track and apprehend him.

Within the past fortnight, this report continues, Strauss-Kahn reached out to his close friend and top Egyptian banker Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar to retrieve from the US the evidence given to him by the CIA. Omar, however, and exactly like Strauss-Kahn before him, was charged yesterday by the US with a sex crime against a luxury hotel maid, a charge the FSB labels as ‘beyond belief’ due to Omar being 74-years-old and a devout Muslim.

In an astounding move puzzling many in Moscow, Putin after reading this secret FSB report today ordered posted to the Kremlin’s official website a defense of Strauss-Khan becoming the first world leader to state that the former IMF chief was a victim of a US conspiracy. Putin further stated, “It’s hard for me to evaluate the hidden political motives but I cannot believe that it looks the way it was initially introduced. It doesn’t sit right in my head.”

Interesting to note about all of these events is that one of the United States top Congressman, and 2012 Presidential candidate, Ron Paul [photo bottom left] has long stated his belief that the US government has lied about its gold reserves held at Fort Knox. So concerned had Congressman Paul become about the US government and the Federal Reserve hiding the truth about American gold reserves he put forward a bill in late 2010 to force an audit of them, but which was subsequently defeated by Obama regime forces.

When directly asked by reporters if he believed there was no gold in Fort Knox or the Federal Reserve, Congressman Paul gave the incredible reply, “I think it is a possibility.”

Also interesting to note is that barely 3 days after the arrest of Strauss-Kahn, Congressman Paul made a new call for the US to sell its gold reserves by stating, “Given the high price it is now, and the tremendous debt problem we now have, by all means, sell at the peak.”

Bizarre reports emanating from the US for years, however, suggest there is no gold to sell, and as we can read as posted in 2009 on the ViewZone.Com news site:

“In October of 2009 the Chinese received a shipment of gold bars. Gold is regularly exchanges between countries to pay debts and to settle the so-called balance of trade. Most gold is exchanged and stored in vaults under the supervision of a special organization based in London, the London Bullion Market Association (or LBMA). When the shipment was received, the Chinese government asked that special tests be performed to guarantee the purity and weight of the gold bars. In this test, four small holed are drilled into the gold bars and the metal is then analyzed.
Officials were shocked to learn that the bars were fake. They contained cores of tungsten with only a outer coating of real gold. What’s more, these gold bars, containing serial numbers for tracking, originated in the US and had been stored in Fort Knox for years. There were reportedly between 5,600 to 5,700 bars, weighing 400 oz. each, in the shipment!”

To the final fate of Strauss-Kahn it is not in our knowing, but new reports coming from the United States show his determination not to go down without a fight as he has hired what is described as a ‘crack team’ of former CIA spies, private investigators and media advisers to defend him.

To the practical effects on the global economy should it be proved that the US, indeed, has been lying about its gold reserves, Russia’s Central Bank yesterday ordered the interest rate raised from 0.25 to 3.5 percent and Putin ordered the export ban on wheat and grain crops lifted by July 1st in a move designed to fill the Motherlands coffers with money that normally would have flowed to the US.

The American peoples ability to know the truth of these things, and as always, has been shouted out by their propaganda media organs leaving them in danger of not being prepared for the horrific economic collapse of their nation now believed will much sooner than later.
Russia Says IMF Chief Jailed For Discovering All US Gold Is Gone | EUTimes.net

 

[lem34]

Bottom line america is desperate to keep its currency as the reserve currency as they will otherwwise be bankrupt amd will go to any lengths to preseve the status quo.

 

[*Awan*]

is there any kind of punishment for women for being lying,making false rape case and destroying a person reputation and carrier?

 

[ephone]

If he gets elected, you will have a major country president that hates U.S. from his guts.

 

[lem34]

I hope so. Anything anti american will get my vote. lol

 

[PteX]

is there any kind of punishment for women for being lying,making false rape case and destroying a person reputation and carrier?

Yes, it`s called jail. When you commit Perjury, you can be sentenced for 5 years in jail.

 

[twoplustwoisfour]

is there any kind of punishment for women for being lying,making false rape case and destroying a person reputation and carrier?

perjury.....

 

[kawaraj]

if the US can't control the situation, i would say this SCANDAL will gain S-Kahn more votes, and technically send him to the presidency.

this is what we call Playing Fire, you have to bear the risks.