but now it turns out that one poor Mexican maid, didn't not want to get made,
French-maid style.
Unfortunately, she ran into the latest little Gallic potentate.
Just yesterday, DSK made goverments sh*t their pants,
giving Sarko a tick, because he wanted to become
le President de la Republique.
and today,he's just another Napoleonic-style bureaucrat with a Clinton itch.
I'm mainlining this sh*t.
Check this ode, below and the Strauss Kahn song, further below.
UPDATE:
As with all fun things in the schadenfreud game, this event may end up making things worse. Even though the IMF looks as rapacious as ever, apparently DSK was trying to encourage it to behave as a fair arbiter between governments, capital and workers. And apparently this has caused some animosity.
Apparently, DSK is the other nice guy from the evil IMF. Joseph Stiglitz was so nice, the IMF kicked him out. Now, he lectures on how to solve the crises. Unfortunately, he still thinks that money markets are basically a good thing, but nobody's perfect. Check the London School of Economics podcasts (it's an easy search).
Mike Whitney seems to think that the maid may have been a stitch-up job. It's been done before. Search Elliot Spitzer, former NY attorney general who was set up by the banks, with 'help' from the police.
ANOTHER UPDATE: THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Posted on May 17, 2011 by maxkeiser| 31 Comments
* IMF chief ‘feared political opponent would pay a woman more than $1m to allege rape’
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 plot thickens
-Cos67 ¬(%^D>checkitout:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=WHI20110516&articleId=24784
and here are a couple of paragraphs: by Mike Whitney
....
That push had been advocated by Western financial markets – and the Western finance ministries that serve them so loyally. Financial deregulation in the United States was a prime cause of the global crisis that erupted in 2008, and financial and capital-market liberalization elsewhere helped spread that “made in the USA” trauma around the world....The crisis showed that free and unfettered markets are neither efficient nor stable." ("The IMF's Switch in Time", Joseph Stiglitz, Project Syndicate)
So, Strauss-Kahn was trying to move the bank in a more positive direction, a direction that didn't require that countries leave their economies open to the ravages of foreign capital that moves in swiftly--pushing up prices and creating bubbles--and departs just as fast, leaving behind the scourge of high unemployment, plunging demand, hobbled industries, and deep recession.
....
Here's Stiglitz again, this time imparting the "kiss of death" to his friend Strauss-Kahn:
"Strauss-Kahn is proving himself a sagacious leader of the IMF.... As Strauss-Kahn concluded in his speech to the Brookings Institution shortly before the Fund’s recent meeting: “Ultimately, employment and equity are building blocks of economic stability and prosperity, of political stability and peace. This goes to the heart of the IMF’s mandate. It must be placed at the heart of the policy agenda.” [heart? I hear bankers puking- Cos67]
....
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"?)
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