Head of IMF, DSK, pulled off plane, held by NYPD

[Master Shake]

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The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link, an arrow of relationship upon them. Explanations bind facts together. They make them all the more easily remembered; they help them make more sense. Where this propensity can go wrong is when it increases our impression of understanding.

—Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan

[c1ue]

Re: Head of IMF, DSK, pulled off plane, held by NYPD

Interestingly, much of France seems to think this is a political hit job as well...

[iyamwutiam]

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As some one pointed out earlier -to attain this sort of position (IMF Head) -one 'must' play ball - in addition his previous sexual transgressions (pinning an author to the floor in her own apartment -amongst others) should allow for suspending any faith in the person's credibility and by extension bail (Roman Polanski-anyone). The obvious concern and almost panicky attempt to replace him with yet another promoter of Western- primarily -at this moment -European debt - is unseemly and patent.

Quite frankly -this will have catalytic effect on the 'developing world' increasing flight from essentially penurious western banks masquerading as global financiers. Mercosur, the Shanghai Cooperative and many other agreements have already been signed and the transition to circumvent dollar dependency is well under way. We are already seeing the effects -as inflation can no longer be 'exported' to these very same nations and still keep the homeland free from the effects of trillions of devalued dollars being pumped out.

The point is - the strategy is always the same -keep bleating about peace, harmony, love and fairness while silently and continually doing just about everything to maintain the status quo and comparative advantage that comes with that.. What is DSK going to tell 3 major commodity producers and consumers that tuff -we like things the way they are?

Anyway -I think the point is that power rarely resides with the man placed in full view. He is promoted and tolerated to allow the 'public' to have a narrow focus. It certainly is strange his rush to leave, his cellphone and his DNA found on the woman's clothes.

[oddlots]

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Great, great find!

I swear that's the nub of the issues that haunt us here.

I've always been uncomfortable holding gold because it seems like "picking up your marbles and going home." I don't mean it's sour grapes, I mean that - at best - the success of the investment is inverse to it's social utility: it is a barometer of the f'ed-upness of the world. Don't get me wrong. The logic of Keynes' SRM captures the really valid portion of the gold argument. I also think. thereby, it enobles the argument for holding gold. But I also really do not believe that gold is the answer, ultimately, for anything...

So we find ourselves holding an asset as individuals that, when extrapolated to macro-effects, cannot succeed on the long-term. (sounds like housing, no?)

The only utility of such an instrument is fleeting therefore: even if it offers refuge it cannot itself supply the solution because the solution is irreducibly political.

[Shakespear]

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Roman Polanski-anyone

He made the wrong film about the wrong subject and was slapped on the head.

"The Ghost Writer"

The rest was fixed by his "friends".

[c1ue]

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So we find ourselves holding an asset as individuals that, when extrapolated to macro-effects, cannot succeed on the long-term. (sounds like housing, no?)

The only utility of such an instrument is fleeting therefore: even if it offers refuge it cannot itself supply the solution because the solution is irreducibly political.

I'm a little confused by this statement.

iTulip and most of the community here are not gold bugs in any definition of the term; gold is purely an investment vehicle as a hedge against the ongoing worldwide currency devaluation.

EJ in fact has specifically noted that the primary focus now is on the exit strategy for gold.

Hardly some nut hoarding guns, food, and PMs awaiting the Survivalist Rapture.

[Shakespear]

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Ahh the French know how to live :-)

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/05/26

[oddlots]

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I don't see any disagreement between what I've said, what EJ's said, and what you've said.

Hardly some nut hoarding guns, food, and PMs awaiting the Survivalist Rapture.

Exactly.

You seem hell bent on producing a punching bag.

[c1ue]

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I don't see any disagreement between what I've said, what EJ's said, and what you've said.

Perhaps you were then in fact referring to the act of holding gold not having anything to do with fixing the present socio-economic condition.

Of course there is nothing any individual can do which can fix the present socio-economic condition, so again unclear what you were trying to say.

As far as the present socio-economic condition goes: at some point, you just have to destroy the present setup to exclude those factors which broke the equilibrium.

In general this requires revolution whether temporary or permanent.

The 13 colonies - having an entire unexplored continent and frontier - were able to create a new nation.

The UK underwent a temporary abeyance of the aristocracy/monarchy via Oliver Cromwell, but eventually brought it back in weaker form.

The French, the Russians, and others removed the aristocracy permanently.

The Romans traded in their Republic for a tyrant.

etc etc.

[Techdread]

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Looks like he did.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13986970

[dcarrigg]

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Looks like he did.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13986970

It certainly looks more and more like a set-up. What kind of innocent hotel maid keeps 5 phones and takes $100,000 deposits in from 4 states scattered across the US, gets raped, then calls a guy in prison busted for 400 pounds of weed to discuss how the situation could benefit her?

I still wonder if the weird tweet from Johnathan Pinet will play out too...his story was too strange. I mean, an hour before anyone can say anything, having a hotel worker in NYC just sitting on facebook telling someone else in NYC who then knew Pinet and told him while he was in Montreal who then dumped the information after tweeting negative things earlier that morning about DSK is strange. This is not to mention the fact that Pinet runs a UMP news website.

Add to it that the hotel maid (Nafissatou Diallo) came from Guinea - former French colony - happened to be one of the 18% of Guinean women who is literate and is bilingual on top of that. Then she lied to receive asylum (the lie included a rape accusation) and we have a sorted tale indeed.

We shall see what the case turns up...it certainly seems to be falling apart.

[seanm123]

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Who is on trial here? Stick to the facts of the case. Nafissatou Diallo holds a green card, and has been working as a maid in the Sofitel Hotel for three years. She has a good reputation in her community and has never been in trouble with the law.

This isn't DSKs first or last attempt to smear the victim and not his first and only accuser.

Did you read the story recounted by his 2nd wife's family member?

"It ended really badly. We ended up fighting. It finished really violently."
"We fought on the floor. It wasn't a case of a couple of slaps. I kicked him, he unhooked my bra, he tried to open my jeans."
He acted like a "horny monkey."
"I said the word 'rape' to scare him but it didn't seem to scare him much, which suggests he was used to it."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/trist...#ixzz1QsaVn9vf

[dcarrigg]

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Who is on trial here? Stick to the facts of the case.

They released him. But what do the prosecutors in the case know anyway, right?

The case is not over, but I'd say that if you're going to accuse someone of rape, it's not smart to have lied about rape in the past. Or is the moral of the 'boy who cried wolf' that he should have been a girl?

[WildspitzE]

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I agree with dcarrigg.

Relevant facts are king, but not all facts are relevant... the ones you mention serve as character evidence and those that you list are pretty weak. The problem with character evidence is that if a side relies on it, it can quickly bite you in the ass.

For example, what does having a green card prove? In truth, nothing.

Not that it matters anymore, cause apparently she lied to get it. Your use of it and the news hours later is a perfect lesson on how character evidence bites people in the ass.

If one is to make serious accusations then one must also be prepared to endure and pass serious review - particularly in the absence of a smoking gun. She has also lied about rape in the past and had a recorded conversation with a convicted criminal on ways to profit from this situation. This does not bode well for a prosecutor without hard evidence or relevant facts to prove his/her case.

AFAIK, the charges haven't been dropped completely. Are there more things being reviewed? I'm sure there is. Let's see how this unravels, especially because we all don't have access to any real facts about the case -- let alone the relevant ones. Also, let's not forget that even a royal douchebag deserves to be proven guilty for what he is being tried for (he may or may not have broken the law in the past, including rape).

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local...ault-Maid.html

[Slimprofits]

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Prosecutors File to Dismiss Strauss-Kahn Charges
By AARON KATERSKY
Aug. 22, 2011

New York prosecutors today filed a motion to dismiss sexual assault charges against former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, ABC News has learned.

A court spokesperson confirmed that the document to dismiss charges was filed.

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Thompson also claimed the DA's office was predisposed to dismissing a case it once called "strong." He says an assistant district attorney told Diallo's counsel, "No one with half a brain would ever put her on the stand."