Luc Ferry, another French ex-minister, referred to the alleged crime on TV, but did not name the ex-minister involved.
Reportedly, the 'crime' was uncovered by police after raiding a 'palm grove'.
L'Express, the political weekly, reported on its website that Ferry was referring to an old rumour involving Jack Lang.
Strauss-Kahn owns a holiday home in Marrakech.
He has had Lang as a guest at his Marrakech home.
Frederic Mitterand is France's culture minister.
In 2005 he wrote about his holidays in Thailand.
He wrote: 'I got into the habit of paying for boys ... The profusion of young, very attractive and immediately available boys put me in a state of desire I no longer needed to restrain or hide.'
"Hi, in fact, it's not Jack Lang that Ferry is talking of, it's Douste-Blazy who was a cabinet minister some time ago.
"Douste-Blazy is a good buddy of Dominique Baudis who was at the heart of a big affair several years ago, which involved prostitutes, parties, sacrifices and what not.
"Obviously, he was innocented (yeah), but several strange things happened in the wake of the process (a cop commiting suicide by shooting 2 bullets in his head and so on).
"This Luc Ferry affair is bigger than it looks like and a whole side of the pedophocracy risks to be exposed."
Baudis
In 2003, certain former prostitutes told French TV that, in the early 1990s, sado-masochist parties took place near Toulouse in France.
They said the parties were organised by Patrice Alegre.
In 2002, Alegre was jailed for life for six rapes and five murders.
Alegre accused a number of officials, including Dominique Baudis, of ordering some of his killings to protect themselves from blackmail.
Baudis is an anti-pornography campaigner.
He has said that that he is the victim of a conspiracy by the porn industry.
"Only a few years ago, she was defending the interests of US multinationals to the detriment of French companies."
In 1981, she joined the giant Baker & McKenzie law firm, in Chicago, and made a career in the United States.
As a lawyer at Baker & McKenzie, she 'worked in the interests of Boeing and Lockheed-Martin to the detriment of the interests of Airbus and Dassault'.
She is a member of the CSIS, the think tank of the oil lobby in the United States.
As a member of the Center for Strategic & International Studies, she co-presided over its Poland commission along with Zbigniew Brzezinski; she was in charge of the USA-Poland Defense Industries working group (1995-2002); she 'represented US interests'.
In 2003, Lockheed-Martin sold 48 F-16 jet fighters to Poland for 3.5 billion dollars.
Thanks to Penny for bringing the following to our attention (Banker vs Banker - Dominique Strauss Kahn vs Ben Bernanke.): 2. The IMF under Dominique Strauss Kahn has been planning to issue bonds that could compete with US treasuries.
Countries and investors could buy SDR bonds rather than US treasuries.
"It will effectively end the USA's ability to print off the debt."
3. "Unhappy with the U.S. dollar-dominated global monetary system in place today, officials in China and Russia and some economists have called for the enhanced use of the IMF's SDRas a global currency – the belief being that, backed by an impartial institution, it would be more stable than the greenback, which is governed by national policies crafted to a great degree by the Fed." (What Strauss-Kahn's arrest means for the IMF.)
4. From the Guardian: Strauss-Kahn allowed his staff earlier this year to attack the US, its main paymaster, for running a bigger budget deficit while others tried to reduce theirs.
He also changed the emphasis of the fund's lending from simply a means to impose neo-liberal capitalism on near-bankrupt victims, to a more sympathetic programme with less micro-management from Washington.
At the IMF's most recent conference in Washington, Strauss-Kahn stressed the failure of western governments to promote job creation as a means of safeguarding social democratic structures.
He feared the riots in Athens would spread across Europe.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the son of Gilbert Strauss-Kahn, a legal and tax advisor and member of the Grand Orient de France, and Russian/Tunisian journalist Jacqueline Fellus. His family is of mixed Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jewish origin.
"The annual spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund was notable in marking the Fund’s effort to distance itself from its own long-standing tenets..."
4. Strauss-Kahn was trying to move the bank in a direction that didn't require countries to leave their economies open to the ravages of foreign capital that moves in swiftly ... and departs just as fast, leaving behind the scourge of high unemployment, plunging demand, hobbled industries, and deep recession.
Strauss-Kahn had set out on a "kinder and gentler" path, one that would not force foreign leaders to privatize their state-owned industries or crush their labor unions.
"From an US view of things it's logical, as the IMF had given harsh warnings to the US and such.
"From a French perspective it's more difficult, because DSK was the presidency candidate the 'Empire' wanted to put in place of Sarkozy...
"It might be possible that DSK overstaid his welcome..."
Penny said:
"The US does not want a European head for the IMF. DSK's arrest will make that 'wish' possible...
"The US will then get their American head at the IDF.
"And Sarkozy will win the election."
gallier2 said...
"A Sarkozy/Le Pen second round is far from being a home run for the midget...
"If you ever wondered were the voters of the communist party went (i.e. the workerd) they vote now FN."
Mouser said:
"Dominique Strauss-Khan (Cohen) caught in IMF ‘honey-trap’ with Manhattan hotel ‘maid’.
"Yea, Elliot Spitzer ‘honey-trap’- like isn’t it? ...
"Today one pundit stated that DSK was about to put the USA into receivership for bankruptcy.
"Another pundit noted DSK was to speak at the Brettonwoods conference later in May 2011. The key-note speaker was to be China but it just cancelled, also H.Clinton had just bowed out, and now DSK will also be prevented from speaking.
"Further, a statement that the new head of the IMF is to be a JPMorgan man – announced in less than 24 hours after DSK’s arrest off the plane.
"Chambermaids don’t usually have the clout or power to have zionist oligarch IMF lackies like DSK detained or charged without months or years of lawyer litigations where the accusee is usually bought-off or suicided..."
Mouser said:
"... What is the JPMorgan replacement going to do differently than DSK was planning to do?
"Geithner recently was labelled as alienating the Chinese. Timmy also recently kiboshed an IMF bailout plan to the Irish banks through the European Central Bank. Through that IMF plan the private billionaire shareholders (mostly US?) were about to get a 30 billion dollar haircut.
"Geithner axed this plan in the 11th hour, putting the people of Irland back on the hook for the private shareholders’ loses. The billionaire shareholders refused to get a haircut by DSK...
"It could be Khan thought private (mostly US?) shareholders should lose the value of the Irish default, while Geithner thought differently.
"The placement of a JPMorgan man to head the IMF signals greater attendance to the US shareholder concerns. JPMorgan is said to be the largest private shareholder in the Federal Reserve.
"Might indeed be a case of which billionaires shall lose money over Ireland’s debt default. Maybe DSK decided a solution where it would be American billionaire shareholders – while Geithner, under pressure from these same (US?) billionaire shareholders said 'no way'...
"Stay tuned sports fans, the wide, wide world of zionism is getting more and more whacky as the ponzi scheme of fractional-reserve-usury banking implodes due to the current lack of economic expansion which is crucial to sustain a system where more money is always owed than exists..."
Penny said:
"... The IMF had been harsh with the US, critical. Some of what DSK had done was more favourable to other nations
"quoting-
"'The IMF overhauled the way it allocates voting shares. China vaulted over nations such as Britain, Germany and France to become the third-biggest shareholder after the United States and Japan. The clout of former European powers such as Belgium was seriously curbed in favour of rising powers such as Brazil.'
"So he was empowering other nations that some may not have thought appropriate.
"So we may look at the JP Morgan man Lipsky altering something about this?"
The economies of Portugal, Spain and Ireland are said to be at risk.
And the UK may have to go to the IMF.
Financial historian Professor Niall Ferguson, in the Spectator magazine, argues that a new Conservative government should immediately call in the International Monetary Fund.
He said: 'There is a very real danger that (things) could now spiral, Greek-style, out of all control if foreign confidence in sterling slumps and long-term interest rates rise.' (dailymail.u)
"No one has the means to bail out such a large country," says Natacha Valla of Goldman Sachs. According to an article in the Financial Times (Italy: Much to play for 5 May 2010):
1. Italy's public debt is forecast to rise from 115 % of gross domestic product in 2009 to about 118 % by the end of 2010, second in Europe only to that of Greece.
2. Italy has an inefficient public sector.
3. Italy has widespread corruption. 4. In Italy in 2009, it took 22,000 Fiat car workers to make 650,000 vehicles.
In Brazil, it took 9,400 Fiat car workers to make 730,000 vehicles.
5. Italy's GDP fell 5.1 per cent in 2009.
6. On the other hand, Italians have a relatively low level of household debt.
Italy's banks have been more careful than UK banks.
Italy has avoided a housing bubble on the scale of Spain and Ireland.
7. What could go wrong?
Massimiliano Marcellino, of the European University Institute in Florence, has said that if the deficit deteriorates, interest rates increase and growth remains subdued, "default could quickly become a less remote option."
Franklin Allen, of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, suggests that if interest rates rise, Italy will struggle to pay the interest on its debt.
According to Allen, "This means they may well start down the Greek route. This is why, if Greece does default, I think there is a significant possibility of contagion to Italy."
8. On the other hand, Italy's GDP figures do not reflect the money made by businesses registered abroad for tax reasons.
In Europe, Italy has a manufacturing base second only to Germany's.
And, Italy's grey economy is equal to as much as 30 per cent of GDP.
9. The Berlusconi government is considering greater federalism.
Stanley Fischer, member of Bilderberg.
