TRACES of DNA from former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn have been found on the clothes of a chambermaid who accused him of sexual assault, NBC television reported overnight. The DNA was found on the shirt of the 32-year-old worker at the Sofitel who has accused Strauss-Kahn of attempting to rape her, the report said. The France 2 television channel reported on its website that the DNA samples found on the maid's shirt collar were Strauss-Kahn's sperm. The French politician has denied sex assault charges made against him. New York police and the District Attorney's office refused to comment on the media reports. NBC said DNA testing on other evidence from the hotel suite used by Strauss-Kahn is continuing. France 2 said that samples were taken from the toilet where the woman said she spat after being forced to perform oral sex, on the room carpet and on the maid's shirt collar. The presence of sperm could prove a sexual act, but not whether there was violence, experts have stressed. The Jewish perp, Muslim victim, lurid sex crime, makes me smell a rat. You don't get to be head of an org like the IMF by having a history of these kind of wild reckless acts. Unless drugs are involved.
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"by having a history of these kind of wild reckless acts"
Problem is, this is just what he has
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Ha! Didn't Clinton become President inspite of his known baggage?
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Your olfactory sense is good, phil. But really, you've never known anyone in the upper reaches whose behavior was less than impeccable, far less? Seems like the USN losses a dozen captains a year for zipper control issues. One wonders about the behavior of the admirals who escaped detection.
#8
This case is getting weirder by the day. Associates of the former IMF chief are alleged to have approached the relatives and offered a seven-figure sum to persuade the maid to withdraw charges
If she and the family fall for the money, she won't even have to withdraw charges, all she will have to do is give inconsistent evidence and and DSK can tap dance his way back to France as free as a bird.
#9
Ick. DNA on the maid's clothes -- what is it w/lefties and their lousy aim?
I agree that despite his $6 million in collateral, he will skip. Having had a taste of Riker's, the price is right, regarless of the cost.
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#10
It's clear he's a sleazebag, but serious criminal acts in a semi-public place with a complete stranger?
It is told Sarkozy warned him "Be careful in America. They are dead serious there". DSK probably thought that he could get away like he would have in France.
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I agree that despite his $6 million in collateral, he will skip.
It's not just the $1 million cash and whatever percent of the $5 mil. bond paid out from his wife's money. It's the tracker ankle bracelet, the round-the-clock guard (at $200,00/year, again paid out of his wife's money), the video cameras, and the passport he turned in. If he does skip town, his wife will suddenly become considerably less well off, during a time of financial uncertainty.
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"by having a history of these kind of wild reckless acts"
Here's a Youtube link to Tristane Banon's account of a sexual assault by Strauss-Kahn.
The alleged assault happened in 2002, the talk show aired in 2007. There are English subs, click the 'CC' button if they don't show up automatically.
"The arrest in New York of former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on charges of attempted rape is forcing men to watch what they say and emboldening women to challenge the modern-day version of Frances droit de cuissage, a feudal practice giving masters the right to have sex with female servants."
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APEE: Anne Sinclair is sacrificing millions of her familys fortune on her husbands bail and house arrest. Dominique Strauss-Kahn declared his love for his wife in a public letter, and blew her a kiss across a New York courtroom where he was charged with trying to rape a hotel maid....
Sinclair quickly issued a statement saying she didnt believe the allegations. A few days later, he submitted a letter of resignation to the IMF, telling the moneyed institution: I think at this time first of my wife whom I love more than anything of my children, of my family, of my friends.....Sinclair, granddaughter of renowned art merchant Paul Rosenberg, is footing the bill for the $1 million bail, securing the $5 million bond, and an estimated $200,000 a month for the guards and other security measures to ensure the house arrest, according to Martinat.
It wouldn't take much to turn this into a great Dan Brown novel/conspiracy theory. A Jewish banker rapes a black devout Muslim, married to a wealthy Sinclair, with his sights on ruling France; Sinclair, a form of St. Clair, the Knight Templar and Grand Master of the Priory of Sion, thought to harbor Temple treasure raided during the Crusades; upon ex-communication and death threats, they went underground to become the great banking and merchant shipping lines that supposedly continue today.
And from Wiki re: Priory of Sion:
Myth
Plantard's plot
Primarily motivated by grandiosity, a romantic reactionary ideology, and the prospect of fame and fortune, Plantard set out to have the Priory of Sion perceived as a prestigious esoteric Christian chivalric order, whose members would be people of influence in the fields of finance, politics and philosophy, devoted to installing the "Grand Monarch", prophesied by Nostradamus, on the throne of France. Plantard's choice of the pseudonym "Chyren" was a reference to "Chyren Selin", Nostradamus's anagram for the name for this Great King.
Between 1961 and 1984, Plantard contrived a mythical pedigree for the Priory of Sion claiming that it was the offshoot of a real Roman Catholic religious order housed in the Abbey of Sion, which had been founded in the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the First Crusade in 1099 and later absorbed by the Jesuits in 1617. The mistake is often made that this Abbey of Sion was a Priory of Sion, but there is a difference between an abbey and a priory. Calling his original 1956 group "Priory of Sion" presumably gave Plantard the later idea to claim that his organisation had been historically founded by crusading knight Godfrey of Bouillon on Mount Zion near Jerusalem during the Middle Ages.
The tomb inscribed with the cryptic phrase "Et in Arcadia ego" in Nicolas Poussin's late 1630s painting Arcadian Shepherds was appropriated for Priory of Sion myth-making.
Furthermore, Plantard was inspired by a 1960 magazine Les Cahiers de l'Histoire to center his personal genealogical claims, as found in the "Priory of Sion documents", on the Merovingian king Dagobert II, who had been assassinated in the 7th century. He also adopted "Et in Arcadia ego ...", a slightly altered version of a Latin phrase that most famously appears as the title of two paintings by Nicolas Poussin, as the motto of both his family and the Priory of Sion, because the tomb which appears in these paintings resembled one in the Les Pontils area near Rennes-le-Château. This tomb would become a symbol for his dynastic claims as the last legacy of the Merovingians on the territory of Razès, left to remind the select few who have been initiated into these mysteries that the "lost king", Dagobert II, would figuratively come back in the form of a hereditary pretender.
To give credibility to the fabricated lineage and pedigree, Plantard and his friend, Philippe de Chérisey, needed to create "independent evidence". So during the 1960s, they created and deposited a series of false documents, the so-called Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau ("Secret Files of Henri Lobineau"), at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. During the same decade, Plantard commissioned de Chérisey to forge a series of medieval parchments. These documents contained encrypted messages that referred to the Priory of Sion. They adapted, and used to their advantage, the earlier false claims put forward by Noël Corbu that a Catholic priest named Bérenger Saunière had supposedly discovered ancient parchments inside a pillar while renovating his church in Rennes-le-Château in 1891. Inspired by the popularity of media reports and books in France about the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in the West Bank, they hoped this same theme would attract attention to their parchments. Their version of the parchments was intended to prove Plantard's claims about the Priory of Sion being a medieval society that was the source of the "underground stream" of esotericism in Europe.Plantard then enlisted the aid of author Gérard de Sède to write a book based on his unpublished manuscript and forged parchments, alleging that Saunière had discovered a link to a hidden treasure.The 1967 book L'or de Rennes, ou La vie insolite de Bérenger Saunière, curé de Rennes-le-Château ("The Gold of Rennes, or The Strange Life of Bérenger Saunière, Priest of Rennes-le-Château"), which was later published in paperback under the title Le Trésor Maudit de Rennes-le-Château ("The Accursed Treasure of Rennes-le-Château"), became a popular read in France. In 1969, English actor and science-fiction scriptwriter Henry Lincoln became intrigued after reading Le Trésor Maudit. He discovered one of the encrypted messages, which read "À Dagobert II Roi et à Sion est ce trésor, et il est là mort" ("To Dagobert II, King, and to Sion belongs this treasure and he is there dead"). This was possibly an allusion to the tomb and shrine of Sigebert IV, a mythical son of Dagobert II which would not only prove that the Merovingian dynasty did not end with the death of the king but that the Priory of Sion has been entrusted with the duty to protect his relics like a treasure. Lincoln expanded on the conspiracy theories, writing his own books on the subject, and creating a series of BBC Two documentaries in the 1970s about the mysteries of the Rennes-le-Château area. In response to a tip from Gérard de Sède, Lincoln claims he was also the one who discovered the Dossiers Secrets, a series of planted genealogies which appeared to further confirm the link with the extinct Merovingian bloodline. The documents claimed that the Priory of Sion and the Knights Templar were two fronts of one unified organisation with the same leadership until 1188.
#18
Oh great, thanks Captain Juque4132 for giving the ending away...
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DSK only has a few millions, his wife is said to possess at least 40 millions. She could afford to forsake a townhouse in Georgetown they will never live in again.
But DSK will not flee (yet). The victim will need to be incredibly brave.
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They are peasants, peasants I tell you! Little people. What is so wrong with casting our sperm upon them? Anne, Anne, Anne... pay these people off and get me out of this vile mess. If only I were a Kennedy or a Clinton. These pompous Americans, I hate them so.
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While the number of those unaccounted for is alarmingly high in a city with only 49,000 people and raises the specter of a far higher death count it may merely be a reflection of the widespread breakdown of communication systems here in the wake of Sundays vicious storm. Many residents who fled ahead of the tornado or survived it may be unable to notify the authorities or family members who have reported them missing.
Capt. Robert Daus of the Maryland Heights Fire District, who is helping to lead a team of about 100 St. Louis-area firefighters in search and rescue operations in Joplin, said that in addition to the 1,500 people who remain unaccounted for, an additional 500 had been injured by the tornado, which cut a three-quarter-mile-wide path through this southwestern Missouri city and damaged as many as 30 percent of its buildings.
Harold Camping says he got it -- slightly -- wrong. In a 90-minute speech broadcast from Oakland, California, on Monday, Camping said May 21 was actually "an invisible judgment day" in which a spiritual judgment took place. The real apocalypse will be five months later, on October 21. Ah. Invisible. Figured it was something like that...
"We've always said May 21 was the day, but we didn't understand altogether the spiritual meaning," he said, according to the Associated Press. "May 21 is the day that Christ came and put the world under judgment." Kinda like Invisible Apocalyptic Spring Training...
This is the second time Camping has gotten the apocalypse wrong. He initially said the end of the world would come in 1994. When the date came and went, he said he made a mathematical error. Bet he balances out that bank account just fine though...
Camping's Family Radio network spent millions to promote his prediction of May 21 through billboards and other outreach, the New York Times Report. He said during his speech he would not return the money, mostly donated by followers to spread the message about May 21."We're not at the end," he said. "Why would we return it?" So let's keep those donations rolling in, rubes. Gotta spread the word ya know...
But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
#8
Whew! I'm glad we got this misunderstanding about the date of rapture all cleared up. I will keep my calendar clear for October 21st. Thanks for the FYI memo.
#3
I dunno man, the professionally Irish guys I've known seemed to think that you weren't Irish unless you were Catholic.
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O'Bama synonymous with the Blarney Stone? (Afterall, the definition of "blarney" means with "empty flattery" or "beguiling talk." Spreading the guff.)
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On a separate + personal note, as per YAHOO NEWS the UK Security has given POTUS OBAMA the covert Codename "SMART ALEC", a label which reminds me of what my older Cousins + other Relations on Guam in times past used to tease my late father in fun jest.
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On a separate + personal note, as per YAHOO NEWS the UK Security has given POTUS OBAMA the covert Codename "SMART ALEC", a label which reminds me of what my older Cousins + other Relations on Guam in times past used to tease my late father in fun jest.
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I read long ago that POTUS BAMMER's favorite MTV Babe was MARIAH "THREE LIONS OF ANCIENT TROY" CAREY, as opposed to Osama Bin Laden's favorite WHITNEY HOUSTON.
#2
I've met quite a few people from out-of state in the town nearest to where I live. For the most part they have adapted to the change very well. In another town, however, it is now against city ordinances to display the confederate battle flag or to erect any monuments to Confederate soldiers. Courtesy of Northern liberals who are intollerant of Southern heritage.
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A recent Marist poll suggests that 36 percent of New Yorkers under 30 plan to leave over the next five years.
Where are you kids going? We need to tax and regulate you!
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That NE liberal crap does not work for long in Texas. Except in Austin.
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I live in Californicate and talking to my son and daughter and their friends, the majority of them are fed up with the crazies in the state government and the liberal soak everyone for the sake of the union agenda.
My daughter, son and about six of their friends are moving to San Antonio. AND that's a trend, they have friends, who they say, are also moving out of state.
It's cheaper to go to school also. Out of state tuitions for students at the many fine universities in Texas are lower than the resident tuitions to either the U of C or Cal State system, except of course if you are an illegal immigrant programmed to vote democrat.
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Appropriate pic. Director of Progressive Media & Online Response. Sounds like either a 1960 radical lefty position in the Weathermen or one of George Soros' funded New World Order positions. Jeez, isn't this guy about ready to cash it in and answer for his evil Machiavellian manipulations?
Does his middle name start with a "G," perchance? :-(
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Arrogant, narcissistic, anti-semetic, disingenous, totalitarian world view, the all knowing victim bent on changing society to fit his ideals. Where have we seen these traits previously?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Harold Camping says he got it -- slightly -- wrong. In a 90-minute speech broadcast from Oakland, California, on Monday, Camping said May 21 was actually "an invisible judgment day" in which a spiritual judgment took place. The real apocalypse will be five months later, on October 21.
The White House has named Jesse Lee to a new position within its communications department titled Director of Progressive Media & Online Response.
