Minutes before take-off at JFK. The IMF boss apparently tried to abuse a maid as he stepped outside of the bathroom of his hotel suite in the Big Apple. Some are already concluding that he won't be able to run in the French Presidential elections due next year. DSK was way ahead in recent polls.
In any case, it's not the first time that he gets embroiled in this kind of problem, let alone the Porsche controversy which caught him displaying (and enjoying) lavish lifestyle. Here's a taiwanese tabloid's simulation of what may have happened, but in any case, tough job for DSK's com' team to defend his image.
ReplyDeleteAnother way of seeing things would be to ask oneself "à qui profite le crime", especially when we know that DSK was the most serious challenger to Sarko's re-election, when at the same time the majority of "La Gauche" was shivering at the thought of Marine Le Pen taking the lead in opinion polls...
Isn't there a link between what happened to Saddam Hussein (who wanted to be paid in EUR instead of dollars for Iraqi oil) and DSK who proposed a new reserve currency to replace the dollar last year?
ReplyDeleteSending him to Rikers Island will surely cost less than the Iraq invasion ;-)
Good, this means we can send Rama Sithanen as new FMI chief soon.
ReplyDeleteR.S. does not need DSK's job. I remember he said that he had received several "international job offers". But he chose Tunis "because it is a beautiful town" (at a time when people were rioting pretty badly).
ReplyDeleteThere was an article in the newspapers that he was now seeking to make a come back to the LP and was interested in heading MK (they fly planes so I guess it qualifies as an international job).
Here's a list of names of potential successors to DSK from 'emerging markets'. NYT sees a favourite in Christine Lagarde -- she would be the first female IMF head.
ReplyDeleteSithanen doesnt need an international job, I hear he got one at IFS in ebene.It has the word international and as long as he gets a salary he is happy, I mean he will keep quiet as if was not the FM and will sau nothing on his failures for which we will have to pay as the years go by
ReplyDeleteMaru joke ca sithanen la, a ben li ti p dire nous vine entrepreneur, li pas capave set up un buisness li meme, donne lexemple hein.
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Barack's body language (it can't be more explicit than this!) says much more than books on the manners of the man... who may have thought that he could get away with some 'liberties' given that most workers are not unionised, and as such they can be fired if they report a work-place assault. When in fact, the alleged victim was unionised.
ReplyDeleteAnd the French humorist/satirist Guillon doesn't beat around the bush: drastic precautionary measures for females!
French politician in the limelight for the bad reason: rape charges again! As if the French politicians are behaving like former aristocrat-landlords busy enforcing "le droit de cuissage".
ReplyDeleteWhat about Mauritius? For their hands and pockets, we can't be too sure but all of them say theirs' are clean, but elsewhere, are our politicians "clean"?
What will happen when India cancels the DTA with Mauritius?
ReplyDeleteWill R.S. hop to another international job like in the kitchen of the IMF in US?
Eh, maybe DSK mistook NYC for UAE, where a victim having reported an assault was thanked by being accused of having intercourse outside marriage / adultery and was made to endure 8 months in jail waiting for a trial that never came...
ReplyDeleteIn any case, if Christine Lagarde happens to replace DSK, chances are she'll be doing business as usual...
Bann dokimenter la paret bonn: pu bizin pran enn sik liv pu get sa ;-)
ReplyDeleteAla enn ti update lor sa ka la.
ReplyDeleteNafissatou finn koz ar Newsweek.
ReplyDeleteDespite the findings of the medical report, the case is dismissed. Now comes the issue of the credibility of victims when they dare accuse those in power...
ReplyDeleteThe best line of the year 2012 comes from DSK's lawyer, in yet another sex-related case:
ReplyDelete"People are not always clothed at these parties. I challenge you to tell the difference between a nude prostitute and a classy lady in the nude"
DSK apparently failed again by 'partying' too hard...
Wai, difisil pu fer mie. Byen ki attan enn tigit... minis dilo enkor ena 10 mwa la...
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