7/7 Ripple Effect

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An excellent (albeit 4 year old) video about the 7/7 attacks in London. Back in the news since the maker (Muad'Dib) was recently arrested, for - get this - “intending to pervert the course of justice,” extradited from Ireland to England and held for 5 months, before being released after a jury hearing.

More details here http://mtrial.org/
Thanks to flogging dead horses for the news.


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IMF head arrested, accused of

IMF head arrested, accused of sexual attack


Read More: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/991579--imf-head-arrested-accu...

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IMF chief ?

doesn't he have the money to hire a professional, of which i imagine there are many in manhattan (hey it worked for Governor Spitzer, until he was busted in the press); why accost the maid instead, does this add up, Is he just so crazed with power that most maids do his bidding, but this time he met his match in the big apple?

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IMF chief...

from the reuters,
"arrest on sexual assault charges removes the toughest rival to French President Nicolas Sarkozy for the 2012 presidential race"

The scandal could also help far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen, who likes to paint herself as a woman of the people in contrast to an elitist political boys' club.

"This has turned the campaign completely upside down. It changes the stakes for everyone," said political analyst Jean-Thomas Lesueur at the Institut Thomas More think tank.

"(For Strauss-Kahn) it's finished. It's an axe that's come down on his campaign. It's incredible."


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more hmmm on Strauss Kahn

From Penny -Dominique Strauss Kahn arrested- IMF names replacement? http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2011/05/dominique-strauss-kahn...
I.M.F. Names Replacement as Chief Awaits Arraignment
John Lipsky is in.
"Mr. Lipsky, the I.M.F.’s first deputy managing director

And more hmmm....
From the Wall Street Journal May 13, 2011 - the day before Strauss Kahn is arrested.

IMF deputy managing director John Lipsky to step down
"JOHN Lipsky, the International Monetary Fund's No. 2 official, said today he will step down after his term expires at the end of August.
The unexpected move by the fund's first deputy managing director re-opens the controversial question of IMF governance and the institution maintaining its legitimacy in a new world of burgeoning emerging market economies.
"It will be interesting to see if the US gives up its prerogative to appoint the No. 2 official," said Eswar Prasad, A Cornell University economist and former senior IMF official."
"Mr Lipsky's announcement comes ahead of what many IMF watchers say is also an expected early departure of managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Although he has declined to say whether he'll run as a candidate in the French presidential elections, a raft of polls have him sitting ahead of other candidates, including incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.
Mr Strauss-Kahn has indicated that he's made a decision, however, that he will announce in July, a date that coincides with the deadline for him to submit his candidacy, analysts say.
That has stirred discussions of who will replace Mr Strauss-Kahn, or rather, where he or she will hail from: another western European country or an emerging market nation?
"It's going to be very difficult for the US, given that it has been pushing very hard for governance changes at the top at the same time it should maintain the number two position," Mr Prasad said."

Swallow ?

This is looking like a set up ...its hard to "swallow" .
Wonder if the "maid" has other paymasters ?

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I'm thinking 'swallow' as well.

I'm thinking 'swallow' as well Mick. By whom and why? Rothchild's JPM? Europeans? CIA/MIC? Puzzled

From the Market Oracle http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article28147.html

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IMF chief Strauss-Kahn caught in "Honey Trap"

IMF chief Strauss-Kahn caught in "Honey Trap"
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)


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. Naturally, his actions were not warmly received by the bankers and corporatists who look to the IMF to provide legitimacy to their ongoing plunder of the rest of the world. These are the people who think that the current policies are "just fine" because they produce the results they're looking for, which is bigger profits for themselves and deeper poverty for everyone else.

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.”

Right. So, now the IMF is going to be an agent for the redistribution of wealth.... (for) "strengthening collective bargaining, restructuring mortgages, restructuring tax and spending policies to stimulate the economy now through long-term investments, and implementing social policies that ensure opportunity for all"? (according to Stiglitz)

Good luck with that.

Can you imagine how much this kind of talk pisses off the Big Money guys? How long do you think they'd put up with this claptrap before they decided that Strauss-Kahn needed to take a permanent vacation?

Not long, I'd wager.

Check this out from World Campaign and judge for yourself whether Strauss-Kahn had become a "liability" that had to be eliminated so the business of extracting wealth from the poorest people on earth could continue apace:


In an article today in the Washington Post, Howard Schneider writes that after the 2008 crash led toward regulation again of financial companies and government involvement in the economy, for Strauss-Khan "the job is only half done, as he has been leading the fund through a fundamental rethinking of its economic theory. In recent remarks, he has provided a broad summary of the conclusions: State regulation of markets needs to be more extensive; global policies need to create a more even distribution of income; central banks need to do more to prevent lending and asset prices from expanding too fast. 'The pendulum will swing from the market to the state,' Strauss-Kahn said in an address at George Washington University last week. 'Globalization has delivered a lot . . . but it also has a dark side, a large and growing chasm between the rich and the poor. Clearly we need a new form of globalization' to prevent the 'invisible hand' of loosely regulated markets from becoming 'an invisible fist.'" (Link---http://wcampaign.org/issue.php?mid=625&v=y)

Repeat: "...a fundamental rethinking of economic theory".... (a greater) "distribution of income"...(more) "regulation of financial companies", "central banks need to do more to prevent lending and asset prices from expanding too fast".

Are you kidding me? Read that passage again and I think you'll agree with me that Strauss-Kahn had signed his own death warrant.

There's not going to be any revolution at the IMF. That's baloney. The institution was created with the clear intention of ripping people off and it's done an impressive job in that regard. There's not going to be any change of policy either. Why would there be? Have the bankers and corporate bilge-rats suddenly grown a conscience and decided to lend a helping hand to long-suffering humanity? Get real.

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"?)

Damn ...it would seem that he

Damn ...it would seem that he who rocks the boat gets drowned before the status quo is altered .

What hope does "change" have against all those filthy rich entrenched interests ?

hope of change = ?

none, IMO.

The best we can do is the best we can do, and we've been doing it for years, and nobody really gives a hoot except for a few of us, who are already doing the best we can do, IMO.

Sorry to be so blunt

I am sorry to be so blunt ... but I am not about to start lying to you now.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and I have decided that I have to get healthy again and get blogging more frequently, not because there is any reason to hope that any change will come of it, but because it's the right thing to do.

I used to think of mankind as an organism, and individual truth-telling as therapeutic, perhaps the most powerful therapy imaginable. Now I still think of mankind as an organism but the relationship between truth and power has been obvious for a long time, and I have finally come to grasp the inequality. Truth-telling is not therapeutic anymore. It's palliative.

A few cells in the organism diagnosed the fatal disease but by then it was so far advanced that none of them could stop it alone. And the disease progressed by dividing these cells from one another, and killing off the most potent among them, so the survivors couldn't work together to stop it, either.

I don't always agree with Arthur Silber but it seemed to me that he was on the money when he said, "The system eats itself. End of story."

I continue to look for signs that both of us are wrong.

Scary that not only did the

Scary that not only did the victims of this event not get justice but that the glaringly obvious need to find Peter Powers employers has not seen official investigation and disclosure .
This harks of 911 ,"its not the crime but the cover-up " has failed us also.

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i agree mick

the 7/7 event seems quite connected to the 9/11 event (not to mention OKC); same modus operandi. kill the innocent, blame the patsies, control the press, smear anyone bold enough to publicly ask obvious questions as "conspiracy nuts".

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