tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post6842600107496181565..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: DSK's Perp WalkStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-47587727890046127592011-12-11T09:34:17.722-08:002011-12-11T09:34:17.722-08:00It cannot have effect in reality, that is what I c...It cannot have effect in reality, that is what I consider.comprar tablet pchttp://www.tabletpc-shop.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-30219000727876220072011-10-06T23:01:40.649-07:002011-10-06T23:01:40.649-07:00To my mind everybody have to glance at it.To my mind everybody have to glance at it.muebles vicalvarohttp://www.muebles-en-vicalvaro.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-44775257382098337132011-08-12T23:31:46.232-07:002011-08-12T23:31:46.232-07:00It will not truly have success, I feel like this.It will not truly have success, I feel like this.ремонт и сметаhttp://remontismeta.runoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-37878566901304583232011-05-25T18:40:02.781-07:002011-05-25T18:40:02.781-07:00Forgot to add--I think that the DSK affair also p...Forgot to add--I think that the DSK affair also particularly humiliates the Socialist party. The Socialists like to think of themselves as superior in their championing of the third world and the underdog, and yet here is their head honcho taking criminal advantage of a defenseless immigrant woman! The hypocrisy is breathtaking! Like DSK, Socialists may not soon recover from this no matter the outcome of the trial.Susannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-34079864639211287702011-05-25T18:31:04.275-07:002011-05-25T18:31:04.275-07:00BHL wrote a book not so long ago called "Amer...BHL wrote a book not so long ago called "American Vertigo" in which he evinces an interest in, and admiration for America, and Americans, if I'm not mistaken ( I only know the chapter called "Seattle Mon Amour" because I live in Seattle--his favorite US city-- and heard him read it aloud at a book signing). Now he expresses rage at our justice system which has humiliated his close friend DSK. ( I think that DSK will likely get a very fair trial.) A good part of BHL's angst comes from his close association with DSK and the fact that his crime--if convicted--throws egg on his face (BHL's), in some measure, as it does on all those who knew of DSK's behavior and refused to confront him with it (I would include his wife in this category.) Ultimately, one can question whether they were really very good friends, as they did him no favor by covering up for him; au contraire. <br /><br />I wonder whether this ( I expect, though I may be wrong) conviction will prompt a re-evaluation of other infamous cover-ups, like that of Charles Enderlin at France 2, in his false reportage which has become known as the Al Dura affair. I certainly hope so!!! <br /><br />Finally, I vastly prefer French "philosophers" Andre Glucksmann and Pascal Bruckner, for example, to BHL, but one unfortunately rarely reads about them in the US press, although Glucksmann, although he's lost a bit of his steam, IMO, every now and then has a good piece in the very serious "City Journal."Susannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-43753195593695630442011-05-25T11:10:35.230-07:002011-05-25T11:10:35.230-07:00...or: he was not framed at all but fell into his ......or: he was not framed at all but fell into his own trap and nobody, for the reasons that occurred to me and others I do not know of, is in the least interested in getting him out. Happy everybody, French and Americans. Good riddance. Laura Bertonilaurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12919663175225698894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-621189348641259082011-05-25T10:49:02.052-07:002011-05-25T10:49:02.052-07:00Thank you, Laura. I suppose that it's possible...Thank you, Laura. I suppose that it's possible that DSK was framed, but the stories that have been reported-- assuming that they are true-- don't support that judgment. At least, as of now they don't.<br /><br />The woman in question does not seem to be sufficiently sophisticated to be reliable as a witness, either before the grand jury or before the criminal jury.<br /><br />Other evidence suggests that DSK was trying to seduce any one of a number of other women before and after the alleged assault. <br /><br />It feels like he just thought that he had a right to do what he pleased to women.<br /><br />I agree with you on your larger point. The fall of DSK is as total as it would have been had he died. And this event certainly has important repercussions. The fate of the dollar is one of them, though I doubt that one man can have that much influence on the fate of the dollar-- I am not optimistic about its ability to survive as a reserve currency. But I would also add that, more importantly, DSK's role in managing the current European financial crisis was critically important... though I am not sure who profits from his being taken off the case.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-65639260868941600242011-05-25T09:32:35.900-07:002011-05-25T09:32:35.900-07:00With regards to BHL you are, as so often, right.
...With regards to BHL you are, as so often, right. <br />With regards to DSK, well, I continue to believe that powerful people can get away with almost anything, also in your country – as long they are not in the way of an even more powerful force. DSK in all probability was framed. He was on his way to becoming a candidate for the French presidency (some French group may have triggered it), but he has also been one of the only strong voices calling for abandoning of the dollar as a world reserve currency and replace it by a new neutral currency (the Americans therefore could also have had an interest in getting rid of him). In former times, political adversaries were assassinated, this is hardly practiced in the Western world nowadays, but it has been replaced with something just as deadly: “civil death”. DSK is dead whether or not he is going to be acquitted. I don't feel sorry for him though. He was hit where he could be hit. Laura Bertonilaurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12919663175225698894noreply@blogger.com