What the duce, is Dominique Strauss-Kahn deliberately set up?

[scooterscot]

You can't deny it's a good read!

[Sysman]

It still sounds like something out of a James Bond film, have they been watching Goldfinger too much ?

You are correct. That phase of reading conspiracy theory web sites made me realise that they are best read as you would a spy thriller.

Which filled in nicely for the demise of quality spy thrillers after the Cold War ended. For a while anyway.

[amcdonald]

Well, I no longer trust the Telegraph as a decent news source. But that link doesn't relate to what you posted anyway.

I read about the gold disappearing from Fort Knox on a conspiracy theory web site circa 2002/3, if that helps any.

It still sounds like something out of a James Bond film, have they been watching Goldfinger too much ?

[Sysman]

Is any hint of even the slightest of it true?

Speaking of which, what happen to that wikiLeaks fellow?

Source:

US jobs figures cast fresh doubts about global recovery - Telegraph

Well, I no longer trust the Telegraph as a decent news source. But that link doesn't relate to what you posted anyway.

I read about the gold disappearing from Fort Knox on a conspiracy theory web site circa 2002/3, if that helps any.

[Old Greg]

Mussolini is involved? This goes deeper than I thought.

[amcdonald]

ATW in "in ex-banker" sofa owning capitalist mode.

FTFY

[AtW]

Idiot, do you even know what "deposit interest rate" means in context of Russian Central Bank?

Here is a hint cretin: "Deposit rate - an average-weighted rate on household ruble deposits with credit institutions for a term of up to one year."

Source: Interest Rates in 2010 | Bank of Russia

Look at the stats there, rates were always high 0.25% "sudden" increase is nothing.

I mean FFS, people who talk of "sudden" increases in rates in Russia know nothing without some recent history, see this link:

Refinancing Rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation | Bank of Russia

Look at dates:

May 19, 1998 – May 26, 1998 50
May 27, 1998 – June 4, 1998 150

That's 100% added on top of 50% prior after just week of increasing them from 30%, now's that's sudden!

ATW in "in ex-banker" mode.

[MrRobin]

It was raised BY 0.25% to 3.5%, I.e. from 3.25%.

Nothing to see here, move along.

[scooterscot]

Is this true that the interest rate in RUS has been raised from .25 to 3.5% almost instantly? If so that's hard evidence that something's up.

Russia took the opportunity to raise its deposit interest rates unexpectedly by 0.25% to 3.5% in attempt to curb inflation.



Fasten your seat belts everyone

[AtW]

Usual b0ll0x from people who need to visit a good doctor.

It's simple really - even if it was true and even if US were ready to silence someone of high level to prevent information from getting out then they would surely do something other than putting him on public trial!

Nobody is going to be sending thousands of fake gold bars - it is easy to detect and won't work past any serious buyer.

Whoever wrote that bulltulip is only smart when compared to cretins who'd believe it.

HTH

[SueEllen]

You haven't posted the source for your story.

The Wikileaks guy was here

[scooterscot]

Is any hint of even the slightest of it true?

Speaking of which, what happen to that wikiLeaks fellow?

(FSB) says that former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged and jailed in the US for sex crimes on May 14th after his discovery that all of the gold held in the United States Bullion Depository located at Fort Knox was ‘missing and/or unaccounted’ for.

According to this FSB secret report, Strauss-Kahn had become “increasingly concerned” earlier this month after the United States began “stalling” its pledged delivery to the IMF of 191.3 tons of gold agreed to under the Second Amendment of the Articles of Agreement signed by the Executive Board in April 1978 that were to be sold to fund what are called Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) as an alternative to what are called reserve currencies.

This FSB report further states that upon Strauss-Kahn raising his concerns with American government officials close to President Obama he was ‘contacted’ by ‘rogue elements’ within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who provided him ‘firm evidence’ that all of the gold reported to be held by the US ‘was gone’.

Upon Strauss-Kahn receiving the CIA evidence, this report continues, he made immediate arrangements to leave the US for Paris, but when contacted by agents working for France’s General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) that American authorities were seeking his capture he fled to New York City’s JFK airport following these agents directive not to take his cell-phone because US police could track his exact location.



Once Strauss-Kahn was safely boarded on an Air France flight to Paris, however, this FSB report says he made a ‘fatal mistake’ by calling the hotel from a phone on the plane and asking them to forwarded the cell-phone he had been told to leave behind to his French residence, after which US agents were able to track and apprehend him.

Within the past fortnight, this report continues, Strauss-Kahn reached out to his close friend and top Egyptian banker Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar to retrieve from the US the evidence given to him by the CIA. Omar, however, and exactly like Strauss-Kahn before him, was charged yesterday by the US with a sex crime against a luxury hotel maid, a charge the FSB labels as ‘beyond belief’ due to Omar being 74-years-old and a devout Muslim.

In an astounding move puzzling many in Moscow, Putin after reading this secret FSB report today ordered posted to the Kremlin’s official website a defense of Strauss-Khan becoming the first world leader to state that the former IMF chief was a victim of a US conspiracy. Putin further stated, “It’s hard for me to evaluate the hidden political motives but I cannot believe that it looks the way it was initially introduced. It doesn’t sit right in my head.”

Interesting to note about all of these events is that one of the United States top Congressman, and 2012 Presidential candidate, Ron Paul [photo bottom left] has long stated his belief that the US government has lied about its gold reserves held at Fort Knox. So concerned had Congressman Paul become about the US government and the Federal Reserve hiding the truth about American gold reserves he put forward a bill in late 2010 to force an audit of them, but which was subsequently defeated by Obama regime forces.

When directly asked by reporters if he believed there was no gold in Fort Knox or the Federal Reserve, Congressman Paul gave the incredible reply, “I think it is a possibility.”

Also interesting to note is that barely 3 days after the arrest of Strauss-Kahn, Congressman Paul made a new call for the US to sell its gold reserves by stating, “Given the high price it is now, and the tremendous debt problem we now have, by all means, sell at the peak.”

Bizarre reports emanating from the US for years, however, suggest there is no gold to sell, and as we can read as posted in 2009 on the ViewZone.Com news site:

“In October of 2009 the Chinese received a shipment of gold bars. Gold is regularly exchanges between countries to pay debts and to settle the so-called balance of trade. Most gold is exchanged and stored in vaults under the supervision of a special organization based in London, the London Bullion Market Association (or LBMA). When the shipment was received, the Chinese government asked that special tests be performed to guarantee the purity and weight of the gold bars. In this test, four small holed are drilled into the gold bars and the metal is then analyzed.

Officials were shocked to learn that the bars were fake. They contained cores of tungsten with only a outer coating of real gold. What’s more, these gold bars, containing serial numbers for tracking, originated in the US and had been stored in Fort Knox for years. There were reportedly between 5,600 to 5,700 bars, weighing 400 oz. each, in the shipment!”

To the final fate of Strauss-Kahn it is not in our knowing, but new reports coming from the United States show his determination not to go down without a fight as he has hired what is described as a ‘crack team’ of former CIA spies, private investigators and media advisers to defend him.

To the practical effects on the global economy should it be proved that the US, indeed, has been lying about its gold reserves, Russia’s Central Bank yesterday ordered the interest rate raised from 0.25 to 3.5 percent and Putin ordered the export ban on wheat and grain crops lifted by July 1st in a move designed to fill the Motherlands coffers with money that normally would have flowed to the US.

The American peoples ability to know the truth of these things, and as always, has been shouted out by their propaganda media organs leaving them in danger of not being prepared for the horrific economic collapse of their nation now believed will much sooner than later.

Source:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/e...-recovery.html