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Ashraf - Why does it sound crazy? They find ways to take down many powerful people who do not support the extreme right-wing corporatist agenda. DSK, a socialist, actually predicted to the French media prior to his trip to New York that his opponents would pay some woman about $1,000,000 to claim he had raped her in order to remove him from the presidential bid: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1387625/IMF-chief-Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-feared-political-enemy-pay-woman-allege-rape.html

This is taken from an article on the topic by Paul Craig Roberts, a very distinguished American economist, and former Reagan appointee:
The Strauss Kahn Frame-Up: The Amerikan Police State Strides Forward http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24840

It is convenient for the Western elite that the public does this puppet dance for them, hysterically labeling anyone who points a laser beam of suspicion on their dirty deeds as some kind of nut case.

In the early 1930s Wall Street tried to orchestrate a coup d'etat against FDR in order to create a fascist regime in the US. A prominent American general (Smedley Butler) blew the whistle on this scheme, but the congress helped to cover it up and none of the perpetrators were ever prosecuted (of course). The alliance between the financial elite and congress was actually cemented a long time ago. In the end, writers and others who tried to expose the scheme to the public were labeled "paranoid" by the ruling class. They have used this tactic for a long time. It is very effective. Much has been written about this event, by the way. A google search will yield plenty of good, solid info on the story. It is the fact that they covered it up with the public by using this paranoid label that interests me. They still do this even today and the public has never yet caught on. We need to stop thinking it is crazy to think ill of these people. We all know that in Russia such things are commonplace politicallly. It is no different in the West.

Ashraf, I picked that read up when you posted on twitter last night. Felt like posting the link on forum but decided was very difficult to make any judgment. Interested you say the "logic" would stack up. I spose "crazy" could result from desperation, who knows :-)

Catnip also mindful of immediate trouble ahead. Wish I could get my head around some of this deep stuff.

Yes agree twitter a necessary evil, mostly incomprehensible with 2 line one way conversation but good for alerts to divert to links. A live feed within the subscriber site would be good but I realise that twitter is your primary means of promotion. Can live with it. Noted the blocking deferred again.

Yeah, thx for the ecofin reminder catnip.