10 of the 12 citations in this article are from the same paper that published the article. None of the citations are from any kind of primary source, just media taking to media. Almost none of the sensational accusation in the story are sourced, they are just lonely accusations unparented and unsubstantiated. The introductory paragraph show's that there will be no attempt to make an unbiased examination of the what has happened with DSK. Just some slander against the U.S. and Israel. Sets the tone, show's what you are going to consume is the mirror world version of fox news. The first sentence of the piece makes the assertion that DSK is the highest paid civil servant in the world. This is incorrect. The highest paid civil servants in the world are in Singapore, the top of the pay scale there makes over 1 million dollars a year. I believe that many employees there in excess of 1 million dollars, but hell I'm not putting my ass on the line as a "journalist" so I don't really think I need sweat the details on who makes what aside form they make a lot more than DSK. Was this error important? I think so, the author whole piece is a collection of unsubstantiated assertions of fact, he can't even get get his shit together for the first sentence, why should I believe anything he has to say about really complicated things? "Leaving aside any considerations of his innocence or guilt, the steamrolling of such a high-profile personality can only provoke anguish in the ordinary citizen. If someone like him is unable to defend himself, then how can we hope to succeed if we were to be accused like him?" If this rich powerful guy can't get off a rape charge, who can the little guy ever hope to get a fair shake. I"m mean we are leaving aside any consideration of innocence or guilt, this is just a power proposition, DSK is powerful and should thus be above the law. I don't feel terribly anguished for the guy, I hope he gets a fair trial, I"m sure he'll have all the benefits of the best defense that money can buy. "At that game, the first name that comes to mind is that of Nicolas Sarkozy. It is impossible not to think of him knowing that he became president by pressing charges against his chief rival, Dominique de Villepin, and entangling him in a forgery scandal just as convoluted as the current one. Therefore, why not another plot to move a new competitor out of the way?" Don't really feel like getting out the my logic book, but just a bald logical fallacy. Just because the author asserts that Sarkozy has committed other smiler acts, Sarkozy's interest in this person means that he has done the same to this person. The author should have just deleted this paragraph, it's a piece of shit bit of writing and argument. From DSK "I deem that every diaspora Jew must support Israel. For that reason, it is important for Jews to take up political responsibilities. In short, in my functions and in my everyday life, in everything I do, I endeavor to make my modest contribution toward the construction of Israel." He loves the Jews, he can't be trusted to represent the intrest of france. I like how the author is confused throughout the piece about the culpability of the American Israeli conspiracy in DSK's downfall and DSK as a secret Israeli agent. I don't know if he is just an anti-Semite or an anti-Zionist, he will defiantly slander Israelis any chance he gets, and that is so much easier to do when you don't need sources and can just make shit up. The idea that DSK could put a a world currency into effect all on his lonesome is ridiculous. The IMF gets 17% or so of it's funding from the U.S., I believe that the U.S provides at least 3 times the funding of any other nation. Under the IMF $ = Votes for the most part, the equation is modified a bit so that the U.S. has somewhere between 16-17% of the votes. Putting a new world reserve currency into action would take a ton of work and planing, there was no master plan that was about to be unveiled by DSK that the world would instantly get behind, and if there was the U.S. has more then enough power in the IMF to get it sidelined without hanky panky conspiracy. The reasons for China suggesting this a new world wide currency was probably more to light a fire under the U.S.'s ass to get their finances in order as it was to really do such a thing. Anyways the authors assumptions about what was about to go down are pretty fantastical and once again totally unsupported by any outside data or analysis of any substance. As a brief aside. There are many economist in the U.S. who think that the idea of an alternate world currency has some merit. Capital flooding into the U.S. has some pretty undesirable consequences that are unavoidable if you print the worlds reserve currency. I've heard interviews and panels with high level government officials that think the idea has some merit and should be examined. And finally. Maybe he did try to rape this girl. Maybe a low wage maid at a hotel lived through a short bout of terror as a lager stronger man, of obvious power and wealth tried to force himself on her. It's a terrible situation to be in, if it happened that way I hope DSK pays an appropriate price in an American prison. This possibility is never considered by that author, I find that contemptible. If the acusations are credible than DSK will to a grand jury, and if the carges seem to have merit he will get a jury trial. That seems pretty fair to me. I think that this piece is garbage on the level of Fox News. It's paranoid, the facts seem manufactured by fantastical presuppositions and it's part of the authors personal echo chamber. If you think it holds weight, please tell my why, I'd like to know.