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Post by marshabar1 on May 19, 2011 19:35:14 GMT -5
From the Bretton Woods Project April 11.2011 Heading for the right choice? A professional approach to selecting the IMF boss The IMF has committed itself to ending European dominance of selection of its managing director, and introducing an open, merit-based and transparent process. This paper sets out the three key elements to ensuring a successful process next time: a focus on selecting the best candidate available; a clear, fair, and transparent process; and the legitimacy gained from the backing of a majority of countries as well as IMF voting shares. In 2009, the IMF agreed to “adopt an open, merit-based and transparent process for the selection of IMF management”. 1 It was a commitment that was long overdue. The informal ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ made at the end of World War II that European governments could select the head of the IMF so long as the US got to choose the World Bank boss had long been regarded as outdated and illegitimate. Reforming selection procedures at the top of these powerful global institutions has been the subject of numerous internal and external reports. In 2001, a specially formed working group made practical but limited suggestions to make the process more formalised and professional. These were “endorsed” by the IMF board, but have never been implemented. 2 Instead, during the selection of the last IMF managing director (MD) in 2007, a short press release 3 set out a one paragraph person specification, and said any individual could apply “without geographical preferences.” In the end, convention held sway and the Europeans installed their candidate. A 2008 report by the Fund’s Independent Evaluation Office called for further reform to ensure that “likely effectiveness should be the main criteria used in the selection, and the competition should be open to candidates of all nationalities.” 4 Then a 2009 expert committee headed by South African finance minister Trevor Manuel called an open, transparent and merit-based selection process an “essential” part of IMF governance reform. 5 Finally, an IMF internal staff paper raised the issue again in 2009. 6 Despite all this effort, and an ongoing process led by the dean of the IMF board, the Fund has been publicly silent since the 2009 commitment. In fact, two deputy managing directors have been appointed since then, and have cemented rich countries’ dominance of top positions; the three IMF deputy MDs are now from the US, Japan and the UK. 7 The impression that the rich governments which have run the IMF have dragged their heels on this enormously important issue is hard to avoid. It matters who the head of the IMF is, and it matters how they are chosen. It matters for the legitimacy of an organisation that, through the stringent conditions often attached to its loans, has a powerful hand in economic policy making – and hence politics - in many countries, particularly poorer ones. It matters for the effectiveness of the Fund, which is struggling to adapt to an emerging world order where the old Western powers are gradually being eclipsed by faster growing, larger southern countries. And it matters because the MD wields significant power both within the institution, and by using the position as a pulpit from which to influence global policy-making on the most critical issues. Three things are important. First, governments need to select the right person for the job. Critically important is recognising the difficult challenges the MD faces, and the various roles they must play. Second, the selection process must be – and must be seen to be – open, fair, transparent and merit based. A lot of thinking has gone into this issue, and the proposals below reflect the emerging consensus about how this could be achieved. Third, the MD has to have a broad base of support across the world, and must be independent of any small grouping of powerful states. www.brettonwoodsproject.org/art-568253hmmm..... Funny these Brits were talking about finding a new non-European managing director just last month.
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Post by Mad Dawg Wiccan on May 19, 2011 19:35:59 GMT -5
He's entitled to bail just like anyone else that is falsely accused of a crime they didn't commit.
It's attempted rape, not rape, and he's innocent until proved otherwise.[/size]
Wrong again, both counts. 1. Bail has nothing to do with guilt or innocence, it has to do with the safety of the public and the risk for flight from jurisdiction. I for one am satisfied satisfied with his bail conditions. 2. Attempted rape means an attempt was made but there was no actual penetration. Rape vs attempted rape has utterly no connection to guilty vs innocent.
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Post by humok on May 19, 2011 19:47:12 GMT -5
Yes Marsha but if you look back 20 years they have all "talked" and then saw to it that who they wanted to be the head got the position. Has the US done anything that the IMF urged them to do(as in our govt)...NO. Publicly they have talked about it but never acted on it behind the scenes, they have Plowed ahead printing, spending and borrowing like there is no tomorrow.
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Post by marshabar1 on May 19, 2011 19:47:27 GMT -5
For more on Humock's points see the film "The Money Masters." Google for a site where you can view it for free. I am unsure about the accuracy of the conclusions, but the historic facts are pretty dead on from what I can tell. I am a numismatist of long standing, so I have been exposed to some of the more esoteric facts about coinage and the American money supply. I particularly enjoyed the parts about Andrew Jackson and the Bank of the United States, all true. Thanks, tough. Reading "The Creature From Jekyll Island" right now. Quite an eye opener.
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Post by marshabar1 on May 19, 2011 20:14:01 GMT -5
Yes Marsha but if you look back 20 years they have all "talked" and then saw to it that who they wanted to be the head got the position. Has the US done anything that the IMF urged them to do(as in our govt)...NO. Publicly they have talked about it but never acted on it behind the scenes, they have Plowed ahead printing, spending and borrowing like there is no tomorrow. The banking cartel owns the U.S. government. I believe it part of the one world plan to weaken the U.S so we blend more seamlessly with the rest of the world. Knock some of the uppityness out of the population by weakening the economy. I believe that's also the reason the southern border was "deregulated" 30 years ago and no president has done squat to stifle the traffic. Weakening the middle class is the plan.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2011 6:22:14 GMT -5
www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-20/dominique-strauss-kahns-accuser-the-dangerous-life-of-a-hotel-maid/....It’s a perfect storm of factors that make the job so dangerous: Housekeepers often are tasked with cleaning whole blocks of rooms, so they’re alone in isolated wings or halls of their hotels, without security or any means of calling for help. The women who fill these positions tend to have humble backgrounds, have few means, or are illegal immigrants—and may indeed have all those characteristics. They consequently are less likely file complaints or speak up about mistreatment, for fear of jeopardizing their jobs. And there’s an inherent power dynamic at play, wherein a hotel’s management is eager to please wealthy clients—even if that means turning a blind eye to the complaints of one of their staffers....MORE Interesting story about hotel maids. Backs up EXACTLY what I experienced working as another "invisible person" as a limo driver in fancy hotels and resorts, and reported here. I actually ended up leaving the somewhat safer limo work and going back to cab work after 2 years. Less hassle, and much more real life than dealing with rich drunk people. This story is right on and may be of interest to some of you guys.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2011 6:35:43 GMT -5
Yep. Invisible people all over the service industry. I totally understand why this lady is scared to death. We invisible folks don't normally make waves, just do our jobs, live our lives, pay our bills, but how much is a person supposed to put up with? That's why I believe this woman. The risk was just too great for her to lie. Sure enough, now she can't work, can't go home, family broken up... She COULD be lying, but I just don't think so.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2011 6:38:39 GMT -5
Appreciate the articles here about the IMF, etc. I just read things I don't know enough to comment on. Read and learn. Boards can be educational. I'm working on my message board degree. ;D
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Post by marshabar1 on May 20, 2011 10:16:49 GMT -5
All this talk about how could he chase her around the suite and nobody hear. Has no one been is a five star hotel? The rooms are sound insulated cocoons. The suite is over 650 square feet because the one just below this one in price is that size. People don't stay at these places so they can hear their neighbors. I have never seen busy traffic in hallways in ANY hotel unless it is specifically in the theater district and it's showtime.
Her timecard shows she entered the room and DID not close the door. All according to protocol.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2011 10:50:22 GMT -5
Correct. I used to work in them. During the day,especially in a place like NYC, people are most likely at business conferences or out doing what they came to town to do. 5 stars are like ghost towns in the halls during the day... except for cleaning and maintenance crews.
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Post by marshabar1 on May 20, 2011 11:06:30 GMT -5
Correct. I used to work in them. During the day,especially in a place like NYC, people are most likely at business conferences or out doing what they came to town to do. 5 stars are like ghost towns in the halls during the day... except for cleaning and maintenance crews. Yeah, good time to swipe L'Occitane bath products. . .
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2011 11:19:46 GMT -5
You BEHAVE!!! (And bring me some!!)
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Post by marshabar1 on May 20, 2011 12:15:10 GMT -5
You BEHAVE!!! (And bring me some!!) LOL Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn may want to leave a notorious New York City jail, but he reportedly has no place to go.
Strauss-Kahn's plans to ditch his Rikers Island jail cell on Friday may have to be put on hold as his wife scrambles to find an apartment that can be used for her husband's home confinement while he's out on bail, sources told The New York Post.
Anne Sinclair had rented an apartment at the posh Bristol Plaza on East 65th Street, but she was turned away once it was discovered that Strauss-Kahn would be staying there, sources said. Another source said that "someone high-profile in the building" had objected to Strauss-Kahn staying in the building.www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/20/report-imf-chief-granted-bail-place/#ixzz1Mui40gbvOh man! From a comped room to no place to go. How the mighty are fallen.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2011 12:19:26 GMT -5
Motel 6 with the crackheads and hookers. Right up his alley.
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Post by henryclay on May 20, 2011 12:31:56 GMT -5
IMF, , , , , hmmmm, , , , , , , , international bankers, , , , big money people, , , , , 2500 dollar a night 5 star hotels, , , lush lifestyles , , , the kind that think you ought to bend at the waist when you meet one, , , , perk, perks, perks, And the morals of a minx. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43105592/ns/business-consumer_news/?GT1=43001
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Post by marshabar1 on May 20, 2011 12:49:32 GMT -5
IMF, , , , , hmmmm, , , , , , , , international bankers, , , , big money people, , , , , 2500 dollar a night 5 star hotels, , , lush lifestyles , , , the kind that think you ought to bend at the waist when you meet one, , , , perk, perks, perks, And the morals of a minx. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43105592/ns/business-consumer_news/?GT1=43001Knew it. Sickos. Cocky roosters walking around thinking they own the world. Relishing this guy's discomfort. I'm sure many of his victims are filled with joy. ;D Interviews and documents paint a picture of the fund as an institution whose sexual norms and customs are markedly different from those of Washington, leaving its female employees vulnerable to harassment. The laws of the United States do not apply inside its walls, and until earlier this month the I.M.F.’s own rules contained an unusual provision that some experts and former officials say has encouraged managers to pursue the women who work for them: “Intimate personal relationships between supervisors and subordinates do not, in themselves, constitute harassment.”“It’s sort of like ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’; the rules are more like guidelines,” said Carmen M. Reinhart, a prominent female economist who served as the I.M.F.’s deputy director for research from 2001 to 2003. “That sets the stage, I think, for more risk-taking.”
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Post by henryclay on May 20, 2011 13:30:06 GMT -5
Makes the traispings of Ted Kennedy and his nephews seem almost saintly by comparison. How many sexual misadventures have we read about where they were stage center?
Kinda gives one a glimpse of the training ground where people like the young Aruba Island Joran Van der Sloot grew up thinking women were on earth for the sole purpose of serving as his personal gratification tools.
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Post by deziloooooo on May 20, 2011 19:43:41 GMT -5
Thought I said it already but it didn't get across...Sayonora dip stick.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on May 21, 2011 7:53:49 GMT -5
I don't have any love for the IMF, but I'm not going to be as quick to jump on the "culture" of the organization as one that somehow or other promotes rape because they aren't hampered by the same stupid sexual harassment rules and laws. Talk about 'rules that are more like guidelines'- our sexual harassment rules are well-intentioned, but I think they have been shown to be arbitrary and destructive in many cases.
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Post by deziloooooo on May 21, 2011 9:07:59 GMT -5
Had satellite Radio on last night as I headed to sleepy time, public radio station, and they spent a long time on this mans past history and it seems there were so many incidents.
Many didn't follow up, typical fear of not being believed and being labeled a trouble maker.
There was one stoy, and her name escapes me, but a well known media woman, went to interview him , and in the qquestioning of him it came up about his facination with woman, and to answer asked to holsd her hand, as it was a seriouse question, emotional, and from that hold hand she was fighting for her honor..finally ended up kicking him many times to getr away.
Told her mother about it and it was decided not to pursue for just that reason, might hurt her career which was just underway, she would be labeled as a trouble maker, false accusations for publicity and such.
She is thinking of coming out now with the story now as she has earned credentials as a legitimate reporter now. Believes would be a credable witness. Incident was five years ago.
There definitly seems to be a history here, and he said in a interview that to become President, France, there are some problems. He is Jewish for one, he hangs with the very wealthy, belongs to the socialist end of the political spectrum, doesn't look nice for those folks , wealth, who he hangs with, and the love of woman, which he admits, but seems to say on that one, "so what".
Just reporting on what I heard as I went ZZZZZZ.
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Post by Mad Dawg Wiccan on May 21, 2011 13:34:02 GMT -5
NEW YORK — Hotel housekeepers say they often feel a twinge of fear when they slide the keycard, turn the door handle and step into a room to clean it. What will they find? For Argelia Rico, it was a naked man who touched himself as he ogled her. For Kimberly Phillips, it was a pair of dogs that tore into her leg. This week the former head of the powerful International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was charged with chasing a housekeeper around his penthouse suite and forcing her to perform oral sex on him in his $3,000-a-night room at the Sofitel New York Hotel. But labor groups and housekeepers reported at least 10 other attacks in the U.S. in recent years, from New York's Sofitel to remote roadside motels in Gaithersburg, Md., and Grand Island, Neb. Labor groups say many more are hushed up because the victims are illegal immigrants or because hotels are wary of scaring off guests. Many hotels laid off security staff during the recession, leaving workers even more vulnerable, they said. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43120567/ns/us_news-life
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2011 13:48:11 GMT -5
Correct, Dawg. When I was a limo driver out of a 5 star I ate in the cafeteria underground. Totally out of sight of the guests. That is where the cleaning, laundry, staff offices, employee restrooms and cafeteria, all the things they don't want the guests to see... at the hotel I worked at most underground (except top ground people like we limo drivers and others.. concierges, desk people,etc).... most were non English speaking Latino. We also had a HUGE exchange group from Africa-- black-- that really kept to themselves. I found out it is a national program. We limo drivers gave them transport to and from work, paid by the hotel, until they set up shuttle services for them. I saw a world underground you will NEVER see above ground in a hotel or resort-- mine was a resort. Believe me, these people don't want to mess with cops. They didn't even like the limo drivers that serviced their transportation needs,even though we were just dressed up cabbies and had no higher status than they did. Everything I know from experience in high end hotels tells me this woman is telling the truth. No WAY she would have stepped up to lie. He COULD be innocent, set up, whatever, but I have a real hard time believing it.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on May 21, 2011 15:14:33 GMT -5
Well, I don't want to say there's "no way" she would lie. I don't know here, and I have to afford him the innocent until PROVEN guilty status for the time being. I will say it doesn't look good, and I'll repeat that if there's physical evidence of a sexual encounter with his accuser-- he's toast.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2011 18:07:34 GMT -5
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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 18:16:13 GMT -5
They say it was consentual. They knew he'd blown it.
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Post by deziloooooo on May 23, 2011 19:57:12 GMT -5
They say it was consentual. They knew he'd blown it. :oMarshja. how could you..tsk, tsk...on the other hand.... She did say he came out of the bathroom nude..spontaneouse combustion? ?
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Post by marshabar1 on May 23, 2011 20:03:36 GMT -5
K for laughing, Dezi, K? ;D
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Post by chiver78 on May 24, 2011 16:51:43 GMT -5
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Post by deziloooooo on May 24, 2011 16:59:58 GMT -5
I thought that had been reported already here, possible not, and they are waiting for the report on the carpet. A little aside, same topic, the cost of the 24/7 monitoring of him, armed guards and all that goes into the monitoring, is supposed to cost $300 thou per month I believe read, he is to pay that. If true, is he that wealthy? This trial, unless he plea bargains if evidence is over whelming, is going to run through the summer I believe. If the $ is his wifes, and she bails after finding out the particulars, guess back to Rickers??
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