Former IMF chief released from jail but unable to move into $14,000-a-month flat as building’s residents objected Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been released from jail and sent to an unspecified temporary home in Lower Manhattan where he will be detained under armed guard. An initial location for Strauss-Kahn to be detained had fallen through as although he may have been granted bail he was finding it difficult to find a new home in New York. The former head of the International Monetary Fund was hoping to move into a $14,000 (£8,600) a month apartment in the luxurious Bristol Plaza building in the upper east side of Manhattan after a judge bailed him on Thursday while he fights charges of attempted rape of a hotel chambermaid. Strauss-Kahn’s $1m bail stipulates that he must be kept under house arrest, wear an electronic tag to monitor his movements and hire a $200,000-a-month gun-toting security team authorised to use force if he should attempt to flee. “I expect you will be here when we need you,” Judge Michael Obus said on granting bail. “If there is the slightest problem, we can withdraw conditions.” Strauss-Kahn’s wife, Anne Sinclair, a former journalist, had hired the apartment. But news of this abode attracted a media scrum outside the building and objections from residents. Police had to put up barricades to hold back the TV crews and cameramen. Speaking anonymously, one resident said the media commotion outside was the first news he had heard of Strauss-Kahn’s arrival. “It’s outrageous. You think someone would have told us. I am going to object to this,” he said. Strauss-Kahn, 62, has been in jail since he was seized on an Air France plane at John F Kennedy airport last Sunday just moments before takeoff. Other locals and workers near the Bristol were more circumspect about the prospect of a new neighbour. Oxanna Fitzsimmons, a caretaker at the building, said she would have no problem cleaning Strauss-Kahn’s room. “I am not afraid. Is he crazy? He’s not crazy, he’s a normal person,” she said, adding that she did not believe he was guilty. “A man like that with a housekeeper? It’s unbelievable.” New York University student Alex Salamunouvich said: “I’m kind of indifferent to it. We have film crews here all the time, it’s not such a big deal. There are way more scary things to be concerned about in this city than that guy.” She said the work on the second avenue subway was far more disruptive. The Bristol is in the same street and just a few blocks east of the apartment where convicted financier Bernard Madoff was held under house arrest. “There must be something about this street,” said Ron Anta, who has lived in the neighbourhood for 23 years. “This is the same-sized crowd [of media] that Madoff got but I don’t think they’ll stay here for as long. I don’t think people around here really notice this kind of stuff. We are used to it. This is New York.” Strauss-Kahn will formally answer charges on 6 June. The 32-year-old hotel maid who has accused the former IMF chief of attempted rape is in hiding. She appeared before a grand jury this week and told police she entered his hotel room to clean it, thinking it was empty. He then allegedly jumped from a bathroom naked and attacked her. He denies all charges. Dominique Strauss-Kahn New York United States Renting property Property France Europe Dominic Rushe guardian.co.uk
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Oliver Darcy is doing his part to expose liberal ideas and hypocrisy on college campuses. Last month he produced two videos showing students willing to redistribute wealth but not grades and also refusing to pay their share of the national debt. Now he (along with his colleagues Michael Fincher and Maurice Lewis) is back, and this time he’s showing how college students who say they support free speech… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Blaze Discovery Date : 20/05/2011 14:54 Number of articles : 5
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Oliver Darcy is doing his part to expose liberal ideas and hypocrisy on college campuses. Last month he produced two videos showing students willing to redistribute wealth but not grades and also refusing to pay their share of the national debt. Now he (along with his colleagues Michael Fincher and Maurice Lewis) is back, and this time he’s showing how college students who say they support free speech… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Blaze Discovery Date : 20/05/2011 14:54 Number of articles : 5
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Oliver Darcy is doing his part to expose liberal ideas and hypocrisy on college campuses. Last month he produced two videos showing students willing to redistribute wealth but not grades and also refusing to pay their share of the national debt. Now he (along with his colleagues Michael Fincher and Maurice Lewis) is back, and this time he’s showing how college students who say they support free speech… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Blaze Discovery Date : 20/05/2011 14:54 Number of articles : 5
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Oliver Darcy is doing his part to expose liberal ideas and hypocrisy on college campuses. Last month he produced two videos showing students willing to redistribute wealth but not grades and also refusing to pay their share of the national debt. Now he (along with his colleagues Michael Fincher and Maurice Lewis) is back, and this time he’s showing how college students who say they support free speech… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Blaze Discovery Date : 20/05/2011 14:54 Number of articles : 5
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Ed Miliband has admitted that the Labour party lost the 2010 general election because it offered a message of ‘fear, not hope’ Ed Miliband breaks with his mentor Gordon Brown tomorrow when he will declare Labour lost the general election last year because it offered a message of “fear, not hope”. In a Guardian article, Miliband challenges his party to accept that Labour will never return to power unless its acknowledges that the last government – and not the electorate – made mistakes. Miliband’s article comes ahead of a speech to the annual conference of the Blairite Progress group. It is designed to answer critics who have suggested that he has failed to appreciate the scale of the challenge facing Labour. He will be speaking just over two weeks after Labour’s disastrous performance in the Scottish parliamentary elections and a weak performance in the English local elections. Miliband, who wrote the Labour manifesto for the general election, uses his Guardian article to make clear he understands that Labour lost touch with the electorate. “We lost not just because we made mistakes – on individual issues such as immigration, welfare, banking or even Iraq – but for a much deeper reason,” he writes. “We stopped providing answers to these big concerns.” Miliband writes that Brown and the Labour party were guilty of running a negative campaign. “Our message was far too weighted to fear, not hope. “It was never enough to inspire victory, or to give people a sufficiently clear and positive vision of this country. By the end of our time in government, we had lost the ability to chart the future.” Miliband believes it is important to acknowledge the failings of the last government, of which he was a prominent member, to allow him to deliver his main message – that Labour wins only when it embraces a positive vision of the future. Miliband writes: “At the next general election, we must be the optimists, the party with a positive, patriotic mission for our country. When we have won great victories – in 1945, 1964, 1997 – it has been by defining a new national mission. That is what we can, must and will do again.” Miliband will say this mission will revolve around three key priorities: championing the squeezed middle; tackling growing inequality; and ensuring future generations do not slip behind their parents as Labour works hard to maintain “generational progress”. Ed Miliband Labour General election 2010 Local elections Scottish politics Gordon Brown Nicholas Watt guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Ed Miliband has admitted that the Labour party lost the 2010 general election because it offered a message of ‘fear, not hope’ Ed Miliband breaks with his mentor Gordon Brown tomorrow when he will declare Labour lost the general election last year because it offered a message of “fear, not hope”. In a Guardian article, Miliband challenges his party to accept that Labour will never return to power unless its acknowledges that the last government – and not the electorate – made mistakes. Miliband’s article comes ahead of a speech to the annual conference of the Blairite Progress group. It is designed to answer critics who have suggested that he has failed to appreciate the scale of the challenge facing Labour. He will be speaking just over two weeks after Labour’s disastrous performance in the Scottish parliamentary elections and a weak performance in the English local elections. Miliband, who wrote the Labour manifesto for the general election, uses his Guardian article to make clear he understands that Labour lost touch with the electorate. “We lost not just because we made mistakes – on individual issues such as immigration, welfare, banking or even Iraq – but for a much deeper reason,” he writes. “We stopped providing answers to these big concerns.” Miliband writes that Brown and the Labour party were guilty of running a negative campaign. “Our message was far too weighted to fear, not hope. “It was never enough to inspire victory, or to give people a sufficiently clear and positive vision of this country. By the end of our time in government, we had lost the ability to chart the future.” Miliband believes it is important to acknowledge the failings of the last government, of which he was a prominent member, to allow him to deliver his main message – that Labour wins only when it embraces a positive vision of the future. Miliband writes: “At the next general election, we must be the optimists, the party with a positive, patriotic mission for our country. When we have won great victories – in 1945, 1964, 1997 – it has been by defining a new national mission. That is what we can, must and will do again.” Miliband will say this mission will revolve around three key priorities: championing the squeezed middle; tackling growing inequality; and ensuring future generations do not slip behind their parents as Labour works hard to maintain “generational progress”. Ed Miliband Labour General election 2010 Local elections Scottish politics Gordon Brown Nicholas Watt guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Ed Miliband has admitted that the Labour party lost the 2010 general election because it offered a message of ‘fear, not hope’ Ed Miliband breaks with his mentor Gordon Brown tomorrow when he will declare Labour lost the general election last year because it offered a message of “fear, not hope”. In a Guardian article, Miliband challenges his party to accept that Labour will never return to power unless its acknowledges that the last government – and not the electorate – made mistakes. Miliband’s article comes ahead of a speech to the annual conference of the Blairite Progress group. It is designed to answer critics who have suggested that he has failed to appreciate the scale of the challenge facing Labour. He will be speaking just over two weeks after Labour’s disastrous performance in the Scottish parliamentary elections and a weak performance in the English local elections. Miliband, who wrote the Labour manifesto for the general election, uses his Guardian article to make clear he understands that Labour lost touch with the electorate. “We lost not just because we made mistakes – on individual issues such as immigration, welfare, banking or even Iraq – but for a much deeper reason,” he writes. “We stopped providing answers to these big concerns.” Miliband writes that Brown and the Labour party were guilty of running a negative campaign. “Our message was far too weighted to fear, not hope. “It was never enough to inspire victory, or to give people a sufficiently clear and positive vision of this country. By the end of our time in government, we had lost the ability to chart the future.” Miliband believes it is important to acknowledge the failings of the last government, of which he was a prominent member, to allow him to deliver his main message – that Labour wins only when it embraces a positive vision of the future. Miliband writes: “At the next general election, we must be the optimists, the party with a positive, patriotic mission for our country. When we have won great victories – in 1945, 1964, 1997 – it has been by defining a new national mission. That is what we can, must and will do again.” Miliband will say this mission will revolve around three key priorities: championing the squeezed middle; tackling growing inequality; and ensuring future generations do not slip behind their parents as Labour works hard to maintain “generational progress”. Ed Miliband Labour General election 2010 Local elections Scottish politics Gordon Brown Nicholas Watt guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Ed Miliband has admitted that the Labour party lost the 2010 general election because it offered a message of ‘fear, not hope’ Ed Miliband breaks with his mentor Gordon Brown tomorrow when he will declare Labour lost the general election last year because it offered a message of “fear, not hope”. In a Guardian article, Miliband challenges his party to accept that Labour will never return to power unless its acknowledges that the last government – and not the electorate – made mistakes. Miliband’s article comes ahead of a speech to the annual conference of the Blairite Progress group. It is designed to answer critics who have suggested that he has failed to appreciate the scale of the challenge facing Labour. He will be speaking just over two weeks after Labour’s disastrous performance in the Scottish parliamentary elections and a weak performance in the English local elections. Miliband, who wrote the Labour manifesto for the general election, uses his Guardian article to make clear he understands that Labour lost touch with the electorate. “We lost not just because we made mistakes – on individual issues such as immigration, welfare, banking or even Iraq – but for a much deeper reason,” he writes. “We stopped providing answers to these big concerns.” Miliband writes that Brown and the Labour party were guilty of running a negative campaign. “Our message was far too weighted to fear, not hope. “It was never enough to inspire victory, or to give people a sufficiently clear and positive vision of this country. By the end of our time in government, we had lost the ability to chart the future.” Miliband believes it is important to acknowledge the failings of the last government, of which he was a prominent member, to allow him to deliver his main message – that Labour wins only when it embraces a positive vision of the future. Miliband writes: “At the next general election, we must be the optimists, the party with a positive, patriotic mission for our country. When we have won great victories – in 1945, 1964, 1997 – it has been by defining a new national mission. That is what we can, must and will do again.” Miliband will say this mission will revolve around three key priorities: championing the squeezed middle; tackling growing inequality; and ensuring future generations do not slip behind their parents as Labour works hard to maintain “generational progress”. Ed Miliband Labour General election 2010 Local elections Scottish politics Gordon Brown Nicholas Watt guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Ed Miliband has admitted that the Labour party lost the 2010 general election because it offered a message of ‘fear, not hope’ Ed Miliband breaks with his mentor Gordon Brown tomorrow when he will declare Labour lost the general election last year because it offered a message of “fear, not hope”. In a Guardian article, Miliband challenges his party to accept that Labour will never return to power unless its acknowledges that the last government – and not the electorate – made mistakes. Miliband’s article comes ahead of a speech to the annual conference of the Blairite Progress group. It is designed to answer critics who have suggested that he has failed to appreciate the scale of the challenge facing Labour. He will be speaking just over two weeks after Labour’s disastrous performance in the Scottish parliamentary elections and a weak performance in the English local elections. Miliband, who wrote the Labour manifesto for the general election, uses his Guardian article to make clear he understands that Labour lost touch with the electorate. “We lost not just because we made mistakes – on individual issues such as immigration, welfare, banking or even Iraq – but for a much deeper reason,” he writes. “We stopped providing answers to these big concerns.” Miliband writes that Brown and the Labour party were guilty of running a negative campaign. “Our message was far too weighted to fear, not hope. “It was never enough to inspire victory, or to give people a sufficiently clear and positive vision of this country. By the end of our time in government, we had lost the ability to chart the future.” Miliband believes it is important to acknowledge the failings of the last government, of which he was a prominent member, to allow him to deliver his main message – that Labour wins only when it embraces a positive vision of the future. Miliband writes: “At the next general election, we must be the optimists, the party with a positive, patriotic mission for our country. When we have won great victories – in 1945, 1964, 1997 – it has been by defining a new national mission. That is what we can, must and will do again.” Miliband will say this mission will revolve around three key priorities: championing the squeezed middle; tackling growing inequality; and ensuring future generations do not slip behind their parents as Labour works hard to maintain “generational progress”. Ed Miliband Labour General election 2010 Local elections Scottish politics Gordon Brown Nicholas Watt guardian.co.uk
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