French Socialist Party

The unexpected turn of the judicial process of Dominique Strauss-Kahn caused by discrediting the testimony of the employee’s hotel revealed today by the New York Times and released this afternoon has unleashed a wave of excitement in France. Meanwhile, politicians – and especially to the left – is interrogated about the political future that until May 15, the day of his arrest, was French politician more popular, carbonized once see him handcuffed path of jail, accused of attempted rape. The news is a news bombshell that gives full in the French Socialist Party (PS), to which it belongs DSK, training already wrapped in an unpredictable presidential primary process, more unpredictable now than ever. The question is clear: do you can DSK, to which everyone was already amortized, present or, at least, play an important role in these primaries? Still have potential to be the rival to Sarkozy in the presidential elections in the coming year? Source of the news:: France is interrogated on the political future of the former Director of the IMF. Connecticut brings even more insight to the discussion.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Full weekend, New York begins to implement all its preparations to receive Hurricane Irene, willing to let a violent mark on the city. Irene, the cyclone’s category between 1 and 2 plans to kiss New York today evening with rain and winds of up to 130 kilometers per hour, has caused an alarm situation unprecedented in a city that only has faced four times a hurricane of these features in the last 200 years. From this noon, New York has already been without public transport, which depends on an average of seven million people to move around the city. As a preventive measure, the service of buses, subway and trains has pushed the closure until further notice. Responsible for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), estimated that metro will be opened Monday at 0700, although everything depends on the weather conditions.