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Even though I've been talking about the subject on my blog for nine years, and have discussed it in countless interviews, lectures, articles and Twitter threads, some people still don't seem to grasp why sex workers oppose criminalization of "pimps", and why puffed-up oinking about "going after pimps" is so destructive. So once again I'm going to spell it out succinctly. Most sex workers are independents who have no management, but because the "degraded whore" narrative claims we're all dominated by "pimps", cops and prosecutors who want to look like big heroes go sniffing around for anyone they can pin the "pimp" label onto, so as to slam them into a cell. Genuine management ("pimps" if you must, though I must point out we don't make up special pejorative terms for managers in most businesses) charge a fee for finding clients, just as any entertainers' agent does; some provide a premises (which the law is pleased to call a "brothel" or more absurdly, a "bawdy house" or "house of ill fame") from which to work. So when cops and prosecutors want to destroy someone by calling them a "pimp" and prosecuting them for "trafficking", what do they look for? People who receive money from sex workers and/or provide an apartment that they work from. Who falls into the first category? Drivers, maids, receptionists, secretaries, roommates, other sex workers who share an incall, partners, adult offspring, and even elderly or disabled dependent parents. Who falls into both categories? Landlords. If you were a landlord and you discovered you were renting to a sex worker, and recognized you might be charged with "pimping" because of it, what would you do? Evict her, of course. Norway has the Swedish model, which is what the awful Kamala Harris supports despite her recent lie that she favors decriminalization. Well, a few years ago Norwegian cops had a scheme called "Operation Homeless", in which they sent letters to sex workers' landlords threatening them with pimping charges if they didn't evict the sex worker. This is what Harris and other lying monsters like her mean when they say they want to "go after the pimps": they want to persecute sex workers' friends, family members, associates, employees and landlords so as to drive us into the streets and thereby make us vulnerable not only to rape and murder, but also to disguised criminalization charges such as "loitering", "trespassing", etc. Swedish model proponents call this persecution "decriminalizing the seller", despite the fact that sex workers are still subject to cop surveillance, expulsion from university, being forced into "re-education" systems, and even having their children abducted by the state on the grounds that they are "unfit parents"…and all this on top of the proven harms of the model itself. So next time someone tells you how "johns and pimps" are the "real problem", and cops merely want to "help" sex workers by persecuting them, you'll understand a bit better what that actually means.
Posts Tagged 'Norway'
Going After the Pimps
Posted in Perception, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, avails laws, brothels, cops, drivers, end demand, Norway, pimps, politicians, propaganda, Swedish model on March 8, 2019| 1 Comment »
Links #396
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged California, Canada, cops, drugs, language, Never Call the Cops, New York, Norway, politicians, video, Washington (state) on February 4, 2018| 1 Comment »
Spock: Revenge, Captain?
Kirk: Why not?
Apparently Quentin Tarantino has pitched an idea for a new Star Trek movie that he will direct. Someone else has been hired to write it, which is probably for the best or else we might end up with something like this video, contributed by Jesse Walker. The links above it were provided by Radley Balko, Adjective Girl, Wendy Lyon, Emma Evans, Scott Greenfield, and Korhomme, in that order.
- Irony of the week.
- To protect and serve.
- Never. Call. The. Fucking. Cops.
- Don't even call them if you're a cop yourself.
- Politician wants cops allowed to murder people for plastic straws.
- So? Everyone on Earth is descended from a long line of mummies.
From the Archives
- IOW they provide passage & forged papers for migrants to escape Nigeria.
- In Sweden, teen boys are granted more sexual agency than adult women.
- Even cops whose offenses are less than rape employ disgusting defenses.
- It's good to see at least a few judges recognizing these fantasies as such.
- A glimmer of sanity in the mad world of "child pornography" prosecution.
- Canadian prohibitionists really want to whip up "sex trafficking" hysteria.
- Seattle "officials" think harm reduction principles only apply to drug use.
- My ex-girlfriend may be doing sex work. Should I do something about it?
- I'm surprised the "forced sex trafficking abortions" trope didn't catch on.
- Sex work app developers don't bother to consult any actual sex workers.
- Two white women call tens of thousands of brown ones a "tiny minority".
- New Orleans prosecutors love putting whores on "sex offender" registry.
- Until prohibition is banned, any decriminalization is a temporary respite.
- Snagglepuss, Ringo, cops, Ikea, tyranny, "hate crimes" and much more.
- Hotline calls reflect prevalence of beliefs & paranoia, not actual crimes.
- The badge-licking in this is so loud and fellatory, it may nauseate you.
- The woman who set up a home for retired sex workers in Mexico City.
- Thoughtful people are coming to realize how awful anti-sex laws are.
- Sports Illustrated calls the "gypsy whores" trope a debunked myth.
- A constantly-updated spreadsheet of sex worker advertising sites.
- NYPD "guidelines" say majority of US citizens are "sex trafficked".
- More on the useful idiots who are trying to destroy the internet.
- A cop wanking fantasy inspired by arrest of two petty thieves.
- A couple of "trafficking bowl" debunkings that both quote me.
- The word for government/corporate "partnering" is "fascism".
- Another of those cases whose reported details don't add up.
- Lux Alptraum on financial discrimination vs sex businesses.
- We're seeing more editorials critical of the War on Whores.
- What century do "sex trafficking" fetishists believe this is?
- This is the typical "Super Bowl sex trafficking" story now.
- Vice is back to spreading "sex trafficking" myths again.
- A bill in New Hampshire would decriminalize sex work.
- Cops, churches, incompetence, wizards & much more.
- Prohibitionists chop down trees to get at sex workers.
- In the US, the victim would've been arrested as well.
- Laura Lee talks about how she became a sex worker.
- Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
- Moron who claims porn increases whores' business.
- Regulated brothels in 19th-century St. Petersburg.
- Porn isn't sex education, but Pornhub supports it.
- We need anarchy to protect us from government.
- Sex workers reaching out to the public via art.
- This picture of me would be illegal in Victoria.
- San Diego ramps up its anti-whore pogroms.
- In which I open up the throttle on harlotry.
- Butterfly mourns the death of Tammy Le.
- How many times do we need to say this?
- Australian police practice "NHI" as well.
- First trans sex worker murder of 2016.
- The law is an ass, and so is this judge.
- My two previous columns for Imbolc.
- Back to Seattle after my 2017 tour.
- Damn, has this girl got chutzpah!
- Journalists are starting to listen.
- How long can this scam go on?
- A selection of "Lilli" cartoons.
- Much more of this, please.
- Rapist cops of the week.
In the News (#799)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged activism, advertising, Against Their Will, agency denial, Alabama, Bait and Switch, bogus studies, Canada, censorship, condoms, cops, crypto-moralism, Dirty Amateurs, disease, drugs, End Demand (updates), France, harm reduction, Harm Reduction updates, homosexuality, hysteria, Monsters, New York, Norway, Ohio, porn, rape, robots, scams, Scrupleless in Seattle, stripping, surveillance, Swedish model, Texas, The Course of a Disease, The Puritan Recrudescence, The Pygmalion Fallacy, To Molest and Rape, transgender, United Kingdom, violence vs. sex workers, Washington (state), West Virginia, Whither Canada? on December 22, 2017| 1 Comment »
Sex workers…are fed up with being used as pawns…in…a publicity stunt. – Valerie Scott
Amateurs are a menace to public health; they should be licensed and heavily regulated:
A new campaign's being launched by Public Health England to get more under-25s to use condoms…a survey carried out by PHE and YouGov revealed almost half of 16-24-year-olds have never used a condom with a new partner. One in 10 of them had never even used one…
Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs
The story is the same the world over:
…The Immoral Traffic Prevention Act 1986, which conflates trafficking and sex trade…and…other laws under the Indian Penal Code…look at trafficking only from the perspective of sex work…people being tricked into or forced into moving for labour related activities in construction, factories etc are left out of the equation…The proposed new anti-trafficking Bill makes small amends. [sic] But, leaves a lot more to be desired…interestingly, the version of the Bill that was distributed to the stakeholders for feedback is not the version that is with the Cabinet. So, when the Bill will be introduced in the Parliament in the Winter Session, the chances are that parts of it will come as a shock to various communities that will be affected by it…Sex workers have constantly expressed their opposition to the Bill, claiming that it presupposes that sex work always entails trafficking and can never be voluntary…
The "end demand" strategy carried to its logical conclusion:
21-year-old Creio Chance Bishop did not want his girlfriend dancing at JB's Gentlemen's Club in West Virginia. The jealous boyfriend is facing second-degree arson charges after…he set the exterior of the strip club where his girlfriend worked on fire at 3:30 a.m. on December 13. The manager…Jim Reed…[said] "It's stupid. She's trying to make a living for herself. He's not doing nothing. She's paying the bills, from what I understand." Bishop fled the crime scene on foot, only making it as far as a Walmart parking lot right across the street before Cabell County Sheriff's Department deputies detained him…
This brings the toll to 28 this year:
A transgender woman was shot to death in Houston's Sunnyside neighborhood early Wednesday, Dec. 13…Brandi Seals, 26…is at least the 28th trans person murdered in the U.S. in 2017, the deadliest year on record for the community. The vast majority of victims, including Seals, have been trans women of color. Four of the murders have occurred in Texas. Seals was repeatedly misgendered in a Fox 26 report about her murder, including by a Houston police detective who referred to the victim as "a man in women's clothing"…
If you're tempted to badge-lick about this, reread the original article of this heading:
A 22-year-old college student at Ohio's Youngstown State University was arrested after falling for a fictional 15-year-old boy created by local cops…[who] used a phony dating-app profile for…an adult to lure in the student…After chatting, the catfish "revealed" he was [supposedly] 15 years old. The college student, A.G. (not his full name), indicated he didn't have a problem with his age. The conversation eventually turned sexual and A.G. sent the faux boy some nude photos of himself. It was clear from the exchanges, police [admit], that A.G. was developing feelings for the imaginary teen. A.G. described him as "my one and only" and talked about being his husband someday. On December 12…A.G. showed up at what he thought was the boy's home with homemade chicken alfredo, soda, and lubricant…This a young man who is about 5'7″…weighs 450 pounds…[and] is gay in a part of Ohio where that's still really difficult sometimes…he…was preyed on by police who pretended to be interested and said exactly what he wanted to hear, even after realizing the emotional attachment he was developing and the potential psychological effect this was having on him. And now he will likely be branded a sex offender and a pedophile for life.
Alas, politicians, being exceptionally stupid creatures, cannot understand that the same principles hold true for all prohibition:
Norway is to become the first Scandinavian country to decriminalise drugs as it focuses on treatment rather than punishment. The majority of the Norwegian parliament, the Storting, backed the historic shift…and…directed the national government to reform its policies on drugs. Sveinung Stensland, deputy chairman of the Storting Health Committee, [said]…"It is important to emphasise that we do not legalise cannabis and other drugs, but we decriminalise…those who have a substance abuse problem should be treated as ill, and not as criminals with classical sanctions such as fines and imprisonment"…
Of course, the vast majority of people who use prohibited drugs have no "problem", and if this new policy forces people into "treatment" it'll just be another Scandinavian scheme to dress authoritarianism up as social justice.
"Environmental cost" = "public health crisis".
…Is pornography in the digital era leaving a larger carbon footprint than it did during the days of magazines and videos?…if pornography experts' estimates are accurate, they suggest a rare scenario where digitization might have increased the overall consumption of porn so much that…people to spend so much time looking at porn that it's actually worse for the environment…
The Course of a Disease (#634)
It's good to see Médecins du Monde make this position official:
Médecins du Monde has officially announced its position in favor of the total decriminalization of sex work…adopting a position similar to that of Amnesty International…Dr Françoise Sivignon [said]…"In France, a little more than a year and a half after the adoption of the law aimed at fighting against the prostitution system, we clearly see the deleterious impact of measures adopted…we are witnessing the isolation…of sex workers, their distance from care and prevention structures, as well as increased exposure to sexually transmitted infections and increased violence"…Doctors of the World had already made known its position against the penalization of the customers during the parliamentary debates of the previous years…The organization…explains…[that] criminalization policies are…incompatible with good access to [medical] care or prevention…
Two more cops, protecting and serving:
Two [Alabama cops]…Jonathan Perry Works…and Brian Edward Walker…were…charged with two counts of first-degree rape and two counts of first-degree sodomy…[for raping a] mentally incapacitated [woman]…
Articles like this are much more common in Canada, while US media self-destructively cheer censorship:
Recently, the owner of a [Greater Toronto] bar began a campaign against NOW Magazine. Decals reading "NOW Sells Sex Slaves" have been appearing in parts of Toronto, including on public art. Letters making false and misleading claims that NOW "facilitates human trafficking" have been sent to many of the magazine's advertisers and to Chief Federal Prosecutor Morris Pistyner…NOW does not "facilitate human trafficking." In fact, quite the opposite. By publishing the ads of sex workers, NOW facilitates our ability to remain safe and independent. But religious fundamentalists – and some old-school feminists – have formed alliances and been quite successful in redefining all sex work as human trafficking. In their view, all adult women are incapable of making the choice of whom to have sex with if money is involved…
These guys dodged a bullet, but you may not; STOP going to see unknowns who may be cops!
After more than a hundred people were arrested early September following an eight-day prostitution sting in Bellevue, 61 of those cases have now been dismissed due to [cops' violation of] Washington state law…Part of the [scheme] included hidden cameras…[but] state law requires two-party consent to record audio conversations…
A talking toaster is still a toaster:
In February…I ran an experiment in which I sexually harassed Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, Microsoft's Cortana, and Google's Google Home to document how these digital personal servants—whose names and voices are already feminized—peddle stereotypes of female subservience, putting their "progressive" parent companies in a moral predicament. Now, those findings are being cited in a petition on the social network Care2 asking Apple and Amazon to "reprogram their bots to push back against sexual harassment"…
The idea that words and phrases without sexual motivation shouted at a circuit board constitute "sexual harassment" is like something out of a Monty Python sketch; the fact that people seriously think of this nonsense as a "moral predicament" doesn't say much for their grasp of reality.
Prohibitionists call this "rescue":
Yang Song fell four stories onto a sidewalk in Flushing, Queens on the night of November 25th…while [fleeing] police…attempting to arrest her for allegedly engaging in sex work…Hai Song, Yang's younger brother…and his 65-year-old mother, Yumei Shi…are haunted by details she shared with them over the phone this year. Yang described being sexually assaulted by a man who flashed a badge and gun and claimed to be an undercover cop, they say. Yang also told them that the police [pressured] her to become a [snitch] this fall…"I hope to know the truth," Shi [said via]…a translator. "We want to know whether this was a retaliation from the police and they forced her to die"…While the police [claim] that they were not in the room when Yang jumped…both Hai and Shi insist that she would not kill herself…they are left with the stories Yang shared with them about her life in Flushing — and of the police she…[was] harassed and intimidated by…
In the News (#783)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, All-Purpose Excuse, Arizona, bogus studies, California, censorship, Checklist, Connecticut, cops, Cosmopolitan, Craigslist, dirty, disability, Do As I Say, Facebook, hotels, hysteria, illegal aliens, internet, Madonna/whore, Morality Lessons, Neither Addiction nor Epidemic, neofeminism, New York, Norway, Of Course It Is, Ohio, pathologization of males, politicians, porn, prohibitionist myths, propaganda, rape, Signs, Skin To Skin, statistics, streetwalkers, surveillance, The Proper Study, The Prudish Giant, The Widening Gyre, underage, Utah, violence vs. sex workers, Yellow Fever, yellow journalism on October 18, 2017| 4 Comments »
I am not sure when being a selfish, misogynistic jerk became a medical disorder. – David Ley
When another man pays an underage sex worker, she's a "sex trafficking victim". When a cop does it, she's an "underage hooker":
A Bronx cop was busted for having sex with an underage girl and recording their encounters — even after the investigation started and his home had been searched…Raul Olmeda was arraigned on a 67-count indictment…[because] five times between January and April…[he] paid the teen for sex…police found out about them while conducting a sex trafficking investigation…Olmeda's lawyer, Stuart London, said…"This isn't numerous underage women. This is one underage woman, and we don't know her credibility at all"…
The Daily News changed the last word of the headline after people jumped on them for the language, but you can still see it in the URL.
It looks like Scott Cunningham has finally done a good one:
In a groundbreaking study, researchers at Baylor and West Virginia universities have found evidence indicating that Craigslist's erotic advertising site may have prompted a 17 percent decrease in female homicides throughout the United States, principally because sex workers were able to use the free advertising service to move into a safer indoor environments and screen clients more carefully…The study, which has been submitted to a peer-reviewed economics journal, offers…evidence of what sex workers have been saying for years: that having the ability to advertise online for their services allows them to work in safer indoor environments and screen out violent clients. The new study reinforces previous research showing a decline in sexual violence in regions where prostitution has been legalized or decriminalized…the researchers also did an analysis of how many more police officers would need to be hired to reduce the female homicide rate by the same percentage that Craigslist's free service apparently did. They concluded that this would require an additional outlay of 200,832 police officers, costing the U.S. an added $20 billion per year. "Craigslist, in other words, saved 2,150 female lives at a profoundly lower social cost," concluded the three authors, Scott Cunningham…Gregory DeAngelo…and John Tripp…
Neither Addiction Nor Epidemic
If Weinstein brings down the "sex addiction" scam, he'll have inadvertently done some good in the world:
…While there's no official confirmation of where Weinstein is headed or what type of therapy he may be getting, experts…said that…he's not a sex addict. And most say there's no such thing as sex addiction…Holly Richmond…said…"There is no such thing as sex addiction"…[Dr. David] Ley says…"We see this parade of men getting caught…then they claim their behavior is the result of this alleged disorder when we all know these were men who were abusing their power and privilege…after 40 years…there is still no published evidence that this treatment works…This is an exploitative industry that loves to capitalize on these celebrity sex addiction scandals so they can get referrals"…
Like the New York Times, the BBC has discarded whatever credibility it once enjoyed:
Basis Yorkshire was set up to support sex workers across Leeds in 1989. Over that time, we have worked closely with sex workers across the sex industry to provide safety, information and support…We believe the BBC documentarySex, Drugs and Murder; Life in the Red Light Zone has done a great deal of damage to the stereotypes of sex workers in Leeds (and across the country) by portraying the women in a highly sensationalist, voyeuristic way. The footage often none-to subtly focuses the shot on drug paraphernalia and rubbish in their home, or the area they work in – giving deliberately unpleasant, grubby feel to the program and the women that are featured…The program could have been made about a group of women with complex needs and had the same content – but…[instead] focuses only on women who have severe addiction issues, or on complex, even at times violent, social situations, rather than allowing viewers to see the diversity of women we work with (or indeed the diversity of the lives of the women they chose to film)…
A "feminist" calls other women "toilets" for ministering to disabled men:
"Men with disabilities are a hugely important group served by sex workers" [tweeted] Amy Alkon…Check out the, paternalism, uh, maternalism [in the response] here, from social psychologist Dina McMillan…
Meanwhile, Oakland allows cops whose actions DO qualify as "trafficking" under law to get away scot-free:
Following a controversial Aug. 16 raid of a West Oakland home by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick said repeatedly that the operation was part of a criminal human trafficking investigation…but…the raid hasn't resulted in a single criminal prosecution…the only person arrested, Santos de Leon, is facing civil immigration charges and could be deported..ICE has recently begun to classify the act of providing shelter and other assistance to unaccompanied minors who recently immigrated to the United States as "human trafficking," and is charging adults, often close family members, with the crime…by providing assistance to ICE for the raid, OPD violated Oakland's sanctuary city policies…Kirkpatrick made false statements on several occasions — including in emails to city councilmembers, statements at a town hall meeting, and through several OPD press releases — about the raid…The statements included a social media posting from OPD asserting that the arrest was related to "sex trafficking"..and that…victims were rescued by ICE and received services. But there is no evidence to back up those statements…
The dysphemisms are thick in this one:
Students at Quinnipiac University's law school [who have never done sex work] have [indoctrinated] nearly 1,000 of Connecticut's hospitality industry workers on how to recognize and report the [mythical] signs of sex trafficking…Taylor Matook [said]…"we have a narrative." By [filling the heads of] hospitality workers with [sexual fantasies, prohibitionists]…hope to [create an army of stool pigeons]…to stop…sex [workers from making a living by turning them in to the pigs]…Theresa Leonard…founder of a ministry [fantasizing about] eradicating sex [work] in Connecticut, said…"It's amazing to me how few women [agree with my claim]…that they were exploited or trafficked"…
People sometimes ask why I'm not on Facebook:
Leila is a sex worker. She goes to great lengths to keep separate identities for ordinary life and for sex work, to avoid stigma, arrest, professional blowback, or clients who might be stalkers (or worse). Her "real identity"—the public one…joined Facebook in 2011. Her sex-work identity is not on the social network at all; for it, she uses a different email address, a different phone number, and a different name. Yet earlier this year, looking at Facebook's "People You May Know" recommendations, Leila…was shocked to see some of her regular sex-work clients. Despite the fact that she'd only given Facebook information from her vanilla identity, the company had somehow discerned her real-world connection to these people—and, even more horrifyingly, her account was potentially being presented to them as a friend suggestion too, outing her regular identity to them. Because Facebook insists on concealing the methods and data it uses to link one user to another, Leila is not able to find out how the network exposed her or take steps to prevent it from happening again…When Leila queried secret support groups for sex workers, others said it had happened to them too…
This isn't new; I first heard about it about a year or so after starting this blog.
No, this isn't the same huge child porn site run by the FBI; this is a different one:
The world's largest child sexual abuse forum, "Childs Play" is running in the darkweb. [Nowegian newspaper] VG exposed…[that Australian police are] behind the website's continued operation…Under the supervision of Jon Rouse, detective inspector, and investigator Paul Griffiths, thousands of members have shared photos and videos of children being sexually abused…Some members of the forum got together in person to commit child abuse, which they filmed and shared on the forum…the police deny they are responsible for what was shared on [their own website] while they ran it…
A Utah politician's bizarre anti-porn antics continue:
For the past 14 years, Utah has made do without a "porn czar." The position—officially known as the "Obscenity and Pornography Complaints Ombudsman"—has been vacant since 2003, though it was never officially eliminated. Now state Sen. Todd Weiler…may revive it, even as the Utah attorney general suggests legislators strike it from the books. Weiler has been on an anti-porn crusade for several years now. He's the architect of a 2016 declaration to declare porn a public health crisis (which passed the state legislature unanimously) and a proposal passed earlier this year to encourage "porn addicts" to sue porn platforms…Weiler "says he became convinced that the obscenity and pornography complaints office may be needed because of an ad campaign attacking Cosmopolitan magazine as illegal porn"…
I kinda hope the "Cosmo is porn" nonsense continues; maybe it's push the magazine into siding with sex workers. Weiler is also the dangerous loon who claimed sex workers "force" cops to rape us.
The real purpose of this scheme is to cut sex workers off from the healthcare system:
Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation Assistant Professor Samantha Calvin spoke at the 14th Annual Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference in Ohio last month…Calvin focused on human trafficking in the clinic setting, red flags to look for, questions to ask and what to do if someone is identified…
You may recall that ASU, home of Dominique "Body Fluids" Sepowitz, is a major hotbed of "sex trafficking" propaganda and source of several bogus studies made to order to support both the hysteria and carceral "solutions" to the nonexistent "problem".
I hope none of you find this even remotely surprising:
Charges that Oakland [pig] Giovanni LoVerde sexually assaulted an underage girl were dismissed…after Alameda County prosecutors dropped the case…Several other Oakland [swine] were not criminally charged in the case, but twelve were disciplined by the department, and four were fired. Some…still work at OPD despite social media evidence they sexually exploited the girl or ignored signs of wrongdoing…many more Northern California [pigs] were implicated in the sprawling sex crimes scandal, but few have faced criminal prosecution. The dismissal of the case against LoVerde ends, for now, the Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley's effort to prosecute five Oakland cops — three former and two current — as well as a former Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy and a former Livermore police officer who all exploited the girl…
Watching "sex trafficking" hysteria spin out of control is deeply gratifying:
…School officials in Ohio are on alert following reports of a drone…at Windemere Community Learning Center in Akron over the weekend… several witnesses [claim to have] heard a voice coming from the drone, attempting to coax the children off the playground"…This bizarre story is not questioned by the media, because whether or not the threat is real, doesn't matter…of course, the advice given to parents is always the same — just as it has been in all the reports of "near" abductions by sex traffickers at the local store (that never actually occurred): PARENTS, NEVER LET YOUR KIDS OUT OF YOUR SIGHT!…
In the News (#721)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged acting, Backpage, brothels, California, Cooties, cops, drugs, ethics, Guinea Pigs, If Men Were Angels, India, Louisiana, Madonna/whore, Minnesota, Never Call the Cops, Norway, Pennsylvania, psychology, rape, rescue industry, Rough Trade, Send In the Clowns, Spotlight, Still a Child, streetwalkers, stripping, surveillance, The War Goes On, To Molest and Rape, United Kingdom on March 15, 2017| 1 Comment »
White people saving white people is not as sexy and compelling as white people getting to further exercise their savior complex through the racist stereotype of the submissive, obedient Asian sex slave. – Laura LeMoon
From Norway, the other feminist paradise:
A 36 year old man has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of two rapes. The punishment would have been harsher if the victims were not prostitutes…the judgment of Stavanger District Court [reads]…"By the rape of a prostitute who has agreed to sell sexual services, but where a situation arises where the offender will not pay, and thus develop into a rape which in this case is the violation of sexual integrity by a somewhat different character"…the verdict has been appealed…
Sex work is not an evil to be tolerated, but a good to be celebrated:
…Over the next year I sought out…sexworkers…every for every time I felt I was losing control…the only thing holding me together was the sexworkers I was seeing every three to four weeks. They kept my wife safe from my anger…Based on the recommendation of a sexworker I sought help. I was diagnosed with PTSD…later [my wife] filed for divorce…years [later] I met a young lady…that stole my heart. After two months of dating…she said she could not have an exclusive physical relationship with me, but if I was willing to have a mentally exclusive and love exclusive relationship, she would be more than happy to join me in such a relationship. That's when she explained that she was a sexworker…Today, she and I are married. We have a loving relationship based on openness and honesty. She actually encourages me seeing sexworkers…
This is obviously a major ethical violation, but I don't think letting drug warriors handle the case helped anyone:
[Doctor] Naga Thota…was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for distributing controlled substances without a legitimate purpose, part of…a "quid pro quo situation in which he exchanged drugs, gifts and money for sex." A criminal complaint accuses him of having similar arrangements with two other patients — all of them in their 20s and addicted to pain pills…Thota and the women would exchange sexually explicit texts, then Thota would write prescriptions in exchange for sexual favors…he switched them to more powerful painkillers, then increased the dosages — and their dependence on him as a supplier…
"Protecting women" is nearly always code for either spying on us or controlling us:
…the imagination of safety for women in public spaces always ends up focusing on monitoring their moves – by dotting the cityscape with closed-circuit television cameras. The Karnataka government responded to the allegations of rape and molestation by announcing the purchase of 550 more CCTVs, never mind that the thousand-odd such devices had failed to stop the assaults in the first place…in spite of having more security cameras than any other country in Europe, only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images in 2015. Additionally, this bolsters the notion that crimes against women are always inflicted by unknown persons — the ubiquitous stranger rape – and erases that most such violence happens within the home, by family members, where there are no CCTVs…The gentrification – which included CCTV installation — of Kolkata's biggest lakeside park threw sex workers and transfolk onto the streets and made them far more susceptible to police and stranger violence…
Don't socialize with the sleazy fuckers, either:
A Minneapolis [cop]…sexually [assaulted] an unconscious woman with whom he was out drinking earlier that night…Thomas Robert Tichich…and the victim were with another woman who invited them to spend the night at her home…to avoid driving drunk…the victim passed out on a large living room couch. The woman went to sleep in an upstairs bedroom and told Tichich to sleep on a smaller living room couch…[she] woke up later to find Tichich in her bed touching her arm…[so she] told Tichich to leave the room. A while later, the woman, unable to sleep, went downstairs to find Tichich naked and standing over the victim sleeping on the large couch and attempting a sex act. She took photographs using her cellphone, then kicked Tichich out of her house and called police…
A rare victory against prohibitionists:
[Prohibitionists] were dealt a blow…in a federal court in Louisiana, with U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier siding with strippers between the ages of 18 and 20 in their dispute with a recent Louisiana law…that prohibits anyone age 18 to 20 from dancing nude in Louisiana strip clubs. The decision deals a major blow to what legislators [pretend is] an effort to shield young women from being exploited by human traffickers that they [fantasize] recruit young women in clubs…The ruling appears to establish stripping as a constitutional right under the First Amendment, making Barbier not just a hero to strippers, but to Americans in general…
Extra police patrolled West Mifflin, Pennsylvania over the weekend after officials received reports of two men with weapons, dressed as clowns, frightening a group of children…The search didn't turn up any evidence…The children were playing hide-and-go-seek in the woods, when around 4:15 p.m. they [claimed] two men dressed like scary clowns and carrying weapons approached them…
The prohibitionist arseholes at the New York Times still refuse to understand how anti-sex crusades harm sex workers:
In the fight against child sex trafficking, shutting down an epicenter like Backpage was a major victory, but one against a relentless foe that quickly unfurled new tentacles…it…illustrated how difficult it is to stamp out the practice of selling children for sex…Eric Quan, a [vice pig]…with the San Jose Police Department, said there had been a conspicuous rise in street prostitution…
It's interesting how often cops & reporters with "sex trafficking" fantasies are also apparently fans of hentai. Also note that though this reporter keeps drooling about "selling children for sex" the woman he interviewed for this tragedy porn is 18.
Super-ally Frankie Mullin exposes cop bullshit:
"Pop-up brothels" full of trafficked women are sweeping the country, according to a spate of recent reports…The tale – valiant but kindly cops, the suggestion of women chained to radiators – with its trendy packaging in hipster terminology has been guzzled up by the press. Basic fact-checking…is absent…in the last 12 months recorded, Devon and Cornwall police have made just one referral for sex trafficking to the National Referral Mechanism…and that was for an underage girl from the UK…Insp Dave Meredith…admitted…"We haven't managed to locate any traffickers as a direct result of visiting pop-up brothels"…when I checked out Meredith's claim – repeated by every news outlet which covered the story – that "the sex workers are the victims so we try to offer them help and signpost them to various agencies", I hit a dead end…So…contrary to news reports: no Eastern European trafficking victims have been found, and "signposting to agencies" is, as yet, a hypothetical concept. If the situation arose, cops would "google it"…
It's so good to see people who had a bad time in sex work attacking self-proclaimed savior Asstoon:
With tears brimming his eyes and a quiver in his voice, Ashton Kutcher testified…how he had recently seen a video of a 7-year-old girl in Cambodia being raped. Search for his speech online, and shockingly, no one seems to have one word of criticism for the actor-turned-crusader…despite the fact that he…according to his own admission, is somehow getting ahold of and watching what is essentially child snuff porn — and then crying about it to the senate, where he's praised for his compassion. Unlike Kutcher, I am a trafficking survivor. I have also come to the sex industry at various points of my own choosing and have worked as an escort, adult film performer and street-based sex worker…What Kutcher represents…is exactly the problem with the global anti-trafficking movement today: paternalism and the trafficking savior complex…it has become abundantly clear to me that there might be — at most — one other trafficking survivor among potentially hundreds of people at ["anti-trafficking"] events. This is precisely why Kutcher is problematic…
In the News (#704)
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I *personally* could wreck the careers of a dozen politicians. And there are roughly half a million whores in the US. – Me
Mistress Matisse offers advice on the oft-asked "how do I find an escort" question:
…Look to social media…Now that so many review boards have been taken down, social media is the best way to find a good independent escort…I'm not saying "no social media" equals "bad escort"…there are lots of good escorts who don't have much of a social-media presence. But if you want to get to know a little about who someone is before you meet them, that's just how you do it now…
I'm sure he did it to "protect" them:
A fired Kentucky high school principal took students' phones so he could steal porn images and trade them online…Stephen Kyle Goodlett…was indicted…on federal charges of possessing and transporting child pornography…after a 20-year-old woman learned that naked images she had taken for her boyfriend when she was 15 had been uploaded to a porn trading website in Russia…the IP address of the device that uploaded the images matches an account registered by Goodlett…[who claims] that he has an addiction to porn…
This says he reduced the sentences if they gave him sex; I suspect it was more like "I'll increase your sentence if you don't":
An Arkansas judge has resigned after allegations he granted leniency to female defendants in exchange for sexual favors…judge…Timothy Parker of Eureka Springs, has denied the charges but submitted his resignation on Dec. 30, one day before his term in office was to end…
You'd think someone who claims to support sex worker rights could refrain from parroting Swedish propaganda or pretending that human rights are debatable:
…decriminalizing child prostitution is crucial to stopping trafficking…and…some also believe that decriminalizing sex work for adults may be best. In 1999, Sweden decriminalized the selling of oneself for sex, while still keeping it illegal to…pay for sex, essentially putting the burden where it belongs, on the traffickers and their customers…Some even call for prostitution to be decriminalized, or even legalized, across the board. In 2003, New Zealand did just that…international trafficking is less of a concern because of New Zealand's isolated geography. Whether decriminalization or legalization of sex work for adults will ultimately keep them safer is still a widely-debated topic…
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Another court continues the trend of classifying strippers as employees:
A prohibition under Wisconsin law against employers docking an employee's pay "for defective or faulty workmanship" applies to the exotic dancing industry, a federal judge ruled…Dawn Stevens sued the Oval Office Gentleman's Club, claiming the "fines" it subtracted from her pay for giving dances that didn't meet the club's standards were barred by state law. The club made deductions for "failing to fully remove all clothing, except for underwear, by the end of the first song when dancing on stage; spending too much time in the dressing room; and not dressing according to the Oval Office's dress code," among other violations…
It's almost sad to see these losers trying to cash in with debunked bullshit a year ahead of time:
Minnesota's fight against sex trafficking is gearing up for the February 2018 Super Bowl in Minneapolis…conventions and large gatherings…attract traffickers who see potential for higher demand of their services. [Totally bogus] research has found that online ads for adult services increase for big events — many of which advertise trafficked women…Minnesota is in a better position than previous hosts to tackle the issue…[because it] leads the nation on addressing sex trafficking, and its practices are looked to as a model for other states…
Cows still cause "sex trafficking"!
Authorities are on high alert for human trafficking as crowds come to Denver for the National Western Stock Show…Deputy Shay Haney with the Adams County Sheriff's Office [fantasizes] the large number of tourists coming to the show can attract human traffickers…[cops] are working to check websites…to identify [women's pictures they can jerk off to on the public dime]…
Apparently, Florida "authorities" didn't think their magical posters resulted in enough people being caged, so they've added a website:
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced efforts…to spread [hysteria about] human trafficking…[by] launching a new website…digital signs will be displayed throughout the Tampa International Airport, encouraging travelers to visit the new site for tools to [make themselves paranoid so they rat each other out to the cops]…
Unsatisfied with merely sneaking or throwing, this enterprising pervert invented a spooge-squirting system:
A West Virginia man admitted to masturbating at least 12 times in public shopping center parking lots, filling syringes with semen and following women into stores while squirting them on the back with the fluids. Timothy Blake…was arrested…in Marietta, Ohio [after]…A woman [reported the incident and police]…were able to track Blake down through security footage…"The defendant stated maybe [squirting women with semen-filled syringes were] his way of having sex with these women"…
Imagine a reporter adopting this tone in a story about an NAACP chapter leader who was publicly promoting a policy that police should cooperate with the KKK to "protect" black people:
The coordinator of [Providence, RI]'s Amnesty International chapter has been expelled, after nearly 40 years of service, for publicly disagreeing with the group's stance on decriminalizing sex work. Marcia Lieberman…disagreed [that women have sexual agency and fantasizes that Amnesty's]…policy…would embolden "pimps and johns" who were exploiting "mostly young women and girls…we did not believe it should be legal for [adults to have consensual] sex"…Lieberman wrote a letter to the editor of The Providence Journal…reiterating her opposition to the [civil rights of adults]…and in support of…police [harassment of those adults]…
How many moronic prohibitionist plays can the market bear?
If the demand for sex trafficking were to end, would the supply end too? Recently defected from a sex trafficking ring, Amber Cregg has immunity, and a story to tell. Will she cooperate and aid the side of justice, or will she continue to her deep allegiance to her former pimp? Join the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition, and the all-youth cast of blank slate theatre, for this original play on human sex trafficking…
The name of the play is Bottom. I'm not even gonna go there.
Even when it isn't garment-related, "rescuers" invariably want to push sex workers into some kind of menial crafting work:
Modern slavery is all around us—even if we don't always see it…one group in Tel Aviv is fighting against it to save lives and the environment. A.I.R.—which stands for "Act, Inspire, Restore"…combines social purpose with an eco-friendly upcycling business to spread awareness about the black market activity and to give former prostitutes the skills and supportive community they need for a second chance at life. Founded by Swiss couple Tabea and Matthias Oppliger, A.I.R. turns [garbage] like pallets into custom wood furniture…they currently work together with eight former sex workers who have signed on for a one-year training program to help them reintegrate into society…
Where "reintegrate into society" means "menial domestic labor".
Such a long and wordy euphemism for "rape":
A [Norwegian cop] may lose his job over allegations that he used his role as an officer of the law to get sex from a number of women…One victim…needed to report a stolen car trailer to the police. Later that same day, she was sent 70 text messages from the [cop pressuring her for sexual contact]…he also encouraged the woman to send photos of herself so he could "enjoy them"…The following day…he…went to the woman's home [uninvited and raped her]…
False Compromise
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I was wondering if it might be to big a jump for Americans to go from fearing sex to seeing it as a normal human activity; might not the Swedish model be a shorter step? Decriminalization is best of course, but is it to much of a shift from criminalization to make all at once?
Proponents of the Swedish model want you to see it as a sort of compromise position; that's how it was sold in Canada, where the Middle of the Road is practically the national symbol. But it's actually nothing of the kind. First of all, the Swedish model has never been adopted any place where sex work was already criminalized; it always results in the criminalization of behavior that was not previously criminalized. Even if it were to be adopted in some US jurisdiction, the oft-heard claim that the model "decriminalizes the seller" is a blatant lie. Because prostitution is a misdemeanor, arrested sex workers are usually charged with whatever the cops and DAs can think of to get a more serious crime, such as "promotion of prostitution" (ie pimping) or even "sex trafficking" if the cops' victim was working with another whore; these laws are still in place under the Swedish model (described therein as "going after the pimps and traffickers"), and because there is no lesser prostitution charge the impetus for cops to level such serious charges against ordinary sex workers is actually increased. But there's another, more insidious and dangerous effect of the model: it establishes the legal precedent that adult women who behave in a way of which the state disapproves are not merely criminal, but incompetent. As I explained in my essay, "Treating Sex Work as Work":
[The Swedish model] is solidly rooted in an archaic and sexist view of women as particularly fragile and vulnerable, and…posits that paying for sex is a form of male violence against women. This is why only the act of payment is de jure prohibited: the woman is legally defined as being unable to give valid consent, just as an adolescent girl is in the crime of statutory rape. The man is thus defined as morally superior to the woman; he is criminally culpable for his decisions, but she is not…the law has been demonstrated to increase both violence and stigma against sex workers, to make it more difficult for public health workers to contact them, to subject them to increased police harassment and surveillance, to shut them out of the country's much-vaunted social welfare system, and to dramatically decrease the number of clients willing to report suspected exploitation to the police (due to informants' justified fear of prosecution). Furthermore, these laws don't even do what they were supposed to do; neither the incidence of sex work (voluntary or coerced) nor the attitude of the public toward it has changed measurably in any country (Sweden, Norway and Iceland) where they have been enacted…a Norwegian study found that banning the purchase of sex had actually resulted in an increase in coercion)…and…despite the hype, the truth is that even operations framed as "john stings" or "child sex slave rescues" end up with the arrest and conviction of huge numbers of women; for example, 97% of prostitution-related felony convictions in Chicago are of women, and 93% of women arrested in the FBI's "Innocence Lost" initiatives are consensual adult sex workers rather than the coerced underage ones the program pretends to target…
And we haven't even touched on things like Norway's "Operation Homeless" (in which the cops sent letters to sex workers' landlords, telling them they could be prosecuted as "pimps", so as to get the women evicted); the forcible collection of "evidence" from the "crime scene" (i.e. sex workers' vaginas); and the expulsion of student sex workers who refuse to pretend that they're "victims".
Tl;dr version of the preceding: "No".
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The term "hedgehog" used in the book is based on Isaiah Berlin's essay "The Hedgehog and the Fox" and actually originated from the Greek parable: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." Very briefly, "foxes" pursue many ends at the same time and see the world in all its complexity whereas "hedgehogs" simplify a complex world into a single organizing idea, a basic principle or concept that unifies and guides everything. The Hedgehog Concept states that anything that does not somehow relate to the hedgehog idea holds no relevance.
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We're starting to see the fruits of our efforts – and all the hard work put in by our donors, volunteers and teachers.
Besides the core subjects: English, Maths, ICT and Science, CofA students get involved in creative writing, art and self-expression. All this will create all-rounded individuals who are ready for what the world throws at them. Take a look at some of the photos taken during the 2018 summer camp at the University of Ghana, Legon.
In 1999, the then Secretary-general of the UN, Kofi Annan, described girls' education as the "single highest returning social investment in the world today". This is still true in 2013 and there is a great need for girls in Ghana to break out of the spiral of poverty and underachievement.
As in most of Africa, it is the women of Ghana – as the mothers of the future – who hold the key to progress and change. But many of its young girls are deprived of education in order to help their parents, siblings and members of their extended family survive. They often do the physically demanding work like walking for miles for water, planting and tending the crops and looking after animals. Most will marry young and have children at a young age. At best they will have a limited education and their daughters will carry on this depressing cycle, often made worse by poor health, sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS and early pregnancy. And so the cycle continues.
Why girls?
Girls in rural areas of Ghana are particularly disadvantaged when it comes to education. They are disadvantaged through their location and gender imbalance. Poverty means that girls are misused more often than boys – they often carry out cleaning and other household chores for teachers and are taken out of school when the family runs out of money or needs an extra pair of hands. There are no role models for them to go by and their mothers have gone through the same experiences, so they accept that this is the fate of their daughters.
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Although primary education in Ghana is free to all, some primary school teachers still favour boys over girls. In addition, when parents need extra help at home, it is often the girls who are taken out of school. All too often these girls will marry young, have children and continue a life of poverty. Give them access to further education, to secondary school and beyond and these girls will more likely have a career, marry later with fewer children and so escape the poverty cycle.
'College for Ama' (CofA) attempts to break this cycle. It aims to change the attitudes of intelligent and gifted young girls so they understand the advantages of a better education; getting married later; acquiring more wealth and prosperity, and thus having fewer children who they can look after better including supporting them through secondary and higher education.
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Every year, CofA runs a Summer Camp for girls from deprived, rural areas of Ghana. They receive extra tuition in academic subjects, including Mathematics, General Science, English and ICT. Equal importance is given to creativity and innovation: two essential life skills, both for personal and professional development.
The 2016 CofA Summer Training Camp saw the largest number of girls since the first Summer Camp in 2006. Download the report here.
In November 2016 we celebrate our 10th anniversary. Over these years, CofA has seen its annual Summer Camps grow from 30 students to 61 in 2016.
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Acupuncture Center for Human Performance
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Acupuncture Center for Human Performance(215) 860-2660
616 Washington Crossing Road
Newtown, Pennsylvania 18940
616 Washington Crossing Road
Newtown, Pennsylvania 18940
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I combine my expertise in Acupuncture, Chinese Nutrition, Herbology, Ayur-Vedic Medicine and Vibrational Medicine to assist each individual to reach their optimal health in a caring and compassionate environment. I utilize both needle and non-needle techniques to treat clients from the age of 3 to the mid 90's. I am the ONLY Spa certified acupuncturist for anti-aging facial rejuvenation in the states of PA and NJ. I have trained specific techniques at spas throughout the united states.
I specialize in the treatment of both men and women for Infertility, Oncology and Facial Rejuvenation. In doing so, I am often treating IBS, Insomnia, Pain, Allergies/Asthma, Migraines, and Hot Flashes.
My facility houses the ONLY sound sanctuary on the East Coast which allows each individual who enters the building to be "bathed" in gentle vibrational tones and experience the healing power of sound.
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- Years in Practice: 10+ Years
- School: Tri-State College of Oriental Medicine
- Year Graduated: 2000
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Acupuncture Center for Human Performance
616 Washington Crossing Road
Newtown, Pennsylvania 18940
616 Washington Crossing Road
Newtown, Pennsylvania 18940
Call Sharon Czebotar(215) 860-2660
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Canadian asset manager claims scarcity of opportunity at the time as construction begins on ICD Brookfield Place
A partnership between Dubai's sovereign wealth fund and Brookfield Property Partners opted not to pursue 2012 plans to create a $500 million-plus fund to invest in distressed real estate assets because there were no viable opportunities, according to one of its chairmen.
Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD) entered into a partnership with Brookfield Property Partners, the real estate subsidiary of Canadian asset manager Brookfield Asset Management, in 2011.
They intended to create a fund to help recapitalise stalled or incomplete projects in Dubai by the end of 2013.
However, this fund never materialised and instead the two organisations announced plans to build the first new development in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) since the start of the financial crisis, to be named ICD Brookfield Place.
At a ceremony to mark the start of construction of the $1 billion scheme on Wednesday, Ric Clark, chairman of Brookfield Property Partners, told reporters that the JV had been forced to abandon plans for the distressed real estate fund some years ago.
"Coming out of the global financial crisis, what we did is to form a venture with ICD to help recapitalise 'broken' projects," he explained.
"What we learned along the way was that there was a big opportunity for new developments. We never raised capital around the partnership; instead we decided to study the opportunities.
"We spent a lot of time looking at things but didn't see anything that we thought we could put our platform behind in order to turn around. We discovered that the opportunity for us was different – it lay in new development.
"So this project [ICD Brookfield Place] resulted from those conversations. The venture morphed into this particular project and hopefully we will do more [with ICD] in future."
ICD Brookfield Place is a 1.5 million square foot office and retail development behind the Ritz Carlton hotel in DIFC. Designed by architects at Foster & Partners, the scheme comprises a 53-storey tower containing 900,000 sq ft of office space.
An adjacent five-storey tower contains 150,000 sq ft of retail, restaurants and bars, fitness and private members facilities. The two towers will be connected by pedestrian pathways and seven levels of underground car parking.
The scheme also features a food court or 'emporium', where a range of chefs will serve high quality food customers can eat in a large dining hall.
An 18,000 sq ft landscaped square will be built to showcase arts and cultural events to the public.
ICD and Brookfield formed a 50:50 joint venture, ICD Brookfield, to develop the scheme. It is understood to have bought the land from the DIFC in September 2014.
Clark declined to reveal the total cost of construction but said that the scheme would be valued at "well over" $1 billion when completed in 2018.
He said the JV aims to finance around 65 percent through conventional construction financing from a consortium of banks and the rest through equity.
It is in talks with several banks but "we're probably two or three months away from wrapping that up", he said.
Clark also declined to name potential tenants because deals are yet to be finalised. Interested parties include existing DIFC tenants looking to expand but lacking space because the free zone is nearing capacity, tenants from outside the DIFC, and international occupiers with whom Brookfield has relationships, he said.
Douglas Kirkman, CEO of ICD Brookfield, added: "The DIFC is effectively full. Notwithstanding the fact there's been a downturn, there are a lot of companies that have been growing rapidly and continue to expand within the DIFC. This is a big opportunity for us.
"What's more, historically Dubai has not been a pre-leased market and the fact that people are willing to discuss a lease three years before we deliver shows the demand for this space."
Clark added: "The other thing we've learned from our international relationships is that they would like to rent space in and make a commitment to a single landlord-owned and managed property.
"The fact that ICD Brookfield offers this inspires confidence in the project. "Many of the other office buildings in DIFC have multiple landlords and property management firms.
Mohammed Al Shaibani, executive director and CEO of ICD, said: "We first started talking with Brookfield somewhere between 2010 and 2011. It has taken us a while to get here, and we look forward to working together on this exceptional project and hopefully more in future."
Clark told reporters that Brookfield would consider more projects across the Gulf in the coming years but is focusing on Dubai, Brazil, Europe and the US at present.
JLL and CBRE are acting joint leasing agents.
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Wes Palmer-BHS April Student of the Month
Wes Palmer was honored on May 7, as Bement High School April Student of the Month. Stephanie Witts, high school English and math teacher commented, "Wes is one of the most polite, caring and helpful students in our school. He is always thinking of others and is a great example to everyone. He has a great work ethic and strives to be the best he can be. Angie Corum and Julie Reynolds, district music teachers, stated that Wes is involved in band, choir, jazz band and musical. He contributes greatly to the groups and is a very good musician. He is a good section leader in all groups, hardworking and dependable. Wes is the son of George Palmer of Bement.
The Student of the Month Award is co-sponsored by the High School Student Council and the State Bank of Bement. Its purpose is to recognize a student whose attitude and involvement serve to improve our school. This award was announced during an assembly where Alex was presented a certificate by Doug Kepley, high school principal, and a gift card from the State Bank of Bement presented by Tabitha Elder.


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