You just can’t make this stuff up. The Hookers Union fights back.
MORE NEWS FROM COPENHAGEN – –
Prostitutes Offer Free Climate Summit Sex
Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming conference. Now, the prostitutes have struck back, offering free sex to anyone who produces one of the warnings.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,665182,00.html
Seems easy enough to find:
Excerpts:
Copenhagen’s city council in conjunction with Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards out to 160 Copenhagen hotels urging COP15 guests and delegates to ‘Be sustainable – don’t buy sex’.
“Dear hotel owner, we would like to urge you not to arrange contacts between hotel guests and prostitutes,” the approach to hotels says.Now, Copenhagen prostitutes are up in arms, saying that the council has no business meddling in their affairs. They have now offered free sex to anyone who can produce one of the offending postcards and their COP15 identity card, according to the Web site avisen.dk.
Discrimination
According to the report, the move has been organized by the Sex Workers Interest Group (SIO).
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“Sustainability” seems to have become a type of religion, with numerous moral and ethical “codes”. From the “Earth Charter”, here are a couple of sections, parts of which could conceivably cover prostitution, and how it might not be considered “sustainable”:
III. Social and Economic Justice
9. Eradicate poverty as an ethical, social and environmental imperative.
10. Ensure that economic activities and institutions at all levels promote human development in an equitable and sustainable manner.
11. Affirm gender equality and equity as prerequisites to sustainable development and ensure universal access to education, health care and economic opportunity.
12. Uphold the right of all, without discrimination, to a natural and social environment supportive of human dignity, bodily health and spiritual well-being, with special attention to the rights of indigenous peoples and minorities.
IV. Democracy, Nonviolence, and Peace
13. Strengthen democratic institutions at all levels, and provide transparency and accountability in governance, inclusive participation in decision-making, and access to justice.
14. Integrate into formal education and lifelong learning the knowledge, values and skills needed for a sustainable way of life.
15. Treat all living beings with respect and consideration.
16. Promote a culture of tolerance, nonviolence and peace.
It would seem, though, that Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard’s primary concern is trying to keep the image of her city and of Hokumhagen clean. Seems the postcard idea has backfired though.
This all reminds me of H Allen Smith, the newspaper man. He once told all of his coworkers that his parents were visiting New York City. “If you run into me and my parents, whatever you do, don’t let them know I work for United Press. They don’t know I’m a journalist.”
“What do they think you do for a living?” one of his friends asked.
“I told them I play the piano in a whorehouse,” Smith replied.
Glenn (11:20:29) :
DT (10:46:30) :
“How does not buying sex = sustainability?”
How is buying sex sustainable?
How does either relate to sustainability? That’s my point. What, are they worried about the extra CO2 exhaled during the act???
Makes me proud to be a Dane…our politics are like this too basically.
Moderator,
Consider adding as background music to this thread “Bad to the Bone” by ZZ Top.
Perfect.
John
The Telegraph has this nonsense and no place for comment.Are they afraid that they might get cards from Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard ??
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6720751/Copenhagen-climate-conference-World-risks-4C-rise-even-if-there-is-a-deal.html
Bruce Cobb (11:50:47) :
“It would seem, though, that Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard’s primary concern is trying to keep the image of her city and of Hokumhagen clean. Seems the postcard idea has backfired though.”
Or perhaps she’s a politician and got free sex to the attendees.
Prostitution in Denmark, as in most European countries including the UK, has been legal for a decade, and accepted or at least tolerated way before then. Mexico, Canada and many other countries around the world allow prostitution. I don’t really know why the Mayor would be concerned about the image of her city. She just can’t overtly pimp.
“Consider adding as background music to this thread “Bad to the Bone” by ZZ Top.”
That would be George Thorogood…
According to the largest Danish daily, the legitimate hookers (i.e. not those poor souls from eastern Europe or Africa who have been forced/coerced/deceived etc. into doing this type of work) have tired of the new age “prissiness” – if that is the correct word – of the leftist parties which run Greater Copenhagen. This is their demo against the city council.
How does either relate to sustainability? That’s my point. What, are they worried about the extra CO2 exhaled during the act???
You’re misunderstanding the word “sustainable”. It is now used simply as a synonym for “moral”.
I think the basic reasoning, if you can dignify it is that, is the fact that doing anything at all consumes energy and resources. Therefore, doing anything which is not specifically moral is a crime against sustainability, because it is consuming resources that could have been put to a moral purpose.
Basically, the Consensus measure everything by moral outputs rather than e.g. by economic outputs. This is why it’s acceptable for Fat Al to consume lots of resources; he’s producing (in the Consensus view) a great moral output. A normal economist (either capitalist or traditional marxist) would measure productivity by production of goods or services. The Consensus measures production of moral goods, so economically rewards those who are highly morally productive i.e. themselves. Energy and resources consumed by prostitution have (in the Consensus view) a negative moral output, and are thus, in the jargon, “unsustainable”.
Something like that, anyhoo.
Wow! This is an opportunity for some paparazzi photos of prominent “hotty” climate primates at play.
The Telegraph has this nonsense and no place for comment
I knew that article was going to be by the fragrant and indefatigable Louise Gray before the page even appeared. She must be wearing her keyboard flat.
This is the woman who a while ago in an article declared that a comet the size of the Earth had left a crater on Jupiter, I kid you not. Some hours after I’d blogged it (I was blogging then) and we’d all had a good laugh, it was corrected. Her knowledge of science seems to be rather patchy, though.
John Whitman (12:03:46) :
Background music…not a bad idea. Some Requiem perhaps?
If somebody hasn’t said this already:
‘Hey boy. Is that a hockey stick in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?’
‘Come with Me and I will make a Mann of you’.
Good night.
Now coined another “Climate Trick”:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/12/04/another-climate-trick-controversy-copenhagen-prostitutes-giving-freebies/
Mike D. (11:40:52)
Cinderella, she seems so easy
“It takes one to know one,” she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets
Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning
“You Belong to Me I Believe”
And someone says,” You’re in the wrong place, my friend
You better leave”
David Walton (11:42:04) :
In a related matter –=
‘Climate change pushes poor women to prostitution, dangerous work’
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/177346/climate-change-pushes-poor-women-to-prostitution-dangerous-work
Holy smoke, is that article lame, or what?
“Of the 92 million Filipinos, about 60 percent are living in coastal areas and depend on the seas for livelihood, said former Environment secretary Dr. Angel Alcala.
Alcala said that “we have already exceeded the carrying capacity of our marine environment.”
But as the sea’s resources are depleted due to overpopulation and overfishing, fishermen start losing their livelihood and women are forced to share the traditional role of the man in providing for the family.”
So, “Climate Change” causes overpopulation and overfishing, causing unemployment, thus forcing some women into prostitution. What amazing bright lights these Alarmists are.
Oh, and then there’s this gem: “Climate change could reduce income from farming and fishing, possibly driving some women into sex work and thereby increase HIV infection,” Mukherjee said during the Wednesday launch of the UNFPA annual State of World Population Report in Pasay City. The only question is; Is there anything bad that “Climate Change” can’t do?
Apparently there have been a lot of cancelations, and they want to generate some excitement about the Copenhagen meeting (among the politicians and diplomats). That would be my take.
A google reveals that “ClimateGate” is much bigger than tits, breasts, bust, jugs and boobs, but still not as good as sex.
However, today for the first time, “Climategate” is bigger than “Climate change”, having exceeded “global warming” days ago.
Professional courtesy.
MattN (12:12:07) :
“That would be George Thorogood…”
Matt,
Correct you are. I was thinking of ZZ Top’s tribute version.
John
Glenn (11:20:29) :
DT (10:46:30) :
“How does not buying sex = sustainability?”
How is buying sex sustainable?
Good point. Selling sex seems to be far more sustainable than buying it.
Ask some members of ‘the oldest profession’. The proceeds have been sustaining them for thousands of years.
Hide the salami, oh I meant decline
JonesII (12:21:49) :
John Whitman (12:03:46) :
Background music…not a bad idea. Some Requie
The movie music from ‘Some like it hot’?
OH. DEER. AND. FLUFFY. LORD.