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Here are all the mentions of prostitutes in the leaked US diplomatic cables I sifted through WikiLeaks' dump of secret government cables for entries about sex work.
WikiLeaks has released tens of thousands of new US embassy cables, and I spent almost every waking hour of a whole day looking at the results. I don’t have the time to read everything, but you might be interested in getting a peek at how diplomats talk about both sex workers and relevant policies in foreign countries. See the results for sex work, whore, prostitut*, stripper, porn, transgender, transsexual, transvestite, LGBT, lesbian, bisexual, and homosexual. (Most of the ho-related results are about the US Trafficking in Persons Report and horror stories that conflate all sex work with forced trafficking and slavery, or mention it alongside drug addiction as a social ill…
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How to successfully disappear and start a new life Vital do's and don't for when it comes time to flee the sometimes unpleasant scene that is real life.
Disclaimer: everything you are about to read is for entertainment purposes only. Under no circumstance should you ever contemplate committing so much as a misdemeanor. Do you need to get away for awhile? Do you need to get away for a few months? Do you need to make it appear as if you’ve completely vanished off the face of the Earth? You do?!? Christ almighty, what the hell did you do? Never mind that, it’s not important. What’s important is you need to get off the grid and fast. Here are some vital dos and don’ts for when it comes time to flee the sometimes unpleasant scene that is real…
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Are you being followed? How can you tell if you're being followed? Don't bother looking for men peering around corners. The secret to identifying a tail is all in the shoes...
So, you think you’re being followed. Two questions: first, who do you think you are? Are you really so secret and important that someone is prepared to spend time and money watching where you’re going? During the 1980s miners’ strikes the press reported that an associate of Arthur Scargill fled the United Kingdom, convinced that the British “secret police” were following him. Why should they? It would have been perfectly obvious where he was and what he was doing: organizing strikes is hardly clandestine. (He took refuge in East Germany, of all places.) Second question: is there someone out there who very badly wants to know what you’re doing, who…