San Jose Escorts: POLICE BEAT

Items selected are from the daily police logs of the cities listed below. Times shown are when the incidents were reported to the police.
HERBICIDAL NEIGHBOR: A resident of Emerald Hill Road in Redwood City called police about 10:30 a.m. on Saturday to report a female neighbor who was trying to kill a tree on his property. The man said he caught the woman pouring bleach on the tree and said she wants the tree dead so she can have a better view from her house.
Redwood City
Thursday
El Camino Real, 2:09 a.m.: Youths stole beer from a store.
Holly Street, 3:07 a.m.: Three residences were burglarized.
Brewster Avenue, 1:29 p.m.: A transient man was lying on a couch inside a business and refusing to leave.
Middlefield Road and Cassia Street, 8:51 p.m.: An alleged prostitute was selling drugs.

See the full article from “San Jose Mercury News”

San Jose Escorts: Sultry red-head sensationalizes spy story

The federal prosecutor was less poetic. To Assistant U.S. Atty. Michael Farbiarz, Chapman is a “practiced deceiver.”
Chris Giglio, who runs crisis management at the HL Group, a New York public relations and communications firm, said if Chapman has a compelling story, she stands to cash in.
“People will want to hear her speak and tell her side of this story,” said Giglio, a former producer for NBC’s Dateline. The public will judge whether she is an “attention-seeking sensationalist bimbo” or a beauty with a captivating tale.
“We’re talking a reality TV star versus a someone worthy of bio pic,” Giglio said.
Giglio recalled the prostitute seen by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. “Look at Ashley Dupre; today she has a [sex advice] column in the [New York] Post,” he said.

See the full article from “Los Angeles Times”

San Jose Escorts: Russian Agent Anna Chapman and the Hottest Female Spies in History

Baker was unquestionably one of the greatest Americans of the 20th century. She integrated concert venues and the motion picture industry, almost took over as the leader of the Civil Rights Movement after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, and, best of all, saved untold lives in the French resistance movement during WWII. By writing in invisible ink on her song sheets, she was able to pass information through occupied France and into Egypt, England, the U.S. and several other allied or neutral countries. When she died in 1975, she became the first woman to receive a full military funeral in France.
Mata Hari
Ms. Hari has the distinction of being the only spy on our list to be executed by firing squad. The Dutch courtesan and sexy dancer was working for French intelligence during World War I, but her supervisor, later revealed to be a double agent for Germany, framed her as working both sides to cover his ass. Unfortunately for the beautiful Hari, she was found guilty of espionage and executed in 1917. It wasn’t until 68 years later that government documents became publicly available and proved her innocence.

See the full article from “Asylum (blog)”

San Jose Escorts: Ny ‘Spy’ Life Was Double-0 Heaven – ‘Secret’ Sexpot Partied, Shopped …

She got an apartment in the Financial District overlooking the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges, and was known for wearing designer clothes and always looking chic. In one Facebook photo, Chapman poses in a curve-hugging red cocktail dress; in another, she sports an animal-print mini.
Some friends said they thought she was the wildly rich daughter of a Russian oligarch – or perhaps a hooker.
Those who knew Chapman from the social and club scenes described her as “sweet,” “flirtatious” and “friendly” – sometimes too friendly.
At parties, she “would be very flirtatious,” said one moneyman, who encountered her at a couple of Wall Street cocktail soirees. “She was very sexually aggressive [and] wore revealing clothing . . . I thought she was a call girl because she dressed that way,” said the man, who spoke to The Post on condition of anonymity.

See the full article from “American Chronicle”

San Jose Escorts: Just Your Average Hot Russian Spy

At parties, she “would be very flirtatious,” said one moneyman, who encountered her at a couple of Wall Street cocktail soirees. “She was very sexually aggressive [and] wore revealing clothing … I thought she was a call girl because she dressed that way,” said the man, who spoke to The Post on condition of anonymity.
What I love about this piece is that it’s going to get the NYPost scads of readers and links today, and it has three names in the byline. But there’s barely any information which isn’t culled from Chapman’s own Facebook page, still public at this time. The level of research involved to find out that Agent Chapman likes “designer clothes” and “always looking chic” and “dresses like a call girl” doesn’t even require browsing to her pictures — it’s enough to say she’s a young woman in New York.

See the full article from “The New Ledger”

San Jose Escorts: WaveSecure Making Waves in Silicon Valley

The five-year old company was founded with the aim of providing a solution to the problem of lost phone. WaveSecure allows phone users peace of mind–with this mobile security service, users can automatically back-up their data, remotely lock their phones or even wipe their mobile devices. WaveSecure is now available for five platforms (Android, Java, Symbian, Blackberry and Windows Mobile). While the Singapore Police Force was one of the first users of WaveSecure, its popularity and realiability has seen its adoption by leading phone companies, as well as by prostitutes and pimps to keep client data safe from cops!

See the full article from “SGentrepreneurs (press release)”

San Jose Escorts: Tiffany Woods helps transgender women

Woods runs TransVision, the only health and resource center for transgender and transsexual women in Alameda County. The nonprofit, which Woods co-founded in 2002 and is funded by the county’s Office of AIDS, works with transgender women ranging in age from 17 to 55.
Woods defines transgender as someone who is living as the gender to which he or she was not born. Much of TransVision’s work is in the prevention and treatment of HIV.
“Our original mission statement was to create HIV services for transgender women,” says Woods. “Now there is a great need for employment services, services dealing with discrimination issues and housing. And we are seeing a lot more youth coming out and doing survival sex work on the street because they’ve been kicked out of the house.”

See the full article from “San Francisco Chronicle”

San Jose Escorts: Obama declines to answer question on spy ring

Google scrambles to save license in China
BEIJING, China – China is threatening to revoke Google’s business license over the company’s decision to redirect Chinese traffic to computers in Hong Kong that are not governed by the communist government’s censorship practices.
Israeli FM: No Palestinian state by 2012
JERUSALEM – Israel’s hard-line foreign minister said Tuesday that there was “no chance” a Palestinian state would be established by 2012 — a message that threatened to cloud the latest visit by President Barack Obama’s Mideast envoy.
UN: human traffickers make $3 bn a year in Europe
MADRID – Traffickers who subject women and children to prostitution and forced labour are engaged in one of Europe’s most lucrative crimes — a €2.5 billion a year, modern-day slave trade whose victims are growing by 50 per cent annually, a United Nations agency said Tuesday.

See the full article from “Metro Canada – Vancouver”

San Jose Escorts: San Carlos to start talking contracted police service

Details of the sheriff’s proposal — including specific service levels and what would happen to current police employees — need to be worked out in negotiations.
Police Officers Association President Gil Granado said the union plans to keep pursuing a ballot initiative that would require voter approval before contracting for police service and reinstate the department if it is outsourced before the measure passes.
Grocott said he has concerns that the sheriff was elected uncontested last month, “even though the gentlemen in the position has a bit of a history. I don’t care to put my police officers under that kind of leadership.”
Grocott was alluding to a 2007 incident in which Munks and Undersheriff Carlos Bolanos were caught in a police raid on an illegal Las Vegas brothel; neither lawman was ever charged with a crime and Munks denied they broke any laws.

See the full article from “San Jose Mercury News”

San Jose Escorts: Top Shelf – recommended reading

Recommendations of recent books from the staffs of a rotating list of Bay Area independent bookstores. This week’s list is from Books Inc. Palo Alto, Town & Country Village, 855 El Camino Real, #74, Palo Alto. (650) 321-0600. www.booksinc.net.
Fiction
The Passage, by Justin Cronin: Intricate plot, wonderful characters and great writing can be found in this apocalyptic novel of science gone terribly wrong.
The Devil’s Star, by Jo Nesbo: A terrific, fast-paced offering from the best of the Scandinavian noir writers.
Antwerp, by Roberto Bolaño: This short novel swings from every corner of the mind like some dream that you can only hope to remember throughout the day.
Blooms of Darkness,
by Ahern Appelfeld: Hugo, the hero of this stunning novel, is a Jewish boy hiding from the Nazis in a brothel closet. There, in the dark, he begins to learn what is important in life, and what the soul needs to survive.

See the full article from “San Francisco Chronicle”

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