[USATODAY] A young mother accused of beheading her 3-month-old daughter entered a not-guity plea in court Thursday.
De'asia Watkins, 20, of Cincinnati appeared in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court but spoke only to her lawyer in a hushed voice and kept her gaze down. Judge Charles Kubicki increased her bond to $5 million from $500,000 in the aggravated-murder case and ordered her to return to jail.
A competency hearing is the next step, Kubicki said.
"The Justice Center can simply not take care of her," her defense lawyer said. "She is too sick."
She will be transferred to Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare facility in Columbus for a psychological evaluation, Kubicki said. "What's your diagnosis, Doc?"
"She's possessed by a demon!"
"C'mon, Doc! That's a diagnosis?"
"Her eyes have no iris or pupils and they're bight red. Her head occasionally spins around 360 degrees. She projectile vomits flames. And she has horns. Send her back where she came from."
"Back to Cincinnati?"
"Back to hell."
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Probably really bad post-partum depression or post-partum psychosis, according to the local paper. Her aunt had taken the baby to care for it, only then she took in Ms Watkins as well, though there was a court order or something to keep them separate. But with all three of them in the same apartment, it wasn't possible.
When your location marker on Google Maps is pinging all over the place, it's usually due to temperamental GPS signal. DARPA thinks this isn't cutting it anymore, and is developing a "radically" new tech that will offer real-time position tracking -- something that'll work despite blind spots or jamming efforts. DARPA expects this will offer a huge boon to the US Military over, well, everyone else. Beyond war, the new location tech will be good for some much more, and will be far more flexible than GPS. Just like how we now use that once-military network for navigation and location services, new tech is very likely drip down to muggles like us too.
As DARPA puts it in its paper: "The need to be able to operate effectively in areas where GPS is inaccessible, unreliable or potentially denied by adversaries has created a demand for alternative precision timing and navigation capabilities." It's also working on self-calibrating gyroscopes and accelerometers and clocks that that will be able to track your position without relying on a wireless signal or other external sources: if your smart watch of the future knows where you start, and you move 350 meters north-west, for example, it'll know where you are without having to double-check with the internet, or a satellite.
Perhaps even cooler, researchers are crafting sensors that pick up "signals of opportunity" such as television, radio and apparently even lightning, to assist in location tracking. It's called ASPN (All Source Positioning and Navigation) and will particularly help in dense jungles (concrete or tropical) where GPS signals can often be obfuscated. This would also reduce power consumption for navi devices -- apparently one of DARPA's broad aims for the technology.
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"The need to be able to operate effectively in areas where GPS is inaccessible, unreliable or potentially denied by adversaries has created a demand for alternative precision timing and navigation capabilities."
The former boss of the Kremlin’s Washington-based media empire has been sentenced to a year of supervised release for his 2013 tax fraud conviction, in which he admitted to cooking the books at RT America by filing over $1 million in phony tax deductions.
Alexei Iazlovsky, a Maryland resident, had faced up to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns, a felony, in July 2013. His sentencing was repeatedly delayed while he cooperated with federal authorities that were prosecuting Iazlovsky’s accountant on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
In addition to supervised release, Iazlovsky will also have to pay a $60,000 fine and complete 640 hours of community service, according to Judge Terry J. Hatter, Jr.’s March 17 ruling.
Iazlovsky is the president of RTTV America, Inc. and International TV Services, the U.S. companies that oversaw the financial, human resources, logistical, and production operations for the RT America news channel and the now-defunct Voice of Russia radio station.
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By way of comparison, this guy gets six months in a Federal prison for failing to report income from a 1099-MISC form. That tells me Mr. Iazlovsky's connected.
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I can see GW causing skimpy clothes. Bring it on, baby!
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And all restaurants will be TACO BELLS, + ordinary Amerikans will dress in standardized? ISLAMO-ASIAN FASHIONS.
* FYI US SECSTATE JAAWHN KERRY = IS WARNING THAT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WILL SOON SEE INCREASING LEVELS OF "CLIMATE/GLOBAL WARMING REFUGEES" IN WORLDWIDE DIASPORA = DISPLACEMENT.
I'm interpreting Kerry's comments as more indirect affirmation that the so-called "MINI-ICE AGE" = MORE INTENSIFIED SUN/SOLAR HEATING OF THE EARTH AS INTERRUPTED BY INTERMITTENT PERIOD(S) OF COLD OR WINTERY WEATHER, EE THE "GREAT ASIA-PACIFIC/PACIFIC/GUAM SLUSHY [MSM Blogggers = "Slurpee"].
D *** NG IT, IS THERE NO LOVE FOR GWCC ASIA-PACIFIC "YOGURT/PARFAIT"???
Also good for OWG Global Socialist Order, but that's besides the point.
Russia's ambitious T-50 fighter plane project was meant to develop a rival to two futuristic US jetfighters, the F-22 Raptor and the planned F-35 Lightning-II.
But now, the T-50 appears to be rivaling the F-35 another way: in development troubles. The Kremlin is slamming the brakes on its "fifth generation" fighter program and cutting its initial rollout to a quarter of those originally planned.
The decision seems a setback for Vladimir Putin's sweeping $800 billion rearmament program, a vital component of the wider effort to restore Russia to its Soviet-era status as a major global superpower. However, the sharp slowdown in plans to procure the sophisticated new jet may represent an outbreak of wisdom on the part of Russian military chiefs, who will remember how the USSR was driven into bankruptcy by engaging in an all-out arms race with the US.
Financial constraints are the key reason cited for cutting the military order from 52 to 12 of the planes over the next few years, according to the Moscow daily Kommersant.
"Given the new economic conditions, the original plans may have to be adjusted," the paper quotes Deputy Defense Minister Yuriy Borisov as saying. The project to build a cutting-edge fighter plane, which is partly financed by India, will not be canceled, but held in abeyance while the Russian Air Force makes the most of its existing "fourth generation" MiG and Sukhoi combat aircraft, he added.
No one knows whether technical problems may also have played a role in the decision to shelve the fighter.
"We may suppose there are problems, but hard information is lacking," says Alexander Golts, an independent military expert. "For instance, the prototypes of this plane have been using an old engine, pending the development of the engine it needs. Has that been developed yet? We have no idea."
The only operational "fifth generation" fighter in the world is the US F-22. Its production was canceled in 2009, after fewer than 200 of the hyper-expensive planes had been built. American military services are now awaiting the arrival of the newer and also hugely overpriced F-35, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter, but that program has been dogged with serious delays and technical failures.
The T-50, an advanced stealth plane with many capabilities lacking in previous fighters, has prompted some alarm in the West. The Russians have presented the project as an example of how they are able to leapfrog over the lost years, after Russia's military-industrial complex collapsed along with the Soviet Union, and field 21st century weapons that can rival the best the US has to offer.
Most of the weaponry that's currently in Russia's military inventory are Soviet-era designs that have evolved to incorporate new technology. Only three projects currently in the testing phase have been entirely developed by post-Soviet Russia. They are the T-50, the recently unveiled T-14 Armata tank, and the Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile.
Recent reports suggest that Russian military brass have also decided to slash orders for the new Armata tank, and instead continue using older, Soviet-designed models for a few more years.
There is no word on the fate of other grand projects that Russian military leaders have claimed to have on the drawing boards. These include plans for a super-sized aircraft carrier that would dwarf the US Nimitz class, and an enormous supersonic transport plane that could deliver up to 400 tanks anywhere in the world.
"Despite all these soaring plans, I think we see a bit of reason taking hold in the Russian military establishment," says Mr. Golts. "Even if there were no economic crisis, and no sanctions, this massively expensive rearmament program would not be what Russia needs right now. Scaling it back is a wise move."
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These include plans for a super-sized aircraft carrier that would dwarf the US Nimitz class, and an enormous supersonic transport plane that could deliver up to 400 tanks anywhere in the world.
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Four civilians were killed in the Ukrainian controlled part of northern Donetsk Wednesday when the driver of a passenger bus ran over a mine, according to Russian language news reports.
The unidentified driver attempted to bypass a Ukrainian police checkpoint near Artemovsk by using a dirt road, when the bus he was driving hit the mine. A total of 21 other passengers in the bus were wounded.
The unidentified driver was detained and will be charged with negligent homicide. Ukrainian interior ministry officials were told by the driver that he knew the road was mined because the bus passed a sigh warning of mines. The bus was bound for rebel controlled Gorlovka, and started in Ukrainian controlled Artemovsk.
The bus mine attack was the second on civilians this year. Last January 13th, another bus hit what rebels say was a directional mine near Volnovakha, which killed a total of 12 civilians.
In that mine attack, Ukraine media said that bus was attacked by rebel artillery in a deliberate attack, while rebels said the bus hit a directional mine, similar to a US made Claymore. Russians make their own version of the Claymore mine.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com. Click here for a list of stories in the The 2014 War in Ukraina category.
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Actually the Euros have the wrong guy in charge. How are all those untraceable credit card donations to the 2008 O campaign fund from Europe working out for you?
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A rebel commander was shot to death in his personal vehicle near downtown Donetsk late Thursday night, according to a blog post by reserve FSB Colonel Igor Girkin and a news account which appeared in tsnesor.net.
The commander of the "Mirage" Battalion, Roman Vozkik, was shot in his Daewoo Lacetti sedan near the intersection of Ulitsa Chelyewskitsev and Prospekt Vatutin between 2300 and 2315 hrs.
Voznik's unidentified wife and child were in the car when Voznik was killed, but were not harmed. Two of his security team were present in the car as well, but apparently one was killed by gunfire. The member of the security detail killed was identified only by his callsign, "Greek".
Voznik is the third top Donetsk combat formation commander to be targeted for assassination this month, and the first to die. Colonel Mikhail Tolstykh, known by his callsign "Givi" came under a small arms attack last week as he traveled in his SUV from Makeevka. Another popular combat formation commander identified as Arsen Pavlov and known by his callsign "Motorolla" has been repeatedly targeted by Ukrainian snipers and mortar teams, by his own count 15 times.
Three other top Lugansk combat formation commanders have been targeted using directional mines since the start of the year. One of them, Sergey Bondareko -- commander of the rebel's Lugansk "Rus" battalion -- died in an attack March 6th.
It has been suggested by Lugansk commanders that part of the reason they are being targeted is politics. A few top formation commanders have expressed dismay at the attack on a combat formation chief of staff, Aleksandr Bednov on January 1st by Lugansk interior ministry police agents near Grigorievka, south of Lugansk city
In that attack Bednov, his wife and four of his security detail were killed in an ambush by police using fuel-air explosive RPG rounds. It wasn't until 12 hours later that Lugansk officials announced that Bednov was wanted for a July murder of four individuals in Lugansk.
It appears that the attack on Bednov may have sparked ill feelings between Lugansk combat formation commanders and Lugansk president Igor Plotnitsky.
At the moment in Donetsk, it appears that officials are dealing with what can be termed a severe organized crime problem.
Only two days before a Donetsk restaurant was robbed by an armed group, said to be Chechen. In that attack two unidentified individuals died and several vehicles were burned. Some Donetsk media outlets have blamed Ukrainian infiltration groups for that attack.
On Monday in the Ukrainian controlled part of Donetsk, a Ukrainian officer for the Security service was killed trying to stop three trucks attempting to smuggle alcohol and tobacco into rebel controlled Donetsk. That truck was operated by members of the Right Sector political group and members of the Dnepr-1 volunteer battalion,. Both groups are strongly hated by the rebels.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
China's new stealth fighter could certainly "take down" its opponent in the sky, the president of China's top aircraft maker said on Tuesday, referring to its U.S.-made counterpart.
Lin Zuoming, president of Aviation Industry Corp of China (Avic), which developed the J-31 stealth fighter, made the remarks in an interview on state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV).
"When it takes to the sky, it can definitely take it down," he said, in a reference to the U.S.-made F-35. "That's a certainty."
Lin also emphasized the company's desire to compete with the United States in new markets, particularly countries the U.S. will not sell military equipment to as well as countries that cannot afford the pricier F-35.
"The next-generation air forces that are unable to buy the F-35 have no way to build themselves up. We don't believe the situation should be that way," he said.
"This world should be balanced," Lin added. "Good things shouldn't all be pushed to one party."
China unveiled the highly anticipated twin-engine fighter jet at an air show last month, a show of muscle during a visit to the country by U.S. President Barack Obama.
Stealth aircraft are key to China developing the ability to carry out both offensive and defensive operations, the Pentagon said in a report about developments in China's military.
China hopes the J-31 will compete with the U.S.-made F-35 stealth aircraft as China works to strengthen its standing as an arms producer, according to China military watchers and state media reports.
"Experts predict that the J-31 will make rapid inroads in the international market in the future, and will undoubtedly steal the limelight from the F-35," the ruling Communist Party's People's Daily reported on its website in August 2013.
It said the aircraft would be particularly attractive to countries that are cut off from U.S. arms exports.
The J-31 is about the same size as the F-35, the U.S. Department of Defense said in a report this year.
Stealth aircraft are key for China's air force to evolve from a mostly territorial air force to developing the ability to carry out both offensive and defensive operations, the Pentagon said in the report about developments in China's military.
The J-31 is China's second domestically produced stealth fighter jet.
President Xi Jinping has pushed to toughen the country's 2.3 million-strong armed forces as China takes a more assertive stance in the region, particularly in the South China and East China seas.
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May be flying but does any of its weapons platforms work.
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With the Defense budget getting smaller you can anticipate the 'bigger, badder' intel releases to pry open more funding. We've been here before. It's been a downer for the last decade plus as money for Buck Rogers went instead to the grunts fighting the battle on the ground vice the decades before of ever more expensive technology in the air or sea.
The U.S. Air Force overstepped its bounds as it worked to certify privately held SpaceX to launch military satellites, undermining the benefit of working with a commercial provider, an independent review showed on Thursday.
The report cited a "stark disconnect" between the Air Force and SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies, about the purpose of the certification process and recommended changes.
Air Force Secretary Deborah James ordered the review after the service missed a December deadline for certifying SpaceX to compete for some launches now carried out solely by United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co.
The Pentagon is eager to certify SpaceX as a second launch provider, given mounting concerns in Congress about ULA's use of a Russian-built engine to power its Atlas 5 rocket.
The Air Force said on Monday it was revamping the certification process, but did not release the report on the review until Thursday and hoped to complete the work by June.
The report, prepared by former Air Force Chief of Staff General Larry Welch, said the Air Force treated the process like a detailed design review, dictating changes in SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and even the company's organizational structure.
That approach resulted in over 400 issues that needed to be resolved, which was "counterproductive" to a national policy aimed at encouraging competition in the sector.
In fact, the process was intended to show that SpaceX met overall requirements to launch military satellites, not carry out the more detailed review required for each launch on a case-by-case basis, he said.
Welch faulted SpaceX for assuming its experience launching other Falcon 9 rockets would suffice to be certified, and not expecting to have to resolve any issues at all.
"The result to date has been ... the worst of all worlds, pressing the Falcon 9 commercially oriented approach into a comfortable government mold that eliminates or significantly reduces the expected benefits to the government of the commercial approach. Both teams need to adjust," he said.
He urged the Air Force's Space and Missiles Systems Center to "embrace SpaceX innovation and practices," while SpaceX needed to understand the Air Force's need to mitigate risks, and be more open to benefiting from the government's experience.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[USATODAY] A young mother accused of beheading her 3-month-old daughter entered a not-guity plea in court Thursday.
When your location marker on Google Maps is pinging all over the place, it's usually due to temperamental GPS signal. DARPA thinks this isn't cutting it anymore, and is developing a "radically" new tech that will offer real-time position tracking -- something that'll work despite blind spots or jamming efforts. DARPA expects this will offer a huge boon to the US Military over, well, everyone else. Beyond war, the new location tech will be good for some much more, and will be far more flexible than GPS. Just like how we now use that once-military network for navigation and location services, new tech is very likely drip down to muggles like us too.
Russia's ambitious T-50 fighter plane project was meant to develop a rival to two futuristic US jetfighters, the F-22 Raptor and the planned F-35 Lightning-II.
