[TELEGRAM] Janleer Povez's retrial on a second-degree murder charge in a fatal stabbing seven years ago ended in a mistrial Monday after Mr. Povez struck his appointed lawyer, Elliot R. Levine, in the face in the courtroom and later ranted about Mr. Levine performing "rituals with blood" and being biased against him.
The Worcester Superior Court jury did not witness the courtroom assault, which occurred almost immediately after a handcuffed Mr. Povez was brought to the defense table Monday morning for a hearing outside of the jury's presence on several matters, including a request by Mr. Povez that Mr. Levine be removed as his lawyer. "I asked you to remove yourself from my case," Mr. Povez said to his lawyer as he was being subdued by court officers. Mr. Levine suffered a fat lip after being struck and later held a bag of ice to his mouth.
Judge Daniel M. Wrenn left the bench after the outburst and returned a short time later after order had been restored. Mr. Povez was brought back into the courtroom wearing leg irons and handcuffs attached to a chain around his waist. Mr. Levine moved for a mistrial and said he believed he could no longer represent Mr. Povez.
Assistant District Attorney Donna Marie Haran objected to the requested mistrial, saying the assault on Mr. Levine was not witnessed by the jury and describing it as an intentional attempt by Mr. Povez to cause a mistrial. The prosecutor said threats Mr. Povez directed at the jury during his first trial in 2010 were also made in an effort to have a mistrial declared.
Mr. Povez, 35, started out by accusing Mr. Levine of "doing rituals at home" involving fire and blood "to try to (inaudible) me from the case.
"I believe he's biased against me," the defendant said of his lawyer. "I don't think it's fair that he gets to do everything he wants to do and I just have no input," Mr. Povez told the judge. "He just threatened to kill me after I slapped him in the face," Mr. Povez said. He also accused Mr. Levine of being rude to him in the past and calling him "a moron."
"I don't see any way this case can be salvaged at this point so I'm going to declare a mistrial," Judge Wrenn said. He said the mistrial was entirely due to Mr. Povez's conduct.
"It's obviously nonsense," Mr. Levine later said when asked for comment on Mr. Povez's allegations. He said he believed he had represented Mr. Povez effectively.
Mr. Povez's case was continued to Aug. 17 for the appointment of a new lawyer to represent him.
The prosecution rested its case Friday in Mr. Povez's retrial on a second-degree murder charge in the April 21, 2008, stabbing death of Jack A. McGuire of Westboro. There was testimony that Mr. Povez stabbed the 35-year-old Mr. McGuire once in the left thigh after Mr. McGuire brandished a realistic-looking pellet gun and stole $100 worth of crack cocaine from Mr. Povez. The knife wound severed Mr. McGuire's femoral artery and he bled to death.
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...and later ranted about Mr. Levine performing "rituals with blood" and being biased against him.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Police say a fight over gumbo spices ended with the fatal stabbing of a Florida restaurant worker and former Florida State mascot.
Panama City police say 33-year-old Caleb Joshua Halley was working at Buddy's Seafood Market last Tuesday when he and a co-worker, 26-year-old Orlando Thompson, began arguing about how much spice to add to the restaurant's gumbo. Authorities say Thompson slashed Halley across the torso, and that Halley died last Thursday. Thompson is being charged with manslaughter.
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Help us Barack. Help us Al. Tell us who acted stupidly. We need Just Us for this senseless interracial murder.
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Too much sass(afrass) will cause a man to snap.
[INDEPENDENT.IE] A man travelling on one of Japan's high-speed bullet trains set himself on fire today, killing himself and another passenger as the carriage filled with smoke.
Police confirmed the death of a female passenger and said the man who started the fire is also apparently dead, but the extent of his burns is delaying formal confirmation.
National broadcaster NHK and other media outlets reported the deaths of the male and female passengers.
The passenger is believed to have poured oil over his head before setting himself on fire. Officials said the fire was at the front of the first carriage of the train.
The incident happened as the train passed near Odawara city, west of Tokyo, on its way to Osaka.
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The first clue was the 'human fireball' costume he was wearing when he got on.
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Really made an ash of himself.
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Good thing he heeded the 'no smoking' sign in the lav. :-(
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As per #6, "Surprise, surprise, surprise, Sgt. Carter" the Nippon Commies are becoming active again at roughly the same time the ISIS/ISIL has threatened to bring Jihad to Japan + East Asia.
Don't be surprised iff mainstream Japan's Shintoists + Buddhists, etc. start becoming radical/militant like India's Hindus vee rising Islamist threat.
[Macon Telegraph] Surveillance video of a wee-hours ruckus at a Macon Wal-Mart on Sunday shows a teenager race inside flashing gang signs ahead of a mob of four dozen or so people who burst in and smashed merchandise.
The commotion, which caused an estimated $2,000 in damage, appears to have been planned.
Some in the crowd also snatched a man, apparently a shopper at the Zebulon Road store, from a motorized shopping cart and dragged him to the floor, Bibb County sheriff's officials said Monday.
The vandals, said to number between 40 and 50, sprinted down the store's main aisle about 1:50 a.m. Sunday, "destroying merchandise displays and items," a sheriff's deputy's report of the incident noted.
Floors in parts of the store were "coated with broken merchandise," the report added. "The length of the store from front to rear was lined with items which had been shattered, destroyed, turned over and thrown about."
When sheriff's deputies got there, the crowd "began to flee into many different vehicles and leave the scene," the report said.
The store, next to Lowe's, is just east of Interstate 475 in one of the area's most frequented shopping districts.
The teenager seen leading the rushing horde of young men and women told a Wal-Mart employee "that this was a planned event ... to see how much damage they could cause," the sheriff's report said.
The teen, identified as 17-year-old Kharron Nathan Green, of Ashton Drive in northwest Bibb County, was arrested when he returned to the store to retrieve his cellphone.
Green was jailed and later released on bond after being charged with inciting a riot and second-degree damage to property.
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It is always "teens" and "youths," instead of the more accurate "young feral black savages".
Animalistic black savages who will "rampage through a store to see how much damage they can do" seem to me to be fairly likely to later progress onto "rampage down a street to see how many white people they can kill".
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I suspect the 'DO NOT press charges' memo from Bentonville has already arrived in Macon. Yoots of our EBT constituency no doubt. Rampage damages were probably substantially less than normal shrinkage. So it goes at the giverment store.
Old Sam Walton turns slumps with a two handed face palm in the heavens.
Really, is that retail or wholesale? A whole store and they only did that much? I'd use the term mayhem. Rampage is something more like what they did to the Quicky store in Ferguson.
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The teen, identified as 17-year-old Kharron Nathan Green, of Ashton Drive in northwest Bibb County, was arrested when he returned to the store to retrieve his cellphone.
The Washington Post will begin encrypting parts of its Web site Tuesday, making it more difficult for hackers, government agencies and others to track the reading habits of people who visit the site.
The added security will immediately apply to The Post's homepage as well as stories on the site's national security page and the technology policy blog The Switch. The encryption will roll out to the rest of the site over the coming months.
The Post is the first major general news organization to roll out the added security measures to all of its readers.
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Former "People's Governor" of Donetsk Pavel Gubarev told a Russian news outlet Tuesday that he regards the political leadership of the two breakaway Ukrainian republics as elites who have "destroyed all life" and have created a substitute political structure, according to a news account posted in the Russian language korrespondent.net.
Gubarev, who had considered running for president of Donetsk last fall said the Donetsk president Aleksandr Zakharchenko, "surrounds himself with [yes men], and yet, he wonders why there is sabotaging and stealing."
Gubarev charged that Zakharchenko can't stand political competition, and that Russia is attempting to build a political organization similar to the Ukrainian Party of Regions.
The Ukrainian Party of Regions was the ruling party in Ukraine until the Maidan coup in February, when it was disbanded.
Gubarev is an advertising executive by trade. He was briefly governor of Donetsk following the May 2nd plebiscite, which declared Donetsk independence.
Gubarev narrowly escaped an assassination attempt last fall near the Russian border, a crime which has not been solved.
Shelling in southern Donetsk
According to official rebel reports, the village of Sakhanka was shelled for four hours Tuesday, with about 100 shells hitting over that time frame.
According to a report posted by the Donetsk ministry of defense, several residences were damaged and one was destroyed. Sakhanka is about four kilometers due northeast of Shirokino, which also is being shelled constantly by Ukrainian and rebel forces.
Sakhanka was shelled last Wednesday as well, according to rebel media. Artillery used by the Ukrainians include 122mm and 152mm artillery as well as mortar fire. Several residences were damaged in more than 15 incidents. The announcement said shelling hit during a thunderstorm. The southern regions of Ukraine recently have been suffering heavy rains, which are unusual so late in the summer.
A Facebook page for the Ukrainian defense ministry said that rebel forces shelled Shirokino using 82mm and 120mm mortars.
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[NATION.PK] Denmark's new foreign minister, Kristian Jensen, told his German counterpart that the country intends to impose border controls but within the rules governing the passport-free Schengen area, the foreign ministry said, confirming an earlier report.
Denmark imposed controls in 2011 for several months between Jutland, the only part of Denmark connected to continental Europe, and Germany, checking some cars but not passports. The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... nevertheless complained.
The imposition of border controls, to restrict illegal immigration and smuggling, had been a key demand of the rightwing Danish People's Party (DF) during coalition talks.
The center-right Liberals party formed a government by themselves over the weekend after coalition talks collapsed but with just 34 seats out of 179 in parliament, the cabinet will be heavily dependant on DF in passing legislation.
DF's other demands have been curbs on immigration and a referendum on whether Denmark should stay within the EU, once Britannia conducts its vote by the end of 2017. It also wants higher state spending, contrary to its other rightwing policies.
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[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday indicted Mustafa Kanju and six others accused in the murder case of a Lahore youth Zain.
The court also instructed the counsels of both parties to prepare their final arguments and present them in court on July 7.
Mustafa Kanju, son of former minister of foreign affairs Siddique Kanju, confessed to firing the fatal shots that ended 16-year-old orphan Zain's life. He said Zain was not the target of the fire, nor did he intend to kill Zain or anyone else.
Kanju was earlier sent on a judicial remand to allow the police to collect evidence pertaining to the investigation in order to frame charges against Kanju.
He was incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! after a case was registered against him under 7-ATA and Section 302 of the Pakistain Penal Code.
Enraged after his luxury car accidentally hit the vehicle of a woman in Cavalry Ground area of Punjab's bustling provincial capital city on April 1 Kanju had resorted to gunfire. Zain, a class-IX student, was struck down in his prime and Husnain was critically injured after they were hit by gunfire.
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... had taken notice of the incident, ordered the arrest of the suspect and announced Rs0.5m for the family of the dear departed. He also assured them of the provision of justice.
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[Arutz Shiva] Repatriated gold bullion brings interim deal relief total to $12 billion, as sanctions regime fails in stopping nuclear aspirations.
While nuclear talks have been held up by - among other things - Iran's demand to have all sanctions removed immediately, the Islamic regime showed how the current sanctions regime has been unable to punish its economy as it repatriated 13 tons of gold this week.
Iranian officials on Monday announced the transfer by the South African government, which released the gold bullion as part of the sanctions relief agreed on in the November 2013 interim deal reached between world powers and Iran over the latter's controversial nuclear program.
"A sum of 13 tons of gold that had been purchased before and was deposited in South Africa in the past two years and could not be transferred to Iran due to the sanctions...was delivered to the Central Bank of Iran's treasury last night," Iranian Central Bank Governor Valiollah Seif announced, as quoted by the state-run Fars News Agency.
By the newly extended July 7 deadline for a deal next week, Iran will have had nearly $12 billion in assets unfrozen over the course of nuclear talks, reports the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday citing US State Department figures.
After signing the 2013 interim deal Iran was given $4.2 billion in sanctions relief, and last year US President Barack Obama threw another $2.8 billion to the leading state sponsor of terrorism just to keep it in talks over its nuclear program.
Indicating the failure of sanctions, Iran's GDP grew 3% in 2014, leading experts to warn that the sanctions regime against Iran has not been tight enough to be effective. Sweetening the pot. Our Kommunis ANC friends in South Africa coming through for the Champ. Evidently the Marikana massacre of 44 striking miners in 2012 has been sufficiently relegated to history. Totalitarian regime professional courtesy? You decide.
Sounds like the designers made the same mistake they did with the F-4. They expect these fighters to fight at distance and not get into dogfights. However, if you have more enemy than missiles, you will be in a dogfight and the F-4 and its pilots paid dearly for that mistake in Vietnam.
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The F-35 was “flying clean” without excess loading of weapons while the older F-16 had two bulky underwing drop tanks installed, putting it at a disadvantage. Still, even with that perceived leg up, the new fighter was at an Energy Deficit whenever fast maneuvering was required and the pilot was unable to lock on to the older plane for a targeting solution. By comparison, the F-16 was able to maneuver into position and lock on for a shot at the F-35 with comparative ease.
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I've decided that Dwight's warning was misnamed as the "Military Industrial" complex. He really needed to add Political to the enemy. The "Political Military Industrial" complex gets more to the crux of the matter.
No one seems to remember that he included a warning about other such combinations, specifically big science, in that speech.
We are certainly burdened with many such CFs today.
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The worst part is, they tried this once before- F-111 "Macnamara's wet dream". Once again, they are learning the old adage "Jack of all trades, master of none."
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As I've seen reported elsewhere, the worst thing is, the F-35 could still be a dog, but this article in particular is still a hatchet e piece. a) The original report is merely selectively quoted from, not reproduced in its entirety, and b) covers some test flights conducted when the engine was under some settings that have since been removed.
In short, it's the same sort of liberal bullshit and half-truths you typically get from a Gawker-affiliated business, it's just that this time y'all have decided to believe their shit like they haven't lied to you a thousand times before.
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Ars technica just did a followup report, where they listed "Some of the excuses Lockheed gave" without mentioning the bit about the Engine, which was probaby the most important factor.
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It scares me when progressives and I agree on something, but the F35 is a dog. This test may be completely stupid but the F35 is too expensive for what we need.
I suggest we need three aircraft:
F22 -- more so as to have air supremacy whenever we wish
F16++ -- a plane that does what the F16 does at about the same cost, better avionics, etc. A "generation 4.8" airplane
A10++ -- a plane that does what the A10 does at about the same price with a 2015 airframe and avionics
Give us the two ++ planes along with more F22s and we're good for the next 20 years.
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Steve, the problem - especially with the A -10 - is that it is TOO cheap. Air Force program officers gain status by managing BIG budgets. Since the F-35 costs many millions per copy, and even your A-10++would probably only cost a few mill per copy, it is better to manage F-35 programs.
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I have seen a similar report before from another source a couple years ago. The F-35 just isn't built for dogfighting and if it has too, the best hope it has is a good wingman to scrape the bogie off its ass.
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Darth, what I remember from the Vietnam era is that the plan we to shoot down the bogeys with missiles, but the ROEs demanded closing to visual range. Once you are in visual range, you are in gun/dogfight range. This was one of the reasons the Navy set up Top Gun - to teach pilots to dogfight.
If we ever get into a shooting war, and somebody imposes similar ROEs, the F-35 could end up at a serious disadvantage.
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Dogfighting is a bit reactive, don't you think? Let's get proactive, let's put in some portholes to shoot missiles backwards.
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You guys just don't get it. The F-35 is better on paper!
Personally, Ima thinkern this is the last gen of manned fighter aircraft. You may be a tough, battle-hardened Marine, but your innards are no match for a box of titanium and circuit boards when it comes to high Gs.
Swarms of autonomous drones, baby! But we'll save that discussion for a future issue of This Week in Killer Robots.
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could be Dr. Steve, however I refer you to the movie "Stealth". I've been in the IT biz for over 30 years and if there's one thing I've learned, Humans make mistakes, humans program computers which make these mistakes, bigger, faster and harder to fix.
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The JSF is still in development. The full maneuvering envelope hasn't yet been released in the flight control software. It believe that aircraft's software limits it to 7Gs. In addition, the dynamic behavior hasn't been optimized. There's still a lot of development and optimizations to complete before FOC w/ block 3F software in 2017.
I guarantee you if the F-16 flight characteristics in 1975 was released, you'd be complaining what a POS it is.
The purpose of the test was to see how the aircraft handled in a non-scripted flight environment. Does it maneuver as predicted? Is the handling carefree? Does the unpredictable (unscripted) sequence of controls inputs reveal a tendency for the aircraft to depart from controlled flight at any point? What parts of the flight envelope are candidates for further optimization? ...
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Right there Warthog, 30+ yrs in all phases of SW development from development to auditing.
Amazing what humans can manage to input into a computer, either through data or programs, and how that computer can LITERALLY cause the end times to appear.
IOW, the definition of what constitutes a "light" fixed-wing tactical combat aircraft may have IRREVOCABLY CHANGED, AS PER SPAWAR + GLOBAL-SPACE STRIKE.
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The Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, has said that children who hold homophobic views should be considered at greater risk of becoming radicalised.
Speaking as schools in England and Wales were issued with a guide on how to spot pupils in danger of radicalisation, Ms Morgan said attacking core British values or being extremely intolerant of homosexuality were examples of behaviour that could raise the alarm. IMO, this ties rather nicely with the Sultan Knish article I've posted today
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These are the people who think those who hold conservative values are extremist and are to be dealt with hate, scorn, and intolerance in general. Scroll down to "No Truce With the Left".
The narrative above reality always. What happen to the prophecy about the vast heterosexual AIDS epidemic that was suppose to engulf the nation cause it wasn't a disease just of the gay community? Their lies meant that the normal, traditional method of arresting an epidemic, ie isolation, would result in the deaths of tens upon tens of thousands in the gay community. "But we meant well". Right. Power above all else.
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.
[TELEGRAM] Janleer Povez's retrial on a second-degree murder charge in a fatal stabbing seven years ago ended in a mistrial Monday after Mr. Povez struck his appointed lawyer, Elliot R. Levine, in the face in the courtroom and later ranted about Mr. Levine performing "rituals with blood" and being biased against him.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Police say a fight over gumbo spices ended with the fatal stabbing of a Florida restaurant worker and former Florida State mascot.
