[NYPOST] An Australia mom believed her 3-year-old daughter "was going to die" after eating anti-psychotic drugs mixed in with her Halloween candy, according to a new report.Little Abbey Robe was sickened while trick-or-treating with her three siblings Thursday night in Melbourne, 7 News reported.
Mom Tara noticed the toddler had fallen behind and was coughing, so she rifled through her candy stash ‐ and found that the "lollies" she was eating were actually pills with writing on them in a plastic bag.
"When she went into the ambulance, that’s when I couldn’t wake her up," Tara recalled. "I thought she was going to die. They were pills and I didn’t know what. It could have been nasty."
Abbey is believed to have ingested Seroquel, a medication used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
She spent the night in Sunshine Hospital, with Tara posting a photo of the little girl hooked up to machines and still in her Halloween costume.
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[Lafayette Journal & Courier] OXFORD, Ind. ‐ An 8-foot reticulated python found wrapped around the neck of Laura Hurst, a 36-year-old mother of two and a snake enthusiast from Battle Ground, strangled her in an Oxford house that was designed specifically to house 140 snakes, an autopsy revealed Friday.
The preliminary cause of death was asphyxia due to strangulation by a snake, according to an autopsy done by Benton County Coroner Matt Rosenbarger and released Friday by Indiana State Police.
A final autopsy won’t be finished for another four to six weeks, as officials wait for toxicology reports, a standard procedure in autopsies.
Benton County Sheriff Don Munson, who owns the snake house in the 600 block of North Dan Patch Drive, about 25 miles northwest of Lafayette, found Hurst on the floor with the python loosely wrapped around her neck. Munson and medics were unable to revive Hurst, according to an Indiana State Police account. ISP officials say Hurst kept snakes in the house, among Munson’s collection.
Munson was not immediately available for comment Friday. Members of Hurst’s family were not immediately available.
Sgt. Kim Riley, an Indiana State Police spokesman, said that the snake found Wednesday night apparently had been taken from its enclosure. The other snakes in the house were still in their cages when police arrived after getting a call just before 9 p.m. Wednesday.
[The National Interest - Warfare History Network] Allerberger, already a successful sniper, was assigned in the last quarter of 1943 to a four-week training program near Judenburg, Austria, not far from his home. That was done with a wink and a nod from his commanding officer because it would give the young sniper a needed break from the killing and mayhem on the Eastern Front. He was often called upon by the instructors in sniper school to share his experiences. Many of the instructors had also served in that capacity on the Eastern Front. For his part, Allerberger was surprised by the school’s "shooting garden," a miniature landscape complete with a village and roads where they had to shoot the "enemy" with small caliber sporting guns as they appeared in windows, doorways, and behind trees. Because of his frontline experience, he shined at those exercises. Throughout the training, the instructors revised and rebuilt the landscapes to make them more interesting and challenging. Lengthy article.
[MAIL] Nearly a thousand protesters took to the streets of Brooklyn to demonstrate against the NYPD's recent actions and planned cracking down on New York City subway fare evaders.
The protesters started gathering in Downtown Brooklyn near Barclays Center at about 7pm Friday, with their signs reflecting the dual nature of the march.
While flashier banners bore slogans such as 'Don't let these pigs touch us,' 'F**k the police,' 'Punch that cop' and 'NYPD out of MTA,' other signs read 'Free transit,' 'Poverty is not a crime' and 'Our subways need more $ for elevators, not for cops.'
The demonstration was said to have been brought on by two headline-grabbing incidents that occurred on October 25, which drew accusations of excessive force by police, as well as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's recent decision to add 500 new officers to NYPD's force to patrol the transit system and root out fare evaders.
Over the course of the two-hour protest, participants blocked traffic, shouted obscenities at nearby officers, jumped the subway turnstile en masse and committed acts of vandalization.
One group of protesters was seen surrounding a MTA bus, vandalizing it with stickers and writing anti-police graffiti on it, while passengers were aboard, according to the New York Post.
Passengers told the newspaper that the demonstrators were 'banging on the bus' and that one 'kid with a white mask and a hoodie' used a marker to scrawl graffiti - 'F**k NYPD' and 'NYPD KKK' - on the bus.
'I’m not gonna lie, it was scary,' a passenger said after getting off the bus.
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"I’m not gonna lie, it was scary," a passenger said
Indeed it is. We're entering a new phase. Large spontaneous street mobs-- not lone loons, and not Panty-Fa, but specific and concrete demands made by large and violent spontaneous groups.
= the definition of a pre-revolutionary situation.
...a la Paris 1788, or Moscow 1905...
[War Zone] Two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack bombers touched down today at South African Air Force Base Waterkloof in the country's capital Pretoria, marking the first time these bombers have made a visit to anywhere in Africa. This comes on the same day that Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the first-ever Russia Africa Summit in Sochi on the Black Sea and as the Kremlin has been working to expand its influence across the continent.
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“Russia and SA have long had dealings at a military level, we do exchange a number of activities. They are huge planes and the good thing is that as much as they are huge bombers, nuclear bombers, they are not armed. We should never worry because our air force people went in and looked at these planes and the technology they have and carry and it’s something that is good. We should never look at the negative side of it,” explains Ramaphosa.
[DAILYSABAH] The Russian state assumed the power to disconnect the country from the global internet Friday as a controversial law signed by President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... went into effect.
The government intends to create infrastructure for a sovereign internet in what it has presented as a necessary defense against cyberattacks from abroad.
Critics see the measure as a step towards increased censorship.
"This is the first time that the state has full technical control over the internet," Russian internet expert Alexander Isavnin of the anti-censorship organization Roskomsvoboda told German Press Agency (DPA).
Russian internet providers used to operate under free market conditions, but now the Russian state can exert direct control, Isavnin said.
Russian internet traffic is to be directed via hubs within the country, infrastructure for which has yet to be built. Internet providers must install the equipment needed to conduct the transition.
The media rights organization Reporters Without Borders has spoken out about the measure as serving to increase internet censorship and thereby violate fundamental freedoms. Numerous political opposition sites have already been blocked in the country.
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[National Review] How did a joint stock company founded in Elizabethan England come to replace the glorious Mughal Empire of India, ruling that great land for a hundred years? William Dalrymple’s splendid history, The Anarchy, tells that story‐and purports to warn us about the perils of corporate power. The American edition sports the provocative subtitle, "The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire" (compared with the neutral British subtitle, "The Relentless Rise of the East India Company"). Yet the story Dalrymple really tells is of how government power corrupts commercial enterprise.
The East India Company’s charter began with an original sin‐Elizabeth I granted the company a perpetual monopoly on trade with the East Indies. With its monopoly giving it enhanced access to credit and vast wealth from Indian trade, it’s no surprise that the company grew to control an eighth of all Britain’s imports by the 1750s. Yet it was still primarily a trading company, with some military capacity to defend its factories. That changed thanks to a well-known problem in institutional economics ‐ opportunism by a company agent, in this case Clive of India.
The "anarchy" in the book’s title refers to the disintegration of Mughal India following the death of Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707. Religious intolerance, devastating Persian and Afghan invasions, a series of weak and unstable rulers, and powerful viziers and regional potentates left the emperor imprisoned and his heir, Shah Alam, exiled from Delhi.
One particularly unstable potentate, Siraj ud-Daulah, Nawab of Bengal, alienated his bankers, the Jagat Seths, and demanded foreign merchants dismantle their walls, which were erected mostly to defend against other European companies. Facing threats from the French, the company governor of Calcutta refused. Siraj plundered the settlement. A company force led by Clive recaptured Calcutta, backed by crown forces that feared yielding advantage to the French.
The Jagat Seths then bribed the company men to attack Siraj. Clive, with an eye for personal gain, was happy to do so. In what Dalrymple calls a crucial point, the company directors had no part in this. They "consistently abhorred ambitious plans of conquest," he notes. Clive’s defeat of Siraj at Plassey and the subsequent chain of events that led to Shah Alam giving tax-raising powers to the company in 1765 may be history’s most egregious example of the principal-agent problem.
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.
[NYPOST] An Australia mom believed her 3-year-old daughter "was going to die" after eating anti-psychotic drugs mixed in with her Halloween candy, according to a new report.Little Abbey Robe was sickened while trick-or-treating with her three siblings Thursday night in Melbourne, 7 News reported.
[MAIL] Nearly a thousand protesters took to the streets of Brooklyn to demonstrate against the NYPD's recent actions and planned cracking down on New York City subway fare evaders. 
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
