Author: Blazingcatfur
So at 4 months …
August 2nd marked 4 months in hospice for my brother.
My sister-in-law and I arrived during “music class” this morning.
My brother was in attendance but soon began to nod in and out of consciousness and then appeared to spasm as if in a mild seizure.
We wheeled him back to his room and waited for the nurse to attend.
She monitored his vitals revealing a very low BP and heart rate, he continued to nod in and out becoming less “coherent” in response to questions.
They put him to bed via the lift and raised his feet.
I flagged down his doctor who was surprised at the sudden turn of events since it was she who had wheeled him to music class.
She was able to rouse him and over the next few minutes he became aware of his surroundings.
Slowly over the course of the afternoon he returned to “normal” even managing to eat some fruit and cheese.
He was not in discomfort and is one resilient fellow still we know his time is likely not long.
We will be back tomorrow.
Treasure hunters in final dig for 10 tonnes of hidden Nazi gold
Treasure hunters seeking 10 tonnes of Nazi gold allegedly stashed under a crumbling palace in Poland say they have been given the go-ahead to dig up a canister which may contain the loot.
Since May last year, the Silesian Bridge Foundation, a Polish group of treasure hunters, has been digging for gold that they believe was stashed under the 18th century palace in the village of Minkowskie.
They believe that the treasure was taken from rich German families on the orders of Heinrich Himmler, the SS chief, and buried beneath a conservatory as a war chest for a future Fourth Reich.
Paper Tiger
Though it has achieved impressive historical growth, China’s centralized economic system is headed for trouble.
Americans have legitimate concerns about China—and, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan sparking new tensions, those concerns are only growing—but what many fail to see is that Beijing is not the economic juggernaut it is often believed to be. On the contrary, China’s economy has become increasingly fragile. To use a word heavily overworked these days, its problems are systemic.
Was al-Qaeda leader killed by bladed missile?
Just over an hour after sunrise on 31 July, long-time al-Qaeda boss Ayman al-Zawahiri walked out onto the balcony of a downtown Kabul compound – reportedly a favourite post-prayer activity of the veteran Egyptian jihadist.
It would be the last thing he would do.
At 06:18 local time (01:38 GMT), two missiles slammed into the balcony, killing the 71-year-old but leaving his wife and daughter unscathed inside. All the damage from the strike appears to be centred on the balcony.
How UK spies watched from Harrogate as the 9/11 Al-Qaeda chief responsible for the deaths of nearly 3,000 people was executed by a 6-bladed Ninja missile
It was 6.18am on Sunday, more than an hour after dawn prayers, when the Supreme Leader of Al Qaeda appeared on the balcony of his safe house to enjoy a little sunshine and fresh air.
For Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the masterminds of the 9/11 terror attacks, watching mornings unfold in the centre of the Afghan capital from his supposedly secure perch had become one of the few regular pleasures of his life in hiding.
He wasn’t to know that his balcony was anything but safe and that Taliban spies in the pay of the Americans and the British had been monitoring him for months – their knowledge of his whereabouts so detailed that a scale model of his hideaway had sat on a table in President Biden’s White House office for weeks.
And they were watching him again now, not only from Washington but also from a listening station in – of all places – Harrogate, North Yorkshire, after a Western-recruited intelligence source spotted him on the balcony.
Palestinians Commit Suicide as Their Leaders Live in Hotels and Villas
It has been 15 years since the Islamist Hamas group seized control of the Gaza Strip, home to some two million Palestinians. Since then, the residents of the Gaza Strip have been reminded on a daily basis of the failure of the Iranian-backed group to provide them with decent living conditions.
Instead, the repressive governance of the Hamas leaders only brings the Palestinians in Gaza more misery.
The situation in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip has become so bad that an increasing number of young people have been committing suicide by self-immolation, throwing themselves from rooftops, swallowing large amounts of medicine and hanging.
Shaun King claims he needed a $40 THOUSAND mastiff guard dog because white supremacists have tried to break into his house
Controversial Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King claimed he needed a pricey guard dog for 24/7 security for his family due to the barrage of threats from white supremacists, who he alleges have tried to break into his home and harass his children.
On Tuesday, King wrote in a lengthy Facebook post about what his ‘life has become.’
‘I spend more time each day now thinking about how to keep my family safe than I do doing the actually work I’m called to do,’ he wrote. ‘So know this, when you see reports about the money it costs to keep me and my family safe, it’s nowhere near enough. Not at all. Not even close.’
Russia brands Ukraine’s Azov Regiment ‘terrorist’ group
Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday declared the Ukrainian Azov Regiment a terrorist organization.
Despite its checkered past, the Azov Regiment is hailed in Ukraine as heroes for fighting to defend the country’s embattled east against the Russian invasion.
An estimated 1,000 Azov soldiers are being held by Russia and Moscow’s allied forces in eastern Ukraine.
South African police arrest more than 120 after gang-rape of eight women
Dozens of men detained after the alleged gang-rape of eight women on a music video shoot in South Africa are expected back in court on Wednesday as police made more arrests of artisanal miners blamed by local people for widespread violence.
The arrests on Tuesday near Krugersdorp, a city north-west of Johannesburg, bring the total number of people detained since the attack to more than 120.
Russian soldiers accuse superiors of jailing them for refusing to fight
A group of Russian soldiers have accused their commanders of jailing them in eastern Ukraine for refusing to take part in the war, in a rare public exposure of tensions inside the ranks of Russia’s army over the invasion.
Maxim Grebenyuk, a lawyer who runs the Moscow-based advocacy organisation Military Ombudsman, said at least four Russian soldiers had filed written complaints with the investigative committee, demanding punishment for the superiors who oversaw their detainment.
“We already have a list of 70 Russian soldiers who were held as prisoners. In total, about 140 soldiers were held,” added Grebenyuk, who represented the soldiers.
#Ukraine: Rare footage of no less than four M142 HIMARS in action, firing 24 M31A1 GMLRS unitary rockets at Russian targets.
This footage is notable not just for the quantity but also the daytime usage of HIMARS. Note the Ukrainian soldier with possible MANPADS to the left. pic.twitter.com/bHQKQM2fiG
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) August 3, 2022
Sabrina Maddeaux: Pierre Poilievre is eating Jagmeet Singh’s lunch
The slow bleed of younger millennials and older Gen Zers to the Conservative party has turned into a torrent that could realign Canadian politics in unexpected ways.
Abacus Data’s latest survey of how Canadians would vote if a federal election were held tomorrow finds 37 per cent of 18-29 year olds in favour of the Conservative Party of Canada. This represents a massive 17-point surge since January when just 20 per cent of this age bracket preferred the CPC.
Dog shelter worker cries over dead animal after Iranian regime ‘raids property and slaughters 1,700 canines taken in as strays’
Dog shelter workers are protesting President Ebrahim Raisi’s regime in Iran after authorities allegedly stormed their compound and slaughtered up to 1,700 dogs.
Heart-wrenching footage shared on social media showed one volunteer in floods of tears as she clasped one of the dead hounds in her arms.
‘This was the most vulnerable and obedient one,’ she cried, before the camera panned to show several canine corpses strewn across the roadside and a nearby valley.
Canada: the Country of the Long Wait
A few days ago my wife and I brought her mother, who was suffering from a serious leg infection, to the local ER. We were worried about the possibility of gangrene, which an acquaintance some years back had contracted under similar circumstances, resulting in the amputation of his leg. As expected, the ER was jam-packed, and it soon became clear that my mother-in-law would have to wait at least six and even twelve hours before she could be seen. No triage had been performed to determine rank of urgency. Meanwhile, a youngish man in a wheelchair, doubled over and clutching his chest, was bitterly complaining that he had suffered a heart attack. But he too would have to wait before being attended to — assuming he would still be alive by then.
Social Workers Receive Education Credits For ‘Recovery from White Conditioning‘ Training
A webinar series for social workers titled “Recovery from White Conditioning” was held by the University of Minnesota and the Center for Practice Transformation.
The series focused on how participants could become allies and purge themselves of internalized white supremacy.