The best deodorant ever

 I accidentally discovered what is proving to be the best natural deodorant ever—at least, of those I’ve tried. Clove oil! Yes, seriously. For years I have worn clove oil instead of perfume, because I hate perfume and I’m allergic to most of them anyway. Clove oil is irritating, so it has to be diluted in a carrier oil; any light/thin skin oil will do. (I happen to use apricot oil.) 

Now let’s be honest: one of the shitty consequences of suffering major depression (MDD) is lacking the motivation even for hygiene. When showering is a chore I just can’t motivate myself towards, baby wipes—or an adult alternative—are my best friend. But when it comes to armpits, they only go so far. One day I remembered my clove oil and decided to try it under my arms after the baby wipes. And I shit you not, the next day, I had nearly no smell under my arms. 

For a moment I was shocked, but then it occurred to me: clove oil is antimicrobial. Body odor in general is a result of the microbial ecosystems that live on the skin on different parts of the body. The clove oil killed almost all those microbes under my arms, effectively killing any odor. 😁 Now it’s my daily deodorant and I’m delighted with the results. Sure, I smell like a goth club all the time but, hey, that’s fitting for me. 😂

In all seriousness, if you are someone for whom hygiene is, for whatever reason, a challenge to keep up with, I could not recommend this more enthusiastically. I think not only of people with severe depression, but also people who are victims of the recent economy and who have recently—i.e., within the past five years—become so economically restricted that things like showering (with hot water!) have become a luxury. 

I realize that the likelihood of anyone even reading this is near zero. But maybe by some unlikely chance, someone will happen upon this and read it and the information will help them or someone they pass it on to. 

This is the Colonial Boomerang—Gaza has been a testing ground for what will be used against us.

 

The truth about ICE gets uglier everyday.

 

I might be anti-war and anti-establishment, but I support DISABLED VETS

 

ICE = Gestapo. Masked ICE agents ENDANGER WOMEN…

 

ICE agents admit to and brag about MURDER

 

Regime change wars again

 VENEZUELA HAS A RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST THE WAR-MONGERING, BLOODTHIRSTY USA!

How many innocent Venezuelans will have to be murdered at our hands?

What the fuck is this all really for? To create another Iraq or Afghanistan? 

How many times has Trump said “no more wars”? He’s bombed Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, threatened China, continued proxy wars in Ukraine, Lebanon, and Syria, continued a proxy war and genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, and now he’s bombing and sending war into Venezuela.

How much money will he pour into war in Venezuela, instead of fixing the problems Americans are suffering here at home?

The legacy of the USA is disgusting.

I’m not afraid to say it aloud online

 FUCK ICE! 

Wake the fuck up: anti-trans IS anti-woman, plain and simple.

 

IRAN HAS A RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF!

Luigi Mangione, the making of a Legend

It boggles my mind that they somehow didn’t see that this film-worthy legendary perp walk like no other would literally make Luigi Mangione look fucking badass as hell. 

The greater, wider Resistance—

Based on current reporting of the young man currently in custody regarding the deletion of one insurance ceo, our “adjuster” may be part of the greater Resistance, which is what I kind of expected upon first hearing of the shooting. 

Words matter, dammit

Why on earth is everyone referring to Brian Thompson as a “healthcare CEO”???! 

He is a health INSURANCE CEO! That matters here, so get it right people. Stop trying to make him sound like a “good person” running a healthcare company. He was running a health INSURANCE company that we know most definitely caused thousands upon thousands of people to die or suffer severely for a long time! I’m not saying I’m celebrating his death, but I certainly don’t think his death is any more reprehensible than the deaths of those who died because his insurance company denied paying for their treatment. I am also not saying taking him out is justice, because unfortunately, there will never be justice for all those people who are and were victims of that insurance company. 

So let’s be honest with ourselves here: to a whole lot of people around this country, that hooded, masked man is a fucking hero, and it doesn’t matter if you don’t like that, because they do not have to cater to your feelings.

Biden is literally what Dems cried Trump would be.

What a fucking surprise that Genocide Joe pardoned his son. Genocide Joe Biden has actually turned out to be a whole lot like what Democrats screamed and cried Trump would be and that that was the reason people had to vote for Biden, then Harris, to keep Trump out of office, because he’s a threat to democracy. Make no mistake, I am definitely not saying Trump isn’t that; I have no doubt he and his people will find ways to ultimately crown him the dictator. But the fact is, the Democrats are really no different in that sense, they just give it a more polite and nice looking package. 

I can’t say Genocide Joe Biden is the worst president so far, because then I’d have to know a whole lot about what previous presidents have done so that I could make that comparison. But I can say that his will be a uniquely dark and grotesque legacy. 

Video/Report: Israelis in the Media

I was initially hesitant about even watching this video even though the channel / media outlet usually does good work. The title is rather sensational sounding, but more importantly, it triggered a red flag for the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews are in control of everything, so it turned me off at first. Exposed: Israeli Spies in U.S. Media Manufacture Consent for Genocide and Empire. I was pleasantly surprised to hear them specifically explain that what they are talking about is not at all like that antisemitic conspiracy theory. In fact, what they are talking about is precisely the sort of thing—one of many things—that I was trying to refer to in my recent post No, Israel doesn’t “control” the U.S.

Marking people with numbers

 The Zionazis are gathering severely starved and dehydrated people into big pits and marking them with NUMBERS. What does that remind you of??!!

https://youtu.be/wwCbdWlEP8A

It could not get any clearer that the IOF and the Zionists are fucking Nazis! And the U.S. govt—my own fucking government!—couldn’t be more gleeful in their support, facilitation, and participation in the genocide, ethnic cleansing, and holocaust of the Palestinians and now the Lebanese and Syrians, in other words, the indigenous people of the Levant! 

This must be stopped, now, whatever it takes!

Looks like we all now know how the fucking Nazis were able to rise to power and commit mass atrocities! 

The U.S. needs regime change, because the U.S. govt has gone full blown fascist oligarchical authoritarianism.

Humanity’s ultimate test, and humanity is failing.

If you cannot see that what Israel is doing—with the unconditional help and participation of the U.S.—is genocide and ethnic cleansing and a holocaust, then you are dead to me. I am not required to sympathize with genocide deniers and apologists. These grotesque, savage, brutal, despicable and macabre crimes against fellow human beings who are Palestinian are unforgivable. The world right now is against you. History will judge you even more harshly. Is that the legacy you want to leave behind? A legacy of being even more evil and hateful than the Nazis of WWII? Because that is how you will be remembered. We will make sure of that, and that the truth is not covered up.

No one can plead ignorance later. No one can say they didn’t know. You are not privy to that excuse when the videos and images and genocidal declarations are being daily uploaded or livestreamed to the internet for over a year now by both the victims and the perpetrators themselves who shamelessly boast of what they are doing. 

This will not stop until the rest of the world forces Israel and the U.S. to stop. Or it will be too late.

Bisan’s recent update on North of Gaza

Watch this all the way through to the end. 

https://youtu.be/mhOXCRMIu2w

No, Israel doesn’t “control” the U.S.

 **See my “disclaimer” at the end.**

Surely we should have all learned by now not to trust anything the U.S. federal government tells us. Surely no one believes the Biden-Harris administration suddenly had a revelation about Israel’s brutal and unbelievably savage genocide of the Palestinians? Not only are they now suddenly (supposedly) very concerned about Israel’s policy of starvation and no medical care, they have pretty much admitted that they’ve known full well that Israel has been deliberately blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. 

Don’t believe for a second that they are actually considering the possibility of withholding military supplies and weapons unless Israel makes sure humanitarian aid gets into northern Gaza. That’s not a sincere threat, that’s theater. What is happening is what the U.S. wants. Those at the top in the U.S. govt genuinely don’t fucking care about Palestinians’ lives and welfare, because the racism is deeply bred into them. 

I mean, come on, just look at how the U.S. govt treats its own citizens!

Israel is bad for the environment

 I forgot I had wanted to write something about this, but it’s important enough to point it out. Yes, Israel is bad for the environment: they have been committing ecocide for decades. You don’t have to take my word for it; it’s easy enough to look up and find publications on it prior to Oct 7. 

The Democratic Party in D.C. have betrayed humanity.

They have shown their true colors, blood red and charcoal grey.

He died a hero and a martyr.

Yes, I am saying it, Yahya Sinwar was neither a terrorist nor a coward. He was a freedom fighter, a hero, and a martyr. And no amount of hasbara and gaslighting can cover that up. The video the IOF themselves released literally demonstrates that he was a courageous and generous freedom fighter, a hero, and a martyr. Only those who’ve already drank the zionist cult kool-aid could watch that video and not see that. 

I have so much to say… just been slowed down lately by chronic health issues, and it’s certainly no help watching the sickest and most brutal genocide occur right in front of us all…

One year.

(Yes, I’m posting this late.) Today it has been one full year since the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, planned and carried out by Al-Qassam of Hamas against the oppressive occupying entity “Israel”. 

Right now I am supposed to be preparing for the major Hurricane Milton whose path I am literally sitting right in the center of. I am extremely lucky that I am far enough inland that I don’t have to worry about storm surge, and that my mother’s house is a solid structure, and that flooding due to torrential rain and ground saturation is still just down the street from us. 

In all honesty, I am having a hard time thinking about anything but the genocide (& etc) in Gaza, West Bank, and now Lebanon.

Don’t look away

Don’t look away from Gaza, and the West Bank, and Jerusalem. The IOF takes advantage of people’s attention being drawn elsewhere. Their massacres of Palestinians are still very numerous and brutal. And the Lebanese are being attacked precisely because they refuse to look away from Gaza and are standing up for the Palestinians. These people are such beautiful people, such honorable people. 

I told you…

I told you the resistance is ready.

Day one Zionazi troops actually try to enter Lebanon, and Hizbollah turns them right back around. Not a good start for the Zionazi IOF. 

The Terrorism of Western supremacy, imperialism and hypocrisy

What do I even say? How do I even begin? The terrorist regime of the Zionist occupying entity called “Israel” is carrying out a massacre on the people of Lebanon too. Slaughtering Palestinians isn’t enough, apparently. It is incomprehensible to me, both the horrors the Palestinians and Lebanese are going through and the mindset capable of carrying it out or supporting and justifying it. 
Watching this, and watching the world watch this, and watching my government pretend it’s not happening and pretend they’re so unaware and uninvolved while they facilitate it, and hearing the way people talk about it, the words they choose to use: this has put me in a state of so much stress and anxiety, anguish and grief, disgust and despair, and visceral outrage, that I sometimes start shaking.

To start with, for the record, Hassan Nasrallah was not a terrorist. Do not refer to Hizbollah as a “terrorist organization”.

Hizbollah’s hiding missiles in my house!

The IOF are not targeting Hizbollah sites. They say that, but that is not what they are doing. That’s just gaslighting, and a weak attempt to avoid liability for the consequences of their attacks. Do they really believe they are fooling anyone? How absurd are their gaslighting and hasbara going to get?

The IOF make public announcements and call and text people in Lebanon and send radio messages to warn everyone in the south of Lebanon: if you are located near a site used by Hizbollah, or there are Hizbollah rockets or weapons in your home or the building you are in, you are at risk of being bombed and so you need to evacuate north for your safety.

Because, you know, it’s just common knowledge where the sites are that Hizbollah uses for anything. 

Are you fucking stupid?