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Lies, Lies, And Still More Lies

Filosofa's Word

Yesterday came big news … now hold onto your hats, ‘cause this is going to shock you … ready?

Fox ‘News’ Lies!!!

An excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson’s nightly newsletter explains …

Dominion Voting Systems is suing FNC for defamation after FNC personalities repeatedly claimed that the company’s voting machines had corrupted the final tallies in the 2020 election. The filing today shows that those same personalities didn’t believe what they were telling their viewers, and suggests that they made those groundless accusations because they worried their viewers were abandoning them to go to channels that told them what they wanted to hear: that Trump had won the election.

The quotes in the filing are eye-popping:

On November 10, 2020, Trump advisor Steven Bannon wrote to FNC personality Maria Bartiromo: “71 million voters will never accept Biden. This process is to destroy his presidency before it even starts; IF it…

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♫ If You Could Read My Mind ♫ (Redux)

Filosofa's Word

Today’s song is brought to you courtesy of our friend Keith, who planted numerous earworms yesterday with his fun post titled, “I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then – an encore post”. Check it out if you haven’t already seen it! And now, for today’s offering …


Written by Lightfoot and released in 1970, this song was inspired by the breakup of his first marriage. In the liner notes of his boxed set Songbook, he describes it as “A song about the failure of marriage.”

At the request of his daughter, Ingrid, he performs the lyrics with a slight change now: the line “I’m just trying to understand the feelings that you lack” is altered to “I’m just trying to understand the feelings that we lack.” He has said in an interview that the difficulty with writing songs inspired by personal stories is that there…

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सुंदरता / Beauty

Kaushal Kishore

उम्र के साथ
सुंदरता खत्म नहीं होती,
झुर्रियां पड़ सकती हैं चेहरे पर
दिल पर कदापि नहीं…

😍 😍 😍

With age
beauty does not end,
wrinkles may appear on the face
but never on the heart…

–Kaushal Kishore

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Multiple studies show that face masks reduce the spread of COVID-19; a Cochrane review doesn’t demonstrate otherwise – Health Feedback

Claims that face masks don’t work based on the results of the Cochrane review are unsupported and misrepresent the conclusions of the review, which couldn’t draw “any firm conclusions” on the effectiveness of mask-wearing at limiting the spread of respiratory infections due to methodological limitations. Many of those claims also mislead the readers by presenting the review as high-quality definite evidence without adequately acknowledging its limitations. While meta-analyses are indeed at the top of the quality evidence pyramid, their reliability depends on the quality of the individual studies they include, which is highly variable in the case of face masks.

A growing body of evidence from RCTs and observational studies suggests that consistent mask-wearing can effectively reduce the spread of respiratory viruses like SARS-CoV-2 in both healthcare and community settings. The extent to which community mask-wearing contributes to limiting the spread of different respiratory viruses and in different circumstances is still unclear. Hopefully, future well-designed studies will answer these questions. For the time being, face masks are another layer of protection in addition to vaccination, frequent handwashing, and physical distancing when the circulation of respiratory viruses is high.

Source: Multiple studies show that face masks reduce the spread of COVID-19; a Cochrane review doesn’t demonstrate otherwise – Health Feedback