Fsfaces 

Fsfaces 

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July 10, 2025

While at a restaurant, I viewed Facebook on my cell phone and was really enticed viewing that I could make my Apple Watch look smarter by just paying $.99 to acquire new faces to my Apple Watch.  So, I did pay into the Facebook application to a company, fsfaces.com.  When I got home, about a half hour later, I got to my computer to download those Apple Watch faces but nothing appeared.  I quickly checked the company using Google.

Based on the search results from Google:

About fsfaces.com

Fsfaces.com appears to be a company selling watch face customization apps for Apple devices. However, user reviews suggest that the company’s practices are questionable. Many users report being subjected to unauthorized recurring charges for subscriptions they did not explicitly agree to. 

Based on user reviews, fsfaces.com seems to employ tactics that make it difficult for users to cancel unwanted subscriptions, often ignoring cancellation requests or providing non-functional links. This has led many to label the company as fraudulent or a scam. Users frequently advise contacting banks or credit card companies directly to dispute charges and prevent future unauthorized transactions. 

In conclusion, it’s crucial to exercise caution when interacting with fsfaces.com due to numerous reports of fraudulent activity and difficulty in managing subscriptions.

I then used Trustpilot (https://www.trustpilot.com/review/fsfaces.com) and found that it has an apparent horrible reputation.  The word “scam” was frequently used in the submitted reviews.

Example Review:

“Watch out for this scammer

“Watch out for this scammer , I paid like a dollar for the app. The faces aren’t even real watch faces just a scam as you need to have the app open as long as u want the face to show . I got hit by 7 charges of $29.99 USD one fine day and this scammer didn’t mention any price or anything . After raising a dispute he sends back dated invoices quickly and sends me a link to unsubscribe but I have never subscribed in the first place and his system didn’t recognize me either . Never download this piece of garbage .”

Date of experience: June 07, 2025”

I copied, from my computer, my credit card charges, not one but two, which were still pending, printed them out and dashed over to my credit union.

My credit union canceled my credit card, took my credit card, shredded it and initiated an investigation!  They requested that their company expedite sending me a new credit card. They then warned me about Facebook and Twitter.

I then dashed over to my local Apple Store to notify them about this scam but the Apple Store employee was not interested!

As a result from hearIing from my credit union to watch out buying from Facebook and Twitter, I then did a Google search “is facebook trustworthy”

Facebook

Facebook, now under the umbrella of Meta Platforms, has faced ongoing scrutiny and controversy surrounding its handling of user data and privacy, leading to questions about its trustworthiness. 

Here’s a breakdown of the key concerns:

  • Data Collection and Usage: Facebook collects extensive user data, including personal information, browsing habits, and interactions across the web. This data is primarily used for targeted advertising, raising concerns about its intrusiveness.
  • Privacy Scandals and Breaches: Facebook has been at the center of numerous privacy scandals and data breaches, significantly eroding user trust.
    • Cambridge Analytica: This scandal involved the improper acquisition and use of data from millions of Facebook users for political targeting during the 2016 US presidential election.
    • Data Leaks: In 2021, personal data of over 533 million Facebook users was published online after being scraped due to a vulnerability patched in 2019.
    • Sharing Data with Third Parties: Reports indicate that Facebook previously granted access to users’ private messages and other sensitive information to third-party companies without explicit consent.
  • User Trust Surveys: Surveys have consistently shown low levels of trust in Facebook among users regarding their data privacy and handling of information.
    • A Washington Post-Schar School poll revealed that 72% of Internet users trust Facebook “not much” or “not at all” with their data.
    • A 2022 Digital Trust Benchmark study ranked Facebook as the least trusted social media platform among nine major platforms.
  • Scams and Phishing: Facebook is a target for scammers and fraudsters who use fake profiles, messages, and links to trick users into revealing personal information or downloading malware. 

TikTok

Is TikTok Shop trustworthy for purchases?

TikTok Shop is a legitimate platform operated by TikTok that allows users to buy and sell products directly within the app. However, like any online marketplace, it has risks, and users should exercise caution when making purchases. 

Here’s a balanced perspective on the trustworthiness of TikTok Shop:

Reasons for caution

  • Scams and counterfeit products: There have been reports of scams, including counterfeit or low-quality items, and non-delivery of orders.
  • Phishing attempts: Be aware of potential phishing attempts where scammers may impersonate TikTok or sellers to obtain personal information.
  • Inconsistent product quality: Quality can vary as the platform hosts various third-party sellers.
  • Unclear return policies: Some sellers may have difficult-to-understand return and refund policies. 

Measures TikTok has in place to increase trustworthiness

  • Verified seller badges: Look for the blue checkmark indicating a verified seller.
  • Secure payment systems: Payments are processed within TikTok’s secure system.
  • Buyer protection policies: TikTok Shop offers refunds for issues like counterfeit products or non-delivery.
  • Dispute resolution system: A system is available to help resolve issues between buyers and sellers, according to ExpressVPN.
  • Seller verification process: Sellers must provide identification or business licenses.
  • Monitoring and algorithms: TikTok uses technology to detect fraud and policy violations, although some may still appear. 

Tips for safer shopping on TikTok Shop

  • Research the seller: Check for verified badges, ratings, and reviews.
  • Read product descriptions carefully: Look for details about the item.
  • Avoid deals that seem too good to be true: Very low prices can be a sign of a scam.
  • Use secure payment methods: Use the in-app payment system and consider a credit card or PayPal for added protection.
  • Do not share personal or financial information outside the app: Legitimate sellers will not ask for sensitive details via direct messages or external links.
  • Report suspicious activity: Inform TikTok’s support team if you encounter a fraudulent seller or message. 

In conclusion, TikTok Shop can be a good place to find unique items, but it’s important to be cautious, just like with any online marketplace. Following these safety tips and using TikTok’s buyer protection features can help minimize risks. 

Posted July 12, 2025 by Score Card

Has Donald Trump Killed Anyone?

Has Donald Trump Killed Anyone?

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This blog piece started rather slowly by listening to my favorite Podcast, Background Briefing, hosted by Ian Masters.  I just can’t stop listening to this program because Ian Masters seems committed to finding the truth and examining what the truth elements are by interviewing guests that almost always are authorities on  given subject.  The following investigation was initiated by experts interviewed by Ian Masters and not by him!

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About Background Briefing

The Society of Professional Journalists recently honored Ian Masters and Background Briefing with the Distinguished Journalist for Audio award.

You can listen to this program a number of ways:

  • On your cell phone
    (Iphone app called Pocket Casts where you can add any number of individual pocket cast programs.) 
  • On any computer by choosing this address: https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/

Let me continue. 

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My wild guess is that my interest in this next blog post is that Ian Masters has told his audience that Donald Trump allegedly has killed a large number of people due to his past policies.  I found that after further investigation, that not only past policies but current and probably future proposed killinga were occurring. I finally decided recently to check this subject out.  I performed a simple Google search: “How many people has Donald Trump killed?

I was really shocked at how many I found!  Let me list some for you:

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“It took four months to reach the first 100,000 dead. It took just over a month to go from 300,000 to 400,000.”

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The report also linked Trump’s environmental policy changes to an estimated 22,000 additional deaths in 2019 and concluded that the administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the politicization of masks and disregard for scientific advice, worsened the spread of the virus and led to “tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.” 


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“If the cuts to USAID continue, researchers project 1.8 million excess deaths in 2025 alone, with a total of 14 million by 2030, including 4.5 million children under age five.”
“According to projections in a study by the prestigious Lancet journal, the cuts could lead to more than 14 million avoidable deaths by 2030, which includes over 4.5 million children under the age of five – or around 700,000 child deaths a year.”

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00556-2/fulltext

Roughly 60,000 metric tons of food—enough to feed 3.5 million people for a month—is sitting unused in foreign countries because of the Trump administration’s sudden cut in funding to USAID earlier this year.



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100,000+ Americans Have Been Killed by Gun Violence Since Trump Took Office. Here Are 5 Ways He Failed Them.

•     He failed to support background checks on all gun sales: Nearly a year ago, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 8––a bill to require background checks on all gun sales––with support from 93 percent of American voters and a bipartisan coalition in Congress. But it has sat on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s desk ever since, untouched and unpassed, because McConnell and Trump refuse to support it. 

•       He reversed support on red flag laws: Red flag laws are extremely popular measures that empower family members and law enforcement to ask a judge to temporarily remove a person’s guns when the person is showing warning signs of posing a risk to themselves or others. After last year’s mass shootings, Trump promised to support these life-saving measures –– but he’s since abandoned the idea.  

•       He proliferated access to downloadable guns: In January, Trump decided to enable schematics for downloadable, untraceable guns to be posted online––a move that could allow terrorists, convicted felons, and domestic abusers to 3D print untraceable weapons. 

•       He made it possible for people suffering from severe mental illness to buy guns: In 2017, Trump quietly reversed an Obama-era rule, thus making it possible for people who were found to be unable to manage their financial affairs as a result of their mental impairment to buy guns.

•       He repeatedly caved to the NRA: After receiving $30 million in political support from the NRA in 2016, Trump’s administration has shaped policies at the NRA’s behest. Trump has also repeatedly spoken with NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, who asked Trump to “stop the games” around gun safety legislation after this year’s mass shootings. Shortly after, Trump obliged.


(Source: https://www.everytown.org/press/100000-americans-have-been-killed-by-gun-violence-since-trump-took-office-here-are-5-ways-he-failed-them/)

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Chaos in Washington puts ‘lives at risk’

“In March, the Trump administration pulled $11 billion from state and local health departments without warning under the leadership of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist and public health critic. The cuts abruptly ended COVID-era grants, which had also been approved for non-COVID work including vaccination and disease detection, tracking and testing.”

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You should do the math to estimate how many people have died from the numbers shown to you above.  You even might find more that I have yet to find.

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Why has this horrible situation largely gone unnoticed?

A Pew Research study finds that 67% of Americans get their news from

social media, mostly Facebook, in a form of reality-shopping where

outlooks are shared and opinions reinforced, often by political spin

or even foreign manipulation. This is undermining our country’s

consensus on what is real and true and making us less able to deal

with the challenges the nation faces.

In an increasingly divided country with a leader who calls the press

“the enemy of the people” and has his followers swallowing his lies

while believing that the media spreads “fake news”, we need to find a

way to inform citizens and restore civic engagement.

SOURCE:  https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/about-us/

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WHY?

Some psychiatrists and reporters have speculated that Trump may have mental health impairments, such as dementia (which runs in his family) or narcissistic personality disorder.[9][10] Such claims have prompted discussion about ethics and applicability of the Goldwater rule, which prohibits mental health professionals from publicly diagnosing or discussing the diagnosis of public figures without their consent and direct examination.[11] Public opinion polling from July 2024 indicated an increase in the percentage of Americans concerned about his fitness for a second term.[12][13]

Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_and_health_concerns_about_Donald_Trump

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a life-long pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a diminished ability to empathize with other people’s feelings.[1][2]

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This blog post will be updated soon with more information.

Posted July 10, 2025, updated July 12, 2025 by Score Card.

Are Trump’s Methods Mirroring Viktor Orban’s Control Tactics?

Are Trump’s Methods Mirroring Viktor Orban’s Control Tactics?

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In an Atlantic article America’s Future Is Hungary by Anne Applebaum, it is revealed that Donald Trump might be using the ruler of Hungary, Viktor Orban methods for gaining fastest power over the United States.

Is this true or not?

Lets list some of the major points that Anne Applebaum reveals that Orban has used and then compare if Donald Trump is applying any of those methods in an effort to determine what Trump’s ambitions might be or not.  I will change Anne Applebaum’s list of factors to properly point to Donald Trump.  Hopefully the efforts promoted by Orban upon Trump will not turn the United States into a dictatorship.

MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.

SOURCE FOR THIS BLOG ARTICLE:
America’s Future Is Hungary

By Anne Applebaum
Atlantic Magazine: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/

Trump will slowly replace civil servants with loyalists.

“The Trump “administration is scrapping a nonpartisan, merit-based civil service in favor of a biased, politicized system.”

Trump will use economic pressure and regulation to destroy the free press.

“Donald Trump is obsessed with punishing journalists who criticize him.”

Trump intends to robbed universities of their independence.

“The Trump administration is seeking to exert extraordinary influence over American universities by threatening to cut them off from funding and, in some cases, students.”

Shut one of the United States universities down.

“Besides Harvard, the Trump administration has said it would end or limit federal money to a number of universities.”

https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-university-college.html

Trump will politicized the court system.

“President Donald Trump and his allies have led an intense pressure campaign on the judiciary four months into his administration. Both sides of the political spectrum are using the term constitutional crisis.”

“It’s an all-out war on the lower courts,” said former federal Judge John Jones III

Trump repeatedly changes the constitution to give himself electoral advantages.

“Many experts are now saying that we are witnessing a power grab, a constitutional crisis, or even a coup. Those of us who have studied the weakening of democratic governments around the world take no comfort in the similarity between the rapid collapse of government institutions in the United States in the last few weeks and collapsing democracies elsewhere, where aspirational autocrats, emboldened by electoral victory, take office and remove all checks on their power by law. When they get away with it, democracy dies.”

Trump will give himself emergency powers.

“President Trump justified the imposition of tariffs on Canada. China, and Mexico under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)”

Trump aligns himself openly with Russia.

“ President Trump and his team are directly and indirectly tied to Russia.”

CONCLUSIONS:


Harris called Trump a ‘fascist.’ Experts debate what fascism is — and isn’t
Is Trump Really a Fascist? Examining the Controversial Claim
Is Donald Trump a fascist? An assessment from an expert in our Department of History
A Guide to Trump’s Fascist Presidency — From Ignoring Judge to Erasing History
Donald Trump and fascism

SUPPORTERS OF DONALD TRUMP:

List of American Companies That Support President Donald Trump
Military veterans remain a Republican group, backing Trump over Harris by wide margin
Trumpism




POSTED JUNE 21, 2025 by Score Card.

Donald Trump Appears To Be A Dictator

Donald Trump Appears To Be A Dictator

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Trump appears to want to be a dictator and it also seems the Republican Party supports this effort.

Professor and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has openly defined Trump as a fascist. The Economist said it was reasonable to describe Trump as a modern iteration of fascism. Howard French stated that Trump is a fascist, but questioned whether the message would have helped Democrats to win the 2024 election.

The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/dispatches/what-does-it-mean-that-donald-trump-is-a-fascist

(Trump) “lacks something that we imagine to be a prerequisite for high office: breeding, or grammar, or diplomacy, or business acumen, or love of country. And he does lack all those things, as well as pretty much any conventional bourgeois virtue you can name.”

NPR

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/29/nx-s1-5164488/harris-trump-fascist-explained

Retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, said in an interview with The New York Times published on Oct. 22 that Trump “certainly falls into the general definition of fascist.”

Trump wants to shut down any voice that argues against his threats and actions that diminish our democracy.  Trump can be quickly defined by “It’s all about me and not we.”  He is truly a selfish centered, rather stupid individual.

Summary:

Both Trump and Republicans support plutocracy over Democracy.

The Republican Party seems to support Trump Fascism because it makes their mission to grant the wealthy huge tax breaks! Thus, it appears that both the Republican Party and Donald Trump are on the same mission. (Which also results in diminishing the best form of government – Democracy for the United States)

Everybody has the right to express their opinions but no one has the right to diminish our democracy!

A problem probably originated our current situation.  Many people in this country fail to understand and appreciate the Democratic system! 

Why?

What seems to be taking place today is that many Americans are stupid and as the country slowly slips into a fascist state, they may begin to learn what is superior, that being DEMOCRACY which is by and for the people.  And, let me add, that our form of government should work for all and not just the rich as the Republicans are currently pursuing.  

Donald Trumps wining his presidential elections appears to be due to the apparent stupidity of a vast portion of the American voting public.  It appears that this may be a deficiency of our educational systems as well as many other factors.

Posted by Score Card 6-8-2025

COUGH DROPS THAT CAUSED ME TO HAVE HIGH PRESSURE, BUT SAVED ME LATER WHEN I HAD A BAD SORE THROAT.

COUGH DROPS THAT CAUSED ME TO HAVE HIGH PRESSURE, BUT SAVED ME LATER WHEN I HAD A BAD SORE THROAT.

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On my way to a state government office, I suffered from a mild sore throat. While at a stop light, I looked at my car passenger seat next to the driver seat and noticed some cough drops. I took one after the other because it took me about half an hour to reach the government office and another hour and half to complete my business there. I stopped taking the cough drops for my ride home. I noticed rather quickly when I got home that I had pounding in my ears and a hearing problem. It was hard to hear conversations. I went out to lunch with a friend and during that visit, my hearing was deficient. About an hour and half later, I arrived back home and took my blood pressure. It measured high. I looked at the back of the package that I go the sore throat pills and noticed the primary ingredient is Methanol. I looked this up using Chrome on my cell phone and found the following.

“… consuming too many cough drops can result in a rapid heart rate and, although rare, more serious issues like confusion, muscle weakness, and even seizures. These symptoms occur because high doses of menthol can affect the central nervous system.

This is not to lower the reputation of Methanol cough medication. I am quite old and not in good shape so I believe I am more susceptible than the average younger person. I am trying to make you aware to examine the medications you take, even over the counter ones to ensure you stay safe and healthy.

Later that day, I went to my favorite local pharmacy and ask for a pharmacist recommendation. I was shown Luden’s Wild Cherry Cough Drops. I was told that they were very popular. I purchased one and tried them out and they worked for me!

LUDEN'S WILD CHERRY COUGH DROPS.
RECOMMENDED BY LOCAL PHARMACY.

UPDATE:

Later, my sore throat got worse. The next night my throat was so sore that I had to reach for a really good method to sooth my throat. I chose the methanol cough drops that had caused my to have elevated blood pressure, Signature Care cherry flavor, shown in the image above. And, let me tell you, they worked! My throat being sore, disappeared!

I then reasoned that I was not taking those cough drops, one after another, but only when immediately needed to use one. My blood pressure did not go up because I was not taking too many pills quickly. The Luden’s Cherry Throat Drops did not work to sooth my throat from being really sore. Methanol cough drops were required to solve my health problem.

Posted 4-29-2025 by Score Card