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• Covid~19 cases in the whole world - 115,904,109 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the whole world - 2,575,798 on Friday.
• Covid~19 cases in the United States of America - 28,873,800 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America - 522,221 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 12,511.
• The January 6, insurrectionists - Are still being arrested. One is a former Trump State Department employee!
• U.S. Postal Service incompetence - Rep. Malony (D, NY) Is pressing to get news members approved for the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service with an eye toward ousting Trump crony Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

On this program R. Paul talked about getting his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine at the V.A. Hospital, which was a lot less of an adventure than getting the first dose had been. He talked about the aftermath of the vaccination as well.

We talked about The idiocy of the Republican governors of Texas and some other states in opening up everything and lifting mask mandates. President Biden called their actions the result of "Neanderthal thinking." I think the Neanderthals would have behaved better.

We talked about how the mail has been screwed up by Trump megadonor Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, and we caught everyone up on  the efforts to get him out of that position.

We talked about the continued arrests of the January 6, insurrectionists. Just arrested was Federico Klein, who was a Trump appointees to the State Department! Klein is charged with assaulting federal law enforcement personnel during the insurrection. We also talked about one Jacob Chansley who showed up as the so-called "QAnon Shaman" on January 6. We talked about his "muffin defense" by which he apparently hopes to evade a 20 year prison sentence.

We talked about Daylight Saving Time starting next weekend, and the Vernal Equinox happening during our March 20^th, program!

• Guests? Guests? We don't got no guests. We don't need no stinkin' guests! -

• Barracuda - Heart
• Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

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• If you want to do something to protect your privacy while using regular browsers, like Firefox, you can check out NOSCRIPT which gives you more control over what Web sites can learn about you.

• Search engines help us to find things on the World Wide Web. Most search engines exist not to help you find things but to allow the companies that provide the search service to data mine your searches and then sell your search history to clients so they can spam you. An alternative to getting your privacy compromised is to use the DuckDuckGo search engine.

• If you'd like to keep your browsing history private you can get yourself the Tor Browser. Using the DuckDuckGo search engine is automatic with the Tor Browser, and by accessing the DuckDuckGo search engine from the Tor Browser you are pretty much guaranteed that no one can trace searches back to you.

• Gnu Privacy Guard can help you to encrypt your data and preserve your privacy.

• For those who need some help getting started with Gnu Privacy Guard there is Gentle GPG which does a lot of the work for you.

• For the somewhat more advanced user who wants to protect his or her privacy there is the Tails OS. Tails is a live operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a USB flash drive or a DVD. It allows you to use any computer that will allow you to boot up off a USB flash drive or a DVD and it provides a lot of good security for your on-line activities. You can get it here.