Back of the Book

• Covid~19 cases in the whole world - 165,705,287 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the whole world - 3,434,082 on Friday.
• Covid~19 cases in the United States of America - 33,076,705 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America - 589,096 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 3,934.
• Covid~19 cases in India - 26,031,991 cases.
• Covid~19 deaths in India - 291,331.
• Covid~19 deaths in India since our last program - 29,014
• cyber~crime - Microsoft Corp. is hunting down and destroying elements of the Phorpiex malware botnet.
• Pride March - Heritage of Pride bans Gay Officers Action League from 2022, March. This is a very bad idea.
• Wacky stuff or national security - UFOs are now UAPs and there is definitely something there, and the Pentagon is taking it seriously.

We talked about the pandemic and the changes that are happening.

We talked about Heritage of Pride, which runs the annual Christopher Street Liberation Day March, aka the Pride March, announcing that they are excluding the Gay Officers Action League (GOAL) from the 2022, march. This is a very bad idea. The march is supposed to be inclusive. Will there be enough blowback on this to make them reverse that banning? Will Heritage of Pride have to be replaced as the group that runs the march?

We talked about Microsoft attacking the Phorpiex malware botnet. I think I'm rooting for the Evil Empire in this one.

UFOs have been a topic on WBAI for decades. On this program we've mostly considered them kooky. But now the United States government appears to be concerned about some objects that can elude the fastest fighter jets in the American arsenal.

Te largest iceberg in the world has detached itself from Antarctica and is floating around in the southern ocean.

R. Paul went on the subway for the first time since March 7, 2020. Unfortunately, it was to go to a wake for a relative.

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

• Barracuda - Heart
• Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

• I have a Web site.

• R. Paul is on Twitter.

• WBAI LSB Treasurer's Reports are here.

• 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 the Tails OS here.