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• About the archive of this program - When 5 AM rolled around on July 31, 2021, WBAI aired the program from the previous week. This was not corrected until about 5:21 AM. The WBAI Web master has posted the entire July 31, program in this archive, except for most of the Uncle Sidney promo.
• Covid~19 cases in the whole world - 197,007,642 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the whole world - 4,204,006 on Friday.
• Covid~19 cases in the United States of America - 34,814,925 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America - 612,388 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 1,976.
• Covid~19 - The CDC is saying that the delta variant is as infectious as chickenpox.
• Climate change - New York City got more smoke from the west coast fires this week, massive flooding elsewhere.
• The season - The exact time of mid~Summer will be August 6, at 3:54 PM (ET).
• Enzymes - A database of 350,000 shapes of enzymes figured out by an AI was released.

This is the link to that site Pickles of the North talked about that shows you where the smoke from the western North America fires is.

We talked about a London~based AI predicting enzyme shapes and the people running the AI releasing a database of over 350,000 shapes of enzymes, including all of the ones coded for in the human genome. We also discussed what enzymes were and why they're so important.

We talked again about superstitionists scamming employers by insisting that getting fingerprinted or putting their hand print on a device is "The Mark of the Beast" which would prevent them from getting into Heaven, and they are getting lots of money for having had their religious freedoms violated. We discussed the fact that a reading of "The Book of Revelations" shows that of the only 144,000 people it says will be allowed into Heaven it seems like all must be male and it indisputably says that all must be virgins! Why isn't that used in fighting this nonsense?

Donnie "Bonespur" Trump slithered back into the news this past week. The Office of Legal Counsel for the Department of Justice said that Congress had made a "legitimate request" to review the former president’s tax records. And then the House Oversight Committee released notes that said that Trump had urged senior Justice Department officials to declare the 2020, election results "corrupt" and "leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen," The "R" meaning Republicans. He really needs to go to prison.

There is a Web page for this program.

R. Paul is on Twitter.

• 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.

• Here's that link to a Web site about the smoke from the western North Amierca fires that Pickles of the North mentioned on the air.

• 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.