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• Covid~19 cases in the whole world - 215,085,787 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the whole world - 4,480,877 on Friday.
• Covid~19 cases in the United States of America - 38,481,005 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America - 634,349 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 8,589.
• Covid~19 vaccination rate - rising.
• Covid~19 quackery - People are lining their pockets by selling fake cures for the disease.
• Afghanistan - 13 Americans died in the bombing on Thursday, and many more Afghans died. Many were wounded.
• Afghanistan - Religious fanatics who think the Taliban aren't criminally insane enough show up and kill people.

We talked about the attacks by this ISIS-K crowd in Afghanistan, and how such groups get young, male recruits. This also is about why "nation building" in a place like Afghanistan is doomed to failure.

Pickles of the North talked about quackery related to COVID-19 and about some of her family members buying into the quackery.

R. Paul talked about a doctor at an Arkansas jail who's giving inmates a drug for treating stomach parasites in animals. The drug is called Ivermectin and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned doctors against prescribing ivermectin to treat COVID-19. What choices do those inamtes have?

R. Paul talked about August 1971. There was a rapid chess tournament featuring bobby Fischer. R. Paul was in an elevator with Fischer and Jimmy Darrin and neither one knew who the other was.

R. Paul talked about the 50th anniversary of a picket line turned police riot on Long Island, and the role played by a sign that said, "Queers Suck."

Next week we'll be celebrating the 35th anniversary of this radio 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 the Tails OS here.