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• Covid~19 cases in the whole world - 227,445,273 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the whole world - 4,676,491 on Friday.
• Covid~19 cases in the United States of America - 41,906,703 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America - 671,835 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 15,696.
• Covid~19 anti~vaxxers - We talked about more of them dying, some after denouncing vaccines and masks. We urged people to get vaccinated.
• Covid~19 anti~vaxxers - We talked about more of them dying, some after denouncing vaccines and masks. We urged people to get vaccinated.
• Covid~19 anti~vaxxer consequences - We talked about the impact of so many people with Covid~19 filling ICU beds: of a man who died from a heart attack because he couldn't get a bed in a hospital. An 8 year old girl who  got Covid~19 which caused another serious disease.
• The Summer of '21 - We said goodbye to it in our traditional way.
• Listener mail - We read some!

We talked about the COVID-19 resurgence. We talked about the mutation of the virus and about people dying or getting ill because others are refusing to get vaccinated.

We said goodbye to the Summer of 2021. The Autumnal Equinox will occur on Wednesday, September 22, at 3:21 PM (ET).

We read some of the listener mail we've received.

There is a Web page for this radio program.

R. Paul is on Twitter.

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

• Barracuda - Heart
• Summer's Almost Gone - The Doors
• The Stripper - David Rose and his Orchestra
• Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

• I have a Web site. glib.com/

• 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.