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• Covid~19 cases in the whole world - 421,113,096 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the whole world - 5,871,258 on Friday.
• Covid~19 cases in the United States of America - 78,351,465 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America - 933,513 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 16,070.
• Pandemic obstinance - About 1,430 city workers were fired for not getting vaccinated against COVID
• Late Winter is here - Spring is not far away.
• Trump  - He and two of his children must testify at a deposition regarding fraudulent business practices.
• Truckers in Canada - Pickles of the North talked about the Candian government finally dealing with them.
• Russian invasion crisis - Will Putin's own vast wealth be a factor in this?

We talked about Russian forces surrounding Ukraine. Valdimir Putin is reportedly worth over $200 billion. Does that make him personally vulnerable to sanctions or immune from them?

We talked about the 1,430 New York City workers who were fired just before our last program because they refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19. That's around 0.38% of the total city work force. About 4,000 of them had been refusing to get vaccinated, but it appears that about 2,570 city workers decided to keep their jobs and got vaccinated at the last minute.

We talked about a New York judge ordering former president Trump and his two children to testify within 21 days in a long-running state civil investigation into his shady business practices.

We questioned Trump's sanity after he accused Hilary Clinton of, "break(ing) into the White House, my apartment, buildings I own."

We talked about the megadrought happening in the western part of this country. Research has shown that it's the worst drought in 1,200 years!

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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.