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• Covid~19 cases in the whole world - 432,454,032 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the whole world - 5,934,916 on Friday.
• Covid~19 cases in the United States of America - 78,854,634 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America - 946,481 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 12,968.
• Russia Invades Ukraine - Putin went with Hitler's tricks used in the 1939, when the Third Reich and the Soviet Union invaded Poland.
• Trump  - He's calling Putin a "genius" for invading Ukraine, and he's castigating Biden. He's also pushing his lie that "It all happened because of a rigged election."
• Illinois - Homophobis attemtped murder.
• Florida - Legislature passes "Don't Say Gay" bill.

We talked a lot about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Valdimir Putin used some of the same lying tricks that Adolph Hitler had used to justify his invasion of Poland in 1939.

It's being reported that over 1,700 Russians have been arrested in Moscow for protesting this war.

We talked about Trump praising Putin and attacking Biden. Trump claims that Putin wouldn't have invaded if he were still president. We think that Trump would probably have helped his pal Putin! Trump also claimed that, "It all happened because of a rigged election." He's still telling that lie.

We talked about homophobic legislation and an attempted murder in the same vein.

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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.