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• Covid~19 cases in the whole world - 489,131,396 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the whole world - 6,145,883 on Friday.
• Covid~19 cases in the United States of America - 80,117,294 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America - 980,797 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 4,330.
• WHO - Worldwide COVID deaths leap 40% as overall cases decline.
• Russia Invades Ukraine - Bombards Kyiv. Reports 60% of Russian rockets don't explode.
• Gay dog - The journey of Oscar, from homophobes to loving owners.
• Homophobic Kentucky clerk - "Cannot use her own constitutional rights as a shield to violate the constitutional rights of others while performing her duties as an elected official."

We talked about the colonial war Russian is waging against the civilians of Ukraine.

We talked about Oscar the dog, shunned by owners because they figured he was a gay dog. Good ending on this one.

We talked about The Republican governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, refusing to acknowledge the existence of trans people after he'd signed into law two pieces of anti-trans legislation.

We talked about the summary judgment against former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-gender couples in 2015.

We talked about an ice shelf 460 square miles in size breaking off from East Antarctica after an "unprecedented heatwave."

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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.