Back of the Book

• Covid~19 cases in the whole world - 496,909,990 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the whole world - 6,172,850 on Friday.
• Covid~19 cases in the United States of America - 80,348,778 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America - 984,934 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 4,137.
• Russia Invades Ukraine - The devastation around Bucha outside of Kyiv. War crimes and evidence of massive execution of civilians.
• The Sun - A coronal mass ejection swept over us this past week, but t didn't cause real damage. Bigger ones have in the past, much bigger ones will occur in the future.
• The jaw bone's connected to - This statement is not currently operative for R. Paul.

We talked about the pandemic and how some people are really behaving as if it's over. And so quite a number of members of Congress are now infected with COVID-19.

Pickles of the North gets her second booster shot later today!

We talked about long COVID and the possibility that COVID-19 is here to stay. We also talked about the damage that conspiracy nuts are doing to scientists and the general public with their conspiracy hoaxes.

Russia's war crimes against the people of Ukraine continue. In Bucha many civilians were clearly executed. In Mariupol the Russian army may be using mobile crematoria to erase the evidence of some war crimes there.

We talked about solar flares and coronal mass ejections that have happened this past week, and we talked about more powerful ones from long ago.

R. Paul talked about the probability that he's dislocated his jaw by eating too vigorously.

There is a Web page for this radio program.

Our program schedule is here.

You can find me on Twitter.

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

• Barracuda - Heart
• Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

• I have a Web site.

• 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.