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Fr. Mark gives a 7 minute homily on why it he continues to fight the good fight.

Remember "Republicans pounced?" It has been used so much for the past few years that it has become a laughable cliché that has even earned an entry in the Urban Dictionary:

Microsoft said Friday that hackers breached a computer used by one of its customer service agents and stole account data they then used to launch "highly-targeted" attacks on customers. The company identified the hacking group as Nobelium, the same one behind last year's major SolarWinds breach. Microsoft has secured the computer, which the hackers infected with information-stealing software, and notified the "small number" of affected customers, it said in a Friday post on its Security Response Center site. The company sent a warning to affected Microsoft Services subscribers saying the hackers had access to information during the second half of...

Chicago, IL — “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”—Thomas Jefferson The next “simulation” planned by the World Economic Forum (WEF) is Cyber Polygon 2021, an event that our overlords assure us is wholly done for our protection. The WEF has been staging the Cyber Polygon “cyberattack exercise” annually since 2019. This is an event, scheduled for July 9, to pay close attention to, but also pay attention to the months following as the history of such simulations tend to lay the groundwork for real world chaos shortly thereafter. And also keep a watchful eye on how the globalists’...

The people of London have had enough. Massive protests against COVID lockdowns have broken out in London. The event is called the “Freedom March.” The crowd size is massive:

British health minister Matt Hancock quit on Saturday after he was caught breaking COVID-19 rules by kissing and embracing an aide in his office, enraging colleagues and the public who have been living under lockdown. In the latest scandal to rock a government that has overseen one of the highest death tolls from the coronavirus pandemic, Hancock, 42, wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign, saying he had let people down.

LEO TERRELL, LOS ANGELES CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: Lori Lightfoot is a political gangster. She's cut a deal, she's not going after the gangs, she's going to go after White reporters and she'll go after gun control and law-abiding citizens – she ignored the help of Donald Trump but she's begging from help for Joe Biden because she wants to make it a gun issue and she wants to make it a pandemic issue. But she allows the gang members [and] career criminals to flourish in Chicago. Al Capone's got nothing on Lori Lightfoot – she's a gangster. She's cut a...

Scarface is a 1983 American crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone. It tells the story of Cuban refugee Tony Montana (Al Pacino), who arrives penniless in 1980s Miami and goes on to become a powerful drug lord. Miriam Colon (1927-2017) portrayed Tony's mother. Scene from "Scarface" (1983) - Tony's Mother

The Chicago City Council on Friday voted to rename its Lake Shore Drive expressway in honor of Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the first non-Indigenous settler in the area who has been recognized as one of the city's founders. In a 33-15 vote, the council approved renaming the road, "Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive," keeping the original label in the new name as part of a compromise among council members. Council member David Moore, one of the leading aldermen pushing for the name change, said this week, "None of us would be here, including Lake Shore Drive, if this...

Four people died and one person was in critical condition after a hot air balloon they were riding in hit power lines in New Mexico’s largest city, police said Saturday. The crash happened around 7 a.m. on Albuquerque’s west side, police spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said. No identities have been released but fire officials said two males, including the pilot, and two females died. The multi-colored balloon skirted the top of the power lines, sending at least one dangling and knocking out power to more than 13,000 homes, Gallegos said.

During his first one-on-one interview since this week being named the next chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, Raul Ortiz outlined his leadership vision for a federal law enforcement agency that continues to face challenges and controversy. The incoming chief does not plan to make drastic changes, he said, but his appointment indicates a critical leadership shakeup at a time when the Biden administration is attempting to reverse course from the prior administration on immigration enforcement policies. Asked about internal tension between career agents and the incoming administration, Ortiz acknowledged differences in ideas and approaches but stopped short of calling...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – An attack at Worlds of Fun has some parents questioning if it’s safe to go back to the Kansas City amusement park. Twelve-year-old cousins were attacked by what their parents described as a gang of girls. Their moms are demanding justice. They said the girls who attacked their daughters will do it again. It was all caught on camera, and now, Kansas City police are investigating.(snip) On what should have been a fun-filled day with their grandmother, Chaunell and Chauntell’s daughters left Worlds of Fun battered and bruised. The Tillman sisters found out about it all...

A study by economists from the University of Southern California and the RAND Corporation examined the effectiveness of pandemic lockdowns and concluded that the measures taken to try to stop the spread of COVID did not save lives. In fact, every week these policies were in place an extra 2.7 deaths per 100,000 persons was recorded. The mechanisms by which the added fatalities were enabled included increased unemployment and poverty, increased stress and anxiety leading to increased drug use and suicides, increased child abuse and domestic violence, and reduced access to medical care for other serious diseases. Countries and US...

Fire and smoke coming from deep inside the concrete and metal remains of a collapsed 12-story condominium tower near Miami hampered rescue efforts Saturday as emergency workers raced to recover any survivors beneath the mountain of rubble. A firehose blasted one of the lower floors on the north side of the tower as white smoke or steam streamed out, and a bitter, sulfur-like smell hung in the air. A crane removed pieces of debris from the more than 30-foot pile, and scores of rescuers used big machines, small buckets, drones, microphones and their own hands to pick through the rubble....

Is there no level of Biden spin that's too pathetic for journalists? Apparently not, given the way Morning Joe opened on Friday with a Tonight Show clip of Biden's weird whispering act of yesterday. Mika Brzezinski found a way to cover for him, literally laughing it off in a loving way. Biden wasn't losing it. It wasn't weird. Not at all! Said Mika: "President Biden was practicing some ASMR, perhaps." ASMR? That sent this NewsBuster scrambling to Google. Turns out ASMR is an unproven notion that various events, including listening to people whisper, can cause a relaxing reaction in some...

Engineer Warned of ‘Major Structural Damage’ at Florida Condo ComplexA consultant in 2018 urged the managers to repair cracked columns and crumbling concrete. The work was finally about to get underway when the building collapsed. Three years before the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex near Miami, a consultant found alarming evidence of “major structural damage” to the concrete slab below the pool deck and “abundant” cracking and crumbling of the columns, beams and walls of the parking garage under the 13-story building. The engineer’s report helped shape plans for a multimillion-dollar repair project that was set...

Snip... On Monday or soon after, we will know the true number of ballots that were cast in Maricopa County. If it is drastically different than the number of certified ballots, as expected with the discrepancies found, there will be severe consequences for Doug Ducey and Katie Hobbs. The Arizona State Senate will need to consider decertifying the results if they cannot prove that Biden was the winner. Attorney General Mark Brnovich will need to initiate an investigation into those involved in the scam and the cover-up.

The People’s Liberation Army has conducted more than 100 joint exercises so far this year and has stepped up its training along the disputed border with India, the Chinese defence ministry has said. Military spokesman Ren Guoqiang told a regular press conference on Thursday that operations had continued despite the Covid-19 pandemic and included a “record-breaking” high-altitude drill involving more than 1,000 troops from 20 units earlier this month. Ren said the exercise, which included the use of drones and was “aimed at boosting the border troops’ combat capabilities in an extremely cold, tough and risky environment”, was part of...

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are safe for teens and young adults despite 323 confirmed cases of heart inflammation out of the more than 26 million young people who have received the shots, the nation's leading health experts concluded Wednesday.The move comes as regulators at the Food and Drug Administration said they were preparing a warning to go along with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to make young people aware of the very rare risk. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will continue to monitor the cases, but researchers at a CDC advisory committee meeting on vaccines Wednesday said...

A disturbing story emerged back in March but crucial information about the story is still ignored by the MSM. Two teens in Rochester, New York set a 53-year-old mentally ill man on fire, ultimately killing him. The Rochester teenagers who were accused of setting the 53-year-old man on fire are now facing murder charges after the victim died from his injuries. The boys — ages 14 and 16 — were initially arrested and charged with arson and assault on after allegedly pouring a flammable liquid on Steven Amenhauser and lighting him on fire in his home. Those charges have now...