"We have to say the truth, returning the hostages is not the most important thing."

Israeli Finance Minster Bezalel Smotrich said in an interview with Galey Israel radio on Monday that the release of captives in Gaza was "not the most important thing" for the goverment, provoking an angry backlash from members of the Israeli public, including families of captives in Gaza, who have hit back at the minister's comments.

Smotrich also said that the "Gaza problem" must be eliminated, citing a "tremendous opportunity". Smotrich believes that there are no longer any obstacles to fulfilling a hardline Israeli policy on Gaza after the end of former US President Joe Biden's tenure at the White House and the political demise of rivals, like former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and former Israeli army chief of staff Herzi Halevi.
t.me/QudsNen/160574
#zionism #zioNaZis #genocide #gazagenocide #gaza #palestine #IsraelTerroristState #IsraelWarCrimes

Important distinction: The MAGA faction outraged about the Epstein files is turning on Trump because they think he's covering up a massive QAnon-ish conspiracy. That doesn't mean they will reject him if he releases the files and they confirm what seems likely: that he had sex with underage teens. His cult obviously has no problem with everything else that makes him egregiously unfit, including his boasting about being able to commit sexual assault (and being accused of that by multiple women).
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It's telling that, when the WSJ published Trump's lewd cartoon (that he'd sent to his sex-trafficking pal), some MAGA folks (who were upset with Trump not for what he did to underage girls but for failing to release evidence of a supposed conspiracy) are on his side again. Their hatred of the mainstream media, even the Murdoch-owned WSJ, overrides their beef with Donald.

(Vidรฉo) Se Rebeller au Travail : Grรจve, Humour et Sabotage (Soif de Sens)


Nicolas Framont

youtu.be/Q46LJdefZnQ

Description de Soif de Sens : ยซ Comment reprendre le pouvoir face aux violences au travail ? Voici 1001 anecdotes et stratรฉgies pour obtenir collectivement des victoires au travail. Avec Nicolas Framont, sociologue, rรฉdac chef de Frustration Magazine et auteur de ยซ Vous ne dรฉtestez pas le lundiโ€ฆ Mais vous dรฉtestez la domination au travail ยป. ยป

frustrationmagazine.fr/video-tโ€ฆ

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#France, #Italy reportedly opt out of US-NATO arms deal for Ukraine


Under this scheme, #NATO will purchase advanced arms from the U.S., including air defense systems, and deliver some of them to #Ukraine.

According to two #French officials, France declined to join the plan because of President Emmanuel Macron's push for European nations to strengthen their own defense industries by purchasing #domestically #produced arms.

kyivindependent.com/france-optโ€ฆ

#RussianAggression #RussiaInvadedUkraine #StandWithUkraine

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How our debt crashed a model of the U.S. economy


#US #politics #economics #debt

These morons think that restoring slavery would save the economy. Their model is probably shit anyway.

Smetters and his colleagues published a list of suggested reforms that they think could help to fix the budget: raise the retirement age to 70, add a carbon tax, reduce social security benefits.


marketplace.org/story/2025/07/โ€ฆ

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into โ€œChatGPT Psychosis.โ€

A Stanford study "examined the ability of both commercial therapy chatbots and ChatGPT to respond in helpful and appropriate ways to situations in which users are suffering mental health crises. The paper found that all the chatbotโ€ฆ failed to consistently distinguish between usersโ€™ delusions and realityโ€ฆ"
futurism.com/commitment-jail-cโ€ฆ

Fine. Now let's move on. Whatever is going on will be sorted, but not by any of us.

โ€œEpstein never created a โ€˜client list.โ€™ The FBI interviewed alleged victims who named several โ€˜clients.โ€™ These names have been redacted,โ€ Dershowitz wrote.

nypost.com/2025/07/16/us-news/โ€ฆ

La Russie est notre Rorschach - Emmanuel Todd


#gรฉopolitique #impรฉrialisme #OTAN #guerre

L'effondrement prรฉcipitรฉ de l'Occident donne naissance ร  la maladie psychiatrique collective de la russophobie.

open.substack.com/pub/emmanuelโ€ฆ

James Webb Uzay Teleskobu ลžimdiye Kadarki En Uzak Galaksiyi KeลŸfetti | TรœBฤฐTAK Bilim Genรง
bilimgenc.tubitak.gov.tr/makalโ€ฆ

livescience.com/technology/robโ€ฆ

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Terrifying that a malfunctioning automated system can in fact shut off fuel switches, as happened on an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 flight in 2019:

"Investigators later found that the aircraftโ€™s software had mistakenly interpreted the plane as being on the ground, triggering the thrust control malfunction accommodation system, which automatically moved the fuel switch from โ€œrunโ€ to โ€œcutoffโ€ without any action from the pilots."

aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/17/wโ€ฆ

The UK is now the second largest government holder of Bitcoin, but the crown will slip.

The UK currently holds 61,250 BTC, worth approximately $7.27 billion at todayโ€™s price, according to Arkham Intelligence. These coins were seized by UK authorities in connection with an investment fraud targeting Chinese nationals.

The assets remain frozen, and legal efforts are ongoing to determine their rightful ownership and whether they will be returned to victims or confiscated under UK law. Until that process concludes, the UK cannot legally forfeit or sell the coins.

Once the ruling is made, the coins are likely to be returned or liquidated.

In the meantime, those coins are being custodied by Komainu. With the national crypto custody tender now live, that arrangement could change by the end of the year.

The risks of state custody are real. Just last week, a UK National Crime Agency officer was jailed for stealing seized bitcoin from a dark web suspect. Bitcoin shines a light on criminals outside the system and those hiding within it.

The UK may be the second largest government holder of Bitcoinโ€ฆ for now. But with legal rulings pending and custody contracts in flux, the question is how much longer.

H/t @d8a6ecf0 โšก๏ธ
blossom.primal.net/d6dc08509a4โ€ฆ

It is important to remember that Elon Musk was a Hillary Clinton supporter. If Musk had gotten his way, we would just be finishing 8 years of Hillary as President.

I am not sure America would have survived that.

Epstein was a founding member of the Clinton Global Initiative, and Maxwell was literally Bill Clinton's date to Chelsea's wedding. They would both still be preying on children, if Elon Musk had gotten his way and Hillary had beaten Trump.

Trump is the hero of the Epstein case.

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Oh I have hopeโ€ฆ but I donโ€™t place it in politics.

This was not good.

Itโ€™s an in-our-face message that the corruption remains, Trump and crew have no interest in truly eliminating it and they donโ€™t give a crap what we wanted, or what they promised to do.

This is a clear message to whatever intel agency, whatever enablers and whatever participants, that they are safe, and that the status quo will continue, and they donโ€™t care what we think about it.

Francesca Albanese, prix Nobel de la Paix

Pour une fois, si les Nobel nobรฉlisaient une personne juste, courageuse, indรฉpendante, au lieu de servir la soupe en permanence ร  l'Empire de la mort et ses reprรฉsentants achevรฉs tels Obama ce serait...Humain.


#prixnobeldelapaix #justice #humanitรฉ #actu #imperialisme #usa #francescaalbanese #mediasserfs

secure.avaaz.org/campaign/fr/sโ€ฆ

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Georges Ibrahim Abdallah patriote libanais enfin libรฉrรฉ n'รฉtait pas un terroriste


Regis de Castelnau

Au bout de 25 ans, la justice franรงaise sโ€™est enfin prรฉoccupรฉe de sauver lโ€™honneur. Elle vient de prononcer la mise en libertรฉ de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah condamnรฉ par une cour dโ€™assises spรฉciale il y a 40 ans pour complicitรฉ dโ€™assassinat. Abdallah militant communiste libanais avait รฉtรฉ accusรฉ de complicitรฉ dans lโ€™assassinat sur le territoire franรงais de deux diplomates amรฉricains et israรฉliens dont il a รฉtรฉ par la suite reconnu quโ€™ils appartenaient aux services spรฉciaux de leurs pays respectifs. Assassinats perpรฉtrรฉs alors quโ€™Israรซl รฉtait en guerre contre le Liban quโ€™il avait envahi, en provoquant la mort de 18 000 combattants et civils arabes, et couvrant le massacre de Sabra et Chatila.

Arrรชtรฉ sur le territoire franรงais, et malgrรฉ ses dรฉnรฉgations, il sera donc condamnรฉ en 1984 ร  la rรฉclusion criminelle ร  perpรฉtuitรฉ par une cour dโ€™assises spรฉciale chargรฉe de juger les affaires de terrorisme. Et ce aprรจs une procรฉdure pour le moins biscornue. Il y eut sโ€™abord la violation de la rรจgle ยซ non bis in idem ยป avec Abdallah jugรฉ deux fois pour les mรชmes faits, ensuite lโ€™aveu postรฉrieur de son avocat reconnaissant quโ€™il lโ€™avait trahi et travaillรฉ avec les services franรงais, ensuite toujours la dรฉfense absurde et provocatrice de celui qui avait succรฉdรฉ ร  ce premier avocat, et enfin des rรฉquisitions lunaires de lโ€™avocat gรฉnรฉral. Malgrรฉ ces รฉnormitรฉs, il ne fut pas possible dโ€™obtenir une rรฉvision de la procรฉdure. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah nโ€™รฉtait pas un terroriste, cโ€™รฉtait un patriote Libanais luttant pour dรฉfendre son pays contre une invasion israรฉlienne soutenue par les ร‰tats-Unis. Une propagande mensongรจre va bien sรปr le prรฉsenter comme un terroriste palestinien pro palestinien, qualificatif immรฉdiatement utilisรฉ pour ceux qui combattent Israรซl.

Il est libรฉrable depuis 1999. Sa libรฉration a รฉtรฉ prononcรฉe ร  plusieurs reprises par le tribunal dโ€™application des peines. Libรฉration systรฉmatiquement annulรฉe par les juridictions supรฉrieures sur appel tout aussi systรฉmatique. Le sommet รฉtant atteint quand sa libรฉration fut prononcรฉ avec la condition de la prise par le ministre de lโ€™intรฉrieur dโ€™un arrรชtรฉ dโ€™expulsion. Manuel Valls, jamais en retard dโ€™une vilenie, refusa toujours de prendre cet arrรชtรฉ. Maintenant ainsi Abdallah en prison dans une prison oรน il รฉtait enfermรฉ depuis prรจs de 40 ans, รฉtant alors le plus ancien dรฉtenu des pays de lโ€™UE. Alors que le maintien en dรฉtention ne pourrait sโ€™appuyer sur aucune considรฉration judiciaire, le parquet toujours soucieux de complaire, a naturellement fait immรฉdiatement appel.

La guerre secrรจte, รงa existe. Et lorsquโ€™on est en guerre on la pratique. Israรซl qui est en guerre depuis sa crรฉation le fait, mais habituellement discrรจtement. Car quand ses services interviennent sur le territoire dโ€™ร‰tat รฉtranger, en droit cela sโ€™appelle du terrorisme. On renvoie pour cela au film de Spielberg ยซ Munich ยป. Et ร  lโ€™exรฉcution de Mahmoud Hamchari sur le territoire franรงais. Tout le monde sait qui a perpรฉtrรฉ cet attentat, sauf manifestement les autoritรฉs franรงaises qui nโ€™ont jamais bougรฉ.

Le problรจme cโ€™est que le soutien amรฉricain et la passivitรฉ du reste de lโ€™Occident amรจne les dirigeants israรฉliens actuellement au pouvoir ร  se croire tout permis et, sรปrs de leur impunitรฉ, ils revendiquent ร  lโ€™avance les assassinats que le Mossad ou le Shin Bet commettraient ร  lโ€™รฉtranger.

Le chef du Shin Bet Ronen Bar, a dรฉclarรฉ ยซ quโ€™Israรซl travaillera ร  lโ€™assassinat des dirigeants du Hamas. Le Conseil ministรฉriel, le cabinet israรฉlien nous a fixรฉ un objectif, qui est en termes simples, lโ€™รฉlimination du Hamas, et nous sommes dรฉterminรฉs ร  le faire. Partout, ร  Gaza, dans la Cisjordanie, au Liban, en Turquie, au Qatar ยป. Comme dโ€™habitude Netanyahou ne sโ€™est pas gรชnรฉ lorsquโ€™il a annoncรฉ son intention le 22 novembre 2023 en dรฉclarant : ยซ Jโ€™ai donnรฉ lโ€™ordre au Mossad dโ€™agir contre les dirigeants du Hamas oรน quโ€™ils se trouvent ยป.

Comprenons-nous bien, vouloir frapper son ennemi ร  la tรชte a une autre lรฉgitimitรฉ morale que le massacre des civils de Gaza. Et ร  la guerre, รงa marche comme รงa. Mais en la circonstance ce qui est effarant cโ€™est le sentiment dโ€™impunitรฉ qui anime le pouvoir israรฉlien revendiquant par avance le droit dโ€™aller pratiquer le terrorisme sur le territoire dโ€™autres ร‰tats ! Concernant la France, si jamais cela arrivait chez nous, on peut malheureusement imaginer ce que serait la rรฉponse de Macron et des dirigeants franรงais.

regisdecastelnau.substack.com/โ€ฆ

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Je rafraรฎchis constamment la page de la pรฉtition contre la loi Duplomb sur le site de l'assemblรฉe nationale :

petitions.assemblee-nationale.โ€ฆ

et c'est hallucinant, on a parfois + de 50 nouvelles signatures en quelques secondes, cela redonne espoir !

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1 424 000 21/7 ร  17h50
Duplomb peut se lamenter trรจs malaDROITEment:
rmc.bfmtv.com/actualites/politโ€ฆ
le monde resitue les enjeux en partie :
lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/articโ€ฆ
Il n'y a jamais eu de pรฉtition dรฉpassant les 263 000 personnes
Les "zรฉlus" mรฉprisants (pour le peuple et la dรฉmocratie) ont du souci ร  se faire
Et c'est une trรจs bonne nouvelle! ๐Ÿ˜€)

FANTASMABULIQUE!!!


reshare from @Le Gรฉnรฉral Midi (aux ficielles)

En attendant dโ€™acheter le premier vinyl du Gรฉnรฉral Midi (12 โ‚ฌ + frais de port), tu peux lโ€™รฉcouter ici :

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#RapFr #LeGรฉnรฉralMidi #Branque

Japanese tea:
"o-one steep is enough senpai...I am very delicate and complex....maybe two...maybe."

Yunnan red tea:
"four steeps for the four bright stars on the flag comrade!! shall we drink to mao? To Marx? Let US make it six then!!"

Taiwan oolong:
"19 STEEPS?!?! PATHETIC. IM ON MY 28TH STEEP. YOU'RE ALREADY HYDRATED."

English tea:
"Put me in milk so u don't taste me anymore, I'm practically sawdust anyhow"

American tea: under the sea.

libertytree.ca/quotes/John.Steโ€ฆ

"And this I must fight against: any idea, religion or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for this is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system."

-- John Steinbeck
(1902-1968) Author, Nobel laureate
Source: East of Eden, 1952

libertytree.ca/quotes/Learned.โ€ฆ

"All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification."

-- Judge Learned Hand
(1872-1961), Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals

libertytree.ca/quotes/Karl%E2%โ€ฆ

โ€œUnlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerantโ€ฆ then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. [โ€ฆ] We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.โ€

~ Karl R. Popper
(1902-1994) Austrian-British philosopher, professor
The Open Society and Its Enemies, vol.โ€ฏ1 (London: Routledge, 1945), 217 (noteโ€ฏ4).

The UK government is secretly paying foreign YouTube stars to publish โ€œpropagandaโ€ videos.

A three-year investigation has found that online influencers are made to sign legal contracts banning them from disclosing the governmentโ€™s involvement.

Whitehall officials give โ€œfeedbackโ€ on each video before the influencers are allowed to publish them.

declassifieduk.org/uk-governmeโ€ฆ

#uk #propaganda

Peace and Development Are Better Than Austerity and War: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2025)


As military rhetoric and spending by the US and its allies continue to intensify, it is clear that the world must stand up and carve out an alternative path โ€“ one rooted in peace and development.
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Reason seems to have been gradually abolished by the language of bombs. As weapons systems get โ€˜smarterโ€™ and โ€˜smarterโ€™, the range of diplomatic instruments used by the Global North states becomes blunter and blunter. US and European diplomats have returned to the old colonial habit of speaking loudly and brusquely, lecturing the natives about what they should or should not do while they themselves do whatever they want. If the natives do not agree, then the old colonial rulers simply threaten to cut off their hands or bomb their homes.

When the International Criminal Court tried to open a file to investigate US atrocities in Afghanistan, Washington reacted by revoking the prosecutorsโ€™ visas and threatening to sanction their families. More recently, the United States government sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her report on corporate complicity in the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people. This gangster-like behaviour reflects the longstanding attitude of colonial rulers, indicating a return to a period when the West sent its gunboats to threaten our countries to trade as they wanted us to trade rather than to trade as equals. During the colonial period, that form of behaviour was called gunboat diplomacy. What we have now is an updated version: nuclear missile diplomacy.
thetricontinental.org/newslettโ€ฆ

Trump Has Completely Dropped His "Populist" Act

Itโ€™s so funny how Trump has stopped even pretending to be a populist. As soon as he was re-elected he was just โ€œYeah okay so Israel comes first and forget everything I said about free speech and the Ukraine war is continuing and there will be no Epstein investigation, fuck you.โ€

caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-has-โ€ฆ

IRAN. Les forces iraniennes tuent un kolbar kurde
kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2025/0โ€ฆ

"IRAN / ROJHILAT โ€“ Les forces frontaliรจres iraniennes ont abattu Peyam Ahmadi, un jeune kolbar kurde de Sarvabad (Sewlawa), sans sommation prรฉalable, alors quโ€™il transportait des marchandises ร  travers la zone frontaliรจre de Hanjiran, ร  Marivan. Selon les informations reรงues par lโ€™Organisation de dรฉfense des droits humains, Hengaw, le mardi 15 juillet

โ€œI was disoriented, hungry, and nauseous. In Georgia, after suffering a severe asthma attack without my primary inhaler and having a hard cry, I was feeling completely hopeless. In Louisiana, I found myself in a cramped, cagelike bus, waiting for hours. I watched as countless people arrived from a nearby plane, all shackled โ€” hands, feet, and waists. Some were taken inside a building, while others were loaded onto a bus, where I was left behind. I asked for water but was given none.โ€

vanityfair.com/news/story/rumeโ€ฆ

ฮ ฮฌฮฝฮต ฮบฮฑฮน ฯ†ฯ„ฮนฮฌฯ‡ฮฝฮฟฯ…ฮฝ ฮบฮปฮตฮนฯƒฯ„ฮญฯ‚ ฮดฮฟฮผฮญฯ‚ ฯ€ฯฮฟฯƒฯ†ฯฮณฯ‰ฮฝ ฯ„ฮทฮฝ ฯŽฯฮฑ ฯ€ฮฟฯ… ฮฟ ฮฝฮฟฮผฯŒฯ‚ ฮ“ฯฮตฮฒฮตฮฝฯŽฮฝ ฮบฮฟฮฝฯ„ฮตฯฮตฮน ฮฝฮฑ ฮตฮพฮฑฯ†ฮฑฮฝฮนฯƒฯ„ฮตฮฏ ฯ€ฮปฮทฮธฯ…ฯƒฮผฮนฮฑฮบฮฌ ฮฑฯ€ ฯ„ฮฟฮฝ ฯ‡ฮฌฯฯ„ฮท.
ฮ—ฮปฮฏฮธฮนฮฟฮน ฮฑฮบฯฮฟฮดฮตฮพฮนฮฟฮฏ ฯ†ฮฑฯƒฮฏฯƒฯ„ฮตฯ‚ ฮบฮฑฮน ฮฑฮณฯฮฌฮผฮผฮฑฯ„ฮฟฮน, ฮฑฮผฯŒฯฯ†ฯ‰ฯ„ฮฟฮน ฮฝฮตฮฟฮญฮปฮปฮทฮฝฮตฯ‚, ฮธฮฑ ฮญฯฮธฮตฮน ฮท ฯŽฯฮฑ ฯ€ฮฟฯ… ฮธฮฑ ฯ€ฮฑฯฮฑฮบฮฑฮปฮฌฯ„ฮต ฮฝฮฑ ฮญฯฮธฮฟฯ…ฮฝ ฯ€ฯฯŒฯƒฯ†ฯ…ฮณฮตฯ‚

KURDISTAN. Sรฉrie dโ€™attaques de drones contre les champs pรฉtrolifรจres kurdes
kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2025/0โ€ฆ

"IRAK / KURDISTAN โ€“ Depuis trois jours, plusieurs champs pรฉtrolifรจres kurdes ont รฉtรฉ touchรฉs par des attaques de drones. Certaines sources accusent lโ€™Iran dโ€™รชtre derriรจre ces attaques qui paralysent le secteur รฉnergรฉtique de la rรฉgion autonome kurde dโ€™Irak. Un drone a ciblรฉ un champ pรฉtrolifรจre dans

WeTransfer changed its terms to allow using your files to train AI. After users protested, they softened the language. But the rights they claim are still broad.

At @xwiki we believe privacy should be built in, not patched after backlash. Your content should stay yours.

Open tools like @CryptPad , @nextcloud and OnionShare put you in control.

#privacy #opensource #foss #digitalsovereignty
#ai #wetransfer #oss #news

Born to Revolution: The โ€œRed Diaper Babyโ€ Roots of Zohran Mamdani and Todayโ€™s Leading Democrats

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/bโ€ฆ

Four-legged robotโ€™s first encounter with microgravity


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The four-legged robot Olympus on Europeโ€™s flattest floor

For the exploration of planetary bodies with low gravity, such as the Moon or Mars, legged robots have an advantage over traditional rovers. One such robot recently jumped from wall to wall in conditions simulating partial microgravity and free flight at the European Space Agencyโ€™s Orbital Robotic Laboratory.

#engineering #technology #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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SYRIE. Les chefs druzes appellent ร  la crรฉation de couloirs avec les Kurdes et la Jordanie
kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2025/0โ€ฆ

"SYRIE โ€“ Les gangs djihadistes sous commandement de Damas se sont retirรฉs de la rรฉgion druze de Soueรฏda oรน ils ont massacrรฉ des centaines de civils, dont des enfants et des femmes, en plus de piller les habitations civiles. Comme cela ne suffisait pas, leur chef

Was hanging out with a bunch of Germans and apparently me being American agro to one of them like a NPC.

They apparently were very passionate about gun control and started talking about that and how could we Americans allow such things to happen in our country.

Anyways, it ended up with them talking about self-defense and me saying that you have the unabictous right to kill anyone who threatens you or your property.

They then said no one's property is worth their life, I said well you shouldn't have taken my property, and then I made a gun sound.

Anyways everyone looked at me as if I was complete psychopath so I may have gone to American.

Hey, so what? It was only two dead (mentioned later in the article) and two seriously wounded. So what man?

vaticannews.va/en/church/news/โ€ฆ

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