Science and Bioethics

The deception of brain death and the business of organ transplants
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Where did the medical approach clearly revealed to the world by little Alfie Evans come from?? The answer for Dr. Paul Byrne, internationally renowned neonatologist, that in December of 2017 visited the little one, it is clear: «Although Alfie was not declared brain dead, it all stems from the definition of “brain death”. A vision according to which life is measured on the quantity of functions of the brain".
by Benedetta Frigerio (03-06-2018)
Where does the medical approach clearly revealed to the world by the little one come from? Alfie Evans? The answer for the doctor Paul Byrne, internationally renowned neonatologist, that in December of 2017 called by the child's family he flew to Liverpool to visit him, has been clear for years: «Everything starts from the definition of death, no longer clinical but cerebral, sanctioned in 1968 by a Harvard medical commission".
Doctor Byrne, explain to us why you differentiate real death from brain death and what implications this distinction has?
I started an intensive care unit for sick children in 1963 at the Cardinal Glendon Hospital for Childrend of St. Louis, I was deeply motivated by the intention to sustain life in every way possible. During this period, New therapies have been discovered. But a few years later a new definition of death began to spread: the patient was no longer considered dead until the cessation of cardiac and circulatory functions, therefore also respiratory and nervous system, but it was enough to detect the absence of activity of the brain to declare him dead. In the 1975 A premature baby was admitted to my ward, Joseph. He was ventilated and then declared brain dead because his electroencephalogram showed no signs of activity. But Joseph was alive, so I continued to treat him: today he is the father of three children. From that moment I began to question the definition of brain death, finding out it was a lie.
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Actuality

One consideration ecological
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The beauty ofItaly, praised as it should be for its history and its art, it is also the result of a fortunate and in some ways desired landscape beauty. A mountainous peninsula that is wedged into the Mediterranean, ending up being a perfect union between sea and mountains. This is demonstrated not only by the countless endemic species, but also the peaks and abysses that Italian athletes have reached, thanks to the experiences made possible by the Peninsula.

Just to name two contemporary and two historical names: Umberto Pelizzari (-131m in freediving in regulated variable weight, -150m in variabile no limits); Simone Moro (winter on the Nanga Parbat at 8126m); Reinhold Messner (the first to climb Everest without the aid of oxygen tanks) and finally Enzo Mallorca (in '61 it exceeds i -50 meters in freediving in constant weight, dispelling the myth that a man's lungs would collapse beyond that depth).
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Catholicism

The unjust steward. The rich man
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Esteemed Associates and kind Supporters, We are truly grateful for the large number, devoted and fervent participation in the last «Pilgrimage of Tradition», procession of 22 km from Osimo to Loreto in honor of Virgo Lauretana. An appointment of true friendship, of friends of the Church, friends of the Papacy, friends of the Clergy, friends of the Saints and Martyrs, friends of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary. We take this opportunity to point out the relationship about true friendship, drawn mainly from the studies of Cornelio ALapide, published on our Youtube channel. We come to the usual study of the Holy Scripture using the precious "Life of Jesus Christ" by Abbot Ricciotti, who today talks to us about the unfaithful farmer and the rich man.
• § 470. As well as being the scribe of mercy, Saint Luke is also the Evangelist of poverty (§145): so here is the series of parables we are examining, pearls on divine mercy are followed by others on human poverty, these too are preserved only in Luca's chest. That giving up wealth was an act of foresight on the part of the follower of Jesus, it was shown by him with the following parable. There was a rich man who had a farmer, and he was accused by the master of squandering his assets; therefore he was called by the master, which he told him dryly: «I have heard bad rumors about you; present me with the accounts of your administration as soon as possible!». – Gone out of there, the farmer thought about his own cases, and he saw himself lost if he did not find some way to survive in his old age. He then began to think: «Now that the administration will be taken away from me, how will I be able to support myself? I am no longer capable of working in the fields; I'm ashamed to ask for alms". After thinking about it for a long time, he decided to make the burden of his livelihood fall on the master by means of a cunning scam. It was a question of falsely reducing the debt that each colonist had with the master, so that those fraudulently benefited debtors would then show their gratitude to the factor by rewarding him. He therefore called a settler and asked him: «How much you owe my master?» – He replied: «One hundred barrels of oil». – The factor then: «No, take the receipt here and write fifty!». – So this first debtor was forgiven half of the debt. Then called another, he asked him the same question; and he answered: «I owe a hundred measures of wheat».
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National Economy

monetary Sovereignty
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“It's good”, said the entrepreneur Henry Ford in 1937 , “that people have no idea how our banking and monetary system works, otherwise there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning". There's no doubt about it, Indeed, that the sovereignty of a country e, so, of a people, you also and above all pass through the possession of the coin current within a nation.

The struggle for full independence and sovereignty is crossed by a long trail of blood, sabotage and coups d'état: from Operation Persil, which destabilized Guinea's economy, to the assassinations of the Togolese president Sylvanus Olympio and the famous president of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara. Subject of the dispute, a coin that, despite the official end of colonialism, keeps the former French colonies on the black continent in a state of currency servitude towards the former metropolis: il Franco CFA, recently entered the Italian and European political debate.

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FIFTH COLUMN

Make the Risorgimento, not the Resistance
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FIFTH COLUMN

by Marcello Veneziani
Thirty years ago he died Augustus of Noce, Gentile philosopher and Catholic on the sidelines. He had just had time to see the fall of the Berlin Wall, but he did not have time to see the transition from the bipolar world to the global world, dominated – as he himself had predicted – by technofinance and permissiveness; and the transformation of communism into a radical mass force, as he had predicted. In '89 there was still the USSR, Europe had not yet been united and Pope Woytila ​​was in vogue. And in our country there was still the first republic with its protagonists.
At that time the Catholic philosopher thought what the task of the coming years should be a new national and European Risorgimento. His reading of the Risorgimento was meta-historical, ideal, platonic; it had little to do with the actual unification process and its contradictions. For him the Risorgimento was a religious category, derived from Resurrection, evoked Gioberti. While the historical Risorgimento, that of Cavour, of Garibaldi and the Savoys, it was indeed an ideal inspiration but conceived as a process of modernization with respect to tradition, a secular if not irreligious movement that was born against the Central Empires of the Throne and the Altar and fell into the "liberal" era of national states and constitutional sovereignties.
For Del Noce the Risorgimento was a true philosophical category, as well as politics; different from both the Revolution and the Restoration. For him, the Risorgimento indicates that nations can only recover in the name of their tradition, “critiquing the historical order from the point of view of an ideal order”. If the revolution aims at the future, he said, the Risorgimento aims at the eternal. Moreover, the formula adopted for Italian sovereignty seemed to correspond to Del Noce's wishes, “by the grace of God and the will of the nation”.
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IMMIGRATION

Christophe Castaner (French minister): "Alcune ONG complici di scafisti"
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At the final conference of G7 interior ministers in Paris talking is Christophe Castaner of the French government. Illegal immigration topic e, specifically, ONG. Organizations which, according to Castaner, have in some cases had "a real complicity" with smugglers.
Certainly there was no shortage of "cartel" declarations. In fact, the minister also stated that “NGOs play a key role in providing assistance to migrants”, but the statements made during the speech at certain points are direct and without too many turns of phrase: “some were in telephone contact with the smugglers“.
In short, years after the first "rescues", after tracking the positions of the organizations' ships, after politicians have supported involuntary aid to human traffickers for years, the tones seem to have changed a lot. We at Beyond the Line, Anyway, we had a similar position already some time ago.
However, involuntariness - at least for some NGOs - is now being strongly questioned even in political circles, showing an image at least in evolution. And who knows, the future may certify some organizations as openly criminal, overcoming an ideological wall that is still rather thick and full of contradictions today.
source – https://oltrelalinea.news/2019/04/05/christophe-castaner-ministro-francese-alcune-ong-complici-di-scafisti/

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abortion

Abortion in the USA: new blow to Obamacare, conscientious objection returns
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Donald Trump gives new satisfaction to American pro-lifers. The White House has in fact put forward one proposal to modify theAffordable Care Act (better known as Obamacare), in order to finally protect conscientious objection to abortion.
The critical issue is in the legislation issued in 2016, last year of the Obama administration, by the Department of Health and Human Services, which he branded as “sexual discrimination” against women, the refusal of medical personnel to terminate a pregnancy.
One year after the issue of that rule, a Texas court raised doubts about its illegality. The applicants were a Catholic hospital and an association of Christian doctors, claiming that the measure went against their religious beliefs. The Trump administration's intervention would thus prevent a legal dispute, definitively and clearly re-establishing freedom of conscience.
 
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events

Catholic Bishop and Bishop 'a cum’
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Tomorrow, first of June, the Verrua Savoy Mons. Geert Stuyver, of the Mater Boni Consilii Institute, he will confer a priestly ordination and administer Confirmations: he is a bishop faithful to the Church who preaches good doctrine against modernist errors and any compromise with them, and therefore confirms souls in the truth.
The next day, 2 June, in Emilia there will be Msgr. Richard Williamson, Lefebvrian bishop therefore one with Bergoglio, credited as an opponent of the agreement (already concluded) of the Society of Saint Pius, but which in reality is on the left’ of the SSPX since it admits assistance at the new mass. A bishop therefore who does not preach the integrity of the faith and who does not confirm souls in the truth.
N.B. Mons. Williamson was NEVER a sedevacantist (not even Mons. Lefebvre, of the rest…)
Source – Don Ugo Carandino's notice board

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Actuality

"Illegal selling marijuana light '. No more excuses for cannabis shop
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The Supreme Court clarifies a law that has never been obscure: the 242/2016 regulates the cultivation of hemp, the transfer remains prohibited.
We publish the comment of Livatino Study Center at the news of the sentence with which the Court of Cassation decreed that the law does not allow the sale or transfer in any capacity of products derived from the cultivation of cannabis such as oil, the leaves, the inflorescences and the resin.
The Supreme Court ruling has the merit of shedding clarity on an issue that in reality was not obscure: law no. 242/2016 regulates the cultivation of hemp, but the transfer remains prohibited.
Beyond your letter, that law had been improperly understood as a green light for the retail sale of marijuana, albeit within the limits of 0.6, however suitable to cause the doping effect. Now there are no more alibis: cannabis shops are not the tool to achieve de facto legalization.
It will be necessary to work on the level of prevention to overcome the perception of legal cannabis that has spread especially among adolescents, and to make the ban something concrete.
source – https://www.tempi.it/illegale-vendere-marijuana-light-niente-piu-alibi-per-i-cannabis-shop/

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