PROVITA | Science and Bioethics

"Eggsploitation", exclusive documentary on the exploitation of human eggs
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Reporting of Toni Brandi – ProVita
I have the pleasure of introducing you to the DVD “Eggsploitation” in Italian version. It's a documentary, winner of the California Independent Film Festival, on a topic almost unknown to the general public but fundamental for women's health: lo exploitation of human oocytes for the purposes of heterologous fertilization.
They are looking for young girls on American college campuses, or through newspaper advertisements. They want the good ones, intelligent, sane. They promise money. So many girls accept the offer and undergo the procedures “donation” (actually “sale”) of ova, without knowing the serious consequences they could suffer in terms of physical and mental health…
For the first time “Eggsploitation” is available dubbed in Italian, in this version of the documentary edited by ProVita Onlus.

You can find out how to get the DVD by clicking here.

In any case, I invite you to watch this short trailer that we have prepared:

trailer eggsploitation provita

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Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

Now the numbers certify it: migrants are just a cost
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The numbers from the latest Itinerari Previdenziale report, created by the Alberto Brambilla study center: the healthcare costs for migrants weigh heavily
Of Claudio Cartaldo
The numbers speak clearly: i migrants I'm not a profit. Or at least they aren't the way they've always told us.
The fairy tale “they will pay our pensions“, however formally correct, in fact, it does not take into account other factors. Like medical expenses for immigrants (even irregular ones).
Let's go in order. According to the latest report from Social security itineraries, created by the Alberto Brambilla study center, it is true that the balance between contributions paid and pensions paid to migrants is positive. But we shouldn't stop there. “If you try to make an overall balance between income and expenses of the 2015 and the relative amounts for non-EU and new EU immigrants are added – we read in the report, as reported Libero – we get an estimate for contribution income which would amount to approx 9,5 billions of euros, of which the share is borne by workers is approx 2,6 billion. Tax revenues relating to salaries between 10 thousand and 12 thousand euros slightly exceed the Irpef exemption threshold, the estimated expenditure for pensions and income support benefits would be approximately 1,9 billions of euros, with a positive balance for the year of approximately 700 million euros”. Read More

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Policy | Non-fiction

Plato's Republic: a philosophy against the modern world
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Of Luca Leonello Rimbotti
Plato's Republic: a philosophy against the modern world
Source: Italicum
Literary utopia, or a true manual for building politicians? Criticism of Plato's most scathing and incisive work has often moved between these two poles, considering this capital text from time to time as a rhetorical exercise, or an ontological proof, or instead, something that is to be shared, a true manifesto of universal politics, capable of constituting at any time a code of exemplary social stability. Other times however, as in the case of the liberal Popper, Plato and his “Republic” played the part of public enemy number one, the ideology that, proposing a well-organized society in itself, firm and solid and therefore closed to external dangers and evils, more than others, it endangers the beatitudes of the "open society".
The catalog of positions that the Platonic "Republic" presents is one that is difficult to digest for those with an egalitarian stomach, pacifist and progressive. It is impossible not to see that ancient classicism and postmodern degeneration are in antithetical positions. For bourgeois and moderate eyes, cosmopolitans and "do-gooders", Plato's thought represents the greatest scandal: it outlines the community to the highest degree, and therefore dismisses individualism a priori, which instead is the great refuge of liberal impotence. These are some of the most qualifying points of Platonic politics, which constitute – as rightly so, from his point of view, Popper noted – how much more unassimilable to the mentality of post-modern "democrats".: the rigid and severe paideia, the education and selection to which Plato entrusted in the "Republic" the growth of the ruling classes of the ideal city; the suppression of individualism in the face of the prevalence of community interests; community, really, of women and property; the abolition of private property; the dominance of the "organic" State over the individual, whose rights are unknown, but only duties; the type of government, hierarchical, aristocratic and elitist, in which philosophers participate and not at all the mass of the people. All this scandalises the hypocritical and fraudulent nature of modern "democrats"., who pass off their upper-bourgeois oligarchies as governments "of the people" and exchange their financial dictatorships for services rendered to the majority. Read More

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Actuality | events

United States and Iran: Europe to the test
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Of Fulvio Scaglione
United States and Iran: Europe to the test
Source: Fulvio Scaglione

The Iranian crisis, much announced and finally exploded, will test the European Union. It is not the first time that the EU has had to demonstrate its virtues, and the results were not brilliant. This, but, it could be the last because the cancellation of the Treaty signed in 2015 with the government of Hassan Rouhani it could decree the end of any attempt to give Europe a political physiognomy.

The question is very simple. According to the European Union (and also the UN and Russia, moreover), the agreement of 2015, built to block Iran's path to military nuclear power, works, Iran respects the pacts and there is no reason to cancel it after such a short time. According to the USA (and also Israel and Saudi Arabia), on the contrary, the agreement is full of holes, it offers no security guarantees and Iran lies, because he continues to try to prepare the atomic bomb.

It would be difficult to imagine a sharper difference of opinion than this. Which is furthermore broadened by questions of economic interest. The USA wants to favor traditional partners in the Persian Gulf, who are, among other things, much richer than the Iranians. Europe has a long and cordial commercial tradition with Iran, enjoyed above all by Italy and Germany. Our country is now the second largest exporter to Iran (especially mechanical and chemical industries) and the second importer (especially oil) after Germany, first in both sectors. In the 2011 commercial relationships between Italy and Iran they reached their peak, with a value of 11 billions of euros. In the 2012 sanctions, also imposed by the EU, they caused the value of a to collapse 1,3 billion, but the projections for the 2018 they talk about 3 billion, therefore we are rapidly regaining our former positions. Read More

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Actuality | events

When Zionism collides with reality
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Of Stanley L. Cohen*
When Zionism collides with reality
Source: Comedonchisciotte
“The wrongs we seek to condemn and punish were thus premeditated, so evil and so devastating, that a civilization cannot tolerate them being ignored, because it could not survive their reiteration"
With these authoritative words, Robert H. Jackson, Chief U.S. Attorney, had opened the work of the War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, immediately after the conclusion of the Second World War.
In charge of ascertaining the guilt of prominent members of the army, of politics and the judicial apparatus for violations of international laws... including war crimes, crimes against humanityand against them laws of war…the court had validated the principle of personal responsibility for the genocide against Jews and other ethnic groups, that had been considered, from the German state, a threat to one's own, declared, racial supremacy, religious and political.
Although these crimes had manifested themselves in different forms, their savagery resulted, actually, from a shared collective thought, who considered all those destined to be suppressed by the state not only (beings) inferior, but unworthy of life itself… men, women and children, young and old, reduced to little more than objects of grotesque derision, whose very existence contaminated the national concept of racial supremacy.
There are no more secrets about the terror campaign unleashed from the Third Reich, as he invaded nations and unleashed international violence never seen before. Nor have its methods of total war ever been subject to serious debate, both towards the military, than against civilians. Even if someone has chosen to dispute the number of victims or to rework the exact instruments of persecution, no serious historian doubts the role played by cattle trucks, from the ghettos and crematoriums in a conscious effort to silence the diversity of life, while most of the world looked elsewhere. Read More

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Iran will replace the US dollar with the euro in financial relations
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Of Saeed Jalili
Iran will replace the US dollar with the euro in financial relations.
Source: Comedonchisciotte

Iran will replace the US dollar with the euro in financial relations.

In the midst of the currency crisis, with this change we attempt to circumvent restrictions on the accessibility of the US dollar and prevent market instability.

The Iranian Riyal has lost nearly two-thirds of its US dollar value over the past three years [Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters]

Friday's move (ndt 13 apr.) is considered part of efforts to circumvent restrictions on the accessibility of the dollar currency, as a result of tensions with Washington, as well as preventing general instability on the markets generated by fluctuations of the Iranian Rial against the dollar.

In a cabinet meeting, the government has decided that all ministries, State organizations and companies should refer to the exchange rate with the euro, which the Central Bank of Iran will have the task of communicating frequently, the IRNA news agency reported.
It is unclear when this decision will take effect, but the entrepreneurs have said that they will wait to know the implementation methods before these new conditions can take effect.
“I suppose if they use the euro as their official currency, this will reduce the psychological impact of the rial fluctuations on the dollar”, he said, ad Al Jazeera, Newsha Sheikh Soleimani, which imports raw materials for the processing of bricks and ceramics in Tehran.
“Our company operates mainly in euros, but some invoices are issued based on the rial-dollar exchange rate” but his company recently had to suspend all transactions due to uncertainty over the value of the foreign currency.
“I welcome any move that can bring stability to the foreign exchange market”.
The loss of value
Valiollah Seif, head of the Central Bank, he had already said that the use of the dollar in financial transactions is not "logical"..
Iran's trade revenue is mainly in euros due to sanctions on the US dollar, he stated. Therefore, Seif added, the country's financial reporting should use a more stable and widely used reference currency in trade.
As part of the agreement Iranian nuclear power of the 2015 with world powers, all sanctions related to Iran's controversial nuclear program have been lifted.
Despite this, due above all to persistent tensions with the United States, There are still limitations on Iran's accessibility to US currency.
These restrictions have contributed to the fall in the value of the rial against the dollar in recent months.
The dollar traded at an all-time high of 60.000 Rial last week, teasing, among Iranians, serious concerns about the stability that the President Hassan Rouhani had brought about the economy by controlling exchange rates.
Since last year, the rial lost approximately 50% of its value compared to the US currency, which some Iranians buy in large quantities as an investment in times of great economic uncertainty.
A sudden drop in the value of the Rial is expected to cause an increase in the price of imported goods and increase the inflation rate.
To control the currency crisis, the government last week froze free trade in the us currency by introducing an official rate of 42.000 rials for every dollar.
The Central Bank said it would provide dollars only to those registered to use them for specific purposes, while the free exchange of foreign currency will be deemed illegal.

Seif, Head of the Central Bank, faced lawmakers' fury last week, when he took the parliamentary podium to explain the new forex policies. He suggested to the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the use of the euro in foreign trade to replace the US dollar.
A short term fix?

In the meantime, a currency trader told Al Jazeera that these new policies are “good news for importers and exporters”, but which have generated confusion for its business.
“Even if the government replaces the dollar with the euro, the dollar is still traded and used as an investment by many in the free market.", he said, preferring to remain anonymous.
“I hope these decisions are not just temporary measures – like a fever-reducing pill – because international restrictions on the dollar affect our economic stability”.
There have been growing concerns among Iranian businesses about a possible US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.
US President Donald Trump should decide the 12 May if his administration confirms sanctions that were lifted as part of the nuclear deal.
He believes the deal isn't working because it doesn't address Iran's missile program, as well as its military presence in the region.
Iran says its missiles are for defensive purposes.
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Source: https://www.aljazeera.com
Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2018/04/iran-replace-dollar-euro-financial-reports-180418183855096.html
18.04.2018
The text of this article can be freely used for non-commercial purposes, citing the source comedonchisciotte.org and the author of the translation Primary Forest

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Policy | Non-fiction

Dissolution of state factors
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Of Luciano Del Vecchio
Dissolution of state factors
Source: Appeal to the People
For about a quarter of a century, a massive and progressive occupation of power by supranational private potentates has been modifying and distorting the legal nature of the modern state, which seems to revert from a state of law to a balance sheet. Globalization has taken hold and digital technology has developed, the rule of law, which is based on legislative activity, the division of powers and on the prevalence of a Constitution, has progressively lost ground. On the one hand, the constitutional changes were inspired by the principle of the minimal state of liberal ideology, on the other the constitutional norms, escaped the distortion and liberal tampering, are not concretely applied by quisling because they are postponed, in the source hierarchy, to the rules of the European treaties. Our Constitutional Court, interpreting the art too broadly. 11 Cost., it established the superiority of treaties over domestic law: ruling that the courts of other countries, Germany in the lead, they were careful not to adopt. He moved in parallel with the judges a political class That, educated by history and home tradition to transformism, he felt no scruples of dignity and coherence in crossing all sides from one pole to the other, to finally recognize oneself as uniformed and flattened everything on liberal ideology: This group was and still is the most suitable to transpose and slavishly apply the tables of the law, not just the orders of the European Commission, but also simple agreements dictated by international trade or financial organizations. Magistrates, politicians, academics, intellectuals, commentators and TV commentators, a whole army of attendants to hand over power into private hands, they were raised and "fed" in the climate of political revolution, economic and technological that, since the end of the 80s of the last century, it destroyed the old cultural and legal categories of public law. Today an economic and financial oligarchy, intentionally stateless or cosmopolitan, which becomes law with the power of money and technology, it replaced the rule of law, invalidating the ancient definitions of legal science e, with a new modality in history, exercises real power detached from the idea of ​​the State, indifferent to the territory, foreign or hostile to the people. Handing over the structure of state power into private hands involves not so much the elimination of the State as the last and only institution to defend the community of citizens and the general interest, as much as its metamorphosis: the rule of law historically and politically relegates itself to a patrimonial state of absolutist memory.
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Actuality

The American New World Order is officially dead
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Of Henry Tougha
The American New World Order is officially dead
Source: Voices from abroad
A mainstream source such as Bloomberg states The American dream of imposing its own system of global control is officially dead. Russia, after recovering from the collapse of the Soviet Union, together with a new power like China, they have escaped US leadership by creating alternative poles of influence. Naturally Bloomberg takes an absolutely favorable and rosy point of view on the new peaceful and collaborative world order that the United States would try to pursue and considers its end negatively, casting the responsibility on the authoritarianism and power aims of China and Russia. In essence, however, this official renunciation of the ambition to integrate these countries under the American empire does not mean peace: according to Bloomberg the consequence will be that the USA will have to commit itself in an increasingly aggressive manner to militarily defend the hitherto consolidated American empire.
at Hal Brands, 27 September 2017
American foreign policy has reached a historic turning point, and here's the surprise: it has little to do with Donald Trump's exhausting and controversial presidency. Read More

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Sovereignty and the opinions of the President of the Republic
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Of Paolo Becchi e Giuseppe Palma
Sovereignty and the opinions of the President of the Republic
Source: Economic Scenarios
Even at the last moment, M5S and Lega have reached an agreement for the formation of a political government which determines an essential turning point: this is the first real victory of the sovereignist forces. First of all, towards Europe: in a Union that, after all, it had managed to ensure its balance even in the presence of anti-European forces, a "sovereignist" Italy is now arriving, led by an alliance between the two main “national-popular” forces. Elsewhere, we had had defeats: despite Le Pen's good electoral result, Macron's France prevailed, as well as in Germany, despite the nationalist exploit, the system has regrouped. Ecco, the Italian novelty: the “system” was unable to regroup, to absorb and neutralize the oppositions that crossed it. Right, everyone tried in every way: Berlusconi thinking of a center-right government that would find the support of the "responsible" in parliament, the Democratic Party hoping for the President's government, Mattarella with his hypothesis of a "neutral government". But in the end Lega and M5S won: they will govern, Together, after Berlusconi's step aside. As it was in the nature of things from the beginning. Read More

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Orban: "Preserveremo l'identità cristiana della Nazione, no space for supranational activities"
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Of Ismaele Rognoni
The day before obtaining the confidence of the Hungarian parliament for the third time in a row, Viktor Orban stated that “the new government's priority will be to preserve national security and Hungary's Christian identity”.
These words come after those of last Friday when in a radio interview Orban underlined how “his executive will continue to work on building an old-fashioned Christian democracy, rooted in European traditions, we believe in the importance of the nation and in Hungary there is no space for any type of supranational activity”.
A further characteristic of previous Orban governments was that of a growing contrast with the world of pro-migrant NGOs. If continuity in this sense were to occur, one of the first laws to be passed could be the so-called 'Anti-Soros' law, guilty, according to his accusers, to support the massive arrival of groups of non-EU migrants on European territory through strong economic support to the NGOs themselves. Read More

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