Actuality

The Maxi Hoax of racism in Italy: here are the real data
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Of Gianni Candotto
These days, thanks to a massive press campaign and a massive political campaign by the left, the idea has spread that there is a racism emergency in Italy and that racism in Italy is on the increase. But is it like this or is it just propaganda? To understand this it is necessary to analyze the data on crimes against foreigners in Italy, of racially motivated crimes and make a comparison with previous years and with abroad.
The first data is to see whether there has been an increase in crimes against foreigners overall (violence, insults, damage, vandalism and other crimes). Taking into account that foreigners have increased, it would be logical to expect a constant increase in crimes against foreigners, but the data says otherwise. Se 2016 they were there 202.000 foreign victims of crime, In the 2017 192.000 and in the first full six months of 2018 85.000 (which multiplied by two is 170.000. Even comparing the first six months of 2017 with the first six months of 2018 let's move on 90.000 a 85.000). Read More

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Non-fiction | History

The sensational chastity belt hoax
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Report BastaBugie editorial team
It is not true that the Crusaders forced their wives to wear them… the first date back to 1800 (such as erotic games or to avoid sexual violence)
and Aleteia

(AUTOMATIC READING)
The use of so-called chastity belts, flexible metal bands capable of covering the genitals and then closed with padlocks, it dates back to the times of the Crusades, when the knights leaving for the Holy Sepulcher wanted to ensure the fidelity of their wives during their absence. The belt is nothing more than a historical fake. Just looking at them is enough to understand how they can be a source of wounds and infections and have locks that are relatively easy to open.
As Focus notes (August 2014) first of all, there is a hygiene problem: even if the classic belt has small openings for the fulfillment of physiological needs, wounds, infections and consequently the death of the wearer would have occurred very quickly.
Furthermore, it is plausible that before leaving the knights mated with their wives, perhaps with the hope of finding a child upon their return. It is evident that the presence of an iron belt would have prevented childbirth. Not to mention the simplest objection: any medieval lock could be opened by a blacksmith in seconds.
THEOLOGICAL PURITY
Beyond these logical inconsistencies, there is the fact that there are no authentic belts dating back to the Middle Ages. The idea of ​​sexual abstinence is certainly very ancient, as is the Latin term cingulum castitatis (translatable precisely as chastity belt) compare, starting from the 6th century, in some texts by Pope Gregory the Great, Alcuin of York, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, up to Giovanni Boccaccio. But in all these cases it is intended as a symbol of theological purity, certainly not as an object of erotic dissuasion. Read More

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Actuality | Science and Bioethics

Brain death is a trick of the culture of death
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Reporting of BastaBugie editorial team

The brain death criterion was invented fifty years ago (1968) from Harvard University as an excuse to justify the first vital organ transplants
Of Alfredo de Matteo

(AUTOMATIC READING – with a human voice)
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary (1968) of the first definition of the brain death criterion, by a medical commission created ad hoc by Harvard University to ethically justify the first vital organ transplants. On the Future of 4 An interesting interview came out in February, the signature of Lucia Bellaspiga, to the researcher at the Neurolesi Center of Messina, Silvia Marino.
The occasion is an international meeting that took place in Milan on 2 last February on disorders of conscience, organized by the Irccs Carlo Besta Neurological Institute Foundation.
The neurologist Marino has been working for several years on probing the most hidden residues of consciousness through neuroimaging techniques and studying the reactions of the brain stimulated by sounds., smells and images. To patients apparently deprived of contact with the outside world and immobile for months or years in their bed, the researcher explains in the interview, we administer stimuli of all kinds, above all thanks to the fundamental collaboration of family members. While this is happening, through functional magnetic resonance imaging we can see if the areas of the patient's brain are activated.
So we studied 27 people diagnosed with minimal consciousness e 23 in a vegetative state, and among the latter well 10 they have transitioned to a state of minimal consciousness. Therefore, reiterates the neurologist, the word irreversible applied to disorders of consciousness, including vegetative state, it is no longer usable. Read More

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