Actuality | Science and Bioethics

Vaccinations: the truth is priceless
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Even when it wasn't topical at all, our Circle Christ the King organized in Segusino (TV) a conference on the dangers of some vaccines, involving the Association CORVELVA and its President Ferdinando Donolato. Let's talk about 2011…Now everyone's talking about it, science and politics are divided
Of Stefano Montanari
Vaccinations: the truth is priceless
Source: Heretically
Interview by Roberta Doricchi*
– We can start with the interview given by our health minister to Vanity Fair magazine [https://www.vanityfair.it/news/politica/2018/07/11/ministro-sanita-giulia-grillo-vaccini-salvini-marijuana (N.d.R.)]?
SM – A mortifying manifestation. Beyond chatter and details about his intimate life which could at most be of interest to the less culturally equipped strata of the population, it is worrying what this lady, However, she graduated in medicine, external on vaccines. Let's say that she is poorly and poorly informed and let's stop there, perhaps adding that it wouldn't be difficult for her to acquire at least a little of the many notions that she doesn't seem to possess. But here we would need a little humility and perhaps authority. And also worrying is the fact that the minister completely doesn't care about what her party has made those understand, proudly, he voted for it. They are not few, Indeed, those who have fallen into the game of believing that the law on compulsory vaccination, crazy and illegitimate as it is, would have been repealed. Now these inconsiderate, naive voters find themselves complicit in a situation that is critical to say the least, having somehow signed up to a management that is a replica of the past one. Read More

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Actuality | events

Euro Italy: the blackmail of Target2
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Of Roberto Pecchioli
Euro Italy: the blackmail of Target2
Source: Heretically
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is probably the best economic journalist in Europe. From the columns of the conservative Daily Telegraph, his gaze sweeps over the business international without blinders and, above all, without becoming a megaphone for the interests of the upper levels. His recent speech should prick up the ears of observers and decision-makers in our country. Evans claims that a creeping flight of capital from Italy is underway. The proof is our liabilities in the Target2 system of the European Central Bank. In a month, increased by 39 billion up to 465 billions of euros. One of the causes would be the possibility that the issue becomes operational (which Evans sarcastically calls subversive) day Minibot, the parallel currency intended for Public Administration payments, but usable in general, since every means of payment works on a fiduciary basis, that is, if people are willing to accept it.
The worry (or the secret hope) of the markets is that Italian private savers, holders of very significant sums,join the exodus. The first consideration is that capital flight comes from large investors, by funds and investment banks, supported by the ECB itself. It therefore has an eminently political character, exactly like the manipulation of spread, not in the hands of metaphysical markets, but the Central Bank's blackmail weapon. Read More

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Actuality | World Economy

Austerity? Nonsense, word of the ECB
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Of Roberto Pecchioli
Austerity? Nonsense, word of the ECB
Source: Heretically
Consulting foreign newspapers broadens your horizon. Far from our home journalism, busy rummaging through CVs or fueling fascist hunts - now it's the Minister of the Family's turn Lorenzo Fontana – we can read interesting news carefully hidden from us. An example is the European Central Bank report entitled “On the sources of economic cycles. Implications for DSGE models.” The acronym means General Equilibrium of Stochastic Dynamics. In the initiatory jargon of economists, stochastic stands for probabilistic, and talking about probable scenarios is already a nice bath of humility on the part of the snooty masters of histograms and mathematical models. Economists are very good at explaining in retrospect how things did not go as they had predicted. Il report of the ECB follows the opposite path, a commendable example of realism and concrete research. Read More

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The Fifth Estate
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Of Roberto Pecchioli
The Fifth Estate
Source: Heretically
I met the Fifth Estate. It happened this morning, soon, in my neighborhood. In less than half an hour and within a radius of a few tens of metres, I verified the existence of the Fifth Estate. It's here, I met him and even touched him. We know the ancient division of society into three orders, dating back to the Middle Ages. The first order, or State, it was made up of the clergy; the second by the nobles. The third, theoretically, from everyone else. His representation, in the French States General, was entrusted to members of the nascent bourgeoisie, who made the Revolution and buried the past forever. His vate was Abbot Sieyès, author of a very successful pamphlet that set France on fire at the beginning of the fateful period 1789. With the lexicon of Gyorgy Lukàcs, we could say that it was the ecclesiastic of Fréjus who gave the Third Estate class consciousness, starting from the famous phrase "what is the Third Estate? All. What has happened so far in the political system? Nothing. What do you want?? Becoming something". The bourgeoisie cut off the King's head and inaugurated modernity.
During the nineteenth century, the socialist controversy began to talk about the Fourth Estate, that is, of the peasant and worker proletariat whose ranks swelled in the shadow of the industrial revolution, of forced urbanization, of the birth of large factories. Its artistic representation is the great painting of 1901 by the Piedmontese Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo: a compact and orderly crowd moving towards the future, confident in history, led by a young mother with her little son around her neck and two men, the most combative peasants. There is in this framework of large dimensions and gigantic ambitions, the sense of a composed dignity, a sober elegance despite the common simplicity of the clothes and attitudes, an irrevocable advance, inevitable of men and women who feel like communities on the march determined to change their condition all together. Read More

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Policy | Non-fiction

The how and why of Populism
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Of Umberto Bianchi
The how and why of Populism
Source: Heretically
At the end of a decidedly close electoral contest, the verdict that came out of the polls has, indiscutibilmente, rewarded all those formations that, somehow, they imitate or are themselves considered “populist”. The reference applies to both the League and the Movement 5 position, US President Trump, the transalpina Lady Marine Le Pen, That, in the most recent past for the Forza Italia of the golden times and, really, in very recent times, as if by someone risky, also for Renzi of the original "scrap" version. A term whose meaning has included a bit of everything and its opposite.
But what exactly do we mean by “populism”?? What is the exact political meaning in which this term should be placed, very fashionable nowadays? If we want to refer to the letter of the history of political movements, by “populism” we mean a series of movements that, at the end of the nineteenth century they developed in disparate contexts. In Russia, Populism was represented by the “narodnjki”, whose most authoritative exponents were the colonel and mathematics professor of the Military Academy Pyotr Lavrovič Lavrov, supporter of populism in a socialist key, together with its popularizer and idelogue, the sociologist and literary critic Nikolai Konstantinovič Mikhailovsky, having as its object the emancipation of the peasant masses, starting from the rural/"obscina" community. France instead, began with Paul Deroulede's League of Patriots, che unitasi ad un altro movimento populista di massa, Boulangism (named after Georges Boulanger, charismatic general of the French army) he became an advocate of a radical and revanchist nationalism, always connected to the increasingly widespread discontent of the masses, towards the young French parliamentary republic, much to achieve in 1888-89, after obtaining the support of the monarchists, of significant electoral victories. In the United States it was the People's Party (People’s Party), also known as Populist Party (Populist Party), summarily called "Populists”, which party was established in 1891 in the United States of America which, during the “populist” period, took hold towards the end of the 19th century. Supported by the lower classes, especially by cultivators hostile towards elites in general, had its peak between 1892 and the 1896. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

The three phases of immigration
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Of Enrico Marino
The three phases of immigration
Source: Heretically

Immigration to Italy began as a hoax.
They told us that the phenomenon was epochal, that could not be stopped but only controlled. The young African masses could not be prevented, exuberant and continually expanding to arrive in a lazy Italy, fat and in demographic crisis. These new Italians would be the future, they would have been the ones who would have restored the state coffers with their work, paid our pensions and saved the country's economy. Furthermore, they explained to us that they had arrived practically at no cost, because those wretches 35 euros that cost them daily maintenance were provided by Europe which should have also accommodated the surplus flows, because all those migrants were only in transit but, actually, they would have liked to go north to look for work and reunite with relatives and friends. We then saw how things went and how Europe closed all its land borders, leaving our country to turn into a giant refugee camp, also taking on the costs.
Immigration to Italy continued as a scam. Read More

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Actuality | Non-fiction

La frustrazione dell'uomo binario
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Of Roberto Pechioli
The frustration of the binary man
Source: Heretically
Reading Vittorino Andreoli is always a stimulating intellectual adventure. The Veronese psychiatrist, with that mad scientist look of his, i radi capelli lunghi, disheveled, similar to directionless electrical wires, it is an important witness of our time. His long clinical experience, combined with a surprising humanity and the acute sensitivity of a scholar make us think. A recent speech of his focused on contemporary man who no longer thinks and is a slave to frustration. Two conditions that Andreoli considers complementary, linked by an invisible yet persistent plot.
Postmodern man lives in imitation of the machine, his reasoning becomes binary, immediate stimulus and response, yes or no, right or wrong. Everything is cooked and eaten immediately, the waiting time evaporates, which is also that of hope, of the dream, of the project. Inadequate by nature to support the comparison with the technical apparatus, vive di scosse, continuously clicks on itself, loses the joy of the goal achieved, the satisfaction of those who linger to contemplate the outcome, savor the effects of acting after having imagined and constructed them. He also loses the ability to accept defeats or simple inadequacies, fruit of self-acceptance, of the condition of an imperfect creature, to the point of attributing them to a sort of malfunction of the personal machine.
Frustration spreads, that is, profound unprocessed disappointment, in each of its three meanings, that is, the feeling of those who consider their actions in vain; the psychic tension determined by the unfulfillment of a desire; the effect of the failure to satisfy a drive. Read More

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