Poverty and Charity

Maybe some of the readers have never had contact with poverty. I mean real material poverty. Hunger, diseases, violence, sex insults, family disruptment, well, it is Christmas.

Some of you will donate, Red Cross, Rotary, Lions, Salvation Army...Excellent, you are helping fight temporaraly poverty, but how about charity ? 

What is charity all about if not giving what you don't have enough ?

How about spend some time with your family, or that friend of your who is in pain ?

Our misery most of time is not a matter of money, but spirituality. 

Try again, and again, go after those in pain, get involved. This is what really counts. Have a Christmas of peace. Get rid of masses, search for your deepest inner side, there are lots of things in there waiting for you.

When a Friend Dies

Most of us are not used to loose things. Small things that we have small values to them. We consider objects ours.
Once in a while we loose opportunities, most of the times we are not ready for them, but we still feel bad about it.
Then it comes to friends, we have an argument, a fight and stay long periods of time wasting time not getting together, latter on in our lives one of them dies.
That childhood fella's gone.
Difficult, sad, annoying, it is a mix of sentiments.
Your other friends are also sad, so what a difficult period of time.
We still have faith. We believe in another chance to be together again. Maybe another life, maybe reincarnation in the same group again. It is just a pitty your buddy is not around anymore, at least not is his body.
Good old times, good old friends. See you soon.

Beef Scandal

If you live in one of the countries on Earth, you have a great chance to have eaten JBS' beef, (or pork, chicken, hotdogs, etc),
More than 200,000 employees, they export to over 150 different countries, not bad at all !
From 2007 after buying Pilgrim's Pride and aquiring Bertim, another Braziliam Beef Company, it started to grow with a business hunger of a Giant. Margerine, yogurt, cheese, pastrami, you name it , JBS has them all.
In Brazil dozens of large abbatoirs were bought, killing competition, strugling cattle farmers.
Ok, but how do they get so much money to buy companies like that, besides their profits ?
The answer is a Public Brazilian Bank called BNDES, that loaned the beef company more than R$30 billion ( US$1.00 = R$2.95). We are talking US$10 billion.
Ok, what beef and politics have in common ?
In 2002, they donated R$200,000, in 2006 R$19.7 million, in 2010 it was R$83million and last year, the amount of R$391.8 million was donated to 16 different political parties in Brazil.
There is no free lunch, not here not anywhere, more is about to come.

Corruption

I could go on and just describe corruption as it is in the dictionary, but I want to talk about it in Brazil in the recent years.

We are all stoned with the volume of money drawn from the public treasure through it official bank - BNDES, in a Government owned bank, Banco do Brasil, in an Oil State Owned company called Petrobrás and the rules of such gangs.
Brazil is getting access to  great number of evidences of scandals that at the end will sum a few trillions of Reais (Brazilian Currency). As it happens its people get more and more convinced to go out and protest.
If we had a parliamentarian government Ms. Roussef would long have lost her job and would definitely lead the police to jail her and her predecessor  Lula da Silva.
The veins of corruption here is irrigated by building companies, banks, black market currency dealers, oil company suppliers as they formed a cartel of companies responsible for financing the 3 past Presidential elections.as past elections.
We will go again to the streets on April 12, this time in a bigger event as we went in March 15. We want all bandits in Jail, no matter who.
andrerodini@hotmail.com

First Semen Export

Bull : Código

Five years ago I visited India in order to import cattle genetics from there into Brazil. I visited quite a few breeders and realized we were a bit ahead of them in cattle selection.
I went to the biggest Coop, in charge of processing some 11 million litres of Milk and found that the other way round would be a must, as Brazil could contribute with India in sending back the genes once came to Brasil.
The Indian government released a few years latter a sanitary protocol and a special permit. I contacted one of the A.I stations in Brazil and started to do the process. I am very glad to anounce that last week our clients in India got the first batch of Gyr Semen from Brazil to India. Very Proud. Very happy !

Tube Midia

Quando a TV, os Jornais, ou as rádios não alcançam as pessoas a internet alcança parte de um importante público, que por sinal está parcialmente isolado dos demais.
Por esse motivo, me lanço aos videos feitos pelo meu celular, publicados em blog.
Água e Esgoto, a origem e o fim :
Bons filmes :

E ainda :

Brazilian Oil and Politics

In 1953, the Brazilian President Getulio Vargas pressed by a the local politicians founded the Brazilian Oil Company, or Petrobras.
The idea was to find all oil the country needed and become independent from imports.
A company that started drilling 2 thousand barrels a day would become a giant, 60 years later drilling over 2 million barrels a day.
Not bad if you thing on the private sector side, but through the years more and more anskilled people starte to grab pieces of it and we ended 2014 with the biggest corruption scandall ever.
A second level director gave back US$100 million to get his sentence reduced charged of corruption, others are being procecuted, but the feeling is that we will never get to the boss.
Oil barrel dropped to less the U$45,00, Saudi Arabia is not reduceing production, american shale oil is not being so desireable by now and the ethanol project of getting Brazilian Bio fuel as a world commodity sank.
What can we expect for the future ? More public money in a not so public company. Yes, we will pay this bill
Anyhow, their hands will remain dirty for a long time.