Birthday Thoughts

Not a symbolic date, turning 46 has shown me a click. One of those that you have in a life time, here it goes :
"The oposite of Happiness is not Sadness, but Insatisfaction."
Many of us when are satisfied with food, boose or sex, have a kind of lazy smile on our faces.
It desapears within a few hours after, and we are ready for more. More material pleasures.
But can we get enough ? When is plenty, enough,  ?
You wake up in the morning and your chest has a kind of deep hole on it. You feel lonelly even with lots of people aroud you. There is  something missing. One may think, I have had a great lobster with perfect wine, had sex with two sexiest girls but there is something missing.
You look at the mirror and you see "proud'. Here goes a tip : Break the bloody mirror down. Proudness is the fastest way to go sad, empty and fullish.
You will only find satisfaction when you can balance things in your life, half spiritual, half material. The maximum you can can get on material is 50%, , but spiritually we can go up to 100% and join God for good. Meanwhile, you can take time, God will give you as many lives a you need on Earth to learn about simplicity.
Dedicate some time for reading, for walking around, to play with dogs or children, to gardening and get you hands on soil. Talk to friends in person, disconnect from internet (after you read this...heheh).
Sex is great as a phisical activity, but try to make love, make love to the same person for a longer period of time. Get intimate. Share the little you have, not what you have in abundance. Look for those in deep needs, and talk to them, they will help you more than you to them.
You can get satisfaction, you can be happy.
I have learned it in these last 5 years, all of the above may not be suitable for all, it was just great for me, and I wanted to share it with you, as I am pretty happy with a piece of my birthday cake.
Have a happy new life.

THE CURE

No, it is not a rock band.

What does cure consist of ?  Many will say that is it a relation between the right drugs in the right time to the right person. Makes sense.

Não, não é uma banda de rock

Em que consiste a cura ? Muitos vão dizer que ela é a relação entre as drogas corretas, na hora certa, na pessoa certa. Faz sentido

But how about spiritual healing ? Have you heard of it?

Well, close to Ribeirão Preto, in the countryside of the State of São Paulo, there is a city called Franca. There is where a man lived a long part of his life healing people. His name was Ismael Alonso y Alonso, a son of Spanish immigrants, who studied Medicine and Pharmacy, and got involved in politics. There was a difficulty in telling from Dr. Alonso, who was the Mayor of Franca from who was the "Doctor of the Poor".
Mas que tal cicatrização espiritual ? Já ouviu falar ?
Bem, perto de Ribeirão Preto, no interior do Estado de São Paulo, há uma cidade chamada Franca. É lá que viveu um homem, boa parte de sua vida curando pessoas. Seu nome era Ismael Alonso y Alonso, um filho de imigrantes espanhóis que estudou medicina e farmácia e se envolveu em política. Havia uma grande dificuldade em separar o Dr. Alonso que era o prefeito de Franca do que era o "Médico dos Pobres"

After he passed away (I mean his body died) he continued to work healing people, but now using the body of João Berbel, a simple Mechanician  who could barely read and write.

Dr. Alonso chose him. When asked by João Berbel, why him, Dr. Alonso said "Do you thing 'educated' people have time to work for the good, full time ?"
Depois que ele morreu (desencarnou) ele continuoua trabalhar na cura das pessoas, mas dessa vez usando o corpo de João Berbel, um simples mecânico que mal sabia ler e escrever.
Dr. Alonso escolheu ele. Quando João Berbel perguntou por que ele Dr. Alonso disse " você acha que as pessoas estudadas têm tanto tempo para o trabalho no bem ?"

And so João Berbel started to use his mediumnity to heal people.

I then, went to visit the Hospital and talked to the people who were there getting the beneficts from "above". Hundreds, actually thousands of people getting their results. In periods from 30 to 90 days, cancer, hemorrhoids, bursitis, headache, obesity, bones, you name it... everything healed.
Então João Berbel começou a usar sua mediunidade para curar as pessoas.
Eu, então, fui visitar o Hospital e conversar com as pessoas que estavam recebendo os benefícios do "além". Centenas, na verdade milhares de pessoas sendo curadas. No período de 30 a 90 dias, cancer, hemorróida, bursite, dor-de-cabeça, obesidade, ossos, tudo... tudo curado.

And yet it is not about medicine, it is about understanding what for many seem to be cheating for the people it means relief and cure. I took 6 friends over there in the last two months, the results are there and that includes me who have also received treatment.
E ainda, não é sobre medicina, é sobre compreensão o que para muitos parece ser enganação , para outros trata-se de alívio e cura. Eu levei 6 amigos lá nos últimos dois meses, e os resultados estão aí, e isso me inclui, que também recebi tratamento.

 Every month 3,4tones of phitoterapeutical pils are distributed for free. The mission lives out of selling the 200 title books, João Berbel wrote through psycophony sent from several spirits.
Todos os meses 3.400kg de remédios fitoterápicos são distribuidos de graça. A missão sobrevive da venda dos mais de 200 títulos de livros psicofonados por João Berbel, a partir de muitos espíritos.

My conclusion is that there is not a thing called disease, but a person who says to have it.

If you are interested in knowing more about Spiritism or Kardecism, search on Google for Alan Kardec, Chico Xavier, Bezerra de Meneses, Euripedes Barsanulfo.

If you are looking for some cure, what can you loose ? - André Rodini.
Minha conclusão é que não existe a doença, mas o doente. Se você estiver interessado em conhecer mais sobre o Espiritismo ou Kardecismo, procure no Google por Allan Kardec, Chico Xavier, Bezerra de Meneses, Eurípedes Barsanulfo. Se você estiver procurando alguma cura, o que você tem a perder ? - André Rodini

 João Berbel, touching people, transfering energy and talking about Jesus, inviting people to be cured.
João Berbel tocando as pessoas, transferindo energia e falando sobre Jesus, convidando pessoas a serem curadas.

Green Party and Farming

As a member of the green party in Brazil I feel a little upset.
Not with my Party, of course, but with the system as a whole.
They say we are one of the largest democracies in the World. Is that so ? I don't think so.
Our party is a small party, just about a 1/4 of a million members all over the country.
However we are about to lounch a candidate to dispute the next elections for the Presidency.
We want to discuss clean agriculture, social fare trade, technology to produce more and cheaper, biocontrol of plagues, GMOs, and so on.

In a few days we will hold the largest Agriculture Exhibit in the country here in my city (Ribeirao Preto), called Agrishow.
As a member of the party I contacted the Exhibition organizers in order to have our candidate present to let the farmes and press know about our thoughts.
The answer came in a rispid tone, saying that only the Governor, and elected Deputies will have the right to talk or even to step up the stand...and that it is being organised by the Governor's (another party) cabinet.
So, when elections come, they will say, the Green Party is against farmers ! The Green Party this, that... but they never give us a time to listen what we have to say. 

Terra para Quê ?

Continuam lá. Até quando essas famílias ficarão respirando poeira e se iludindo com "um pedaço de terra" quanto tempo é necessário para que os "idealizadores" dessa contraproducente ação resolvam falar a verdade ? A de que esse não é o caminho ?

texto anterior abaixo.

de outubro de 2013

Moro em Ribeirão Preto, outrora capital do Café, depois da Cerveja, depois da Cana e agora pretende se firmar como capital do Agronegócio.
Praticamente cercada por canaviais, a maior cidade de uma região do tamanho da Holanda, um município relativamente pequeno, em que mais de 50% de sua área é urbana, vivemos em uma ilha de prosperidade, devido à posição geográfica estratégica, universidades aqui instaladas, prestadores de serviço e comércio dos mais variados possíveis, que por acaso está instalada sobre um latossolo vermelho conhecido por terra roxa, onde em se plantando tudo dá.
Cerca de 40 dias atrás uma das terras da Usina Nova União, em Serrana, 30 km daqui foi novamente  invadida pelo Movimento Sem Terra para reivindicar aquelas terras para a reforma agrária, sendo essa a oitava tentativa após sete retomadas de posse. Somam-se ali mais de 300 famílias instaladas em barracos de lona, tendo a entrada da Usina bloqueada por uma barreira de pneus e paus.
Pretendem os invasores reverter a dívida do proprietário, e dos arrendatários, com o erário Paulista em terra para produção de alimentos, retirando dali uma atividade canavieira para a instalação da Agro-Floresta, que muito beneficiaria o meio ambiente, aplicando espécies vegetais como banana, abóboras, mandioca, milho, alem de reflorestar a área tomada hoje pelo canavial.
Algumas perguntas, entretanto, estão sem resposta.
1) Há plano de negócios para as novas atividades agrícolas ?
2) As pessoas envolvidas têm experiência em produção rural ?
3) Haverá treinamento para capacitação e mecanização ou uso de tecnologias?
4) As políticas de financiamento da agricultura familiar financiarão a empreitada ?
5) Qual o tamanho da área que caberá a cada família ?
Essas perguntas básicas tem por finalidade saber se essas famílias encontrarão o sonho da prosperidade hoje alimentado pela esperança ou o pesadelo da miséria , uma vez ali instaladas.
Produzir é tão importante como comercializar a produção, auferir lucro e remunerar a atividade, afinal o trabalho deve ser remunerado, dessa vez como proprietários e empreendedores.
Políticos se comprometem, quando defendem a reforma agrária, e também quando defendem a manutenção do estado de direito, enquanto isso,  essas famílias sonham e persistem.

His Holiness Pope Francesco

It is not easy not to get touched by this Argentinean Jesuit, who was chosen to be the leader of the Catholic Church.

He seems to be the answer for over a billion humans eager for love and justice.

He speaks to the hearts, has a good sense of humor and understands the value of things and people.

This past week he talked to pilgrims, to the cleric, to politicians. He spoke to the youth. Criticized (and condemned) drug dealers, embraced drug users.

Indeed a true Christian.

We will pray for you and hope this chain of good vibes transcend the chapels, the cathedrals and hit His Holiness’ heart as well as ours.

Have a good trip Chico.

Sleeping with the Enemy

 

The recent history of Brazil will take another few decades to be understood.

Paulo Jabur's Picture of intelectuals talking to political prisioners in the mid 60's may be the seed of what was named Democracy. Militarys deposed arms and "gave back" the government to "elected" people.

Oscar Niemeyer famous architect of Brasilia, Darcy Ribeiro, famous writer and sociologist, Antônio Houais, linguistic... all of them had an idea of what a new order , a new country was going to be.

A new party was going to be formed MDB, Brazilian Democratic Movement, lounched its party.

Soon, fellowmen from the Comunist Party and others joinned and all they wanted was democracy.

Mr. José Sarney was took the presidency after his President Mr. Tancredo Neves died after elections and as vice-presidente, Sarney helped to structure his party PMDB.

Great names were once part of it and helped making it the biggest Political Party in Brazil, but they left to create their own parties such as PSDB and PT.

What was left of it was big enough to have structures, ministeries, positions in the government that makes them have today the Presidency of the Senate, the presidency of Congress and the vice-presidency of the country.

Not easy fot PT, nor for any other party.

Their roots are to deep into the system, in some cases persons and the party are so close together that they become one not very nice smelling mass.

Renan Calheiros, presidente of the Senate, for instance has been envolved in so many scandals that they were known as Renangates (4 big scandals), but he is still there.

José Sarney, after being presindet of Brazil, changed his State to be elected Senator and has also been presidente of the Senate, with lots of "secret acts"

There are many other names, like Orestes Quércia, (dead) and Antônio Fleury who made fortunes after being Governor of Stete of São Paulo, who should not have the rights of being elected again, but if they are still alive, they keep running and winning. Too bad, not too late.

Green Revolution

In the 1940's a Brazilian farmer produced food for 19 people, in the 70's for 73 people and at present 155 eat what one farmer produces.

Nos anos 40 um fazendeiro brasileiro produzia comida para 19 pessoas, nos anos 70 para 73 e hoje 155 pessoas comem o que produz um fazendeiro.

In 1980 Brazil imported beef from Chernobyl (can you believe that ?). In the last 15 years the exports of beef increased 731% and the pastures decreased 2%.

Em 1980 o Brasil chegou a importar carne de Chernobyl (dá para acreditar ?). Nos últimos 15 anos as exportações de carne aumentaram 731%, enquanto as pastagens diminuiram 2%.

Numbers are good enough but we must go into some history as well.
We must go back to Norman Borlaug, Nobel Prize of Peace, born in a Minessota, USA. This revolutionary man brought to the World hibryd seeds, resistent to fungs and so on. He used to say that "Brazil will have a great role in world hanger fight". Seems to prophetized well.

Números em si já são bons o suficiente, mas devemos entrar também na história.
Voltemos ao Norman Borlaug, Prêmio Nobel da Paz, nascido em Minessota, EUA. Esse homem revolucionário trouxe ao mundo sementes híbridas, resistentes a fungos e tal. Ele costumava dizer que "O Brasil terá um importante papel no combate à fome mundial". Parece ter profetizado corretamente.

Brazil went form a hill-bilies country into a great nation of Food Producers, due to the use of several technologies, from better seeeds and fertilizers to mechanical engeneering and animal genetics.

O Brasil foi de um país de jecas para uma grande nação de produtores de alimentos, devido ao uso de muitas tecnologias, de melhores sementes e fertilizantes à engenharia mecânica e genética animal.

Fernando Penteado Cardoso

 

Once I met Mr. Cardoso and this 94y.o. Professor gave me lectures of how one must select, from seeds to cattle, inspired on his friend, the best ever animal scientist Jan C. Bonsma (South African). Mr. Cardoso, or Dr. Fernando as he is known in Brazil was one of the first in the country to use fertilizers, at the time he began with ashes. He says, "you make no use of good genetics you you don't feed them properly"

 

Uma vez encontrei-me com o Dr. Fernando, e esse professor de 94 anos, me deu algumas palestras sobre  como se deve selecionar, desde sementes até gado, inspirado em seu amigo, o melhor Zootecnista que o mundo conheceu Jan C. Bonsma (Sul Africano). Sr. Cardoso, ou Dr. Fernando como é conhecido no Brasil, foi um dos primeiros. Diz ele, "você não faz uso de genética se não der a ela o cuidado necessário"

 

In short, agriculture is what keeps mankind in this planet and great men are born once in a while to revolutionize it.

 

Em resumo, agricultura é o que mantem a humanidade nesse planeta e grandes homens nascem de vez em quando para revolucioná-la.