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.

We cry

Today, it was about 7:00PM and I took my dog out for a walk, on my way back I heard someone crying a painful and sad cry. It was a man aged about 70 on his silk pajamas, sitting on a stair. I approached him and asked if he was ok, and as that pain was only his, he didn’t want to talk, so I left him.

So why do we suffer ?

Most of times it happens because we do not want to accept things as they come to teach us something, a lesson of some sort. To accept is not easy so we struggle the facts whatever they are.

Differences are difficult to accept. We do not accept the other’s opinion, action, or habits.

If we have not yet understood the meaning of the situation we will definitely suffer, most of the times unnecessarily.

Let me give you a tip, proud is a terrible thing. It is the opposite to humbleness.

No matter if you are rich or poor, if you act in a humble way understanding and listening with love to the other you will realize how small your problem is. On the other hand if you harm someone or live in your proud, you will suffer.

When talking to someone else, try to listen more than talk, get a smile on your face rather than a sour face. Don’t discuss things just to prove your point. You won’t be able to.

Give a hand, give two, give our arms. Get rid of your material thoughts. No one belongs to anyone. Nothing belongs to us or will remain in our hands for long.

Release people from their captivity and try to see if you are not the one who is holding the person to be truly free. Let go. Be free, be happy.

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.