Afonso Machado

Emerging Countries, Stagnant Countries – Part 4 – China Leads in Electric Energy

Published by Afonso Machado
17 de October de 2012

Every year the World Energy Statistics Magazine, specifically the British Petroleum’s “Statistical Review of World Energy,” undoubtedly the best world energy atlas, publishes in the month of June the statistical…

Emerging Countries, Stagnant Countries – Part 3

Published by Afonso Machado
13 de July de 2011

“The time for our leadership is now!” Mr. Obama, president of United States, proclaimed in a speech given before the British Parliament on 5/25/2011, asserting the relevance of the British-American…

Mao Tsé-tung – Quotes

Published by Afonso Machado
2 de February de 2010

The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue. We shall support whatever our enemies oppose and oppose whatever…

Bernardo Riedel, the Brazilian Gyro Gearloose

Published by Afonso Machado
16 de September de 2009

Professor Bernardo Riedel comes from a Jewish family. His father, Mauricio Riedel was originally from Lodz, Poland and his mother, Paula Fuhrmann, from Kecskemét, Hungria. They came to Brazil in…