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for  Konkani and Statehood of Go  Well this book The Battle for  Konkani and 
Statehood of Goa written by Shri Luizinho Faleiro ex CM  of Goa  has in the 
himble opinion of this writer no relevance to the real aspiration of the 
population of Goa and Goans..                                      True  it is 
well documented book of  the struggle to achieve both  Konkani and Statehoid 
but fails to reveal   how a certain section of the Gaud Saraswat Brahmin 
community just a mere  3% of the Goan population discreetly  manipulated the 
entire Konkani speaking community in Goa to  achieve their  sinister design.  
Goans world wide supported  an emotive issue  Konkani our mother tongue which 
was mainly spoken written read and preserved by the non Brahmin Goan minority  
community in the English or Roman script  definitely not in the  Nagari script 
accent and vocabulary with which these 3% segment  population are familiar 
with.  Despite several write ups by some outstation writers and this writer 
fore warning the movement stalwarts of  the sinister design of the 3% referred 
here to above even  the Church in Goa till this date is not reconciled to the 
fact they were betrayed by a "nagari mogi" insider.  So what was the result the 
hearts of Goans sank when they realized that Konkani became an official 
language but till this date it is not  in the public domain who inserted a 
handwritten entry unsigned : in nagari" scriot on the notified..official 
Gazette of  Govt of Goa This writer is confident that the needle of suspicion 
points to a protagonist of Konkani nagari script but cannot name him for 
obvious reasons. The corollary therefore the  27 % minority community continue 
with the Englush script Konkani jn religious rites and in domestic use but 
their kith and kin are forced to digest an alien script Konkani as guinea pigs 
in the laboratory of konkani chauvinism  Of course by this  script all the 3% 
are ensured Government jobs because they are more familiar with the script   
Hence this book can well find a place only in the Goa  Konkani Bhavan and used 
as  resource materisl by students to understand in hind sight why Konkani is 
written in Kannada Malayalam Nagari script even this  day  but not in the 
English script.. The writer could therefore stand advised to add a chapter as 
an  explanation to the above betrayal to his book as an addendum to make it 
complete  Ofcourse 3% supporters got the Sahitya Academiy to post haste get the 
Konkani nagari script  inclusion in the ninth schedule of the Constitution to 
abort any attempt to tinker with the official language and add the English 
script . But the possibility that with a large section of Malyalees and 
Kannadigas familiar with Konkanu in these scripts they could demand official 
recognition for these scripts besides nagari script in matters of employment.  
Godfrey J I Gonsalves  Borda Ward X St Joaquim Rd Margao Goa 

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[Goanet] MLA of St Andre Mr Nitesh Borkar

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In the ongoing  monsoon session of Goa Legislative Assembly this Hon'ble MLA in 
reply to Demands of Budget 2023 24 for State of Goa  made a systematic and 
thorough documentation of  usurping of land,/ illegal construction of/on  . 
notably gaunkari and private or Government lands ..This is also with the overt 
or covert intervention of elected reoresentatives some of whom are associated 
with the " nagars* . These are their vote banks. Thus his  report is indeed an 
eye opener for Goans worldwide to sit up and take a call. This is irrespective 
of ones political affiliation. Please go carefully through the video in 
circulation for better understanding..The video can also be made available by 
this writer  on request .  .Godfrey JI Gonsalves cyberjourno social activist 
Borda Ward X St Joaquim Road Borda PO Fatorda 403602 Margao Goa 91 9822158584 
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[Goanet] Sorrowing lies my land

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See nothing to discuss on this book written perhaps in the early seventies..  
Goa is now a State times have changed. We have an Indian from outside Goa the 
NEW GOAN while the " niz goencars" migrating to England lock stick and 
baggage...It would make sense...if the societal issues arising out of the 
Mundcar Act The Land to the Tiller Act the need for a Land Ceiling Act and the 
relevance or otherwise of the Gaunkaries (Communidade) Act is discussed debated 
and send recommendations to Govt with out of the box changes...to be achieved 
before GOA@75...2035
Godfrey JI Gonsalves Borda Margao Goa.
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[Goanet] Understanding the great Goan land grab

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There is no mention on the latest  judgement of the Supreme Court on Right to 
Property,where the State no longer views Right to Property as one's 
Fundamental right.
>From this perspective not to sure of the authors views...on land grab??

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[Goanet] Fw: Conquest of Goa 1510

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ago ie on 25.11.1510 the Portuguese set foot into  Goa and stayed on for 451 
yrs ie until 19 12.1961 Liberation of Goa.
Their earlier mission in March 1510 turned out to be unsuccessful.
Incidentally it was also the Feast of St Catherine and the Portuguese 
navigators dedicated to her the first Church (now abandoned) as an act of  
thanksgiving  it was located  just near  the road leading to the Divar ferry 
wharf at Old Goa 
To this day the Church celebrates the feast of St Catherine now at the Se 
Cathedral  Old Goa shifting the ongoing venue of Novenas held in the open at 
the Basilica for the ensuing Feast of St Francis Xavier on 3rd December
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[Goanet] Fw: Conquest of Goa 1510

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ago ie on 25.11.1510 the Portuguese set foot into  Goa and stayed on for 451 
yrs ie until 19 12.1961 Liberation of Goa.
Their earlier mission in March 1510 turned out to be unsuccessful.
Incidentally it was also the Feast of St Catherine and the Portuguese 
navigators dedicated to her the first Church (now abandoned) as an act of  
thanksgiving  it was located  just near  the road leading to the Divar ferry 
wharf at Old Goa 
To this day the Church celebrates the feast of St Catherine now at the Se 
Cathedral  Old Goa shifting the ongoing venue of Novenas held in the open at 
the Basilica for the ensuing Feast of St Francis Xavier on 3rd December
Godfrey JI GonsalvesCyberjourno social activistBORDA MARGAO GOA INDIA91 
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[Goanet] National flag hoisting at St Jacinto Island Goa

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  15.08.2021Hon ble CM of Goa.
Sub : National Flag hoisting...at St Jacinto Island.
Respected Sir.
Your reported outburst calling the villagers as anti nationals for initially 
not permitting hoisting the national flag on the island by Navy  was in the 
humble opinion of  native Goans an impulsive outburst at best...and good that 
it was corrected by you in time.
Fortunately better communucations between the Defence personnel and the 
villagers of this Island put an end to the controversy. 
Having had native Goans both as Chief of Army Gen Sunith Rodrigues and Raksha 
Mantri late Mr Manohar G Parrikar..besides several others in the armed forces 
to date native Goans can  never ever be branded as anti nationals and 
definitely not after 19.12.1961 having joined the Union of India.
But if there is any  bitterness or underlying suspicion of the acts of the 
Defence Forces it stems mainly from the fact that the Navy have not in the past 
 honored the order of Collector South Goa District both dated 43/1/87/Rev/  dt 
08.12.1987 and 26.07.1989.on transfer of the 360075 ha land in survey Nos 1.2.3 
of Canacona taluka..in Goa to allow on the Anjediva  island the celebration 
of customary feast of St Francis de Assisi on 4th Oct  and Feast of Our Lady of 
Speings ..Nossa Senhora de Brotas on 2nd February every year.
The last time these celebrations were permitted was on  02.02.2004 and Feast of 
St Francis de Assis 4th Oct never allowed as the Chapel has been barricaded and 
declared out of bounds  then onwards..
CM late  Parrikar had donated towards repairs of  the Church on the Island 
Rs.25000 at the request of this writer.
Later as Defence Minister Late Parrikar  had got the ASI Hubbali division  to 
repair the Church the  Fort  a pre Liberation Canon lying there in 2017 ..
But till this date the Navy does not permit celebration of the two customary  
feasts  
In fact while 4th Dec is celeberated as Navy Day and all Indians are permitted 
access to the Sea Bird establishment Naval vessels with due security conditions 
the reason for adopting a dual policy towards these public oriented events viz 
the customary  Feasts celebration   not being allowed  on the grounds of Naval 
exercises being carried out at the base is baffling. 
Govt of Goa should now take up the matter with the Naval authorities forthwith 
and in right earnest get them to honor these terms to bridge the distrust 
betweenNaval authorities and Goans at large as ..the religious sentiments have 
been hurt for far too long since 4 Oct 2004 to date.
Trust this will clear the well averted situation on the island and bring out 
the traditional bonhomie of indigenous Goan natives  known worldwide.
Warm regards on the 75th Independence Day

Sincerely yours.
Godfrey JI GonsalvesCyberjourno social activist Borda Margao Goa+91 9822158584 
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[Goanet] 751 graves of Native children found at a Catholic residential school in Canada

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751 unmarked graves believed to include the burial sites of Native 
children from a Catholic residential school have been found in Canada, 
in Saskatchewan province.
The graves were found in a cemetery at the former Marieval Indian 
Residential School in Saskatchewan province, which borders the US to the 
south. The Catholic institution operated for almost a century from 1899 
to 1997, as part of a Canadian school system created to europeanise 
native children by forcibly taking the children from their parents and 
destroying their culture. This seems to be the white man's way.
Last month, the remains of 215 children, some as young as three years of 
age, were discovered at a similar burial site near former school grounds 
in the province of British Columbia.
Pope Francis said the findings pained but he would not apologise. Looks 
like the white-led Church only apologises for white victims.
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations (FSIN) said that 
ground-penetrating radar had been used to locate unmarked graves. At a 
news conference on Thursday, Cowessess Chief Cadmus Delorme said 
research teams had registered 751 “recorded hits” in their scans of the 
site, but that each grave could contain more than one set of remains, 
and further technical examinations would be carried out.
There are oral stories that there are adults in this gravesite, as 
well,”
Earlier, local political leaders called on the Catholic Church to 
release its records relating to the schools and its students. “We need 
to work alongside the communities that continue to search the 
residential school sites and make sure we find all of these unmarked 
graves,” politician Ryan Meili said in a CBC interview.
The indigenous school system was funded by the Canadian government and 
run by the Catholic Church, and operated until the late 1990s. There 
were nearly 140 such institutions around the country, with an enrolment 
of some 150,000 Native children who had been forcibly taken from their 
families to be taught a new language, culture, and religion.

Canada has accused Beijing of genocide, but ignores its own genocide.

Eddie

Re: [Goanet] Is education required for political office in Hindustan?

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George,
Look at India's top rulers - Modi, Shah and Yogi - uneducated, 
intellectually bankrupt and operating from the Vedic Age.
That's what Hindu Rashtra is all about: gods galore, cows, caste, 
sadhus, temples.
And the Big Three take pride in their ignorance and superstitions.We 
need to conclude with the obligatory Jai Hind, Jai Shri Ram.



Eddie
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Subject: [Goanet] Minimum education requirements for political office
If minimum education requirements are required to run for public office, 
they should be done away with. If education was so valuable, how did it 
produce the current political situation which is almost entirely a 
criminal enterprise.  Better to have 4th Standard-fail students running 
for political office - how much worse can it get.

[Goanet] Gujus start COW RESEARCH

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Indian Universities are pathetic at scientific research but the BJP 
Hindus couldn't care less.
Their focus is on problems pertinent to the Vedic era - cows, sadhus, 
temples, more cows, ... using minimal intellectual effort.


On June 5, Gujarat governor Acharya Devvrat inaugurated a new centre for 
‘cow research’ at the Gujarat Technological University.


The centre will explore the properties of bovine milk, urine and dung 
and their application in medicine and agriculture.

Jai shri Ram.

Eddie

[Goanet] Remains of 215 Native children found in Canada

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Remains of 215 Children Found at Former Indigenous School Site in 
Canada.
Canada's residential school system, which forcibly separated indigenous 
children from their families, constituted 'cultural genocide', a 
six-year investigation into the now-defunct system found in 2015.

Read more:
https://thewire.in/world/remains-of-215-children-found-at-former-indigenous-school-site-in-canada-genocide

Eddie

Re: [Goanet] RIBANDAR HEALTH CENTER to be turned into a BJP Clinic?

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Mr Rodrigues,

You must be sad at this turn of events at your Hospital but are you 
surprised?
The BJP has no basic ethics or morality. Their boss Modi just wants 
power at any cost and is ready to bully or intimidate any Indian.
Mind you, if he is dealing with white leaders, he promptly turns into a 
mouse and gnaws at their shoes in submission.
Modi or his minions have clearly instructed this Sawant fellow to let 
the BJP take over the hospital and Hindufy it.

His brushing aside of public opinion is scary.
Has Modi turned into the first Hindu dictator?

Here's some excerpts from the WIRE's recent assessment of India's 
uneducated PM called Modi:

Modi’s destruction of India can be divided into three broad phases –
demonetisation, 2019 and COVID-19. In the first one he knocked the 
bottom out

of the economy with demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax, and
intimidated the media into a subservient silence. In the second, after 
winning
another term, he demolished federalism by pulling down as many as nine 
elected
state governments and rewriting our relationship with Kashmir, putting 
the goal
of the Hindu rashtra on the front burner with the Citizenship 
(Amendment) Act
and National Register of Citizens, and extracting the Ram Mandir 
judgment from

the Supreme Court.

In the third phase he put parliament in the freezer along with the 
vaccines he never bought, upgraded the
Hindu rashtra to a Corporate Hindu Rashtra by ramming through the three 
farm laws and amendments to the labour laws, quietly acquiesced to 
Chinese occupation of our territories, and made a horrendous mess of the 
management of the pandemic.


Modi has subjugated constitutional and regulatory institutions, grossly 
misused enforcement and police agencies, undermined the judiciary,
politicised the armed forces, has been totally arrogant and insensitive 
to public opinion, ruthlessly crushed dissent and went on to build his 
image on a grotesque scale.
To be fair, Modi is superior to an earlier Guju PM, MORARJI DESAI in one 
aspect: he doesn't drink his own urine.

Read more at thewire.com (23 May 2021).

Mr Rodrigues, please use your influence to advise Fred Noronha to move 
away from all those nostalgic posts and upgrade  GoaNet to reflect 
today's realities.


Eddie

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Sent: Tuesday, 25 May, 21 At 22:05
Subject: [Goanet] CM PRAMOD SAWANT AND MLA BABUSH MONSERRATE HAVE 
RENEGED ON THEIR PROMISE TO SET UP A RIBANDAR HEALTH CENTER


It is very unfortunate and highly deplorable that Chief Minister Pramod
Sawant has made a U-turn and now directed that the Old Ribandar Hospital
premises be given to the Ayush Ministry.

[Goanet] ARUNDATI ROY begs MODI to QUIT

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Dear Prime Minister MODI,

We need a government. And we don’t have one. We are running out of air. 
We are dying.
We don’t have systems in place to know what to do with help even when 
it’s on hand.
We cannot wait till 2024. Never would people like myself have imagined 
the day would come
when we would find ourselves appealing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi 
for anything.
Personally, I would rather have gone to prison than do that. But today, 
as we die in our homes, on the streets,
in hospital car parks, in big cities, in small towns, in villages and 
forests
and fields – I, an ordinary private citizen, am swallowing my pride to 
join

millions of my fellow citizens in saying:
please sir, please, step aside. At least for now. I beseech you, step 
down.


This is a crisis of your making. You cannot solve it.
You can only make it worse. This virus prospers in an atmosphere of fear 
and
hatred and ignorance. It prospers when you clamp down on those who speak 
out. It
prospers when you manage the media to such an extent that the real truth 
is
only reported in the international media. It prospers when you have a 
prime
minister who has never held a single press conference in all his years 
in
office, who is incapable of fielding questions, even now in this moment 
of

numbing horror.
Hundreds of thousands of us will die, unnecessarily, if you don’t go.
So, go now. Jhola utha ke. With your dignity intact. You can have
a great life ahead, of meditation and solitude. You yourself have said 
that’s
what you want. That won’t be possible if you allow this mass dying to 
continue.

There are many in your party who can take your place for now.
People who know they must get on even with political opponents in this 
moment of crisis.
Whoever that person is – from your party, with the approval of the RSS – 
can head the government and a crisis management committee.
The state chief ministers can elect a few representatives so that all 
parties feel represented. The Congress by virtue of
being a national party can be on the committee too. And then scientists, 
public
health experts, doctors, experienced bureaucrats. You may not understand 
this,
but this is what is known as democracy. You cannot have an 
Opposition-mukt democracy.


That is known as a tyranny. This virus loves tyrannies.
If you don’t do this now, as this outbreak is increasingly viewed as an 
international problem, as a threat to the world,
which it is – your incompetence is giving other countries a legitimate 
excuse
to try and interfere in our affairs, try and take charge. This will 
compromise
our hard fought for sovereignty. We will become a colony again. This is 
a

serious possibility. Do not disregard it.

So please go. It is the most responsible thing for you to do.
You have forfeited the moral right to be our prime minister.

Source: 
https://scroll.in/article/994022/arundhati-roy-we-need-a-government 
(04 May 2021)

Re: [Goanet] Biden’s Attempted Genocide Against Indians

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Rajan, I enjoyed the tone & content your post.
What a change from the vapid and insipid posts that clog GoaNet.
Modi has been strutting about like a world leader for sometime but the 
COVID horror that descended on India has got him his comeuppance. In 
addition, he has has earned only contempt from honest, intelligent media 
like the WIRE. India's top historian Ram Guha has called Modi a 
megalomaniac, that is, one who claims to be a know-all and in total 
control.
So, having failed, why won't Modi have the good grace to resign and 
retire to some ashram? And, if not, can a nationwide petition organised 
by thinkers like you persuade him to go?


Eddie

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Sent: Tuesday, 27 Apr, 21 At 14:38
Subject: [Goanet] Biden’s Attempted Genocide Against Indians

The vile dotard, proven racist and Klu Klux Klan sympathizer, Joe Biden,

and his White House crew ought to be tried by an international tribunal 
for


crimes against humanity, for initially declining, then delaying, India’s

request for time-sensitive materials in the fight against the China 
virus.




The hypocrisy of the American Left has been laid bare. If Trump had done

anything remotely close, the Left would be stomping all over, demanding

that he resign. Toilet rags NYT and WaPo would have run full page 
blazing


headlines about “Trump’s Genocide.” BLM thugs would have gone on another

rampage, burnt a few more buildings, terrorized innocent white and Asian

people, and looted more Nike stores.



But Indian lives don’t matter. All because the Left, both in the West 
and


in India, hate Modi. The Indian Left can barely contain its glee, for

anything that hurts Modi makes them fulfilled. And to a good portion of 
the


Indian Left, there is more. To them, the only good Hindu is a dead 
Hindu.


So while the virus will also kill Muslims and Christians, there will be

more Hindus dead, so overall in their diseased minds, a little 
collateral


damage is alright.





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[Goanet] Fabulous House in ASSAGAO

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Read all about it:
https://www.architecturaldigest.in/story/goa-the-architect-behind-soho-house-mumbai-designs-a-gorgeous-villa-in-assagao/

Heard about it from Celia Mascarenhas based in UK.
Eddie

[Goanet] MODI , vain & vacuous, glories in his ignorance

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In a hard-hitting and sharply critical interview, one of India’s most 
highly regarded historians, Ram Guha, has said Modi’s leadership style 
is the principal reason for the mishandling of the present COVID-19 
crisis.
Although Ram Guha also blames Modi’s “sycophantic cabinet”, the 
country’s institutions, including the Supreme Court, which have let down 
the country and the yes-men officials and bureaucrats surrounding Modi, 
he says the main blame and responsibility rests squarely on the prime 
minister’s shoulders.


In his interview to The Wire, Guha identified three of Narendra Modi’s 
traits which he says lie behind the mishandling of COVID-19. The first 
is his “suspicion of experts and expertise”. Guha said ignorant Modi has 
“explicit contempt for education”. He “prefers hard work to 
Harvard”.Guha says Modi thinks he knows better than the experts. Guha 
only consults experts who say what he wants to hear.
“The fall-out of the COVID-19 pandemic would have been far less serious 
had the PM based his policies on the advice of India’s top 
epidemiologists rather than his penchant for the spectacular and 
dramatic,” he said.
Guha calls the banging of thalis, lighting of candles and switching-off 
of lights for nine minutes on April 5, 2020, at 9 pm “pure juju and 
superstition”.
The second character trait Guha identified is Modi’s “cult of 
personality”. He says Modi has a desire to take credit for everything. 
He simply dismisses the good work done by previous governments. As far 
as his own government’s performance is concerned, Modi ensures all blame 
accrues to state governments and the opposition. His cabinet ministers 
are made to answer for what has gone wrong. Modi claims the credit only 
for what has gone right.Guha told The Wire that Modi has surrounded 
himself with yes-men and loyalists. Several outstanding IAS officers 
have been shunned because their intelligence and efficiency might have 
outshone the PM. Guha said Modi is consumed by his own “vanity ” and 
“megalomania… He is in love with himself.”

Read more:

https://thewire.in/government/watch-karan-thapar-ramachandra-guha-narendra-modi-covid-19-megalomaniac

Eddie D'Sa

[Goanet] How the BJP Hindus simple ignore COVID rules

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https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1mrGmwnrnVLxy

Eddie

[Goanet] US NAVY enters India's economic zone without permission

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US Navy sends warship to India’s exclusive economic zone without 
permission, to challenge New Delhi's ‘excessive maritime claims’.


The US Navy said it deliberately refrained from asking India’s consent 
for a ‘freedom of navigation’ patrol near its Lakshadweep archipelago 
this week because New Delhi’s demands to do so contravene international 
law.

Source: RT.com

Of course, while Modi is ever ready to terrorise Muslims, he has no guts 
to question the US action in the Lakshadweep area or anywhere else.


Eddie

[Goanet] UK courting Modi

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Poor UK and the US are both in decline, perhaps terminally, and find 
themselves paying attention to countries they would normally ignore.
Modi, being undereducated, is unable to enter into any high level 
discourse with leaders that matter. Among his favourites have been Trump 
and Netanyahu  and he had to buy arms worth $2.5 billion from each 
before he was allowed to see them. Modi likes the two because they are 
anti-Muslim bigots like him .


Britain's Johnson is due to visit India soon and he has been making 
overtures to Modi. A fresh article in the Guardian offered some 
pointers:- India is no democracy but an 'electoral autocracy'- Modi will 
not stand criticism from anybody, so Johnson will have to tread 
cautiously- UK is playing its own game against China and is looking for 
allies [India was badly beaten by China in 1962 & cannot hit back alone]


Read the Guardian article:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/06/uk-faces-difficult-path-as-it-resumes-courtship-with-india

Eddie

Re: [Goanet] BABUSH MONSERRATE EVER STOP LYING?

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Dear Aires,
Now that you have proof that this Babush fellow is a liar, why not 
confront him?
Seems that Babush will keep on lying freely, knowing how pusillanimous 
the Panjim Goenkars are.
Aires, as advocate, you seem the right guy to teach this Babush a 
lesson.
What legal avenues are available to discipline this Babush? Can or will 
the Chief Minister help you to punish or apprehend this Babush?


If not, you may need divine help - not in the form of prayers or Mass 
but by the intervention from a high cleric.

Goa must be blessed with lots of bishops & other senior clerics.
Babush's transgression is a moral issue and therefore within church 
jurisdiction.
So, Aires, please approach some bishop and remind him that this Babush 
has sinned.
As per church rules, he must confess his lie and for penance, he must 
promise to set up the Ribandar Health Centre forthwith.

Else no absolution.
Problem solved.
Good Luck.

Eddie D'Sa


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From: "Aires Rodrigues" 
To: "goanet" 
Sent: Wednesday, 31 Mar, 21 At 14:18
Subject: [Goanet] WILL BABUSH MONSERRATE EVER STOP LYING?

Yesterday we finally got the documentary proof in the Goa Legislative

Assembly that the Panaji MLA Babush Monserrate had lied to the people of

Ribandar on the eve of the CCP polls regarding the Ribandar Health 
Centre.




When Babush Monserrate was campaigning at Ribandar on March 17th he 
falsely


told the people that the Government had already approved the setting up 
of


the Health Centre at the Old Ribandar Hospital and that the Chief 
Minister


would announce it in this budget, which the CM obviously didn’t as there

was no approval and sanction for the same.



Earlier on 7th March it was also falsely promised by Babush’s Ribandar

team that

the Health Centre at the old Ribandar Hospital was going to see the 
light


of the day before the onset of this monsoons.



With the Government yesterday informing the Goa Legislative Assembly 
that


the matter is under examination it only confirms that no decision has 
yet


been taken and that Babush Monserrate as usual had lied to us all.



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[Goanet] Fwd: Disproportionate Assets Case Against BABUSH MONSERRATE?

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Hi David,
Thanks for taking an interest in Goa matters. Are you a Brit or a 
Goenkar posing as one?


Your letter to the Enforcement Officer was appropriate, clear and to the 
point.
As in Britain where Boris as Tory boss can do what he likes, here too 
Modi and his BJP minions make decisions as they please.

Their cronies must be satisfied at all costs.

Hope this Monserrate fellow takes note.

Eddie


-- Forwarded message -
From: David Cleaver 
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021, 20:55
Subject: Disproportionate Assets Case Against BABUSH MONSERRATE?
To:  

 For Personal Attention Of:-

 Shri Yogesh Sharma IFS (Enforcement Directorate, Government of India)


 Dear Sir,

 On behalf of some of the People of Goa ….
 I am addressing you in your official capacity, but will also hold you 
personally responsible for any resulting action taken, or indeed any 
lack of action, in that same capacity.


 For this reason, I am taking the liberty of adding around 200 
“witnesses” to the CC section of this email, so that you will be unable 
to deny at some date in the future that you ever received it, if you 
should decide to “ignore” this content and take no further action.


 Therefore, respected sir, it would be highly advisable to listen to 
what I have to say, not only because some of the People of Goa have 
asked me to speak on their behalf, but also because a few of the 
residents there have told me that they are in fear for their safety and 
that of their families.


 I consider this to be a serious matter, worthy of your full attention.

 In May, 2020, I recorded the following video about one of Goa’s most 
prominent politicians, Atanasio “Babush” Monserrate, which is fairly 
self-explanatory ….


 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AvHJHjWpSs

 I would like to point out that I do not know this man personally, and 
the closest contact that I ever had with him was sitting on the next 
table at a restaurant one day. In fact, he must have known that I was 
waiting to speak with him, about a matter that I considered to be 
important. I am fairly confident about that statement, because myself 
and someone else had already spoken to Vijai Sardesai and Rohan Khaunte 
on the same topic just beforehand, and they were both sitting at the 
same table as Monserrate. Nevertheless, I never got the chance to speak 
with this particular crook (see video above), as he was obviously far 
too busy to listen to the opinion of some random foreigner.


 No, as I have said at the start of my video, I do not know very much 
about Monseratte at all. But I do believe what some of my Goan friends 
have told me about him – because I trust that they are telling me the 
truth. And I also trust what I see with my own eyes, such as when some 
people from Taleigao made a video about illegal field-filling and 
construction taking place there under Monserrate's direct orders.


 I will also pay full attention to the People of Goa for other reasons. 
For example, if those people are telling me that Babush Monserrate lives 
a lifestyle way in excess of his declared means, then I will trust that 
they are able to provide the proof of those statements. My understanding 
is that Monserrate has spent most of his life as a politician, and 
therefore, it follows that he will not have been permitted to earn vast 
amounts of money by being employed in private enterprise. It is my 
understanding that government servants are NOT PERMITTED to indulge in 
private business dealings outside their government posts.


 So, on behalf of the People of Goa, I kindly request the Enforcement 
Directorate to initiate a Disproportionate Assets investigation against 
Atanasio “Babush” Monserrate, and ask him to explain his very obvious 
enormous wealth.


 If you want to see proof of his enormous wealth, then I am not the 
correct person to provide it for you. But if you ask some of the People 
of Goa, perhaps some of them will be willing to identify his palacial 
house(s) and other assets. Some of them may not be so helpful, because 
as I mentioned above, some of the people there are very scared for their 
safety, to speak out against any of their corrupt ruling politicians. 
This is why I am finding it necessary to speak on behalf of the People 
of Goa. Of course, your department may also do its own research, in 
order for you to identify and confirm Monserrate's property assets for 
yourself.


 I thank you for your attention to this email and I hope that you 
realise the implications of the fact that I have sent it to you.


 Yours sincerely,

 David N. Cleaver
 (UK)

[Goanet] BJP tireless tactics to malign Muslims

[BT Yahoo Mail]

The BJP Hindus in social media, with nothing else to do, keep looking 
for ways to smear Muslims.


A few days ago, a video of a Hindu man urinating on a holy statue was 
re-posted with the claim that the man is Muslim.
The video was posted by Twitter users Gopal Goswami @gopugoswami, Ramesh 
Solanki @Rajput_Ramesh, @Dharmicbaba, @YamrajFromHell, and @P_Katyayan. 
Between just these accounts the video has been viewed over one lakh 
times. Goswami wrote, "See why they go to Temples:- it's nothing to do 
with drinking water but to pee on the murtis & Ling".
His tweet gained close to 4,000 retweets. The video was also shared by 
@HinduEcosystem_, promoted by BJP leader Kapil Mishra, where it drew 
over 50,000 views.
Swarajya's senior editor Swati Goel Sharma and BJP member and former MLA 
Hari Manjhi shared the video as well.


Sheer BJP Hindu malevolence.

Source: www.altnews.in

Eddie

[Goanet] Israelis keep terrorising Palestinian children.

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Israeli Jews routinely bully and terrorise Palestinian children and 
nobody, including MidEast Muslims or even Mody will stop them.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1369753306600456198

Eddie

[Goanet] Water truck drives over women protestors

[BT Yahoo Mail]

BJP-controlled truck coolly drives over women protesting failure to 
supply water to farmers.See vid clip attached.

Eddie

[Goanet] UK views on Farmers' protests in India

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Click link below to watch the reactions in Britain.(Make sure you click 
the image to hear the sound.


https://twitter.com/i/status/1367860894991056897

Eddie

[Goanet] COW SCIENCE

[BT Yahoo Mail]

India's current tragedy is that it is ruled by three undereducated BJP 
bigots - two Gujus called Modi & Shah and a sadhu from UP called Yogi .
Under their influence, what is usually recognised as Science has been 
played down and more attention given to an ancient set of beliefs in the 
Vedic period, glorified as Vedic Science.
Hindustan has never been known for its intellectual scholarship. The 
Hindus did not not even keep historical records, unlike the Chinese 
whose records go back to 1200 BCE.
A Muslim scholar by the name of Albiruni (971-1039) had arrived in India 
as a camp follower of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni (967-1030).
He wrote an innovative study of India but was not impressed by Hindu 
scholarship.

He wrote:
"The so-called scientific theorems of the Hindus are utterly confusing, 
devoid of any logical order, and always mixed up with silly notions of 
huge numbers and spaces, and religious dogmas… They cannot raise 
themselves to the methods of a strictly scientific deduction."


The British had set up an education system, including universities and 
sent the first Prime Minister Nehru to England for study. But there 
always remained a Hindu nationalist core that dreamed of or imagined a 
past Vedic era of high scholarly achievement. The present Modi's BJP 
government supports this dream and is trying hard to revive the past and 
formalise these achievements. In the process, they have tended to bypass 
the need for historical evidence and logical deduction, and to 
distinguish between fact and fiction.


THE COW HAS BEEN SELECTED FOR SPECIAL STUDY and a detailed syllabus 
developed. The government body for cow welfare, Rastriya Kamdhenu Aayog 
(RKA), has been set up to organise a countrywide online examination on 
cows. The exam will have separate papers for primary and middle school, 
secondary, college – and one for the general public.


The head of the RKA on Monday released a physical chip (costing Rs50 - 
100) made apparently of cow dung and which he claimed could reduce 
“radiation from cell phones”.
“This is a radiation chip. You can keep it in your mobile. If you keep 
this chip in your mobile, it reduces radiation significantly."


A distinction is made between ‘desi’ (Indian) cows and other cows called 
‘exotic’ or Jersey.
It is claimed that in every aspect the health benefits of by-products 
from the Indian cow is superior. “The quality of milk from the Jersey 
cow is not at all good, but the quantity is larger.”
The colour of Indian cow milk “tends to be light yellow as it has traces 
of gold in it” (while the Jersey cow does not have). The Gold claim has 
been hotly contested.
The syllabus also claims that Indian cows are more naturally hygienic, 
“hardy and clever enough not to sit in dirty places” whereas the Jersey 
cow is lazy and prone to diseases.


Finally the Cow ‘syllabus’ makes claims that earthquakes can occur from 
the mass slaughter of Jersey cows, not being as emotive as Indian cows.


Ha, ha. So much for BJP Hindu Science


Eddie

[Goanet] Modi offers vaccine together with his photo

[BT Yahoo Mail]

 India has emerged as perhaps the first – and so far, only – country in 
the world whose leader is using vaccination certificates to promote his 
own politics and cult of personality.


Provisional certificates issued by the Ministry of Health and Family 
Welfare, Government of India to all those vaccinated carry a prominent 
strip at the bottom with the photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi 
along with exhortations in English (“Together We Will Defeat Covid-19”) 
and Hindi.


Each certificate also includes the beneficiary’s basic details, the name 
of the vaccine candidate administered (Covishield or Covaxin), the 
location of the dose and the batch number and due date for the second 
dose. The Wire has been able to confirm with others who have received 
vaccinations that Modi’s photograph and message is affixed to all their 
certificates.


India’s vaccination certificates are in stark contrast to the 
certificates or cards that the US and some other countries have been 
vaccinated.
For example, the UK’s National Health Service vaccination card is small, 
about the size of a business card, and whose only image is of a crown. 
In India, the BJP offered vaccines at no cost only in exchange for 
votes. given by local or political considerations.
The use of Modi’s photograph on the vaccination certificate is also 
being seen by the opposition Congress as an attempt to influence voters.
India's PM is clearly power drunk and as he controls all the media & the 
Judiciary, he can do as he pleases. Nobody can challenge him.


Eddie

Re: [Goanet] Elderly women let loose fort begging

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Rajan, I read your narrative with interest.
Unlike some of the GoaNet regulars, you write of the topical present.

It's hard to imagine that some people (well meaning perhaps) take the 
trouble to offload a bunch of elderly women into Panjim daily to 
facilitate their begging habit.
And then pick them in the evening and return them to wherever they came 
from. Extraordinary.


But, Rajan, why do you expect women's groups to deal with the problem? 
Why didn't you contact such a group and bring the problem to their 
notice?
And if the police station was just 100 metres away, it was disappointing 
that you didn't drop into the station and notify the police.


Eddie




-- Original Message --
From: "Rajan Parrikar" 
To: goa...@goanet.org
Sent: Sunday, 21 Feb, 21 At 13:02
Subject: [Goanet] Quick notes

To Goanet -



- The Beggar’s racket continues unchecked in Panjim. For years I have

highlighted this civic atrocity, to no avail. Early morning, elderly 
women


and invalids are dropped off at points in the city to panhandle and

collected at dusk by their handlers. I saw one today near Azad Maidan, 
not


more than 100 metres from the central Police Station. Where are the 
local


women’s organizations? Where are all the vocal women, the Jhansi ki 
Ranis


on Facebook, who spit venom over every imagined crime of Narendra Modi?

This happens right under their nose, yet we hear not a peep.





- Manipal Hospital in Dona Paula, an advanced clinic for the 12th 
Century.


If you need a Covid test for travel, be prepared to piss away 4 hours of

your life to a process that takes 10 mins elsewhere. You can’t register 
for


the test in advance. No online bookings are taken. You have to get there 
by


9 am and write your name in a soiled register placed on a dusty table 
set


under a tent (don’t they have computers?). Given the nature of the

pandemic, you would think the process would be as contactless as 
possible,


but no. Then you wait. And wait. Then show your ID and pay ₹1400. Then 
wait


some more. Testing is supposed to start at 10 am. If you’re lucky it may

start at 10:30 am. Your turn will come at 11:30 am or later. For 
results,


you have to come back the next day “after 5 pm.” Alternative: Thyrocare

sends a lab tech to your home and charges ₹1800 (just ₹400 more than

Mani-not-your-pal), and you get the results the same evening.





- "Requiem for Miramar" - perhaps some Goan composer can be commissioned 
to


write that symphony. What a sad, sad sight to a once-magnificent locale.

The state of the beach (with the uncouth Indian hordes it attracts) cuts

close to my heart as I grew up here. Miramar is where I spent many of 
the


best days of my life. India and Indians, thanks for NOTHING.





r

[Goanet] BJP drives policies, Goans have little say

[BT Yahoo Mail]

People like Rajan Parrikar, George Pinto and Rajan Narayan of the Goan 
Observer have been warning that Goa's development  is controlled by the 
BJP clowns of Delhi and that Goan residents are being excluded and have 
little influence.

So what's the point of GoaNet? Just a talking shop?
How can GoaNet be made more effective?

Eddie
-- Original Message --
From: "George Pinto" 
To: "Estb. 1994! Goa's Premiere Mailing List" 
Sent: Saturday, 13 Feb, 21 At 18:28
Subject: [Goanet] Further destruction of Goa
Delhi driven policies designed to benefit non-Goans at the expense of 
Goans
https://www.goanobserver.in/2021/02/12/30-jetties-for-coal-transport/ 

Re: [Goanet] Israel wants India’s help in ICC War Crime Case...

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Thank you, Fred DSouza, for posting this important article.
Israel has enjoyed total immunity from prosecution over its numerous 
crimes against Muslims and Palestinians ever since the Europe & the USA 
decided to create a State for the European Jews right in the heart of 
Arab lands in 1948.
The Israelis (ie the white Jews) have been resolutely backed by the EU 
and USA, two white power blocks that have rendered the UN itself 
impotent. With Trump's backing, Israel came to regard itself as an 
invincible force, effectively a world ruler, jointly with the USA.


Here's a few examples of Israel's crimes:
- nearly 1,500 children were killed in the period 2000-2012, around 
5,000 children and 215 held in Israeli prisons.
- Palestine is becoming increasingly unliveable and the water is slowly 
poisoning the people, especially children,
- Palestinian children arrested by (Israeli) military and subject to 
degrading treatment, including torture & isolation, and used as shields 
to deter stone throwers.
- Palestinian school equipment destroyed by Israeli soldiers. They enter 
school premises  & pee and poo.


The ICC has recently taken a tougher stand and Israel is worried. It has 
few friends outside Europe but Modi of India is counted as one. Modi too 
is a friendless fellow like most Indian leaders. He hates Muslims, 
dislikes low castes but feels inferior before white leaders, both West & 
Russian. He needs them for technological help. He has long tried to 
befriend Netanyahu & Trump because they too are anti-Muslim like him 
but, to be accepted as ally, Modi had to purchase an adequate quantity 
of weapons (about $2.5 billion each).

Thereafter they got on.

But how could Modi possibly help Netanyahu? Has he any influence at all?


Eddie


-- Original Message --
From: "Frederick Dsouza" 
To: "Goanet Org" 
Sent: Friday, 12 Feb, 21 At 13:21
Subject: [Goanet] Israel wants India’s Help in ICC War Crime Case Should 
India Help #UPSC ...


https://youtu.be/8ah6Ik2sWnE
 --
 Frederick Dsouza

[Goanet] Rajan issues warnings, gets no response

[BT Yahoo Mail]

It is hard to believe.
Rajan Parrikar in good faith & out of concern for Goa, has been issuing 
a series of warnings that all is not well with Goa.
Apparently a bunch of non-Catholic builders, entrepreneurs and investors 
from outside Goa seem to have designs on the prime locations of Goa. 
They intend apparently to build high-class residence blocks and 
facilities, targeting wealthy property buyers. These outsiders seem to 
be looking for the sort of culture and social graces that only Catholic 
Goa can offer.
Else they would have gone to places like that unruly Hindi stronghold, 
Uttar Pradesh, run by an illiterate BJP sadhu called Yogi Adityanath.


We should be be grateful to Rajan Parrikar for sounding these warnings 
through a set of emails and video clips but as far as I know, nobody has 
bothered so far to thank him on the Net. He could next convene a group 
of interested Goans to monitor the situation and ensure that the 
identity of Goa is preserved.
Frederick's silence is a bit hard to understand. Perhaps FN was stung by 
Rajan dismissing him as a 'cut-and-paste maestro' instead of focusing 
substantive issues on GoaNet. Another regular who has not reacted is 
Aires Rodrigues.


Goans are not doubt grateful that FN allows anyone to write anything 
(within reason)  in GoaNet. You don't even have to be a member.

For that same reason, GoaNet has become home to much trivia.
Perhaps now that he holds the doctorate, FN should consider clarifying 
the aims of GoaNet and upgrading the forum into different sections & 
subjects such as Literature and Art. (I am aware that there is a Goa 
Book Club.) He could be assisted by an informal group or committee of 
interested users.
And could he be persuaded to divulge the subject of the 
thesis/dissertation for his PhD and the names of his Examiners, 
especially the External ones.


Eddie


-- Original Message --
From: "Rajan Parrikar" 
To: goa...@goanet.org
Sent: Tuesday, 9 Feb, 21 At 18:12
Subject: [Goanet] Goans, please move out of Goa

Or jump into the Mandovi. Make way for the Delhi pigs.

 No points for guessing which politicians were involved in approving 
this

 upcoming obscenity in Miramar (see video below) -

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrah6dQLj4s

 https://anantaraluxury.com/elysian/

 A couple of kilometres away, a huge concrete project is rising right 
by the
 Taleigao church. I am told the land was sold by the church to the 
builder

 Adwalpalkar.

 Consider this - land belonging to Catholic Goans, sold to Hindu Goan, 
for
 the benefit of Dilli p!gs! This all-embracing secular gesture 
transcending
 religions and benefiting non-Goans must surely bring a tear or two to 
the

 eye of our resident humanitarian Frederick (of the "it is all an
 exaggeration, man!" fame).

 Best,


 r

[Goanet] Fr Conceicao D'Silva - death of

[Yahoo!Mail]

Renowned religious preacher, convenor of multiple Charismatic Retreats, Praise 
and worship to the Lord, every Fridays of the month, devouted Konkani Romi 
script votary, and a diocesan minced no words in speaking out his mind on 
political issues, late Fr. Conceicao D Silva, 66 yrs, Parish Priest, of Church 
of Our Lady of Snows, Raia, Salcete Goa was brought to the Grace Intensive 
Cardiac Care Center and General Hospital Pajifond Margao Salcete Goa in the wee 
hours of the morning after he suffered a massive heart attack  and breathed his 
last  at 0345 IST according to Hospital sources.  
He would have celebrated his 67th birthday in February next week end.
The death was confirmed to this writer in a teletalk this morning by Paco 
Patriacal, Archbishops House, Altinho, Panaji.
Incidentally, Fr Conceicao a native of Orlim, had a series of charismatic 
retreats lined up this month every Friday and the devotees who thronged in 
large numbers will miss him and his retreats dearly.
He had mesmerised large crowds over the years, be it in Ambelim, Mandur, 
Taleigao, and his last bastion Raia before he left for his heavenly abode.
The funeral is tentatively slated for tommorow at his home near St Pius X 
Convent H School Orlim Salcete Goa
GOFREY J I GONSALVEScyber journo social activistBorda Margao Goa INDIA+91 98221 
58584

[Goanet] DEMOCRACY IN THE WEST

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The word 'Democracy' is perhaps one of the most misunderstood, misused 
and abused term in political discussion.

How should we understand the term? Let's look at the West first.
Democracy today does not refer to any particular arrangement of 
political or economic institutions.
It is meant to be an ideal form of government to aim for but no scheme 
for achieving it is laid down.


In the West, it is defined as a form of government in which power is 
vested in the people but exercised via elected representatives.
Note that the definition is restricted to representative democracy found 
in the capitalist countries of the West and their followers like India.
There is no mention of the real thing – participatory democracy in which 
people play an active role in decision-making.


In the West, people are allowed to choose from a pre-selected list of 
representatives every 4 or 5 years.
These reps have been selected not by consulting the people but political 
parties over which they have no control.
The winning party forms the government but the people have no power to 
monitor its performance.
In Britain, they elect members of Parliament (MPs) but thereafter they 
are not accountable to those who elected them.

So who are they accountable to?
Answer: the political party to which members belong. It is the party 
machine that controls the MPs and keeps them in line.
As for the annual party conference, this is just an annual charade 
organised to create an illusion of participation by the party 
membership.


NEO LIBERALISM
Who then has power over the party machine?
Answer; the capitalist class, the owners of the means of production & 
communication.
In the West, it is not public opinion that shapes policies but the 
business elites.
Way back in 1890, Mary Lease, leader of the US People’s (Farmers) Party, 
had warned: We have a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street and for 
Wall Street.


In the 1970s a new economic theory (now called neo-liberalism) was 
created by the Chicago School to further advance the interests of big 
business.
This doctrine advocates the primacy of the market for making economic 
decisions and a minimal role for the state.
In other words, the neo-liberals believe that the economy should control 
society and not the other way round.
As a result, the nature of the state has changed, it is no longer a 
welfare state that looks after its people but a market-state which looks 
after big business.
No western leader can afford to ignore the demands of the big bosses and 
their corporations. It is big business that can provide investment and 
fund the
political campaigns. If a party is not friendly to the investor class, 
the latter threaten capital flight.


Neo-liberalism has downgraded western democracy – politics & parliament, 
it attacks social welfare & collective action. Parliament serves more as 
a decorative institution,

passing on decisions already made in business organizations…

The capitalist class is fanatical about protecting their assets and 
privileged status from threats from the working class.
They are terrified of collective action. They therefore expect the 
government to curb union activity and be firm on issues of Law & Order.
As a result, the state has created institutions like the civil service, 
police, courts, prisons, secret service.
The elites associated with these institutions - senior civil servants, 
police, prison & security chiefs, judges are all appointed
by the government, not elected. Yet, they wield more real power than MPs 
and discourage the people from being over politicised.
In addition, the capitalist class demands a favourable investment 
climate abroad. This is achieved by setting up client regimes (like
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar) in resource-rich regions and 
removing (by coups or military action) any leaders (like Saddam Hussein 
of Iraq) that get
too independent. Thus the major western countries maintain strong armed 
forces and military spending remains high.


Some 200 years ago in Britain, debates and decisions in parliament were 
restricted to the rich and landowning class. The rest had no say.
It was not until 1928 that all adults including women were given the 
right to vote. But the more the ruling class were forced to widen the 
vote base,
the more the real centres of power were removed from people’s influence 
such as the civil service, the judiciary, the police & defence 
establishment.
Successive governments have increasingly cramped democratic decision 
making. Decisions are now settled in government committees and even 
backbenchers have no control over them.
New style council cabinets work in collusion with unelected quangos to 
control spending.
The following are unelected: members of House of Lords, Privy Council, 
judges, top civil servants, army, police & secret service chiefs.

These people have more real power than elected members of parliament.

PARTCIPATORY DEMOCRACY
The role of citizens is now basically to pick 

[Goanet] INDIAN CONSTITUTION

[BT Yahoo Mail]

John Eric Gomes had earlier listed several functions of a nation State 
but he seems to be talking of some ideal State, hardly the Indian State.

For example, he claimed that India is not a Banana republic. True?
One dictionary defines this "as one of the smaller tropical countries 
whose economies mostly depends on fruit exports, tourism, and foreign 
investors."

So John is right to say that India is not a banana republic.

THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION
John Eric next labels India a 'constitutional democracy'. These two 
words, quite alien to Hindi, are among several that characterise a 
western State.
Indian languages simply lack modern conceptual categories (like history, 
sociology, philosophy, etc) and the few Indians like Ambedkar or Nehru 
who visited England lost no time in expanding their English vocabulary 
and learning European concepts.
The Constituent Assembly consisting of a team made up of Ambedkar & some 
others were given the task of drafting a Constitution for India in time 
for independence.
How could a team of Indians who had no experience of governance draft a 
Constitution?
Ambedkar's team did the next best thing. They latched onto the British 
India Government Act (1935) as a template. It is a lengthy and detailed 
document with 321 sections and 10 schedules. Many key features of the 
constitution are directly taken from this Act.
The team was heavily influenced by the British model of Parliamentary 
Democracy.
Next the team examined other Constitutions - the USA, Canada, Australia, 
Ireland and Germany - and selected certain Principles. It was soon 
accepted that Indian languages were
too primitive in their vocabulary and usage and it was decided to draft 
the Constitution in English, the language of the colonial masters. The 
task fell on the few Indian elites

who had been educated in England.
The Constitution was adopted by the India Constituent Assembly on 26 
November 1949 and came into effect on 26 January 1950.


The Indian Constitution is a curious document which few Indians have 
read or can understand.
Literacy in 1947 was just 12%, so here was a seminal document circulated 
that most Indians could not understand.

There are phrases and constructs like
'solemnly resolved', 'sovereign democratic republic', 'secure justice, 
social, economic and political;
liberty of thought, expression, faith and worship'; 'equality of status 
and opportunity';
'promote fraternity, dignity of the individual and integrity of the 
nation'.


Indian languages simply do not use concepts like these.
So the Constitution is basically an alien document which the 'Fathers of 
the Nation' felt was needed to define the new nation.
The Fathers of the Nation had found they couldn’t get far with the 
British rulers without learning English and western modes of thinking.
Their own land  might be rich in myth and ritual but offered little 
intellectual stimulus and

their languages could not match English in depth, range and nuance.

The Constitution was in  effect an imposition  of an alien thought 
stream on a largely peasant population.
Amendments: In 1976 during that darkest hour of Indian democracy — Mrs 
Gandhi's Emergency, the 42nd Amendment was made, slipping in the words 
“secular”

and “socialist” into the Preamble.
The inclusion of these words had been rejected by Dr Ambedkar, the main 
architect of the Constitution.


Since the coming of the BJP to power in 2014 the pretence of being 
‘secular’ has been thrown overboard. Those running the country have 
openly declared their intention to
convert this country into a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ making Muslims, Christians, 
Jains, Buddhists indeed every religious minority into second-class 
citizens.
The Indian parliament has become the rubber stamp of the rich and 
powerful but under the BJP/NDA regime even the farce of parliamentary 
approval has been dropped.


(The Preamble of the Constitution appears as an attachment in this 
email)


+++
Eddie

Re: [Goanet] "The absurdity of India can be total"

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Rajan, kudos to you for exposing Indian general shoddiness at work:
- outdated web design even in national institute or university websites, 
broken links etc.

- chaotic state even at completed construction sites  etc.

I am reminded of similar observations by VS Naipaul in his early 
writings: An Area of Darkness (1964); A Wounded Civilisation (1977) and 
India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990).
The following excerpts are taken from a long piece in Britain's Daily 
Telegraph magazine (August 1967):
To see mysteriousness is to excuse the intellectual failure. The poverty 
of the Indian land also extends to the Indian mind. The simplicity of 
India disappoints and in the end fatigues. India lies all on the 
surface.
[On Hindu beliefs] The holy cow is absurd, an ignorant corruption of an 
ancient Aryan practice. The caste marks and the turbans belong to a 
people who, incapable of contemplating man as man, know no other way to 
define themselves. Even I could anticipate much of what was said at the 
meeting. Where here is no play of the intellect, there is no surprise. 
While the West is many-featured, India possesses only mystery. In March 
1962, the glossy Indian Hotelkeeper & Traveller produced a series “Seers 
of India”:
“India’s seers and sages have something to offer to the 
world. Th the spiritually rudderless foreigners, India’s saints and 
sadhus provide irresistible magnets of attraction. India, steeped in 
spirituality, ha singularly unique facet to project to the world…”
The absurdity of India can be total. It appears to ridicule analysis. 
The onlooker is taken beyond anger and despair.


[Naipaul's stay in in the North]
Poverty could not explain the worn carpets of the 5-star Ashoka Hotel, 
the grimy armchairs in the lounge, the long-handled broom left there by 
the menial in khaki... Poverty did not explain the dirt in the 
first-class railway carriages, the absence of trees, even near the 
resort of Naini Tal.
Poverty did not explain the open stinking sewers of the new middle class 
Lake Gardens suburb in Calcutta...It spoke of a more general collapse of 
sensibility. People had grown barbarous, indifferent and 
self-wounding... Here is a nation ceaselessly exchanging banalities with 
itself; regeneration is believed to come not from being receptive to 
thought but through magic. In a time of famine, hundreds of gallons of 
milk were poured over a deity while an Air Force helicopter dropped 
flowers.


[A country held together by no intellectual current]
India is profoundly dependent on others, both for questions and answers. 
There is no true aristocracy, no element that preserves the graces of a 
country... The state is withering away for lack of ideas.  Every 
discipline, skill and proclaimed ideal of the modern Indian state is a 
copy of something known to exist elsewhere. Indians, including the holy 
men, have continually to look outside for approval. Local judgment has 
no value. Without the foreign chit, Indians can have no confirmation of 
their own reality.


[Post election headlines]:
We must be educated to make democracy a success; Past mistakes are 
responsible for current problems.
Here was a nation exchanging banalities with itself: it was the 
impression Indians frequently gave when they attempted analysis. They 
were either expressing the old world of myth and magic or interpreting 
the new in terms of the old. The concrete eluded them.


[Ideas all borrowed]
India is profoundly dependent. She depends on others now both for 
questions and answers. Here’s a country held together by no intellectual 
current. There is no true Indian aristocracy, no element that preserves 
the graces of a country… There have been parasitic landowners, 
tax-farmers. The rulers represented a brute authority. The aptly named 
‘native princes’ have disappeared and nothing marks their passing. Every 
Indian, prince or peasant, is a villager. All are separate and, in the 
decay of sensibility, equal.Each trade (except entertainment) is 
borrowed. Every discipline, skill and proclaimed ideal of the modern 
Indian state is known to exist in its true form somewhere else. Cabinet 
government looks to Westminster. Indians had borrowed words like 
"democracy" and "science" from the West, without knowing what they 
meant.  The journals of protest look, even for their typography, to the 
New Statesman, Indians, holy men included, have continually to look 
outside for approval. Local judgment has not value. Without the foreign 
chit, Indian s have no confirmation of their own identity.


---
Eddie


-- Original Message --
From: "Rajan Parrikar" 
To: goa...@goanet.org
Sent: Monday, 1 Feb, 21 At 08:32
Subject: [Goanet] India's real and virtual worlds

Have you wondered why websites in India are, in general, so awful? The

templates are outdated, the web technologies behind the curve, the 
visual


design an eyesore, several links invariably 

[Goanet] MY FROZEN TURBULENCE

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Indian leaders tend to be simpletons & mediocrities. Manmohan Singh was 
named Underachiever of 2012 in Time Magazine. Morarji Desai prided 
himself on drinking his own urine.
Most are intellectually bankrupt, except perhaps Nehru and that too 
because he was educated in Britain.


In contrast, earlier East & SE Asian leaders were philosopher-statesmen, 
such Chou-en Lai (China), Lee Kwan Yu (Singapore) and Ho Chi Minh 
(Vietnam).
A big surprise was the philosophical essay written by Jagmohan, 
Lieutenant-Governor of Kashmir in the late 1980s.
It was published by Frontline in 1991. He was clearly deeply troubled by 
the state of Hinduism and entitled it 'My Frozen Turbulence'. Here it is 
in substance:


MY FROZEN TURBULENCE
There is something basically wrong in present-day India that takes her 
astray in almost every sphere of life.

The country requires fundamental reforms in the realm of ideas.
During my somewhat tumultuous and eventful in public service, I was 
fortunate to have had a close look at the state of our institutions.
All along I felt that some vital planks were missing in our edifice. It 
was bound to totter and it often did.


Without an adequate social and spiritual base, all our institutions, our 
laws and Constitution, our judicial and legislative bodies are bound to 
be rendered frigid and fragile.
While I remained occupied with affairs of state during all the turbulent 
years, there remained tucked,
somewhere in the corner of my mind, a smouldering belief that unless our 
social thoughts were reconstructed and religious practices reformed,
unless we understood the relationship between the social and spiritual 
order, unless there was a deep-rooted renaissance to provide new 
directions to our policy and
lead to a new moral order, a new 'socialism', new environmental ethics 
and technology, the country's future would remain dark, and our society 
would

become more exploitative and corrupt, and prone to collapse.

An essential pre-requisite and component of the renaissance would be a 
re-awakened and rejuvenated Hinduism that has shed its flabbiness,
cleared its clogged arteries and recouped its vigour and buoyancy. This 
new Hinduism would create a new Hindu who is just, compassionate, 
creative
and contemplative; a Hindu with a clean conscience, one who believes in 
the fundamental unity of man and is committed to the purification of his 
own soul
and of those around him; a Hindu prepared to provide motivational 
underpinning to all State institutions, making them honest, and 
service-oriented.


Today, when I reflect on my experiences in Kashmir or at the country's 
affairs from a higher vantage point, I feel vindicated by the 
correctness of my assessment.


--
Eddie







===
Eddie

Re: [Goanet] Rejuvenating SKIN & MUSCLE

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Hi E DeSouza and Roland,

I have heard about the Parsee CEO Poonawala's Serum Institute but sadly 
the foreign media usually tend to underreport or ignore India's 
achievements on anything.
I guess the reason is that India is not known for its scientific acumen 
and peasant types like Modi and his pals (like Shah or Yogi) keep 
hogging the limelight in virtually every area.
India has a very poor record in publishing world-class scientific 
papers. China is the world leader here, beating the USA itself from the 
last few years.


India claims to have hundreds of so called Universities'. What on earth 
do they do? How many are known for their research output? No wonder, 
Indian science is treated overseas as a joke, further corrupted by 
something called Vedic Science promoted by the likes of Modi.


Little is known overseas what India's Serum Institute is doing. Has it 
explained its role and its goals? You say it will supply the vaccine to 
several countries. Why is this not reported overseas? Why does the 
overseas media lack trust in Indian achievements?


Roland believes that "all your vaccines and all your pharmaceuticals 
come from Indian enterprise".
What does this mean? I am not talking of Indian successes overseas. But 
what on earth is happening in India itself?

Why is Indian governance so corrupt and chaotic?

Eddie





-- Original Message --

From: "E DeSousa" 

To: "Goanet Org" 

Cc: "BT Yahoo Mail" 

Sent: Monday, 25 Jan, 21 At 18:21

Subject: Re:  At Last  a formula to rejuvenate SKIN & MUSCLE



Comment:

Dear Eddie

There are, as you may have noticed plenty of claims by "Scientists" 
regarding human rejuvenation.


Earlier there was the claim by Israeli Scientists, who said they could 
reverse aging by using Oxygen hyperbaric chambers... Apparently this is 
a "thing" in Florida where old people of means are spending a lot of 
time inside such hyperbaric chambers- but so far there have been no 
Benjamin Buttons 


So as the Koreans are experiencing a birth rate crisis of epic 
proportions, maybe their priorities are directed to increase the life 
span and quality of life of the living?


Regarding the Indians, no need to sell them short. For example Adar 
Poonavala the CEO of Serum Institute of India in Pune, says his company 
is on track to produce and provide COVID 19 vaccines to over half the 
worlds population. That would be over 3.6 Billion people.


Also you may have noticed that India is so far, going to be donating 
Covid vaccines to neighboring countries like Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, 
Myanmar, Seychelles,Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Mauritius.












Best Regards,





E.

[Goanet] At Last a formula to rejuvenate SKIN & MUSCLE

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Great News.
Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 
(KAIST) have discovered a way to make skin cells “grow younger.” They 
claim the original technique can be used to “reverse the ageing process 
and prevent diseases related to ageing and prolong life span.” Speaking 
to RT from KAIST University, Professor Kwang-Hyun Cho, the lead 
scientist in the study, said  seeing the revitalized skin in the 
laboratory was “dramatic,” and added that the newly discovered technique 
“applies not only to human skin but also to our whole body.” Professor 
Cho described his newly developed technique as “opening the door for a 
new generation that perceives ageing as a reversible biological 
phenomenon.”


The results showed that the overall functionality of skin tissue was 
regenerated, giving the skin a healthy amount of collagen and elastic 
fibres, ridding the tissue of wrinkles. The promise of the technique 
could see an end to the ravages of age like dryness, creases, loss of 
elasticity and thinning skin.


+
And what about the Indians?
The BJP jokers  have a much simpler remedy to rejuvenate anything:
Just say: Sri Ram, Jai Sri Ram

--
Eddie

Re: [Goanet] Dinesh Dsouza podcast

[BT Yahoo Mail]

I wholly agree with Naguesh. Why is that white bootlicker Dinesh being 
promoted here?

We already have a white bootlicker here in the name of Modi.
Modi also worshipped the likes of Trump & Netanyahu - anyone with power 
who hate Muslims.

Eddie


-- Original Message --
From: "Naguesh Bhatcar" 
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" 
Sent: Friday, 22 Jan, 21 At 14:31
Subject: Re: [Goanet]  Dinesh Dsouza podcast : interview with Parler ceo 
and Trump’s legacy


Any particular reason why Dinesh D'Souza is being promoted here?

All he did is spread lies and conspiracies in the US. Pardoned by 
another crook.


Naguesh Bhatcar

[Goanet] Pope Francis' banalities

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Dear Ms Yeagle & Mr McElwee,
I have kept in touch with NCR off and on for some 20 years. You will 
surely agree that the Church is in a state of crisis and has

little influence on society.
The NCR may claim to be racially diverse but sadly, it continues to be 
Eurocentric and it is certainly not catholic.
You seem to be catering mainly the Whites. The views of two columnists 
(Winters and McElvee) seem to be dominant. Some of us would welcome more 
diverse and catholic voices.


Pope Francis may be Vicar of Christ, Supreme Pontiff etc but like his 
predecessors, he plays safe by pontificating  in generalities and 
dispensing pious platitudes.
The Popes (all European) fear to challenge the western centres of power 
(mainly the US and Europe) and just shuffle along the periphery. His 
encyclical 2 of May 2015 is made up of 246 paragraphs, and Pope Francis 
must be well aware of the history of western transgressions over 
centuries but he
cannot find the courage (or support of the the Holy Spirit|) to name the 
transgressors and condemn their policies
that have led to today’s global crisis (socio-economic and 
environmental).


Sri Lankan theologian Tissa Balasuriya stated it plainly:

“It started with the expansion of Western Europe in 1492, an expansion 
based on ‘violence, theft, seizure of land, murder, slavery,
genocide and untruth.’ The Christian churches have yet to recognize 
their supporting role in this process. They benefited from it.
The West, by its military, economic, social and cultural power, 
continues to siphon off the wealth of the Third World.
Globalization of capital and production, and the standardization and 
homogenization of consumer tastes, is the method.
The World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the World Trade 
Organization are among the main weapons”.

[National Catholic Reporter, Jan 22, 1999]
The German Pope Benedict 16 did not agree with Tissa's views on the 
Virgin Mary and instead of resolving differences by calm discussion, the 
Pope took the extreme step of excommunicating Tissa in 1997, that is, 
expelling him. The Church is after all a European institution and racist 
Benedict as boss simply dismissed Tissa as an unacceptable brown 
upstart.  The Holy Spirit (wherever he is located) did not intervene.


 Pope Francis went on with his banal utterances:

(Encyclical, Para 90) “…some are mired in desperate and degrading 
poverty, while others vain show off their supposed superiority.
We should be  indignant at the enormous inequalities in our midst, 
whereby we continue to tolerate some considering themselves more worthy 
than others”.
If Francis is talking of race discrimination, why doesn’t he say so 
explicitly?
The usual failure of nerve from a top religious leader who called 
himself Vicar of Christ.


1. The encyclical tone and material still Eurocentric
It’s not just the women that are missing in his commentary but also 
non-western voices.
It is a pity that Pope Francis did not break with tradition and share 
authorship with a few respected leaders from

Africa, Asia and Latin America, at least in the End Notes.

His European leanings show in the very first paragraph in which he 
quotes his beloved Francis of Assisi, a nature lover (13th century), and 
he re-appears several times (in paras 10-12; 66, 87, 218). It is 
understandable that Pope Francis, as Italian, is fond of Assisi and may 
be other Europeans too but is it fair to thrust him on everybody else? 
How insensitive can he be?
As head of the universal church, why didn’t he reach out to 
knowledgeable African, Asian or indigenous persons for one of their 
nature icons?
He also refers to two obscure early Euro saints: Foucault and Norcia 
(para125,126). Who has heard of them?  How

inspiring or relevant are they to non-Europeans?

2. Past Popes were grossly insensitive if not racist .
Many encyclicals have been written but none on the violence against the 
non-Europeans and theft of their lands.
The popes seem barely  aware of their sufferings. On 13 Jan 2003 (two 
months before the Iraq invasion), John Paul II boasted:
“Europe is the bearer of the values which have borne fruit for two 
thousand years in an "art" of thinking and living from which the whole 
world has

benefited.”  And what of the Euro art of bombing brown countries?

What did the earlier popes think of non-Europeans? Terms like 
‘barbarous’, ‘savage’, ‘superstitious’ were routinely used.
Way back in 1493, the year after Columbus set his eyes on the Native 
Americans, Pope Alexander VI (one of the most
dissolute of popes), issued a bull (edict) instructing Spain and 
Portugal that “barbarous nations be invaded and brought
to the faith”. He is the pope who sired 10 children with different 
women.

Could he possibly be a man of God and leader of the Church??

The so called Catholic Church is afflicted by grave problems, mostly 
created by Europeans.

Let's quote from the NCR BLUEPRINT issue of 2002:
For some time now, many Catholics have 

[Goanet] Dinesh on REAGAN

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Thanks, Fred, for the YouTube on Dinesh's podcast. There, Dinesh 
narrates some disappointing trivia about former President Reagan.
Dinesh, here is something more substantial about Reagan by Chomsky and 
Pilger:


1. NOAM CHOMSKY's views (from Deterring Democracy 1991)

Under Reagan, for eight years, the U.S. government functioned virtually 
without a chief executive.
It was hardly a secret that Ronald Reagan had only the vaguest 
conception of the policies of his administration, and if
not properly programmed by his staff, regularly spouted embarrassing 
statements.
He had no clue about the reign of terror unleashed in Central America 
resulting in mounds of mutilated corpses dumped by US trained death 
squads

in El Salvador or hundreds of thousands left homeless in the streets.
When later called before Congress to explain the Contra affair, Reagan 
quite truthfully said he knew nothing.
Reagan's duty was to smile, to read from the teleprompter in a pleasant 
voice, tell a few jokes, and keep the audience properly bemused.


2. JOHN PILGER in New Statesman  (10 June 2004)

The Reagan regime helped create the Taliban and supplied Saddam Hussein 
with chemical weapons.
For most of his two terms in the 1980s, Reagan secretly approved an 
onslaught on El Salvador and Nicaragua.
In El Salvador, the CIA funded, trained and directed a National Guard 
which, together with death squads it controlled,
murdered thousands, especially moderate reformers: those like Jose 
Viera, president of the El Salvador Land Reform Institute,
and Archbishop Oscar Romera, who was shot dead as he held up the chalice 
at Mass,
having made the mistake of preaching that the enforced poverty of his 
flock was not God's will, and they should resist the American-sponsored 
terror regime.


==
Eddie D'Sa









On rubbish tips
outside San Salvador, morning after morning, I saw bodies killed by 
Reagan's
clients, including pregnant women. In its attacks on Nicaragua, Reagan's 
"contra"
forces specialised in slitting the throats of midwives and children as 
they

slept. In charge of this terrorism was John Negroponte, US
ambassador to Honduras, who, reported the Baltimore Sun, created
and directed a military unit that "used shock and suffocation devices in
interrogations. Prisoners often were kept naked and, when no longer 
useful,

killed and buried in unmarked graves."

Under Reagan, more than 100,000 people were slaughtered in Central 
America, and

the United States was distinguished as the only country ever to have
been convicted by the World Court for acts of terrorism.
+++
Eddie


-- Original Message --
From: "Frederick Dsouza" 
To: goanet@lists.goanet.org
Sent: Wednesday, 13 Jan, 21 At 21:08
Subject: [Goanet] Dinesh Dsouza: Big brother pays a visit

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rdv6LGMrYLw=share

Re: [Goanet] What I told Dinesh

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Dear Dinesh,

I have heard from you many times over the years by email, usually 
promoting your books.

The most recent email was to announce a daily podcast.
All such activities would normally call for warm rejoicing & celebration 
but sadly, in your case, your every new act recalls your bondage and 
subservience to the very white Republican establishment. In your earlier 
career, you must benefited from association with the Republicans. But 
with the downfall of the Evangelical Trump, the Republicans may not be 
worth cultivating. But, sadly for a brown man, you remain rightwing as 
ever, that is, aligned with those with wealth & power because of the 
crumbs you receive and, now with your podcast,  you seem to be 
determined to find fault with the Left at every turn. Pathetic, isn't 
it?
But it may well be the terms of the funding you are receiving for the 
podcast launch.


You seem to have forgotten your origins and moved to the extreme right 
for career advance, never tiring of praising the white man & talking of 
American
exceptionalism, heaping lavish praise on Fox News and slavishly 
submitting to the neo-con agenda.
You hold the White power elites in high regard – you need them to 
advance your career. You have to agree with whatever they say and write 
in line with their
ideology. When you criticise, you target the poor, the defenceless, the 
victims of white racism. The white settlers massacred the Native 
Americans in hundreds

of thousands but of course you never refer to this issue at all.

 Have you no original views of your own? Don’t you find any common 
cause with people of colour at all?


You may recall that in 2013/14 you pleaded guilty last year to illegally 
shelling out $20,000 in contributions in
the name of others for Republican Wendy Long’s failed 2012 bid to defeat 
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).
This led to Dinesh D’Souza having to perform a lot more community 
service for breaking campaign-finance laws than he thought, with a 
federal judge saying Monday that D’Souza
has to do eight hours each week for the entire five years he’s on 
probation and not just the eight months he was confined to a halfway 
house.


Defense attorney Ben Brafman clarified the sentence he handed down after 
D’Souza pleaded guilty last year, which means D’Souza will have to do 
over 1,600 hours more

service than he initially thought.
We’re talking about five years of eight hours a week? … This is a very 
serious impediment to obtaining full-time employment because you miss 
one day of work a
week,” Brafman said in the conference inside Berman’s robing room, as 
D’Souza listened in silently via speakerphone. “In my mind it was never 
contemplated
that the eight hours only applied to the period of home confinement,” 
Berman said, later reading out a report from a psychologist who saw 
D’Souza and then
ordering him to continue attending weekly sessions. The psychiatrist 
wrote. “The client tends to deny problems and is arrogant and intolerant 
of others’ feelings.”


So long as D’Souza stays on track with his community service, he will be 
allowed to visit his daughter in London and his elderly mom in India 
later this year (2014), Berman said.
PAMELA GELLER (President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative ) 
wrote on 15 Jul 2015
"What is being done to Dinesh D’Souza is an outrage, and all Americans 
who love freedom should be protesting.
I am no D’Souza fan. Dinesh is being hounded and punished for something 
that Democrats do every day – that’s the point.
The idea that Dinesh D’Souza would have to undergo psychological 
examination for breaking the rules is a new Stalinist mode of American 
politics."


Breitbart News reported in September 2014: “In addition to his five-year 
probation sentencing and eight months of confinement in a community 
confinement center,

 Judge Berman ordered D’Souza to undergo ‘therapeutic counselling.’”
Dinesh said: I CAM E OUT OF CONFINEMENT RATHER SHAKEN. Some of my 
idealistic assumptions about America have given way to being more alert 
about America as it is.
Not that I'm less patriotic than I was before, but rather we as 
Americans must always ask, "which America are we fighting for?"
This is not the America that the founders envisioned, and so, as a 
consequence, we need to recognize our opposition

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HOW CAN WE SAVE YOU, DINESH?
 HOW CAN WE RESTORE YOUR GOAN HUMANITY?

Eddie D'Sa (London)
+

 Eric Pinto wrote (13 Jan 2021):
 I called him a bigot whose alternate truth, or super lies, is the 
stuff of legend. I said I hoped it paid the rent: actually the 
adventures have seen millions flow into his coffers. His third sex 
object belies his early faith in 'Christian' conduct he and his friends 
sought to champion, and were not willing to credit with the church going 
Clinton, Obama and Biden.   Bible in hand Trump ?  Playboy is more like 
it !Is 

[Goanet] CAPITALIST POPES: against Democracy but for Private Property

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Giving themselves fancy titles like  'Vicar of Christ', Popes had become 
autocratic and resisted challenges to their authority. As Europe 
modernised in the 19th century, the Popes resisted these trends as 
threatening their authority. Pope
Leo XII (1823-29) forbade vaccination against smallpox as being ‘against 
natural law’
[When they Popes couldn't find a Bible passage to back their claims, 
they invoked some fictional 'natural law']


Gregory XVI (1831-46) even banned the railway in the papal states, 
calling it the hellway.
In 1832, he declared that democracy was sinful, and that freedom of the 
press was 'heretical vomit'. He also decreed that any Jew who insulted 
the Catholic religion should be killed.
Over the centuries, the Catholic Church had ensured its survival by 
siding with the ruling classes. Popes had insisted on crowning and 
dethroning European royalty.
As a result, the Church was rewarded with vast lands in Europe by royal 
patrons and in Latin America by the Christian conquerors. The Popes 
found themselves more engaged
in administering their huge estates than focusing on their spiritual 
mission.


About 1880, the US Supreme Court had made corporations ‘juridical 
persons’, a legal device that allowed them to own/hold property for 
good. Some 30 years later, the
Popes followed the US precedent and made the Church a ‘juridical person’ 
with right to hold property. Furthermore, this right was enshrined in 
Canon Law (1917).


Then came the backlash. The leaders behind the Protestant Reformation 
were the first to seize church lands. The French revolutionaries did 
likewise, declaring them to be national goods.
Then in 1848, nationalist fervour swept across Italy and a republic was 
proclaimed in 1849. The new government stripped the pope of his secular 
powers and confiscated some of the church lands.
In 1860 Italy was made a Kingdom and all the papal states were annexed. 
In 1870 Rome became the capital of Italy and the pope was confined to a 
small patch in the Vatican.
Pope IX would not resign himself to his diminished status and in 
self-pity proclaimed himself the ‘Prisoner of the Vatican’


POPE  LEO XIII’s writings
As usual with all previous popes, Leo was preoccupied with Europe and 
addressed himself to the European elites. It should borne in mind that 
what has been called
the Catholic faith was simply the set of doctrines & teachings set by 
the Europeans together their choice of Saints. Brown & Black clerics had 
no say in formulating doctrine.
wrote encyclicals expressing concern about the welfare of European 
migrants (mostly Italian) into the US but there is no record of any 
Papal concern for the

American Natives whose land & resources been grabbed by the migrants.

t was the first time that a pope had seriously addressed social 
questions. It was in response to modernist thinking and the rise of 
capitalist ideology. More than
one encyclical condemned socialism outright but there was none written 
against capitalist excesses. Colonial wars, territorial conquest and 
unequal treaties
were in full swing at the time round the globe but there was no 
encyclical rebuking or restraining European imperialists against land 
grab, colonial
brutality and naked aggression. For example, in 1885 King Leopold of 
Belgium had taken personal possession of the Congo region and some  ten 
million Congolese died collecting teak, ivory

and rubber for despatch to Belgium.
Penalties were severe for not meeting the quota by the colonial masters. 
These included the severing of hands.
Pope Leo did have diplomatic dealings with Belgium but there is no 
record that he

officially condemned King Leopold’s atrocities.

=
Eddie

Re: [Goanet] America hangs its head in shame.

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Hi Vivian,
You write like a white American. They are the ones who run the US.
Do Browns and Blacks count? What power do they have?
Why should you "hang down your head deeply in shame and agony"? What 
crimes as a brown man have you committed?


You don't seem familiar with American history. When Columbus arrived in 
the Americas, he did not come with a visa nor ask the permission of the 
Natives to settle.
The white migrants don't do that anywhere (South America or Australia) - 
they just slaughter the Natives and grab the land and their resources. 
There were some 40-50 million Natives when the white migrants arrived. 
In a matter of decades, 90% of the Natives had been slaughtered and the 
White Christians are turned the US into a Europe II.


The Americans then proceeded to build an Empire overseas, starting with 
the Philippines. The Filipinos resisted whereupon the Americans 
proceeded to slaughter them in the thousands, In some 30 years over a 
million Filipinos were killed in the early 1900s.In the Korean War 
1950-53, some 2-3 millions were slaughtered and major towns razed to the 
ground. In the Vietnam War, some 3 millions were slaughtered but the 
Americans were defeated in 1975 and had to flee.

Here's an example:
Just after dawn on March 16, 1968, a company of U.S. Army infantrymen, 
led by Capt. Ernest Medina and spearheaded by Lt. William Calley, 
entered the small hamlet of My Lai in Quang Ngai province, South 
Vietnam.
The villagers, mostly women and children, had no idea what was coming 
that day. If they had, they’d have fled.
Despite facing zero resistance and finding only a few weapons, Calley 
ordered his men to execute the entire population. In all, some 500 
Vietnamese civilians were executed, including more
than 350 women, children and babies. Other senior leaders in the chain 
of command had advised the soldiers of Charlie Company that all people 
in the
village should be considered either Viet Cong or VC supporters. Medina 
and Calley were ordered to destroy the village. They did so with  brutal 
precision and savagery.

Read more: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51736.htm

And you should know more about the US presence in the Middle East and 
the ceaseless bombings and killings.
That's the US for you, Vivian. They just love killing Brown people and 
bombing their countries.

Trump prefers to use the term migrant for Browns but settler for Whites.

Here's more to read about the US:
1. 
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/02/southeast-asia-forgets-about-western-terror/

by AndreV02 Oct 15 
The US bombed the whole of Laos, earning the nickname: “The most bombed 
country on earth”.


2. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48167.htm
08 Nov 17 U.S. Spent $5.6 Trillion Killing People in Middle East and 
Asia: Study
The U.S. has been fighting in and bombing several countries in the 
Middle East and Asia for 16 years.


3. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46188.htm
10Jan17   In 2016, US dropped 3 bombs every hour
In 2016, US special operators could be found in 70% of the world’s 
nations, 138 countries.


4. 
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/07/afghanistan-small-western-lies-huge-impact/07 
Apr 17
After more than 15 years of brutal Western occupation, Afghanistan 
appears to be thoroughly ruined.
Not only in terms of its infrastructure and standards of living, and not 
only when it comes to all basic indicators like life expectancy (15th 
lowest in the world, according to

the WHO, 2015)

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One can go on but has to stop somewhere.
Eddie

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-- Original Message --
From: "Vivian A. DSouza" 
To: "goanet@lists.goanet.org" 
Sent: Thursday, 7 Jan, 21 At 14:51
Subject: [Goanet] America hangs its head in shame.

As a citizen of the United Sates of  America I hang my head deeply in 
shame and agony, to see what is going on in Washington DC, the place I 
called home for over 3 decades.  We Americans owe an apology to the 
entire world for this terrible example that the world's leading 
democracy is showing the world.  What worries me most is that the 
unstable and irrational so called leader of the free world is so 
mentally unbalanced, that in the 13 days leading to the change in 
leadership, he might  take some irrational decisions. To think that this 
idiot has his finger on the nuclear button has gotten me terrified.  He 
can start a war or do some other irrational act. I dont know what 
options that the two other branches of Government, - the Judiciary and 
the Legislative Branch have, to control this  irrational behavior. 
These are not the actions of a sane person, but someone who has gone off 
his rocker.  God Bless America !

[Goanet] OUR POPES: WHAT THEY THOUGHT OF BROWN AND BLACK PEOPLE

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The Popes are supposed to be men of God, compassionate and 
understanding.
Instead, many were corrupt, kept mistresses, even a harem. Elections 
were often rigged by bribery (simony).

One Pope (Benedict XI) was elected when he was just 11.

To get a feel for power, the Popes took on a number of titles like 
‘Supreme Pontiff’, ‘Vicar of Christ’, ‘Successor of the Apostles’, 
‘Primate of Italy’…


The worst acted more like ruthless politicians, making decisions on the 
fate of distant peoples they had never seen.
 POPE NICHOLAS V issued a bull (edict) around 1454 blatantly backing 
conquest and dispossession – here is an extract:
“After careful deliberation, we have conceded to King Afonso (of 
Portugal) the total and absolute right, to invade, conquer and subdue 
all the countries under the
rule of the enemies of Christ, Muslim or pagan. We wish the said King , 
the Prince and their successors to occupy and possess exclusively the 
said islands,

ports and seas…”
Here was the ‘Vicar of Christ’ openly sanctioning the subjugation of 
non-Christian peoples by force and takeover of their lands.



 The   dissolute ALEXANDER VI (1492-1503) took it upon himself to 
divide  the New World between Spain and Portugal.
His bull of 1493 authorised “barbarous nations be invaded and brought to 
the faith.”

This was the Pope who consorted with prostitutes and sired 10 children.

His successor, JULIUS  II (1503-13) issued a bull granting the Spanish 
Crown the right to collect all taxes in the Americas in perpetuity!


Between 1500 and 1660, 185,000 kg of gold and 16 million kg of silver 
arrived in Spain.
The total European reserves quadrupled and contributed greatly to 
Europe’s economic development. Reportedly
the dissolute ALEXANDER VI (1492-1503) used the first gold brought from 
the Americas to decorate the ceiling of the Santa Maria Maggiore church.


 LEO X (1513-21) was full of praise for Portugal’s conquests. He 
presented a sword to King Manuel with the words:
“Receive this warlike sword in your victorious hands. With this, you 
will wage under the most happy auspices…
May you use force and power against the fury of the infidels… and bring 
back abundant spoils and triumphs.”

No question of rebuking the conquerors for theft.

Pope LEO XIII (1878-1903) wrote at a time when colonialism was in full 
swing but he makes no mention of colonial atrocities.
Africans are described by LEO as “that wretched part of the human race”. 
The teachings of Christ will “release it from the superstition and 
misery

in which it has been mired for so long.” (Encyclical SA 1890, para 3).

Native Americans to LEO were barely human before the Europeans came.
It was the Europeans who raised them “from a state of blindness to the 
common level of the human race, from savagery to gentleness and 
humanity” (C4 1892, section 1).
These Native Americans are “a mighty multitude cloaked in miserable 
darkness, given over to evil rites and the superstitious worship of vain 
gods.
(They live) in a barbarous state and with savage manners; (and they) 
lack the knowledge of the one true God.” (CA 1892, sect 4)


Hindus attract LEO's attention in NC 1893: here he lauds FRACIS XAVIER:
“he converted  hundreds of thousands of Hindus from the myths and vile 
superstitions of the Brahmans to the true religion...”


Writing to the American bishops (C4
1892), the Pope describes the exploits of COLUMBUS  as
“this immortal achievement…  the highest and grandest ever accomplished 
by man…”

 “The prestige of the Europe was marvellously increased…
Those countries hitherto uncultivated and inaccessible have made such 
rapid strides in civilisation, wealth and fame…”


Not a word about the crimes of massacre and dispossession of the 
natives.
The Europeans by the million were settling in the Americas after a 
massive land grab.
LEO continues “The whole world is eager to celebrate the memory of the 
event and glorify its
author.” Surely, he means the European world.  Columbus is ours and the 
propagation of the Catholic faith was his strongest motive for his 
expedition …
(He had to) bear the sufferings (from)  the adverse opinions of the 
learned, fights with savages, criminal conspiracies…”.


In contrast to the Catholic Pope’s patently racist view, the US Council 
of Churches on the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ trip condemned the 
“discovery” as
“as invasion and colonization with legalized occupation, genocide, 
economic exploitation, institutional racism and moral decadence.”
And called for “a year of repentance and reflection rather than 
celebration.”


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Shouldn't we ashamed of these Catholic Popes and disown them?

Eddie






































In contrast the Catholic
Pope’s patently racist view, the US Council
of Churches on the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ trip 
condemned

the “discovery” as “as invasion and colonization with legalized
occupation, genocide, economic exploitation, 

[Goanet] CAPITALISM & THE POPES 1. Colonialism

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Capitalism is about wealth accumulation and the Europeans started 
accumulating other peoples' resources in earnest following the arrival 
of Columbus in the Americas in 1492. They had the advantage of ship 
building and armaments.
Much of Europe’s wealth came about through colonialism, massive land 
grabs (all of the Americas, Australia and NZ) and the genocide & 
dispossession of the natives.


In 1452, Before Columbus’ voyage, Pope Nicholas V had allowed Portugal 
to enslave Africans for conversion to Christianity. This encouraged the 
Portuguese to enslave for trade purposes and the enslaved Africans were 
taken

to Brazil, a Portuguese colony.
But the use of African Labour in the Americas really got under way after 
Columbus’s voyage. Within 25 years, Columbus started his murder spree.
The Taino Indians on the island where Columbus first settled were 
reduced by 95% from 300,000 in 1492 to 12,000 by 1517, a pattern which 
was to be repeated throughout the Americas.
A massive amount of gold and silver was shipped to Europe and some of it 
even used to decorate the Churches in the Vatican.


How did the Popes view the adventure of Columbus?
They were thrilled:
Pope Leo XIII writing to the American bishops (C4 1892), waxed eloquent 
over the exploit of Columbus 400 years earlier:
He described it as  "this immortal achievement…  the highest and 
grandest ever accomplished by man…"
 "Through the constant interchange of business and ocean trade, an 
incredible addition was made to our knowledge of nature while the 
prestige of the European name was
marvellously increased… Those countries hitherto uncultivated and 
inaccessible have made such rapid strides in civilisation, wealth and 
fame…"


Not a thought was spared for the plight of the natives.
Pope Leo continued "The whole world is eager to celebrate the memory of 
the event and glorify its author."

He obviously meant the European world.

More recently, in the 1980s, Spain and the Holy See (Vatican) proposed 
to the UN General Assembly that the year 1992 (5th centenary of 
Columbus’ arrival in the New World)
be celebrated as an encounter between Europe and the peoples of America, 
with Europeans bearing the gifts of civilisation and Christianity to the 
indigenous people.
The settler states of US and Canada supported the proposal but the 
entire African delegation walked out of the meeting, returning with a 
statement condemning the proposal to celebrate
colonialism. The celebrations flopped thanks to many highly visible 
protests by indigenous peoples and their allies.

===
Eddie

[Goanet] HEALTH CENTRE: BJP malevolence at work

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On Dec 25, 2020, Advocate Aires Rodrigues wrote:
 "Despite a categorical assurance by three top ministers Union Minister 
Shripad Naik, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant & Health Minister Vishwajit 
Rane that a 30 bedded Health Care Centre would be set up at the Old 
Ribandar Hospital, Naik’s Ayush Ministry is expeditiously setting up a 
Yoga Centre when our actual requirement is a 24X7 trauma unit with all 
medical assistance...   ...   ..."


Amazing that these three top ministers can coolly abuse their power by 
switching from an agreed project to a Hindu-biased alternative. They are 
thereby confirming common allegations of BJP malevolence and treachery. 
Even on health issues, the babus seem to lack basic ethics and 
compassion.
More generally, these BJP babus (especially Modi’s ministers) seem to be 
peasants at heart, driven by emotion and unfamiliar with the norms of 
logic and rational thinking. Because Hindi is a relatively primitive 
language, the babus are forced to think in English and from time to time 
mumble impressive sounding phrases like 'democracy', ‘sedition’ but 
can’t elaborate. Sometime ago, Modi advocated ‘modernity’ but couldn’t 
expand – either he doesn’t understand the concept or cannot explain it 
in English.


To return to Aires, has he, as a legal professional, confronted any of 
the Ministers on the matter?


Eddie

[Goanet] WILL INDIA'S PRESIDENT CLARIFY?

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Aires, you should know by now that most of India's top officials 
(Presidents, Prime Ministers and the like) are an undereducated lot and 
underachievers. In fact, President Manmohan Singh was awarded the title 
of THE UNDERACHIEVER by Time Magazine. July 2012.


Don't expect brilliance and scholarly insights  from them, especially if 
they have graduated from some of India's hundreds of third rate 
Universities.


In India's moribund intellectual culture, high officials are allowed to 
offer erudite sounding opinions without evidence or to enter into 
weighty discourse without adhering to basic logic or rational norms.


Thus Modi in an attempt to explain the Hindu god Ganesha's features 
speculated that some high-powered surgeons in those heady Vedic days 
were skilled enough to attach an elephant trunk to a human face. He left 
it at that. He also added that Hindu aircraft engineers in those days 
could achieve interplanetary travel.


That's the status of BJP Hindu Science.
When Modi speaks, no challenge is allowed.

Eddie

-- Original Message --

From: "Aires Rodrigues" 

To: "goanet" 

Sent: Sunday, 20 Dec, 20 At 11:45

Subject: [Goanet] WILL THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA CLARIFY?



Yesterday it was preposterous to hear the President of India Ram Nath 
Kovind make a public statement that he has been influenced by Goa’s 
forests and beaches.




Could the President of India please tell us which beaches and forests of 
Goa he has cared to visit which have influenced him.








Twitter@rodrigues_aires











www.airesrodrigues.com

[Goanet] BEEF Imbroglio in Goa

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No beef today, thebutchers gone away? …….seems to be the common refrain in Goa 
since the short supply beginning of this month. 

But the groundreality is otherwise  … 

The 48 member (excludingtwo constituencies, one in Sancoale, candidate declared 
unopposed, and theother in Navelim owing to  death of acandidate)  Zilla 
Panchayat elections onpolitical party lines  were held on Saturday,12 December, 
2020.  

Politicalentities  are known to whip up emotiveissues and what better means 
now, subtle polarisation of votes has stood thetest ..Dont we know that  when 
there is apolitician at one end there is an idiot at another. 

Despite the beefscare splashed out in local vernacular dailies the ruling 
dispensation came outin flying colors following declaration of results on 14th 
December,2020   

However lets ponder a little beyond.  Beef supplies in Goa is sourced from 
Karnatakanotably Belgavi (Belgaum). 

Now the Karnataka legislative Assembly got a newstringent Bill viz the 
Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation ofCattle bill 2020 passed on 
9th December,2020 but ONLY  in the Legislative Assembly because the rulingBJP 
government has a majority.  

But in its  bicameral legislature,  its upper House viz the Karnataka 
LegislativeCouncil the ruling dispensation  did nothave a majority hence 
passage of the bill failed on 15th December, 2020

It must be noted that the  theearlier Karnataka Prevention of Cow Slaughter and 
Cattle Prevention Act 1964which banned ONLY slaughter of cows and calf, she 
buffaloes and allowed slaughterof others above 12 years aged unfit for  any use 
but for consumption; The new bill if passed  and notified   will ban the 
slaughter transportation and sale  of  beef in its entirety  

So what happens to the tannery, tourism  industry, and those beef traders  
theirworkmen and a section of the non vegetarian  consumers  etc  

Thus the  question remains now.  Will the Govt of Karnataka resort to 
anordinance route  or wait for the nextAssembly session to debate the pros and 
cons by referring the Bill to a Selectcommittee et al. 

Needless to say  it is a whole gamut of issues to be addressedand the Govt of 
the day is sensitive to this issue.

Hence one could believe that there is a politicalovertone in the introduction 
and part passage of this bill  if the other  political developments in the 
neighboring state of Karnataka is taken into account

In a two phase election  nearly 5762 GramPanchayats (no elections will be held 
in some -- owing to their belated termend or their upgradation fully or 
partially or owing to litigation  ) in the State of Karnataka go to the 
pollsfrom  Tuesday 22nd December,2020.
The ruling dispensation in Karnataka  can ill afford to miss this opportunity 
toconsolidate their base. In a caste riddled vote bank.  Emotive issues like 
ban on cow slaughter provides for soft polarization which now seems to be  the 
norm withdevelopment thrown in as carrot by almost  all political parties 
Hence post elections in the humble opinion of thiswriter having spoken to 
several persons in the neighbouring State the beef flowwill resume well before 
the festive season. Lets keep our fingers crossed.

As at the time of writing the Secretary(Agriculture & Animal Husbandry) Govt of 
Goa when contacted telephonicallyconfirmed that no communiqué has been received 
banning the sale or transportation  of beef in theState except for the news in 
the print and visual media. Besides the traders are already anticipating the 
worst and have reason to take stock and plan for the future.
In the meanwhile supplies of beef to the Statecontinues, to certain outlets 
from other destinations notably Mumbai and evenNew Delhi.
GODFREY J I GONSALVEScyberjourno social activist, Borda, Margao Salcette Goa 
India HELPLINE +91 9822158584 (24 hrs)gonsalvesgodfre...@yahoo.co.in 

[Goanet] Celebrating "60th Anniversary" Liberation Day .... A YEAR TOO EARLY!!!

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Hi Mr Cleaver,

In your message to the Government of Goa, you have used used the phrase 
'fucking idiot(s)' three times.
Is that common practice in UK  and would you address Boris Johnson's 
government the same way over a silly mistake?


Eddie
===
-- Original Message --
From: "David Cleaver" 
Dear Government of Goa,
According to my information, Goa is on the eve of celebrating its 60th 
anniversary of Liberation Day.


But according to my reliable maths, Goa was liberated from the 
Portuguese
on December 19th, 1961  *which is precisely 59 years from 
tomorrow!!*

Therefore, please could someone kindly explain the following:-
(1) *Which fucking idiot is responsible for the original kindergarden 
maths error?*
(2) *Which other fucking idiots did not realise that he / she had made a 
massive mistake?*

(3) You set of fucking idiots  all of you!!
David N. Cleaver
(UK)

[Goanet] GOA LIBERATION DAY 59th anniversary

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   - On 31st December, 1974 i.e over 45  years ago the Indo-Portuguese  treaty 
was signed. Portugal  recognised the full sovereignity of India over then Goa 
Daman & Diu besides Dadra Nagar Haveli . Hence whether Goa, Daman & Diu besides 
Dadra Nagar Haveli was annexed, liberated, conquered  on 19th December, 1961 
after 451 years of Portuguese rule commencing on 25th November 1510 is akin to 
a freedom fighter in one country being labelled a terrorist by the other
   - The visit of President of India R Venkatraman to Portugal in 1990 and 
visit of his counter part Mario Soares to India in 1992 has further sealed the 
distrust between the two nations
   - The only valid point which in the humble opinion of this writer can 
continue as a  point for arm chair debate is how could a country like India  
adopt armed intervention over the Portuguese dominions which existed 440 years  
before India became a Republic in 1950.
   - Thus before the emergence of the NEW INDIA on 15th August, 2022 lets us 
usher in a new era in Goa with a changed mindset. 
   - History will always be recorded at various foras but thats all
Godfrey J. I. Gonsalvessocial activist, cyber-journoBorda Margao Goa India +91 
9822158584 (24hrs)

[Goanet] Berlin Conference 1884-85 and Israeli atrocities against children

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Thanks, Adolfo, for your interest in colonial & imperial issues. I 
thought I was the only one interested.
The Berlin Conference (Nov 1884 - Feb 1885) was convened to formalise 
the Scramble for Africa and to settle territorial disputes flaring up in 
the Congo.
King Leopold II of Belgium had claimed the Congo as his personal fiefdom 
and promptly set about extracting rubber, ivory and teakwood for onward 
despatch to Brussels.
The actual extraction was done by the native Congolese. Workers were 
assigned a certain quota daily for rubber and if it was not met, the 
worker's hands were hacked off.
(I would have included an image of severed hands but GoaNet does not 
allow images. Pity.)


Not only was a natural resource looted but it was forcibly done by 
native hands. That was the European way of colonial enrichment.
Nearly 10 million natives died from harsh conditions and punishment but 
Brussels became a thriving capital.
A similar case occurred in Potosi in Bolivia, South America. The Spanish 
marauders had discovered a huge silver mine.
The natives were forced to extract the silver and transfer it to the 
ships waiting to transport it to Spain.

In the process, some 10 million natives died.
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I'll stop at this point and return briefly to the narrative of the 
Palestine children mistreated or killed by the Israelis from the year 
2000. Coinciding with International Children's Day on 1 June 2012, the 
Palestinian Ministry of Information reported that 1,456 Palestinian 
children had been shot dead by Israelis since the Aqsa Uprising started 
in late 2000. The ministry pointed out that all Palestinian children are 
still subjected to constant abuse and attacks by Israeli occupation 
forces and illegal Jewish settlers across the occupied Palestinian 
territories. Dozens have been arrested by Israel in a campaign of 
harassment in the occupied West Bank. Children in Palestine make up 52 
per cent of the population. As well as almost 1,500 being killed since 
2000, around 5,000 children have been injured and 215 are being held in 
Israeli prisons; 175 have been arrested since the beginning of 2012.


In an average year, between 500 and 700 Palestinian children are 
‘arrested’ (read: kidnapped) by IDF terrorists. In most cases, they are 
asleep in their beds when these
terrorists break into their homes and drag them out to waiting vehicles. 
Their parents are not told where they are being taken; they are often 
held for weeks
or months without charge, and without access to parents or lawyers. 
Multiple sources report that children as young as 11 are arrested, held 
and tortured in Israeli jails.


Where is the international outrage? Why does the United States not only 
stand quietly by, but actually finance the activities of this criminal 
regime, to the tune of
$9 million every day of the year? Why are the lives of three Israel 
teenagers, living in settlements that the entire world recognizes are in 
violation of international
law, worth so much more attention that the hundreds of Palestinian 
children arrested and tortured every year?


Eddie
==

-- Original Message --
From: "Adolfo Mascarenhas" 
To: goa...@goanet.org; "Frederick Noronha" 
; "adrian fernandes" 
; "Gregory Almeida" ; "BT 
Yahoo Mail" ; "Vivian A. DSouza" 


Sent: Tuesday, 15 Dec, 20 At 19:35
Subject: Least We Forget The Berlin Conference of 1884

   I was wondering how  many Goans would be interested in your message 
.   Let me begin  by thankingIvan D Pereira and yourself.  Its so 
linked with Eddies contribution about Palestinian Children imprisoned by 
the State of Israel I listened to the entire presentation ..the 
Brutality in the name of civilization :::White Of course:::Several 
aspects struck me The German who were late in getting colonies 
compared to the British and French ..took a Massive chunk in East 
Africa, included Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi...nearly a million sqkm 
The Maji Maji Uprising in German East Africa, like The Herero 
Massacre in SW Africa (was the first genocide of the 20th century:)  It 
caught the German Administration by Surprise but they retaliated with 
savagery   thousands were mowed down countless others just starved ...8 
years later A decade later WW I and thousands more died.  For some years 
I heard a Africans talking about using drums to send messages  Herero 
People all the way to Tanzania . The British Supported Portugal 
...who in the 16 Century divided the world into two parts Excepting 
Brazil, the East was Portugal's and Latin America for the Spanish:Is 
History Repeating ...

  To Be Continued

[Goanet] 149th Birth Anniversary of Joao Agostinho Fernandes

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In a brief function, this morning, the 149th Birth anniversary of Joao 
Agostinho Fernandes "Pai tiatrist', was celebrated at the Ravindra Bhavan here 
in Margao, Salcete Goa.
The function began with the garlanding of the portrait of Joao Agostinho 
Fernandes.  Speeches eulogizing the role of Joao Agostinho Fernandes  by Shri 
Damu Naik ex MLA Fatorda, Chairman Ravindra Bhavan, Vice President, Tiatr 
Academy of Goa Mr. Mario Menezes   
 Dignitaries on the dais were Vice President, Tiatr Academy of Goa, Mr. Mario 
Menezes,Shri Damu Naik ex MLA Fatorda, Chairman Ravindra Bhavan, Mr. Prassana 
Acharya, Member Secretary, Ravindra Bhavan  , Ceaser Fernandes Member Secretary 
Tiatr Academy of Goa,Sharmila Fernandes grand daughter of Joao Agostinho 
Fernandes
Soccoro de Santa Cruz compered the function, Ceaser Fernandes Member Secretary 
Tiatr Academy of Goa,  proposed the vote of thanks.
Prominent members of the tiatr fraternity who graced the ocassion were tiatrist 
Mr. Roseferns, Mr Joe Rose, Mr. Osvy Viegas, Mr. Connie M, and others

According to a communique received  by this writer  from Vice Chairman, TAG Mr 
Menezes,   in view of the Code of Conduct in force owing to the ensuing  Zilla 
Panchayat elections  the official function would be held  at the Ravindra 
Bhavan auditorium only on Thursday 17th December, 2020 at 1530 hrs.  the 
program for that day will be presentation of the Life Time Achievement awards 
2020 for Commercial tiatr and Life Time Achievement awards 2020  for Khel 
tiatrs. This will be followed by a cultural programe by Tony de Ribandar. 
It is also confirmed that on this ocassion  Deputy Chief Minister of Goa, Shri 
Babu Kavlekar,has consented to be  the Chief Guest, veteran tiatrist Sabina 
Fernandes will be the Guest of Honour and Ms. Sharmila Fernandes will be the 
Special invitee.  
 
GODFREY J I GONSALVEScyberjourno & social activist, Borda Margao Goa +91 
9822158584 gonsalvesgodfre...@yahoo.co.in

[Goanet] Palestinian children held in solitary confinement by Israel

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Israeli authorities routinely detain Palestinian children in isolation 
solely for interrogation purposes, a practice that amounts to torture or 
cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, Defense for 
Children International - Palestine said in a report released today.The 
73-page report, “Isolated and Alone: Palestinian children held in 
solitary confinement by Israeli authorities for interrogation,” 
evaluates and details patterns of arrest, detention conditions, and 
interrogation practices by Israeli authorities. The report concludes 
that the physical and social isolation of Palestinian children for 
interrogation purposes by Israeli authorities is a practice that 
constitutes solitary confinement, amounting to torture or cruel, 
inhuman, or degrading treatment under international law norms.

Read more:
Israel’s isolation of Palestinian child prisoners amounts to torture 
(informationclearinghouse.info)


Eddie

[Goanet] US Republican Romance with the Evangelicals

[BT Yahoo Mail]

The Americans (mostly Republicans) have a sick obsession with the 
Evangelicals. Watch their reaction after their patron Trump lost the 
elections.

Here's the link:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiXeK7mz1yk

Eddie

[Goanet] Goa scenes

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Rajan says he was amused by the Goan obsession with Trump. The fact is, 
Rajan, that Goans have been subliminally missing an  authentic leader 
who would be true to the Goan ethos, much of it Catholic.
Rajan rightly said that Goans would have loved "someone who stood for 
preserving the land, our identity, and asserting the primacy of Goans in 
their own homeland. Instead, we got 'leaders' who sold us out for a few 
pieces of silver. "
Well said. But then what can we expect from that pathetic BJP trio - 
Modi, Shah and Yogi?

More about gods and godmen, cows and caste.

Eddie






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[Goanet] TRUMP the UNREPENTANT RACIST

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Thanks, George, for that bold & brilliant post from Mehdi Hasan. I 
didn't have his email, so couldn't copy this to him.
He is a remarkable writer and has written on a range of subjects with a 
refreshingly original perspective.
We Goans, on the other hand, can go no further than call Trump 'worst', 
'liar, 'narcissist' and such, and then return to our masses and novenas 
(in a manner of speaking).
I guess we have been helpless victims of our colonial history, unable to 
fight back.


In contrast, Trump or any western leader is usually a WHITE man securely 
protected by privilege and unflinching loyalty of other whites. These 
whites, all from Europe, came without visas and grabbed the whole 
American land mass by the gun - the Anglos took the North & the Latins 
the South. They turned the Americas into Europe II. The Natives were 
slaughtered by the million and the Church (brought in by the same Euros) 
did not object. The Euros believed theirs was the one true religion and 
that it was their duty to convert all the Browns into Christians.


Pope Nicholas V decided to give   Portugal full backing for   imperial 
conquest and issued a Papal Bull (decree) issued  about 1454.

Here's an extract:
“Our joy is immense to know that our dear son, Henry, Prince of 
Portugal, inspired   with a zeal for souls has brought into the Catholic 
fold the perfidious

  enemies of God and Christ like the Saracens and Infidels...“
"After   careful deliberation, we have conceded to King Affonso the 
right, total   and absolute, to invade, conquer and subdue all the 
countries under the rule

  of the enemies of Christ, Saracen or pagan."
“We   wish the said King Affonso, the Prince and their successors to 
occupy and   possess exclusively the said islands, ports and seas and 
all faithful

  Christians are prohibited to encroach on their sovereignty…”

What arrogance from the European leader of the Catholic Church. Not a 
thought is spared for the wishes of millions of brown indigenous 
inhabitants of the region with their own beliefs and culture. They are 
assumed to be an ignorant, godless mass to be 'saved' and brought to the 
true European faith called Christianity.


Racism got built into the political and religious framework. As a 
result, European leaders in the many states of the Americas had no 
qualms in insulting and looting the browns and blacks. No media outlet 
would rebuke the White leaders, no Church would condemn them.


Most of the whites voted for Trump in the hope that Whites would 
continue to rule by majority.
But fortunately, the US demographics are changing and it is the votes of 
the Blacks & Browns that led to Trump's defeat.

More shocks for the Whites are to come.

Eddie

=

-- Original Message --
From: "George Pinto" 
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" 
Sent: Saturday, 28 Nov, 20 At 16:56
Subject: [Goanet] Baby Trump

Donny Trump, at his baby desk, threw his typical baby tantrum. Here is 
the worst President in history in 2 minutes




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVwfJ9n1wLc_channel=TheChoice

I wonder if New York state will send him to jail based on the cases they 
are handling.


On Saturday, November 28, 2020, 05:59:09 AM PST, Roland Francis 
 wrote:

Unless you are the mafia, one never demands respect, one earns it.
This man Trump, a serial liar and narcissist, earns nothing but scorn, 
ridicule and contempt from any decent person.


Roland Francis

416-453-3371

[Goanet] CONQUEST of GOA 1510

[Yahoo!Mail]

Goa -- was conquered 510 yearsago by the Portuguese on 25.11.1510; after their 
unsuccessful attempt inFebruary/ March of the same year.  

It was the Feast of St Catherinein whose memory a small church now in disuse 
and abandoned lies at Old Goa. 
For many of those who profess propagate ‘Goem, Goemkar and Goemkarponn’ but 
lack in practice  theyshould stand advised, to record this date, as well, as a 
red letter date   in the history of Goa.  The others significant dates 
being16th January 1967 ---Opinion Poll day .The  4th February 1987 --- 
officiallanguage (Konkani) recognition day ( but still suffers a mischievous 
insertion inthe Act  by the Gaud Saraswat Brahmin GSB political lobby at the 
last minute, of words ….. in Devnagari script ….without addingRoman script ) 
Hence its later day inclusion inthe Eight Schedule of the Constitution of India 
on 20th August, 1992  is to date a misnomer.
Finally 19th December,1961  (call it annexation/liberation- fornow that’s 
history) .

GODFREY J I GONSALVES cyber journo,social activist,St Joaquim Rd., Borda, 
Margao Goa INDIA +91 9822158584 (24 hrs)

[Goanet] Remembering REGINA FERNANDES the first lady on tiatr stage

[Yahoo!Mail]

Sincethe inception of tiatr, on   17thApril, 1892, i.e 128 years ago, the role 
of a woman was doned exclusively  by males. Woman  dared not venture  on any 
suchpublic platform  for fear  of social stigma and ostracisation from society.

Itwas Joao Agostinho Fernandes (b 14.12.1871   d 29.08.1947)the Father of 
Tiatr, who broke this tradition.  He got his first wife Regina ( b 16.11.1880 d 
20.12.1908 ) a native of Raia, Salcette,Goa just 24 years of  age. to act 
onstage, in his own tiatr –Bhatkara-  onthis  red letter day  22ndNovember, 
1904   Unfortunately she died young, at barely 28 yrsof age.  

Hencetiatr artists  owe a homage  to the memory of this great lady who  broke 
the social taboos and thereby provided females   an opportunity on  tiatrstage. 
The feast of St. Cecilia the Patron St of Tiatrist is also beingcelebrated on 
this day.

Onecan visit her matrimonial house – now –the over 150 years modest   HOUSE 
OFPAI TIATRIST – Joao Agostinho Fernandes – behind Holy Spirit Church, 
Modsai,Margao, Goa, India wherein Joao Agostinho Fernandes’ second wife viz  
the sister ofRegina also lived .

TheHouse is open to public for viewing and interaction, with the present 
soleoccupant the grand-daughter Sharmila Fernandes and her two teenaged 
childrenSonali and Sannil Satish Sawant live.


GODFREY J I GONSALVES cyber journo,social activist,St Joaquim Rd., Borda, 
Margao Goa INDIA +91 9822158584

[Goanet] COVID-19 linked with MENTAL ILLNESS

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Many COVID-19 survivors are likely to be at greater risk of developing 
mental illness, psychiatrists said on Monday, after LARGE STUDY found 
20% of those infected with the coronavirus are diagnosed with a 
psychiatric disorder within 90 days.
Anxiety, depression and insomnia were most common among recovered 
COVID-19 patients in the study who developed mental health problems, and 
the researchers also found significantly higher risks of dementia, a 
brain impairment condition.
"People have been worried that COVID-19 survivors will be at greater 
risk of mental health problems, and our findings ... show this to be 
likely," said Paul Harrison, a professor of psychiatry at Britain's 
Oxford University.


Read more:
https://news.trust.org/item/20201109223535-4db5n

Eddie

[Goanet] ARUNDHATI ROY SPEAKS

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Is there such a thing as a Hindu intellectual? Hindus have never had an 
intellectual tradition like the Chinese.


Intellectual inquiry and scholarship was held back by the caste system 
that handed authority to the Brahmins (priestly caste)
who exercised authority over the others. In addition, essential records 
were not maintained by the rulers.


Then at the start of the Second Millennium, Hindustan was subject to a 
stream on invasions from the North West by sporadic Muslim groups.
Then in the 16th century, the Mughals took over much of the country for 
nearly 300 years and they were followed by the British for another 200 
years.


As a result, Hindus had no opportunities for governance and acquired few 
skills in science or engineering. So their expertise in building complex 
structures was limited.
The people sought consolation from their epics (Ramayana & Mahabharata) 
and in religious rituals.

Temples and gurus became dominant influences.

The caste system was in force and the lower castes were subject to 
severe discrimination.
Gruesome practices like Sati were  imposed on Hindu women: widows had to 
immolate themselves on their husband’s pyre. It was left to the British 
to eradicate this barbarous practice.


There was little interest in scientific inquiry or philosophical 
thinking. No intellectual base to construct theories and ideologies.  No 
formal education systems nor institutions for scholarly discourse were 
set

up. And therefore no innovation, no invention.

Abu al-Biruni (c973-1048), a Persian scholar had accompanied the invader 
Mahmud of Ghazni (998-1030) and he observed Hindu ways. He wrote“The so 
called
scientific theorems of the Hindus are in a state of utter confusion, 
devoid of any logical order and always mixed up with huge numbers and 
all kinds of religious dogmas…"


Arundhati Roy has commented extensively on India. In her book, The Cost 
of Living (Modern Library, 1999), she wrote:
”On the world arena, India is paid scant attention and remains one of 
the most misunderstood and uncelebrated countries on earth.
The Indian elites have long been frustrated & their egos bruised by 
their failure to meet with the American and European elites on equal 
terms and to earn the respect they crave…"


More recently, Ms Roy had this to say:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1319901310989312002

-
Eddie

[Goanet] AMNESTY International FORCED TO HALT WORK IN INDIA

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Amnesty International has suspended its work in India after Modi’s 
government froze the group's bank accounts over alleged fundraising 
violations.


It has been the target of an “incessant witch hunt” by Modi's regime for 
its work, including campaigning for the rights of citizens in the 
disputed territory of Kashmir and documenting police abuses.


The group has been hounded by Indian investigators for the past two 
years, is regularly vilified in the government-backing media and was 
finally forced to lay off staff members in what it described as a 
growing climate of repression.


“For a movement that has done nothing but raise its voices against 
injustice, this latest attack is akin to freezing dissent,” Avinash 
Kumar, executive director of Amnesty International India, said in a 
statement.


Read more: 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/amnesty-international-halts-work-in-india-blaming-government-witch-hunt/ar-BB19wZzQ


Eddie

[Goanet] Christian Leader of the western world (a billionaire) paid little tax over the years.

[BT Yahoo Mail]

President Donald Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and the 
same amount in 2017, and paid no taxes at all in several previous years, 
largely because his business empire has reported losing more money than 
it made, according to a new report in The New York Times.
In a story posted Sunday afternoon, The Times said it had obtained 
tax-return data for Trump and his businesses covering much of the last 
two decades. Trump has refused to release his tax returns - making him 
the only president in recent history to do so - and he went to the 
Supreme Court earlier this year to stop Congress and the Manhattan 
District Attorney from accessing them.


Read more: 
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trump-avoided-paying-income-taxes-for-years-report-2301940


Eddie

[Goanet] THE WONDERS OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Three Bills were (deemed) passed without voting, despite demand for 
voting.

Yet another first!
During the proceedings, the Rajya Sabha TV was switched off, just like 
that.

Hence no record!

In Rajya Sabha two very important bills were passed by a voice vote. No 
discussion at all!
And when the opposition asked for a review of the bills in a select 
committee it was denied. When they asked for a counting of votes and not 
a voice vote it was denied and the proceedings were not allowed to be 
seen live with the Rajya Sabha TV shut off during that period.. Now is 
this Democracy Mr.Modi?  Why are such extremely important bills which 
impact the entire farming community and all the people of the country 
rushed and passed in just one day?  Where was the discussion with farmer 
groups?


And here is the reason why farmers across India are opposing these bills 
and which each and every Indian must do:
The govt.is removing all limits on storing of commodities which means 
big players like Reliance and Walmart can buy in bulk and hoard and sell 
at their whims and fancies.It will eliminate the kirana shop guys and 
the bandiwalahs of subzi mandis. And thr two farm bills will remove 
government's role in protecting farmers from traders. Till date whether 
a trader buys in Mandis or outside they had to pay taxes and provide 
proof of how much they purchased. Now if they buy in Mandis they still 
pay taxes but if they buy outside they don't have to pay taxes. So govt 
also has no responsiblity towards such trade and besides it will 
encourage traders to buy outside mandis. Therefore there is no 
protection or greivance redressal mechanism.
These Farm Bills were passed without any debate, without any select 
committee  approval, without any discussions with Farmers or their 
Representatives.


The two bills are:
1. The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce Bill
Simply put, this bill allows farmers to sell their produce to private 
players who are then allowed to stock and sell it into the market as per 
their business strategies.

2. The Farmers Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services
This bill allows Corporates to get into agreements of Corporate Farming 
with the farmers directly.
These bills basically  allow Corporates to buy and sell as per their 
business goals.


Forwarded by Eddie.

[Goanet] Fwd: Pranab Da : A doyen leaves us

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Anish, you have lavished fulsome praise on India's former President 
Pranab Mukerjee but what are the achievements that merited the praise?


You say: 'The passing away of former President Pranab Mukherjee is a 
huge loss to Indian politics'. What on earth does this mean? Indian 
politics is just a morass of unstoppable corrupt practices and a third 
of sitting MPs are tainted by a criminal background, if not convictions.
You say: 'Mukherjee's contribution towards nation building is something 
that will never be forgotten.' How exactly did he contribute? You seem 
to find it safer to speak in generalities.
'He also contributed extensively towards his home state of West Bengal.' 
How? Again no specifics.
'His excellent knowledge of Parliamentary matters is something very few 
present day politicians can match.' What knowledge and how do you 
measure 'excellent'?


 Anish, the fact is that this Mukerjee fellow was quite undistinguished 
and in fact mediocre like most of the Indian leaders.
So what did he do sitting in that huge mansion Raj Bhavan built by the 
British for their Viceroys?

Here a few things he did do:
According to the Hindu, 09 Sep 12, the President arrived at a 
traditional reception and drove up to Tirumala, the abode of Lord 
Venkateswara. On his first visit here after assuming high office, Mr.

Mukherjee will offer prayers at the crack of dawn on Sunday.
PTI 14 Oct 12 reported that 'President Pranab Mukherjee will perform 
Durga Puja at his ancestral home in Miriti in West Bengal.
He will reach his home on October 20. He will perform the Puja from 
October 20 to October 23. He will return to the capital on October 23.


A previous President, Pratiba Patil, revealed in June 2007, revealed 
that she was in communion with the gods:"I had a very happy experience 
here. The Baba came into the body of

Hriday Mohini Dadiji. He had a chat with me and made me very lucky."

Anish, you should get the picture. These Indian Presidents have nothing 
of substance to say. They carry their gods wherever they go. There is 
nothing of substance for the people. A waste of tax-payers' money.


NELSON LOPES also wrote in tribute to Mukerjee in a similar vein to 
Anish, describing him as 'most astute, shrewd and knowledgeable (of) 
politicians... (he had) a legendary knowledge of constitution, 
organizational skills and policy making.'  What are we to make of this 
assessment?


By and large, Indian senior politicians come out as tired old men, 
intellectual lightweights, lacking poise and persona, style, wit or 
sparkle; the content of their speeches is banal; delivery laboured & 
humourless. They have no new ideas to offer, no concrete proposals to 
make; they prefer not to stray from the prepared script. They cannot 
improvise or compose variations on a set theme. Poor at explaining 
policy or constructing a moral vision of the future.
So they seek safety in generalities, stock phrases, buzzwords and a 
string of banalities.
Overall they lack confidence and get deferential and self-deprecating 
before western leaders.
They dared not censure the West for historic injustices, military 
interventions, use of torture, etc


Indian leaders seem to leave the hard thinking to others while they 
deliver banalities, clichés & platitudes.



Eddie

 -- Original Message --
 From: "252Anish Esteves" 
 To: goanet@lists.goanet.org
 Sent: Tuesday, 1 Sep, 20 At 05:48
 Subject: Re: [Goanet] Pranab Da : A doyen leaves us (Anish Esteves)

 Pranab Mukherjee - A doyen of Indian Politics leaves us...The passing 
away of former President Pranab Mukherjee is a huge loss to


 Indian politics. A multiple time MP as well as Union Minister, 
Mukherjee's contribution towards nation building is something that will 
never be


 forgotten. He also contributed extensively towards his home state of 
West Bengal. His excellent knowledge of Parliamentary matters is 
something that


 very few present day politicians can match. India has truly lost a 
doyen of Indian Politics.




 Anish Esteves

[Goanet] Prashant BHUSHAN speaking at the OXFORD UNION on Modl's government

[BT Yahoo Mail]

It was most instructive to listen to lawyer Prashant Bhushan at the 
Oxford Union Forum on the sins & horrors of the MODI government.
The Oxford Union is rightly famous for hosting a range of high quality 
debates.


India claims to have some hundreds of so called Universities but what 
sort of research do they conduct there, if any?

And do they engage in public discourse of any kind?

Here are some of the points made by Mr Bhushan :
- Modi has brought havoc to the country
- he has wrecked the economy with thoughtless policies like 
demonetisation

- he has destroyed over 10 million jobs in just one year
- he has destroyed all institutions that are meant to find out the facts 
and tells us to rely on propaganda
-  he has taken control of large sections of he media through 
inducements & threats and turned them into instruments of propaganda.
- Modi stated without evidence that ancient India had developed plastic 
surgery and Ganesha's elephant trunk is a fine example

- Modi has abandoned  reason and critical thinking

You can listen to all that Bhushan spoke from the following link:
https://youtu.be/yWSonl4P2rg

Eddie

[Goanet] America going to the dogs?

[BT Yahoo Mail]

I just read a scathing assessment of the USA by Paul Edwards of Montana.
Here is the gist of what he said. It rings painfully true.

1. What is happening to America is an unmitigated tragedy and there’s no 
satisfaction in satirising or ridiculing it.
This diseased, battered country still stands, reeling in confusion, 
outrage and endless violence.
Wit, humor, and irony lose all effect when change is not possible and 
essential change is no longer conceivable in America.


2. The root cause is that our system has been built on injustice and 
inequity...  Our foundation was built on genocide, slavery and white 
privilege and the  nation evolved accordingly.


3. The last four years of Trump has forced into high relief the 
grotesque rottenness of the polity that hallmarks  our failed state.
The Trump era has advertised in grisly detail the vacuous arrogance, 
blatant cruelty, bottomless avarice, and brazen aggression that has 
insulted, violated, and alienated the world.


4. From our beginning, our Exceptionalist mythology has long taught that 
Americans are a superior kind of people, just and heroic.
Yet our government has partnered with and coddled dozens of the vilest, 
murderous maniacs that ever lived, arming their police states, providing 
death squads and mercenary thugs.


5. The economic & social security of working people has been actively 
undermined.  But the titans of finance have enriched themselves 
obscenely and used the War Machine to kill millions of peasant “enemies” 
in places they couldn’t find on a map.


6. The people no longer believe that the state represents them.  When 
that faith fails, state authority dissolves, and there is war in the 
streets.
 Meanwhile, two old inept, and impaired buffoons catering to the .001% 
are preparing for an election by the end of the year.


Read more at the link http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55508.htm

Eddie

Re: [Goanet] WARM GANESH GREETINGS TO YOU ALL

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Why is Advocate Aires Rodrigues getting excited about somebody called 
Ganesha?

Are Catholics  supposed to get worked up too?
And if he is a remover of obstacles, why is the Corona virus still 
around?


For that matter, can Devak Argham explain why his Jesus, Francis Xavier 
and St Jose Vaz have not eradicated the virus??


Eddie



-- Original Message --
From: "Aires Rodrigues" 
To: "goanet" 
Sent: Friday, 21 Aug, 20 At 23:04
Subject: [Goanet] VERY WARM GANESH GREETINGS TO YOU ALL

Despite the current Pandemic and the soaking weather amidst trouble

economic times, in this great Festive Season, let us all very sincerely

pray in a extremely special way to Lord Ganesha, the Vigna-harta 
(remover


of obstacles) to please help ease the never ending sufferings of the 
poor


and needy across Goa.

[Goanet] Goa Day - is the issue still sizzling?

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Jazz Goa had posted an  old clip (2012) featuring Rene Baretto's idea of 
Goa Day.
It's not clear from the clip whether he proposed the idea of World Goa 
Day.
While it is agreed that Goa Day has been locally celebrated here and 
there, the idea of World Goa Day seemed to have been mooted by the Goa 
Sudharop group based in California.
To settle this minor controversy, why doesn't Rene Baretto assert 
unequivocally whether it was his idea or not? (I presume he is still 
alive and articulate.)

George Pinto of Sudharop can then comment in confirmation.

That should calm down the storm in the teacup.

Eddie




-- Original Message --
From: "Wilson Coelho" 
To: "Goanet" 
Sent: Tuesday, 18 Aug, 20 At 04:28
Subject: [Goanet] Goanet Issue Nos.539 dtd Aug.11 and 542 dtd Aug 13, 
020






From: Wilson Coelho - Ex-President Goan Welfare Society - Kuwait



Sub: World Goa Day (Goa Day)



Dear Goanet Members,



Pleased to set the records right in view of certain doubts in some minds 
on the subject based on facts with regards to origin of Goa Day (Cecil 
is right with his comments).  The very first Goa Day was celebrated in 
Kuwait in October 1995  by GOAN WELFARE SOCIETY – KUWAIT (GWS-Kuwait) 
with the large patronage of the Konkani speaking community in Kuwait. 
Dilip Chico’s one-man Band was flown in to perform for the Day and the 
event was a great success with over 3,000 in attendance.




GWS-Kuwait celebrated Goa Day in Kuwait since 1995 every year with Food 
Festival, Drawing contest, Singing Contest to preserve Goan Culture, 
Goan Cultural Program with local talents/artists.  Goan Stars were also 
specially brought for the function to add flavor. The month of October 
was chosen for the convenience of the Goan Community settled in Kuwait. 
It was held year after year but stopped lately  in compliance with  the 
local laws prohibiting such activities in Kuwait.  GWS – Kuwait had an 
ambitious plan to promote Goan culture among Goans leaving in Kuwait and 
way back home to establish a Goan NRI City with like minds with all the 
basic facilities like, school, library, ground, health facility, etc. 
The undersigned Managed the affairs of GWS with a strong team of 12 
members as President/associate to make room for New Blood after the 
liberation of Kuwait in 1991until retirement in June 2010.




There is no doubt that Rene Barreto came up with the idea, thereafter, 
to transform it to World Goa Day to celebrate the same in August every 
year which idea was well supported by GWS-Kuwait to united Goans 
worldwide.




Wilson Coelho



Ex President - Goan Welfare Society Kuwait



To: goanet 

Subject: [Goanet] World Goa Day

Message-ID:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"



While there are conflicting opinions on whether Goa Day was founded by 
Goa


Sudharop or Rene Baretto there is another aspect to the matter.



From my limited knowledge the Gulf Goans had mooted the idea many years

before Rene. It was celebrated by the Goan Welfare Society in Kuwait and

also by the Qatar Goans.



Cheers!



Cecil







Sent from Outlook

[Goanet] Fwd: With 50, 000 COVID-19 Deaths, India's Outlook is Grim

[BT Yahoo Mail]

India's Outlook on the Corona Virus is Grim

 The fight against the coronavirus was supposed to last just 21 days.

‌ The fight against the coronavirus was supposed to last just 21 days 
but by August 15, India’s total case count stood at over 2.5 million 
with over 50,000 deaths, writes Deepankar Basu.


On its way to this position, India has overtaken countries  with severe 
outbreaks: Iran, Italy, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom.


The number of cases keeps climbing up in an unstoppable fashion, month 
after anxious month.


Today, only two countries in the world have registered a higher number 
of COVID-19 cases than India: the United States at a total of 55,20,316 
and Brazil with a total case count of 32,82,101.


Only the United States, Brazil and Mexico have reported a higher number 
of COVID-19 deaths than India.


India is now the country with the highest number of new COVID-19 cases 
that are reported daily. On July 20, India crossed Brazil to become 
second.


And on August 7, India crossed the United States to become the country 
with the largest number of daily reported COVID-19 cases.


Since then, the upward trajectory of daily reported cases has continued 
unabated in India.


Read more: 
https://thewire.in/health/india-covid-deaths-5-fastest-growth-new-cases


Forwarded: Eddie

Re: [Goanet] World Goa Day 2020

[BT Yahoo Mail]

George Pinto did right to tell us how the idea of World Goa Day (WGD) 
came about and to remind us that history and facts matter.

So can Rene Baretto set the record straight (if he still lives)?
Goa Sudharop is a charity that has helped deserving children and I 
myself have contributed. But sadly it has failed to get the publicity it 
deserves.


As for WGD, we never hear about it the whole year and then in August 
each year, a few noises are heard from unexpected sources claiming that 
the day is still alive.
So is a Committee elected each year? It is not clear where on the globe 
the celebrations (if any) are held and what form they may take.


Some years ago, somebody claimed that we have a unique quality called 
'Goanness'. It was not properly defined and it died out.

Is it worth pursuing the WGD idea or should it be given a decent burial?
Perhaps George should have the last say.

Eddie

==
-- Original Message --
From: "George Pinto" 
To: "Estb. 1994! Goa's Premiere Mailing List" 
Sent: Sunday, 9 Aug, 20 At 17:05
Subject: Re: [Goanet] World Goa Day 2020

Colin, do not be fooled. History and facts are important and matter. 
World Goa Day was initiated and started by Goa Sudharop. The idea was 
proposed by Filomena Giese, co-Founder of Goa Sudharop. Goa Sudharop 
paid for the initial set-up (website design, logo, domain, etc,) as one 
of Goa Sudharop's projects. I had initially suggested Jan 1 as the date 
- a new year, a new beginning for Goans. The late Jorge Noronha 
(Portugal) suggested August 20 to coincide with Konkani being made the 
official language of Goa (1992). Goa Sudharop heavily promoted the idea 
of WGD. Rene was a Goa Sudharop advisor at that time but with a failure 
of character Rene brought the publicity to himself and has never 
acknowledged or corrected the record and promoted WGD as his own, never 
contributing a single penny (I hear this is still the case). I 
personally drafted many of the publicity emails Rene sent out, including 
articles for WGD.  For the record, Goa Sudharop did the initial work to 
launch WGD and I personally spent a lot more time than Rene to get WGD 
off the ground.




So why has no credit has been given to Goa Sudharop? This is typical of 
some Goans who talk a good game about co-operation, unity but take all 
the credit.  Then they ask why Goans are backward compared to other 
communities and Goans cannot move forward in unity,






On Sunday, August 9, 2020, 07:45:38 AM PDT, colin d'cruz 
 wrote:




Jazz Goa has produced a two hour scheduled video broadcast on the 15th 
of August 2020 to co-celebrate Independence Day and the 20th anniversary 
of 'World Goa Day' initiated by Mr. Rene Baretto. This broadcast is a 
compilation of Goa's popular Konkani and Portuguese songs featuring some 
of Goa's most accomplished singers like Zezinho Fernandes, Seby 
Fernandes, Veeam Braganza, Donna Noronha, Queenie Fernandes and Verphina 
Dias to name a few.


This broadcast features back to back songs carefully compiled into a 
seamless, entertaining  show flow. Log on to Jazz Goa's YouTube Channel 
on the 15th of August at 8pm for an entertaining glimpse of Goa!

[Goanet] Indian Constitution: the story

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Anish Esteves (email dated 06 Aug) referred to August 5 as a 'dark day 
in Indian History'. It was the day a year ago when Modi downgraded the 
Kashmir government. So it was a very bright day for Modi and his BJP 
gang who love degrading Indian Muslims in every way. Most of these BJP 
high officials (Modi, Shah, Yogi, Rajnath...) are essentially country 
bumpkins catapulted to high office who would be probably more at home 
with peasants and sadhus in ashrams and cowsheds.


Anish then added that Modi "has taken an oath to uphold the 
Constitution". (A national constitution is a set of fundamental 
principles that prescribe how the nation is to be governed.)
What could this Constitution mean to an uneducated bigot like Modi? It 
is written in English because Indian languages simply lacked the needed 
vocabulary. The team, headed by Dr Ambedkar, had scoured Euro documents 
and soon found that Indian languages were too primitive to match the 
lofty sentiments they intended to include. They decided to copy the 
Constitution largely from the (British) India Act 1935 and certain other 
European documents. The preamble reads:
"We, the people of India,have solemnly resolved to constitute India into 
a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic..."


Do Indians use such words? Can any of these pompous words be translated 
into Hindi, Tamil or Bengali?  With English literacy standing at 12% in 
1949, few Indians could read the document, leave alone understand it. 
Wasn't it presumptuous to say the people of India resolved to make India 
a republic? What people? The fact is that Hindu India was largely a 
primitive country governed by Europeans for over 200 years. And 
Ambedkar's team wanted to make a good impression on the British and 
other Europeans.


 The Hindus had never even considered themselves a nation until the 
British created one in the 19th century using the Westphalian notions of 
sovereignty and territorial integrity - two totally alien concepts for 
Hindus. The Hindus  had been subjugated for a 1000 years by a host of 
invaders, first Muslim, then British. Hindu lives were a weird mix of 
rituals & festivals associated with assorted gods, and run by temple 
priests, swamis and such. There were no higher institutions of learning.
Every institution was created by the British as well as the idea of 
parliamentary democracy.The 1857 rebellion did generate some sense of 
national consciousness. The British generously decided to educate a 
select group of Indians in England for self-government. This exposure to 
education opened the minds of persons like Nehru and Ambedkar who 
encountered disciplines like the classics, history & philosophy and 
concepts like democracy and parliament for the first time.
Virtually every facility & institution in India has  been set up by the 
British: infrastructure, the State, admin,  educational & legal systems, 
Parliamentary system (complete with two Houses & Speaker), army,  etc
 Nehru transplanted the British democratic system but was not  bright 
enough to adapt it to Indian conditions such as the rigid caste system. 
The British had banned the barbaric Hindu practices, SATI (burning  of 
widows but not widowers) and THUGEE (murdering wayfarers to propitiate 
some  goddess Kali) but they left caste alone to use it for their own 
advantage.
 Ambedkar scoured Euro sources for drafting a constitution for India 
and ended with a document couched in pompous language (with words like 
secular, socialist), totally alien to the average Indian's 
understanding. It had to be written in English as Indian languages 
couldn't accommodate lofty concepts.
The Constitution was made public in 1949 when India's English literacy 
was 12%.


Understandably, to people like Modi (with probably no degree), the 
Constitution is an alien document which he cannot respect and taking an 
oath under it has no meaning.


Sri Lankan writer Rohini Hensman wrote:
- "India will continue to be what it has always been, a big little 
country bobbing along like cork in water - all buoyancy and drift, but 
no substance."


Eddie

=
 -- Original Message --
 From: "252Anish Esteves" 
 To: goanet@lists.goanet.org
 Sent: Thursday, 6 Aug, 20 At 12:26
 Subject: Re: [Goanet] India moving towards majoritarianism? (Anish 
Esteves)


Yesterday August 5 was another dark day in Indian History. Last 
year,

 the Government of India scrapped Article 370 unilaterally and detained
 politicians in the erstwhile state. Sadly, after last year's insult to
 crores of people in the valley, the BJP and Sangh Parivar chose the 
same
 date for the laying of the  foundation stone of the Ram Temple in 
Ayodhta.

A prime minister, who had taken an oath to uphold the Constitution,
 chose to project himself as the hero of a divisive movement that 
bulldozed

 India’s foundational values. Wednesday’s events mark a decisive shift
 towards majoritarian politics.

  

Re: [Goanet] PLEADING WITH PM TO RETAIN SATYA PAL MALIK AS GOA GOVERNOR

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Dear Aires,

While a number of GoaNet regulars are lost in the wonders of Goan 
literature and history, you stay focused on the real problems faced by 
Goa.
Congrats. You are clearly for a Goa led by good governance and dedicated 
to the welfare of all the people.


You may be right about Malik's credentials for governor but may you 
perhaps miscalculated the way Modi's mind works?
Many would characterise Modi as a semi-literate peasant at heart but 
awfully vengeful and malevolent and he seems driven by one big goal: to 
make the life of Muslims as unpleasant as possible.
Modi was Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2002 when the genocide of Muslims 
occurred.  Arundati Roy wrote in her book 'Listening to Grasshoppers' 
(2002)
" The genocide began as collective punishment for an unsolved crime-the 
burning of a railway coach with 53 Hindu pilgrims who were burned to 
death. In a carefully planned orgy of supposed retaliation, 2,000 
Muslims were slaughtered in broad daylight by squads of armed killers, 
organised by fascist militias, and backed by the Gujarat government. 
Muslim women were gang-raped and burned alive.
Muslim shops, Muslim businesses and Muslim shrines and mosques were 
systematically destroyed. Some 1,50,000 people were driven from their 
homes."


So why is this Guju  so ruthlessly against Muslims?
On his very first speech in Parliament as BJP leader in 2014, he 
reminded members that Hindus have suffered under Muslims for some 1200 
years. The implication being that it is time for payback. (The first 
Muslim invader of note was Mahmud of Ghazni in SE Afghanistan who 
launched a series of invasions from 1001.)


New York Times (9 Oct 2015) observed, following the BJP victory in 2014:
"[Modi's] cabinet is mostly  made up of too many coarse bigots... Mr 
Modi might have achieved something... but with his limited education, he 
is not equal to the enormous task before him".
He attends Indian Science Congress annual meetings complete with 
University regalia though it is not clear whether Modi holds any degree 
at all. And attempts to trace his degree have failed.


Aires, to return  to your plea to Modi, keep in mind that Governor Malik 
is a Muslim and Modi is unlikely to regard him favourably no matter how 
proficient he is.
Worse still, you have also asked for the removal of Goa's CM Sawant, a 
BJP man. Any BJP official is surely sacred for Modi. So Modi is even 
more likely to dismiss the Muslim Governor and retain the BJP CM.
You should know that Modi doesn't go by logic or rationality. All that 
matters is hatred of Muslims & loyalty to Modi.


Eddie





-- Original Message --

From: "Aires Rodrigues" 

To: "goanet" 

Sent: Monday, 3 Aug, 20 At 12:11

Subject: [Goanet] HAVE PLEADED WITH PM & HM TO RETAIN SATYA PAL MALIK AS 
GOA GOVERNOR


Today, I have penned a very personal letter to Prime Minister Narendra 
Modi

and his Home Minister Amit Shah seeking that the very upright Satya Pal
Malik be kindly retained as the Governor of Goa in public interest and 
for the good of our State.


I have explained the reasons why a darling of all Goans, Satya Pal Malik
should continue as the Governor of the State to carry on his selfless 
work

for the benefit of Goa and Goans. His record speaks for itself.

I have also  in my letter given enough reasons why the current Chief
Minister of Goa should be axed forthwith,for his continued faults,
misplaced priorities and faltering on so many issues besides the endless
corruption charges that he and some of his current Ministers are 
embroiled in.


Aires Rodrigues

[Goanet] Low caste woman's corpse removed from the pyre

[BT Yahoo Mail]

The corpse of a Dalit woman was removed from the pyre under upper-caste 
social pressure, and, despite police intervention, taken away for 
cremation elsewhere.

That's Hindu priorities for you.
At Kakarpura village, twenty miles from Agra, it was admitted that it 
was “illegal” for a “lower caste” person to be denied cremation by the 
upper castes.
The “caste system was too deep rooted,” and that eventually after six 
hours of altercation, a “balance” was found - in favour of the dominant 
groups.


 Read more: 
https://thewire.in/caste/removal-of-a-dalit-womans-corpse-from-a-pyre-in-agra-couldnt-have-pleased-lord-ram-in-ayodhya


Eddie

[Goanet] Panaji going to the dogs or is it cows?

[BT Yahoo Mail]

From time to time, Adv Aires Rodrigues brings to the notice of Panjim 
residents the sad state of the town (or is it city?).

But the BJP babujis couldn't care less. They just want to make money.
Dirt and civic chaos have mattered little to the Indians and do words 
like 'transparency' and 'accountability' exist in Hindi or Marathi?
It is sad that a Catholic MLA called Monseratte has also got infected by 
the breakdown in BJP governance.


As for the cows, they are holy animals to the Hindus (God knows why) and 
so they have right of way anywhere they please.
What of the bulls? It will be hard to restrain them as they would be 
inclined to follow the cows.
Meanwhile, the three rulers of India (Modi, Shah & Yogi) do as they 
please, unfettered by any rules.

So why should lesser officials do better?

Well done, Aires. You are doing your duty as a good citizen.
Eddie


-- Original Message --
From: "Aires Rodrigues" 
To: "goanet" 
Sent: Wednesday, 29 Jul, 20 At 23:51
Subject: [Goanet] PANAJI IS IN THE DUMPS

It is very appalling that the Corporation of City of Panaji (CCP) has

miserably failed to tackle the growing menace of stray cattle moving 
around


all over the City. The situation is no better at Ribandar which is part 
of


the CCP. The law does not permit cowsheds within city limits but this is

not being complied with. Being the capital city, it should have been the

endeavor of the CCP to ensure utmost cleanliness and hygiene all over. 
But


with the stray cattle merrily moving all around and messing up even the

footpaths it is a matter of health concern for the citizens. The Panaji

Market and the Bus stand lie in a despicable state. Even some of the 
city’s


recently renovated gardens and parks are in a pathetic condition. The

St Inez and Rua de Ourem creeks continue to be a horrible eyesore with 
our


nostrils bearing the brunt of that unbearable stench. The stagnation and

neglect of vital infrastructure, the environment and sustainable

development is all too evident.



Unless there is transparency and accountability in the working of the 
CCP


with Zero Tolerance to any scams, Goa’s capital city will languish as it

is. With the CCP elections scheduled for March next year let us hope the

citizens elect young and bright Corporators who are knowledgeable 
persons


with integrity and a vision to uplift the city.



Does the Panaji MLA Atanasio Monseratte have to be reminded of his 
glossy


22 page Panaji Vision Document that he had released in the run to the 
19th May


Panaji by-election last year? Not an iota of that mountain of promises 
has


been fulfilled. All that has happened is that he betrayed his voters and

joined the BJP for his own vested interests.



Aires Rodrigues



Advocate High Court



C/G-2, Shopping Complex



Ribandar Retreat,



Ribandar – Goa – 403006



Mobile No: 9822684372



Office Tel  No: (0832) 2444012



Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com



 Or



   airesrodrig...@yahoo.com



You can also reach me on



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[Goanet] WHY is the US anti-CHINA?

[BT Yahoo Mail]

The issue of US growing antagonism against China has been aired in 
GoaNet a couple of times but the writers did not side with China. 
Traditionally, India, a rather primitive state compared with the US or 
China, has sided with the US because it looks to the US for help when in 
distress, as was the case in the border war of 1962. In the present 
border clash, China again got the better of India (killing some 20 
Indian soldiers and wounding over 70).
What can India do? The US felt sorry for India and made some comforting 
noises.So Modi knows very well. China is too powerful for India and can 
only join the western allies as a junior partner in their military games 
to embarrass China.


But China is also proving uncomfortably powerful for the US. The US 
Attorney General William Barr explained in a revealing speech on 17 July 
2020 explained why the United States has escalated
its cold war on China. The roots of the US-initiated war lie in the 
threat the People’s Republic of China poses to US technological 
supremacy.
Barr argued that the “prosperity for our children and grandchildren” 
depends on the global economy remaining Americanized.


Chinese-owned firms, in his view, must be prevented from dominating key 
emerging growth sectors, including 5G, robotics, and AI.
These sectors must remain in the hands of Western (and preferably US) 
investors.Washington’s major grievance with China is that the Chinese 
Communist Party has vaulted China from the ranks of
poorer countries meant to serve the US to a high technological level 
which threatens to topple corporate America from its top perch

of the global economy.

Read more: 
https://ahtribune.com/us/4305-reason-washington-is-hostile-to-china.html


Eddie

Re: [Goanet] Himalayan Blunders: Is India Losing Nepal? (Dhaka Tribune, 16/7/2020)

[BT Yahoo Mail]

From what I've read, Nepal says India's great Ram belongs to Nepal.
But Ram is a fictional figure, isn't he? So what's the fuss about?
Eddie

-- Original Message --
From: Roland Francis roland.fran...@gmail.com
To: GoaNet
Sent: Thursday, 16 Jul, 20 At 18:02
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Himalayan Blunders: Is India Losing Nepal? (Dhaka 
Tribune, 16/7/2020)


The BJP is getting a taste of its own medicine.

[Goanet] INSPIRING HINDU SNAKE RITUAL

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Watch a bunch of Hindus playing with SNAKES, apparently to improve their 
Karma

Their religion does seem to have much variety.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1282993244175908865 


Eddie

[Goanet] Doing Science the Hindu (BJP) way

[BT Yahoo Mail]

It seems Modi's India is ready to launch the world's first COVID19 
vaccine on 15 August.
Sukla Sen in his email says there are 4 essential stages to go through: 
first on animals and then three successive stages on humans.
Only on successfully clearing the preceding stage, the stage involving 
human volunteers, is taken up.


There is no evidence in the public domain that even the very first stage 
on animals has been duly carried out.
Now, the three successive stages are to be compressed - perhaps skipping 
a stage or two, under pressure to meet the (absurd) deadline of August 
15.


Perhaps, the plan is just not to showcase another grand achievement 
under Modi, but also to place a huge order on the private enterprise 
involved in developing the vaccine together with the ICMR.


Last week, a letter from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) 
claiming that India would have a COVID-19 vaccine ready for public use 
by August 15 was roundly panned by scientists. The letter, written by 
ICMR director general Balram Bhargava, was addressed to 12 hospitals. 
Bhargava asked them to begin recruiting participants for human trials 
for the vaccine by July 7.


Experts familiar with vaccine trials quickly pointed out that both the 
July 7 and August 15 deadlines were ridiculous, given the vaccine had 
only been tested on animals thus far (with no result made public).

...
Vaccine development typically has multiple stages. Skipping or 
shortening any of these phases could lead to a potentially ineffective 
or dangerous vaccine reaching people.

...
Bharat Biotech has not published any data from its animal trials. As a 
result, it’s more crucial that the phase 1 human studies that follow are 
conducted with utmost care.

...
“The wording of the letter is absolutely wrong. It would lead to the 
breaking down of systems you have worked very hard to create. You need 
to speed up, but you certainly can’t bulldoze people into doing a 
trial,” Jacob John, a professor of community medicine at the Christian 
Medical College, Vellore, who was involved in developing India’s first 
indigenous rotavirus vaccine, told The Wire Science.


Several vaccine developers are conducting challenge studies to be safe. 
This is because the studies’ results can help them predict whether their 
vaccine will worsen COVID-19 instead of suppressing it, a phenomenon 
known as vaccine-enhanced disease. This could occur in two ways: 
antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) and vaccine-associated enhanced 
respiratory disease (VAERD).


Bharat Biotech has not published any data from its animal trials, so 
it’s unknown if it conducted studies to evaluate the potential for ADE 
or VAERD. As a result, it’s more crucial that the phase 1 human studies 
that follow are conducted with utmost care.


ICMR Must Decide if it Is India’s Council for Medical Research or its 
Master’s Voice.



There are around 120 coronavirus vaccine programmes under way

"For these reasons, the Indian Academy of Sciences believes that the 
announced timeline is unreasonable and without precedent, and is 
therefore issuing this statement in the public interest.  The Academy 
strongly believes that any hasty solution that may compromise rigorous 
scientific processes and standards will likely have long-term adverse 
impacts of unforeseen magnitude on citizens of India."


On behalf of the Council and the Fellowship of the Indian Academy of 
Sciences,


Partha P. Majumder
President, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru

===
Forwarded by Eddie

Re: [Goanet] Dear Brown People

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Hi Naguesh,

When white people  say 'model minority', they mean people who are 
generally submissive to Whites, unlikely to challenge them, especially 
the elites.

That's all.

Eddie

-- Original Message --
From: "Naguesh Bhatcar" 
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" 
Sent: Wednesday, 1 Jul, 20 At 17:07
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Dear Brown People
Indians are being held up as a model minority. That's not helping the 
Black Lives Matter movement.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/29/world/indians-migrant-minority-black-lives-matter-intl/index.html 



Naguesh Bhatcar

From: Goanet  on behalf of Roland 
Francis 

Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 3:17 PM
To: goa...@goanet.org 
Subject: [Goanet] Dear Brown People
An article by Shree Paradkar, a columnist of Indian heritage at the 
Toronto Star.
Dear brown people: I’m about to wash some dirty linen in public. 
Consider this an overdue act of tough love.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2020/06/28/dear-brown-people-im-about-to-wash-some-dirty-linen-in-public-consider-this-an-overdue-act-of-tough-love.html 


Roland.
Toronto.

[Goanet] Forwarded: The Dangerous Incompetence of Narendra Modi and Jair Bolsonaro

[BT Yahoo Mail]

 Alarming news 
about the COVID-19 disease comes from Brazil and India, where the 
infection numbers are high, and the death count grows steadily. It 
appears that a million people are now infected in Brazil (out of a 
population of over 211 million). In India, it is difficult to even 
estimate the number of those infected, since the testing levels are so 
low, and the data is so poor. One suggestion is that at least eight 
million people have been infected (out of a population of over 1.3 
billion).


The Indian Council of Medical Research’s journal showed that the 
government’s official report of infections in the country till early May 
(35,000) actually underestimates the true number of infections (700,000) 
by at least twenty. The official government numbers report that by June 
400,000 people have been infected in the country, but the number of 
those infected could be as high as eight million if we multiply the 
official figure by twenty (following the Indian Council of Medical 
Research’s assessment). The official death count is 13,000, which is not 
a credible figure. One of the immediate findings of the Indian Council 
of Medical Research’s study is that the government has not carried out 
contact tracing with any seriousness. Of the people who tested positive 
for COVID-19 in the study, the Indian government does not know how 44% 
of them became infected.   Lygia Clark (Brazil), Nostalgia do corpo 
(‘Nostalgia of the Body’), 1964.
   Neither in Brazil nor in India have the governments taken a 
science-based attitude to the virus. In India, Prime Minister Narendra 
Modi has promoted atmanirbhar (self-sufficiency), asking people to take 
measures on their own to confront the virus. The central government, it 
appears, will neither do anything nor be responsible. Medical resources 
have been funnelled from public healthcare systems to private healthcare 
over the past decades, which has been callous towards those infected by 
the virus. Private hospitals and clinics are turning away patients whose 
symptoms could be controlled using ventilators and oxygen; these 
patients are largely from the middle class, which means that the plight 
of the workers has gone unnoticed.   Wilcker Morais (Brazil), Capitalism 
in the Corona Crisis, 2020.
   When Modi came to office in 2014, his government slashed the health 
budget by 20% (they have subsequently increased it each year). Today, 
India dedicates a miniscule amount (1.15%) of its GDP towards the health 
sector, with the largest amount going to the private sector.  Medical 
costs in India are outrageous, with the out-of-pocket expenditure one of 
the highest in the world. Even before the emergence of the coronavirus, 
57 million Indians were pushed into poverty every year as a result of 
such medical costs.  Under the cover of the lockdown, these governments 
have attempted to push through the worst of their unpopular agenda – 
such as attacks on labour rights, the privatisation of healthcare, and 
severe austerity measures.

-

 ForwardedEddie

Re: [Goanet] A local hero praised vs grim conditions of Goa

[BT Yahoo Mail]

It was interesting to read how a former BJP CM called Manohar Parrikar 
was lauded in his biography for an Extraordinary Life:

The authors praise him lavishly:
- Manohar Parrikar was a towering personality, who defined an era in 
Goa's politics, after the turbulent 1990s which produced 13 chief 
ministers in a decade. A four-time chief minister and defence minister, 
he had the talent, intellect and the drive to achieve, perhaps even 
more..
- Manohar Parrikar was a popular, astute and grassroots leader of the 
BJP who served as the chief minister of Goa for multiple terms, as well 
as the defence minister of India. An indefatigable and spirited 
politician, he chose to work until his last days, and left a mark 
wherever he went...
He seems to have pushed the BJP agenda forward but what exactly did he 
achieve in Goa? Was he interested in the minorities (Muslim, Christian)?

Was it fair to spend taxpayers money for his medical trips to the USA?
What else is left to memorialise him? Modi loves to erect a statue of 
the alleged hero in a prominent place  of course he never consults 
the people.
In the case of Sardar Patel, Modi wanted a really tall statue in his 
honour but the Indians couldnlt do it and the Chinese had to be called 
to build to the specified height.
Now compare with the sober realities of Goa as narrated by a true son of 
Goa, Aires Rodrigues:
- We are facing the brunt of the endless greed of our current 
politicians who are adding more concrete buildings to an already badly 
battered Goa without caring to first put the basic infrastructure in 
place and with no respect for our fragile environment.
- The garbage and sewage discharge problem has reached a point of crisis 
with the government having miserably also failed to tackle even the 
stray dogs and cattle issue. Proper healthcare needs to be provided to 
the poorest of the poor in hospitals and health centers across the State 
as we cannot allow young lives to be lost for lack of proper medical 
care.
- Creating quality educational facilities and delivering on a good and 
dependable public transport system should have also been the thrust of 
those in Power. Instead they have successfully transformed Goa into a 
Gambling, Prostitution, Narcotics and Crime hub.
 instead of acting with greater urgency and determination to eradicate 
the neglect, stench and deterioration caused over the years, this inept 
uncaring Government only cares about personal greed and power 
grabbing.
Surely, ex-CM Parrikar must have presided over some of the conditions 
that Aires refers to.

Eddie

[Goanet] A local hero vs grim conditions of Goa

[BT Yahoo Mail]

It was interesting to read how a former BJP CM called Manohar Parrikar 
was lauded in his biography for an Extraordinary Life:

The authors praise him lavishly:
- Manohar Parrikar was a towering personality, who defined an era in 
Goa's politics, after the turbulent 1990s which produced 13 chief 
ministers in a
decade. A four-time chief minister and defence minister, he had the 
talent, intellect and the drive to achieve, perhaps even more..
- Manohar Parrikar was a popular, astute and grassroots leader of the 
BJP who served as the chief minister of Goa for multiple terms, as well 
as the
defence minister of India. An indefatigable and spirited politician, he 
chose to work until his last days, and left a mark wherever he went...


He seems to have pushed the BJP agenda but what exactly did he achieve 
in Goa? Was he interested in the minorities (Muslim, Christian)?

Was it fair to spend taxpayers money for his medical trips to the USA?
What else is left to memorialise him? Modi loves to erect a statue of 
the alleged hero in a prominent place  of course he never consults 
the people.
In the case of Sardar Patel, Modi wanted a really tall statue in his 
honour but the Indians couldnt do it and the Chinese had to be called to 
build to the specified height.
Now compare with the sober realities of Goa as narrated by a true son of 
Goa, Aires Rodrigues:


- We are facing the brunt of the endless greed of our current 
politicians who are adding more concrete buildings to an already badly 
battered Goa without caring to first put the basic infrastructure in 
place and with no respect for our fragile environment.
- The garbage and sewage discharge problem has reached a point of crisis 
with the government having miserably also failed to tackle even the 
stray dogs and cattle issue. Proper healthcare needs to be provided to 
the poorest of the poor in hospitals and health centers across the State 
as we cannot allow young lives to be lost for lack of proper medical 
care.
- Creating quality educational facilities and delivering on a good and 
dependable public transport system should have also been the thrust of 
those in Power. Instead they have successfully transformed Goa into a 
Gambling, Prostitution, Narcotics and Crime hub.
 instead of acting with greater urgency and determination to eradicate 
the neglect, stench and deterioration caused over the years, this inept 
uncaring Government only cares about personal greed and power 
grabbing.


Surely, ex-CM Parrikar must have presided over some of the conditions 
that Aires refers to.

Eddie

[Goanet] Bible verses for the Day

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Mr Argham, there are more crazy passages in Deuteronomy:

(Deut 7.1-11) When the Lord your God brings you into the land to occupy 
and drives out before you seven nations mightier and more numerous than 
you – the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, 
Hivites and the Jubesites – you must destroy them totally. Do not 
intermarry with them, for that would turn your children to other gods. 
Break down their altars, smash their pillars, hew down their sacred 
poles and burn their idols. For the Lord has chosen you out of all the 
peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession…


(Deut 7.16) You shall destroy all the peoples that Lord your God gives 
over to you, showing them no pity.


(Deut 9.1-5) You are about to cross the Jordan today and dispossess 
nations larger than and mightier than you… The Lord goes ahead of you 
like a devouring fire. He will destroy them and drive them out quickly 
as he promised …


(Deut 20.10-19) When you march to attack a city, make its people an 
offer of peace. If they accept, force all the people to work for you. If 
they refuse to make peace, engage them in battle. Kill all the males and 
take the women, children, livestock and all else as booty for 
yourselves… In the cities the Lord your God is bequeathing you, do not 
leave anything that breathes alive. Destroy them completely - the 
Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites- as 
the Lord has commanded you.


(Deut 21.11-13) If you notice a beautiful woman among your captives and 
are attracted to her, take her as your wife. Bring her into your home; 
shave her head, trim her nails and put aside the clothes she was 
wearing. After she has mourned her parents for a month, you may go to 
her…


If a man finds that his wife was not a virgin on first contact, the 
girl’s parents must provide proof of virginity by displaying 'the cloth' 
before the elders. If the charge is untrue, the man pays 100 shekels of 
silver to the girl’s father and he cannot divorce her. If the charge is 
true, the men of the town shall stone the girl to death.
If a man rapes a virgin, she must pay 50 shekels to her father and he 
must marry the girl.


Eddie


===
-- Original Message --
From: Devak Argham devakarg...@gmail.com
To: goanet goanet@lists.goanet.org
Sent: Saturday, 6 Jun, 20 At 03:21
Subject: [Goanet] Bible verse for the Day

B.I.B.L.E - Behold I Bring Life Eternal

Deuteronomy 8:17-19
17 Otherwise, you might say in your heart,“It is my own power and the
strength of my own hand that has got me this wealth.”
8 Remember then the LORD, your God, for he is the one who gives you the
power to get wealth, by fulfilling, as he has now done, the covenant he
swore to your ancestors.

19 But if you do forget the LORD, your God, and go after other gods,
serving and bowing down to them, I bear witness to you this day that you
will perish utterly.

[Goanet] Athanasio in trouble

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Goanet folk may have not noted that Athanacio Lobo of Moira (now in 
Canada) has been charged for 'sedition' for his online petition to 
re-liberate Goa and perhaps rid the place of cows, sadhus and such.
Sedition is an offence created by the Brits to discipline Indian 
nationalists but was removed from the Brit lawbooks in 2010 as no longer 
relevant.


But not so the BJP babus, who just love the sound of the word and have 
retained the offence to terrorize anyone they don't like.

And poor Athanacio has been targeted.
If he is a Canadian citizen by now, he has nothing to fear.
And surely he has acted in good faith.

Eddie

[Goanet] Alfonso Albuquerque of Porvorim

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Hi Dom,
I was moved by your courage to casually disclose that your dad started 
as a coolie working at the Bombay docks and rose to be Chief Petty 
Officer. That example is bound to have shaped your own values.
The little I got to know about you came from Alfonso Albuquerque, not 
the conqueror, but an unusual guy who lived in Porvorim, on the main 
road opposite Bank of India branch in the 1970-80s. Allow me to say 
something about him.
Born in 1911, he was one of a large, well known Goan family, now mostly 
scattered in Canada.
Alfonso went to London to study law in 1933 and travelled to Germany in 
1936. There at a ball in Berlin, he met a blond German beauty, Ursula by 
name, then aged 20. He danced with her the whole night. Ursula thought 
him one of the handsomest men she had seen but frankly Alfonso was quite 
dark-complexioned. Next day, the two were swimming at a local lake and 
soon the courtship was on. It was the time when Hitler's Aryan ideology 
and anti-Jewish views are reaching their peak.
Ursula had agreed to marry Alfonso and booked her passage to Bombay. She 
arrived there in June 1939 when UK declared war on Germany.
The couple lived mostly on the outskirts of Mombasa. Alfonso switched 
from law to chicken farming. Meanwhile tensions were brewing and the 
children, Klaus and Claudia, left for the US on overseas study, followed 
by their mother.


Soon Alfonso was on his own and he took the path of spiritual 
liberation. His guru was UG Krishnamurti and under his teachings, he 
appeared to have undergone a radical transformation in Porvorim, leading 
him to do away with much of his worldly goods and live like an ascetic.
Meanwhile, his son had become a Professor of Sociology at Charleston 
College, South Carolina.


To return to you, its was Alfonso who spoke warmly about you and your 
artistic talents. But I don't recall much.
The point of this email is to ask you to fill us in on what you have 
been doing in the USA.


Eddie

Eddie

-- Original Message --
From: "Dom Martin" 
To: "goanet@lists.goanet.org" 
Sent: Tuesday, 5 May, 20 At 00:34
Subject: [Goanet] Goanet] Slave Trade
My latefather, Vincent Xavier Verodiano Martin, whose academic 
credentials were “segundgrao” -- left home at age 12, worked as a coolie 
atthe Bombay docks, slept thereon, later enlisted in the Royal 
IndianNavy and rose to the rank of Chief Petty Officer. The 
highestposition the British allowed Indians in the Royal Navy was the 
rank of lieutenant. My father's commanding officer was Lt. Sardarilal 
Mathradas Nanda, who, after India's independence, went on to become 
Admiral of the Indian Navy.
Note:  My father was onboard HMS Indus in the epic WWII sinking of the 
mighty German battleship, Bismarck. At the onslaught, HMS Indus 
waspositioned behind HMS Hood. A single salvo from Bismarck sent Hoodto 
the bottom of the ocean within 3 mins, leaving no survivors. Inthat 
lightning skirmish, the rest of the British naval fleet hastenedretreat, 
regrouped and then hounded Bismarck to its watery grave.
Althoughmy father's career originated as a "coolie", he was not enlisted 
by the“Brits” to serve East Africa as a “coolie”. He migrated 
andtranscended that status on his own. I salute his extraordinary 
gritand remain eternally indebted.

DomMartin
_Message: 2
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 10:46:36 + (UTC)
From: Bernado Colaco 
To: 
Subject: [Goanet] Slave Trade
Message-ID: <26953537.1672756.1588589196...@mail.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

 I wonder how many Goanetters or their forefathers were taken by the 
brits as coolies or indentured labour to East Africa?

BC
Soon after Portuguese conquered Goa, it became the main port to trade 
slaves brought from Portuguese enclave from Africa.? The slaves were 
shipped from Goa to Ceylon and as far away to Macao.? The Mhamai Kamats 
(whose ancestral house is just behind Governor's residence in Panjim) 
were one of the main slave traders in Goa.?

Re: [Goanet] Bible verses for the day

[BT Yahoo Mail]

How many of us know that we have a Bible scholar, Devak Argham, in our 
midst who posts passages from the Bible every day? He presumably does 
this for the edification of his readers.
Most of these passages are claimed to have been written some 2000 years 
ago and the Old Testament some 500 years ago or earlier. It is not clear 
who the writers were. John, Luke, Mark, Matthew are not considered the 
actual authors of the Gospels bearing their names.
Devak Argham does not bother with such things. Nor does he care to 
explain the meaning of the passages he innocently quotes or the context. 
How does he select passages - randomly or by method? We don't know.  It 
is clear that treats the Bible with reverence and as a God inspired 
Book. The books/gospels making up the Bible were selected and compiled 
by a bunch of Euro scholars. Asians had no role, although Palestine, the 
land of the Bible, is in West Asia. The traditional Goan holds the Euro 
scholar with great respect and won't challenge him lightly.


We live in 2020 and we need to read the Bible critically and not fear to 
express doubts or expose flaws..


Let's get to specifics.
A few days ago, our resident Bible scholar quoted from the Old Testament 
(OT).





Do  not let this book of the law depart from your lips. Recite it by day 
and by night, that you may carefully observe all  that is written in it;

then you will attain your goal; then you will  succeed.

 But Mr Argham has not noticed that the OT also contains some scary 
passages:

Here is an example from Leviticus,  chap 26:14-3
Here the OT God is issuing threats against his people

# Divine  vengeance

 “If you will not listen to me… then  I will bring upon you sudden 
terror, wasting diseases and fever that will  destroy your sight… I will 
punish you for your sins seven times over… I will  send wild animals 
against you, destroy you cattle. If in spite of this you still  do not 
listen to me … You will eat the flesh of your sons and daughters… I will 
abhor you… I will turn your cities into ruins.” [


 Hardly a caring God here,  more the ravings of a bloodthirsty bully.

Can we accept a God who speaks like this or is it some fanatics posing 
as God? In which case, we should question the authorship of the Bible.


Eddie




--Original Message --
From: "Devak Argham"
To: "goanet"
Sent:Sunday, 26 Apr, 20 At 03:59
Subject:[Goanet] Bible verse for the Day
Joshua 1:8-9

8  Donot let this book of the law depart from your lips. Recite it 
by day
and by night, that you may carefully observeall that is written in 
it;

then you willattain your goal; then you will succeed.
9  I command you: be strong and steadfast!Do not fear nor be 
dismayed, for

the LORD,your God, is with you wherever you go.









Eddie





===










ddie

Re: [Goanet] Bible verse for the Day

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Mr Argham,

Some of us don't care for this fictitious thing called  'eternal life'.
Can your 'Son' get rid of the Coronas virus and assure us of a safe, 
healthy life now??


Eddie


-- Original Message --
From: "Devak Argham" 
To: "goanet" 
Sent: Thursday, 23 Apr, 20 At 03:34
Subject: [Goanet] Bible verse for the Day
John 3:36
=

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever disobeys the 
Son

will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him.

Re: [Goanet] Konkani Traditional Mandos...

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Thanks, Edward.
Just listened to two so far. They are beautifully rendered.

Eddie

-- Original Message --
From: "Edward Verdes" 
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" 
Sent: Thursday, 23 Apr, 20 At 08:01
Subject: [Goanet] Konkani Traditional Mandos...
Listen to the 6 Traditional Mandos sung with traditional music...

https://www.songs-from-goa.at/images/doks/gopit_mog_burgeaponacho.mp3 

https://www.songs-from-goa.at/images/doks/aramita_mojem_naum.mp3 

https://www.songs-from-goa.at/images/doks/sorgar_uzvad_neketrancho.mp3 

https://www.songs-from-goa.at/images/doks/sangatu_moga_tuzo.mp3 

https://www.songs-from-goa.at/images/doks/dove_rozericho_kolo.mp3 

https://www.songs-from-goa.at/images/doks/adeus_korcho_vellu_paulo.mp3 



Regards
Edward Verdes

Re: [Goanet] ILLEGAL POLICE SECURITY GIVEN TO FORMER MINISTER PANDURANG M MUST BE WITHDRAWN

[BT Yahoo Mail]

 Ayres, as a good citizen, brought to our notice a grave breach of the law by 
Goa's BJP babus for providing police protection to one Pandurang who ceased to 
be Minister since a year.
Well, done, Ayres.
Not too surprising. This is India and the law is not taken seriously here. 
Everything depends on stature of the person in question.
  
Some questions:
- was GoaNet the best medium to report this matter? Did any media raise the 
matter?
- have Opposition MLAs raised the matter in Goa's Assembly or don't they care?
- why do Indian senior politicians need police protection? 

Senior politicians have reason to be scared because several of them are corrupt 
or have a criminal background and fear reprisals. A Report by The Wire in 2018 
found that a third of Chief Ministers have  criminal cases registered against 
them. Maharashtra’s Fadnavis tops this list with 22 criminal cases, followed by 
Kerala’s Vijayan with 11 cases and Kejrival with 10.

Criminal cases against  chief ministers include  murder, attempt to murder, 
cheating and dishonestly property dealings and criminal intimidation.
So what happens now to the Pandurang fellow? How do the citizens protest to the 
Chief Minister?Or should Catholics complain to their Bishop??More likely, most 
people may not care. Life is hard enough without adding to their burdens.
Eddie




On ‎Tuesday‎, ‎17‎ ‎September‎ ‎2019‎ ‎11‎:‎15‎:‎15‎ ‎BST, Aires Rodrigues 
 wrote: 





Government must at all times function strictly within the framework of law
and cannot be enlarging largesse for political expediency at the taxpayer’s
expense.

The Goa Government must immediately withdraw the unlawful police security
being given to former Power Minister and Cumbarjua MLA Pandurang Madkaikar.

In an unprecedented, very high-handed and arbitrary decision the Goa
Government continues providing police security to the former Power Minister
Pandurang Madkaikar despite he having ceased to be a Minister on September
24th last year.

Pandurang Madkaikar over the last one year is having a security of around
seven police personnel around the clock. This is a huge financial burden on
an already cash strapped State. The Goa Police which is short staffed has
been assigned for the security of Pandurang Madkaikar which he is by law
not entitled to.

Aires Rodrigues, Advocate High Court

www.airesrodrigues.com

[Goanet] Ayres says: open defecation is alive & thriving in Goa

[BT Yahoo Mail]

 Dear Ayres, Thank you for neatly explaining via a You Tube the status of open 
defecation in Goa. You have thereby demonstrated your concern for the common 
man and also exposed the lies of the BJP babus running Goa who claim that Goa 
is open defecation free. You point out that labourers (mostly from Yogi's UP 
perhaps?) freely relieve themselves in any available open space and that Indian 
bus tourists signal their arrival by urinating near the bus stand.
People like these have no choice as there are no public toilets and the few 
that have been built are poorly maintained. Perhaps Indian culture in general & 
Hindu ways in particular have never prioritised sanitation and cleanliness in 
their scheme of values.
A few years ago, the Economic & Political Weekly pointed out the perils of 
defecating in open spaces. Here are excerpts:


A Reportusing data compiled by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) claimed 
that scores ofchildren simply “disappeared” from a slum on New Delhi’s 
outskirts after theystepped out in the open to defecate. 
In thecourse of 16 months, between December 2013 and March 2015, as many as 
171children were missing from the Shahbad Dairy slum in outer Delhi. Of these 
66remain untraced. The common link in the story was that their parents had 
sentthem to the nearby forest to defecate because there was no toilet in the 
slumwith around 500 households. Of the 171 missing, five had been killed, 45 
girlshad been raped or sexually assaulted. The story is achilling reminder that 
the crisis of sanitation can be a matter of life and death for the 
mostvulnerable. One in every two Indians continues to defecate in the open. 
Theprice for the lack of toilets is paid not just by women, who are 
oftenattacked, molested, raped and shamed, but also by children who are sent 
outunaccompanied to defecate in the open. Not only was the Shahbad Dairy 
slumwithout a single toilet, there was no toilet within a two kilometre 
radius.After the disappearances, parents stopped feeding their children any 
food aftersunset.Read more:
http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/25/editorials/raising-stink.html

Eddie

On 
‎Wednesday‎, ‎4‎ ‎September‎ ‎2019‎ ‎13‎:‎11‎:‎26‎ ‎BST, Aires Rodrigues 
 wrote:  
 
 https://youtu.be/XGVWXEl5VoQ
  

Re: [Goanet] Trashing the Magic of Charles Correa

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Hi Dom,

I couldn't quite follow your line of thought.
Your choice of words is intriguing but also more cryptic than clear.
What are 'ancestral perceptions'? And what has 'astral' to do with them?
You then name three architects, including a legendary Egyptian and move on to 
Fr Jose Vaz, now a saint. No black or brown Catholic can become a saint without 
formal approval by the holy white guys at the Vatican. 

It is true that it took nearly three centuries for Vaz to become saint. 
First, a bit of history:
Vaz died in Kandy (Ceylon) in 1711 after a long illness. His cause for 
sainthood was taken up within two years of his death by the Jesuit Bishop of 
Cochin. Vaz's order, the Oratorians, investigated his 'miracles' and sent the 
results to Rome. Pope Benedict XIV was not impressed and dismissed the petition 
in 1742.
The cause was revived at the turn of the 20th century. A great deal of evidence 
on miracles was collected and submitted to the austere Pope Pius XII in 1956. 
More petitions by bishops and laity followed. The Eurocentric Pope was not 
moved. 

[In contrast, the Spaniard, Junipero Serra, who had founded the Franciscan 
missions in California in the 18 century was beatified in 1988 despite strong 
objections from Native Americans and 40 American historians & anthropologists. 
His cause was started just four years earlier, in 1884. 
The European Vatican supports their own compatriots.]

And by the way, Dom, why your special interest in a Basilica for St Vaz? 

Eddie

--

On ‎Tuesday‎, ‎6‎ ‎August‎ ‎2019‎ ‎17‎:‎50‎:‎30‎ ‎BST, dom martin 
 wrote: 

As mortals, our ancestral perceptions are more terrestrial than astral.
However, there are stellar exceptions in the likes of Imhotep, Leonardo de
Vinci, Frank Lloyd Wright, etc.

In the Goan galaxy, we have a glowing deprivation. It took us almost three
centuries before we could huff and puff a fellow Goan up a divine pedestal.
Given that track record, it will likely take another three centuries before
we see the realization of the Basilica of St. Jose Vaz.

However, now that our very own Santo Bhav has a new email address
(st.jose...@heaven.god), perhaps, he can pull some strings, as well as
miraculously jump-start the quadriplegic Goan hamstring, so that Goenkars
can swiftly band together and rubber-band the requisite capital to complete
the Basilica on or before Goanet's Ruby (or Rubaiyat) jubilee!

PS: Some three decades ago, I contributed 50,000 rupees towards the then
Blessed Jose's cause. If that sum was petrified into a CD, it should now be
significant enough to serve as the first official “fator” for the proposed
Basilica. And since musculoskeletal ailments have incapacitated my palette,
I am graciously willing to offer what is left of my corpus as an easel to
fellow artists, so that when they are called upon to dedicate their
creativity to St. Jose's glory, they can oblige without fret, let or
hindrance!

Dom Martin

Re: [Goanet] FRIDAY BALCAO

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Friday Balcao has been active for many years.

Some questions for Roland Martins:
- it would be useful to have a summary of the discussion topics held in the 
last year or so
- how many attend a discussion on average? And what is their typical background?
- what action is taken on the suggestions made and decisions taken at the end 
of the Meeting?

Thanks, Roland.

Eddie
=

On ‎Friday‎, ‎26‎ ‎July‎ ‎2019‎ ‎08‎:‎35‎:‎22‎ ‎BST, Goa Desc 
 wrote: 

-
Welcome to the FRIDAY BALCAO
the fortnightly discussion event since 1999
fridaybal...@gmail.com


Dear Cybergaonkars on Goanet,

We continue with FRIDAY BALCAO
on 26th July from 4pm to 6pm
at Goa Desc Resource Centre
No.11, Liberty Apartments,
Feira Alta, Mapusa.

TOPIC: Making the Markets in Goa - clean, safe and consumer friendly
SPEAKER: Open Discussion

We invite you to express your viewpoint
by attending the FRIDAY BALCAO.
If you cannot attend, then please send
your views and action plan suggestions
by email to fridaybal...@gmail.com

best wishes,

Roland Martins
---
Don't miss out on the discussion. Information is power.
Share it equitably. Lets make things happen in Goa !!

---
Join the mailing list of FRIDAY BALCAO
the fortnightly discussion event since 1999
-

Re: [Goanet] EVEN GOD WILL NOT FORGIVE THESE POLITICAL BANDITS

[BT Yahoo Mail]

 Well known Lawyer Aires Rodrigues has this habit of invoking God's name for 
intervention and he has also appealed to some John the Baptist. He means well 
but have these two ever intervened before? And in any case, where are they to 
be found?
Eddie

On ‎Sunday‎, ‎14‎ 
‎July‎ ‎2019‎ ‎09‎:‎38‎:‎36‎ ‎BST, Aires Rodrigues  
wrote:  
 
 For those eight Catholic MLAs today will be their first Sunday Mass where
the congregation will be the very people that voted in good faith but were
so callously and insultingly betrayed after that very high-handed and
detestable defection.  After having sinned for the greed of Money and Lust
for Power, they may try to seek repentance in vain for the political
prostitution they have indulged in while taking Goa and Goans for a ride.
Fooling some of the people some of the time may be possible but fooling God
at any time is Impossible!

The Anti-defection law came into force in 1985 to deter the evil of
political defections by legislators motivated by the lure of office and
monetary gains. The intent of the law was to prevent corruption by way of
horse-trading.

Our Goa may be India’s smallest State within the world’s largest democracy,
but it has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. We have shown the
nation ways and means to circumvent the Anti- Defection law, with political
prostitution and party turncoats. Our arrogant and deceitful politicians
have perfected the art of betrayal and subversion of the precious
democratic right of the individual for their own personal gain.
Fortunately, the natural law of Karma that says what goes around comes
around will always outsmart the treachery and evil perpetrated by the few
on the many.

What Goa has witnessed is a Jamboree of political hara-kiri sponsored by
the cash rich and power intoxicated BJP ready to take advantage of the
corrupt and the gullible. Politics makes strange bedfellows. Even those in
the world's oldest profession do it better.

St. John the Baptist (Sao Joao) rightly referred to such bandits as a Brood
of Vipers in condemnation of such evil acts against the people by
hypocrites in power.

The prophetic words of St Francis Xavier still ring true: Goa ninguem
levará mas por si acabara (no one will take Goa, but it will be finished by
itself).


Aires Rodrigues

Advocate High Court

C/G-2, Shopping Complex

Ribandar Retreat,

Ribandar – Goa – 403006

Mobile No: 9822684372

Office Tel  No: (0832) 2444012

Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com

                        Or

          airesrodrig...@yahoo.com

You can also reach me on

Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues

Twitter@rodrigues_aires


www.airesrodrigues.com  

Re: [Goanet] Modi Must Be Sweating

[BT Yahoo Mail]

The water crisis will be the great test for Modi and his bigots.

Traditional Hindus don't believe in intellectual or technological skills like 
cloud seeding (as the Chinese do) to attract rain. They appeal directly to 
their many gods through some silly rituals.

For example, they capture a pair of hapless frogs & get them 'married'. That 
apparently pleases the rain gods. Another practice: a few 'holy' men get into a 
barrel of water (one man per barrel) and mumble some formulas to placate the 
rain gods. How more primitive can you get in 2019?

With shortage of water, the Modi gang may succumb to their base instincts and 
prescribe that upper castes have first choice over water. So the Dalits may 
have a rough time.

Eddie

-



On ‎Saturday‎, ‎22‎ ‎June‎ ‎2019‎ ‎08‎:‎00‎:‎17‎ ‎BST, Bernice Pereira 
 wrote: 

Yes for sure! How are they going to deal with a water crisis which is looking 
at us straight in the eye. No crores worth of statues or bullet trains will 
save us from a crisis of this magnitude. The trigger happy or “axe happy” 
Johnies are responsible for denuding acres and acres of trees and forests with 
scant attention to the ecology and environment, thereby leading to rain 
scarcity.

Bernice Pereira

Sent from my iPhone

> On 22-Jun-2019, at 3:08 AM, Roland Francis  wrote:
> 
> The real test of governance is now upon Modi and his gang.
> No longer non-issues like banning beef, harassing Christians and Muslims in 
> isolated pockets, ignoring farmer suicides, weakening a strong economy that 
> the private sector will heal - now comes the heavy stuff that will affect 
> everybody - water.
> Climate change, erosion, randomly destroying the gift of green canopy and bad 
> policy have all contributed to scarce water and late monsoons.
> What if in the near future a series of monsoons are delayed or God forbid a 
> few not arriving altogether? Then let us see the emphasis of Hindutva solve 
> the massive problem that requires the least divisiveness and the most of 
> working together.
> 
> With a population that that of India, the Cape Town Experience will be a mere 
> Boy Scout’s party. Woe to a man like a Modi who thinks governance is putting 
> one group against another. Calamity will have to be redefined if a water 
> shortage like the one hitting Madras city envelopes larger parts of a thirsty 
> country.
> 
> Roland Francis
> 416-453-3371
> 

[Goanet] CANADA'S NIGHTMARE

[BT Yahoo Mail]

 Roland, you may not be aware of the recent (Jun 2019) damning Report 
accusing Canada's Anglo government of race-based GENOCIDE against Indigenous 
Women & Girls.
Wherever there are ANGLOS (UK, US, Canada, Australia, NZ), they strenuously 
keep alive their White Supremacy and maintain racist policies against any 
non-Whites, including the very Natives whose land and resources they have 
grabbed.

The report is the result of an extensive inquiry commissioned by the 
Canadian government itself in 2016. With over 1,200 pages, it paints a grim 
picture of systemic mistreatment of ingenious women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA 
(which stands for two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, 
questioning, intersex and asexual) people. These groups of the indigenous 
population have been singled out as the most vulnerable ones.

The report says:
"The genocide has been empowered by colonial structures evidenced notably by 
the Indian Act (a controversial 1876 law regulating indigenous people's 
reserves in Canada), the Sixties Scoop (a 40-year-old policy of taking 
indigenous or mixed-race children from parents to be adopted by white 
families, discontinued in the late 1980s), residential schools, and breaches 
of human and Inuit, Metis and First Nations rights, leading directly to the 
current increased rates of violence, death, and suicide in Indigenous 
population" .

Read more https://www.rt.com/news/461000-canada-genocide-indigenous-women/

Curiously, PM Trudeau goes on to blame the Catholic Church for abusing 
indigenous children & asks the Pope to apologise.

Eddie

Re: [Goanet] How Britain Stole $45 Trillion from India

[BT Yahoo Mail]

 Indians usually think smart after the event.A brief look at history: a few 
thousand Muslim invaders from distant lands (Persia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan) 
took control of Hindustan for 8 centuries and millions of cowardly Hindus could 
do nothing about it - except play with cows, argue on caste, perform weird 
rituals in temples, apply dots or dashes on their foreheads. Why couldn't they 
organise and expel the invaders? Next came the Brits and it was the same thing 
for another 200 years. Gandhi knew that his countrymen could not fight the 
Muslim or white man; so he wisely chose the non-violent path to independence.No 
use mourning now that the Brits robbed them. Indians should be grateful that 
the Brits  introduced them to  lots of concepts, infrastructure, technology and 
institutions (roads, railways, telephone, postal service, democracy, state, 
parliament, Speaker, universities etc). The Indian National Congress was 
created not by Indians but by a Brit (Alan Hume). Would there be any Indian 
intellectuals without the British? About the Kohinoor diamond: guess what Prime 
Minister Vajpayee said when asked to press the Brits to return the Kohinoor: he 
said India had good relations with Britain. Why spoil them??
Eddie
-On 
Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 06:52:41 GMT, Roland Francis 
 wrote:  
 
 How Britain stole $45 trillion from India - And the Indians are focused on the 
Koh-i-Noor!

https://aje.io/jrh5g

Roland
Toronto
  

Re: [Goanet] Please remove your CORRUPT Director General of Police!

[BT Yahoo Mail]

 Dear David Cleaver,
Thanks for the immense time & trouble you've taken to discover all those email 
IDs and to put forward your case against the DGP.
That a UK man has complained on a Goan public matter will certainly attract 
notice and perhaps some of the powers addressed may sit up and take note. Who 
knows?

But, David, do keep in mind that in Goa and indeed all of India, corruption is 
a way of life, an insidious culture in which virtually all high officials are 
immersed and nothing is likely to deter them from it. On a related matter, 
about a third of the MPs of Delhi's Parliament are known to be tainted by 
criminal connections. But who cares??
And while you are at it, kindly consider raising similar charges against the 
highest officials of the land. Perhaps only the intervention and concern by a 
foreigner & European in an issue of Indian governance might bring about some 
change in this benighted land.
Congrats & good wishes.
Eddie =
On Friday, 26 October 2018, 23:56:11 BST, David Cleaver 
 wrote:  
 
 FAO: *Smt. Mridula Sinha* (Governor of Goa)


Dear Madam,

Bearing in mind the mountain of court cases STILL piling up against this
fraudster, Ajju Sindolli, I am very sure that you have correctly formed the
opinion that my relentless stream of emails on the topic is not simply a
personal vendetta against Sindolli, and that he is indeed someone who needs
to be properly dealt with under the law of India. However, it appears that
your very clear instructions to the Director General of Police are being
totally ignored.

Specifically regarding the issue of Sindolli’s “fake” passport, for which I
have provided all the documented evidence necessary to secure a conviction,
do you not find it a little strange that the Director General of Police has
taken no action?

As I have pointed out many times in the past, Sindolli openly claims that
“all of Panjim Police are in his pocket”. Well, what exactly do you think
he means by that? …. because in my opinion, there can be only one correct
interpretation. The key word in that boastful statement is the word ALL,
which obviously includes the DGP.

So, am I accusing the Director General of Police of being corrupt? …. Well,
yes, of course. Surely there can be no other reasonable explanation, can
there? For some reason, the DGP is failing to take action against Sindolli
– even when he is effectively being given an order from yourself to do so!
Madam, how does that make you feel? Because I know how it makes you look!

Whichever way you view the current state of the legal system in Goa, the
Director General of Police has to shoulder a large percentage of the
responsibility. But quite simply, this man is not doing his job properly ….
and somebody really needs to be asking why not!

In fact, somebody really should be asking how the DGP has found the funds
necessary to build his lavish palace at Sangolda! From what I have heard on
this aspect, *there is a big enough argument for an immediate
Disproportionate Assets case to be registered against the DGP*. Is he being
excluded purely on the basis of his rank? I hope you can see, madam, that
THIS is the basic problem.

(NOTE TO THE PRESS)

Yes, SOMEBODY should certainly be asking these important questions. But
isn’t that what the Press is for? In my opinion, not a single one of the
Press representatives receiving a copy of this email has the balls to
investigate any of these matters and speak the truth. Do you not see that
the purpose of these emails is not simply to get Sindolli jailed? The
bigger purpose here is to try to expose the endemic corruption within your
state’s legal and political framework. The Press should definitely be
playing their part here and should be picking up on every single detail,
especially when I am making serious accusations against top-ranking police
officers. In my opinion, you are ALL totally useless and a disgrace to your
profession. The purpose of the Press is to report on the TRUTH and spread
that TRUTH amongst your people. Instead of that, you are all sitting on
your arses, watching the whole system crumble before your eyes!

*It is time to take proper action against corruption! Start with an
investigation against Dr. Chander and ask him from where he got all his
money! *

End of rant …. for now.



David N. Cleaver
(UK)  

[Goanet] India's rape culture is thriving

[BT Yahoo Mail]

GANGRAPED by 23 men in RAJASTHAN

On 25th September, a woman, 28, told the police in her complaint that while 
standing on the road at 2.30 pm in Bikaner, Rajasthan, two men in a Bolero SUV 
offered her a lift. When she refused, she was forcibly pulled inside the car 
and raped. The horror didn't end there. Tragically, it had just begun.
The men took the victim to a village where they called their friends who then 
raped her one by one. The woman was dropped back at the exact spot from where 
she was picked up at 4 am the next day after an almost 14-hour-long ordeal. It 
turned out that 23 men had raped her.Everyday we hear stories of rape of minors 
and of women - at home or at work, mentally-ill women, women out on the street 
and women anywhere and everywhere. The scale of the problem has desensitised 
us.Narrated by @vanadan5
http://www.dailyo.in/voices/rape-december-16-bikaner-gang-rape-crime-against-women/story/1/19796.html

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (AHRC)  
Report
In Jun 2014, AHRC had issued a Report of the rape situation in India, calling 
India the Rape Republic. Here are excerpts from the Report:
Every 20 minutes, a rape is committed in India; but only 4 out of 10 incidents 
make it to the
country's justice system. Such low reporting of sexual assault, due to legal 
complexities and ideas of ‘honour’ and ‘shame’, make the possibilities of 
justice remote, and create an insufficient deterrent in society.
Recent gory reports, such as the hanging of raped girls, the sexual assault of 
a female judge in her official residence, the pumping of bullets into the 
private parts of a woman after an assault, and the burning of a dead body 
following a gang rape, are sufficient evidence to conclude that the 'system' 
has systematically failed. An
insensitive, poorly funded, inefficient, and unnecessarily hierarchic structure 
called the criminal justice system has proven nothing but a demon to women 
seeking justice. 
+WATCHING PORN IN GOA  - a 
Survey: The survey was conducted in 2014 by Rescue, a Karnataka-based 
organisation promoting cyber-ethics. It found that 40% percent of college and 
higher secondary school boys in Goa watchrape porn and statistically end up 
watching 86,000 rape videos per day,according to a survey.

Clifford, CEO of Rescue,  said:"80% of college and higher secondary school boys 
watch porn and 40percent of them watch rape porn regularly. On an average they 
watch 28 rapeporn videos a week."
The survey, he said, was conducted across 10 colleges in the state. Thesurvey 
also tries to draw a link between watching rape porn videos and thecrime of 
rape in real life.
"76 percent students said thatwatching rapes leads to the desire to actually 
rape someone... Rape isincreasing in India, this is a primary reason," 
Cliffordsaid. "We are in reality raising an army of rapists, thanks 
tonon-regulation of pornography." 
"Fifty percent of students who are watching porn, end up watchingviolent porn. 
100 percent of the students, who watch rape, were alreadywatching lower levels 
of porn," the survey said

- See more at: 
http://www.mid-day.com/articles/shocking-40-percent-goa-college-school-boys-watch-rape-porn--says-survey/15475174#sthash.FpAopMIw.dpuf

 Eddie