[Goanet] CONQUEST of GOA 1510

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

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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] Fr Conceicao D'Silva - death of

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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 
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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.
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[Goanet] Fw: The Battle for Konkani and Statehood of Go

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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] 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
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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] 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] Mayor's video on London

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Hi Roland, That was a fine vid but we do have frequent programmes on the 
Wonders of the Solar System etc shown on TV.
Instead let me come down to earth and pass on a video sent a short time ago by 
the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.The link is Watch this video and get a sneak 
peek of the city as it awakens
Eddie

Re: [Goanet] AN OPEN LETTER TO GOA CHIEF MINISTER MANOHAR PARRIKAR FROM AIRES RODRIGUES

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All kudos to you, Aires, for your bold and caustic letter to Goa's smug CM, 
calling him 'corrupt, communal and casteist' to his face. 
But, given the feudal minds of these BJPwalas, you might be unwittingly 
stirring up their wrath & inviting revenge. This land has not had much of an an 
intellectual or diplomatic tradition, so they are unlikely to respond by 
calling for a rational discussion or public debate on the hard issues of the 
day. More likely, emotion may be the driving factor, leading to erratic 
responses, such as a herd of confused cows released before you as you walk on 
the road, or seasoned 'goondas' hired to do injury. 
Many older Christian (and Muslim) Goans may be recalling more tranquil times in 
the State but with an established Hindu majority (and fanatics among them), the 
good old days are probably gone for good.
However, I'd like to propose a rather revolutionary idea of dividing Goa into 
two parts with a soft border - the South as home to most Christians and Muslims 
(like the Catholic Irish Republic) , the North for the HIndus, BJPwalas, cows 
and all. A friendly secession.
More importantly, South Goa should be entitled to a good bit of autonomy to 
conduct things their way and to exclude feudal/vedic groups if they don't 
behave.
Aires, is it such an outlandish idea? What do you think?Eddie

 

On Wednesday, 2 August 2017, 6:27, Aires Rodrigues 
 wrote:
 
Dear Mr. Parrikar,

Two decades ago, like many others, I too held you in great respect while
even working alongside you and the BJP, believing that you were a ray of
hope for Goa. But I had to part company after I was faced with evidence
that you are very corrupt, communal and casteist.

The people of Goa were hoping that you would heed the recent sensible
advice given to you by your dear friend Rajan Parrikar and gracefully pack
your bags. But as you haven’t, I am constrained to write to you this letter
hoping that you will allow Goa to move on.

In 2007 you had publicly vowed that it would be your last election. However
in that greed and lust for power you went back on your own word and
contested yet again in 2012 and became Chief Minister after promising the
people of Goa a Parivartan by way of Good Governance and Zero Tolerance to
Corruption. But given your string of swift U Turns, the people of Goa soon
realised that by trusting you and electing the BJP they landed from the
frying pan into the fire.

In November 2014 with the State engulfed in rampant Corruption, nepotism
and bad governance, you left a messed up Goa in a huff to be the Defence
Minister of India while you continued to deviously operate as the de-facto
Chief Minister reducing the then incumbent Laxmikant Parsekar to a mere
puppet.

After your disastrous stint as Defence Minister, in March this year you
very deceitfully and through all crooked means forced yourself back as
Goa’s Chief Minister despite the people’s verdict having clearly been
against the BJP.

Panaji sadly remains a decaying and sinking city despite you having been
its MLA for over two long decades, thrice the Chief Minister and even went
on to be the Defence Minister of the country. With all the power at your
hands you could do nothing for your State and city. Incredibly, you now
have the audacity to seek yet another term as MLA despite your grim
performance or should we say non performance. This is despicable. Can you
give us one good reason as to why you should be re-elected? Infact there
are manifold grounds including your sheer arrogance why you should be
hounded away. You have now turned awfully rancid and run out of steam with
no ideas or vision flowing.

Over the years while you allowed Goa to sink you have minted a fortune for
your family to merrily feast on for generations. So, Mr. Parrikar, it is
time for you to gracefully pack up and hang up your very soiled boots so
that Goa which today has sadly become a gambling, prostitution, narcotics
and crime destination finally may see some much needed Acche din.

In the words of Abraham Lincoln ‘You can fool all the people some of the
time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the
people all the time”

Hoping better sense will prevail and wishing you a much deserved retirement.

Aires Rodrigues

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Re: [Goanet] Demonetisation cat is out of the bag

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Marshall, there is more to it:
The shift from cash towards digital transactions is being spearheaded by Bill 
Gates and US financial corporations who will profit from the mark up on digital 
payments. Modi, given his feudal mind, has become a willing partner. Control 
digital payments (and remove cash), you can control and monitor everything a 
country and its citizens do and pay for.
The Gates Foundation is a prominent proponent of the global ‘war on cash’, and 
Bill Gates is backed by the big banks and likes of PayPal, Citi, Visa and 
Mastercard who smell huge profits all the way.
Raghuram Rajan, who was until recently Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, 
was chief economist at the International Monetary Fund (2003-07) and 
Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth 
School of Business (1991-2013). He is now back at the University of Chicago.
Rajan is believed to have acted as a mouthpiece for Washington’s strategy to 
corporatise agriculture and get people out of farming in India. Rajan was 
involved in the demonestisation policy, a policy carried out on behalf of 
USAID, MasterCard, Visa etc, with support from the Gates Foundation and the 
Ford Foundation.
[I would added the web link but GoaNet does not accept links !!]
Eddie 

On Friday, 4 August 2017, 3:51, Marshall Mendonza  
wrote:
 

 http://www.tehelka.com/2017/08/demonetisation-cat-is-out-of-the-bag/


   

[Goanet] Did you know? India beat China in the 1962 War [Says school textbook]

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In Hindu Rashtra, anything goes.Turning history on its head, the Sanskrit 
textbook for class VIII distributed in several CBSE-affiliated schools in 
Madhya Pradesh says that India won the 1962 war against China, The Times of 
India reported today.The passage appears in the Sanskrit textbook "Sukritika 
Volume-3" in chapter eight, which is about the achievements of the country's 
first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru."What famously came to be known as 
Sino-India war of 1962 was won by India against China," the book says according 
to the report. "During Jawaharlal Nehru's tenure as Prime Minister, China waged 
war against India in the year 1962. With efforts of Nehru, India defeated 
China."The 1962 India-China war, which began on 20 October 1962, ended a month 
later on 21 November after China declared a ceasefire. It has gone down in 
history as a decisive victory for China.The error in the Sanskrit textbook has 
come to light at a time when India and China are locked in one of the deadliest 
standoffs in decades at the Doklam plateau. In the midst of rising tensions, 
the Chinese media has published editorials reminding India of its defeat in 
1962, with Defence Minister Arun Jaitley retorting that India had "learnt a 
lesson" from the war and the Indian armed forces are "fully capable" today.Read 
more: 
Sanskrit Textbook In Madhya Pradesh Says That India Beat China In The 1962 War: 
ReportEddie

[Goanet] Did you know: the Taj Mahal was built by the Hindus and gifted to Emperor Shah Jahan

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One BK Ayyangar, approached the ASI through an RTIapplication saying that the 
Taj Mahal was really "TejoMahalaya", built by the Hindus and gifted to Mughal 
Emperor Shah Jahan by RajputKing Maan Singh.



 
Claiming to be a historian, one PN Oak said he had written a book"Taj Mahal: 
The True Story", arguing that Taj Mahal was originally aShiva temple gifted to 
Shah Jahan.


Oak had approached the Supreme Court in 2000 on his thesis but the SupremeCourt 
dismissed the case, accusing him for having 'a bee in his bonnet' aboutthe Taj 
Mahal.


The Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed theUnion culture ministry 
to clarify the status of  the Taj Mahal .
Read more 
Clarify whether Taj Mahal is mausoleumor temple: CIC to govt


GENERAL COMMENT
The Hindus (especiallythe BJP/RSS type) have long been feeling inadequate & 
inferior over their insignificantrole in history and have decided to do 
something about it.
 In particular, the Second Millennium sawassorted invaders enter Hindustan 
starting with Mahmud of Ghazni in c 1000 CEand ending with Brexit in 1947. 


The Hindu elites have been smarting at theirfailure to confront and overthrow 
the invaders. As a result, the Hindutva elites(mostly the upper castes) are 
trying hard to make India a global power by aneconomic and military route but 
at the cost of the health and wellbeing of thepoorer people.

The Hindutvalas also have a project of revenge against the Muslims for 
theircenturies of control of Hindustan. In 2002, some 2000 were massacred in 
Gujarat(with Modi as CM) and more recently Muslims are being lynched on flimsy 
proteststo do with cows and beef (Modi is PM). [Mind you, there is no similar 
vengeful programme against the British.The Hindu elites are grateful to the 
British for creating the Indian state& all its institutions. ]


The Hindutvalashave next sought to falsify history:
- they go back to ancient (Vedic) times when dates and data are uncertain 
andclaim glorious accomplishments such as implanting animal organs onto humans 
(asin the case of god Ganesh) and achieving interplanetary travel.
- they distort more recent historical incidents or simply fabricating events.


Examples:
- the Taj Mahal was really a Rajput monument gifted to the Moghuls
- India won the 1962 War by defeating the Chinese.


In HinduRashtra, anything goes –ethics, tolerance or historical truth can be 
dispensed with.


Eddie

 

[Goanet] Vladimir PUTIN sings Blueberry Hill (by Fats Domino)

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Re: [Goanet] CM Parrikar felicitates ‘Golden’ Leon

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Thanks, Carol, for the great news about Leon Mendonca's chess victory at Sochi 
(South Russia).I had no idea that Goa even had a Chess Association.Leon 
deserves the warmest greetings from all people of goodwill.
I can understand GCA President Cabral felicitating Leon but how does this BJP 
joker Parrikar come in the picture? He may be CM but isn't he the guy who 
attended the unlawful meeting at the Airport organised by the BJP Chief/Emperor 
Amit Shah. And he has failed to justify the holding of the meeting which means 
he has no respect for the people of Goa. So are the BJPwalas a lawless lot?
Leon shows much promise and may he have many more successes in his chess career.
Eddie                         [PS  Carol, what is FlashEye?] 

On Thursday, 6 July 2017, 17:34, "ca...@flasheyepr.com" 
 wrote:
 

 Sir,

Greeting of the day!

Below, kindly find the press release for CM Parrikar felicitates 
‘Golden’ Leon


CM PARRIKAR FELICITATES ‘GOLDEN’ LEON

JULY 6, PANJIM: Candidate Master and Geno brand ambassador Leon Luke 
Mendonca was felicitated by the Chief Minister of Goa Manohar Parrikar 
for winning gold at the recently concluded 'World Schools Team Chess 
Championship' at Sochi, Russia.

The Goan chess protégé was honoured in the presence of Union Railways 
Minister Suresh Prabhu and Curchorem MLA and Goa Chess Association 
President Nilesh Cabral in a function held at Taleigao Community hall, 
Taleigao, recently.

The newly elected GCA President Nilesh Cabral congratulated the young 
lad and said, “On behalf of the Goa Chess Association I would like to 
congratulate Leon for achieving this incredible feat and making our 
state proud by winning Gold at the international level,”

“We wish him all the best for the ‘Catalan Chess Circuit’. We hope that 
young Leon inspires more players in the state to take up chess,” 
concluded Nilesh Cabral.

The Goan lad defeated India’s Sadhwani Raunak and Russia’s Sadovsky 
Artem while he drew against Russia’s Vinogradov Dmitry, Tomilova Elena 
and Gasanov Zaur.

Leon was also awarded an additional Gold medal as board prize for 
remaining undefeated throughout the tournament.

  “I am indeed very happy with gold medal and with my overall progress. I 
wish to thank the almighty for my talent, my dearest parents for their 
continued sacrifices and support, the coaches, the Goa Chess 
Association, friends and well wishers for their good wishes and 
blessings always,” said young Leon.

Leon’s teammates Gukesh D also remained undefeated while Pranav V and 
Rakshitta R lost two matches.

Armenia bagged the silver medal while hosts Russia settled for the 
bronze. Altogether 97 teams participated in the event.

Leon also participated at the 'The Alekhine Memorial Grandmasters Open 
Chess Championship' at Voronezh, Russia performing exceptionally well to 
increase his ELO Rating to a formidable .

Leon will now head to Barcelona, Spain to participate in the prestigious 
'Catalan Chess Circuit’.


Pic caption:
Candidate Master and Geno brand ambassador Leon Luke Mendonca being 
felicitated by Goa CM Manohar Parrikar in the presence of Union Railways 
Minister Suresh Prabhu and Curchorem MLA and Goa Chess Association 
President Nilesh Cabral in a function held at Taleigao Community hall, 
Taleigao, recently.



Regards,

Carol Mascarenhas

(FlashEye PR)


   

Re: [Goanet] Goan folks seem so indifferent to on-going local issues. WHY?

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 Joseph rightly asks: why is it that our Catholic Goans are damn good with pen 
and paper writing articles in flowery language in Goan blogs, local Goa 
Newspapers but yet fail miserably to pen even a few lines (protesting) the 
desecration of (Christian) graves?Why indeed?  
On another issue, Advocate Aires Rodrigues has bravely filed a petition against 
the allegedly unlawful BJP-sponsored Meeting at the Airport and the Bombay 
Court  has already responded.
But has Aires received any strong support or commendation from the people? 
   I am not aware of any.  
Both these issues no doubt have the backing (however tacit) of the cow-fixated 
BJP party. Has any CM or senior BJP official cared to explain the Airport 
meeting? Or condemn Hindu acts offensive to minorities (Christians or Muslims)? 
They just stay dumb, preferring tension to winning hearts & minds.
Have you noticed that wherever there are concentrations of minorities in India, 
the Hindu rulers have dispatched their army or special forces - to Kashmir 
(Muslim), North East (Christian), Central India (tribals & Dalits).It might be 
Goa's turn next. If the Goenkars are silent, it may be they are scared of the 
BJPwalas who love bullying minorities.
Eddie   

Re: [Goanet] THE COMBAT AGAINST CORRUPTION AND INJUSTICE MUST NEVER STOP

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You are doing great work, Aires and surely have the support of all people of 
goodwill.What is saddening is so few GoaNet members compliment you or even 
refer to the various issues you've been probing.
I can guess two reasons: 
1) indifference (Goenkar trait, also called susegado?)2) fear of the ruthless 
BJP who rule Goa & have apparently ushered in Hindu Rashtra
But do carry on regardless.
Eddie 

On Tuesday, 25 July 2017, 7:39, Aires Rodrigues  
wrote:
 

 For the last over 40 years raising issues against the illegalities of
successive governments has not been an easy task. Truth hurts but it is
only truth that will always ultimately prevail. On the issues that I have
raised for decades it has been the wrong doings of those in power
regardless of which party has been ruling. During the Congress regime I was
branded as a BJP man, now the BJP may feel the reverse.

I have had nothing personal against anyone about whom I have raised issues
over the years. But when highlighting an issue, it is bound to hurt some
individuals. Have I hurt one too many? One has to have the spine to speak
out against anything that is wrong. People do advise me to take extra
precautions but this I shall not do! I have always led the life of a common
man. I have been attacked many a times, but as the Sufi mystic Kabir said
“Jakorakhe Sai, maar sake na koi” (None can harm him who is looked after by
higher Powers). The dedicated prayers and the abundant love showered by the
common men is what keeps me going. My fans and well wishers across Goa and
around the world are my source of inspiration.

We should never ever compromise or surrender our fundamental right to speak
out openly and candidly against anything that is wrong. Let us never
hesitate in taking the bull by the horn. The cancer of corruption, nepotism
and bad governance in Goa needs to be publicly exposed and acknowledged.
Then the resulting suppurating wound needs to be excised and treated for
the country to be healed and move Forward.

It has and will always be my very firm resolve with added vigour to carry
on highlighting any injustice, corruption and nepotism. Nothing shall deter
me and my commitment in this regard. In fighting injustice one faces a
backlash and more seriously the risk of an attempt on one’s life. Over the
years of fighting against injustice, nobody has been able to intimidate me.
I have never been cowed down by any threats of consequences that I have had
to face for speaking out fearlessly and taking on the powerful and mighty
over a wide range of issues. Even that heinous attempt on my life did not
cow me down but only made me stronger and emboldened my resolve to stand up
against the powers to be.

We need to maintain the spirit and keep on fighting. Life is a very short
voyage, a journey, the end of which we know not. So let’s keep up the
fight. We owe it to Goa, or else posterity may never forgive us for having
silently allowed our once beautiful State to just fester and wither away.

May the care, concern and compassion of every Goan wherever he or she is be
always for Goa.We will all one day depart but our Goa must live. And when
we do have to depart, it should be with a proud sense of accomplishment of
at least having attempted to do something little for our Goa, once the
Paradise of the East. In death, one may be physically gone, but the spirit
will always be around to witness that glorious day when Goa will be truly
liberated from injustice, corruption and nepotism, all sadly a way of life
today.

In the words of Robert Kennedy “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or
acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he
sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million
different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that
down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance”.



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


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Re: [Goanet] From my Archives

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Very interesting.Speaking of caste, where did it spring from?Most agree it 
originated with the Hindus but, with things Hindu, there is no clear, 
uncontested historical narrative. They prefer to grope in the shadows of myth & 
legend - anything outside rational scrutiny.
Here's one account I read:The Hindus venerate an old seer called Manu: who is 
he? When did he live? We don't know and the Hindus can't enlighten us. He is 
supposed to have devised a code or laws to govern society called the Laws of 
Manu. He assigned people occupations according to caste. 
The Rig Veda describes how Brahma, the creator of the world,was born in a 
golden egg. "In order to protect this universe, He the mostresplendent one 
assigned separate (duties and) occupation to those who sprangfrom his mouth, 
arms, thighs, and feet." (The Laws of Manu,24).Manu then added: TheBrahmin was 
his mouth; his twoarms were made of the rajanya(warrior/Kshatriya), his two 
thighs the Vaishyas(traders and farmers), from his feet the shudra(servile 
class).

This classification has been accepted over the centuries. Nobody (scholar, 
academic, philosopher) has rejected it as being weird, ridiculous or 
irrational. No public intellectual or think tank challenges it. No public 
discussion or debate is held.That's the Indian way...
Dr Ambedkar in his book  Annihilation of Caste, argues that the caste system 
makes Hindu society uniquelyincapable of freedom, liberty, equality and 
fraternity. Stated with brutalhonesty, it is basically a primitive(feudal) 
society driven by weird rituals and guided by assorted godmen andgurus. 
Rationalthinking has no role here. 
It required foreigners (the British) to outlaw the barbaric customs of 
sati(burning of widows on thehusband’s pyre) and thugee (the ritual murder of 
innocentpeople to propitiate the gods) in the 18th century.
Naipaul wrote in the 1960s: "Magic and thoughtless rituals are an Indianneed. 
They simplify the world and make up for the intellectual failure – less 
afailure of the individual intellect than the deficiency of a 
closedcivilisation, ruled by myth and ritual."  
Until the rationality comes to be appreciated by the Hindus, modernitywill 
continue elude them.


Eddie
 




 

On Tuesday, 25 July 2017, 17:07, Frederick Noronha 
 wrote:
 

 I'd see it as more complex than that, Mervyn. Caste doesn't seem to be
going away in any hurry. And the human race seems to be thriving on
building and steadfastly sustaining hierarchies of one form or another.
These issues need to be continually studied and talked about. Taking the
liberty of sharing this post on Goanet. Thanks to John for reminding me
about what I had forgotten I'd written!

FN

On 25 July 2017 at 21:30, Mervyn Maciel 
wrote:

> We live in the 21st century and some of these out-dated
>  customs/traditions -
> especially those that portray women in an inferior role should be
> consigned to history.
> Personally speaking, I am ashamed to find that we, who call ourselves
> Christians,still cling
> to the age old and, to my mind, 'obscene' customs of caste and dowry.
>    At the risk of incurring the wrath of some(maybe), I feel equality
> should be
> the name of the game.
>    Though not in any way connected with marriage, I might mention that
> even here
> in Britain, some top women broadcasters have sent an open letter to the
> Director
> General of the BBC, demanding equal pay for men and women who do the same
> job.
> (This was after the BBC published the salaries of top BBC earners - Chris
> Evans being
> the most highly paid -some £2million for a radio chat show.
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> Mervyn Maciel
>
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> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 3:35 PM, John J. D'Souza 
> wrote:
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>> Fred,
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>> FYI - have things changed since ?
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>> *"GOAN WOMEN COMPLAIN" WOMEN IN GOA FIND MARRIAGE CUSTOMS WEIGH HEAVY ON
>> THEM*
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>> For: GOA NEWS
>> Posted by: Fred Noronha, Mon, 29 Jul 1996
>>
>> Panaji: Marriage customs weigh heavily on Catholic brides, and are biased
>> against women coming from the community in Goa. This goes largely unnoticed
>> though, and discrimination comes under a sophisticated guise for a section
>> which appears to be rather 'Westernised' and 'modern', say campaigners of a
>> local women's group who did a study of this problem.
>>
>> "Marriage customs are important indicators, we feel. It reflects the
>> power-play that goes on in the other spheres of a woman's life too," argues
>> lecturer Sabina Martins, a campaigner for one of Goa's womens groups
>> Bailancho Saad, or "Women's Voice".
>>
>> Members of the Saad recently conducted a study based on actual marriages
>> taking place in the predominantly Catholic taluka of Salcete in South Goa.
>> Their conclusions were stark. Behind the glamour of drink-and-eats filled
>> celebrations which carry on for hours together, there is another reality to
>> the marriages taking place here.
>>
>> 

[Goanet] Did you know: Goa came under Hindu Rashtra in June 2017 and many cars 'purified' with cow urine?

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How many know that an All-India Hindu Conference was held at Ponda, Goa on 
14-17 June 2017?
Declaring a Hindu Kingdom or Regime:
A man from the audience calls out “Jaitu Jaitu!”   [meaning?]
All cheer “HinduRasthrum!” 
The man repeats “Jaitu Jaitu,” and the people shout back: "Hindu Rasthrum".

Next came Sadhvi Saraswati, 23, – apreacher with the  Sanatan Dharm Prachar 
Seva Samiti ('sadvi' is presumably a female sadhu).  She sat on the 
stagealongside four fellow ‘gau rakshaks (cow protectors)’.A televisionscreen 
begins to show footage suggesting a cow being culled.
That was her cue to sit up and bow her head in silent prayer. At the end of the 
prayer, she came to the podiumand said in Hindi: “I want to clarify what I said 
earlierthis morning; I ask Hindus to pick up their weapons in defence of the 
cow,our mother.”
Then she adds: "But this is not only for Hindus. Does the cow, our 
mata,differentiate between Hindu and Muslim when giving milk? And anyone who 
dares to hurt hermust be hanged to death!”
The crowd – no more than 120 people excluding the press – isenthralled.
“Jai Hind!”they clap and cheer with fervour. Followed by “Har Har Mahadev!”
The announcer thanks the sadhvi for her “amrut vani” (sweet,nectar-like 
speech). She grins back and is soon escorted out. She accepts noquestions from 
the press.Next came another practice of Hindu Rashtra: car cleaning in a novel 
way.
Three men walkedinto a parking lot at Ramnathi Temple in Ponda. At one end of 
the lot was aline of SUVs, their muddy tyres telling the tale of a long 
journey, and, at theother, cars and heavy vehicles stood neatly aligned, their 
drivers taking a napinside.
Exchanging few words, the three got towork. One started chanting as he circled 
each car; the second sprinkled whatthey later confirmed was gaumutra (cow 
urine) on the roof of all parked cars;the third, carrying incense sticks, 
circled the vehicles twice around all fourmuddy tyres. A fourth man then opened 
all the doors and sprinkled a secondround of gaumutra.
“This is shudhi karan (purifying),”explained Abhijit Nadkarni, a spokesperson 
from Hindu Janjagriti Samiti, whichorganised the convention. This is a free 
service — for all vehicles at theparking lot. Nadkarni said, “Their car needs 
shuddhi karan. We do it to all objects — watches,clothes, sometimes even 
handbags. It’s a spiritual exercise.”
Heemphasised, “gaumutra purifies.” 

Read more 
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/all-india-hindu-conclave-at-goa-event-gaumutra-drives-purification-ride-4709422/Eddie

[Goanet] CRIMES of EUROPE

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Marshall Mendoza wrote:
. What is special in atheism that in the last couple of centuries the most
barbarous lot happened to be atheists like Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Il
Sung, Hitler, etc. who killed and butchered millions and millions of people
and brought misery to the world
He has merely listed the official enemies of the West. But what of the crimes 
of the Christian West? There is lot of material on this subject. Let me quote 
from a great scholar, novelist & philosopher, Andre Vltchek:
Europe has not been built by the exertions and honest labor of the European 
people.  It was built on the enslavement of colonized peoples; it is built on 
the unimaginable horrors visited on those hundreds of millions of men, women 
and children, who were slaughtered mercilessly by the colonial European powers. 
It is built through oppression, terror, and almost exclusively, on theft and 
plunder.

European colonialists ‘Open veins of Latin America’. They stole everything they 
could lay their hands on; in what is now Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile, 
Mexico and so many other places in Latin America. Some of the stolen gold was 
used to decorate the Vatican Churches and basilicas. The Spanish forced the 
native Bolivians to mine the silver. Nearly 10 million perished in the process. 


Europe committed slaughters that are unimaginable in today’s times, like those 
by the Belgian king, Leopold II, who was responsible for around 10 million lost 
lives in Congo, in the days when Congo had just a fraction of the population 
that it has now.


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Re: [Goanet] Largest Ever Child Porn Collection Found In Vatican

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You may be right, FN, that the site quoted by Fidibus is fake after all.
Thanks for warning us. I for one was carried away by the so called 
revelations.I guess we just got to be cautious.
Eddie 

On Thursday, 27 July 2017, 22:08, Frederick Noronha 
 wrote:
 

 Do you guys have some independent source for this story? Has
yournewswire.com got'chaed you? FN

http://realorsatire.com/yournewswire-com/

yournewswire.com
is CLICKBAIT

Sometimes it’s hard to tell if a “news” site is being satirical, or if
they’re just posting fake or incorrect news.

Such is the case with YourNewsWire.com.

Check this article: It Is Now Illegal To Wear An Anonymous Mask In America

Actual report from Arizona Capital Times:

Espinoza and Brown said a security official pointed out a man in a Guy
Fawkes mask and wearing dreadlocks as an agitator, but they said he sat
quietly as the main agitator led chants.

Before this, YourNewsSite also published a video of the late Stanley
Kubrick admitting that he helped NASA fake the U.S. moon landings.

Snopes.com has a great debunking of that.

November 2016 Revision: (You’ll be seeing a lot of these crop around here
and there, since we’ve added additional categories for review — Neither,
ClickBait, and Biased, for example. We resisted adding a
“Questionable/Dubious” category, but it certainly fits YourNewsWire most of
the time. We’re confident of one thing, though: They are certainly
ClickBait.

Thousands Of Russian Troops Surround US Border is a rather alarmist
headline. More to the point, the article cited WhatDoesItMean.com, which is
in all likelihood the same people. They are both connected to the
now-defunct thepeoplesvoice.tv, which apparently ran on a bevvy of fringe
topics and conspiracy theories.

Then there are headlines like Turkey To Assassinate Assad – World Prepares
For World War 3 (ClickBait, complete with bad Photoshop cover image) and
Bernie Sanders Suggests Election Is Rigged, Unendorses Hillary Clinton,
which was only kinda-true. While Snopes disagrees with the rigged
statement, we will give Your News Wire this bit. A system whereby only a
few can determined who runs a country of many is, by our standards,
“rigged” on an abstract level. Meanwhile, Snopes might be arguing more
definitive definition of rigged (suppressed votes, voter fraud). Still,
even in the Your News Wire article and the Sanders Facebook update it
cites, there is no mention of a Hillary un-endorsement

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https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/your-news-wire/

CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE

Sources in the Conspiracy-Pseudoscience category may publish unverifiable
information that is not always supported by evidence. These sources may be
untrustworthy for credible/verifiable information, therefore fact checking
and further investigation is recommended on a per article basis when
obtaining information from these sources. See all Conspiracy-Pseudoscience
sources.

Factual Reporting: MIXED

Notes: Your News Wire publishes some legit news, however most stories are
related to conspiracies and/or simply misleading fake news. Your News Wire
is a clickbait website that is listed on Factcheck.org’s fake news list.
(9/10/2016) Update (7/7/2017)

Source: http://yournewswire.com/

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https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/yournewswire.com
http://www.snopes.com/tag/yournewswire-com/

The last link is the most interesting!

FN



On 27 July 2017 at 05:15, Roland Francis  wrote:
>
> Is God dead?
> Or
> God is not great and religion poisons everything,
>
> Roland Francis
> Toronto.
>
> > On Jul 26, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Fidibus  wrote:
> >
> > time to get rid of pretenders of Go(o)d.
> >
> > http://yournewswire.com/vatican-child-porn-bust/




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Re: [Goanet] Largest Ever Child Porn Collection Found In Vatican

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Thanks, Fidibus, for the news of fresh child sex scandals. Church clerics of 
all ranks right up to cardinal seem fixated on child sex all over the world. 
During colonial times, they have played hell on innocent native children in 
boarding schools run by the Church in the US, Canada, Caribbean, Australia, 
Pacific Islands etc 
So what sort of church do we have? And what happens to the solemn vows the 
clerics take? Essentially it is a European church who set up the admin 
structure and formulated all doctrine and liturgy. The Indian priests were just 
coolies who had to carry out whatever the Vatican ordered. For example, they 
had to put on those ridiculous cassocks, learn Latin & use the Euro-type 
communion wafer. No questions asked.
Returning to the site named by Fidibus, here's a piece on the Polish senior 
cleric  Wesolowski:
---

The videos and photos of child pornography were stored on a computer in the 
office at the Holy See diplomatic compound in the Dominican Republic, where 
Wesolowski served as papal nuncio in Santo Domingo.After being publicly accused 
of procuring child prostitutes last year, Wesolowski was secretly removed from 
his post as papal nuncio in Santo Domingo by Vatican officials hoping to avoid 
an embarrassing public prosecution. Authorities in the Dominican Republic have 
been calling for Wesolowski’s extradition: a court there has opened a case 
against the former Vatican ambassador, and the attorney general wants to 
criminally charge Wesolowski.Officials in Poland, Wesolowski’s country of 
origin, and where he has also been accused of sexually abusing children, are 
also calling for his extradition.According to Vatican detectives, some of the 
horrors found on the former Archbishop’s computer included around 160 videos 
showing teenage boys forced to perform sexual acts on themselves and on adults
--Clearly, the 
'Holy Catholic' Church has lost all credibility and is a bogus institution. In 
fact, a few minutes ago I tweeted the Pope @pontifex and some others  about the 
website and suggested it may be time to close down the Church.Eddie 

On Wednesday, 26 July 2017, 18:21, Fidibus  wrote:
 

 time to get rid of pretenders of Go(o)d.

http://yournewswire.com/vatican-child-porn-bust/

-- 
Rebellion against the norms is Love for the Creation

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[Goanet] CAT out of the Bag

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Advocate Aires Rodrigues continues to render sterling service to the citizens 
of Goa by revealing the recent unsavoury antics of the ruling party (BJP).First 
(Part 1) he informed us about the illegal meeting organised at the airport by 
the BJP Chief/Emperor Amit Shah on 1st of July. He then promptly filed a 
complaint. The Chief Minister of Goa was among those ordered to appear at the 
meeting. Apparently this CM hasn't had the civility to explain to the people of 
Goa how the meeting came about. And how has the local press reacted?
Next (Part 2), Aires filed another complaint against the BJP for defacing 
public property in Goa's capital, Panjim. In his own words, 
"the BJP had blatantly and illegally defaced public property in many parts of 
Panaji by illegally putting upbanners, posters and flags without the requisite 
permissions and further denying the CCP its much needed revenue.This illegal 
and very highhanded act of the BJP was obviously in connivance and collusion 
with the officials of the CCP who conveniently failed to uphold the law...  
Panaji over the weekend had witnessed complete and gross abuse of power by the 
BJP with CCP officials acting as stooges of the ruling party, "
Part 3: the indefatigable Aires didn't stop there. He discovered details about 
the plan for the fateful meeting of 1st July and posted on GoaNet:
" Goa’s Dabolim Airport was meticulously pre-planned four  days earlier while 
maintaining total secrecy knowing that such a meeting was prohibited by law. 
That Airport public meeting was therefore not included in Amit Shah’s two day 
Goa itinerary which was circulated in advance to the press.With Amit Shah 
scheduled to arrive at 11.15 am, the officials of the Electricity department 
and the PWD were there at 9.30 am to quickly set up the stage, red carpet and 
the sound system. 
So despite all this, the very devious BJP today have the audacity to claim that 
the meeting was spontaneous and the arrangements were made at the last minute 
by the party workers."
It is clear that the BJP seniors consider themselves above the law and are 
prepared to organise any event that suits their agenda. And they expect all the 
minions of the state to fall in line. What might they do next? One can 
conjecture that they might order saffron goons or vigilantes at short notice to 
descend on a selected Goa village (or even church) and disrupt an ongoing 
function. An ominous development.Goan Christian folks need to be prepared for 
the worst in a newly imposed Hindu Rashtra.How do Goans react to Aires' 
revelations? Sadly, there's hardly been been any comment on GoaNet. 
Eddie

Re: [Goanet] COMPLAINT FILED OVER ILLEGAL PUBLIC MEETING HELD BY THE BJP AT GOA’S DABOLIM AIRPORT

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Advocate AIRES RODRIGUES has filed a complaint againstthe illegal meeting held 
at Goa Airport on Sat, 01 Jul 17. He said:

“A complaint has today been filedby against the alleged illegal and 
unauthorized public meeting organizedyesterday by the BJP at the Dabolim 
Airport premises which was addressed by BJPNational President Amit Shah.”

==
Goans should be grateful to Advocate Aires Rodrigues for filing a 
complaintagainst the illegal meeting highhandedly held by the BJP national 
chief AmitShah and his party at Goa’s Dabolim Airport. It was a courageous act. 

Aires reminded us in GoaNet that 
“- it’s the first time ever in the history of the country, a public meetingwas 
organized in the high security precincts of an airport;
- the holding of thatpublic meeting within the Goa airport premises was a 
complete and gross abuseof power;
- the illegal public meeting was attended by Goa Chief Minister 
ManoharParrikar, Goa BJP Chief Vinay Tendulkar, and hordes of others herded to 
theairport for the meeting.”



The blatant illegality of the meeting suggests that thepromised Hindu Rashtra 
has arrived – anera in which the BJP Chief can act as Emperor and bypass 
existing laws. The BJPcronies too may be above the law but non-Hindus may well 
have to put up with a lawless regime.



Wewait to hear what happens next. I hope Aires will keep GoaNet informed.

Eddie

 

On Sunday, 2 July 2017, 11:01, Aires Rodrigues  
wrote:
 

 A complaint has today been filed by against the alleged illegal and
unauthorized public meeting organized yesterday by the BJP at the Dabolim
Airport premises which was addressed by BJP National President Amit Shah.

In the complaint jointly addressed to the Secretary of Ministry of Civil
Aviation, Chief Secretary of Goa and the Director General of Police it has
been sought that an FIR be registered against the organizers of that
illegal public meeting besides Amit Shah and all the other dignitaries
present at the meeting as they cannot now claim to be ignorant of the legal
provisions.

In the complaint it has been stated that probably for the first time ever
in the history of the country, a public meeting was organized in the high
security precincts of an airport when the Goa BJP held a public meeting
addressed by party President Amit Shah at Goa’s Dabolim Airport.

In total violation of law, on display was sycophancy at its worst, when
Amit Shah arrived and contrary to the Airport regulations was allowed to
address a public meeting of party workers within the airport premises.

Pointing out that the Goa civilian airport functions within the Naval air
base and is a Defence establishment, in the complaint it has further been
stated that a carpeted podium, chairs for the dignitaries and a sound
system was all set up at the entrance of the Dabolim airport terminal where
Amit Shah arrived at 11.15 a.m. and addressed the public meeting with the
Airport and police officials conveniently looking the other way while the
law was being blatantly breached.

Alleging that the holding of that public meeting within the Goa airport
premises was a complete and gross abuse of power, it has been also stated
that the illegal and very highhandedly organized public meeting was
attended by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, Union Minister Sripad Naik,
Goa BJP Chief Vinay Tendulkar, Ministers and MLAs besides hundreds of
people who were herded to the Airport.

Holding of that public meeting also constituted an act of an unlawful
assembly as defined in Section 141 IPC, by which not only mischief had been
caused but also other people who were arriving or departing from the
airport were restrained by the blockage due to the public meeting, as also
the airport being considered a security installation, no public meeting
could have been held and that it also amounted to a violation of the other
enactments covering vital installations like Airports.

In the complaint an immediate inquiry has been sought to ascertain which
officers were responsible in allowing this illegal public meeting and that
stringent action in accordance with law be taken against the erring
officers for having acted as cronies of a political party, in rank
dereliction of their duty.



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] GOA FOR A WEEK WILL BE MANAGED FROM THE UNITED STATES

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Good info from Aires.So it seems Goa's CM apparently doesn't  trust  1) anyone 
to act as CM in his absence  2) India medical expertise.
A few questions:
- Are we allowed to ask: from what source will be the CM pay the medical bills 
in the US?
- has the CM explained the point of the Meeting held at the airport on the 
orders of BJP Chief/Emperor Amit Shah?- why have Goa's people shown no interest 
in that Meeting?
Eddie

 

On Wednesday, 5 July 2017, 8:22, Aires Rodrigues 
 wrote:
 

 On 6th July Goa’s Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar departs on a week-long
voyage to the United States. Sources within the BJP reveal that the
beleaguered Manohar Parrikar is infact travelling to Donald Trump's kingdom
for some urgent much required medical treatment, though he may briefly
attend a Marathi Cultural fiesta being organized by the Bruhan Maharashtra
Mandal in Detroit on 7th July.



But whatever be the reason for Manohar Parrikar’s absence from Goa, the
Chief Minister while away from the country is duty bound to delegate his
powers to the second in command so that Goa remains afloat.



As was expected the power intoxicated and obsessed Manohar Parrikar has
very highhandedly decided not to designate any of his cabinet colleague as
acting Chief Minister. All this only confirms Manohar Parrikar's sheer
trust deficit in his very own cabinet colleagues. Manohar Parrikar’s skewed
statement that he will be managing Goa’s affairs from United States over
the phone is extremely bizarre to say the least.



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] Does Religion Offer Justice?

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Aren't these Christian beliefs, all concocted by Euro theologians & bishops, 
farcical? We have been fed on myths & fables for too long. Why on earth does 
God need to have a son? To us earthlings, 'son' means the product from the 
physical relations between man and woman. In the Euro Christian case, the 
father is God  but wait - isn't God genderless! So he decides to have 
'relations' with one of his own creatures - Mary, a Jewish teenager. Could 
anything be more weird??
How was this accomplished? We are told that the power from the Most High 
'overshadowed' her and she conceived. Now we are getting into magic and 
fantasy.  Ha, ha. 
But, why go through these spiritual gymnastics?God had created defective 
creatures and he wanted to redeem them. How? As Roland says: through "the cruel 
and unnecessary death of the son."

So after man's redemption, why is the world rotten as ever? Why do people (like 
Trump, Natenyahu and Modi) continue to prosper despite their crimes? Was the 
redemption in vain?The way out of this impasse is for our Asian theologians 
(and there are brilliant ones like John, Amaladoss and Pieris) to devise our 
own Christianity. But would they have the guts and would Europe allow this?
Until then, let's wait for the next redemption. 
The next Mary might be a Goan, who knows?
Eddie
 

On Wednesday, 9 August 2017, 17:40, Roland Francis 
 wrote:
 

 One of the arguments against non-belief in a god or gods or religion is that 
people would get away with injustices if there was no afterlife. Punishment in 
the form of hell (Christianity, Islam) or rebirth to a lower caste of life-form 
(Hinduism) solves that. God is merciful and yet administers firm justice.

Atheists on the other hand say that one can expect that people will sometimes 
get away with crimes against other people and prosper till they die with little 
price (but for one's conscience) to pay. It is an inevitable part of the human 
condition.

That is an honest stand compared to the hypocritical stance of the major 
religions. Islam for example teaches that Allah will forgive anything except 
'shirk' (belief in another God) or 'riddah' (apostasy, a Muslim denying Islam).

In Christianity, you may do anything, yes any crime, no exceptions, and with 
asking forgiveness you will enjoy heaven.

Aside from the fact that no one has any good evidence of heaven or hell, it 
also means that the concept of god's justice tempered with mercy is a fallacy. 
In Christianity you are told of hell, a punishment from the father, but you are 
offered a loophole of redemption due to the sacrifice, meaning cruel and 
unnecessary death of the son.

In human terms, a judge can convict you and with mitigating circumstances can 
give you a lesser term than you deserve. Justice tempered with mercy. With 
condemnation to hell, how is there mercy? In the religious context, afterlife 
believers should admit that for them, justice and mercy are mutually exclusive 
terms.

Roland Francis
Toronto.

   

Re: [Goanet] Demonetisation cat is out of the bag

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Thanks for that, Gabe.So here is a link on the Demonestisation scandal:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/31/indian-independence-forged-in-washington/

It would be good to see it working.Eddie 

On Friday, 4 August 2017, 12:53, Gabe Menezes <gabe.mene...@gmail.com> 
wrote:
 

 Eddie Goanet accepts links but not attachments. What you read from Marshall
was a link!



On 4 August 2017 at 09:26, BT Yahoo Mail <gdig...@btinternet.com> wrote:

> Marshall, there is more to it:
> The shift from cash towards digital transactions is being spearheaded by
> Bill Gates and US financial corporations who will profit from the mark up
> on digital payments. Modi, given his feudal mind, has become
> a willing partner. Control digital payments (and remove cash), you can
> control and monitor everything a country and its citizens do and pay for.
> The Gates Foundation is a prominent proponent of the global ‘war on cash’,
> and Bill Gates is backed by the big banks and likes of PayPal, Citi, Visa
> and Mastercard who smell huge profits all the way.
> Raghuram Rajan, who was until recently Governor of the Reserve Bank of
> India, was chief economist at the International Monetary Fund (2003-07) and
> Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago
> Booth School of Business (1991-2013). He is now back at the University of
> Chicago.
> Rajan is believed to have acted as a mouthpiece for Washington’s strategy
> to corporatise agriculture and get people out of farming in India. Rajan
> was involved in the demonestisation policy, a policy carried out on behalf
> of USAID, MasterCard, Visa etc, with support from the Gates Foundation and
> the Ford Foundation.
> [I would added the web link but GoaNet does not accept links !!]
> Eddie
>
>    On Friday, 4 August 2017, 3:51, Marshall Mendonza <
> mmendonz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  http://www.tehelka.com/2017/08/demonetisation-cat-is-out-of-the-bag/
>
>
>
>


-- 
DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.

   

Re: [Goanet] Fwd: PARRIKAR WILFULLY NEGLECTED PANAJI

[BT Yahoo Mail]

I for one don't understand how the Goa government works.
I read that because they robbed the formation of government from the Congress 
in a very stealthy manner that Parrikar is the CM of Goa.
Could someone explain this 'stealthy manner'? How was it accomplished?Lawfully, 
within the Assembly or in some bazaar or bar?
Also Aires says that Parikar did this and that to promote his interests. 
So wasn't he checked or restrained at all by a single MLA? Was he free to do 
what he liked without anyone objecting?
Eddie


 

On Friday, 18 August 2017, 18:27, Stephen Dias  
wrote:
 

 -- Forwarded message --
From: "ELVIDIO MIRANDA"

PARRIKAR WILFULLY
NEGLECTED PANAJ

ELVIDIO MIRANDA

In the Vision Document for Panaji, 2012, Manohar Parrikar declared in the
cover page `I once again pledge my life and soul to this beautiful city of
Panaji'. Did Parrikar mean what he said or was he making a commitment
devoid of meaning? He had also stated that he would not contest again. 80%
of the promises made in the Vision Document 2012 was not done, so why
should the people of Panaji vote for him again? For 23 long years he has
been representing Panaji, but the majority of the development works have
not turned into reality. So why shouild the people of Panaji repose their
confidence on a politician who cannot keep his word. Also it may be noted
that in 2012 the BJP got 21 seats in the Assembly and they were reduced to
13 seats in the 2017 elections, a very clear mandate against the BJP by the
people of Goa. It was only because they robbed the formation of government
from the Congress in a very stealthy manner that Parrikar is the CM of Goa,
what he does not deserve to be as this is an immoral government, aided and
abetted by the Centre as well as in collusion with the Governor of Goa. All
the people of Panaji should reject him just like his predecessor Laxmikant
Parsekar was rejected with a massive margin of 7000 votes by Dayanand
Sopte. The people of Panaji should not be fooled by the promises made in
the Panaji manifesto by Parrikar as he is not known to keep his promises
and is become a person who makes U-turns for his personal political vested
interests and does not keep the interests of the people at heart. It is
time for Panaji to elect a humble and honest politician.


   

Re: [Goanet] Ram Nath Kovind who?

[BT Yahoo Mail]

The fact is India is not known for producing distinguished statesmen like Lee 
Kwan Yu (Singapore) or Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam).Indian leaders or high officials 
tend to be:
- pompous mediocrities with a king-size ego; intellectual lightweights, bereft 
of ideas, 

- no brilliance, creativity,or grand vision

- lacking social graces, village bumpkins atheart
- humourless, unsubtle; unable to relate to minorities- lacking vitality, at 
public events, poor diction & delivery


It is true that Dr Kalam had some distinction but surely Pranab Mukerjhee was a 
joke. Was he presidential material?  What did he achieve? [In 2009, US Sec of 
State Hilary Clinton objected to Mukerjee being made finance Minister instead 
of Montek Ahluwalia. It was none of her business but she offered her opinion.]
President Pratiba Patil was another joke. Her husband was indicted in a land 
grab case in Feb 2010She was an utter simpleton, a monument to banality.  Some 
of her views:
-  dowry is a curse, that's why girls get killed; killing female infants will 
disturb male-female ratio
- 'If there are no girls, there will not be anymothers, sisters, wives and 
daughters to take humanity forward'.(October 2010);. 
- through virtuous living, goodness will come to the world  [Aug2010]
So will the new candidate Ram Govind be any more distinguished??
Eddie 

On Monday, 19 June 2017, 11:20, Sandeep Heble  
wrote:
 

 Vajpayee gave us Dr A.P. J Kalam, an articulate figure and a towering
personality who inspired all during his tenure in office and outside it.
Then came Pratibha Patil who nobody knew much, except the Gandhi Family who
rewarded her with this prestigious honour for being a loyalist. She came
and went without making too much of a difference. Now we have Pranab
Mukherjee. No doubt a good popular choice and a highly respectable person
in all political circles. And the NDA have just announced the name of Ram
Nath Kovind as their Presidential candidate. Who’s he? A political
appointee and a Governor of Bihar. That's all we know so far. A
Presidential candidate should ideally have been a person with good
leadership qualities, who could inspire the young generation and who has a
futuristic vision for the Country. Has the NDA, which has the numbers,
missed a golden opportunity to give us such a President? We will have to
wait and watch.

regards,
Sandeep Heble

   

Re: [Goanet] NOW RASHTRAPATI BHAVAN TO ALSO BE A BJP DEN

[BT Yahoo Mail]

 
Aires, you are absolutely right. The BJP/RSS halfwits & bigots seem determined 
to appoint assorted mediocrities, peasants, sadhus & the like to high office. 
They have made some yogi fellow the CM of UP and now it's another joker for 
President. Ideally, a President should be a philosopher-statesman, an 
intellectual of standing, one who can formulate an integral vision. [Think of 
Lee Kwan Yu of Singapore or Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam.]
There have never been such leaders in India. Nehru did have some distinction. 
Why? Because the British were gracious enough to educate him in England. But 
sadly most Indian senior politicians come out as tired old men, intellectual 
lightweights,  with poor  communication or negotiating skills and little 
diplomatic flair. 
 They lack the poise, style, vitality, wit or sparkle; facial features seem 
glacial; expression wooden or vacuous, manner charmless; diction poor, delivery 
humourless, content banal. They have little original to say; they just 
regurgitate stock material. And there is little commitment to ethics or high 
principle.And before western leaders, they are deferential and 
self-deprecating.The current leader, Modi, has been dying to meet his hero 
Trump and will be offered a dinner at the White House. 
The price? The purchase of some $2 billion of US military equipment. 
Modi is also due meet the Israeli leader Netanyahu shortly and will be duly 
dined. The price? An arms deal worth about $2 billion. 

The fact is that unless India makes these costly purchases, both US & Israeli 
leaders will ignore him. Mode feels at home with them because, like him, both 
hate Muslims.
Eddie
===On Saturday, 24 June 2017, 18:28, 
Aires Rodrigues  wrote:
 

 The BJP has once again displayed its sheer political bankruptcy by
selecting a very mediocre lackluster and partisan Ram Nath Kovind as its
candidate for the very august post of President of India.


Instead of rising above party politics and choosing an inspiring, bright
and a visionary for the coveted post, Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was
scouting for a Yes-man rubber stamp President found Ram Nath Kovind who
shares the ideology of the RSS and the Sangh Parivar.


After converting all Raj Bhavans across India into BJP dens, now the
Rashtrapati Bhavan will be another BJP super saffron den on par with the
Nagpur one.


Aires Rodrigues

Advocate High Court



Twitter@rodrigues_aires


www.airesrodrigues.com

   

Re: [Goanet] NOW RASHTRAPATI BHAVAN TO ALSO BE A BJP DEN

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Hi Naguesh,India’s tragedy is that it has not produced distinguished leaders - 
philosopher-statesmen like China, Singapore or Vietnam. The usual bunch of 
Indian leaders have tended to be soaked in religious traditions or rituals and 
have shown little intellectual acument. 

Nehru was lucky because the British got him educated at a top institution in 
England where he encountered new ideas and disciplines like History & 
Philosophy which no doubt helped him fashion a new worldview. His fluency in 
English helped him express his new thinking in this foreign language. The 
vernaculars were no match for English.

But subsequent PMs (after Indira Gandhi) did not pass out from world class 
institutions and their performance was predictably and consistently mediocre. 
Quality and excellence have continued to elude Indian institutions and leaders. 
Indian leaders have never been erudite and farsighted enough to compare with 
East Asia.

PM Modi seems basically a peasant or village leader who has picked up modern 
trappings here and there. But he certainly is unable to formulate an integral 
vision of development. He is most at home with sadhus and swamis. He's coarse & 
undiplomatic; he can't open up to minority cultures. The Hindu rulers just send 
the Indian armies or police to control minority regions - Kashmir (Muslims), 
North East (Christians), Central India (tribals).  

It may be worth quoting from Mr Jagmohan’s My Frozen Turbulence published in 
1991.

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.
We need 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 



Eddie 

On Monday, 26 June 2017, 23:26, Naguesh Bhatcar <sgbhat...@hotmail.com> 
wrote:
 

 
Eddie,


Please list any President of India, after Dr. Zakir Hussain, that was not the 
puppet of the party in power in New Delhi.

Perhaps N Sanjiva Reddy and Dr. Abdul Kalam were the exceptions.


NagueshBhatcar





From: Goanet <goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org> on behalf of BT Yahoo Mail 
<gdig...@btinternet.com>
"Ideally, a President should be a philosopher-statesman, an intellectual of 
standing, one who can formulate an integral vision. [Think of Lee Kwan Yu of 
Singapore or Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam.]"



   

[Goanet] BHU (Benares Hindu University) under Hindu Rashtra

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Indian universities have long had a poor international reputation compared with 
East Asia & the West for academic performance and research. For example, not a 
single Indian university has appeared within the top 300 in the annual global 
rankings for higher institutions. Indians may be proud of Delhi's JNU but in 
2014 it ranked 80 among Asian universities.
And now the ignorant bigots from the BJP-RSS ruling hierarchy are determined to 
subject universities to Vedic rules.The last two years have seen massive 
student unrestacross universities in the country because of a systematic attack 
on theautonomy of educational institutions and the freedom of students. Among 
those that have witnessed outrage are:
 FTII, Hyderabad Central University, JNU (Delhi) orNIT (Srinagar). 
Now it is the turn of Benaras Hindu University (BHU) which houses around 40,000 
students.
 Modi’s government has appointed Girish Chandra Tripathias the vice chancellor 
because of his 40 years of association with the RSS. He has openly espoused RSS 
ideology and justifies it  “When the Indian government itself is of the RSS, 
there is nothing wrong in establishing an RSS’ shakha in BHU.“
He promptly expelled renowned socialactivist and Magsaysay award winner 
SandeepPandey for not toeing the Sangh Parivar’sline. 
Does this Tripathi have any academic credentials? What is his specialty?
This is probably not important for the intellectually vacuous babus who run the 
the BJP government and with no clue about University goals and academic 
standards.
The BHU admin has come down hard on the girl students: 
- no usage of mobile phones after 10 pm. 
- no use of 24×7 library at night [ VC has said that “girlswho study in the 
night are immoral,” ]
- women  not allowed to use the bus facility, a service meant for all students 
(as per prospectus)
- women cannot consume meat [ VC says it makes them impure]. Men may have meat.
- student demand for cyber library was refused [Reason: such a library will 
encourage watching pornography. In addition, students need not study anything 
outside the syllabus”]
- women have to sign a pledge not to take part in any protest or agitation
- they are notallowed to participate in any socio-cultural activities outside 
the campus.
- In the name of safety, women have a curfew of 8 pm, while men have none. 
- womenwearing short dresses and skirts will be warned by the administration. 
-Mixing of the sexes is discouraged. VC says “boys and girls hanging out 
together is against Indian values”. 
- Anyone found celebrating Valentine’s Day would besuspended. Finally, the 
Upper castes form the majority of the administrative body, while the positions 
meant for people from the reserved categoriesremains unfilled. There is no 
space for students to question or exercise their rightto dissent and women are 
voiceless.RSS wants  BHU to be the model for every other institution of the 
country.

Read more
 https://thewire.in/67205/bhu-rsss-new-education-lab-open-gender-discrimination/
Eddie
   

[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)
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

[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

   

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)  

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
  

[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] 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
> 

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  

[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] 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

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] 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] 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.

[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.?

[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] 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] 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

[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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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

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.

  

[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

[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

[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

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.

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] 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

[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] 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

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] 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



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[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

[Goanet] HEALTH CENTRE: BJP malevolence at work

[BT Yahoo Mail]

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] 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] 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] Goa scenes

[BT Yahoo Mail]

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






r

[Goanet] Palestinian children held in solitary confinement by Israel

[BT Yahoo Mail]

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

[BT Yahoo Mail]

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.
=

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] 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] 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] 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

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)

++
One can go on but has to stop somewhere.
Eddie

==
-- 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] 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

[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] 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] Pope Francis' banalities

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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 

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

+

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] 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

[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.”


=
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, 

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

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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] 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)


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Eddie

[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

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

[BT Yahoo Mail]

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
-- Original Message --
From: "George Pinto" 
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" 
Sent: Monday, 14 Jun, 21 At 22:40
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.