Re: Yay Alberto!

2004-10-26 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 02:28 PM Monday 10/25/04, Alberto Monteiro wrote: The Alcantara Base should give Brazil a strong advantage over competitors. Only 2.3 degrees from the Equator, the base is considered the perfect launch site. It is the best place in the world to launch satellites: close to the equator,

Yay Alberto!

2004-10-25 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3948531.stm Brazil has successfully launched its first rocket into space. Sunday's launch came 14 months after an attempt to put satellites in orbit ended in a deadly explosion. That rocket blew up before take-off from the Alcantara launch site in northern

Re: Yay Alberto!

2004-10-25 Thread Alberto Monteiro
The Alcantara Base should give Brazil a strong advantage over competitors. Only 2.3 degrees from the Equator, the base is considered the perfect launch site. It is the best place in the world to launch satellites: close to the equator, dry weater [it almost never rains there] and a huge

Re: Yay!

2004-05-16 Thread Gary Denton
On Sat, 15 May 2004 23:18:39 -0400, JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:39 AM 5/14/2004 +0530 Ritu wrote: BJP with its Hindutva ideology [India is for Hindus, let the muslims be aware that they need the goodwill of the hindus to survive and thrive], In fairness, it is worth noting that BJP

RE: Yay!

2004-05-16 Thread Ritu
JDG wrote: At 10:39 AM 5/14/2004 +0530 Ritu wrote: BJP with its Hindutva ideology [India is for Hindus, let the muslims be aware that they need the goodwill of the hindus to survive and thrive], In fairness, it is worth noting that BJP is steadily toned down its Hundutva rhetoric while

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2004-05-16 Thread Ritu
Gary Denton wrote: The thing I was surprised at was the implied criticisms the reporters who covered the story here in the US had of Gandhi's Congress Party and the election results. BJP had become: borderline racist, religiously intolerant, tax cuts for large corporations and the

Re: Yay!

2004-05-16 Thread JDG
At 02:08 AM 5/16/2004 -0500 Gary Denton wrote: The thing I was surprised at was the implied criticisms the reporters who covered the story here in the US had of Gandhi's Congress Party and the election results. It is worth noting that the US/Western press was full of implicit criticism of the

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2004-05-15 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Ritu wrote: ... Ritu GCU Ain't Democracy Grand? Thanks for explaining it was an interesting read :o) Sonja GCU: Living in interesting times ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: Yay!

2004-05-15 Thread JDG
At 10:39 AM 5/14/2004 +0530 Ritu wrote: BJP with its Hindutva ideology [India is for Hindus, let the muslims be aware that they need the goodwill of the hindus to survive and thrive], In fairness, it is worth noting that BJP is steadily toned down its Hundutva rhetoric while in government,

Re: Yay!

2004-05-14 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Ritu wrote: ... So this morning, after six long years, I woke up to an India whose next govt wouldn't dismiss secularism as 'leftist appeasement/cowardly reaction', wouldn't offend me by insisting that some citizens live on the sufferance of others, wouldn't infuriate me by acting as if the

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2004-05-14 Thread Dave Land
Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: Is the replacing government well equipped to make changes? Or is it just more of the same but with a different undercurrent? I still don't understand how an originally born Italian can be a well equipped prime minister of the largest democracy in the world.

Yay!

2004-05-13 Thread Ritu
Vajpayee will resign this evening as BJP has managed to secure only 184 seats. Congress should be heading the next govt. It already has 216 seats and needs 54 more seats to be in the majority. BSP, allied with Congress, has 52 seats... Ritu GCU Thrilled To Bits

Re: Yay!

2004-05-13 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 4:11 AM Subject: Yay! Vajpayee will resign this evening as BJP has managed to secure only 184 seats. Congress should be heading the next govt. It already has 216

RE: Yay!

2004-05-13 Thread Ritu
Robert Seeberger wrote: Vajpayee will resign this evening as BJP has managed to secure only 184 seats. Congress should be heading the next govt. It already has 216 seats and needs 54 more seats to be in the majority. BSP, allied with Congress, has 52 seats... Ritu GCU Thrilled