[Goanet] Pinocchio is alive and well in Moira, Was Another Goebbelsian lie nailed

2010-02-10 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 23:09:45 +0530 From: Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com 1. I never lived in Goa during Portuguese times except for a brief visit when I was a toto. Mario responds: OK. I stand corrected. The point is that you have somehow developed an unhealthy respect for playing second

Re: [Goanet] CACOPHANY IN A CAANSO

2010-02-10 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario wrote: Just like the Cockney Loudmouth, these impotent comments show no understanding of the discussion, which is pretty amazing coming f from foren NRGs who were the butt of the attacks from some RGs afraid they were losing the limelight on doing things for Goa. Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010

Re: [Goanet] CACOPHANY IN A CAANSO

2010-02-10 Thread Mario Goveia
From: Frederick Noronha Guys, some unsolicited advice: at some point in the debate, one or both (unlikely!) will have to give up on last-wordism :-) Mario observes: The last word in a public forum should always be some semblance of the truth. Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:58:22 -0500 From:

Re: [Goanet] Scientific herd mentality has egg on their face

2010-02-10 Thread Mario Goveia
From: Mario Goveia India has formally announced it has lost all credibility with the IPCC, which is the UN body that is a major believer and organizer in scientific consensus on climate change. Jai Ho, Jairam!: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7157590/India-forms

[Goanet] Confus?o in a caanso

2010-02-09 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:05:15 + (GMT) From: Xanno Moidecar xanno_moide...@yahoo.co.uk I just wanted the fusillades that you were directing at each other to be channelled against the real ?enemy?. If my post did not make that clear, I apologise and want to stress here that it was my

Re: [Goanet] Good news for unborn babies in India

2010-02-08 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:42:43 -0500 From: J. Colaco jc cola...@gmail.com Individuals like Salus may wish to contemplate WHY many babies get aborted every year. Mario asks: Why do YOU think so many babies are killed every year, JC, when they could be given up for adoption? JC wrote:

[Goanet] Subject: Indian cry-babies allege racism

2010-02-08 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario Govia: Now we see this news report about how Indians have been treating other Indians IN INDIA. This should give our Aussie members a chuckle:Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 23:19:39 +0530 From: Tony D'Sa tonyde...@gmail.com Really? When an Aussie Chief of Police advises Indians to tone down their

Re: [Goanet] How many researchers are sincere to their research

2010-02-08 Thread Mario Goveia
--- On Sun, 2/7/10, Mario Goveia mgov...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Then we find that their predictions were wrong FOR A WHOLE DECADE THROUGHOUT WHICH THEY WERE TELLING US THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENING. None of the questions

Re: [Goanet] Scientific herd mentality has egg on their face

2010-02-08 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario wrote: India has formally announced it has lost all credibility with the IPCC, which is the UN body that is a major believer and organizer in scientific consensus on climate change.? Jai Ho, Jairam!:

Re: [Goanet] CACOPHANY IN A CAANSO

2010-02-08 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:05:56 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com Guys, some unsolicited advice: at some point in the debate, one or both (unlikely!) will have to give up on last-wordism :-) Mario observes: The last word in a public forum should always be some semblance of

[Goanet] Scientific herd mentality has egg on their face

2010-02-07 Thread Mario Goveia
While we see spirited defenses on Goanet of the scientific herd mentality, ...er, consensus, Thank God that others who have no scientific axe to grind, and have responsibility for a major economy like India, are opening their eyes to what is going on, and taking action. India has formally

Re: [Goanet] CACOPHANY IN A CAANSO

2010-02-07 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 15:07:52 -0500 From: bo...@goanet.org bos...@gmail.com From: Xanno Moidecar Please cease and desist. Turn your firepower on the real enemy. Rogues desecrating the land of our forefathers. RESPONSE: Certainly you know they are impotent; consequently cannot train their

[Goanet] Damning admission by Indian climate change scientist

2010-01-31 Thread Mario Goveia
I have long marveled at how an illogical theory blaming CO2 and not changes in the sun for CAUSING global warming became accepted as a reason for turning the management of the world's economies over to political hacks at the UN. Now the hoax has begun to unravel as damning disclosures of

Re: [Goanet] : Opportunity for Resident Goans to help Save Goa

2010-01-31 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:27:50 +0530 From: Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com Where have I said that I have solved Goa's environmental problems in my post? And where have I said that John Lobo solved the environmental problem in Goa? My exact words were: One of my wife's relations, Mr. John Lobo

[Goanet] We need to Change our Political System

2010-01-30 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:35:06 -0500 From: manuel tavares duk...@bell.net We definitely need to change Goa's Political System. Mario asks: Why? What new system did you have in mind? Eddie writes: But we must ensure that we elect Honest and reliable people to replace the current Corrupt

[Goanet] Opportunity for NRGs to help Goa

2010-01-30 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:38:31 -0800 (PST) From: Carvalho elisabeth_...@yahoo.com Victor Rangel Ribeiro, Francis Newton Souza, Assis de Correira, Armando Menezes Might I also add that you don't have to be an author or painter or activist or politician to contribute to Goa. Being an

[Goanet] Re : SALE OF GOA

2010-01-30 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:10:23 +0400 From: Arwin Mesquita arwinmesqu...@gmail.com Mario; Again as I have said capitalism cannot be allowed an in-discriminate spree; to affect the land local populace negatively I have stated that its has to be controlled and not given a complete Freed Hand;

[Goanet] RGs v/s NRGs ... Diaspora Duels

2010-01-30 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:17:09 +0530 From: Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com At this juncture, I would like to emphasize my stand and that of many other Goans like me. We are not against NRGs per se and I have said time and again, we certainly appreciate the work done by many NRGs who as Vivian

Re: [Goanet] : Opportunity for Resident Goans to help Save Goa

2010-01-26 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario observes Arwin, Kitem mhontai, re? This is a case that has to be tackled by people on the ground carrying hockey sticks, not by long distance.? But, not to worry. I have alerted our local activist colleagues, Tony and Samir, and I'm sure they will do whatever is necessary to push the

[Goanet] SALE OF GOA

2010-01-26 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:40:27 +0400 From: Arwin Mesquita arwinmesqu...@gmail.com It is really unfortunate to know of Goans, actively engaging is the large scale of Goan Land to outsiders, to realise a life of luxury for themselves and their families. It is a well known fact that capitalism

[Goanet] Abortion is first degree murder?

2010-01-25 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:13:06 + (GMT) From: Xanno Moidecar xanno_moide...@yahoo.co.uk I look at my lovely family and I know that if any one of them needed it, I would have absolutely no hesitation in taking recourse to any means whatsoever, to secure their wellbeing. Mario observes:

[Goanet] NRGs who walk the talk

2010-01-25 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:17:11 -0800 (PST) From: Samir Kelekar samir_kele...@yahoo.com It was good to find that there are some NRGs who actually walk the talk. Of course, we know many who just spout hot air. Atrisys Technologies is a Verna based embedded software company. A 10 employee

[Goanet] Abortion is first degree murder?

2010-01-24 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:14:48 + (GMT) From: Xanno Moidecar xanno_moide...@yahoo.co.uk The reason I've reiterated it is because in all the heat and hullabaloo we seem to forget that our beliefs, all our beliefs, held with fervour and faith and inspired by religion or rationality, makes us

[Goanet] Opportunity for Resident Goans to help Save Goa [was, Opportunity for non-Resident Goans, etc.]

2010-01-24 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:34:48 +0400 From: Arwin Mesquita arwinmesqu...@gmail.com Dear Non Resident Goans, This is an opportunity for Non Resident Goan to help Local Goans to save Goa; please read below. Orlando and others were amond the very first activist toare fight against Powerful Builders

Re: [Goanet] From one RG to another

2010-01-24 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario wrote: The problem is not with mining per se but with the environmental destruction and de-forestation caused by open faced mining. In the western countries, such open pit mines are required to be re-landscaped and rehabilitated as a business expense after they have depleted the mine of

[Goanet] Selma chastises the recalcitrant RGs (was, (no subject))

2010-01-24 Thread Mario Goveia
Selma wrote: The paradoxically complex and yet facile topic of Non-Resident Goans versus Resident Goans continued on Goanet. I can think of several Non-Resident Goans, such as Victor Rangel Ribeiro, Francis Newton Souza, Assis de Correira, Armando Menezes, to name a few, who contributed richly

Re: [Goanet] From one RG to another

2010-01-23 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:28:05 +0530 From: Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com Please refer to your earlier posts. You stated that in the west, criminals are caught and put behind bars. Why then is this Geithner character running loose? Mario responds: Because he has not been accused of any

Re: [Goanet] Abortion is first degree murder

2010-01-23 Thread Mario Goveia
Cyril D'Souza wrote: Subject :Abortion is 'First Degree Murder'. Only the mother can protect the child thats in her womb and if the mother herself decides to kill her own? baby who has no means of fighting for its rights then such mothers who are? encouraged and misled by unscrupulous

[Goanet] Terror alert in India

2010-01-22 Thread Mario Goveia
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583612,00.html?test=latestnews Excerpt: Airline passengers across India went through extra security screenings Friday and sky marshals were placed on flights as the government put its airports on high alert amid reports that Al Qaeda-linked militants planned

[Goanet] NRGS and RGS.

2010-01-22 Thread Mario Goveia
using the word 'sarsaparilla'? That is a fruity drink freely available in Australia!!! Tastes great when cultured. Mario Goveia [not, Gouveia] observes: To begin with, do the bug, ...er, chaps, in Goa know what 'sarsaparilla' is? Maybe they do. Secondly, there is about as much

[Goanet] Attacks on Indians are racisit : Australia's ex-Army chief

2010-01-22 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:04:45 -0800 (PST) From: Samir Kelekar samir_kele...@yahoo.com http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Attacks-on-Indians-are-racist-Australias-ex-Army-chief/articleshow/5478936.cms Wonder what argument our resident NRGs have this time. Ex-Army chief has lost his civic

Re: [Goanet] From one RG to another

2010-01-21 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:03:43 +0530 From: Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com http://www.alternet.org/workplace/145181/do_obama_and_geithner_have_the_same_flaw:_accommodation_instead_of_moral_action/ Please read the article in the link given by Mervyn: We can infer: 1. That corruption exists in

[Goanet] Big builders mould pliant Panchayats

2010-01-21 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:26:39 +0530 From: Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com And Mario, I prefer to spell my name de Sa and not D'Sa. Big DADA's Correction: Memo to Tony de Sa Samir Kelekar Here is an illustration of a REAL problem going on right under your RG noses that can be addressed

Re: [Goanet] ABORTION AND PERSONHOOD

2010-01-20 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:57:18 -0800 (PST) From: Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca Abortion is only the proxy for the real issue which is believers v/s non-believers. Mario responds: This makes no sense whatsoever, at least as far as I am concerned for whom abortion has nothing to do with

[Goanet] StyleSpeak: New Decade Resolutions

2010-01-20 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:04:32 -0500 From: manuel tavares duk...@bell.net To ensure that all eligible Goans are registered to vote and also ensure that on election day, they turn up and vote out all corrupt, selfish, and dishonest Members of parliament and vote in honest, courageous and

Re: [Goanet] From one RG to another

2010-01-20 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:22:44 +0530 From: Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com *A lie* well told and *repeated* constantly *becomes* a *truth* to credulous people. This is the tactic that Mario, a proponent of the only-NRGs can save Goa camp. Mario responds: Here what I said in the following

Re: [Goanet] Citizenship issue...

2010-01-20 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:21:42 +0530 From: Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com This is typically the sarsaparilla that Gouveia specializes in. So parents, husbands, wives, relations who invest money or goods or services for their children/ spouses/ relations have half brains by the reckoning of the

[Goanet] Oh, Oh! World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown

2010-01-19 Thread Mario Goveia
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6991177.ece Excerpts: Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim

Re: [Goanet] The Reproductive Rights of Women

2010-01-19 Thread Mario Goveia
Venita Coelho wrote: If we now recognize that a woman is not the property of a man, then the choice of whether to carry a child in her body or not is also hers. If we recognise that the state has no business interfering in the private matter of personal reproduction, then the choice is a

Re: [Goanet] Citizenship issue...

2010-01-19 Thread Mario Goveia
I. Nunes comments: Re: [Goanet] Citizenship issue... NRG's remittances account (conservatively) for upwards of 6% of Goa's GDP. Which is why RGs are encouraged to seek outside employment Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:06:54 +0530 From: Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com Enterprising chaps these NRGs. I

[Goanet] Big builders mould pliant Panchayats

2010-01-19 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:19:11 +0800 From: A C Fernandes gscc...@gmail.com From corrupt, greedy and dodgy Panchayat members from Carmona to Chicalim to Cansaulim, to the Town and Country Planning Department which is on a merry course to approve these mega-projects and construction projects, to

[Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza

2010-01-18 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:01:48 -0800 (PST) From: Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca I picked up this article from The Goan Voice, UK. It mentions stuff about the most embarrassing (to me) Goan in the USA. Warning: This is not for the feint of heart. This is also a primer on how far a person can

[Goanet] Motives V. Opinions, Problems V. Issues, (Was, Indian media ignores Goan's murder in Britian)

2010-01-18 Thread Mario Goveia
Eddie writes: Response: Yes, your motives! Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:56:26 -0800 (PST) From: Samir Kelekar samir_kele...@yahoo.com My motive are clear, open and announced publicly on the net. To me, your motherland cannot be compared to anything else. It is your mother after all, however poor,

Re: [Goanet] From one RG to another an open letter

2010-01-18 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:51:54 +0530 From: Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com They become NRGs with superior powers of preaching to RGs. They can tell us the State is going to the dogs and a few bitches too and blah, blah, blah Mario asks: NRGs have to tell you this? Don't you live in Goa? Can't

Re: [Goanet] From one RG to another an open letter

2010-01-17 Thread Mario Goveia
Gabriel wrote: I have bought and sold property in London, Gold Coast and Melbourne. So have other Goans, Malyasians, Chinese and Vietnamese and other non-white people, resident or non-resident, citizens or non-citizens. There are no WASP-only localities -the first time I have heard it mentioned,

Re: [Goanet] From one RG to another an open letter.

2010-01-17 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:24:28 -0800 (PST) From: lyrawmn lyra...@yahoo.com After having in effect ceded control of North Goa to white foreigners who actively and overtly discriminate against native Goans and Indians as publicized, what does that say of the status quo in Goa, Mr. D'Sa? Mario

[Goanet] Another Indian taxi driver beaten, abused in Australia

2010-01-17 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:56:31 -0800 (PST) From: Samir Kelekar samir_kele...@yahoo.com http://www.ndtv.com/news/world/another_indian_taxi_driver_beaten_abused_in_australia.php Viva Australia! Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:37:48 +1100 From: Salus Correia saluscorr...@gmail.com [Goanet] Aussies

Re: [Goanet] From one RG to another an open letter

2010-01-17 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:16:03 -0800 (PST) From: lyrawmn lyra...@yahoo.com Some well meaning NRGs in their eagerness to help are attempting to reinvent the environmental arena. RE: What are we waiting for posts? Mario responds: You are correct. Because I believe their heart is in the right

Re: [Goanet] Only in America

2010-01-16 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario wrote: IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 1. A JOB, 2. A DRIVERS LICENSE, 3. SOCIAL SECURITY CARD, 4. WELFARE, 5. FOOD STAMPS, 6. CREDIT CARDS, 7. SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE, 8. FREE EDUCATION, 9. FREE HEALTH CARE, 10. A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON 11. BILLIONS OF

Re: [Goanet] 10 Small Ways to Make the World a Better Place - Stepcase Lifehack

2010-01-15 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:44:02 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com Nice list! Specially: * Compliment someone * Give someone a book you?ve read * Send a letter, email, tweet, or text message out of the blue * Teach someone how to do something * Let someone shine * Connect

[Goanet] From one RG to another an open letter

2010-01-15 Thread Mario Goveia
Tony D'Sa wrote: That may be. But you black skinned American/ Britisher/ Australian/ Canadian just try buying property in a WASP only locality. Racial prejudice may not be overt but it is still there. You are still a 'second class' citizen no matter how you console yourself. Date: Thu, 14

[Goanet] Citizenship issue --- what IQ these people have?

2010-01-15 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:15:13 -0800 (PST) From: Samir Kelekar samir_kele...@yahoo.com Even a kid knows that citizenship is the only thing that decides political rights in a country. These guys must have real idiotic level IQ to think that they can make any political difference in any country

[Goanet] The goan connection to the US president (was Poor American)

2010-01-15 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:46:38 -0800 (PST) From: marlon menezes goa...@yahoo.com There is a Goan connection to the current American president. Fitz D'souza (http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-April/176250.html) , in a story told to me at this year's New Year's eve party

Re: [Goanet] fool's paradise

2010-01-14 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:50:39 -0500 From: J. Colaco jc cola...@gmail.com c: Should I just drink carrot juice every day and hope that nothing bad happens to me? Mario observes: The subject line reminded me of this. I wonder how many people are aware of this but a scientific study conducted

Re: [Goanet] Poor American

2010-01-14 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:04:11 -0800 (PST) From: Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca Thanks to the policies of George Bush (43) and co, for the past eight years, the US has been importing more than it exports. It now has no money to pay for its imports and is surviving only by printing?more.

[Goanet] From one RG to another an open letter.

2010-01-14 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario Goveia wrote: Unfortunately, there are also some RG and deshi NRG chest-thumpers who have decided that foren NRGs are a bigger problem than the corruption and mess in Goa, who are completely wasting their time and energy and deflecting attention from what needs to be done. Date: Thu, 14

[Goanet] Interesting story --- US citizen NRG

2010-01-14 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:06:00 -0800 (PST) From: Samir Kelekar samir_kele...@yahoo.com Talking about corruption, there is this Goan friend of mine ( dont want to name him), who went to the US, made enough money, became a US citizen. He then returned to Goa/India, and wanted to start his own

[Goanet] From one RG to another an open letter.

2010-01-13 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:18:35 +0530 From: Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com 1. Each and every one of our RGs is a good-for-nothing waiting only for a hand out from the NRG brothers and sisters and waiting with an open mouth for the next visa to fall from their NRG relations. Mario responds:

[Goanet] Only in America

2010-01-13 Thread Mario Goveia
IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR. IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY. IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT. IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED. IF YOU CROSS THE

[Goanet] Poor American

2010-01-13 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:15:14 +0530 From: Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com There is a tendency among some Goans to look at America with rose tinted glasses. This little joke among one of the forwards I received will put things in the proper prespective. Poor Americans John Smith started the day

Re: [Goanet] Citizenship issue...

2010-01-13 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:17:39 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com I think those who disagree with you have managed to derail your arguments by converting this into a debate over political rights. Mario observes: The only arguments by Samir that need to be derailed are

[Goanet] Climate change politics being challenged by reality

2010-01-12 Thread Mario Goveia
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242011/DAVID-ROSE-The-mini-ice-age-starts-here.html Excerpts: The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the

[Goanet] Fascinating developments on Goanet

2010-01-12 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:11:07 +0530 From: Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com Angry, who me? Says who? Goans who live abroad are not my targets but I am just trying to tell pontificating, holier-than-thou, Toledo (or Mississauga or Swindon or Lisbon or Melbourne)-is-better-than-Goa,

[Goanet] Sour grapes in Goa

2010-01-12 Thread Mario Goveia
Rajan Parrikar wrote: Furthermore, this work is ongoing, we expect to enlist young, energetic Panjim folks to the cause.  It is remarkable how much influence an opportunistic American can wield in Goa if he wants to, when he wants to. Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:22:01 -0800 (PST) From:

[Goanet] Are NRG's the problem in Goa?

2010-01-11 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 19:19:41 -0800 (PST) From: Samir Kelekar samir_kele...@yahoo.com Let us be very clear about it. Ghantis havent discarded their Indian citizenships, unlike some holier than though individuals on this forum. They ought to, and do have more rights than American citizens. Most

[Goanet] Double Standards in Western press

2010-01-11 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:20:32 -0800 (PST) From: Gilbert Lawrence gilbert2...@yahoo.com The point of my post, was the Indian newspaper's witty and pointed message of the cartoon, (no pun intended) regarding the response of the Australian police, was taken as an affront by the Australian

[Goanet] Fascinating developments on Goanet

2010-01-11 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:29:32 +0530 From: Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com Comments addressed to Carmen Miranda: What makes you think we are fighting a losing battle? Is your perception coloured by your Western 'comfort zone' glasses? If you want to do something good for Goa and Goans, then how

[Goanet] Moderation of posts on GoaNet

2010-01-11 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:25:28 -0500 From: manuel tavares duk...@bell.net Although I do not begrudge Mario of his right to air his views, he does not come up with any constructive ideas nor any concrete solutions to any of the problems currently affecting Goa but rather criticizes the efforts

[Goanet] Double Standards in Western press

2010-01-10 Thread Mario Goveia
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

[Goanet] Is Goan Indian?

2010-01-10 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:08:01 + From: Cajetan Alvares cajul...@googlemail.com No matter how much I explain to you, you will never become xanno. Obvious reason being which place you were born in! Therefore xanno or no xanno, if born in Indian subcontinent, now, before or after, no atter what

[Goanet] What are we waiting for

2010-01-09 Thread Mario Goveia
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

[Goanet] Goa and Goans

2010-01-08 Thread Mario Goveia
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

[Goanet] What are we waiting for?

2010-01-08 Thread Mario Goveia
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

Re: [Goanet] Looking for a Goan architect

2010-01-08 Thread Mario Goveia
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

[Goanet] OCI bullshit by Samir Kelekar

2010-01-06 Thread Mario Goveia
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

Re: [Goanet] Rachel Maddow rips Cheney a new hole

2010-01-05 Thread Mario Goveia
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

[Goanet] What are we waiting for?

2010-01-05 Thread Mario Goveia
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

[Goanet] Is India FINALLY getting a handle on jihadi terrorism?

2010-01-04 Thread Mario Goveia
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

[Goanet] A Goan among 8 Indian CEOs at big U.S. companies

2010-01-04 Thread Mario Goveia
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

Re: [Goanet] What Are We Waiting For? (By Carmen Miranda)

2010-01-03 Thread Mario Goveia
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

[Goanet] Humanists celebrate the season

2010-01-03 Thread Mario Goveia
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

[Goanet] What Are We Waiting For? (By Carmen Miranda)

2010-01-02 Thread Mario Goveia
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

[Goanet] Rachel Maddow rips Cheney a new hole

2010-01-02 Thread Mario Goveia
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[Goanet] Who Originated Spammer's Lists? Don't Tell Me it Was a Frustrated Ex-goanetter

2009-12-31 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:27:18 +0530 From: augusto pinto pinto...@gmail.com Unbeknownst to you a whirlwind of correspondence is being generated in cyberspace by current or ex - goanetters. Participants in,  or at least recipients of, this e-correspondence includes the following worthies: What

Re: [Goanet] IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ?

2009-12-31 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:47:30 -0800 (PST) From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com From a neurophysiological standpoint a rudimentary brain begins functioning at 10 weeks of gestation, as measured by the initiation of electrical activity. Cerebral cortical activity begins at 22 weeks of

[Goanet] New report on CO2 in the atmosphere

2009-12-31 Thread Mario Goveia
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Re: [Goanet] IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ?

2009-12-30 Thread Mario Goveia
Averthan avert...@gmail.com wrote: The vast majority of medical opinion holds that a human embryo or foetus is a distinct human person. This should be obvious to anyone with common sense. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:02:46 -0800 (PST) From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com This is pure

Re: [Goanet] Goanetters Meet

2009-12-30 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:50:30 -0800 (PST) From: lyrawmn lyra...@yahoo.com Mr. Goveia, Tsk! Tsk! So unfortunate that your Christmas spirit keeps intruding on the innate impulse to bat and brick attacks. Mario responds: Dear lyrawmn, A Happy Winter Solstice to you as well, and a Happy New

[Goanet] Goa taxi driver hit us with baseball bat

2009-12-29 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:00:07 +0530 From: floriano floriano.l...@gmail.com PS: I am already testing the sharpening tool if you have noticed. PPS: Goa's  Need of the Hour...What's Zat??? Mario observes: Floriano, Instead of importing bogus American slang like Zat, you need to import

[Goanet] Goanetters meet

2009-12-29 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:24:59 -0800 (PST) From: Carvalho elisabeth_...@yahoo.com And Frederick if you want me to attend I want in order of priority. Limo pick-up Pink champagne, rose wine, none of your Port no 5 served in a plastic bottle. prawn pattices. Not that stuff you get in the shops.

[Goanet] IS KILLING UNBORN BABIES A HUMAN RIGHT ?

2009-12-29 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:04:03 -0500 From: Averthan avert...@gmail.com Keeping aside the legal conundrum for the jurists to unravel, it is important that we consider the ethical and social implications of the claim that women have a right to arbitrarily terminate their pregnancies, and that,

Re: [Goanet] Goanetters Meet

2009-12-29 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:06:22 -0800 (PST) From: Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca I hope Uncle Mario will not get a heart attack when he reads this one. I need him alive for another little while so that he gets to see $1,650 gold :-) Mario responds: Young Mervyn, One of the fundamental

Re: [Goanet] Goa taxi driver hit us with baseball bat

2009-12-28 Thread Mario Goveia
Salus Correia wrote: Samir has gone 'bananas'! Pramod Shirodkar is definitely a Goan so please do not link him and spoil the 'good name' of the ghatis. Goans are rapists besides other things. Remove the blinkers. Every community has its bad apples, and Goans are not exempt. Mervyn

[Goanet] Copenhagen Folly

2009-12-28 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:21:36 -0700 From: Rumba_Pete waltzpa...@gmail.com Thank you Mario Goveia, for that excellent link! ( http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/climate-folly-79787117.html) Environmentalists have always wanted to hijack the world with their seriously flawed ideology. In artfully

[Goanet] Goanetters Meet

2009-12-28 Thread Mario Goveia
Carvalho elisabeth_car at yahoo.com Mon Dec 28 09:43:06 PST 2009 Dear Tony, You know I am extremely fond of you but I want to make two things absolutely clear. 1) As a fellow Goanetter, I'm not interested in what upsets Cecil Pinto as just about anything can upset the man. 2) I will never

[Goanet] Conflicts of interest - the dirty politics behind

2009-12-27 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:59:03 + From: Carmen Miranda carmitamira...@gmail.com 1 - There were 192 countries and heads of goverment in the Copenhagen Climate Conference. Fancy you noticing only Mugabe and Chavez! As it turned out Chavez made some very good interventions, but you wouldn't

[Goanet] Subject: Conflicts of interest - the dirty politics behind

2009-12-26 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:43:45 -0800 (PST) From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com If I understand Mario's ideological position on this issue correctly it is the following: 1. He does not deny that there is strong scientific evidence for global warming. Mario responds: Santosh's

Re: [Goanet] Conflicts of interest - the dirty politics behind

2009-12-26 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario wrote: The funniest part of their speeches was when they thrashed capitalism as a failed system, then turned around and demanded that the capitalists pay THEM billions of dollars to clean up their environments:-)) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:29:24 -0500 From: Bosco D bos...@canada.com

[Goanet] Salvador do Mundo have constructed a Santa Claus of recycled material

2009-12-26 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:14:55 -0800 (PST) From: renebarreto goan...@yahoo.co.uk As the world is recovering from the hangover of Copenhagen, this christmas we in Salvador do Mundo have constructed a Santa Claus of recycled material. We hope some of you will visit our Santa in Gangoz in

[Goanet] Subject: Conflicts of interest - the dirty politics behind

2009-12-23 Thread Mario Goveia
oil company is paying Mario Goveia to deny climate change and come up with imaginary cans of worms Mario responds: Should anyone engage in such bluster without a single fact at their disposal?  Isn't this precisely why Goanet needs my lone voice of reason, truth and shanti? I refuse to accuse

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