[Goanet] The realities in the middle-east

2009-08-05 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

[Goanet] Fw: AN ODE TO SORPOTEL.

2009-08-05 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

[Goanet] Who is Rita Lobo?

2009-08-04 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

Re: [Goanet] the Israeli eviction of Arabs from their age-old homes in East Jerusalem

2009-08-04 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

Re: [Goanet] Does your doctor judge you based on your color? -CNN

2009-08-04 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

Re: [Goanet] Who the bleep cares about Goan culture?

2009-08-04 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

Re: [Goanet] The Pope's moral blunders on outsourcing S A Aiyar (Times of India)

2009-08-04 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

[Goanet] Who the bleep cares about Goan culture?

2009-08-03 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

Re: [Goanet] Who the bleep cares about Goan culture?

2009-08-03 Thread Mario Goveia
--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Mario Goveia mgov...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Indeed! It seems to me that Selma answered her own question.? The young man did not seem unsure at all.? HIS cultural roots had been successfully transplanted from the old world

Re: [Goanet] Beer for Merv ---

2009-08-01 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

Re: [Goanet] Who the bleep cares about bhas

2009-07-31 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

[Goanet] I hope Obama is not a Goan!

2009-07-31 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

Re: [Goanet] Sexual deviation/deprivation

2009-07-31 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

[Goanet] 'Illegal conversion of land should be dealt with severely

2009-07-31 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

[Goanet] 'Illegal conversion of land should be dealt with severely

2009-07-29 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

Re: [Goanet] Does your doctor judge you based on your color? - CNN.com

2009-07-29 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

Re: [Goanet] To US sponsor a Goa priest.

2009-07-29 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Reader: The Inquisition, a beating stick?

2009-07-27 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Reader: The Inquisition, a beating stick?

2009-07-27 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

Re: [Goanet] Church vs State (formerly Fr Cedric Prakash)

2009-07-26 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training

[Goanet] Casinos in Goa too!

2009-07-24 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is one of Goa's leading NGOs. Sangath is looking to

Re: [Goanet] G'bye Goa: Goan emigration

2009-07-24 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is one of Goa's leading NGOs. Sangath is looking to

[Goanet] G'bye Goa: Goan emigration

2009-07-24 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is one of Goa's leading NGOs. Sangath is looking to

[Goanet] Re-Perspective on Migrants in Goa

2009-07-23 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is one of Goa's leading NGOs. Sangath is looking to

Re: [Goanet] Best way to protect migrant labor kids from snakes

2009-07-23 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is one of Goa's leading NGOs. Sangath is looking to

[Goanet] fwd: Indo-Latin identity of Goa

2009-07-23 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is one of Goa's leading NGOs. Sangath is looking to

Re: [Goanet] Snake bites

2009-07-22 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is one of Goa's leading NGOs. Sangath is looking to

[Goanet] Fr. Cedric Prakash

2009-07-22 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is one of Goa's leading NGOs. Sangath is looking to

[Goanet] Re-Perspective on Migrants in Goa

2009-07-22 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is one of Goa's leading NGOs. Sangath is looking to

Re: [Goanet] Best way to protect migrant labor kids from

2009-07-21 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario wrote: Not only cynical, but pretty callous as well. In the context of Sapna's question, your response says more about how the politically left of center think about their fellow human beings, while pretending to be concerned about them, than anything else you could have written.

[Goanet] Re- Perspective on Migrants in Goa

2009-07-21 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:19:15 +0400 From: Arwin Mesquita arwinmesqu...@gmail.com Mario pls stop changing the Goalposts, Mario responds: The goalposts are still the same. The UAE, US, UK etc. are countries. Goa is a state. You don't seem to know the difference. ARwin wrote: your

[Goanet] Goa - Inquisition

2009-07-20 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:30:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Gilbert Lawrence gilbert2...@yahoo.com Is the forced-labor in the 'Inquisition-suspended period' (1774-1779) what Alfredo De Mello refers; when he MISTAKENLY compares the Goa-inquisition to Stalin's regime? Mario adds: I agree, but how can

[Goanet] Correcting the record

2009-07-20 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario wrote: BTW, Iraq is now a sovereign democracy and a member of the UN Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:34:13 -0400 From: Bosco D'Mello bos...@canada.com Now?? Now?? Now a member of the UN?? Now?? Iraq was admitted to the United Nations on December 21, 1945 [1] Mario explains: Good one, Bosco.

[Goanet] Re- Perspective on Migrants in Goa

2009-07-20 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:24:36 +0400 From: Arwin Mesquita arwinmesqu...@gmail.com I will work and leave the region.. Here in the Gulf whatever happens the local political power,rights.land is protected. No Guarantee migrants will do the same in Goa. Will the USA should open doors to everyone

Re: [Goanet] Best way to protect migrant labor kids from snakes

2009-07-20 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:38:27 +0530 From: Frederick [FN] Noronha * Sapna, The points you raise are very insightful, and seem aimed at helping Goans to better discover themselves :-) Were you into psychoanalysis too? I am sure this post of yours too will rake up a whole lot of

[Goanet] Perspective on Migrants for Goa

2009-07-18 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:06:05 +0400 From: Arwin Mesquita arwinmesqu...@gmail.com An argument we sometimes hear, is that Goa needs Migrants as Migrants are doing jobs that Goans do not want to do! I want to put this into perspective: Surely this is true but then, there are un-necessary

[Goanet] The perils of unbridled growth --- my article in Herald today

2009-07-18 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:31:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Samir Kelekar samir_kele...@yahoo.com http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=24632cid=14 Excerpt: The pursuit of success in the modern world can lead you into a dangerous dead end, points out SAMIR KELEKAR. Mario reacts: WHT? This from

Re: [Goanet] vzaar Video Dispatches: terror in Mumbai

2009-07-17 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:27:13 + From: Naguesh Bhatcar sgbhat...@hotmail.com If the Indian authorities were tracking the phone calls, why did they not jam or disable the networks? Mario responds: According to reports I read, the Indian authorities did not have phone jamming equipment.

Re: [Goanet] Pursuing Homoeopathy

2009-07-16 Thread Mario Goveia
Santosh Helekar wrote: This is hilarious. Accepting one unscientific ritual and rejecting another appears to be based entirely on quirky personal tastes, faiths, moods, whims and fancies. I am tempted to provide a list of all the fantastic quack practices to find out which ones are to be

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Reader: The Inquisition, a beating stick?

2009-07-15 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:42:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com I am not quite sure what this devil's advocacy of Noronha is all about. Mario observes: Hey, Santosh, What about devil's advocate do you fail to understand? By his own admission, Noronha is obviously

[Goanet] Warning for Goans in Blighty

2009-07-15 Thread Mario Goveia
I hope we never get to this point in the USA. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1199714/A-9-month-wait-arthritis-treatment-Delay-mean-lifetime-agony-victims.html Excerpt: Thousands of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers face a lifetime of agony because they are not being treated quickly

Re: [Goanet] Foreigners buying properties in Goa

2009-07-15 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:48:16 -0400 From: Pandu Lampiao pan...@gmail.com I yam a meaty fellow myself (sent you a picture) and can run fast too (lots of practice after all the pre-dawn coconut raidsfrom the days when coconut prices were high and smokes were free. Mario responds: Good

[Goanet] Foreigners buying property in Goa - Whaat ?

2009-07-14 Thread Mario Goveia
roland.fran...@gmail.com There is Mario Goveia of the US who is the self-appointed voice of truth, peace and reason and an enduring friend of George Bush. Mario responds: Someone needs to set the record straight and scatter the crabs when they come out from under the rocks in my never-humble

Re: [Goanet] Foreigners buying properties in Goa

2009-07-14 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:15:02 -0400 From: Pandu Lampiao pan...@gmail.com say do mention me in your inheritance if you plan to gherao them Ruskos. Be brave and wish you all the best. It sometimes pays to be wise and avoid confrontation. If I were you, I would take my savings and hide under

[Goanet] The Accidental Activist - This Land is my Land

2009-07-13 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:09:51 -0400 From: Venita Coelho venitacoe...@gmail.com Across India the burning question is - who has a right over the land? People who have lived for generations on their land, tilled it, nurtured it - or the government? Mario observes: Only in a totalitarian

[Goanet] Various issues in Goa

2009-07-13 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:01:41 +0530 From: Ana Maria de souza-Goswami anamari...@dataone.in If we have all these problems DO NOT BLAME ON MIGRANT WORKERS, blame on our Goans, who are selling their houses, land and moving into apartments. Why for a few bucks more. Mario observes: Ana Maria,

[Goanet] Foreigners buying land in Goa and all that trash....

2009-07-12 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:50:32 +0100 From: Carmen Miranda carmitamira...@gmail.com Rice fields and wells are being destroyed and dried up systematically, forests are being cut, precious water tables are being polluted and emptied by the irresponsible mining process and I could go on, and

[Goanet] foreigners buying land in Goa

2009-07-11 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: 10 Jul 2009 17:04:32 - From: jane gillian rodrigues janerodrig...@rediffmail.com Dear Goankars, Since Gabriel and some other Goanetters, are in favour of foreigners buying property in Goa, all Goans will hold him, and his gang, responsible for any problems in Goa, leading to loss

Re: [Goanet] May be Rest in Darkness_McNamara: From the Tokyo Firestorm to the World Bank

2009-07-10 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:37:08 -0700 (PDT) From: marlon menezes goa...@yahoo.com I agree with Mario. I don't consider Cockburn credible. But then, I don't consider Mario very credible either. When McNamara himself states regret for the Vietnam war (in his book In Retrospect: The Tragedy and

[Goanet] Foreigners buying property in Goa

2009-07-10 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 06:55:25 -0700 From: Rina Mukherji rina.mukhe...@gmail.com Picking up from what Marshall Mendonza has said about Israelis and Russians cordoning off their property to discourage and keep off local Goans, it reminds me of what was the norm in railway colonies during the

[Goanet] Foreigners buying property in Goa

2009-07-09 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:39:07 +0530 From: Ana Maria de souza-Goswami anamari...@dataone.in How can Roland Francis say people who are coming to goa from India are 'trash'. Mario observes: I think Roland got carried away with his own rhetoric. Ana Maria wrote: Haven't Goans from time

[Goanet] May be Rest in Darkness_McNamara: From the Tokyo Firestorm to the World Bank

2009-07-08 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 19:46:20 -0400 From: Venantius Pinto venantius.pi...@gmail.com May be Rest in Darkness McNamara: From the Tokyo Firestorm to the World Bank by Alexander Cockburn http://www.counterpunch.org/ Indeed McNamara's legacy is of the perverse. Mario responds: Readers of

Re: [Goanet] British citzens buying property in Goa.

2009-07-07 Thread Mario Goveia
Jane Gillian Rodrigues said: Not happy in UK, then ran to Australia, which countrynext? Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 04:19:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Gabriel de Figueiredo gdefigueir...@yahoo.com.au It is not necessarily that grass is greener on the other side syndrome, but sometimes decisions have

[Goanet] foreigners buying proerty in Goa

2009-07-07 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: 7 Jul 2009 10:00:48 - From: jane gillian rodrigues janerodrig...@rediffmail.com Since Gabriel is the ACTIVIST in favour of foreigners buying property in Goa, should every Goan hold him responsible if some problem does take place,in Goa, because of them? Mario responds: Hey, Jane,

Re: [Goanet] foreigners buying property in goa

2009-07-07 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:11:56 -0400 From: Pandu Lampiao pan...@gmail.com Racist apart, its pretty much the Goichi attitude in Kanada no? Mario responds: Hey, Pandurang, It's spelled Canada, yaar, not Kanada. That was your first mistake. You're lucky they let you in, yaar. I hope you were

[Goanet] CRIMINALS SHOULD HAVE NO PLACE IN OUR PARLIAMENT

2009-07-07 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:58:54 +0530 From: Aires Rodrigues airesrodrigu...@gmail.com In the recent Lok Sabha elections 152 criminally charged persons with serious offences have managed to enter Parliament. Though it is deplorable for any political party to give tickets to such tainted persons,

Re: [Goanet] British citizens buying property in Goa

2009-07-06 Thread Mario Goveia
Roland Francis wrote: All things being equal, foreigners are better neighbors - if they are not riff-raff, they have been brought up to respect the law, they will beautify their homes and the houses in the neighborhood will ultimately fetch better prices because of this Date: Sun, 05

[Goanet] Egg breakfast enhances weight loss. [Int J ObesLond). 2008] - PubMed Result

2009-07-06 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:51:40 +1000 From: Con Menezes cmene...@tpg.com.au Egg Breakfast enhances Weight loss. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18679412?ordinalpos=2itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum Excerpt: DESIGN: Otherwise healthy overweight or obese

Re: [Goanet] British citizens buying property in Goa

2009-07-06 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 13:47:59 + From: SANTANO VAZ santano...@hotmail.com there are so many ways NRI goans can help goan comunity but not by selling goa to outsiders, I am sure there are many NRI's who are now experts on garbage bisposals and recycles this will be a best coause to come

[Goanet] Times Of India Group Goes For A Christian Magazine

2009-07-05 Thread Mario Goveia
Times Of India Group Goes For A Christian Magazine FN It’s like an Examiner or The New Leader packed with glossy adverts and printed in full colour. It has articles from pockets of Christian India. And it has some prominent names of journalists of a Christian background splattered across its

[Goanet] Are the Gram Sabhas really democratic?? Are they empowered??

2009-07-03 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:46:31 +0530 From: Dr. U. G. Barad dr.udayba...@gmail.com I found Mario Goveia's personal remarks on Selma Carvalho insensitive. And I think they would divert the attention from her other points. Mario observes: Dr. Barad, INSENSITIVE? MOI? GOD FORBID! What points

[Goanet] 25th June 1975, Imposition of Emergency - India's Most Infamous Day

2009-07-03 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:26:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Vinay Natekar vinaynate...@yahoo.com Her pride and arrogance reached the climax ?during the period of emergency. The sharp decline of moral values in politics and administration that took place in Indira Gandhi's time had never been witnessed

Re: [Goanet] British citizens buying property in Goa

2009-07-03 Thread Mario Goveia
From: Mario Goveia I live in the USA which has perspicaciously become an economic and military superpower by gladly using other people's brains and other people's money and every resident, whether citizen or not, is provided with all the considerable constitutional rights, other than

Re: [Goanet] British citizens buying property in Goa

2009-07-03 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario Goveia wrote: India has traditionally been ultra paranoid of foreign investment for reasons that escape me, because it prevents badly needed investment money flowing into the country. We are seeing this narrow minded attitude in some of the comments on Goanet. Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009

Re: [Goanet] British citizens buying property in Goa

2009-07-02 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 20:44:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Gabriel de Figueiredo gdefigueir...@yahoo.com.au I was able to purchase two properties in the UK without ever having been a UK national Mario observes: Doesn't this depend on the laws of each country? India has traditionally been ultra

Re: [Goanet] Goa's Freedom Fighters

2009-07-02 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:15:09 -0400 From: J. Colaco jc cola...@gmail.com response to the voice of reason on GoaNet aka Missao Zalem: Bringing Mario back to his favourite topic - The Lancet, Volume 364, Issue 9448, Pages 1857-1864 available at

[Goanet] British families buying property in Goa

2009-07-01 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:27:28 +0530 From: Ana Maria de souza-Goswami anamari...@dataone.in 2. A couple friends of mine, both with British passports. She of Indian origin with an OCI card, he a white British with a PIO card have bought a place in Goa in her name. All very legal. Mario

Re: [Goanet] Goa's Freedom Fighters

2009-07-01 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario Goveia wrote: [1] What about since 1961 did you fail to understand, or did you miss the fact that December 1961 is when Goa went from a colonial dictatorship to becoming part of the Indian democracy? Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:32:49 -0400 From: J. Colaco jc cola...@gmail.com The above

Re: [Goanet] Are the Gram Sabhas really democratic?? Are they empowered??

2009-07-01 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:01:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Carvalho elisabeth_...@yahoo.com Soter D'Souza is fooling himself if he thinks that gram sabha disarray is an urban elitist problem created by the ambitions and greed of the rich and famous. When I have a little time I will write a long post on

Re: [Goanet] Goa's Freedom Fighters

2009-06-30 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario Goveia wrote: I could have sworn that all those people lining up across Goa to vote in local, state and federal elections since 1961 were all Goans:-)) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:09:21 -0400 From: J. Colaco jc cola...@gmail.com You could have sworn a lot of things based on your

[Goanet] Goa's freedom fighters

2009-06-29 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:19:20 + (GMT) From: Bernado Colaco ole_...@yahoo.co.uk Goa is occupied without any autonomy. Mario observes: It looks like the news is not getting through to wherever Bernardo lives:-))

Re: [Goanet] No rationality whatsoever

2009-06-27 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:30:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Gabriel de Figueiredo gdefigueir...@yahoo.com.au Well, there *were* checks and balances in place pre-Dec 61. Mario observes: Hey, Gabriel, Everyone knows that checks and balances throughout India can be unbalanced by some well placed checks,

[Goanet] 25th June 1975, Imposition of Emergency - India's Most Infamous Day

2009-06-26 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:45:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Vinay Natekar vinaynate...@yahoo.com 34 Years Back on this day the 25th June 1975 was the blackest day in Post Independence India when Indira Gandhi who heading the dynastic Congress Party imposed an Internal Emergency in India to suppress her

[Goanet] The world lost two towering icons yesterday

2009-06-26 Thread Mario Goveia
The world lost two of its towering icons from the 70's yesterday. Farrah Fawcett finally succumbed after a long and courageous battle with cancer while Michael Jackson collapsed and died under questionable circumstances. Fawcett reminds us of an earlier period where a woman with a smile that

[Goanet] Listen to a 6-year-old prodigy in action

2009-06-24 Thread Mario Goveia
Listen to perfect pitch from a 6-year-old British prodigy: http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/19214/1/ http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/7383/1/

[Goanet] Why can't India be like Thailand?

2009-06-24 Thread Mario Goveia
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=184191 Excerpt: A visit to Thailand takes the Indian aback because the civilisation is so advanced. We're used to landing in cities and discovering that they are more modern than ours, and have superior infrastructure. Indeed, it's not easy for

Re: [Goanet] The Inquisition

2009-06-23 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:34:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Gilbert Lawrence gilbert2...@yahoo.com Not long ago, a poster from Holland wrote to me privately requesting information on the inquisition in Goa. I asked the poster if she had researched the atrocities of the Dutch in its colonies; of which we

[Goanet] Goa's Freedom Fighters

2009-06-23 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:48:47 + (GMT) From: Bernado Colaco ole_...@yahoo.co.uk Tumultuous moments for a few rascal traitors of Goa. Goa was run by Goans and had rule of law. Wonder if there is any today? Mario responds: Bernardo, Thanks for this dispatch from the distant planet of

Re: [Goanet] Goa's Freedom Fighters

2009-06-23 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:13:30 -0400 From: J. Colaco jc cola...@gmail.com Duck the question: Were Goans given the choice to autonomously decide their future? Mario responds: I could have sworn that all those people lining up across Goa to vote in local, state and federal elections since

[Goanet] Oh Historians, History, Church, and Inquisition

2009-06-22 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:04:47 -0400 From: basilio Monteiro basilio.monte...@gmail.com Today the history of Inquisition is a convenient tool in many hands with disparate motives. In some hands it serves to keep the Church forever on the defensive; for others to excuse or justify their

[Goanet] Goa,s Freedom Fighters

2009-06-22 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:02:36 +0100 From: ignatius fernandes iggy.fernan...@hotmail.co.uk I still don't get it, how could Goa have freedom fighters. When I look at history books and the Indian propaganda it was the Indian Union army, navy, and the air force who ousted the Portuguese out of

Re: [Goanet] NEWS: Portugal's seven: Goan freed^m fightrs

2009-06-19 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:51:41 -0400 From: Pandu Lampiao pan...@gmail.com Goan freed_m fight*rs is a lame bunch who are living off handouts. Are they still around? Mario responds: Hey, Pandurang, please put away whatever you are smoking or drinking, yaar - it could probably get you

[Goanet] More about Aussie Racism (or not)

2009-06-19 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:37:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Gabriel de Figueiredo gdefigueir...@yahoo.com.au Copping a fair gobful Andrew Bolt June 19, 2009 UNTIL last week, when a black man and a white man bashed Sunny Bajaj, I thought I could tell a racist thug from a good one. Not that I thought

[Goanet] Put an end to doubts about my identity (hopefully!)

2009-06-18 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:49:28 +0530 From: Sapna Shahani sapnashah...@gmail.com I'm flattered that you looked me up on Google and found that I produced a video news report about the Da Vinci Code movie. I'm sure it's easy to jump to conclusions again that I'm really a Hindu nationalist communal

[Goanet] Does JC exist ? (Was : Put an end to doubts about my identity )

2009-06-18 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:56:40 -0700 (PDT) From: samir_kele...@yahoo.com Now, we have still not got the answer to the question whether JC exists or not. And if he indeed exists, is he a Monis or something else ? :-) Mario observes: The entity known to us as JC provides questions, not answers

Re: [Goanet] Ayurved vs Allopath

2009-06-17 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:06:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com BTW, there is no such thing as allopathy. Allopathy is a bogus term invented by the founder of homeopathy in the 19th century to separate his pre-scientific and unscientific practices with the pre-scientific

Re: [Goanet] Is Indian Humility Virtuous or Despicable?

2009-06-16 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:00:37 -0400 From: Roland Francis roland.fran...@gmail.com Gabriel, My apology for any offence caused to you. There was no intention of doing so. I was being flippant, but it didn't seem to have come out right. No personal insults were intended at all. Mario adds:

Re: [Goanet] Is Indian Humility Virtuous or Despicable?

2009-06-14 Thread Mario Goveia
From: Roland Francis roland.fran...@gmail.com Of course Gabriel, you will want that Goans will be exempt from such an orientation requirement since we do not need to be told how to conduct ourselves and I would totally agree :-)) Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:13:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Gabriel de

[Goanet] Why governments cannot run a business

2009-06-13 Thread Mario Goveia
I recently took issue with the assertions of some that a government run health care system is an efficient way to provide health care for all, and showed that such systems in operation for decades in Canada and Britain have led to growing rationing of serious medical procedures as small groups

Re: [Goanet] Comment about Bom Jesus Basilica among 7 wonders of Portuguese origin

2009-06-13 Thread Mario Goveia
2009/6/12 Sapna Shahani sapnashah...@gmail.com As a non-Goan who's lived here on and off for 20 years, I'm very curious about Goa's history with the Inquisition. How is it that the gory history of Goa's past remains virtually unknown by outsiders or tourists? The Basilica of Bom Jesus is a

Re: [Goanet] The state of US capitalism and Ayurveda medicine

2009-06-10 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 00:41:54 -0400 From: Bosco D'Mello bos...@canada.com The 'respected' Fraser Institute is a right-leaning, conservative think-tank and registered charity. Mario responds: On the other hand, Bosco and his cronies are left-leaning, liberal individuals who have apparently

[Goanet] President Obama's speech in Cairo

2009-06-10 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:28:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Gilbert Lawrence gilbert2...@yahoo.com 1. In the USA, generally liberal pro-Israeli / Jewish groups have teamed up with right-wing conservative / Christian groups. Some in the right-wing religious movement have never liked the idea of peace in

Re: [Goanet] Weather forecasting in North America

2009-06-10 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:31:13 +0200 From: Alfred de Tavares alfredtava...@hotmail.com Arre...Ali...baba! Whatever, then, went wrong in New Orleans??? Mario responds: Now, Tio, wait just a minute. What happened in Nawlins had nothing to do with weather forecasting. The folks down in

Re: [Goanet] The state of US capitalism and Ayurveda medicine

2009-06-08 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario wrote: I wonder if Mervyn has spoken with any Canadians before writing this. If he had he would have discovered that the Canadian quality life style includes being put on a medical waiting list for anything more serious than a hang nail:

[Goanet] Weather forecasting in Canada

2009-06-08 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 22:41:36 -0400 From: Roland Francis roland.fran...@gmail.com Before I get to where I am going, FN's remarks about the meteorologists being mostly wrong in Goa contrasts starkly with their counterparts in Canada where they are mostly right. That too weather forecasting in

[Goanet] Vignettes from the FREE British health care system

2009-06-07 Thread Mario Goveia
These are sentences actually typed by Medical secretaries in NHS (National Health System) Greater Glasgow:-)) 1. The patient has no previous history of suicides. 2. Patient has left her white blood cells at another hospital. 3. Patient's medical history has been remarkably insignificant

[Goanet] Obama's speech in Cairo as viewed from Israel

2009-06-07 Thread Mario Goveia
http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2009/06/the-end-of-americas-strategic.php Excerpt: FROM AN Israeli perspective, Pres. Barack Obama's speech today in Cairo was deeply disturbing. Both rhetorically and programmatically, Obama's speech was a renunciation of America's strategic alliance with

Re: [Goanet] The state of US capitalism and Ayurveda medicine

2009-06-05 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:01:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca Looks like the US focus is on the costs of providing medical services. This is a significant difference from the Canadian focus which is?on providing a quality life style for its residents. Mario responds: I

[Goanet] Obama's speech in Cairo

2009-06-05 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:55:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Gilbert Lawrence gilbert2...@yahoo.com President Obama's speech in Cairo. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/04/obama-cairo-speech-video_n_211210.html Mario adds: In my opinion Obama had good intentions but this was mostly wasted by Obama's

[Goanet] Any goan events in Chicago or Indiana?

2009-06-04 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:59:50 -0500 From: pdeso...@windstream.net Please let me know if there are any goan happenings in Chicago or Indiana this June? Mario responds: Peter, Check this out by visiting, http://goaofchicago.bravehost.com/

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