Re: [Goanet] NaMo's magic & people still supporting him after DeMo

2017-11-09 Thread Patrice Riemens
Aloha, Read in the Guardian after my posting: https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2017/nov/09/the-neuroscience-of-no-regrets-why-people-still-support-brexit-and-trump The neuroscience of no regrets: why people still support Brexit and Trump Many people still strongly support

Re: [Goanet] Modi magic holds, people still back demonetisation: ET online survey

2017-11-09 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 22:13:13 + From: Gabe Menezes To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Subject: [Goanet] Modi magic holds, people still back demonetisation: ET online survey Indians following the pied

Re: [Goanet] India's Scandinavian secret (s).

2017-09-06 Thread Patrice Riemens
On 2017-09-06 08:33, goanet-requ...@lists.goanet.org wrote: Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 16:02:02 +1000 From: "Con Menezes" To: Subject: [Goanet] India's Scandinavian secret. http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160929-indias-scandinavian-secret?ocid=twtvl

Re: [Goanet] India and Pakistan - Change Your Mindsets.

2017-08-14 Thread Patrice Riemens
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 15:25:59 -0400 From: Roland Francis To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] India and Pakistan - Change Your Mindsets. News today says that India's Defence Minister Arun Jaitley declares that "Terrorists in Kashmir are under great pressure".

Re: [Goanet] Demonetization in India ... and elsewhere

2017-08-10 Thread Patrice Riemens
Does Demonetization Work? http://blog.mondato.com/global-demonetisation/ "While the Indian government's dramatic and surprise demonetisation campaign garnered most of the headlines, India is not the only country in the world potentially headed on a path (however long it may be) towards a

[Goanet] Demonetisation cat is out of the bag

2017-08-04 Thread Patrice Riemens
Aloha, One can also read demonetization in India as a war against the poor ('garib hatao' as the spoofed Indira Gandhi slogan went), especially poor women, who were the biggest losers, and took it in their stride, always expecting to get a bad deal in this unfair world. One can also see it

Re: [Goanet] How North India is different from South India (Con Menezes)

2017-08-01 Thread Patrice Riemens
re: Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 10:53:48 +1000 From: "Con Menezes" To: Subject: [Goanet] How North India is different from South India. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go6G6-NUa38 My fav statement when I was resident with Sarai/CSDS in Delhi was "The

Re: [Goanet] DANGERS OF CELL PHONES-----IMPORTANT INFORMATION (Stephen Dias)

2017-07-30 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: (see below) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 07:01:03 +0530 From: Stephen Dias To: Girish Kumar Cc: chief secretary goa , Stephen Dias , "ms-gspcb.goa" ,

Re: [Goanet] Mrs N Fernandes: The woman whose pickles inspired Salman Rushdie and a legion of British soldiers ...

2017-07-07 Thread Patrice Riemens
... and it is from reading Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children that I got the inspiration to make pickles myself. A further anecdote: one day, back in the previous millenium, the former captain of SCI's passenger ship TSS Nancowry came to my house. I let him see a small jar of pickles I had

[Goanet] Paul John, Amrut (Indian whiskies)

2017-07-03 Thread Patrice Riemens
Since the YouTube clips are from 2012, on just hopes the stuff hasn't gone barrel up like so many things Goan / Indian ... I also wonder what the BJP and its Netaji (the guru of Trump and Erdogan) thinks of all this ... Cheers all the same! p+2D! from Oslo, where whisky is _very_ expensive

[Goanet] money laundering ...

2017-06-30 Thread Patrice Riemens
Hi All, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=257wV-AbKaE Funky video! Thanks Fred! Reminded me of my past as 'traveller'. In 1970s Egypt, we hippies had a trick to convert our traveller's cheques (safe, but only negotiable at the bank) into cool $ cash (unsafe, but highly pric/zed on the black

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Goanet (on Facebook) is 9000 members strong

2017-06-25 Thread Patrice Riemens
On 2017-06-25 19:51, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا wrote: If you're on Facebook, please join us there https://www.facebook.com/groups/goanet/ The discussions are Goa-centric, but different from those which take place on the Goanet mailing list (via email):

Re: [Goanet] Michael Lewis - renowned author, enemy of the people (Eric Pinto)

2017-03-10 Thread Patrice Riemens
The full article, in Vanity Fair, is here: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/donald-trump-michael-lewis-the-new-american-board-game When reposting articles, pls always quote source & url! Cheerio, p+5D! Re: -- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 16:00:01 + (UTC) From: eric pinto

Re: [Goanet] main media slowly loosing with their fake news (Fidibus)

2017-02-21 Thread Patrice Riemens
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:33:57 +0530 From: Fidibus To: Fidibus Subject: [Goanet] main media slowly loosing with their fake news https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSJP8k_AxZs "BBC Newsnight Evan Davies a..." This video is no longer available due

[Goanet] Trump and his discontented ... (was Trump's Got A Year (If He's Lucky)/Roland Francis)

2017-02-17 Thread Patrice Riemens
Bonjour, It's easy to be against Trump when you already were ... against Trump. So it's interesting to see how a Trump supporter turns against him, within short time of his presidency, and on ground of straightforward, easy to grasp arguments. One can now hope, and maybe even expect, that

Re: [Goanet] Goanet - Stop Dual Citizenship (Roland Francis) >2

2017-01-30 Thread Patrice Riemens
re: Nein, nein, nein. Eine Nation. Roland Francis Toronto. And why not think about no nation altogether? After all, it's merely a 'memleket' as the Ottomans had well understood in their heydays ... Donald Trump is the personification of closed borders and one nation nationalism - before

Re: [Goanet] Goanet - Stop Dual Citizenship (Roland Francis) >

2017-01-29 Thread Patrice Riemens
On 2017-01-29 16:02, goanet-requ...@lists.goanet.org wrote: Today's Topics: 1. Stop Dual Citizenship (Roland Francis) -- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 23:40:50 -0500 From: Roland Francis To:

[Goanet] Sleeping naked (Con Menezes)

2017-01-26 Thread Patrice Riemens
Reminds me of a book I read when I was young, about the USSR. This sentence stayed in my mind: "l'homme sovietique dort nu" (the Soviet man sleeps naked). ... Cheers, sleep the way you like! p+5D!

[Goanet] engines on fire .... (Boing 747)

2016-09-21 Thread Patrice Riemens
... but happily only metaphorically so ... http://blog.parrikar.com/2016/09/20/engines-on-fire/ B747: it's maker, Joe Sutter, died a few days ago, but his baby is still flying, after 47 years! http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37231980 Happy Aequinox to all! p+2D!

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] What can you do at 22?

2016-08-25 Thread Patrice Riemens
On 2016-08-26 00:24, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا wrote: * Old enough to marry... * Four years older than the minimum age to vote... * Too young to be taken seriously in a job. * Three years beyond your teenage years. * Or... just old enough to be Goanet. Happy

Re: [Goanet] Why is this street food a great social leveller?

2016-07-11 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:05:32 +1000 From: "Con Menezes" To: Subject: [Goanet] Why is this street food a great social leveller? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36732878 --- Colonial times aren't really over, aren't they? (Biiig

Re: [Goanet] The Boris-Brexit Saga

2016-07-06 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 08:02:27 +0100 From: Mervyn Maciel To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Just an aside from the serious discussions on this subject - One British journalist had this to say about the Boris-Gove feud 'The Tory blood-letting

Re: [Goanet] Bacalhau a Gomes de Sa

2016-06-18 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 18:42:51 +1000 From: "Con Menezes" To: Subject: [Goanet] Bacalhau Gomes de Sa. The dish that Driscoll referred to is Bacalhau Gomes de Sa. On our trip to India in 1974 I found the recipe in ?Femina? an Indian

Re: [Goanet] Another Quest: "Where do we Goa from here"

2016-05-27 Thread Patrice Riemens
... (And to smoke more local grass there too...) This book has also a big set of pictures from those "golden days" I purchased my sample as an ebook in amazon (free advertisement) but you might find it somewhere else... Pierre. On 24 May 2016, at 10:59, Patrice Riemens patr...@xs

Re: [Goanet] Another Quest: "Where do we Goa from here"

2016-05-24 Thread Patrice Riemens
Hi All, Reading Luc Sala's collection of essays on festivals, autonomous zones, hippies, etc.(*) triggered one of my old liens of inquiry - yes, 'hippie tourism' in Goa (now in -very- advanced zombie stage I guess). I have noticed, in nearly all reports/remembrances/essays, etc. on the

Re: [Goanet] A Crisis of Indian Students

2016-04-17 Thread Patrice Riemens
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 22:35:30 -0400 From: Roland To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] A Crisis of Indian Students. Can anyone explain the survey of 1900 students (fairly large sample) of 3 large Indian metropolitan cities that shows 50% of them considered

Re: [Goanet] Have a Happy GoaNet meeting!

2015-12-26 Thread Patrice Riemens
) https://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com/tag/dutch-cyberspace-indian-multinationals-xs4all-patrice-riemens-india-research-on-india-hippies-from-hell-goa-amsterdam/ 20 years of Goanet, in 20 bullet points (actually, just PR's forward) http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1412/msg00016.html

[Goanet] Have a Happy GoaNet meeting!

2015-12-26 Thread Patrice Riemens
... next Monday! And enjoy the art of the 'Rembrandt of the East! (or is it the Ruysdael? ;-) And also best wishes to all GoaNetters for 2016! Cheers from balmy Amsterdam (climate Change yeah! 15oC!) patrizio & Dnooos! -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.

Re: [Goanet] A Discussion Regarding Language Re Beef

2015-06-09 Thread Patrice Riemens
Afaik the greatest murderer of cows in Maharashtra is its own M.R.T.C. (the largest bus company in the world). Cheers, p+5D! Vive le steak-frites! Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 22:40:21 +0530 From: augusto pinto pinto...@gmail.com To: Augusto Pinto pinto...@gmail.com Subject: [Goanet] A Discussion

Re: [Goanet] Labour took wrong path and must return to centre, grandees say

2015-05-11 Thread Patrice Riemens
The Centre is not Left - nor is it Left -Francois Mitterand. Cheers, p+5D!

Re: [Goanet] Whose Free Speech? We are not Charlie (V M)

2015-01-19 Thread Patrice Riemens
Hiya, Vivek Menezes' points on Charlie Hebdo are all valid and respectable, and have been made by many, the world over. And that's exactly the problem: Charlie Hebdo was and is not meant for 'the world over'. It is a very parochial French rag, ment and made for a very specific, local audience.

[Goanet] India not-so-shining

2014-11-18 Thread Patrice Riemens
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/world/coal-rush-in-india-could-tip-balance-on-climate-change.html?_r=0 “If India goes deeper and deeper into coal, we’re all doomed,” said Veerabhadran Ramanathan, director of the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at the Scripps Institution of OceanograArguments

[Goanet] What happened to the plans to reopen the Mumbai-Goa passenger shipping service?

2014-07-06 Thread Patrice Riemens
Hai, I was looking at pics of yesteryears, a.o. of the 'Konkan Shakti': http://goenchimathi.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/3488367084_b9d693af3e_o.jpg (I took on it, in 1974) Then I stumbled on this:

[Goanet] Daniel Brook: The Slumdog Millionaire Architect (NYT)

2014-06-22 Thread Patrice Riemens
original to: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/magazine/the-slumdog-millionaire-architect.html bwo Jan Nijman The Slumdog Millionaire Architect Daniel Brook The offices of Hafeez Contractor, India’s most commercially successful architect, are on Bank Street, just around the corner from the

[Goanet] Wall Street Journal trick (re: Behind a Real-Estate Empire, Ties to India's Gandhi Dynasty))

2014-04-19 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: Jim Fernandes amigo...@att.net/ Tycoon in India If you have access to the Wall Street Journal, you may want to read this: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304512504579495611787698756?mod=WSJ_hp_RightTopStories Jim F New York. There is a trick to read the WSJ, when

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest: Brazen copyright violation by Herald (Rajan P. Parrikar)

2014-03-07 Thread Patrice Riemens
1. Brazen copyright violation by Herald (Rajan P. Parrikar) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 17:49:29 -0800 (PST) From: Rajan P. Parrikar parri...@yahoo.com To: Goanet goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Brazen copyright violation by Herald To Goanet - See the photo in this news item,

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] PIN (postal index number) codes for Goa]

2014-02-24 Thread Patrice Riemens
On 24 February 2014 15:17, Patrice Riemens patr...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 24 February 2014 14:07, Patrice Riemens patr...@xs4all.nl wrote: Office Name Pincode District - A.P.Dabolim S.O 403801 South Goa A.P.Terminal SO 403801 South Goa Advalpal B.O

Re: [Goanet] 8 Facts About Goa : Abbe Faria

2014-02-15 Thread Patrice Riemens
8 Facts About Goa That Might Just Blow Your Mind by Dielle D'Souza 07/02/2014 7. One of the great pioneers of modern hypnotism was a Goan Abbé Faria, or José Custódio de Faria, a Goan Catholic monk, was one of the pioneers in the scientific study of hypnotism. He furthered the work of

Re: [Goanet] GOANS ARE NOT ALLOWED ENTRY IN CASINOS: PARRIKAR (Stephen Dias)

2014-01-06 Thread Patrice Riemens
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 11:53:28 +0530 From: Stephen Dias steve.dia...@gmail.com To: Goanet goa...@goanet.org, Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] GOANS ARE NOT ALLOWED ENTRY IN CASINOS: PARRIKAR SHOCKING NEWS FROM PARRIKAR

[Goanet] Coming to a village near you ... the 'yali' syndrome ...

2013-12-18 Thread Patrice Riemens
... or may be it has already arrived. This article in the last week-end's Wall street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304337404579213911452490246 details the delirious (and 'diliterious', as they'd say ... in India) assets inflation represented by the market value

[Goanet] on Ryanair

2013-11-24 Thread Patrice Riemens
Hi, The Dutch daily Het Parool ran a serie of cartoons in its 'S1ngle' comic strip where the (all female) figures where running into all kinds of 'funny' situations with an airline transparently called 'PAYN AIR' Best one: I respected all their bagage rules, but my valet was too heavy: 150

[Goanet] Graham St John interview around his book on the global Goa trance/psy dance movement

2013-09-11 Thread Patrice Riemens
(It all started in Goa after all...) (re-worked from my post on the HippiesfromHell list) Hiya, http://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1308/msg00035.html This link needs some 'contextualisation'. And to start with c+p-ing its content on a text editor, as it turns out as a pack of

Re: [Goanet] Churchill vs Laloo

2013-09-11 Thread Patrice Riemens
1. Churchill vs Laloo (Bernado Colaco) 2. Re: LEENA MEHENDALE HAS TO PROVE HER LAW DEGREE OR FACE ANF.I.R FOR CHEATING (floriano lobo) 3. Re: LEENA MEHENDALE HAS TO PROVE HER LAW DEGREE OR FACE AN F.I.R FOR CHEATING (Gabe Menezes) 4. Tidyness abroad. (eric pinto)

[Goanet] Mount Trash St Mary

2013-08-04 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 00:05:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Rajan P. Parrikar parri...@yahoo.com To: goa...@goanet.org goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] What is wrong with this picture Taken this morning (Sunday) at the Chapel of the Mount Mary, Old Goa.

Re: [Goanet] Was Candeth a racist?

2013-07-22 Thread Patrice Riemens
disagree with Patrice Riemens that the Indian Constitution is racist. However, that is another topic. jc

Re: [Goanet] Was Candeth a racist?

2013-07-22 Thread Patrice Riemens
(1) JC: July 21, 2013: related to an allegation that one of his declarations was racist. I have asked for proof. I have been advised that the proof will be e-forwarded to me tomorrow. I am like Thomas. I will believe it when I see it. And when I do so will you. (2) Patrice Riemens

Re: [Goanet] Was Candeth a racist?

2013-07-21 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:41:34 -0400 From: Jose Colaco cola...@gmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Was Candeth a racist? The Indian Constitution prohibits discrimination against its citizens on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex (Article 15) Is it true

Re: [Goanet] Was Candeth a racist?

2013-07-21 Thread Patrice Riemens
But what was said in that proclamation? Rivers of Portuguese blood? On 21 July 2013 11:11, Patrice Riemens patr...@xs4all.nl wrote: Sorry, I should have added a ;-) to your alleged anglo-indian status. And I simply surmised the white Portuguese got the white glowes treatment. Not so? Were

Re: [Goanet] Was Candeth a racist?

2013-07-21 Thread Patrice Riemens
On 21 July 2013 10:40, Patrice Riemens patr...@xs4all.nl wrote: The Indian Constitution itself is 'racist', since it grants a separate, and protective, status to Anglo-Indians, a category that can only be described as being constructed on 'racist', or at least 'ethnicist' terms since

[Goanet] [Fwd: POLSIS success and fame expert speaks to the Brazilian media on the royal baby]

2013-07-09 Thread Patrice Riemens
For the royals fans + lusophones ... POLSIS success and fame expert speaks to the Brazilian media on the royal baby http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/government-society/departments/political-science-international-studies/news/2013/07/royal-baby.aspx

Re: [Goanet] costs of essential comodities (Nelson Lopes)

2013-06-29 Thread Patrice Riemens
Costs of essential commodities per kg weight Onions at Rs 26-. tomatoes at Rs60.Lady fingers Rs60; Cauliflower Rs 50 a piece Interesting... I can get a cauliflower here in Oslo, at an Indian shop, for almost exactly the same price (a tiny little less actually: INR 50/- is equivalent to NOK

Re: [Goanet] The man behind 18th June

2013-06-19 Thread Patrice Riemens
And six years earlier was the famous appeal by General De Gaulle from London that started the French resistance against the Nazi occupation in WWII ... ;-) Cheers, p+5D! Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:29:06 -0700 From: Anne Ketteringham anne.kettering...@gmail.com To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Ah!

[Goanet] Flickr re-design and its discontents ...

2013-05-26 Thread Patrice Riemens
As U can see not everybody is happy with flickr 'topdown' re-design of its site as per 15.05.2013 ... Original Message Subject: [Nettime-nl] Kafka or Stalin? Yahoo/FLICKR brutal REDESIGN Censorship From:Tjebbe van Tijen via Chello

[Goanet] [Fwd: re: Asado comes to Goa (India)!](was: Goa Church demands beef)

2013-05-14 Thread Patrice Riemens
Date:Tue, May 14, 2013 21:05 To: Patrice Riemens -- Patrice Riemens dijo (el martes, 14 de mayo de 2013 a las 02:44:39 p.m.) PR Globalization marches on ... and on ... (OK excuse the BBQ which PR should read Asado

Re: [Goanet] Off topic: The joys of offshore banking

2013-05-01 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:36:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca To: goanet@lists.goanet.org goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Off topic: The joys of offshore banking Folks, Strangely?enough, tiny Cyprus seems to be sending the correct message to all those who send

Re: [Goanet] BANDA EXPELS GOANS... FROM MALAWI

2013-04-18 Thread Patrice Riemens
Send Goanet mailing list submissions to goanet@lists.goanet.org Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:54:41 +0530 From: Frederick FN Noronha fredericknoron...@gmail.com To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] BANDA EXPELS GOANS... FROM MALAWI (as seen by US diplomatic

Re: [Goanet] German 'Bib' Band

2013-02-27 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:53:48 -0800 (PST) From: Jazz Goa jazz...@yahoo.com To: zz goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] German Bib Band in Goa! Also: Nunc est Bibendum? The Phoenix Foundation Big Band from Germany is funded by their arts council to perform in Goa through an invitation

Re: [Goanet] Rs 7 lakh worth smoke detectors stolen from Central Library

2013-02-11 Thread Patrice Riemens
7. Rs 7 lakh worth smoke detectors stolen from Central Library (Naguesh Bhatcar) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 05:16:28 + From: Naguesh Bhatcar sgbhat...@hotmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Rs 7 lakh worth smoke detectors stolen from Central

Re: [Goanet] Goa Tourism Blues - in perspective

2013-01-05 Thread Patrice Riemens
Goans going gaga at the invasive 'hordes' and considering restrictive measures or outright bans on tourists should take a look at Venezia (Venice, Italy), which has to live with invasions by visitors since the 17th Century, taking Tsunami-esque proportions by this millenium. Tourists outnumber

Re: [Goanet] Why India Invaded Goa (Bernado Colaco)

2012-10-23 Thread Patrice Riemens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRWTzp3RlJk Indian cabinet ministers sure spoke different English then!

Re: [Goanet] Surya... taxi-driver from Mapusa

2012-09-24 Thread Patrice Riemens
Message: 3 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:21:42 +0530 From: Frederick FN Noronha * ? * ??? ??? fredericknoron...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Surya... taxi-driver from Mapusa Was just

Re: [Goanet] Surya... taxi-driver from Mapusa

2012-09-24 Thread Patrice Riemens
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:58:08 +0530 From: joe...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Surya... taxi-driver from Mapusa Hi Rico, Almost on every Monday morning, I had to catch the first taxi leaving from Mapusa to

Re: [Goanet] Gold

2012-09-01 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: Gold did shine, once ! (eric pinto) cf yesterday's Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1872396390444914904577619383218788846.html The Gold Standard Goes Mainstream In the ferment within today's Republican Party, there's a growing realization that America's system of

Re: [Goanet] Can anyone make Goa's cabbies charge by meter?

2012-05-05 Thread Patrice Riemens
Funilly enough, I use the term 'Goa taxi syndrome' to describe the ongoing mess in the liberalised Amsterdam taxi market (where, despite meters, fleecing the unaware is at the order of the day, and very bad manners are offered as bonus) I think the causes are basically the same: too many cabbies

Re: [Goanet] Robert Lanza, M.D.: Does Death Exist? New Theory Says 'No' (Sandesh Anvekar)

2012-04-15 Thread Patrice Riemens
The only funny thing about this post is that 'this kind of junk' is beeing associated with 'ultra left-wing theory' (*). Usually 'extropian' and other 'transhumanist' theory is associated with ... ultra right wing! greetz from Basel, p+4D! (*) a strange description of the Huffington Post by any

[Goanet] Facebook ... in the 90s (of the 19th century!)

2012-03-29 Thread Patrice Riemens
You know the complaints about social media making people far more busy with 'communicating' with distant outsiders rather than with individuals in their immediate surroundings. It wasn't much better in the 1890s in Germany, when the newly launched picture postcards ('Anzichten' in German) were

Re: [Goanet] Bridge over the Neura-Kwai ...

2012-02-20 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: 1. Kangress to build bridge over invisible river (Rajan P. Parrikar) -- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:20:12 -0800 (PST) From: Rajan P. Parrikar parri...@yahoo.com To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Kangress to

Re: [Goanet] Winability, the name of the game

2012-02-09 Thread Patrice Riemens
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:02:40 +0400 From: Eugene Correia eugene.corr...@gmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Winability, the name of the game Winability, the name of the game Eugene Correia . Rats! I thought this was about wine! ;-) Cheers all the same, p+4D!

Re: [Goanet] Andamans

2012-01-18 Thread Patrice Riemens
Without wanting to take sides in what looks like yet another fine goa-goan tiff about who's sitting higher on the moral high ground: I visited the Andamans (and thanks the Shipping Corporation of India's TSS Nancowry even Car Nicobar!) in 1981 for a few weeks, and I must say, I found myself

Re: [Goanet] The Happy Couple That ...

2011-12-02 Thread Patrice Riemens
Both Arthur Koestler and Andre Gorz indeed made together with their companion an end to their lives indeed. regarding the right to suicide, here a note from an utopian society: Nugo The nugo is a metallic capsule an inch-and-a-half long and half-an-inch in diameter, secured by a

Re: [Goanet] Church dress code

2011-11-24 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: 8. Church Dress Code (Cecil Pinto) -- Message: 8 Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:53:20 +0530 From: Cecil Pinto cecilpi...@gmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Church Dress Code

[Goanet] Bob Marley (not) in Goa

2011-10-31 Thread Patrice Riemens
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's

Re: [Goanet] The SS Gairsoppa

2011-09-29 Thread Patrice Riemens
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:23:04 +0100 (BST) From: Ignatius Fernandes igg...@yahoo.co.uk To: goa...@goanet.org goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] The SS Gairsoppa Thank you Roland Francis for whetting my appetite about the SS.Gairsoppa and it's treasure of silver found at the bottom of

Re: [Goanet] Affluenza Rulez! (was: How many expat Goans inyour City/country)

2011-08-22 Thread Patrice Riemens
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 04:37:48 +0530 From: Frederick FN Noronha *??? ??? fredericknoro...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] How many expat Goans inyour City/country George, I won't

[Goanet] Dry day today, mostly...

2011-07-21 Thread Patrice Riemens
I completely misunderstood the meaning of this subject line ... ;-) Cheers indeed! p+3D! (Hic!) ;-)

[Goanet] Keith Vaz leading parliamentary committee hearings in re: 'Murdochalyps'' ; -)

2011-07-19 Thread Patrice Riemens
Goa Diaspora and Goanet darling Keith Vaz MP is playing a leading role in the House of Commons Home affairs select committee grilling various high-ups connected or implicated in what is getting to be known as 'Murdochalyps, or the to-be expected fall of the Murdoch Media Empire in the wake of the

Re: [Goanet] Peter Nazareth Goans... among Asian writers in East Africa

2011-07-18 Thread Patrice Riemens
Nice article, but ... work for you Fred! The Wikipedia entry on him is a disaster! His plays are not even mentionned (and I doubt he was a 'senior' bureaucrat under 'the last King of Scotland' ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Nazareth Cheers, 'Chief' Diiinooos! Peter Nazareth, East

Re: [Goanet] The Miracle of Chilean Mines

2010-10-19 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: Re: Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:38:42 -0400 From: Jeevan R jeevan...@gmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] The Miracle of Chilean Mines What about the heroic role played by the Medics, Rescue workers, Engineers, and Scientists who all existed and physically brought the miners

Re: [Goanet] When Mugabe Eased Quants, in Public./ Gold

2010-10-07 Thread Patrice Riemens
Yesterday evening I went to a debate around Sebastian Nino-Becerra's famous book about the coming end of capitalism ('The crash of 2010'(*). In the panel sat the Dutch crypto journalist and highly succesful speculator Willem Middelkoop who's recently made a killing with gold. He was the first to

Re: [Goanet] Hitler's view on Fiasco

2010-09-29 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:26:49 +0530 From: Silvan M. De Sa sil...@dataone.in To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Hitler's view on Fiasco Dr U.G.Barad, The weblink you have given below is now redundant as the following message is displayed on Youtube website: This video is no

Re: [Goanet] Banco Nacional Ultramarino

2010-09-26 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: (JoeGoaUk) SBI Panjim? (former Banco Nacional Ultramarino) another thing I learnt today.. First time I heard about this bank (BNU) was in 1980s When I read that people from Goa can claim back the gold deposited with? then Banco Nacional Ultramarino. that's about 20+ years after they

[Goanet] Dr Cornell DaCosta Obit on the ISfTE website

2010-09-20 Thread Patrice Riemens
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Goanet joins Noel Rebello to raise money for Daddy's Home (Margao, Goa) Sponsor Noel

Re: [Goanet] Goanet on Basketball (Toni Prug)

2010-09-15 Thread Patrice Riemens
--- On 15/09/10 07:19, Patrice Riemens wrote: Diane Sawyers interview a young girl on ABC News funny. i wonder did she say this too: --- Basketball’s numbers are inflated, of course, by the large numbers of participants; in terms of individual risk, concussion rates among 12

Re: [Goanet] TAIP air-hostesses

2010-08-25 Thread Patrice Riemens
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:07:10 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] TAIP air-hostesses On 24 August 2010 20:29, Gabriel de Figueiredo gdefigueir...@yahoo.com.au wrote:

Re: [Goanet] Russian visitors being given carte-blanche visas at Dabolim ?

2010-07-27 Thread Patrice Riemens
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:24:36 +0100 From: Gabe Menezes gabe.mene...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Russian visitors being given carte-blanche visas at Dabolim ? On 26 July 2010 17:36, Joe lOBO tw...@pathcom.com wrote:

Re: [Goanet] Viva Portugal ( Kim!)

2010-06-23 Thread Patrice Riemens
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:17:51 + From: Naguesh Bhatcar sgbhat...@hotmail.com To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Viva Portugal... Hope Kim Il Jong spares his hapless players! I really felt sorry for them, after watching the game. I had heard that Saddam Hussein's son Uday

[Goanet] On colonisation colonialism (was: researching Kenya ....)

2010-06-07 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 20:50:40 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] While researching Kenya, she found shocking Nice one! Can we get the Portuguese and British back, for a

[Goanet] Fwd Ray Selby on: Goa / Sea Wolves (WWII) settling Germans

2010-04-13 Thread Patrice Riemens
:Tue, April 13, 2010 11:21 To: Patrice Riemens patr...@xs4all.nl -- Dear Patrice, 13 April 2010, you wrote: Hi Ray, Did you ever follow this story? Quite fascinating! Yes, I did, although I wasn't in Goa

[Goanet] Glastonbury goes Goa 2: well, not really!

2010-04-09 Thread Patrice Riemens
--- Sign the Petition requesting The Honble Minister of State for Environment and Forests (I/C) to maintain the moratorium on issuing further environmental clearances for mining activities in Goa

[Goanet] Glastonbury goes Goa!

2010-04-08 Thread Patrice Riemens
--- Sign the Petition requesting The Honble Minister of State for Environment and Forests (I/C) to maintain the moratorium on issuing further environmental clearances for mining activities in Goa

[Goanet] [Fwd: [Reader-list] 3 mysterious explosions in south Goa]

2010-02-11 Thread Patrice Riemens
Original Message Subject: [Reader-list] 3 mysterious explosions in south Goa From:Javed javedma...@gmail.com Date:Thu, February 11, 2010 15:33 To: sarai list reader-l...@sarai.net

[Goanet] Uspscale tourism in Goa hailed by Wall Street Journal

2010-01-30 Thread Patrice Riemens
Original (with pics) at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126472192733736797.html# A Different Side of Goa Upscale and untouched, a new breed of villas emerge for travelers seeking seclusion By JEMIMA SISSONS As the speedboat turns the corner on India's moss-green river Chapora and shoots past

Re: [Goanet] Minaret ban (was: fat chance)

2009-12-01 Thread Patrice Riemens
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:05:13 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] From the Fat-Chance Department SWITZERLAND: Muslims Targeted in the Name of Minarets By Ray Smith

Re: [Goanet] Down Memory Lane (was: Talking Photos: Some dirty Panjim Pics)

2009-10-25 Thread Patrice Riemens
Re: Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:36:51 +0530 From: Cecil Pinto cecilpi...@gmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Talking Photos: Some dirty Panjim Pics Selma Carvalho: I feel really sad when I watch JoeGoaUK's photographs. 20 years ago, I did my college in Panjim. I lived there on the

[Goanet] Fwd: Goa seeks to be part of unique ID pilot project

2009-08-21 Thread Patrice Riemens
August 20 - WORLD GOA DAY Celebrating the inclusion of Konkani in the 8th schedule of the Indian Constitution on August 20, 1992 For a list of World Goa Day events see:

[Goanet] Goan emigration and imigration

2009-08-09 Thread Patrice Riemens
- Goanetter Francis Rodrigues (Vasco/Toronto) unveils his book, The Greatest Konkani Song Hits. Launch dates: Goa (Kala Academy) on 9 Aug. 4 pm. U.K. (Staines) on 15 Aug. Canada on 20 Aug and US on 30 Aug. Details

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Reader: Living in lament: Goa in the 21st century (FN)

2009-07-22 Thread Patrice Riemens
* 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] British Citizens buying property etc....

2009-07-21 Thread Patrice Riemens
Noting the unending flood of posts on the subject (but having stopped reading 'm) I suggest interested parties look at the mess that has resulted in Northern Cyprus from Britons pathological craze for 'real estate'. Lured by sun, sea, and low prices - caused by the dicey international situation

Re: [Goanet] American (USA) 'socialism' (2) (Rens Metaal)

2009-03-26 Thread Patrice Riemens
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:29:37AM -0700, Mario Goveia wrote: Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:34:21 +0100 From: Patrice Riemens patr...@xs4all.nl Rens wrote: Bah, Bah en Bah, This is some sloppy writing. Mario observes: I agree. For you to introduce yourself to us with what sounds

Re: [Goanet] American (USA) 'socialism'...

2009-03-25 Thread Patrice Riemens
What I Like about Goanet is than you can read the most bizarre lunatic rightist fringe stuff I know exists, but I would never come across otherwise. I send Mrlon (or Marion's) outlandish nonsense about 'socialist' USA with its 'socialist' medicine (Medicare) and its outrageous taxation

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