Re: [Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem*

2005-01-04 Thread Mario Goveia
TO: Mervyn Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mervyn writes, The last time Canada was told it could not protect itself, Canadian troops marched into Washington, D.C. and burnt down the White House. The U.S. has been our best friend ever since. Once again, thanks for your taxes. Mario replies: I ha

Re: [Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem*

2005-01-03 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mervyn, don't you have anything better to do than to > gleefully criticize the country that protects your > sorry backsides in Canada, which is incapable of > protecting itself any more? Mario, The last time Canada was told it could not protect itself, Ca

[Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem*

2004-12-31 Thread Mario Goveia
TO: George Pinto You say: I think Mario missed taking his medication today - again! He quotes me below when I did not write the excerpt below (Mervyn did). He refers to Merwyn as Indian when he was born and raised in Africa and lives in Canada and is of Goan ancestry. Facts, after all, should n

[Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem*

2004-12-30 Thread George Pinto
Folks, I think Mario missed taking his medication today - again! He quotes me below when I did not write the excerpt below (Mervyn did). He refers to Merwyn as Indian when he was born and raised in Africa and lives in Canada and is of Goan ancestry. Facts, after all, should never get in the w

Re: [Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem*

2004-12-30 Thread Mario Goveia
TO: Mervyn Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> George writes: Last week, I was reading a book review in a Mexican paper. The book was written by a ex-CIA agent, giving her views on the failure of the CIA to catch bin Laden. Mario replies: George, don't you have anything better to do than to gleefully critic

Re: [Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem*

2004-12-29 Thread Mervyn Lobo
George Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No it is not. It was a point I wanted to make in > greater detail in my earlier post but did not. > Thank you for allowing me to do so now. The Middle > East situation today is yesterday's colonization > which has become today's neocoloninzation. It is

[Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem*

2004-12-29 Thread Mario Goveia
TO: George Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> George Pinto writes to Goanetters: You must be as tired as I am of having to educate Mario on this forum. He is now bombarding me with private emails even though I requested him to stop. It is unfortunate that besides his inaccurate knowledge of most matters

Re: [Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem*

2004-12-29 Thread cornel
Rene, I receive endless material via Goanet which I read selectively. Consequently, a lot is unread and discarded at the touch of a button under MY control i.e. not under somebody else's control. Thus, I would never support the view, implicit in your post, that some material normally receive

Re: [Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem*

2004-12-29 Thread rene barreto
I was surprised that NOT ONE of all the 7000 plus supported my call for the end of this on going unproductive discussions about a month ago. We have no one else but ourselves to be blamed , by participating in these discussions ..we have encouraged and prolonged of these discussio

[Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem*

2004-12-29 Thread George Pinto
Folks, You must be as tired as I am of having to educate Mario on this forum. He is now bombarding me with private emails even though I requested him to stop. It is unfortunate that besides his inaccurate knowledge of most matters and his mispresentation of some of my views, he continues to S

[Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem*

2004-12-28 Thread Mario Goveia
TO: George Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In response to Halur Rasho and Philip Thomas you have continued your reprehensible comments about the US Senate's 9/11 Commission not being credible simply because they were "white", without any regard to their individual credentials and political philosophies.

Re: [Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem*

2004-12-27 Thread Mario Goveia
TO: halur rasho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Not only do I second your objection to the obvious and gratuitous reverse-racism you were responding to, but I wonder what understanding of the middle-east was being displayed by these "dark-skinned" males when Al Qaeda declared "war" on America at the height of

[Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem* (IFFI related extracts - I)

2004-12-26 Thread Philip Thomas
This is an attempt to cull out some quotes from the Seminar Issue on Goa to see if we can get some useful background from it on the IFFI initiative of the government. FOUR decades after Liberation, Goa stands acclaimed as being among the best developed states in the country. It has been described

[Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem*

2004-12-25 Thread George Pinto
--- halur rasho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Philip and all: > > > > The 9-11 commission report is best used as a > > paper-weight. It is written by mostly white males in > > the USA who understand little about the Middle East. > > It could have been about the most > > The white male comment

Re: [Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem*

2004-12-24 Thread halur rasho
--- George Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Philip and all: > > The 9-11 commission report is best used as a > paper-weight. It is written by mostly white males in > the USA who understand little about the Middle East. > It could have been about the most The white male comment is gratious le

[Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem*

2004-12-24 Thread George Pinto
Philip and all: The 9-11 commission report is best used as a paper-weight. It is written by mostly white males in the USA who understand little about the Middle East. It could have been about the most significant problem confronting peace in the Middle East and reducing a significant source of

[Goanet]Re: Seminar, Nov 2004 issue *Amchem Goem*

2004-12-24 Thread Philip Thomas
I have recently obtained copies of the following books: 1. The 9/11 Commission Report : The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. (567 pages) 2. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits (by Prof. CK Prahalad) (400