Re: [Goanet] Wash.Post - Kerala covid
If only the Goa government could have one tenth the governing skill of its southern neighbours. Instead the Quack that Goa has for a Chief Minister is now claiming that Ayurveda boosts the immune system and fights Covid19. Roland. Toronto. > On Apr 11, 2020, at 12:11 PM, eric pinto wrote: > > > Subject: Wash.Post - Kerala covid > https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/aggressive-testing-contact-tracing-cooked-meals-how-the-indian-state-of-kerala-flattened-its-coronavirus-curve/2020/04/10/3352e470-783e-11ea-a311-adb1344719a9_story.html > > > >
[Goanet] Elsie
I have not seen or met her, but through you I will miss her. I would dare to speak for all of us when I say we stand with you in grief. Roland. Toronto.
Re: [Goanet] GOAN CLUBS THE VIEW FROM MOSHI
The verbalization “Goanism”,was coined by me to address the arrogantly repulsive anddiscriminatory trait perpetrated by those in the upper echelon of thecaste system against those further down that hierarchy. Whether byintent, plot or coincidence: the ones that set up the art critic todefame me in the Times in a case of criminal libel (which took me 10+years before they were convicted); the ones that attempted to shutdown the Basilica art gallery, and the one who acquitted the accusedall belong in that exclusive ilk/echelon. Dom Martin -- Message:3Date:Tue, 7 Apr 2020 09:56:17 + (UTC)From:"Vivian A. DSouza" To:"goa...@goanet.org", Adolfo Mascarenhas Cc:Frederick Noronha , Tony de Sa Subject:Re: [Goanet] GOAN CLUBS THE VIEW FROM MOSHIMessage-ID:<1647921678.1773476.1586253377...@mail.yahoo.com>Content-Type:text/plain; charset=UTF-8 ProfessorAdolfo, the need of the hour is a Goan Catholic Truth Commission.? Itcould be in Cyberspace.We Goan Catholics? are guilty of a whole lotof discrimination, both within our community and without.Wediscriminated against each other because of Caste, althoughsupposedly there is no room in the Catholic faith for Caste, as thatwas? a Hindu concoction.We discriminated against tailors mechanicsand cooks, as supposedly they were not? of our social status, thoughour social status was that of lowly clerks n the colonial?administration..We discriminated against, non-Goans includingMangloreans even though they are of Goan ancestry,Hindus, Muslims,Anglo-Indians, Seychellois, Chinese etc. etc. In the Africancolonies, we discriminated against the indigenous Africans, mimickingthe discrimination inflicted? on us by the white man.We need to bareour souls and cleanse ourselves of the baggage that is weighing usdown.Who among us has the moral fibre and personal record to lead sucha commission but thee ?
[Goanet] UK: Sun 12 April He is Risen “Easter Celebration Live Trilingual Broadcast-English Konkani Hindi
UK: Sun 12 April He is Risen “Easter Celebration Live Trilingual Broadcast-English Konkani Hindi You are invited to tune in and join Presenters Roque and Bihula Vaz celebrating Easter “He IS RISEN” on Awaaz Radio 99.8 FM Live from Southampton Hampshire England on Facebook, Radio, on your Mobile Cell Phone Laptop computer and other digital devices for a Historic and memorable Trilingual Easter Sunday Broadcast in English Konkani and Hindi.http://www.awaazfm.co.uk Time in UK GMT 13.00 TO 14:00 or 1.00pm to 2.00pm Time in India 5.30pm to 6.30pm Goanet readers around the world please use Greenwich Mean Time converter on Google(GMT) Melvyn Fernandes Thornton Heath Surrey England 11 April 2020
[Goanet] prayers weapon against covid
Prayers, a weapon against Covid19. USA recommends prayer a means to banish covid away, Modi also used astrological belief to keep Covid at bay, Brazil, faithful kneel in a long chain to pray on street, In Italy Blessed Sacrament in car procession, residents greet. Nations and humans, gone out of their wits, Medical fight against virus is almost quits, Science and doctors are fighting this ill, Virus is defying, vaccine, drug or pill, Virus spreading rapidly like wild fire, Virologist unable to break its attire, Corona is challenging, human efforts best, Providing no comfort, remains adamant and at rest Repent and turn to God for relief and aid, No religious leader disabled the virus or way laid. Price for destroying, environment, air, water and land A fervent call to Divine to extend His merciful hand Powerful humans lost race, corona to kill, The tiny, contagious virus strikes at will, Pray, for Divine intervention, to inspire vaccine as pill, Animals regain space, as frightened world stands still, Nations understand the power of prayers to heal, Massive human efforts so far, unable to deal, Listen humbly, in trust and silence do pray, God Almighty to command, banish the scourge away. Humans in search of luxury have put God on hold, Belief in own strength and power, nature to uphold, The damage to life, economy is greater than wars of past, Pray that effects and consequences may not long last, The world ignores that earth is not a permanent home, Animals like humans ,enjoy same freedom to roam, God is placed on pedestal up above and far, Man has distanced from Divine by wall of mental bar. The wrath of God for virus to vanish and disappear, Pray with humility, love not deadly fear, Prayers alone have the power to put to an end Death, sufferings that no science can attend. Man is drunk with absolute power and pride, God is watching patiently from the side, Humans have failed by teachings to abide, Kneel down , sing hHis praises that scourge may subside Temples, churches, mosques are closed and away, >From the confines of homes we need to pray, When we sing his glories, thank and praise He will provide relief, our belief and hope raise Nelson Lopes Chinchinim 12-4-2020
[Goanet] Elsie Maciel - sad demise
Condolences to Mervyn Maciel on the passing away of his beloved Elsie. May Elsie find eternal repose in the abode of the God's. Tony de Sa
[Goanet] Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’ | Free to read | Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca
[Goanet] MODI BARE ALL, LEAD BY EXAMPLE
This letter is already published in Goan Observer today 11.4.2020 Please read you guys Stephen MODI BARE ALL, LEAD BY EXAMPLE ELVIDIO MIRANDA I have been fighting resolutely in order that the Aadhaar card which contains sensitive personal biometrics like Iris scan and finger prints be not made mandatory for opening bank account, bank fixed deposit, demat account for mutual funds and even for mobile connections. I went to the extent of not linking my Aadhaar card to my bank account in the bank of India, Panaji but the Manager of the bank told me that my money would not be available for withdrawal from my saving account. The Government of India under the NDA led BJP forced the RBI, the mutual fund company, the share brokers and the mobile companies to make it mandatories for every one to link not only the Aadhaar card but also the Pan card. This decision makes me vulnerable to all my investment be accessible to the Government. The Supreme Court had ruled that the linking of Aadhaar card is not mandatory for bank accounts, demat accounts, mutual funds and mobile number. The SC also ordered that delinking of Aadhaar card be made. Everyone followed the coercive rules of government against the will of the Supreme court. As such, since Narendra Modi the Prime Minister of India is now trying to behave like a holier than thou individual, why is it that he does not bare everything about himself to the people of India being a public figure. His Aadhaar card, his Pan card and his election photo identity card should all be linked. He is supposed to lead by example and not impose arbitrary rules on others when he does not follow it himself. Why this double standard? Everybody who is learned knows that nuclear weapons may be used for war and nuclear energy for power supply. In like manner everything has dual use. Now more than ever the PM has to shed being protective of himself and behave like a common man. He should not wait for people to find out what he has hidden by resorting to RTI act. He should definitely publish all his daily expenses on food, clothes, traveling, security measures than foreign jaunts and his monetary possession. The linking of the Aadhaar card had bad intention if he were not to use coercive means on the people, I would not have asked him to bare all. NO double standard please! XxxcxxX Sent from my Samsung device
[Goanet] The End of Progress (And The Return of Keynes): Dhaka Tribune, 11/4/2020
https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2020/04/11/the-end-of-progress-and-the-return-of-keynes ? We are all Wuhan. The world has followed inexorably in the tracks of that Chinese city since it first reported cases of SARS-CoV-2 (aka COVID-19) at the end of 2019. Earlier this week, it opened up for the first time after 76 days of stringent lockdown, and much of what’s happening there now will similarly play out everywhere else. Wuhan reconnected railways and bus lines, and resumed air service to other cities in China. Some factories started up again. But many residential complexes remain closed off. All schools and colleges are banned, along with large gatherings of any kind. Masks are required to be worn in public at all times, and residents are strongly recommended not to leave the city or province. If that’s the light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel in China’s exceptionally disciplined and authoritarian society, what can the rest of us hope for? More specifically, how will the future shape up for the inherently messy, pluralist societies of South Asia? Here, all evidence points to an unprecedented disruption, which is already locked in. Things will never be the same. Just over three decades ago, during another global watershed moment (the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989) the political scientist Francis Fukuyama earned instant notoriety with an essay entitled ‘The End of History’. He made the case “ideological violence” was defunct, and “is evident in the total exhaustion of systematic alternatives to Western liberalism.” Fukuyama’s wrote it was “not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.” That analysis has taken considerable drubbings, most of which ignore Fukuyama’s qualification that “the victory of liberalism has occurred primarily in the realm of ideas or consciousness.” But when you take that into account, it’s clear the Japanese-American’s predictions actually held up very well, right into 2020. In the intervening years, most of us have lived in his predicted neoliberal paradigm, governed by unshakable consensus about privatization, deregulation, *laissez-faire* economics, and above all, globalization. We have been taught that economic growth is the ultimate goal, and it’s the only way to gauge progress. But all of that is out of the window now, almost certainly never to return. A few days ago, the IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva laid out the current scenario in unforgettably stark language, “Never in history have we witnessed the world economy come to a standstill. This is humanity’s darkest hour, a big threat to the whole world and it requires from us to stand tall, be united and protect the most vulnerable of our citizens. This is a crisis like no other.” Both the IMF and World Health Organization are clear on the way forward from what is already being compared to the Great Depression (which hammered the global GDP down 15% between 1929 and 1932). Humanity must battle and surmount the coronavirus, within the family and house by house, across neighborhoods, from city to country and regions beyond. In his 1963 *Letter from a Birmingham Jail*, Dr. Martin Luther King wrote that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” That’s the obvious conclusion of our age of contagion, because our wellbeing now resides inescapably in the collective. We will have to rearrange our countries to reflect that reality. All this is the opposite of neoliberalism, which espouses individual freedom as the paramount social, cultural and economic value. Its return to relevance is an improbable plot twist to the 1930s battle of theories between the Viennese-born economist Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes of the UK. At that time, Keynes reigned supreme with his advocacy of managed market economies, where the government plays an essential shepherding role. Soon afterwards the tide shifted decisively to Hayek, who became powerfully influential at the University of Chicago in the 1950s. At least 13 Nobel Prize winners in Economics have come from its faculty, along with innumerable policy makers in finance ministries across the world (Raghuram Rajan is one recent example). There’s no coincidence that Fukuyama’s famed paper was first delivered as a lecture on that same campus. Keynes once said, “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” But revolutions usually erupt unexpectedly. Earlier this week, the most recent Nobel Prize winner for Economics, Abhijit Banerjee recommended, “Print some money and do not think of inflation. We need to be quantitative in India a
[Goanet] www.goanspirit.com April 12, 2020
April 12, 2020 www.goanspirit.com Sawant needs fiscal discipline post Covid-19 In these Covid -19 crunch times, The TO Do list for CM Sawant includes scrapping the sheer extravagance of building the 75 mt tall administrative building, postponing IFFI, which is a drain on the Goan tax payer, for 2 years, solving the debilitating issue of GIDC paying Rs 1 lakh per day as interest, taking back the Rs 26 crore owed by Meta Strips and sacking the 30 per cent government employees who own private businesses financed no doubt by their ill-gotten gains. A blast from the past The more things change, the more they remain the more things change, the more they remain. And so it is with GIDC and the lie that Goans are preferred for employment in industrial estates. GIDC continues to be corrupt and non-Goans get all lucrative jobs. You'd think MNCs/big players make huge investments but Goan contractors are lucky if they get some tertiary contracts in what are basically assembly line units. Also, it is amazing how Goa’s various rungs of the Mafiosi work in the twilight zone and the power they wield. -- *When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.* * - Dalai Lama * Lionel Messias Editor, *Goanspirit, Goa's Spirited Online Fortnightly Magazine.* Website:www.goanspirit.com Worked for the best: Goa Today, Gomantak Times, Herald, Mid-Day, The Pioneer, Indian Express (Bangalore), Economic Times (Chennai, Hyderabad), Newstime (Hyderabad), Gulf News (Hyderabad) 125-E, Bellem, Velsao, P.O. Cansaulim, Goa 403712 Mob:9822152164
[Goanet] Credit Co-operative Societies in Goa in a tight corner due to MHA's order: depositors & employees face the brunt.
--- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help other CONSUMERS to be better informed. --- MHA's order puts the Credit Societies in Goa in a tight corner https://tinyurl.com/sxqs47y - THE GOAN 08/04/2020 -
[Goanet] GOD SAVE OUR SEAFARERS
It is so very anguishing that 100 of our seafarers could not disembark on their own soil and had to be shipped to Mumbai to be quarantined there in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. Isn’t it an irony that the Goa Government which time and again has been claiming that they are ready for any contingency has now admitted that it did not have the capacity and protocols in place to quarantine these hundred seamen. By now the government should have ensured that the entire required infrastructure for such an eventuality was available at the Airport, Seaport and the border check posts. What was this government doing since January? It was instead pre-occupied on those inconsequential Zilla Panchayat elections which had to be rightly postponed after that High Court rap. If we are unable to quarantine even a hundred, what would be the fate if God forbid there is a bigger spread of this dreadful epidemic? The authorities should come clear and clean on their preparedness to battle COVID -19. Let there be no more tomfoolery. Aires Rodrigues Advocate High Court C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat, Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com Or airesrodrig...@yahoo.com You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires www.airesrodrigues.com
[Goanet] “I Want To Die Looking At The Sky”
Says a patient of Dr Nadia Alam, a Toronto Anesthesiologist: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1722930243870 Roland. Toronto.
[Goanet] LOCK-DOWN MUST CONTINUE BUT SUPPLY OF FOOD ITEMS MUST BE ENSURED
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the 21- day lock-down he had solemnly assured the nation that as part of the essential services all the grocery stores and supermarkets would be compulsorily kept open round the clock to facilitate people procure their food commodities while maintaining social distancing. Despite this clear and stern directive, that order is being flouted with impunity by many who are keeping their premises closed for reasons best known to them. This is causing needless grave inconvenience to the public across Goa. While most authorized shops remained closed, several illegal stalls across Goa have surfaced along the roads and in various building premises. The quality of the unaccountable stuff sold by them illegally is questionable. Infact the Food & Drugs Administration and local bodies should act against this entire illegal trade going on without the due permissions required by law. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had assured stern action against the shops that remain closed during the lock-down. So the authorities must step in and take deterrent action against those grocery stores and supermarkets that are violating the Central government directives by not being open. May be its time to crack the whip and seal all such premises and further penalize them in accordance with law so that these offenders are brought to book. If these businesses think they are not good enough to open during a time of need their licences ought to be permanently cancelled. Aires Rodrigues Advocate High Court C/G-2, Shopping Complex Ribandar Retreat, Ribandar – Goa – 403006 Mobile No: 9822684372 Office Tel No: (0832) 2444012 Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com Or airesrodrig...@yahoo.com You can also reach me on Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues Twitter@rodrigues_aires www.airesrodrigues.com
[Goanet] What does Joao want to say?
Dangerous and more dangerous In the Age of Corona Virus! the virus comes and hopefully goes unlike our Goemkar corona politicians who are here to stay! What does Joao want to say?
[Goanet] Corona must be defeated
Corona must be defeated virus has claimed thousands of lives Lakhs are infected , unabated virus thrives Wuhan in China ,where it all began Spain ,Italy ,USA ,Korea infected in a short span. Biological warfare exercise its a doubt Beijing, Shangaifree , why they shout, Wuhan is back to normal ,free China is secretive, all agree. God and prayers ,cure for ill, No vaccine in sight ,drug ,or pill, virus strikes young and old at will , World is under lockdown standing still. People are frightened,avoid contact, Use signs ,phones ,masks as a matter of fact, Stay ar home ,use sanitisers to keep health intact, Exercise , activities best means to distract. Poor ,daily workers ,unemployed are lost, Survive with painful needs at all cost, Here and there ,food ,shelter and aid, Govt mandating full wages to be paid. The virus is hard on sick and old, The young lucky to fight and hold, Facilities are stretched to limit, Govt does its best what can permit. Corona is defying scientific might, The cure and vaccine not in sight, World is facing its worst survival test, Avoiding rapid spread of contagious pest. doctors, scientists trust in God’s hand, Might of power of science , in helplessness stand , World in distress ,no power to cure, Wrath of Corona continues for sure, Divine message to return and repent , All Energies on worldly pleasures spent, The nature & environment is ravaged by man, Clear sign, pollution of nature impose ban, Economies of world down and low, Revival painful, a challenge slow. At times , concerns ,how the poor to feed, Billionaires, millionaires ,lower appetite for greed, The well fare of nation ,citizens ,a priority , Unity among parties ,citizen a rare opportunity . In a symbolic gratitude, medical staff gets applause and praise, insurance cover and salary two states raise, Both at work and outside deserve appreciation immense sacrifices ,seek co operation not gratification, The end of this scourge is far from over, long and painful ,need stay at home cover, Divine will surely inspire antidote, Have trust ,faith, it is near not remote, All citizens have to play their role, Not demand ,insist on Govt dole, Display charity ,compassion for migrants need Sacrifice personal greed , agree one to feed Nelson Lopes. Chinchinim 11/4/2020 Sent from my iPhone Sent from my iPhone Sent from my iPhone
