[Goanet] New Scientist. We mustn't let a superpower turn its back on rationality.

2017-01-23 Thread Con Menezes
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23331093-200-protest-yes-we-can/ --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[Goanet] Easy listenng selection.......When will I see you again.........The Three Degrees,

2017-01-23 Thread Con Menezes
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[Goanet] The size of the women marchers across the US.

2017-01-23 Thread Con Menezes
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[Goanet] TRAVELOGUE: TORONTO Canada.

2017-01-23 Thread Con Menezes
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[Goanet] Many have 'false memories'?

2017-01-23 Thread Con Menezes
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[Goanet] The Mind of Donald Trump.

2017-01-23 Thread Con Menezes
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/ --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[Goanet-News] Hindu nationalism is more Italian and Christian than Sonia Gandhi (Pankaj Mishra, ToI)

2017-01-23 Thread Goanet Reader
Gandhi asked the Indian students in Europe what type of India they wanted after British's departure. They said: "Like Mazzini's Italy. Strong military. Building war ships and aero-planes. Big factories". Akin to today's super power wish. Gandhi said, "So you want a British India without

[Goanet-News] Young Karachi Goan artist Jovita Alvares bags Imran Mir Art Prize

2017-01-23 Thread Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
Young Karachi Goan artist, Jovita Veronica Alvares, who graduated from the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture this year, has bagged the Imran Mir Art Prize. The prize ceremony will be held on 23rd January at 5.30 pm at the studio/gallery home of the late artist.

[Goanet] Hindu nationalism is more Italian and Christian than Sonia Gandhi (Pankaj Mishra, ToI)

2017-01-23 Thread Goanet Reader
Gandhi asked the Indian students in Europe what type of India they wanted after British's departure. They said: "Like Mazzini's Italy. Strong military. Building war ships and aero-planes. Big factories". Akin to today's super power wish. Gandhi said, "So you want a British India without

Re: [Goanet] The Donald Trump's First Day in Office - 2

2017-01-23 Thread Jim Fernandes
Sorry for the poor train of thoughts below. Of course ISIS already exists in parts of Syria and is head-quartered there. What I meant was that ISIS would have taken over the whole of Syria, if Democrats in America created a vacuum by helping to eliminate Assad - a situation similar to the

[Goanet] Donald Trump's First 3 Days in Office - This is no laughing matter!

2017-01-23 Thread Jim Fernandes
Folks, Yes - that's right. Big powers are turning their backs on globalization. It would not matter where you live - whether in the UK or the US, the Arabian Gulf or India - the ripple effects of anti-globalization will certainly impact you - whether directly or indirectly. Whether you like

[Goanet] DO YOU THINK VOTERS ARE STILL CONFUSED?

2017-01-23 Thread Stephen Dias
CASINOS WILL GO OUT OF RIVER MANDOVI AFTER ELECTIONS? - Day by day position of voters is becoming difficult to predict whom they should vote or not to vote

[Goanet] Cat Among The Chickens

2017-01-23 Thread Roland Francis
Mexico is not the only country running scared after Trump withdrew from the TPP (Trans Pacific Pact). Now Canada is running scared too. NAFTA, the pact from 1994 between the US, Canada and Mexico saw a jump of three times Canada's level of exports and you know where most of that went. Trump's

[Goanet] GOANET: CAN PANJIM BECOME A SMART CITY?

2017-01-23 Thread Stephen Dias
CITY PLANNERS SEE COMMENTS POURING IN ABOUT PANJIM SMART CITY. IT IS GOING TO BE WASTE OF MONEY AND NOT WORTH SPENDING OUR CRORES WHICH MAY GO SOMEBODY'S POCKET. IT WILL BECOME AS PER IN KONKANI SAYING " umtea koushear udok" AT THE MOST GIVE FUNDS TO CCP TO DO THEIR MAINTENANCE JOB AND UPKEEP

Re: [Goanet] Donald Trump's First Day in Office

2017-01-23 Thread Roland Francis
Brilliant, but don't go looking for a job with the current State Department. May be Trump is getting all those 'no can do's' from Melania as well, which may account for his wanting to grab all that * and angrily cancelling all those trade deals because everyone heard about his cravings.

Re: [Goanet] The Donald Trump's First Day in Office

2017-01-23 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Frederick FN Noronha wrote: Trump's first day at the Oval Office after being elected President. First briefing to the President by CIA, Pentagon, FBI: Trump: We must destroy ISIS immediately. No delays. -snip- CIA: Enjoy the White House, sir! We will take care of the

Re: [Goanet] The Donald Trump's First Day in Office

2017-01-23 Thread Jim Fernandes
Seems like laughing matter that's good enough to kill a few lazy minutes ... But there is some truth to this stuff. The United States foreign policy has been very confusing - even for smart people to fully comprehend. For example, I could never figure out why the US had no problems helping the

Re: [Goanet] The Donald Trump's First Day in Office

2017-01-23 Thread Albert Peres
Don't worry too, too, about the good'ol USofA. There are plenty of checks a balances in place. The place won't sink. The US Demorcatic system is stronger that you think. There are very smart people in the room. The country is founded as is bedrock of intelligence, teamwork and science.

[Goanet] Imbalance on Goanet?

2017-01-23 Thread Albert Peres
[Goanet] Imbalance on Goanet? 26 contributors to 10,000 readers Its quite possible that is how the Goan world works. And similar worlds. Likely a similar ratios or even higher for, politics, religion, mass media, festivals, social clubs, etc. It's 385 to 1... I have to admit, I enjoy

[Goanet] One day after Donald Trump's inauguration Europe follows........

2017-01-23 Thread Con Menezes
PBS Newshour. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/meeting-nationalist-leaders-sows-division-europe/ --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[Goanet] What are 'altervative facts'?

2017-01-23 Thread Con Menezes
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/the-pointless-needless-lies-of-the-trump-administration/514061/?utm_source=nl-atlantic-daily-012317 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.

[Goanet] Executive Orders: How significant are they?

2017-01-23 Thread Con Menezes
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38726053?ocid=global_bbccom_email_23012017_top+video --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[Goanet] TRAVELOGUE: South Africa.

2017-01-23 Thread Con Menezes
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[Goanet] Indian dreaming about trains.

2017-01-23 Thread Con Menezes
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[Goanet] Easy listening selection.......Devil Woman.........Marty Robbins.

2017-01-23 Thread Con Menezes
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[Goanet] Birth place.

2017-01-23 Thread Con Menezes
in the Philippines. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/opinion/birth-place.html?emc=edit_ae_20170123=todaysheadlines-asia=71200847&_r=0 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: [Goanet] Imbalance on Goanet?

2017-01-23 Thread Roland Francis
Jim, Con Menezes is an octogenarian living in Australia with an interesting life experience. He is from the former Rhodesia or else one of the other British South African ruled countries and like many of us, has an interesting migratory life experience. Over the years, he has sent me a couple

[Goanet] The Donald Trump's First Day in Office

2017-01-23 Thread Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
Trump's first day at the Oval Office after being elected President. First briefing to the President by CIA, Pentagon, FBI: Trump: We must destroy ISIS immediately. No delays. CIA: We cannot do that, sir. We created them along with Turkey, Saudi, Qatar and others. Trump: The Democrats created

[Goanet] Goacom Newsclips on 23 January 2017

2017-01-23 Thread goacom newsclips
Goacom Newsclips When Template Of Faith Becomes a Conflict ZoneTension still prevails in Marcaim constituency for the past one year as the Mahajans or the Saraswat Mahajan managing the committee of Click here to read more...  http://bit.ly/2jfq1Mt Foreign ‘believers’ face opposition Around

Re: [Goanet] Subject: Re: Trump Disrupts the World.

2017-01-23 Thread Jim Fernandes
MD, Thank you for sharing your thoughts. There are only two things that matter to me - Jobs and Security from terrorists. While I shared my thoughts about Jobs at this link https://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg120998.html , I have not said much about Security for all

Re: [Goanet] CAN PANJIM BECOME A SMART CITY?

2017-01-23 Thread Jim Fernandes
Smart city? Are you kidding me? Let's not use these fancy terms and pretend all is great. You can't have smart cities with dumb voters. Period. Take a look at how people in the UK and the US are calling for change. They think outside the box ... Jim Fernandes Scarsdale, NY. On Sat, 21 Jan

[Goanet] Young Karachi Goan artist Jovita Alvares bags Imran Mir Art Prize

2017-01-23 Thread Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
Young Karachi Goan artist, Jovita Veronica Alvares, who graduated from the Indus Valley School of Art & Architecture this year, has bagged the Imran Mir Art Prize. The prize ceremony will be held on 23rd January at 5.30 pm at the studio/gallery home of the late artist.

[Goanet] CITIZENS MUST BE VIGILANT

2017-01-23 Thread Aires Rodrigues
On 4th February Goa will vote to elect 40 MLAs to the Legislative Assembly. Every election must be free and fair with people being able to make their choice without fear, favour or intimidation. But with almost the entire bureaucracy in Goa having been deviously saffronised by the BJP over the

[Goanet] Ivan Arthur - A Village Dies

2017-01-23 Thread Roland Francis
I am not a member of the Goa Book Club but since books and I have always got together, I occasionally browse the posts on that group, with a view to find something that will interest me. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Ivan Arthur has written a collection of village stories (that is

[Goanet] Dear Portugal, greetings from Goa!

2017-01-23 Thread Bernado Colaco
Costa has shown competence even while maior of Lisboa. As PM and elucidated in the article by the once anti Portuguese chappy, Costa has once again risen to the occasion.  The opposition Centre Democrats and Social Democrats have now been kept in a quiet corner. The once vocal Paulo Portas of

Re: [Goanet] Ivan Arthur - A Village Dies

2017-01-23 Thread Ivan Arthur
A Village Dies is not a collection of short stories, Roland. It's an organic novel, but I have given it a structure in which the 'short stories' knit together into a plot of sorts to form one story around a few characters. While the story is in the main a work of fiction I have embedded it

[Goanet] A LOVING INVITATION - CONCLUDING CEREMONY OF THE DEBT-FREE ABHIYAN

2017-01-23 Thread Mandd Sobhann
You are cordially invited to the Concluding Ceremony of the Debt-Free Abhiyan and to the Draw of the BRAND NEW A-CLASS 200 CDI MERCEDES BENZ CAR, on Tue., Jan 31, 2017, at 6 p.m., at Kalaangann, Mangalore.  Invitation attached.  MANDD SOBHANNKalaangann, Makale,Shaktinagar, Mangalore - 575

[Goanet] A page for Std XII students

2017-01-23 Thread Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
https://www.facebook.com/GoaHSSCStudents/ -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ Frederick Noronha | http://about.me/noronhafrederick | http://goa1556.in _/ P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Fbk: fredericknoronha _/ Goa,1556 CC shared

[Goanet] Why not Alfonso de Albuquerque?

2017-01-23 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
This has reference to the letter on the proposed Shivaji Statue in sea off Mumbai . http://epaper.navhindtimes.in/NewsDetail.aspx?storyid=7892=2017-01-23=1 It is very obvious from the letter how many people get swayed and incited when issues are represented with religious overtones and

Re: [Goanet] Imbalance on Goanet?

2017-01-23 Thread Jim Fernandes
Roland, Unless someone like Herman confirms the 10K number, I would not believe it. Regarding 35%+ posts from Con Men., - I'd say they are 99% one-liners with copy/paste links - which does not require much of a brain. I have 'Bot' that can do better ... The links range on tips from - how to

[Goanet] FROM 5 TO 65 CRORES IN FIVE YEARS IS NO MEAN ACHIEVEMENT

2017-01-23 Thread Aires Rodrigues
BJP’s Taleigao candidate Dattaprasad Madhukar Naik’s assets from 5 crores in 2012 have skyrocketed to over 65 crores in 2017. After Dattaprasad Naik’s defeat at the 2012 assembly elections he was politically rehabilitated as Chairman of Goa Electronic Ltd (GEL) by the then Chief Minister Manohar