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25 Years have flown by, since the fall of the Berlin wall !

Fue un momento de gran cambio y trajo mucha ilusión de que era posible crear un mundo más humano. ¡Tomó un tiempo, con la primera guerra iraquí en el medio, pero luego la elección de Bill Clinton y algunos de los mejores años que la humanidad ha experimentado! ¡Nuestro principal problema era averiguar si lo hizo o no! ¡Y el balance económico fue positivo durante años! Luego vino Bush junior, y el undécimo de septiembre, y ha sido un deslizamiento cuesta abajo desde entonces.Durante un tiempo, los “manantiales árabes”, los “indignados” y ocupar Wall Street parecían estar asumiendo la falta de acción, pero terminaron en callejones unidireccionales, y ahora, con Isis apoderándose de gran parte de Iraque y Siria, sin mencionar a Boko Haram en Nigeria (acaban de ocupar la ciudad, donde secuestraron a más de 200 niñas, luego se convirtieron en contra de su voluntad al Islam y se casaron con los combatientes, o violaron, o ambas cosas), la violencia y las humillaciones vuelven a estar en primer plano.

Luego, un cambio de actitud entre la juventud judía en los Estados Unidos, el Sr.Putin pareció llegar a razonar con Ukraina, y la respuesta de los turcos individuales (Nejat Agirnasli; http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index / 19651 / in-memory-of-suphi-nejat-agirnasli ) y los kurdos en el norte de Siria, resistiendo el embate de los combatientes del Isis, fue nuevamente un rayo de luz en la oscuridad, y la reacción de los combatientes del Isis cuando se enfrentaron Kobane, fue una adición interesante a la ecuación. Parece que no quieren luchar contra las mujeres (Narin Afrin, “nom de guerrè” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2791469/woman-fighter-leads-battle-against-islamic -estado-sitiado -sirio-ciudad-fronteriza-kobane.html), porque si una mujer está apretando el gatillo de una bala mortal, ¿no llegará al paraíso, lleno de vírgenes esperando cumplir sus deseos? En Irán, Que Ponen una una mujer en la cárcel desde el 30 º de junio, (Goncheh Gavami) Haber ayudado por una ONU Partido de voleibol masculino en Teherán. Y en Israel, algunas de las personas que trabajan en inteligencia, escuchando las conversaciones privadas de los palestinos, decidieron que estaban haciendo lo mismo, como por ejemplo. ¿Alemania comunista, y que su conciencia no mejorará continuar? Luego vino el anuncio de la construcción de un nuevo vecindario en tierras ocupadas en Jerusalén, y nuevamente, ¡estamos cerca de una nueva intifada! ¿Se siente como si lo hubiera escuchado antes?

Mientras tanto, en las alturas del Golán, al otro lado de la frontera israelí con Siria, reciben a las víctimas sirias de la guerra civil en un hospital militar, algunas inconscientes, que cuando se despiertan, para empezar, ¡creen que han llegado al cielo! Solo entonces se dan cuenta de que las vírgenes son reales y, aunque vestidas de blanco, ¡son enfermeras! Los médicos israelíes no discriminan por el bando en el que estaban luchando, mientras resultaron heridos, muchos de los cuales también eran civiles.

Y de lo micro a lo macro, Obama ha encontrado una manera de retribuir a Putin por la anexión de Crimea y la toma de control en curso de las provincias orientales de Ucrania, golpeando donde más duele, el precio de la gasolina. La economía rusa está lastimada, cuando el precio baja de los 90 dólares / barril, y los saudíes están contentos, ya que la economía iraní es similar, mientras que el fracking en Estados Unidos puede operar a un nivel de 60 $ / barril.

Finalmente, la naturaleza es la fuerza más poderosa, y en el noroeste de África, ¡el ébola está devastando las poblaciones! Los pocos que se contagiaron en occidente, han logrado sobrevivir, y los médicos sin fronteras, ponen su, y la nuestra, en medicinas que se pueden empezar a probar en unos meses. Y para terminar con una nota más alta, finalmente China y EE. UU. Acuerdan hacer algo para limitar sus emisiones de CO2, ¡para reducir el impacto del cambio climático!

¡Boom Shankar! Anders Inka desaparecido

Canacona pólice keep watch on beach parties

Canacona pólice keep watch on beach parties

From Our Correspondent

CANACONA, Dec 31: The Palolem beach in Canacona taluka is being overcrowded by foreign tourists fór the celebration of Christmas and New year. Hotels, shacks, temporary tents and other accommodation places are already full. The tourists are now being accommodated in the houses of the local residents.

As the beach parties have been banned at some other beaches in the state the influx of tourists is seen to be diverted to Palolem and other neighbouring places, with the intention of holding the beach parties. However the Canacona police have already taken steps to stall the organisation of beach parties. This has further sent the tourists to the Ankola and Gokarn beaches in the Uttar Kannada district of Karnataka.

The police sub-inspector (PSI) of Canacona, Mr Maheshwar Naik, has said the illegal activities will not be permitted in the Canacona taluka, including the Palolem beach área. The police force has kept a round-the-clock vigilance, over the taluka, he added.

Beach party in south Goa thwarted

 

Beach party in south Goa thwarted


From Our
Correspondent

MARGAO, April 2: Foreigners residing at coastal area in north Goa mainly from Anjuna, Vagator, Baga. Calangute and Candolim had planned clandestinely to have beach party on April 1 in South Goa in an isolated place near Agonda-Canacona.

The foreigners had also made arrangements for transport of foreigners from the northern belt and had also circulaled literature showing plans about location of the beach party in coded languages.

They had also painted some of the roads leading to Agonda by spraying liquid paint to show directions which was not easily vis­ible to general public. About 500 to 600 foreigners were to take part in the party, police sources revealed.

The South Goa Police under the supervision of the Superintendent of Police (South) Mr A K Singh. collected information in this respect and alerted all the police stations in South Goa to this effect.

Some of the organisers managcd to proceed to Agonda in the late afternoon, but they were chased and followed by the canacona police. The organisers were in for a sur-prise at Agonda and Palolem, as they had also kept boats ready lo take them across the creek from Palolem beach to the seculated place near Agonda, so that nobody can get access to the site where the beach party was to be held. The Canacona police also managed to arrest the main organisers in the beach party, Frank Wibing and a Germán national presently residing at Candolim, along with his Mahindra jeep.

A case was booked against him for defacement of roads and for planning to organising the party. he has been remanded to police custody for further investigation.

Meanwhile, all the pólice stations on the national highway like Verna, Margao town, Colva, Cuncolim and Canacona were alerted and suspected vehicles linked to the beach party were thoroughly checked and many of them were fined and issued challans.

While checking early morning today the Canacona pólice also intercepted one Israeli national Ms Revital Grich aged 26 years and recovered from her 22,500 grams of charas from her which was hidden near her underwear.

A case U/S 21 of N.D.P.S. Act 1985 has been booked and placed in police custody. She is been produced before Special Judge at Mapuca for remand of 14 days police custody.

Court verdict on rave party today

Court verdict on rave party today

BY HERAI.D KM’OKTKR

PANJIM, DP.C : The fate of the rave party schcduled at Anjuna beach by Paradiso de Anjuna still hangs in balance as the High Court has posted the judgement for Friday.

The Bench comprising of Justice R K Bhatta and Justice R M S Khandeparkar continued hearing in the public interest litigation filed by Peter D’Souza against the party. However, arguments could not be completed today and are posted for tomorrow morning.

Advócate A Agni appeared for Norrrm Azavedo, Mahesh Jethmalani represented Jeh Wadia and Advócate General A N S Nadkarni appeared on behalf of the government.

Advocate Jethmalani argued that it was not a rave party but a live party as usual and no drugs will be served.

The respondents admitted that alcohol will be served in the party. However, when Justice Kandeparkar asked for a copy of the liquor licence it was found that a licence was obtained in the ñame of U D Kamat with no house number and with Anjuna beach as the address.

Justice Khandeparkar questioned the respondents how they can use a licence issued to a third party when liquor licenses are not transferable.

The Bench raised doubts about the validity of the licence as no expiry date was mentioned on it.

The counsel for the respondent informed that the contract for leasing the hotel with the government was signed in 1993 and the same was renewed in 1996 which expired on September30, 1999.

The Bench also asked the re­spondents to produce documents to prove that they are in the legal possession of the restaurant, which they could not furnish.

The respondents also said that they had applied on December 1 for renewal of the contract, while Advó­cate General Nadkarni clarifíed that the renewal of licence is under consideration of the government. How­ever, he expressed his ignorance about the precise status of the application as of now.

However, the petilioner pointed out that the set procedures like inviting lenders for renewal of contract were not followed.

Advócate Agni, to one question, stated that the total leased área is only 300 mts which occupies the restaurant.

Then asked how the big área taken up for the party, Advocate Agni replied that they have asked permission of the government to erect a temporary structure to hold the party which will be removed voluntarily after the party is over.

Though they claimed that they had applied for the permission to the government on December 1, they failed to produce a copy before the court.The advocate general pointed out that the government has not received any such application and added that an ap-plication for renewal of contract was received and the deci­sión on the same is awaited.

The panchayat stated that it has conducted a panchanama of the site on December 14 under police protection and a notice was served on them.

The panchayat also added that since no reply was received from the organisers, they will go ahead with the demolition.

The issue of illegal construction came up in the gram sabha meeting which was held on De­cember 12 and the gram sabha decided to conduct the panchanama, replied the panchayat when asked how the decisión on conducting a panchanama came about.

The panchayat remained mum when asked why no action was not taken when the activity began.

Foreigner convicted for power theft

from our correspondent

MAPÚSA, Sept. 11-The Judiciary Magistrate . First Class of Mapusa Court, Mr. R. K. Batía convicted and sentenced a Swedish national, Mr. Tillman Ulf Torsten Anders to pay a fine of Rs. 500 or ín default to undergo one month’s S.I. on the charge of power theft.

According to the prosecutlon, the foreigneir between May 4 and 10, 1979 committed theft of electric energy by taking electric connection illegally at his rented room at Pedem, Anjuna from an electric pole which was detected by the electricity department.

Ps. Ten years later, I got a letter from Mapusa, telling me to come and pick up an item. At the deposit, they returned the cable, that was confiscated by the cops, when they arrested me. Ds.