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Today's Topics:
1. Listen to: Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis live
from First Ave, Minneapolis, Jan 30th 2026 (Vivek Pinto)
2. Evidence :-- Didn't SAWANT (CM ?? &\or Ex MGPidda ....
DECLARE : HE WILL WIPE OUT TRACES of PORTUGUESE ERA ? [
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz5WoM-X0XE ] or [ google :
COMMITED TO WIPE AWAY COLONIAL REMAINS & BUILT NEW (FILTHY) GOA :
CM ] (Miguel Barreto)
3. Read: "?The Robe and the Sword? (by Sonia Faleiro): Echoes of
Buddhist extremism in India?s own relationship with minorities"
(Vivek Pinto)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:14:03 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Listen to: Bruce Springsteen - Streets of
Minneapolis live from First Ave, Minneapolis, Jan 30th 2026
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[Verse 1]
Through the winter's ice and cold
Down Nicollet Avenue
A city aflame fought fire and ice
'Neath an occupier's boots
King Trump's private army from the DHS
Guns belted to their coats
Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law
Or so their story goes
[Verse 2]
Against smoke and rubber bullets
In the dawn's early light
Citizens stood for justice
Their voices ringin' through the night
And there were bloody footprints
Where mercy should have stood
And two dead, left to die on snow-filled streets
Alex Pretti and Ren?e Good
[Chorus]
Oh, our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
We'll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
Here in our home, they killed and roamed
In the winter of '26
We'll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis
[Verse 3]
Trump's federal thugs beat up on
His face and his chest
Then we heard the gunshots
And Alex Pretti lay in the snow dead
Their claim was self-defense, sir
Just don't believe your eyes
It's our blood and bones
And these whistles and phones
Against Miller and Noem's dirty lies
[Chorus]
Oh, our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Crying through the bloody mist
We'll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis
[Harmonica Solo]
[Verse 4]
Now they say they're here to uphold the law
But they trample on our rights
If your skin is black or brown, my friend
You can be questioned or deported on sight
In our chants of "ICE out now"
Our city's heart and soul persists
Through broken glass and bloody tears
On the streets of Minneapolis
[Chorus]
Oh, our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist
Here in our home, they killed and roamed
In the winter of '26
We'll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst
We'll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis
We'll remember the names of those who died
On the streets of Minneapolis
[Outro]
ICE out (ICE out)
ICE out (ICE out)
ICE out (ICE out)
ICE out (ICE out)
ICE out (ICE out)
ICE out
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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 14:08:22 +0000 (UTC)
From: Miguel Barreto <miguelbarreto16-/[email protected]>
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Subject: [Goanet] Evidence :-- Didn't SAWANT (CM ?? &\or Ex MGPidda
.... DECLARE : HE WILL WIPE OUT TRACES of PORTUGUESE ERA ? [
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz5WoM-X0XE ] or [ google : COMMITED
TO WIPE AWAY COLONIAL REMAINS & BUILT NEW (FILTHY) GOA : CM ]
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Save ( S . O? .S )? Goa?
Didn't? Sawant ( CM ) of BJP? ....who is also known as ( Ex- MG Pidda)? OR? / Anti-Goa - gang member) openly declare that he will wipe of Portuguese era .....ect ???
Can we remain SILENT SPECTATORS &/or DO NOTHING .....wrt .. this unlawful Threats/Bullying / Harassments/Criminal Acts? .....?
Please google : -?COMMITED TO WIPE AWAY COLONIAL REMAINS & BUILT NEW GOA; CM ( SAWANT)orSee video below;=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz5WoM-X0XE
This is another Evidence.....of Ex MGPidda ( Anti Goans gang) in Goa.along with 666 3 face animals/ Evils ...that has " Silently Un-declared WAR on Goa/Goans"....
Anther serious Question/s ( WITH? GOANS? or? AGAINST GOANS ):? ?Is not true that? ?V. DEMPO & N.TIMES? ?was? hand in Gloves with MGPidda ....during Referendum ....acting against Goa/Goans ????ie? ?[ KNOWING ENEMIES of GOANS (GOA) ....is ALSO MUST? NOW ...TO STOP EVIL & LAWLESSNESS in GOA ]
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:10:23 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "?The Robe and the Sword? (by Sonia Faleiro):
Echoes of Buddhist extremism in India?s own relationship with
minorities"
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By: Cris
Published in: Scroll
Date: January 31, 2026
Source:
https://scroll.in/article/1089734/the-robe-and-the-sword-echoes-of-buddhist-extremism-in-indias-own-relationship-with-minorities
Flipping open Sonia Faleiro?s *The Rob and The Sword*
<https://scroll.in/article/1089733/militant-buddhism-a-long-history-of-how-sri-lankan-buddhist-monks-treated-non-practitioners>,
you come across an unusual section for a book of its size (152 pages) ? a
?cast of characters? spanning four pages and five countries, the kind you
see in long family sagas and thick volumes of nonfiction. If you?d like to
get a whiff of what?s in store, you can take your time with it, going
through famous names and Faleiro?s descriptions of them.
The new normal
The slim book is about, to borrow the subtitle, ?how Buddhist extremism is
shaping Modern Asia?. A perfect gist that can jolt an unprepared reader ?
for Buddhism is a faith one would associate with peace and calm. The
question must have troubled the author, who travelled to many parts of Asia
where the robes of the Buddhists had somehow turned into a weapon and
monks, once thought peaceful, had turned to violence. The result is a
lyrical, disturbing account of a metamorphosis that, like all changes, slow
and steady and happening before our eyes, can become the new normal.
>From Dharamshala in India ? home of the Dalai Lama ? to the Sri Lankan
towns which were marred by violence and the borders of Thailand and
Myanmar, where survivors flocked in fear, Faleiro finds stories that bore
an uncanny resemblance to each other. In each of the places, a man had
emerged from among the monks and Buddhists to become a ferocious leader who
would one day wield power and unleash violence, most often against the
minority Muslims.
>From the outset, without having to state the obvious, Faleiro?s
descriptions draw parallels. The growth of hyper-nationalism and militant
organisations can bring chilling reminders of similar movements closer
home. A Burmese monk came up with a theory called ?the sex strategy? that
he alleged was used by Muslim men to seduce Burmese women and ?overtake
Myanmar?s Buddhist population?. Another Burmese leader introduced a
citizenship law that included 135 indigenous groups but excluded Rohingya
Muslims.
Faleiro heard accounts of riots, with witnesses stating that the police
stood by and did nothing to help. The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), an ultra
nationalist organisation of Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka, tied up with
India?s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 2014. So did Ma Ba Tha, a similar
organisation in Myanmar.
In Myanmar, of course, there was another all-powerful group ? the junta
that took power and famously put politician Aung San Suu Kyi under house
arrest, and defrocked dissenting monks. Over the years, thousands of
Rohingya muslims were killed.
Many deep tragedies
That Faleiro is lyrical in her narrative only deepens the sense of tragedy.
?The monks to whom they (the Burmese) offered rice, bowed their heads, and
whispered prayers were no longer just meditative figures in saffron robes.
Increasingly, they became men who shouted slurs at Indians, looted shops,
and incited ? even joined in ? acts of violence. The robe remained, but,
for some, the role had changed.?
In Sri Lanka, where she describes the death of a Muslim man in a mob attack
in 2014, she writes: ?It was there, among the injured, that Sahuran?s
family found him ? cut down on his way to protect what was his. A single,
crimson bloom marked his forehead."
Faleiro can?t stress enough how in all these countries faith is so
intertwined with politics and power. And she finds an explanation for the
apparent severance of Buddhism with the ideals on which it was founded: ?In
a world shaped by conflict and fear, perhaps no vow ? no matter how sacred
? is entirely safe from the pull of politics.?
She gently nudges the reader to remember history and trace the roots of the
divisive nature of our world back to the centuries-long colonial rule in
and around South Asia. She reminds the reader that in India, Ceylon and
Myanmar, it was the British who created a census based on ethnicities, and
boundaries where none had existed. ?In all three countries, the
classification system defined who was considered pure and who could be
discarded.? It helped, she states, create the conditions for religious
nationalism.
Not just in history, you will find disturbing parallels in contemporary
times, which Faleiro confines them into short, telling paragraphs. The
rhetoric used to dehumanise people, she says, has always been there, and
continues to exist.
Discrimination often doesn?t end with race or religion; it invariably seeps
into gender. It?s touching that Faleiro found among her storytellers women
ready to recount the days of displacement and violence. It should not come
as a surprise that in the world of monks and militancy, where power and
respect are taken for granted, women were few in numbers. But that was not
going to dissuade the resolute author from finding them. In Thailand, where
Buddhism has become a major draw for tourism, she found Dhammananda
Bhikkhuni, the first Thai woman to become a monk. The 81-year-old told
Faleiro that Buddhism isn?t patriarchal in principle, but it supports
patriarchy.
The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism Is Shaping Modern Asia, Sonia
Faleiro, HarperCollins India.
End of Goanet Digest, Vol 21, Issue 56
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