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The US government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into the US economy in the wake of the financial crisis. But what steps are being taken to address the crisis on a global scale? The worldwide financial crisis is forcing some to rethink the neoliberal policies widely blamed for the financial collapse. We speak with University of Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang, author of Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism.

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So in his Oscar acceptance speech, A R Rehman humbled us all by saying something life thus...

"All my life I had a choice between love and hate.
I chose love and I am here."

Its easy to be swayed by the hatemongers of the world, very easy to believe we are under threat from this community or that. But the only people we are under threat from is this hate mongering community of toxic leaders and demagogues.

I hope more people choose love over hate. At least I'll try.

IMDB: Charlie Wilson's War (2007) 

So the other day I saw Charlie Wilson's War. Nice movie, reminded me of the old classic - Triumph of the Will, you know the one commissioned by Herr Hitler himself. However, Triumph of the Will

 is a classic in many ways, people watch and learn from it. Charlie Wilson sadly on the other hand is a sad, scary and arrogant film.  read more »

So the other we celebrated the 60th anniversary of our independence (August 15th). I am glad to see even the rich and upper middle class people are now proud to be Indian etc. They even show a TV ad in which the guy refuses a foreign companies offer, goes around driving a bike, etc... pretty cool.

So anyway, I myself am not upto the mark on the patriotic meter, at least not by our Indian Nazi standards, but I do have a small list of patriotic-to-do-list which I try to-do from time to time. So no wanting to keep away from the prevailing hurrah of our 60th independence anniversary I hear by share my list: read more »