1.0 link 180820 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-malcomson/barack-obama-joins-the-gr_b_180820.html World leaders have been acting strangely in the run-up to the G20 summit in London this Wednesday and Thursday. (There's also the big Afghanistan meeting in The Hague on Tuesday, featuring Iran, and Obama's first Nato summit, also in Europe, on the Friday and Saturday.) Late last week Lula of Brazil, accompanying Gordon Brown, started going on about how "white people with blue eyes" had caused this economic crisis, and issued a call for more dark-skinned and indigenous bankers (though...

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