'White people with blue eyes' caused financial crisis

[Loki]

'White people with blue eyes' caused financial crisis (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/27/2527652.htm?section=business)

Brazil's President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has raised a few brows by suggesting the global financial crisis has been caused by "white people with blue eyes".

Mr da Silva met with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the capital Brasilia to argue that G20 economies back a $US100 billion expansion of finance to reverse a slowdown in global trade.

The President has been one of the most outspoken advocates of giving developing countries more say in multilateral organisations like the International Monetary Fund.

He has also been a fierce defender of more open farm trade, trying to forge a common front among developing nations.

Asked to explain his comment that the international crisis had been fomented by "white people with blue eyes," Mr da Silva said he had no ideological bias. But poor people were the first to suffer from the crisis, he said.

The President has often blamed the United States for causing a global crisis by practising "casino capitalism".

Mr da Silva and Mr Brown said countries should adopt more fiscal and monetary stimulus to help combat the global economic crisis and called for tougher financial market regulations.

Leading industrial and developing nations, including Brazil, will attend the G20 summit Mr Brown hosts in London on April 2.

"If the G20 becomes a meeting just to set another meeting, we'll be discredited and the crisis can deepen," Mr da Silva said.

"We must not let the crisis drag on as long as the Japanese crisis did," he said, in reference to a decade of stagnation in the Asian country.

Mr Brown is on the third stop of a tour through Europe, Latin America and the United States to seek support for the G20 meeting that will discuss measures to tackle the global financial crisis.

He said the meeting was a vital opportunity to take international action required to "restore global demand through concerted and coordinated fiscal and monetary policy action".

Some European leaders have opposed calls by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and US President Barack Obama to agree to larger stimulus packages at the G20 meeting.

- Reuters

[Beorn]

'White people with blues eyes' invented near everything with which you comfortably live your life of luxury.

[SwordoftheVistula]

'White people with blue eyes' like

Alan Greenspan: (former chairman US 'federal reserve')
http://www.topnews.in/files/alan-greenspan.jpg

Ben Shalom Bernanke: (current chairman US 'federal reserve')

http://www.clevelandleader.com/files/bernanke_4.jpg

Barney Frank: (head of Congressional Banking Committee)
http://blogs.reuters.com/summits/files/2007/01/barneyfrank4.jpg

Robert Rubin (Secretary of Treasury during the 90s bubble initial creation, later head of Citigroup)
http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/11/06/robertrubin2_narrowweb__300x432,0.jpg

Bernard Madoff (ok, not really a cause of the crisis)

http://chattahbox.com/images/2008/12/madoff.jpg

[Atlas]

I am a white man with green eyes, I have not caused anything.

[Barreldriver]

I am a white man with green eyes, I have not caused anything.

I'm a white man with grey eyes, so I guess we're home free! Damn you blue eyed beast damn you lol :D:

[Loki]

I blame Arctic Fox. Her eyes are as blue as the Aegean.

[Aemma]

But of course this politician would say this: Brazil is part of the BRIC afterall. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRIC). I doubt very much that one would find many 'blued-eyed' people in China, India or Brazil, and nor Russia for the most part I would gather. Politicians from these member countries need to lay blame somewhere dontcha know. :rolleyes:

Cheers!...Aemma

[Holtlander]

Yeah i have a busy life, first i shipped all the slaves to America personally and after it i did everything i could to cause the financial crisis.....and i'm not even 20 yet.:confused:

[Treffie]

I am a white man with green eyes, I have not caused anything.

Same here, but with dark brown eyes - Phew, that was a close one! :rolleyes:

[Hilding]

Black people still carry things up on their heads...

[Eldritch]

If it wasn't for white people with whatever-colored eyes (blue, grey, green, brown, amber (my own eyes are 33.3% blue, 33.3% grey and 33.3% green btw)) there wouldn't even be any economy to go into a recession in the first place.

I've lived in Brazil, so I like to keep an eye on what's going on there. That country has enormous problems, but equally enormous potential. I actually though Lula might just be the guy who finally gets Brazil on its feet. But if this quote is accurate, I must have been dead wrong. :crazy:

[Rudy]

Damn blue eyed devils always causing all the hatred in the world!!:mad:

(looks in mirror)

nevermind.. :redface_002:

[Sarmata]

Oh my... looks like I'm partelly responsible for world crisis...:mmmm:

[Sarmata]

'White people with blue eyes' like

Alan Greenspan: (former chairman US 'federal reserve')
http://www.topnews.in/files/alan-greenspan.jpg

Ben Shalom Bernanke: (current chairman US 'federal reserve')

http://www.clevelandleader.com/files/bernanke_4.jpg

Barney Frank: (head of Congressional Banking Committee)
http://blogs.reuters.com/summits/files/2007/01/barneyfrank4.jpg

Robert Rubin (Secretary of Treasury during the 90s bubble initial creation, later head of Citigroup)
http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/11/06/robertrubin2_narrowweb__300x432,0.jpg

Bernard Madoff (ok, not really a cause of the crisis)

http://chattahbox.com/images/2008/12/madoff.jpg

They're dark eyed, hook noses, semitic as we see no one of them has blue eyes, so they're innocent in crisis case.

[ReichGirl]

'White people with blue eyes' like

Alan Greenspan: (former chairman US 'federal reserve')
http://www.topnews.in/files/alan-greenspan.jpg

Ben Shalom Bernanke: (current chairman US 'federal reserve')

http://www.clevelandleader.com/files/bernanke_4.jpg

Barney Frank: (head of Congressional Banking Committee)
http://blogs.reuters.com/summits/files/2007/01/barneyfrank4.jpg

Robert Rubin (Secretary of Treasury during the 90s bubble initial creation, later head of Citigroup)
http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/11/06/robertrubin2_narrowweb__300x432,0.jpg

Bernard Madoff (ok, not really a cause of the crisis)

http://chattahbox.com/images/2008/12/madoff.jpg

those are all jews everyone of them;)

[Lenny]

I've lived in Brazil, so I like to keep an eye on what's going on there. That country has enormous problems, but equally enormous potential. I actually though Lula might just be the guy who finally gets Brazil on its feet. But if this quote is accurate, I must have been dead wrong. :crazy:

"Brazil is the country of the future - and always will be". - Charles de Gaulle :D

[Vulpix]

Shhh don't tell everyone it was me :(... :p

[Lenny]

The commentator Steve Sailer tried to get a snapshot of the actual ethnicities of those driving the U.S. financial system: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/03/are-blue-eyed-greedy-ethnicity-of.html

Maureen Dowd's NYT column "Blue Eyed Greed" convinced me to sit down and take a vaguely systematic stab at figuring out the ethnic backgrounds of the people whose names come up these days in relation to the universe of American finance.

Obviously, [Lula and] Dowd (a red-haired Irish Catholic who felt undervalued because she has brown eyes) is using the code terms "blue eyed" and "white bread bankers" to refer to Northern-European Protestants. So, it made more sense to look up ancestry, religion, and self-identification directly.
... So, here's what I found. [...]


A summary of his findings (The list he used was highly imperfect as he admits [see the link])
15.3% Old-Stock "WASP" Americans
10.3% Other White-Protestants (Germans, a Norwegian, and a Scotchman)
30.8% Jews
10.3% Irish-Catholics
07.7% Blacks
10.3% Greeks
05.1% Lebanese
05.1% Italians
05.1% Miscellaneous (Hindu and Oriental)


-White-Protestants are only one-quarter; the main target group the "WASP" is only 1/6th.
-Jews are nearly one-third (if a few of the gentiles have some Jewish blood back there, the overall-ancestral-stock would easily surpass 1/3rd-Jewish overall).
-Mediterranean gentiles are a surprising 20%.

[Barack Obama]

Well of course it was the White blue eyed devils who are responsible. And no matter how bad the economy gets I will be reminding people of that fact, though my surrogates of course. Allah bless President Lula.

[SouthernBoy]

I'm sorry. Friends?

[Barreldriver]

Well of course it was the White blue eyed devils who are responsible. And no matter how bad the economy gets I will be reminding people of that fact, though my surrogates of course. Allah bless President Lula.

Troll? Me thinks so.

[Barreldriver]

Shhh don't tell everyone it was me :(... :p

I won't tell, I swear on my grey eyes I won't tell. I swear on my evil grey eyes, grey as a wolf, I won't tell. *evil grinz* :D