Failing Countries

All countries should have a licence granted to them by the UN to operate as a country.

Countries that meet certain criteria for failure to operate as a country should have their licence revoked and the UN should step in with professionals to decide what to do.

Criteria for failure should be:
1) Inability to feed own citizens
2) Blatant corruption
3) Civil war
4) Genocide
5) etc

What to do with such countries:
1) If viable as one country then should be administered until the country is properly back on its feet. Administration should be by professionals from a country not directly related to the country. All monies obtained by such officials will have to be explained at the end of their term of office. Inability to explain would result in a long prison sentence. Administrators would be directly responsible for corruption of employees.

2) If not viable as a country then the country should be split up and administered independently. If it can be shown that part of the country can be combined with another working country then this should be done. If it can be combined with another part of another country and that country is failing then both parts should be combined and administered.

Solving Poverty and Debt

If each of the top 1% richest people in the world gave 10% of their wealth for distribution to the poor in Africa and other places then all of the problems would be solved.

This is a pure guess and none are going to do it since they would miss that million plus pounds they would have to give.

Live8 concert

Why was there an enormous semi-circle in front of the stage in Hyde Park ?

Was it so that all celebs and liggers did not have to share their space with the plebs, hoi-polloi and the scum. I think so.

The concert was absymal. None of the stars did it for any other reason than to boost their record sales.