The Future of the G20 in Good Times and Bad
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1. Establish a Crisis Management team with an established MIS for a continuity of operations plan.
2. Determine potential threats from those outside the G20. Coordinate a defense plan among the G20 nations.
3. Quantify the needs of the people of each of the countries, the resources available from each of the G20 countries and establish a coordinated distribution system for the resources available.
4. Create a forecasting team to create a snapshot of the situation and to plan a recovery strategy.
5. Leave my phone number with the secretary.
Follow Up
A: What are the potential threats?
1. Military invasion
2. Population dislocation
3. Starvation, disease, violence
4. Political unrest
5. Propaganda
(3 and 4 are also internal threats.)
B: Can you please identify the source or sources of threat?
1. Hostile nations
2. Displaced persons
3. Agents provocateur
4. Propaganda
C: What will be your single point defense plan in addition to (3) and (4) which are precisely what the G20 needs to immediately do?
Disseminate information trusted to be authentic:
Disseminate information directly through all available media to the greatest number of people apprising them of the situation and reassuring them of official protection and support.
Disseminate information through pre-determined media to principals responsible for the mobilisation of forces to repulse external attack, and to internal organisations responsible for the protection of civilians.
However, in the event that all goes well:
I will now leave my comfort-zone of being analytical to being philosophical. The economists will know if there is any value in what I have to say on the G20 plan.
A. Link the currency exchange rate to the trade deficit/surplus numbers in a way that would balance out the trade and currency issues. My guess would be that this would:
1. Help to stabilise the playing field discouraging trade wars.
2. Encourage co-operation instead of competition among the nations while at the same time encouraging competition within industries to become more efficient thus cost-effective.
B. Encourage both shared biotechnology and the establishment of a food bank to stabilise the food supply, among the G20 and to stabilise emerging nations by being able to offset political and civil unrest arising from lack of food.
C. Provide for the co-operation among those in the pharmaceutical industry to develop what will be necessary to inveigh against existing and emerging diseases. (Op. cit. B)
D. Establish an intra-G20 agency to inventory energy resources, calculate energy needs, an forecast future energy needs among the G20 nations and among the non-G20 nations.
E. Please, forgive me for my little joke about my leaving my phone number with the secretary.
Warmest regards,
Slim
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