What a strange world

We have been watching and listening to news about the Euro bail-out plans. It's hard for me to understand how such huge figures are bandied about, surely only figures on paper, not paper money.
 Greece, with a population of 10 million wants 110 BILLION Euros, Spain with a population of 43 million needs a mere 100 BILLION.
I'm not the best there is when it comes to budgeting and saving but really, billions?
. I've asked before, how much money is there in the world? How can the world Bank have a bail-out budget of 500 Billion (I believe). where does the money come from? Is there an undisclosed Fort Knox somewhere filled with gold bars?
And, if there's so much money in this world, why are people starving to death in Africa?
According to "100 People: A World Portrait"  if there were but 100 people in the world 21 would be overweight (we know where they live), 15 would be under nourished. What does that mean, under nourished? it sounds scary, I just ate my lunch, it's only 11 a.m. but I was feeling peckish. Under nourished sounds far, far beyond peckish.
1 person of those 100 would be dying of starvation.
Yet there's a 500 billion stash to bail out Europe.

Nobody does it like the Brits

I wasn't able to watch the whole four days of celebration, Queen Elizabeth 2nd, her Diamond Jubilee. What a long weekend!
What struck me most was the sheer joy on the faces of the crowds who followed HM's every move. I thought the flotilla was marvelous and we're a quarter way through the concert. Some sad, jaded critic thought the flotilla abysmal (I think he wrote) and why have Lang Lang perform when there are British pianists available. No doubt there are and probably as good but it was the Queen's party and perhaps he's the one she wanted, perhaps she wanted to hear Cliff again, creaking though he is although, I'm not sure she requested Cheryl Cole
One person remarked that without the royal family Great Britain would just be Britain, I agree because no one else seems to understand and carry off the pomp and circumstance that fascinates the rest of the world.
How about the car ride? no dozen or so, black clad security persons running along side the car, presumably no heavily armed "peace" officers on standby. Just a jolly good weekend, which would be exhausting for any 86 year old lady and which showed the warm and loving side of (most of) the nation.
She's my Queen and I was gosh darned proud of her and her family, just sorry I couldn't be there.