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Greece Swears In New Prime Minister

Michael Juliani |
June 20, 2012 | 9:06 a.m. PDT

Executive Producer

Samaras Will Attempt To Steer Greece Away From Economic Collapse (Flickr Creative Commons)
Samaras Will Attempt To Steer Greece Away From Economic Collapse (Flickr Creative Commons)

Greece swore in a new prime minister Wednesday after seven weeks of unstable leadership that weakened Greece's already fragile political and economic state, according to The New York Times.

Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party, is Greece's new prime minister.  He was sworn in by Archbishop Ieronymos of the Greek Orthodox Church.  

Samaras will work with two other parties that agreed to form a coalition.  

With Greece on the verge of economic collapse, the fate of Samaras's government may be short-lived.  He said he hopes to give Greeks "tangible hope."

Samaras will attempt to gain a majority coalition in Parliament in order to safeguard against the far-left Syriza party who may resist the new Prime Minister's plans for the country. 

 

 

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Wingnut (not verified) on June 21, 2012 6:41 AM

Hi wavetore!
While most of us appreciate your strife to come up with a better way to do capitalism, and agree with your idea to separate necessities from luxuries, your transparency idea just will not work in the current situation. That is because of something called trade secrets. lets say your company came up with a new idea... a method or product that will put your company WAY OUT IN FRONT of the competition. You need to buy parts for your idea... from outside vendors. You need to place orders and gather the pieces. If those transactions were transparent, your competition will see you do it, and that will cause all sorts of problems. Your company must be allowed to gather the pieces of its new idea... without having to let anyone else know of your idea. keep in mind that just because something needs to stay secretive... does NOT make it underhanded or corrupt.

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wavettore (not verified) on June 20, 2012 9:49 AM

Communism and more recently even Capitalism have both failed because of the cancer of corruption.

In a new and long lasting form of government, Trust can no longer be one of its components. All efforts should be made to form a new type of government with new mechanisms that will not require the element of Trust or the promise of a politician to guarantee that the will of the majority will always be reflected in the laws of that government. This will be a system that could improve in time the already existing possibility of such government today structured through the use of the Internet.

A new form of Democratic government is
Commutalism

Commutalism is a new concept of Democracy without politicians which is organized through the Internet to balance the needs of the Individual with the Respect for Equality.

Commutalism is structured to provide the necessary goods for the survival of everyone and introduces at the same time a new transparent form of Capitalism to trade all those goods which are not necessary, like in a market open to the competition of all superfluous goods

For the sake of transparency, this new type of Capitalism would rule that each single transaction must be reported on the Net to become visible by anyone (just like an invoice made public) and taxable at the origin with a fix percentage for everyone.

In such system, all private properties and their owners like also all money transactions and trades of private property must be publicly reported on the Net. This is to prevent unlawful transactions and root out corruption through the immediate confiscation of those goods that have not been reported.

Moreover, to reduce Greed and restore the financial equilibrium worldwide it will be enough to eliminate the concept of inheritance. The private property of the people will return to the State after the death of each person to be auctioned among all citizens. People could spend as much as they want to educate their children but inheritance and donations would not be allowed.

Once the survival is guaranteed for everybody there will be no need to be tolerant with crime as we are today when the crime is a consequence of our corrupted system.

In Commutalism, the right to own must be protected and guaranteed also for those who want to work and trade their own Time (which is their Life) to obtain more than just the basic necessities provided by the system. Those people who will have contributed to the functioning of the social mechanism and worked to have more than what is guaranteed will also be able to obtain superfluous goods. These goods could be placed in a State auction (as if they were the Treasure bonds of a Country) for an open bidding reserved among those who can dispose of means of exchange gained through work.
Once the goods become privatized they could be exchanged among the citizens in a free market.

http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Commutalism

www.wavevolution.org

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