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Corruption 'Ravages' Two-Thirds of the World's Countries

Two-thirds of the world's 176 major countries are highly corrupt, according to the annual Corruption Perceptions Index, published Wednesday by the anticorruption group Transparency International (TI). 

"Corruption continues to ravage societies around the world," where it "destroys lives and communities, and undermines countries and institutions," TI said in a press release Wednesday.

The report highlighted several countries that seem to have backslid on corruption and abuse of power issues. In Afghanistan, one of the countries deemed most corrupt by TI's index, recent news belied the widespread perception that the country was cleaning up its politics during reconstruction. A recent independent report showed that Kabul Bank was nothing more than a "well-concealed Ponzi Scheme" from its beginning.

Many of the countries in which citizens have called for greater corruption oversight have seen their positions in the index stagnate or worsen since last year, TI reported. And among the countries scoring very poorly in the index, "many are failed states, characterized by the repression of human rights, social inequality, and ingrained poverty, in addition to corruption," said TI Chair Huguette Labelle in astatement on Wednesday.

Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, Sweden, Singapore, and Sweden all scored high on the group's index, indicating that their citizens consider them clean.

In announcing its report, Transparency International called on governments to integrate anti-corruption measures into all aspects of decision-making, and criticized countries that have remained soft on power abuses in recent years. Governments "must prioritize better rules on lobbying and political financing, make public spending and contracting more transparent, and make public bodies more accountable," TI concluded in its report.

https://reportingproject.net/occrp/index.php/ru/--/cc-watch-briefs-ru/1739-corruption-ravages-two-thirds-of-the-worlds-countries-

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Communism and Capitalism have both failed as systems of government because of the same illness: 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 as 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 to obtain more than just the basic necessities provided by the system. http://www.wikinfo.org/Multilingual/index.php/Commutalism

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