"Please do not visit www.globalrichlist.com at this time. It has come to IRTR's attention that the Global Rich List site as late as Saturday afternoon contained a serious security risk. We are unable to determine at this time whether the site has been fixed. Apparently, the site was hacked, and a script was placed in the index page that tries to install a trojan (computer virus) based on the "WMF" exploit affecting Windows systems without a patch. See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/912840.mspx for more information. The JavaScript also appeared to try to install a trojan known as TR/Dldr.Small.23. The Global Rich List has previously come up in discussions in these forums. We are asking everyone not to underestimate the seriousness of this security risk. The trojans could be used to steal files and passwords and intercept keystrokes. TR/Dldr.Small.23 is a relatively old trojan, but trojans based on the WMF exploit are recent. Those who do not have up-to-date antivirus and spyware-removal software should get it. We have no reason to believe that the security threat on the Global Rich List was directed at IRTR users specifically. It seems highly unlikely. The Global Rich List has gotten a lot of traffic, and right-wing or unprincipled hackers may have saw some reason to disrupt it. The security threat illustrates the dangers of using the Internet generally. However, it is conceivable even irtr.org could at some point be hacked in a similar way. People who visit political or special-interest Web sites should be aware of the possibility of this kind of thing and take appropriate precautions, such as acquiring up-to-date antivirus, spyware-removal and firewall software."
Visit a gimmick for International CARE
If you run the above program, you should find that someone working 2000 hours a year at minimum wage of 4 pounds 50 in England ranks in the top 10.1% of the world by income. CLOSED FOR NOW: For a discussion of the political implications of that, leave this website for the sovietrevolution.com.
See our discussion of how fake "Marxists" ignore this basic fact about the West.
CARE is one of the famous charities concerned with food in poor countries. We encourage all people to visit the link above, because we are searching for simple ways for people to understand the economic facts of life in this world. For the whole story, people will have to read Karl Marx's book Capital and MIM Theory.
The money that goes to CARE is wasted money much better spent trying to drive away U.$. imperialism from the countries it is ruining. In a capitalist system, there is no getting around the law of supply and demand. If a supply of food arrives free, demand goes up including so-called "effective demand," but the supply goes down in the long-run because it drives local food suppliers out of business.
In effect, the charity agencies for many generations now have become the missionary face of economic dumping from the imperialist countries into the Third World. The Third World does not need Western missionaries. It needs its own farms and industries and the ability to trade fairly. It also needs for the u.$. government to stop aiding every retrograde ruler in this world holding back economic development with their backward ideas and implementation. China before Mao had suffered for centuries with ongoing and chronic famines. Just before Mao came to power there was another such famine killing 20 million people. Although there was still one famine in China under Mao, China swept past countries that used to do better in preventing famine, including India and as a result life expectancy doubled in China.
For this same cruel reason that charity never fixes the starvation problem in capitalism and semi-feudalism, recycling never works under capitalism. The better job we do recycling, the more recycled materials are available (such as glass, paper etc.) and the lower the price of that recycled material. Soon the price gets so low that there is no "profit" in recycling. That is why most cities continue to pay to dump material collected for "recycling."
These are two examples of why "good deed"ism under capitalism doesn't work. Under capitalism, "no good deed goes unpunished."