Comments (4)

• Dan Coleman

  It looks like a business. Strip the url to just "http://www.togetherwecanchangetheworldpublishing.com/", and the "Donate $5 to the Mises Institute" disappears (a generic page is shown instead).

  If on the generic page you click on the "Affiliate" link, and then sign in as an 'NPO affiliate' using the number 89512 (part of the original url that you linked us to), it treats you as the Mises Institute.

  I think the idea is that, if your website directs people to this place, and they buy books, you'll get a comission for sending them there.

  I feel like my explanation was as clear as mud, but in short it appears that someone has 'created' a Mises Institute affiliation with this website. Hope that helps.

  Published: December 13, 2006 10:57 AM

• M E Hoffer

  DC,

  Way to get to the bottom of it !~

  And, if that biz mod is interesting to vMI, there are many other similiar transactions where a 'commission' can be dialed toward it(vMI).

  Published: December 13, 2006 12:49 PM

• jeffrey

  The thing is that no one here signed up for this. The company did call me back and they said that they will get to the bottom of it.

  Published: December 13, 2006 1:26 PM

• Mir Arslan

  Norway has a population of less than 5 (five) million. Bangladesh’s population is more than 145 million. Grameen Phone (GP), a subsidiary of Telenor of Norway has 10 (ten) million subscribers in Bangladesh alone. Just think of the money in foreign currency that is siphoned out of Bangladesh through the courtesy of Yunus of Grameen Bank (GB). GP (the Grameen Phone company) does more business than Grameen Bank.

  The Grameen bank is just a decoy to cover up Telenor’s unfair corrupt practices in Bangladesh. Yunus and the past government of Khaleda Zia and her cronies should be held accountable for conspiring with Telenor to cheat the Bangladesh Exchequer of billions of dollars since the inception of GP in 1997.

  No doubt Bangladesh has repeatedly become the most corrupt of all nations over the last five years (2001-2006). Telenor of Norway has taken full advantage of the shady under the table practices in Bangladesh for the last five years through enormous amiunts of tax evasion.

  No wonder Telenor’s mother country had Yunus prized at Oslo for ripping off Bangladesh’s poor.

  It’s piracy at high seas! And now the two pirates are quarreling over the share of the booty looted.
  

  Published: December 21, 2006 4:42 AM