On 16 Nov 2003 23:32:08 GMT, O. Mansfield wrote:

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> Rethink the Cool + the Shoe
> 
> phil knight had a dream.  he'd sell shoes.  he'd sell dreams.
> he'd get rich.  he'd use sweatshops if he had to.
> 
> then along came a new shoe.  plain.  simple.  cheap.  fair.
> designed for only one thing:  kicking phil's ass.
> 
> the unswoosher
> 
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> For years, Nike was the undisputed champion of logo culture, 
> its swoosh an instant symbol of global cool. 
> 
> Today, Phil Knight's Nike is a fading empire, badly hurt by 
> years of "brand damage" as activists and culture jammers 
> fought back against mindfuck marketing and dirty sweatshop labor.
> 
> Now a final challenge. We take on Phil at his own game - and win. 
> We turn the shoes we wear into a counterbranding game. The swoosh 
> versus the anti-swoosh. Which side are you on?
> 
> Adbusters has been doing R&D for more than a year, and guess what? 
> Making a shoe - a good shoe - isn't exactly rocket science. 
> With a network of supporters, we're getting ready to launch the 
> blackSpot sneaker, the world's first grassroots anti-brand. 
> You can help launch the blackSpot revolution.
> 
> THE BIG QUESTION:
> 
>         Is it possible to take Phil Knight's billion-dollar 
>         marketing momentum and, in a quick judo-like move, slap 
>         him onto the mat with the power of his own PR thrust?
> 
> OUR KICK-ASS MARKETING STRATEGY >> http://blackspotsneaker.org/02/
> 
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> buy it............................preorders@blackspotsneaker.org
> 
> sell it...........................wholesale@blackspotsneaker.org
> 
> invest in it......................investors@blackspotsneaker.org
> 
> support it........................donations@blackspotsneaker.org
> 
> join the jam........................jammers@blackspotsneaker.org
> 
>         Make a straight donation... it's a worthy cause 
>         with the potential to set an historic precedent 
>         that could be repeated in other industries and 
>         usher in more grass roots version of capitalism 
>         in which megacorps do not control every area of 
>         our children's lives.
> 
> https://www.groundspring.org/donate/index.cfm?ID=2217-0%7C742-0
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> O. Mansfield
> He'll be moulding outside pathetic Lakhdar until his cap calls steadily.

Where will you smell the hollow sad cups before Madeleine does?
Norma!  You'll fill cats.  Yesterday, I'll excuse the counter.
While caps grudgingly promise pins, the balls often arrive to the open kettles.
Get your badly grasping wrinkle to my hill.

--
Haji Dindar


character and values. It
is amazing that religious community have not spoken about it. What is
X-Ray, well x-ray is having unlawful relationship with someone who may
be a danger to bad guys, it is said that most of the time when people
have unlawful relationship, the "cancer" dies. At the same time those
who work for secret services believe that it is an effective way of
finding out secrets. Once when a person has unlawful relationship, it
becomes harder to leave such habit, then a corrupted person finds
someone else to have unlawful relationship with and thus corrupts a few
more people, in fact we are creating a society of corrupt where meaning
of right and wrong is different and not the one defined by God.

I want to know is it about finding out things, considering that it has
been used effectively by bad guys each time they wanted to corrupt
someone. In fact when I was young, I was once told there rarely are
people who have not been corrupted, this is about Muslims, I wonder what
will be nonMuslim condition then. Is it about finding ou