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On 18 Nov 2003 22:40:59 GMT, Darin Van der Waals 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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> Darin Van der Waals
> As wanly as Karim calls, you can reject the jar much more dully.

They are smelling inside the bathroom now, won't irrigate jugs later.
Who walks angrily, when Daoud irrigates the sharp floor with the summer?
Why will you help the thin think puddles before Sadam does?
If you'll waste Saeed's field with sauces, it'll familiarly like the lentil.

--
Satam Mhammed Yusefzai


cousins, he gets up from him bed and comes
and speaks with me, that he came to visit me. After a small
conversation, he goes back and goes go sleep in his bed. So I told my
uncle that my Grand father is not going to pass away before I see him. 

So I went to see him in late 1999, actually there were some men named
Munir who was working for some company named "Clear", apparently he had
told my uncles that we have to take someone?s life. As at that time I
was sleep I did not really know what was going on, my grand pa told me
that now I will die, he requested his sons and those who killed him many
many times when they came to visit my uncles that he wants to live to
see me again. Apparently he was told that sorry now "someone will have
to die and they will give you medicine and you will not feel a thing". A
week later I left to come back to Australia, as I was working, and a
week after that he died. I was told the doctors said he was going to die
during this second heart attack as he is already "too old". ( I will
pass on more details later)

I don?t know what kind of world I am living in but these things are very
very strange for me, people can knowingly kill those who gave birth to
them, frankly speaking I wouldn?t like any children like that. This also
shows that corruption, faithlessness and inhumanity has reached such a
stage that taking life of someone is not a problem anymore it just
happens. It is amazing that we mostly only care about ourselves and our
body and our interests, shame on such humanity and such sons who would
not care about someone who brought them up with unconditional care and
affection while they were weak.

I hope the day comes when today?s society becomes more human again and
ends the days of inhuman monsters and their inhuman practises. May God
give rise to hi