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megacorps do not control

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From: Hakim Shehada
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 22:53
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    <TD class=px15 width=400><B><BR>This is a ground-breaking marketing scheme 
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    <TD class=px15 width=400><B>For years, Nike was the undisputed champion of 
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      activists and culture jammers fought back against mindfuck marketing and 
      dirty sweatshop labor.<BR><BR>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?<BR><BR>Adbusters has been doing R&amp;D for more than a year, and 
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      help launch the <I>blackSpot</I> revolution.<BR><BR>THE BIG 
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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 out secrets and
having success, no it is about moral human boundaries. Would you like
someone having unlawful relationship with your wife and so, and what
kind of family setup and society it will create, a society where there
are no rules, rules are any rules can be broken and human values
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From: Hakim Shehada <edevbam@libreve.org>
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