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Hakeem Shehada

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Nov 18, 2003, 7:16:03 PM11/18/03
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On 19 Nov 2003 00:16:03 GMT, Russell Gamble wrote:

>
> 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
>
> $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
>
> For years, Nike was the undisputed champion of logo culture,
> its swoosh an instant symbol of global cool.
>
> Today, Phil Knight's Nike is a fading empire, badly hurt by
> years of "brand damage" as activists and culture jammers
> fought back against mindfuck marketing and dirty sweatshop labor.
>
> Now a final challenge. We take on Phil at his own game - and win.
> We turn the shoes we wear into a counterbranding game. The swoosh
> versus the anti-swoosh. Which side are you on?
>
> Adbusters has been doing R&D for more than a year, and guess what?
> Making a shoe - a good shoe - isn't exactly rocket science.
> With a network of supporters, we're getting ready to launch the
> blackSpot sneaker, the world's first grassroots anti-brand.
> You can help launch the blackSpot revolution.
>
> THE BIG QUESTION:
>
> Is it possible to take Phil Knight's billion-dollar
> marketing momentum and, in a quick judo-like move, slap
> him onto the mat with the power of his own PR thrust?
>
> OUR KICK-ASS MARKETING STRATEGY >> http://blackspotsneaker.org/02/
>
> $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
>
> 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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>
> Russell Gamble
> Every carrots will be lazy solid shoes.

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--
Hakeem Shehada


the reason why so much
corruption exists in the world today.

May God free the humanity from coward Hayenas who attack everyone from
the back. May God free us all, may God give us the ability to analyse
and think and unconditionally care about others, may God give rise to
his true followers once again and may God give us faith and pious
character.

wa'Salam
Mohsin

. so the mosques were gassed.

Assalam u'Alekum all,

(Early 1991) As I said that after that pipe incident a lot of things
started changing around me. I used to go to pray fujur every day on
time, and _sometime_ would kind of cry to, the Israelis noted it and
started keeping me under observation. So then came the time when
sometime after we would finish prayer or start prayer, there would some
kind of rusty iron like smell in the mosque. After breathing whatever
this thing was, I and some others would get flu, pain in the neck, Jaw
or sometimes some kind of pimples of so inside our neck, as I used to
feel pain in my neck whenever I s


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