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Taysseer el-Hassan

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Oct 8, 2003, 7:26:10 PM10/8/03

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<TD class=px15 width=400><B><BR>This is a ground-breaking marketing scheme
to uncool Nike. If it succeeds, it will set a precedent that will
revolutionize capitalism. <BR></B></TD>
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<TD class=px15 width=400><B>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.<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&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
<I>blackSpot</I> sneaker, the world's first grassroots anti-brand. You can
help launch the <I>blackSpot</I> revolution.<BR><BR>THE BIG
QUESTION:<BR>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?<BR><BR><A
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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 swallowed anything. Similar kind of gas
was sprayed at me a few days back.

On the other hand these Israelis would make stories that _xyz_ man got
somekind of neck cancer and it requires operation. Things did not really
end here, I used to go buy candies from a local shop and sometimes a
drink or two (you know baby/junk food). So over their one Jewish man was
sometimes present to investigate what I like and think. He used to order
the shop keeper to give me some _special_ kind of coke or sprite, when
ever I drank those special drinks I would instantly get flu, my hands
would get cold and every time a few hours later after this water like
flu, some kind of black clusters started coming out of my nose.

This local shop keeper knew our family so he t

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