*I wondered where Adbusters would go after the ads were well and truly busted.
You know how much money GM owes to big ad agencies? Enough to
blow the wheels off them. They are in mortal danger.
*Nice to hear that the new frontier is Nihilism! Yeah man!
"Jammers, creatives, memesters,
"Nihilism has long been an abstraction: the dark muse of poetry, philosophy and art. But now we are confronted with the moment when this experiment of ours on Planet Earth meets its spectacular and terrifying end, when civilization reaches its summit and begins to tumble into permanent decline. This global meltdown has wrought a new breed of nihilism – eco-nihilism, psycho-nihilism, apocalypto-nihilism – for which no philosophy has ever been written, no remedy ever prescribed … Adbusters #84, Nihilism & Revolution, hits newsstands this week. Subscribe at www.adbusters.org/subscribe or give us a call at 604-736-9401/1-800-663-1243 (toll-free).
"We are living in some crazy, contradictory times – every aspect of our lives is in upheaval. Our neoclassical economic model has proven a giant failure, so we’re devoting Adbusters #85 to exploring humanistic, ecological and no-growth alternatives. It’s going to be a big, fat 144 page issue. We want your stories … all the triumphs and disasters that come with living in (and breaking free of) the apocalyptic framework of megacorporate capitalism. Send your tales, epiphanies and laments to [email protected]."
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"On the legal front …
"True to form, CanWest is appealing our recent freedom of speech legal victory to the Supreme Court of Canada. Their appeal has zero chance of succeeding and they know it … CEO and President Leonard Asper is just playing dirty and trying to deplete our coffers. Now that the CanWest media empire is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, you'd think he would have better things to do with his money — like maybe paying off his worried shareholders — than paying lawyers $500/hour to keep censoring Adbusters' ads. We’re not going to let CanWest get away with it. We’re looking to raise $50,000.00 to keep this legal tussle going. To donate, please visit www.adbusters.org/donate.
"Cheers, from all of us here at Adbusters."
