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From: <I>"Talent Zoo" <TalentZoo@mail124.subscribermail.com></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>"Talent Zoo" <announcements@talentzoo.com></I><BR>To: <I>bfackler55@hotmail.com</I><BR>Subject: <I>New Guest Columnist - Jon Bond</I><BR>Date: <I>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:01:13 -0500</I><BR><BR>
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<CENTER><BR>Wednesday, August 9, 2006</FONT> </CENTER></B>
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<P align=center><FONT face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#666666 size=3><STRONG>Weekly Guest Columnist:</STRONG></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#666666 size=2><BR></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><FONT color=#666666>Jon Bond</FONT></P><STRONG>
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<TD style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" borderColor=#ffffff borderColorLight=#ffffff width=360 bgColor=#ffffff borderColorDark=#ffffff><B><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000 size=3>America the Brand.</FONT></B><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000 size=2>
<P><B>Forward:</B> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Re-reading this article from two years ago, I was struck by how relevant it still is to world events happening today. Clearly, the idea that marketing is politics has taken root. In fact, it has evolved to where even military actions are now part of marketing with PR objectives being elevated above military ones. It is shocking that people would basically "sacrifice" human lives all for the purpose of essentially ensuring the placement of a pr story. Hezbollah firing rockets from civilian positions knowing full well that the inevitable counterattack will take innocent lives but feeling that the resulting PR coverage of "Israeli atrocities" would be worth more than those lives. Marketing is the most powerful force on earth. Its time that the United States and Israel and all of the other free nations
get good at it, because right now the bad guys are proving to be the marketing experts, and the price has escalated to from approval ratings to human lives.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B>Originally posted on 10/20/2004: </B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I was thinking the other day about politics, and it occurred to me that all of it is nothing more than the marketing of people, ideas and policies. As we all know, America the brand is suffering right now. So how would we...</P></FONT>
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