I'm so beside myself about this, that I'll probably be completely inarticulate, so please bear with me.  I have volunteered for a number of years with a cat rescue organization in northern Virginia, so this horrible situation in Bejing touches an especially raw nerve with me.  

Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being abandoned by their owners and sent to die in secretive government pounds as China mounts an aggressive drive to clean up the capital in preparation for the Olympic Games.

Hundreds of cats a day are being rounded and crammed into cages so small they cannot even turn around.

Then they are trucked to what animal welfare groups describe as death camps on the edges of the city.

The cull comes in the wake of a government campaign warning of the diseases cats carry and ordering residents to help clear the streets of them.

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I'm used to coming home to things stuck under my door - flyers from Domino's Pizza; Chinese restaurant menus; flyers from Realtors, "Thinking of Moving? Call Me for a FREE HOME EVALUATION!" and so on.  It's all junk to me, but the tactic must get some results or no one would spend their time and money just to fill up my recycle bin.  

I got an email from a friend this morning about a flyer he found under his door recently.  It seems the US Military has taken a page out of the Domino's Pizza marketing manual: