Subject: URGENT ACTION ALERT! Don’t let hunters kill this program!

Remote Area Veterinary Services (RAVS) is a program of The HSUS’ that provides free spay/neuter and pet health care services to poor rural communities and Native American reservations. But if an extreme front-group for hunters gets its way, vital funding for RAVS could be in jeopardy.

The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA) is rallying its supporters to bombard PETsMART Charities with protests about the foundation’s $15,000 grant to The HSUS’ RAVS program. The USSA opposes any support for The HSUS because of our strong opposition to sport, trophy, and recreational hunting. They’re working hard to kill funding for a program that has nothing to do with hunting, and everything to do with taking care of pets. But the USSA doesn’t care about that. This same group supports such repugnant practices as bear baiting, canned hunts, trophy hunting of threatened species—practices even disdained by many hunters themselves.

PLEASE HELP. SHOW SUPPORT FOR PETsMART CHARITIES AND RAVS!

Go to http://www.hsus.org/ace/16105 for the full story, and to http://www.hsus.org/ace/16180 to download a “Thank You” card that you can take to your nearest PETsMART store to show that their customers care about protecting animals. We want to generate traffic in the store to counter the hunters’ threat of a boycott if PETsMART Charities continues to support RAVS.

Don’t let the USSA shoot down funding for RAVS! Please send this message to everyone in your address book today. Thank you.

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WASHINGTON — "Agent Orange," the chemical used to strip Vietnamese and Cambodian jungles by U.S. forces during the Vietnam war, can cause leukemia, U.S. health advisers said.

A second look at the evidence supports the idea that people exposed to the chemical may have a higher risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, the Institute of Medicine panel said. But there is not enough information to say just how many veterans or herbicide workers may be affected.

The panel, which met Thursday at the request of the Department of Veterans Affairs, reexamined six separate studies on the possible link between Agent Orange and CLL.

"The risk for CLL was found to be elevated in those whose occupations involved handling of or exposure to the types of herbicidal chemicals also used during the Vietnam War," the committee said in a statement.

The herbicides, which got the nickname "Agent Orange" from the orange stripe on the barrels in which they were stored, include chemicals with such tongue-twisting names as 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid.

"From 1962 to 1971, U.S. military forces sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that helped conceal opposition forces, to destroy crops that enemy forces might depend on, and to clear tall grasses and bushes from the perimeters of U.S. base camps and outlying fire-support bases," the Institute report reads.

http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2003/01/01242003/reu_49408.asp
By Maggie Fox, Reuters

Nestlé, the world's largest coffee company, was forced into a humiliating u-turn last night, after public outrage forced it to drop its $6m claim against the famine stricken Ethiopian government.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/debt/Story/0,2763,881353,00.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/ogc/apparatus/index.html

Depleted Uranium Scare
During the Gulf War, coalition forces used armor-piercing ammunition made from depleted uranium, which is ideal for the purpose because of its great density. In recent years, the Iraqi regime has made substantial efforts to promote the false claim that the depleted uranium rounds fired by coalition forces have caused cancers and birth defects in Iraq. Iraq has distributed horrifying pictures of children with birth defects and linked them to depleted uranium. The campaign has two major propaganda assets:

* Uranium is a name that has frightening associations in the mind of the
average person, which makes the lie relatively easy to sell; and
* Iraq could take advantage of an established international network of antinuclear activists who had already launched their own campaign against depleted uranium.

But scientists working for the World Health Organization, the UN Environmental Program, and the European Union could find no health effects linked to exposure to depleted uranium.

The truth has not deterred the Iraqi disinformation campaign. On November 15, 2000, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi reported that Iraq had set up an organization called the "Central Committee for the Follow-up of the Consequences of Pollution" under the direct supervision of Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, to pursue this issue. It also reported that Iraqi Major General Abd-al-Wahhab Muhammad al-Juburi headed a working team of military personnel, scientists, and others to generate data and organize tours for the international media. Iraq has hosted international conferences on the alleged ill effects of depleted uranium and sent "experts" abroad to speak on the subject, including Iraqi professor Mona Kammas, a member of Iraq's "Committee of Pollution Impact by Aggressive Bombing."

The Bush administration's economic plan would increase by 50 percent or more the deductions that small-business owners can take right away on the biggest sport utility vehicles and pickups. The plan would mean small businesses could immediately deduct the entire price of S.U.V.'s like the Hummer H2, the Lincoln Navigator and the Toyota Land Cruiser, even if the vehicles were loaded with every available option. Or a business owner, taking full advantage, could buy a BMW X5 sport utility vehicle for a few hundred dollars more than a Pontiac Bonneville sedan, after the immediate tax deductions were factored in. (01/21/03) -- New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/business/21AUTO.html

Bush Plans Bigger Tax Break for SUV Buyers (01/21/03) USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2003-01-20-suvs_x.htm

Bush plan would boost big SUVs (01/21/03) San Francisco Chronicle
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/21/MN232554.DTL

SUV Slam: NHTSA Boss Blasts Utes (01/20/03) The Car Connection
http://www.thecarconnection.com/index.asp?article=5688

Foreign Policy Vehicles (01/20/03) New York Times Magazine
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/19/magazine/19QUESTIONS.html

Spinning the Axles of Evil: Celebs Trade in SUVs (01/20/03) New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/19/weekinreview/19SHAR.html

Much Needed Introspection Behind the Wheel (11/25/02) Tidepool
http://www.tidepool.org/hp/hpwwjd.cfm