Weekend Preparedness News 5/11/13

The dark side of Obamacare:

50 local workers will be losing their jobs soon, thanks to Obamacare. A local orthopedics medical device manufacturer near us that will soon be feeling the pressure due to the new taxes placed on medical devices.You can read the article HERE.

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There was a home invasion in Florida this week that we should all be thinking about. A 92 year old woman was bound and gagged by an intruder with an axe. You can read the details HERE. I’m sure we can all agree that home invaders that prey on the elderly are a special breed of scum and I urge anyone reading this to visit the elderly folks in your life and maybe set them up with some additional security measures if you haven’t already.

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This week has brought some seriously conflicted news about the H7N9 cases in China. Several news sites are saying that officials are ready to say that this bird flu has been contained while Friday’s news directly out of China says that China has stepped up their monitoring efforts. The latest stats are 130 infected, 32 deaths. Here is an article out of Canada that explains what’s going on:

http://www.vancouversun.com/Health/Empowered-Health/Think+H7N9+cases+slowing+soon+declare+virus+under/8355345/story.html

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Remember the “SARS-like” virus that popped up late last year? Well, they may have found 3 more cases in France. This virus supposedly originated in Saudi Arabia. This is technically being called a coronavirus and has killed 18 out of the 30 people known to have been infected.

http://seattletimes.com/html/health/2020964054_apeufrancevirus.html

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We are pleased to announce that 2 advertisers have joined us here: Mother Earth Products and Waterbuck Pump.

Mother Earth Products specializes in dehydrated and freeze-dried foods for longterm storage and backpacking. We’ve tried several of their products and can absolutely recommend them to you and your family. We have actually placed another order with them for our pantry. We posted a review of some of the soup mixes last week. Please take a minute to visit their website and order some samples. Please mention that you saw their ad here too!

Mother Earth Products website

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We’ve also had the privilege of working with Waterbuck Pump recently. This outfit manufactures a deep-well human powered water pump as well as a pedal-powered PTO unit. These are some very ingenious offerings and we hope you get the chance to check them out. Their website has videos and other detailed info as well as little insight into why and how these products were developed. Please check them out when you get the chance.

Waterbuck Pump by Well Waterboy Products

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These two businesses are exactly the reason why we started accepting advertisers here on the blog. As a small business owner myself, I am trying to give a helping hand to other small US businesses. If you operate a small business and if you feel that your business would be a good fit here, please contact us.

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Things may get a little quiet here on the blog over the next couple of weeks. A few of us are planning a hog hunt in Oklahoma. It’s been a very long time since I’ve been able to take much longer than a day off of work and we are all very anxious to go on this trip. There may be a lapse in posts until around Memorial Day. I do plan to write something up between now and then and, hopefully, will have some photos from a successful hunt when we return.

Thank you everyone!

Ben

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Source: http://advancedsurvivalguide.com/2013/05/11/weekend-preparedness-news-51113/