Be advised that the 25% off special on Mountain House and Alpine Aire freeze-dried foods in #10 cans at Ready Made Resources is just a short term sale. This sale ends on February 14th, so be sure to get your order in soon! Ready Made Resource was the very first advertiser to support SurvivalBlog, and they have loyally been with us continuously since our first week of publishing, in 2005. They deserve your business.
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Bryce pointed out that Newsweek recently had an interesting article on survival in emergency situations titled: What it Takes to Survive.
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Rob at MURS Radios mentioned that starting in January, Dakota Alert (the makers of my favorite outdoor passive infrared intrusion detection systems) raised their prices up to 12% on some products. Rob has just one more shipment arriving next week at the lower 2008 prices. After this stock is sold, unfortunately, prices will go up. If anyone is interested in “getting in under the wire”, please contact him to reserve inventory from this shipment.
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A couple of economic items, courtesy of Ben M.: Bill for Financial Bailout Seen as High as $7.4 Trillion, and Bank Bailout Could Cost Up to $4 Trillion: Economists. (Obviously, these is quite a divergence of opinion. But to take the liberty of updating a famous saying by Senator Everett Dirksen [best if you apply a strong southern accent]: “A trillion here, and trillion there, and pretty soon, you’re talking about real money!”) And here is one bit of interesting news, courtesy of Jack B.: Hedge fund to offer shares priced in gold.