UPDATE: Walmart responds to 'suspended ammo' story

UPDATE FROM PREVIOUS POST:

Walmart responds to 'suspended ammo' story

World Net Daily ^ | January 14, 2013 | Chelsea Schilling
Posted on Monday, January 14, 2013 11:23:50 PM by HiJinx
The blogosphere has exploded with outrage in response to news that Walmart is suspending ammunition sales in anticipation of the Obama administration’s gun-control recommendations to Congress – but the retail giant tells WND the reports aren’t true. “That information is inaccurate,” said Ashley Hardie, a spokeswoman located at Walmart’s corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Ark. WND then asked whether the retail chain is cutting back on orders of ammunition. “No,” Hardie said. “We’re continuing to serve our customers as we have in the past.” She said Walmart’s ammunition sales policy has not changed, even amid talk of gun-control legislation in Washington, D.C. The uproar began when the InvestmentWatch blog posted a story headlined, “Breaking & confirmed: Walmart is not going to order any more ammo.” CNS News cited the report, and talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh mentioned it during his Monday show. According to the InvestmentWatch report, a man claimed to have visited his local Walmart and noticed the store was “out of almost every kind of ammo.”

Source:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2978184/posts

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Wal-Mart Suspends Future Ammo Shipments

Wal-Mart has temporarily discontinued ammunition sales pending “the upcoming decision on the Second Amendment.” The decision by Wal-Mart’s corporate office to discontinue future arms sales is most likely in light of expected anticipated gun control recommendations made to Congress, and uncertainty about the legality of certain guns in the near future.
A Wal-Mart customer was in the office as an unwitting employee called their headquarters about his store’s shortage, only to receive the following response.
“As of right now we are unsure of what new legislation might be coming, and because of this, we are suspending new orders. We will continue to sell what is already in stock in stores and at our distribution centers, but any new orders will not be shipped until the issue is resolved”.
In keeping with its characteristic tight savings and sales techniques, the decreasing stock of ammunition at Wal-Mart has caused prices to increase.  One customer reports a 60-cent increase on all types of ammo still available at the store.
Wal-Mart’s temporary discontinuation of ammunition is certainly good news for anti-gun activists such as forcechange.com and Michael Moore.  The former individually targeted Wal-Mart’s CEO Michael Duke with a letter writing campaign while the latter investigated the superstore’s lax ammo buying regulations in his documentary “Bowling for Columbine.”

Source:
http://www.collegenews.com/article/wal-mart_suspends_future_ammo_shipments1

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Criminals Now Using Gun Owner Map to Target Homes

Criminals Now Using Gun Owner Map to Target Homes


When the Journal News created an interactive map exposing gun owners in two New York counties, residents who believed their right to bear arms was a private matter were shocked. Judge Jeanine Pirro, whose name was published on the map along with thousands of other law-abiding homeowners with registered firearms, says that she’s never seen anything like it.

“The irony couldn’t be any richer. The hypocrisy couldn’t be any more outrageous,” says Pirro.
With many officials arguing that semi-automatic firearms pose a danger to society and the Journal News itself in support of keeping guns off the streets, homeowners listed on the map voiced their concerns about being publicly exposed to thieves who may come looking for their guns.
Their concerns have now been realized.
…a burglary has been reported on Davis Ave. in White Plains, New York that evidently ties into The Journal News gun maps. It is reported that the burglar used The Journal News’ interactive gun map to target a home included on the map. Luckily the gun was locked up and no one was hurt.
“The Journal News has placed the lives of these folks at risk by creating a virtual shopping list for criminals and nut jobs. If the connection is proven, this is further proof that these maps are not only an invasion of privacy but that they present a clear and present danger to law-abiding, private citizens. Former convicts have already testified to the usefulness of the asinine Journal News ‘gun maps’ yet the reckless editors are evidently willing to roll the dice, gambling with the lives of innocent local homeowners,” said Senator Greg Ball.
Via Greg Ball, New York State Senator

Source:
http://preppercentral.com/?p=3345



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Barack Obama: 'We don't have a spending problem'

interview with Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Barack Obama: 'We don't have a spending problem'

The media portrayal of the fiscal cliff standoff (and the debt-ceiling talks from which it sprang) generally portrayed President Barack Obama and the Democrats as pragmatists attempting to negotiate with intransigent Republican ideologues. But as ever, the stance of non-ideological problem-solving itself is rich with ideological content. For the latest example read Stephen Moore's Wall Street Journal

What stunned House Speaker John Boehner more than anything else during his prolonged closed-door budget negotiations with Barack Obama was this revelation: "At one point several weeks ago," Mr. Boehner says, "the president said to me, 'We don't have a spending problem.' " [...]

Read more...http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/07/barack-obama-we-dont-have-a-spending-pro

Self-Sufficiency Comes Cheap

There seems to be the misnomer that the only way to become more self-sufficient is to be loaded with money. Well, I can assure you from personal experience, such is NOT the case. It’s a matter of priorities, not paychecks.
A few years ago my husband and I had just gone through a horrible financial set-back; while 2008 hit a lot of businesses, we managed to do quite well until…well, until a whole lot of things happened all at once. We closed up a business, walked away from over $2.5 million in contracts that were due to us, filed for bankruptcy, held garage sales, etc. etc. I can honestly say that I had never been lower. Up until that time I couldn’t fathom anything more “failure oriented” than having to file bankruptcy! I kept praying I kept smiling and I kept hoping, but the rest of me just wasn’t buying it. I didn’t want to DO anything anymore–not consult, not clean house–nothing.  I stopped doing the things I needed to do for my own mental and physical health and, to be a bit vulnerable in sharing this, my husband started to worry after a few days of lengthy hours of watching reruns of Gilligan’s Island and Happy Days. So, he sat me down.  Not 100% sure what we were going to do next he asked me a key question. He said “if money was not an issue, what would you love to do every day for work?” My answer? “I’d write and teach others to approach a self-sufficient lifestyle with peace and comfort in mind instead of panic and suffering.” My hubby paused for a moment and then said, “Then do it. I’ll take care of the bills. You do what you love. At least one of us will be totally happy.”  (Now that’s LOVE for ya!) He was right. I was happy and no one could get in the way of that because I wasn’t held hostage by any advertisers or customers. I could stay focused and true to what I really wanted to do. I’ve never felt more liberated and the funny thing that I discovered was that there’s always a way to earn a living doing what you love to do. With that attitude, we chose to learn from our complacency and never repeat those mistakes again; we moved forward; and we’ve really never had to suffer “without” since then.
Read more here: http://preparednesspro.com/self-sufficiency-comes-cheap/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PreparednessProBlog+%28Preparedness+Pro+Blog%29


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Is the US facing Flu-maggedon?

Is the US facing Flu-maggedon?

Flu season has come early to the US this winter, and hospitals in many cities are overwhelmed by the surge in cases. Boston has declared a public health emergency, and Google Flu Trends, which monitors the prevalence of certain search terms to track the disease, shows the US topping the world. Ominous news coverage shows emergency rooms overflowing. Just how worried should we be?

What is going on?
The flu season in the northern hemisphere falls anytime between October and May, but usually peaks in February. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, flu activity in the US started picking up in November and hit its stride in December, but that is hardly unprecedented – in 2010 the UK’s flu season started in December.

Last year’s US flu season, which started in March, was very mild. This year, the viruses are largely the same, although according to the CDC their prevalence is different – a strain that was common last season is rare this time around, for example. However, the disease they cause seems no worse – both this year and last, around 8 per 100,000 cases are severe enough to need hospitalisation, although this year’s figures might be affected by a time lag in reporting hospitalised cases, says Lone Simonsen of George Washington University – who is down with flu.

Is this really the worst flu season in years, then?
Hardly, according to CDC records. So far, the rise in cases looks a lot like the 2007-2008 season, which was classed as “moderately severe” – and nothing like the first wave of the H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic of 2009 (see graph). Case numbers could keep climbing, but so far seasoned flu watchers are not betting on anything unusual. “Severe flu causes a lot more deaths than what we have seen so far this year,” says flu epidemiologist Mike Osterholm of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

So why do things seem so bad?
One reason is that case numbers have risen fast. The US calculates those numbers by monitoring cases that turn up at designated “sentinel” clinics across the country. Last year the number of cases the clinics saw peaked at a little more than half the number of cases they are already seeing now, over roughly the same time. That doesn’t mean the total number of cases by the epidemic’s end will necessarily be greater this year than in previous years, however; cases may also fall off quickly. Or they may not – an apparent drop in cases reported last week by the CDC could be because some sentinel clinics did not report over the New Year’s holiday.

“Rule Number 1 of Flu Club: Never predict how a season will play out until it is over!” warns Jake Dunning at Imperial College London. Regardless of how the rest of the flu season turns out, the initial sharp increase in cases causes its own problems, overwhelming healthcare systems for a time and causing knock-on problems as other patients are put on hold.

Is that why we are seeing beds in hallways and tents outside US hospitals?
Yes. “In previous decades hospitals kept excess capacity, so if there was any overflow, it showed things were really bad,” says Osterholm. Now, he says, financial cutbacks mean there is no such surge capacity: “every hospital bed is filled 24/7.” So overflow happens more readily.

Hospitals in the US are already operating at full surge capacity most of the time, agrees Jack Herrmann, a public health preparedness expert at the US National Association of County City Health Officials. “There are beds in hallways at most large metropolitan hospitals on any given day.”

There’s little cause for concern, then?
Not so fast. What the flu season is really showing, fears Herrmann, is that efforts to bolster the US’s capacity to respond to public health disasters, prompted by the terrorist attacks in 2001 and hurricane Katrina in 2005, have been hit over the past four years by financial cutbacks. The US Institute of Medicine’s forum on public health preparedness for catastrophes is meeting this week to discuss how to improve hospitals’ preparedness for disasters – “or,” says Herrmann, “just the flu season”.

Source:

http://learnhowtobeprepared.com/is-the-us-facing-flu-maggedon/?fb_source=pubv1

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