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Getting Started In Emergency Preparedness: Second Half-Air
How to evacuate a group of people with one mask and external filters for everyone else.

survivialist: FIRE BUILDING
This weeks post will be on the most basic of woods skills FIRE its the life giver and taker!

BASIC FIRE BUILDING CAN BE ONE OF THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD SKILLS

Open Thread
Obama is secretly planning for a national civilian police force, so hold on to your hats (code word for ammo, you’re going to need it) and your food storage. A new entry on infowars also states (surprise!! surprise!!) that Obama won’t investigate the Bush crimes. Of course not, it WILL be business as usual.

Bacteria, not influenza, were real killers in 1918 flu pandemic | TopNews Health
A new study has concluded that bacteria, not influenza viruses, killed most people in the 1918 flu epidemic.

For the study, John Brundage, a medical microbiologist at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, and his team sifted through first-hand accounts, medical records, and infection patterns from 1918 and 1919.

They concluded that although a nasty strain of flu virus swept around the world, bacterial pneumonia that came on the heels of mostly mild cases of flu killed the majority of the 20 to 100 million victims of the so-called Spanish flu.

t r u t h o u t | Don’t Tase Me, GOP!
The St. Paul Police Department is arming itself with Tasers.

Local activists and media say that the department ordered 230 stun guns in late February - adding to the 140 already in its possession - in preparation for protests at the upcoming Republican National Convention (RNC), which St. Paul will host from Sept. 1 to Sept. 4.