Below you will find a collection of stories and news articles that may be of particular interest to the prepper. Some, are just interesting.

News

1. Gun Sales Taper a Bit: Still Booming
2. Corporations, investors ‘grabbing’ land and water overseas — Environmental Health News
3. The State Of The Union Is… Dumber
4. California Redefines ‘Doctors’ to Compensate for Obamacare Shortages
5. World View: U.N. Security Council Condemns North Korea Nuclear Test
6. Bulk Food Supplier Reveals How Much More Restaurants Are Paying For Food

Freedom Issues

1. U.N. Maps Show U.S. High in Gun Ownership, Low in Homicides
2. How the Obama Gun Control Proposals Compare to 1994
3. A Black Box in Every Car – To Make You Safer
4. To Defeat The Assault On Liberty, Our Appeals Must Be Moral

Economic

1. Gas Prices Jump 25 Cents a Gallon
2. Who Will Win The Currency Wars?
3. It Sure Feels Like A Recession
4. Obama’s Uncuttable Spending: Loses $70M on Producing Pennies
5. 10 Immutable Laws Of Money
6. Currency Wars are Real—Yra Harris
7. Richard Russell: History About To Repeat – Hang On To Gold
8. Cable Snaps As Bank Of England Welcomes The Currency Wars
9. BOE predicts inflation will worsen
10. Petrogold: Are Russia And China Hoarding Gold Because They Plan To Kill The Petrodollar?
11. Where Did All The Hope Go?
12. Banks could get blown away by bond bubble
13. CBO – The Coming Raid on Social Security

Science, Nature and Tech

1. Monsanto sued small famers to protect seed patents, report says

Prepping and General Interest

1. Life or Liberty, Profit or Prepping: Economic Decision Making for Preppers
2. What’s the Best .45 Subcompact Pistol on the Market?
3. Letter Re: The Core Kit: First Aid and Beyond
4. DEJA VU: Scary Pictures Of The 1970s Oil Crisis
5. NEW: 2012 Hurricane Health & Safety Tips – Power Outages During a Hurricane

None of the above should be considered an endorsement or an attempt to push any particular agenda by the Preparedness Podcast. They’re simply presented here as an informative source.