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. Newtown Sides with NRA: Votes for Armed Guards In Schools
2. Chicago Murder Rate Higher Than Non-Gun Controlled Capone Era
3. China Co Buys Texas Oil & Gas Field
4. The US Mint Resumes Sales While Silver Bars Disappear | SilverSeek.com
5. Martin Luther King Jr. High School coach shoots attackers
6. 250K Twitter Accounts Hacked
7. IRS Loses Big In Court (Again), Tax Season Chugs Along
8. (Ed. HLS Has nothing better to do?) – ICE, CBP, USPIS seize more than $13.6 million in fake NFL merchandise during ‘Operation Red Zone’
9. California GOP Proposes Training School Personnel in Use of Firearms

Freedom Issues

1. Poll: 53% Say Govt Threatens Freedoms
2. Fact Check—CNN’s Blitzer: Sheriffs Can’t Defy Executive Orders
3. MILLER: The high-capacity magazine myth – Washington Times
4. Stop getting into the wrong argument!
5. Sen. Graham: I Have an AR-15 at Home, I Haven’t Hurt Anybody
6. GUN WATCH: National Sheriff’s Association Announces They Will Not Support Unconstitutional Gun Control Laws
7. Sen. Reid on This Week: I Haven’t Even Read Feinstein’s Legislation Yet

Economic

1. Spot The Odd One Out
2. Shocking Numbers That Show The Media Is Lying To You About Unemployment In America
3. 100 Years Of U.S. Federal Income Tax
4. America’s PhDs on Food Stamps – Online Colleges
5. By Printing Money Central Banks Have Already Begun the Next Stage of Warfare
6. Perhaps a Crumble Rather Than a Collapse – Part Two of Three
7. The Market Is Not the Economy
8. Obama Averaged 25K Jobs a Month in First Term
9. The Greatest Bubble In History Will Lead To A Gold Explosion
10. Young riding out recession by going into debt for college: Millennial unemployment jumps by two percent.
11. Economy Lost 2.84 Million Jobs in Jan., Yet Press Pretends Seasonally Adjusted 157K Jobs Added Represents What Actually Happened | NewsBusters
12. One hundred years of redistribution, control, and deception
13. The Disappearing Gold – International Man
14. How To Bend An Economy
15. The Japanese Yen is in the Middle of the World Currency War | Sovereign Investor
16. We’re Witnesses The Greatest Asset Bubble In History Which The Fed & ECB Can’t Stop It From Bursting And It Is Going To Lead To An Explosion In Gold
17. America’s economy: Stumble or worse?
18. CA Gas Prices Heading Back to Over $4 per Gallon

Science, Nature and Tech

1. After 30 years, is a GM food breakthrough finally here?
2. 5 Password Generators for Maximum Online Security
3. Tea Party Community, Conservative Facebook Alternative, Set To Launch
4. Viruses, Trojans, and worms, oh my: The basics on malware
5. Study: Cats Kill Billions of Birds and Mammals Annually

Prepping and General Interest

1. 5 Guns and Gear to Buy Now Before It’s Too Late
2. How to Mount a Scope on an M1 Garand
3. Solar Powered Ham Radio
4. Kel-Tec Pistols for Concealed Carry
5. Hands on: Goal Zero’s Switch 8, Sherpa 50 portable chargers
6. Hands on: PowerTrekk portable fuel cell charger
7. Preparedness Facts: 51 ways to use a trash bag
8. A True Survival Story: “Taking Their Possessions and Some Seeds, They Had Retreated Ever Deeper Into the Forest”
9. Brian’s Backpacking Blog: DIY – Single Use Antibiotic Packs
10. The Correct Way to Clean Eyeglasses
11. The Eight-Barreled Colt Defender: An Interesting Footnote in Shotgun History
12. How to Make Hardtack: 19 steps (with pictures) – wikiHow
13. Smartphone Survival – Survival Life

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.

Last updated by Rob Hanus at February 4, 2013.