It always amazes me how much news is generated over the weekend. This is a long list of articles, but there’s some good stuff in here regarding our fight for freedom and general prepping interests.

News

1. Biden Admits Majority of Gun Deaths Not Caused by Assault Weapons
2. Chicken wings will cost you
3. Confirmed? Massive Explosion at Iran Nuclear Facility
4. MILLER: The assault weapon myth – Washington Times
5. B&N to Close a Third of Stores
6. Fragile economy, other global woes dominated Davos
7. A Louisiana Grocery Store is Forced to Raise Milk Prices by State Regulators | A Lightning War for Liberty
8. Anonymous Hacks Department Of Justice, Threatens To Release Secret DOJ Information, Warns “There Will Be Chaos” | Zero Hedge
9. Smoke Screen Company Thinks It Has The Perfect Defense Against School Shooters
10. North Korea warning follows nuclear threat
11. Nuclear reaction: the threat of a North Korean nuclear test became all the more ominous
12. Peak Oil Bites the Dust
13. It’s Your Money: New credit card fees | www.WHEC.com
14. Only rebellion can save America | New York Daily Sun – The Trusted New York Daily Broadsheet
15. Are You Ready for a February Surprise?
16. 30 Shotguns and Pistols, Ammunition; found hidden in wall for fear of gun bans in UK
17. Attn Piers Morgan: Have THIS ‘Gun Girl’ On Your Show
18. Oil-Rich Venezuela Is Literally Starving – Business Insider
19. New Norovirus Strain Rips Through The U.S.:
20. Gatorade to remove controversial ingredient

Freedom Issues

1. ‘Turn ‘Em All In’: Feinstein’s Assault Weapons Ban Grabs Handguns, Shotguns
2. Open Letter from 28 of 29 Utah Sheriffs: We Will Not Enforce Unconstitutional Gun Law
3. San Diego Police Chief: We Can Disarm Americans Within a Generation
4. Wisconsin Sheriff Tells Residents To Get ‘In The Game’ And Arm Themselves
5. Arizona sheriffs say NO to executive orders and laws on gun control – National evangelical | Examiner.com
6. Will You Submit & Obey?
7. Gun Control Rally: Nearly 1,000 People vs. Thousands
8. Never mind the warrants: American law-enforcement agencies made 8,438 requests for Google to relinquish user data in the last half of 2012
9. Indiana County Passes Ordinance Declaring All Federal Laws In Violation Of 2nd Amendment Unenforceable
10. Ted Cruz Destroys Feinstein’s Argument for Assault Weapon Ban
11. Poll: 2/3 of Americans Would Defy Federal Gun Ban
12. Chicago mayor asks banks to cut off gun makers
13. Feinstein Gun Bill: ‘To Ensure That the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is Not Unlimited’
14. Mamet on Gun Control: ‘The Left Loves a Phantom Statistic’
15. Indiana: General Assembly Off to a Good Start with Pro-Gun Bills Introduced
16. Massachusetts: Your Governor Wants to Personally Victimize Law-Abiding Gun Owners
17. Survey Finds NRA Members United
18. The Resistance Begins: New York Gun Owners Refuse to Register; “Largest Act of Civil Disobedience in State History”
19. Feinstein’s Ban Bill: A Study in Stupidity
20. Effort to abolish local sheriffs a stealth federal power grab? – National Conservative | Examiner.com
21. PRESS RELEASE: U.S. Representative Massie Proposes Repeal of Federal Gun Free School Zones Act
22. NRA-ILA | State Legislation
23. NRA-ILA | “Universal Background Checks” – Absolutely Not
24. Assault Weapons Ban Lacks Democratic Votes to Pass Senate
25. Democrats may stand in Obama’s way on gun measures

Economic

1. U.S. Treasury to President: “Current Policy is Not Sustainable”
2. Currency Wars Heating Up As Taiwan, Korea And China Fire Warning Shots | Zero Hedge
3. Has the First Currency Crisis Begun?
4. December Core Capital Goods Plunge 4.3% Y/Y As Durables Headline Boosted By Boeing Orders
5. Peter Schiff on Politics Precious Metals and President Obamas Second Term
6. Perhaps a Crumble Rather Than a Collapse – Chapter One
7. Social Decay + Illegal Immigration + Poverty = Open War On The Streets Of America
8. Guest Post: Why Employment Is Dead in the Water
9. Debate at the Fed on When to Slow Its Asset Buying – NYTimes.com
10. Germany Fires a Warning Shot at the Fed
11. A New Housing Boom? Don’t Count on It
12. The Road to Debt-Serfdom
13. Marc Faber Fears 1987 Redux As “Markets Will Punish Interventionists”
14. The U.S. Has An Even Larger Gap Between The Rich And The Poor Than Downton Abbey Does
15. British Economy Is WORSE than During the Great Depression
16. NEW HOME SALES OF 23,000 IN THE WHOLE FREAKING COUNTRY – IT’S A RECOVERY!!!!! « The Burning Platform
17. Eric Sprott On Ignoring The Obvious
18. If China likes silver, maybe we should too
19. America Has Hit “Peak Jobs”

Science, Nature and Tech

1. More Than A Dozen Brands Of Security Camera Systems Vulnerable To Hacker Hijacking
2. Flu Researchers Say: Let Us Get Back To Work Studying Risky Mutations
3. Top 10 Good Tech Habits Everyone Should Have
4. Deadly GM flu research that could ‘wipe out significant portion of humanity’ set to restart | Mail Online
5. Swine flu infected 1 in 5, death rate low, study shows

Prepping and General Interest

1. The Skinny: 6 Everyday Uses for Dry Milk
2. How to Construct a Small Septic System (with pictures) – wikiHow
3. Can People Safely Eat Cat Food?
4. Top Hiking, Climbing, and Camping Tech for 2013 – Popular Mechanics
5. Should You Buy a Standby Generator?
6. What Should I Look For in a Multi-Purpose Chef’s Knife?
7. Homemade Whole Wheat “Rhodes” Rolls
8. http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/documents/BeReady_Winter.pdf
9. SHOT Show: New Reloading Products for 2013

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.