Here’s what’s going on today:
News
- St. Clair Shores considering $5 rat bounty program – Fox 2 News Headlines
- Chicago Shooting Spree, Day 30: 42 Killed So Far
- Chicago’s Deadly Gun Culture Can’t be Medicated
- Poll: Young Americans back right to own ‘assault weapons’ | The Daily Caller
- ECOMINOES: Under Obamacare, You’ll Most Certainly Lose Your Plan
- Doctors kill 2,450% more Americans than all gun-related deaths combined
- Destructive storms reach East Coast as dangerous chills hit Northern Plains
- Wal-Mart limits sales of ammo after demand surges
- Inside the Ring: New al Qaeda threat – Washington Times
- Industry Report: Rise in Gun Sales Prompting Industry Chaos
- In pictures: Deadly storms hit southern US
Freedom Issues
- Drones to Watch Over US Highways
- Journal News Gun Owner Map Out of Date, Defenseless Housholds at Risk
- The Gun Ban Lobby and Its Funders | RSN Pick of the Day | Editorial – Right Side News
- GUN WATCH: AZ Bill: Federal Ban on Semi-Autos Would Be Unenforceable in State
- TAUBE: Obama’s baby steps toward gun control – Washington Times
- Ted Cruz uses pistol grip to rebut call for assault weapon ban | Washington D.C. News – News for Dallas, Texas – The Dallas Morning News
- Hey, Media: Chicago Teen’s Shooting Called Gang-War Mistake
- NPR News: Should Gun Owners Have To Buy Liability Insurance?
- Giffords implores Congress for gun control
- Read the Letter 1,100 Green Berets Signed for Protection of the 2nd Amendment
Economic
- Senators Demand that Banks Be Punished but Not the Fed
- Peter Schiff & Doug Casey On Gold, Investor Cluelessness, And The “Escape From America” Plan
- Investors “In Great Danger” If They Don’t Own Gold, Warns Faber, as GDP Drop Sees US Fed Press On with QE
- Report: ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal Means One Extra Year Before U.S. Debt Hits 200% of GDP
- Bill Gross: “Credit Supernova!”
- Jobless Claims in U.S. Rose 38,000 Last Week to 368,000
- Nearly Half Of American Households Are 1 Emergency Away From Financial Disaster, Report Finds
Science, Nature and Tech
Prepping and General Interest
- An effective article to wake potential preppers
- Seal-A-Tube
- How To Grow More Vegetables – John Jeavon’s biointensive method
- What Made Me Begin Preparing for TEOTWAWKI, by Elizabeth in the Northeast
- Food Storage Party Dips
- Ready or Not: Prepare for Chance
- 75 Extraordinary Uses for Baking Soda | Life Hackery
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.