Because prepping is a broad-spectrum discipline, we need to monitor a wide variety of subjects. Below is a collection of articles and information that you may find useful. Okay, okay… not every article below is a must read for preppers; some are just for fun or interesting! If you have find a news story or prepping-related article, send it in.

News

1. Twinkies Are Coming Back
2. Gun Shop Owner Says Mark Kelly Has Not Completed Background Check For AR-15
3. US deems North Korea nuclear strike unlikely without threat to dynasty | World news | guardian.co.uk
4. Hogwash Update – Latest Number Of Floating Chinese Pigs: 5,916 And Rising Fast | Zero Hedge

Freedom Issues

1. GUN WATCH: Now We Know Why Schumer Has Been Hiding The Bill
2. The Mantra: Practical Tips for Resisting the Police State
3. Four new bills from the political elite in the Land of the Free

Economic

1. Americans spent more on gas, less at the mall
2. James Turk: Gold Will Reach $11,000 an Ounce in the Next Five Years | Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog
3. How the cost of living has risen four times faster than our pay in the past five years | Mail Online
4. An economy of peak food stamp usage, peak Dow, and peak Debt: What does it say about our economy that at the same time the Dow Jones hits a peak, we have the highest percentage of Americans on food stamps?
5. Klarman-Yelp-The-Fed-Has-No-Clothes
6. Paul-Craig-Roberts-Staring-Armageddon-In-The-Face-But-Hiding-It-With-Official-Lies
7. The Scariest Charts From Paul Ryan’s Proposed Budget | Zero Hedge
8. The Great Disconnect by Kemal Derviş – Project Syndicate
9. oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: The Global Endgame
10. guest-post-lets-stop-fooling-ourselves-americans-cant-afford-future
11. Suburbs secede from Atlanta

Science, Nature and Tech

1. Drones To Be Deployed As Nuclear Fallout Detectors – Forbes
2. Cyber attacks leading threat against U.S.: spy agencies – Yahoo! News
3. Amplified Greenhouse Effect Shifts North’s Growing Seasons – NASA Science
4. Rover: Conditions Once Suited for Life on Mars – NASA Science

Prepping and General Interest

1. The Rule Of Thirds For Good Gold Shares « Jim Sinclair’s Mineset
2. EMP Attack: The Threat Is Real : Homeland Security News
3. Built for Fun: Century Arms PW87 Review – Shotgun News
4. Here’s a healthy currency most people have never even heard of
5. Does It Matter What Kind of Toothpaste I Buy?

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.