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Prepping and General Interest

1. Copycat Recipe: Olive Garden Bread Sticks
2. Animal Fodder Feed: Turn 50lbs of Grain Into 300lbs in 9 days
3. How do you prepare for THIS?
4. VIDEO OF THE WEEK: Cool Fire Starting Tricks
5. Inexpensive Knives for Backpacking or Hiking
6. Why You Want a Bucket Opener
7. Cut Your Own Meat and Save Money!
8. Off-Grid Cooking with the Amazing HERC Tea Light Oven + Giveaway
9. We’ve seen this movie before
10. Smart Guns vs. Smart Locks: Two Different Things
11. How to Re-Grow Your Lettuce
12. Thanks for the overthrow, now turn them in
13. Import Ban on 7N6 5.45×39
14. Ponchos are an Excellent Multi Use Piece of Equipment
15. The Militarization of our State & Local Police Forces
16. A Few Practical Uses For Vinegar
17. U.S. Army Cutting Live-Fire Training
18. How to Make a DIY Field Expedient Pace Counter Using Only Paracord
19. 10 Things You Need for a Weather Emergency
20. CRKT Obake Knife
21. Ruger Mini-30 Rifle
22. Ruger Gunsite Scout Rifle
23. When, not if: how do San Franciscans live with the threat of the next quake?

News

1. GM Halts Sales Of Chevy Cruze; Gives No Reason
2. Costco to dump $2.6m of peanut butter in New Mexico landfill | World news | theguardian.com
3. Weekly News Wrap-Up 3.31.14
4. Former Border Agents: Media Assault Against Border Patrol Endangers US
5. US Officials Believe Russia Could Invade Ukraine

Freedom Issues

1. Maine House approves changes to concealed weapon permitting process
2. Florida: Emergency guns measure headed to House floor
3. Gun control advocates: Lawmaker arrest is setback
4. Georgia gun rights bill triggers debate
5. The gun-control conversation happened — and the NRA won again
6. New ‘Green’ Mandates Slowing Down, Muffling Formula 1
7. Gerald Celente To Launch Occupy Peace Movement In The U.S.
8. More Parents Choose Homeschooling Due to Common Core
9. Connecticut Senators: ‘We’re Not Surrendering’ on Gun Control
10. Gov. Pence Signs Bill Allowing Guns in Indiana School Parking Lots
11. NY State Police Will Not Enforce SAFE Act Magazine Limits
12. Attention Connecticut Gun Owners and Sportsmen – Next Round of Anti-Gun Law Provisions Take Effect on April 1
13. Nebraska: Legislature Passes Pro-Gun Legislation
14. IN: Governor Pence Signs Gun Law Reform
15. Leaked Documents: Homeland Security Exercise Targets “Free Americans Against Socialist Tyranny”
16. Liberal Radio Host to NRA Board Member: ‘I Will Shoot You’

Economic

1. US Government Is Unaffordable and Unsustainable, Says David Walker
2. The absurd way the U.S. measures inflation: Your rent – Term Sheet
3. Zero Covered Dentists Within 100 Miles for Mandatory Dental Plan Under Obamacare
4. charles hugh smith-Dear Keynesians: Your Sad Devotion to Your Failed Religion Hasn’t Conjured Up a Recovery–Here’s Why
5. Inflation is Percolating Throughout the Financial System
6. QE is Not Just a Mistake, It’s DANGEROUS
7. Can the young Atlas support the heavy burden of an aging population? 58 million Americans currently receiving Social Security Benefits. Over half of elderly beneficiaries receive 50 percent or more of their income from Social Security.
8. Banker Suicides, Cover-Ups & A Criminal Syndicate Of Banks

Science, Nature and Tech

1. Crime Statistics Map Tools
2. UN brands polio outbreak in Syria and Iraq ‘most challenging in history’
3. Pet Cats Infect Humans with T.B. for First Ever Time
4. Microsoft announces Office for iPad, extending productivity to all iOS devices
5. Why almost everything you’ve been told about unhealthy foods is wrong | Life and style | The Observer
6. North Korean Rockets ‘Made From British and American Parts’

Prepper Expos

1. Prepper Fest
2. PrepperShowsUSA | Prepper Shows and Survivalist Expos

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