News:

1. North Korea Threatens Pre-emptive Nuclear Strike
2. Test Tube News: What’s Wrong with America’s Water?
3. Former First Lady Nancy Reagan Dies
4. Zika Virus May Cause More Problems in Fetuses
5. Former-PM Admits “Future Existence Of Japan Was At Stake” As Mutations Appear In Fukushima Forest

Prepping and General Interest:

1. Herbal Wound Care Options
2. Review of the Harbor Freight 10 ton Hydraulic Log Splitter
3. You Don’t Have to Be a Gourmet Chef to Cook With Food Storage
4. The Top 10 Cereal Grains You Need To Have in a Crisis
5. 5 Features You Never Want to See in a Survival Knife
6. Top 5 Tips for Beginning Homesteaders – Walden Labs
7. SilencerCo Salvo 12 Suppressor Review
8. Polymer 80 Percent Lower Receiver for ARs
9. Best Scopes Introduced in 2016
10. 8 Easy Garden Hacks – The Prepper Journal
11. Three First Carry Gun Tips for Beginners
12. The Bee Friendly Garden
13. 10 Egg Substitutes for Baking and Other Cooking.
14. Expired or Edible? How to Tell If Scavenged Food and Drink Still Safe for Consumption with These 5 Tips
15. “Better Than Paper Money”: 7 Things You Need To Have When the Economy Collapses
16. Antioxidants and Survival, Part 1
17. How Do You Recover From An Economic Collapse?
18. 4 All-Natural Disinfectants Just As Potent As Store-Bought Chemical Cleaners
19. Chemical Fires Without Matches or Lighter – The Prepper Journal
20. How to Profit from Collecting & Selling Scrap Gold
21. Survival Garden: DIY Cold Frames
22. Video: New Way To Sterilize Instruments
23. Why You Need To Prepare For The Cashless Society: “They Want An Intimate Knowledge Of What You Buy and Sell”
24. Create an “Armageddon Fund” to Save for a Major Emergency and Still Earn Interest
25. Prepare for Your Allergies Before Hay Fever Season Starts
26. The New Cold Steel Voyager XL
27. Adventures with a Pair of Bushmen
28. Coming Soon? This Is What Would Happen If A 9.0 Earthquake Hit The Cascadia Subduction Zone…
29. The Essential Preppers Guide to Storage
30. If You Have Not Yet, You Should Be Switching to the 9mm
31. One Technology That Could Change the Small Arms Game: OWL Tracers – The Firearm Blog

Freedom Issues:

1. What Did “Bear Arms” Mean in the Second Amendment?
2. BREAKING NEWS: Federal Court of Appeals to Review Important Gun Rights Decision
3. WV: Legislature Overrides Governor Tomblin’s Veto. Constitutional Carry Becomes Law
4. AZ: Open Carry on the Mountain with an Architect
5. Billboards can track your location, and privacy advocates hate it

Economic:

1. The Chart That No Minimum-Wage-Supporting Socialist Wants You To See
2. In The Past Year, The U.S. Added 360,000 Waiters And Only 12,000 Manufacturing Workers
3. Monsanto Is Suing California For Telling People The Truth About Its Chemicals
4. Sweden Begins 5 Year Countdown Until It Eliminates Cash
5. 9 charts showing Americans never recovered from the Great Recession: If you are wondering why people are so angry look no further.
6. Is Inflation Around the Corner? | Matthew Kerkhoff | FINANCIAL SENSE
7. A Note Of Caution (And Ambiguity) On Precious Metals

Science, Nature and Tech:

1. Secure Passphrases from Dice | Prep-Blog.com
2. Google Contest Builds More Efficient Inverters | Hackaday
3. Scientists Discover Cancer’s ‘Achilles Heel’
4. Amazon Confirms Encryption Change
5. How 3D Printing Is Changing Life As We Know It

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This is a curated list of news stories and articles having interested to the preparedness community. 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, many included are provided as ‘food for thought’ material.