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Email News Options: The News I Follow VIA Email

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Post published:March 12, 2023
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I will list many email news options I’ve subscribed to in this article. This is a follow-up piece to the article, How To Stop Falling For Agenda-Driven News Reporting – Finding Reliable News Sources I published a little over ten months ago, on June of 2022,

These are news-oriented and commentary emails I’ve subscribed to. I’ve been trying out different email news subscriptions for a few years and will share them here.

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Next Step Survival Is On Substack

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Post published:February 25, 2023
Post last modified:February 26, 2023
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Just a quick announcement – I’m moving the Next Step Survival email list, and if you want to continue (Or start) hearing from me via email, you’ll need to subscribe.

I’m also moving the email list for my personal blog, which I rebranded last year, to The Opinion Blog to Substack.

Here’s the link to subscribe to my Next Step Survival Substack.

Here’s the link to subscribe to my Opinion Blog Substack.

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Food and Homesteading – Ready Your Future Roundtable – Video

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Post published:January 8, 2023
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This video is another roundtable I participated in with my friends Todd Sepulveda and Mic Roland. We’ve done several of these recorded roundtables, and Todd was kind enough to give me permission to post it here on my site. You can find the original on the Ready Your Future YouTube channel here. Be sure to subscribe.

In the video, we talk about current situations, gardening, livestock, meat production, food storage, freeze-drying, and prepping.

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Things I Never Needed by Grace Potter & Daryl Hall. An Unsuspecting Prepper Regret Song? Video

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Post published:January 2, 2023
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I wish the show “Live from Daryl’s House” was still going on, but this video with Grace Potter eleven years ago seems like the perfect prepper regret song. At least to me.

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We’ve Learned What The True Threats Are. Now What?

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Post published:December 26, 2022
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The struggle is real. The threats are serious. The true threats are often unseen.

I don’t do many of these commentaries, not on this blog. About every six months or so. I try to keep things somewhat educational and productive but nearing a new year, I feel we could use a wake-up call.

So this will be half rant and half reasoning. I’ll let you decide which and whether any of it is worth reading. Feel free to let me know your thoughts in the comment section below.

Over the last several years, we’ve learned the true threats and where they are. But, no, this isn’t a political post. You’re on the wrong blog for that.

In this article, I want to take an honest, potentially painful assessment of what we’re facing and how to best prepare for the future.

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Funny Prepper Toilet Talk 🤣

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Post published:August 26, 2022
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Come on! Just saying, “Prepper Toilet Talk” is funny. 😆

Who says preppers are always doom and gloom, thinking about human extinction all day long while we dig our bunkers? We can be funny too but normal people just don’t get our jokes.

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Potential ‘Cyber Pandemic’ Warnings Are Here (W/ Videos)

Post category:News and Commentary Power and Energy
Post published:August 5, 2022
Post last modified:August 7, 2022
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Listen to this article: This is a short post with two videos to alert you of a potential cyber pandemic (hackers/ internet virus) and how badly our leadership (our governments)…

How To Stop Falling For Agenda-Driven News Reporting – Finding Reliable News Sources

Post category:News and Commentary
Post published:June 5, 2022
Post last modified:June 5, 2022
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In this post, I want to take a look at how we’re deliberately misled by the media and how we should react to that. Are there reliable news resources today? Were there ever? Let’s dig in just a tiny bit.

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A Gift From A Prepper Buddy – Wooden Pen Holder

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Post published:November 7, 2021
Post last modified:November 7, 2021
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This is an appreciation post – a thank you for a cool gift sent by a prepper friend. I also want to show off this cool handmade wooden pen holder a little.

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Supply Chain Disruptions. All You Need To Know.

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Post published:October 17, 2021
Post last modified:October 17, 2021
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I’m going to take my trucker genius and my prepper mindset and help you understand what’s going on with our supply chain disruptions and what we need to do about it.

Everyone’s hearing about the global supply chain disruptions but few people understand exactly what that means or why it’s happening. This article will help you make sense of the supply chain shortages and what’s causing them.

In this article, I’m going to share my opinion. It’s an op-ed, not my regular type of post here on Next Step Survival but it is a survival topic. I’m not an expert but I feel like I’m just as Smaut as them folks with that label.

Expect to be enlightened!

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