Odds ‘n Sods:

Our friend Simon mentioned this article at WorldNetDaily: The city of Cooper City, Florida, has given itself the power to seize residents’ personal property in times of emergency.

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The bidding is still at $180 in the SurvivalBlog benefit auction for a fully tested and recently professionally calibrated U.S. government surplus Civil Defense CD V-717 fallout survey meter with remote sensing capability. The meter was donated by Ready Made Resources (one of our first and most loyal advertisers). This auction ends on October 15th. Please submit your bid via e-mail.

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The big sale at Mountain Brook Foods (a storage food vendor in Tracy, California) with discounts from 20% to 40% ends on September 30th. Our readers that live in the East S.F. Bay area or in the Central Valley might want to go visit them and pick up their first order in person.That will eliminate the cost of shipping, which is otherwise considerable.