Odds ‘n Sods:

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports: Global food risk from China-Russia pincer

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River Chief sent this: Seen At 11: Ready For Anything ‘Preppers’ Are Doing Exactly That In Anticipation Of Doomsday

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Reader Rod McG. wrote: I don’t know if this is newsworthy or not, but maybe it would be of some use to a “Yuppie Survivalist” who can’t imagine living without their .MP3 tunes: The SABER hand-wind MP3 player. Rod’s comment: “There might not always be a way to trickle-charge your .mp3 player, even if you have cat oil to trade. (A reference to the movie The Book of Eli).”

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Marjory at Backyard food production mentioned that they are offering a special 10% discount for SurvivalBlog readers on their excellent DVD tutorial “Food Production Systems for a Backyard or Small Farm“. This special discount offer will last only until October 1, 2010.