Odds ‘n Sods:

Kentucky farmers and ranchers voice their distrust of NAIS.

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The 2006 Kansas wheat harvest is down 23% from last year. Stock up, now. Buy f rom your favorite storage food vendor before prices increase. We recommend Ready Made Resources (one of our first and most loyal advertisers) and Nitro-Pak (one of our affiliate advertisers)

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From a recent Reuters wire service story on the bankruptcy rate in the U.S.: “More than $300 billion in ARMs [Adjustable Rate Mortgages] are subject to interest rate resets this year and that figure is expected to reach $1 trillion in 2007, according to DB Global Markets Research.”

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I’ve noticed that the readership of SurvivalBlog in Europe is picking up substantially, and it is quite widely dispersed. I guess that I’d better start covering European issues in greater depth. Does anyone there care to join us as a correspondent? (Strictly for the glory, since I can’t afford to pay a writer. In fact I’m barely keeping my own family fed.)