Odds ‘n Sods:

Jim in Southern California flagged this: Heirloom Tomatoes, The Hand Me Down of Foods. Jim also sent this companion piece: Attack of the Heirloom Tomatoes.

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Beware of agent provocateurs: Attorney: FBI trained New Jersey blogger to incite others. (BTW, this in part explains why I ignored the urging of dozens of SurvivalBlog readers to post a link to Hal Turner’s much-publicized but bogus “New Amero Notes have already been printed” story. Something about that just didn’t smell right. In fact, if you do a search, you’ll see that I’ve only mentioned Turner once in my blog, and even that was posted with a caveat attached.)

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Reader PNG sent an important link that I recommend you bookmark: Visualizing The U.S. Electric Grid. Note that this is an interactive map page. Be sure to click on all of the tabs and pull-down menu options!

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I just heard that Safecastle now has Red Feather brand canned butter (from New Zealand) back in stock.