Month: August 2010
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HS 27 – Steven Greenhut on Plunder: How Public Employee Unions are Bankrupting the Nation
Jason talks with Steven Greenhut who is director of PRI’s Journalism Center, which will be launched in January 2010 to provide in-depth news coverage of California government, with a focus on uncovering waste, fraud and misuse of taxpayer dollars. Visit https://holisticsurvival.com/category/audio-podcast/. Previously, Greenhut was deputy editor and columnist for The Orange County Register in Santa…
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Survival Preparedness Means a Bug Out Vehicle
The Bug Out Vehicle (BOV) is an area of survival preparedness often overlooked. High gas prices have driven the average motorist to opt for tiny pieces of rolling plastic as transportation, which is fine until you need something to power your family out of a natural disaster or emergency situation. Consider keeping an older truck…
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Urban Survival at its Simplest
City dwellers take heart. You may not have acres of woods teeming with deer and bunnies ripe for shooting in the event of an emergency situation or upheaval in society but you can still make out fine if you take advantage of these three simple urban survival tips. The Get Home Bag Not to be…
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Basic Survival Skills for Almost Anything
When you’re interested in a topic and break it down piece by piece, day after day, it can be easy to lose sight of the big picture. That’s why Holistic Survival likes to take a “back to basics” approach every now and then to review the essential survival skills needed to make it through almost…
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Summer Emergency Survival
Summer heat claims an average of 200 lives each year. We’re going out on a limb to guess that the majority could be prevented through basic emergency survival tactics, but the kind of sweltering weather that can cause exhaustion or stroke is sneaky. During the months of June, July, and August, crippling heat waves can…
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Deconstructing the Orwellian Society
‘Round the internet and sometimes even within the confines of Holistic Survival, one sees a reference to something as being “Orwellian.” Most people with a hazy memory of high school English could peg the word as relating to influential English writer, George Orwell, but others might not give a flying rat’s rear end about the…
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Take Care of Beans, Bullets, and Band-Aids for City Survival
Though city survival during emergency conditions is a little more problematical than the country, it can still be done. With less storage space, it requires a bit more creativity to figure out where to stash everything but the process remains the same. You’re going to need to take care of your beans, bullets, and Band-Aids.…
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Are We Protecting People by Building Prisons?
In the early days of his governorship, Arnold Schwarzenegger directed the construction of two prisons to accommodate the overcrowding. Problem was that since 1980 California has built 20 prisons but the inmate population has increased fivefold. At this rate, using this philosophy, the problem of protecting people by incarcerating others will be cured…uh…never. Perhaps its…