Survival Blog
Alfred Adask Beats Big Brother at its Own Game
If you haven't heard of Alfred Adask and his little problem with the Texas attorney general, buckle up for an interesting ride. This is the mother of all Big Brother stories and shows how the little guy can sometimes beat the government at its own silly “letter of the law” game. After finishing this...
Flash Mobs Take a Violent Turn
Those wacky teenagers! What will they think of next? A flash mob used to be a term that referred to a social media organized event, where a group of people materialized out of nowhere and engaged in benign activities like pillow fights or group purchasing decisions. If this term is entirely new to you,...
Ultimate Survival: Artificial Libertarian Islands!
This is what we like to see: billionaires doing something REALLY interesting with their money rather than the same old boring stock investments and global charities. With the American way of life perched on ever shakier ground as the years march past, PayPal founder and early Facebook investor (and,...
Surviving Your Local Hospital
Surviving the modern medical establishment isn't as easy as you might think. Doctors and hospitals often end up inflicting more damage than the original disease or condition they are trying to cure. At least that's the opinion of Dr. Harvey Bigelsen, a recent guest on the Holistic Survival Show. As a...
6 Ways the Economy is Changing
* Our thanks to BusinessInsider.com for some of the meat that went into the following article
We don't want to give you the impression that we run around all day claiming that the sky is falling - except when it is. There are generally three camps you can fall into when it comes to analyzing the the...
20 Reasons There’s a Food Crisis Coming
For those of us safely ensconced behind the mind-numbing effects of cable television and high-speed Internet access, who browse jam-packed grocery store shelves by day and sit down to an abundance of food at dinner by night, the idea of an imminent food crisis seems preposterous. Therein lies the problem....
Joplin Tornado Aftermath – Bad to Worse
The recent tornado strike and aftermath in Joplin, Missouri, provides a good living laboratory about When The S*** Hits The Fan (WTSHTF) scenarios, and how desperately important it is to prepare yourself for anything. Before we get into the meat of the topic, let's stop a moment and take an educated...
Best Conspiracy Theories (Volume 1)
What better way to pass a little time on a deadly dull Wednesday afternoon than to put on our tin foil hats and ponder a few good conspiracy theories? At Holistic Survival, we pride ourselves on sticking to the nuts and bolts of how to realistically survive the aftermath of a variety of ways society...
Grab an Extra $100,000 in Social Security Benefits
Would you like to get an extra $100,000 in Social Security benefits during retirement? We thought so. The following bit of financial hocus pocus, brought to our attention by Steve Vernon at CBS Moneywatch, shows you exactly how to do this. Of course, the entire scenario depends completely on the assumption...
Shuttle Mission Scrubbed – Book Your Private Space Flight
It's another no-go for the latest NASA launch of Endeavor, the next-to-last mission of the original space shuttle fleet to launch from the Kennedy Space Center. We bear no ill will towards NASA for this delay - better safe than sorry and, obviously, space flight is delicate business. But it did give...