Children spend a large part of their day away from parental protection, in a little tornado of chaos we at Holistic Survival like to call the school system. It only makes sense to teach them how to survive that particular environment because one only has to review the past decade’s list of school shootings to [...]

We’ve all been taught that crime, like the cost of gas and rate of inflation, never goes down. That’s well and good, sounds perfectly sensible to us – except that the FBI has released statistics that show crime in the year of 2009 was down across the board when compared to the previous year.
What the [...]

One of the best examples of urban survival we’ve run across…
Technology allegedly makes your life easier, then sucker punches you in the gut. Exhibit 459,231A is your standard office copy machine. This ubiquitous office workhorse has probably seen a few documents cross its glass plate that you would prefer not to share with just anyone [...]

The following method to fake fingerprints is easily found with a Google search. Why would you want to fake a fingerprint? One reason would be to steal identities, especially when the government and financial powers-that-be are pushing us pellmell towards using fingerprint technology to replace photo identification.
1.First find good prints of the person you want [...]

Widespread looting in the aftermath of the massive Chilean earthquake reminds us how treacherously close our society is to disintegration at any one moment. It’s safe to assume that at least 90% of a country’s given population is 9 missed meals (or less) from becoming hungry, unruly, ill-prepared, looting mobs.
Think about it. If you miss [...]

Civil unrest is a scary thought. It calls to mind  old Frankenstein movies where the villagers have tired of the good doctor’s marauding creation and head for his castle with pitchforks and torches in hand.
The surprising thing about civil unrest in America today is that there hasn’t been more of it on a widespread basis [...]

Luckily for us, the future of crime will very likely resemble the past of crime. What this means is that, most of the time, common criminals are so dumb it’s gotta hurt. The following is what happens when you combine a penchant for burglary and an addiction to Facebook.
The victim returned home one day to [...]

The Department of PreCrime in the 2002 movie Minority Report was charged with finding and apprehending murderers BEFORE they commit the crime. Nifty, huh? If only it were that easy in real life. But is some version of this Steven Spielberg movie plot already taking place in Philadelphia?
Maybe.
The Philadelphia Police Department is experimenting with an [...]