Year: 2010
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Welcome to the New Dark Age
With modern American society so reliant upon our electronic conveniences, terrorists may no longer be content to sit back and blow up a few cars or buildings. Even nuking us back to the Stone Age has lost its panache. It could be so much more satisfying to the extremist mind to fry us back to…
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In an emergency, drink your waterbed
Without clean drinking water, most of us would be dead inside a week. During extreme weather conditions, we would be lucky to make it three days. The problem with keeping an emergency supply of drinking water, especially if you live in a congested urban area, is finding space to store it. Between cooking, cleaning, and…
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Pandemic-proof your family
Fear-mongering government agencies love to stand in front of microphones and issue a daily handwringing alert for the populace, apparently intending for us to exist in a state of perpetual fear about the next flu bug of biblical proportions. You know, some of us have things to do and can’t wrap ourselves in plastic and…
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Commodity investing the old fashioned way
At Holistic Survival we like to talk about Packaged Commodity investing, which is simply another way to refer about real estate investing. After all, a house is simply a collection of basic commodities arranged in a particular structure that looks like, well, a house! While we firmly believe Packaged Commodity investing is your best bet…
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HS 21 – Home and Food Safety – Best Practices You Can Implement Today
In this two-part show we explore best practices in home safety and healthy food. Jason welcomes Meri-K Appy, President of The Home Safety Council based in Washington, DC. Do you know the most common cause of death in American homes? What is seasonal fire prevention? How can we best protect children in the home? Learn…
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What does China need us for anyway?
It’s official. China blew past Germany to become the world’s largest exporting nation and is nipping at Japan’s heels for the status of the world’s second biggest economy. Last year they passed the US as the largest auto market in the world. Anyone see a pattern here? All of this begs the question: “What does…