Year: 2010
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HS 29 – Genetically Modified Food: What It Means To Your Health (Or Sickness)
Jason talks with Jeffrey Smith from the Institute for Responsible Technology in Iowa. As an international bestselling author and independent filmmaker Jeffrey M. Smith is the leading spokesperson on the health dangers of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). More at https://holisticsurvival.com/category/audio-podcast/ and on iTunes. His meticulously researched books and films document how the world’s most powerful…
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Deflation and Economic Survival
While our analysts believe beyond a shadow of doubt that the long term outlook for the world economy is inflationary, it behooves the modern survivalist to understand the idea of deflation and especially the risks related to economic survival. Most of us understand that inflation leads to ever-increasing prices of goods and a lessening of…
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HS 28 – More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
Jason talks with John R. Lott about how gun ownership reduces crime rates. More info and free audio at: https://holisticsurvival.com/. John is also the author of The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You’ve Heard About Gun Control is Wrong; Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don’t; Straight Shooting: Firearms, Economics…
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The Holistic Survival Podcast
The Holistic Survival Podcast is evolving in response to what we see as a society going through extremely “uncertain” times. Uncertain is putting it mildly. We stand here in the early years of the 21st century and watch our politicians stupidly put into motion the very same economic strategies that are in the process of…
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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…