Somebody tell the federal government they're not needed to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Don't need their money. Don't need their poorly planned, bureaucratic...
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The view from 1980
Doomsday scenarios have been around probably since the first two humans started gossiping to one another about how the saber tooth tigers were learning to read minds. Sometimes...
What is survival anyway?
Of course, survival means staying alive but that simplistic definition doesn't help us much. We could also incorporate the Boy Scouts motto of “Be prepared.” Sometimes it appears...
Conspiracy Theory vs. Institutional Analysis
It used to be that conspiracy theory was a neutral term used to describe any alleged civil, criminal, or political that it was believed used underhanded methods to accomplish its...
Societal disintegration likely to come from hyperinflation
The financial blow up in Greece is grabbing headlines these days as the IMF and EU scramble to provide funds necessary to keep that tottering country solvent. While this is all...
What is your disaster personality?
What kind of person do you become when the ever-lovin' excrement hits the fan? Do you function calmly and rationally or go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel? In...
Gulf oil spill – don’t bug out yet
Survivalists everywhere listened to breaking news of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill with one hand on the bug out button. Was this the beginning of the end of the world as we know...
Our future in Greece?
News comes today that the country of Greece is about to be violently modernized. Wait a second...that's one of the oldest cultures around. Bet you thought they were already...
What a human being should be able to do…
When it comes to urban survival, there's an entire litany of things a person must be able to do but why should we at Holistic Survival put it into our own words when a master of...
Preparedness by the numbers
As humans, sometimes we put off a task forever if it seems too complicated to think about all at once. And if the proposed action doesn't provide immediate critical benefit, so...