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Home Security and Family Survival

Home Defense informationHome Defense HQ is dedicated to helping you to prepare your family to survive many of the multitude of disaster situations that may threaten lives or livelihood. We cover critical issues, such as emergency preparedness to help you to survive natural disasters. We show you ways to protect your family from many of the almost endless number of scams that threaten your financial freedom, such as identity theft and malicious web sites.

Home Defense HQ also investigates health and safety issues and methods to help reduce your dependence upon expensive sources of energy. We also show you ways to "harden" your home and make it less likely for thieves to steal the possessions that are important to you.

The best way to successfully survive in the jungle is to understand the nature of the jungle and the dangers found within. Those who are prepared to deal with emergency situations and threats tend to be the survivors. You can survive almost any situation when you are prepared with the knowledge needed to overcome obstacles.

Changing Engine Oil: How Often Do You Need to Do It?

By Survivor

Many car enthusiasts always change their engine oil at 3,000 miles. That has always worked well to preserve an engine if you want to keep a car or truck for 100,000 miles or more. But do you really need to change oil that often with today’s cars? It may be getting to the point where […]

Beware of Imported Seafood

By Survivor

There is something important that most USA consumers do not know about imported seafood: most of it is untested and much of it is unfit to eat. ABC News exposed the issue in the following video. Here are some important facts about imported seafood: 80% of all seafood sold in the the USA is from […]

Storing Bottled Water

By Survivor

Whether you are storing water for everyday use or for a potential disaster, it is important to know the facts about bottled water and water storage to assure the safety of your family. Commercial Bottled Water Contrary to what a lot of people believe, commercial bottled water, which is bottled water that you buy in […]

How To Build a Figure 4 Trigger Trap

By Survivor

The figure 4 trap has been used for hundreds of years and is one of the easiest traps to build and one of the easiest to remember how to build. If you are ever stranded in the wilderness this is one trap that you do want to remember how to build. Other types of traps […]

Good Samaritan Scam

By Survivor

We found this interesting video while cruising through You Tube. It demonstrates a new type of scam that is pretty ingenious. I could see a lot of people falling for thing one–unless you know about it before you get hit. The Good Samaritan scam requires a small team of only two or three people. There […]

How To Avoid Wild Animal Attacks

By Survivor

Some simple wilderness survival rules should be followed when hiking or camping in wilderness areas where wild animals, such as bears, cougars, mountain lions and other potentially dangerous animals live. We’ve written about how to survive wild animal attacks. This article is about how to prevent wild animal attacks from occurring. The first rule when […]

The NSA Echelon Surveillance Program – What Is It?

By Survivor

ECHELON is a top secret NSA (National Security Agency) surveillance program that may have roots going back to the 1960s when spy agencies were monitoring Soviet Union communications as part of the Cold War. Due to the highly classified nature of this program, very little is known about the project other than bits and pieces […]

Beware of the Locksmith Scam

By Survivor

While most of us are aware of contractor scam and mechanic scams where someone charges you for work you never authorized or they perform shoddy work and then disappear, we just heard about a new scam that could hit anyone in any city. An article in The New York Times entitled, Picking the Lock of […]

The FBI Carnivore Surveillance Program – What Is It?

By Survivor

Carnivore was the official name for a custom-built Internet surveillance system used by the FBI from around 1997 through the end of 2004. The original software system was no longer in use by 2005; however, the program does continue using commercially available software. Carnivore was an advanced packet-sniffing system that could isolate communications between two […]

Chinese Rice Crop Contaminated With Cadmium

By Survivor

Sources in China are reporting that as much as 50% of the rice crop in southern China is contaminated with cadmium, a heavy metal that when consumed can result in a wide range of health problems. The reports say that million of acres of land may be contaminated. The contamination is contributed to China’s rapid […]