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'''The Survival Blog''' is the most popular [[:Category:Survivalism|Preparedness]] website on the [[Internet]] with more than 80 million unique visits since July 2005.

'''The Survival Blog''' is the most popular [[:Category:Survivalism|Preparedness]] website on the [[Internet]] with more than 80 million unique visits since July 2005.

According to its statistics page, it has more than 220,000 unique visitors per week.<ref>[http://www.survivalblog.com/ SurvivalBlog home page]</ref>, <ref>[http://www.survivalblog.com/cgi-bin/awstats.pl Statistics for Survivalblog.com], Online logs from [[The Survival Blog]]</ref>

According to its statistics page, it has more than 220,000 unique visitors per week.<ref>[http://www.survivalblog.com/ SurvivalBlog home page]</ref><ref>[http://www.survivalblog.com/cgi-bin/awstats.pl Statistics for Survivalblog.com], Online logs from [[The Survival Blog]]</ref>

"Since its launch in 2005, SurvivalBlog has been the Internet’s most popular daily blog on survival and preparedness topics."<ref>[http://survivalblog.com/about Abpit The Survival Blog]</ref>

"Since its launch in 2005, SurvivalBlog has been the Internet’s most popular daily blog on survival and preparedness topics."<ref>[http://survivalblog.com/about Abpit The Survival Blog]</ref>

It was founded by [[James Wesley Rawles]] in 2005, who has since stepped back to the role of "Senior Editor."  The current Managing Editor of the blog is Hugh J. Lattimer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://survivalblog.com/about/|title=What is SurvivorBlog?|accessdate=March 25, 2016}}</ref>

It was founded by [[James Wesley Rawles]] in 2005, who has since stepped back to the role of "Senior Editor."  The current Managing Editor of the blog is Hugh J. Lattimer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://survivalblog.com/about/|title=What is SurvivorBlog?|accessdate=March 25, 2016}}</ref>

SurvivalBlog has created a very large virtual "[[American Patriots|patriot]] prepper" community of some of the most brilliant people in a wide variety of disciplines. Despite their differences, they all have an interest in preparedness and survivalism, which is of course naturally from a [[Conservative values]] - [[Traditional values]] - [[American values]] - [[Small town values]] - [[Family values]] perspective. There are very few [[liberals]] (particularly those of the [[Teacup Generation]]) interested in "being prepared" for any difficult times or circumstances. This is because most [[leftist]]s erroneously hope they can rely on [[Big government]]-[[Welfare state]]-[[Nanny state]] ([[Obamunism]]: [[Income redistribution]] of [[ObamaCare]]-[[Social Security]]-[[FEMA]]) due their [[entitlement mentality]] [[indoctrination]] primarily from the [[Public school values]] - [[Professor values]] of the [[Public schools in the United States]] ([[Teachers' unions]]) and from the [[Hollywood values]], [[San Francisco values]] and [[Fashion industry values]] propaganda machines of the [[Mainstream media]] and its [[liberal media elite]].

SurvivalBlog has created a very large virtual "[[American Patriots|patriot]] prepper" community of some of the most brilliant people in a wide variety of disciplines. Rawles claims that SurvivalBlog appeals  to readers throughout the political spectrum:

{{cquote|there's a tremendously large and growing segment of my readership that are left of center, Birkenstock-wearing greenies. There's as much crossover with the folks that are interested in local sustainable agriculture and green building techniques as there is with the tea party movement.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/08/nation/la-na-american-redoubt-20120209/2|title=The American Redoubt, where survivalists plan to survive|date=February 08, 2012|first=Kim|last=Murphy|work=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=March 25, 2016}}</ref>}}  However, SurvivoalBlog is not a social media site and is not open to reader comments on any topic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://survivalblog.com/about/|title=What is SurvivalBlog?|accessdate=March 25, 2016}}</ref>

Mr. Rawles is a Christian, and holds to [[Calvinism|Reformed doctrine]] / [[Reformed Churches]] [[denomination]]. His view of [[history]] is of the [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=geographical+determinism&ia=about geographical determinist]] school<ref>"1. (Sociology) social theory that human activity is determined by [[geography|geographical]] conditions. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Geographical+determinism Accessed December 5, 2014</ref><ref>[[Jared Diamond]] states "Many human phenomena and characteristics – such as behaviors, beliefs, economies, genes, incomes, life expectancies, and other things – are influenced both by geographic factors and by non-geographic factors.  Geographic factors mean physical and biological factors tied to geographic location, including [[climate]], the distributions of wild plant and animal species, [[soil]]s, and [[topography]]." http://jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/Geographic_determinism.html Accessed December 5, 2014</ref> and his view of [[economics]] is of the [[Fiscal conservatism|fiscally conservative]] [[Austrian School of Economics]]. [[Political]]ly, Mr. Rawles is a [[Constitutionalist]] Christian [[libertarian]]. All of these have shaped his views on preparedness and thus most of the news and articles on his 1,441 pages worth of in-depth articles<ref>SurvivalBlog Archive DVD 2005-2013. The complete archive DVD of all of the SurvivalBlog posts from 2005 to 2013 contains 1,441 pages worth of in-depth articles. The files on this DVD are fully keyword searchable, and are provided in both HTML and PDF. Effectively, it emulates SurvivalBlog offline, on your PC. After it is uncompressed, it will be 2.3 GB. - http://survivalblog.com/archivecd Accessed December 5, 2014.</ref> are from this perspective.

Mr. Rawles is a Christian, and holds to [[Calvinism|Reformed doctrine]] / [[Reformed Churches]] [[denomination]]. His view of [[history]] is of the [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=geographical+determinism&ia=about geographical determinist]] school<ref>"1. (Sociology) social theory that human activity is determined by [[geography|geographical]] conditions. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Geographical+determinism Accessed December 5, 2014</ref><ref>[[Jared Diamond]] states "Many human phenomena and characteristics – such as behaviors, beliefs, economies, genes, incomes, life expectancies, and other things – are influenced both by geographic factors and by non-geographic factors.  Geographic factors mean physical and biological factors tied to geographic location, including [[climate]], the distributions of wild plant and animal species, [[soil]]s, and [[topography]]." http://jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/Geographic_determinism.html Accessed December 5, 2014</ref> and his view of [[economics]] is of the [[Fiscal conservatism|fiscally conservative]] [[Austrian School of Economics]]. [[Political]]ly, Mr. Rawles is a [[Constitutionalist]] Christian [[libertarian]]. All of these have shaped his views on preparedness and thus most of the news and articles on his 1,441 pages worth of in-depth articles<ref>SurvivalBlog Archive DVD 2005-2013. The complete archive DVD of all of the SurvivalBlog posts from 2005 to 2013 contains 1,441 pages worth of in-depth articles. The files on this DVD are fully keyword searchable, and are provided in both HTML and PDF. Effectively, it emulates SurvivalBlog offline, on your PC. After it is uncompressed, it will be 2.3 GB. - http://survivalblog.com/archivecd Accessed December 5, 2014.</ref> are from this perspective.

==Strong Advocate of Conservapedia over Wikipedia==

==Strong Advocate of Conservapedia over Wikipedia==

The Survival Blog is a staunch advocate of [[Conservapedia]] and Mr. Rawles links to it where possible, doing his best to avoid what frequently calls the "[[Wikipedia|LiberalPropagandaPedia]]."

The Survival Blog is a staunch advocate of [[Conservapedia]] and Mr. Rawles links to it where possible, doing his best to avoid what frequently calls the "LiberalPropagandaPedia."

To quote him, "As I’ve mentioned before, Wikipedia’s editors have strong [[leftist]] and [[statist]] [[liberal bias|biases]]. This is evidenced by the way that they selectively delete content and gradually push the Point of View (POV) of articles to match their world views. According a SurvivalBlog reader in [[Switzerland]], the following section was deleted from Wikipedia by members of an [[gun control|anti-gun]] Wikipedia [[cabal]] on August 14, 2013. (It had been part of the [[Mayors Against Illegal Guns]] article). Never mentioned in the Wikipedia article was the fact that there are charges pending against at least seven other members of their “crime fighting” organization: Marcus Hook Mayor [[James Schiliro|James ‘Jay’ Schiliro]] - the “furnishing [[alcohol]] to a minor” charge was just dropped on a technicality, but he still faces [[misdemeanor]] charges of official oppression, recklessly endangering another person, unlawful restraint and false imprisonment, in a bizarre incident where he tried to force a young man to have [[homosexual]] relations, at gunpoint.)"<ref>156 {{Template:James Wesley Rawles authorized quotation}}  January 5, 2015 ''Embarrassing Truths: An Example of Why You Shouldn’t Trust Wikipedia'' http://survivalblog.com/embarrassing_truths_an_example_of_why_you_shouldnt_trust_wikipedia</ref>, <ref name=schiliroscandal>{{cite web|last=Bender|first=William|title=Marcus Hook Mayor arrested, seeking re-election|url=http://articles.philly.com/2013-03-22/news/37940199_1_schiliro-whelan-report-states|publisher=Philly.com}}</ref>

To quote him, "As I’ve mentioned before, Wikipedia’s editors have strong [[leftist]] and [[statist]] [[liberal bias|biases]]. This is evidenced by the way that they selectively delete content and gradually push the Point of View (POV) of articles to match their world views. According a SurvivalBlog reader in [[Switzerland]], the following section was deleted from Wikipedia by members of an [[gun control|anti-gun]] Wikipedia [[cabal]] on August 14, 2013. (It had been part of the [[Mayors Against Illegal Guns]] article). Never mentioned in the Wikipedia article was the fact that there are charges pending against at least seven other members of their “crime fighting” organization: Marcus Hook Mayor [[James Schiliro|James ‘Jay’ Schiliro]] - the “furnishing [[alcohol]] to a minor” charge was just dropped on a technicality, but he still faces [[misdemeanor]] charges of official oppression, recklessly endangering another person, unlawful restraint and false imprisonment, in a bizarre incident where he tried to force a young man to have [[homosexual]] relations, at gunpoint.)"<ref>156 {{Template:James Wesley Rawles authorized quotation}}  January 5, 2015 ''Embarrassing Truths: An Example of Why You Shouldn’t Trust Wikipedia'' http://survivalblog.com/embarrassing_truths_an_example_of_why_you_shouldnt_trust_wikipedia</ref>, <ref name=schiliroscandal>{{cite web|last=Bender|first=William|title=Marcus Hook Mayor arrested, seeking re-election|url=http://articles.philly.com/2013-03-22/news/37940199_1_schiliro-whelan-report-states|publisher=Philly.com}}</ref>