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'''The Survival Blog''' is a popular preparedness website on the [[Internet]] with more than 80 million unique visits since July 2005.  It claims, "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</ref>  It is ranked as the fourth most popular survivalist blog based on its Alexa rating of 98,060.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.survivaltop50.com/|title=Survival Top 50|accessdate=April 10, 2016}} (The Alexa website itself ranked it globally in 106,786th place as of April 07, 2016.)</ref>

'''The Survival Blog''' is a popular preparedness website on the [[Internet]] with more than 80 million unique visits since July 2005.  It claims, "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</ref>  It is ranked as the fourth most popular survivalist blog based on its Alexa rating of 98,060.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.survivaltop50.com/|title=Survival Top 50|accessdate=April 10, 2016}} (The Alexa website itself ranked it globally in 106,786th place as of April 07, 2016.)</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>

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>

It has the tag line of: "The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times."

It has the tag line of: "The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times."

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:

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, SurvivalBlog 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>

{{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 8, 2012|first=Kim|last=Murphy|work=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=March 25, 2016}}</ref>}}  However, SurvivalBlog 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>

Until September 2009, a selection of SurvivalBlog posts were published by Clearwater Press, but "Best of SurvivalBlog" was withdrawn to give clear publication rights to Rawles for a different, overlapping book.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://survivalblog.com/note_from_jwr_826/|title=Note from JWR|accessdate=April 10, 2016|date=Sept. 22, 2009}}</ref>

Until September 2009, a selection of SurvivalBlog posts were published by Clearwater Press, but "Best of SurvivalBlog" was withdrawn to give clear publication rights to Rawles for a different, overlapping book.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://survivalblog.com/note_from_jwr_826/|title=Note from JWR|accessdate=April 10, 2016|date=Sept. 22, 2009}}</ref>

On September 16, 2013, Rawles wrote, "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).  

On September 16, 2013, Rawles wrote, "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).  

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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>{{cite web|url=https://survivalblog.com/embarrassing_truths_an_example_of_why_you_shouldnt_trust_wikipedia/|title=Embarrassing Truths: An Example of Why You Shouldn’t Trust Wikipedia|date=September 16, 2013|accessdate=April 10, 2016}}</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>

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>{{cite web|url=https://survivalblog.com/embarrassing_truths_an_example_of_why_you_shouldnt_trust_wikipedia/|title=Embarrassing Truths: An Example of Why You Shouldn’t Trust Wikipedia|date=September 16, 2013|accessdate=April 10, 2016}}</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>

Rawles has also called upon his followers to add content to Conservapedia among other wikis, "Joining a long list: Wilson Combat Announces Anti-Gun States, No-Sale Policy. Now, if the big manufacturing companies would do the same… OBTW, somebody ought to write an article on the Firearms Equality Movement and post it to Conservapedia, Gunsopedia, and Wikipedia. (It will probably get either spiked or butchered, at the latter.)"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://survivalblog.com/odds_n_sods_2529/|title=Odds 'n Sods|date=March 1, 2013|accessdate=April 10, 2016}}</ref>

Rawles has also called upon his followers to add content to Conservapedia among other wikis, "Joining a long list: Wilson Combat Announces Anti-Gun States, No-Sale Policy. Now, if the big manufacturing companies would do the same… OBTW, somebody ought to write an article on the Firearms Equality Movement and post it to Conservapedia, Gunsopedia, and Wikipedia. (It will probably get either spiked or butchered, at the latter.)"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://survivalblog.com/odds_n_sods_2529/|title=Odds 'n Sods|date=March 1, 2013|accessdate=April 10, 2016}}</ref>