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 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).
 ***
-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>

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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>
-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."
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 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>
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 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).
 ***
-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>

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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.   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>
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 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>
-Founder and former editor Rawles is a Christian, and holds to [[Calvinism|Reformed doctrine]] / [[Reformed Churches]] [[denomination]]. His view of [[history]] is of the geographical determinist school<ref>https://duckduckgo.com/?q=geographical+determinism&ia=about</ref><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.<ref>SurvivalBlog Archive DVD 2005-2013. http://survivalblog.com/archivecd Accessed December 5, 2014.</ref>
+Founder and former editor Rawles is a Christian, and holds to [[Calvinism|Reformed doctrine]] / [[Reformed Churches]] [[denomination]]. His view of [[history]] is of the geographical determinist school<ref>https://duckduckgo.com/?q=geographical+determinism&ia=about</ref><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.<ref>SurvivalBlog Archive DVD 2005-2013. http://survivalblog.com/archivecd Accessed December 5, 2014.</ref>
-Survival Blog tends to use a lot of [[acronym]]s. If any of them are unfamiliar, please consult the [[Survivalist Glossary]].
+Survival Blog tends to use a lot of [[acronym]]s, but Rawles has compiled a glossary.
 ==Views on online encyclopedias==
 Rawles has been a critic of Wikipedia, which he sometimes calls the "[[Wikipedia|LiberalPropagandaPedia]]" or "LeftistAgendapedia".
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 * [[Kenneth Royce]] ([[Boston T. Party]]) of [[Free State Wyoming]]
 * [[Free State Project]]
-* [[Chuck Baldwin]] - renowned [[clergy]]man of the [[Montana]]
+* [[Chuck Baldwin]] - renowned [[clergy]]man in [[Montana]]
-* [[Mel Tappan]] - fellow [[Oregon]]  [[:Category:Survivalism|Survivalist]] - the "Grandfather of the Survivalist movement"
+* [[Mel Tappan]] - [[Oregon]] Survivalist - the "Grandfather of the Survivalist movement"
 * [[Claire Wolfe]] of [[Backwoods Home Magazine]]
 * [[Joel Skousen]] of [[World Affairs Brief]] and author of [[Strategic Relocation - North American Guide to Safe Places]]
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 * [[Jack Spirko]] of [[The Survival Podcast]]
 * [[M.D. Creekmore]] of [[thesurvivalistblog.net]]
 * [[Survivalist retreat]]
-==Bibliography==
+==External links==
 * [http://www.survivalblog.com Main website]
 * http://feedvalidator.org/check?url=http://www.survivalblog.com/atom.xml

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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. 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 the most popular [[:Category:Survivalism\|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>

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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. 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=~~Zpril~~ 10, 2016}} (The Alexa website itself ranked it globally in 106,786th place as of April 07, 2016.)</ref>	+	'''The Survival Blog''' is the most popular [[:Category:Survivalism\|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>

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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.
-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>
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 It has the tag line of: "The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times."
-It was founded by [[Conservative]] [[Christian]] [[Libertarian]] New York Times best-selling [[:Category:Survivalism|Survivalist]] author [[James Wesley Rawles]] of the [[American Redoubt]] ([[Idaho]]-[[Montana]] area - "Somewhere West of the Rockies")
+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>
-James Wesley, Rawles (“JWR”) is the most popular survivalist author (for both non-fiction and [[Survivalist fiction]] / [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|dystopian fiction]]) according to both the [[New York Times]] and [[Amazon.com]] and is a former [[U.S. Army]] [[Intelligence]] officer and technical writer. He is now a full-time novelist and part-time blogger and [[Survivalist retreat]] consultant. He founded SurvivalBlog in 2005, and now serves as Senior Editor. Day-to-day operation of the blog is handled by Hugh J. Latimer (“HJL”), their Managing Editor.
+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. 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]].
+Founder and former editor Rawles is a Christian, and holds to [[Calvinism|Reformed doctrine]] / [[Reformed Churches]] [[denomination]]. His view of [[history]] is of the geographical determinist school<ref>https://duckduckgo.com/?q=geographical+determinism&ia=about</ref><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.
 ==Survivalist Subject areas include (in no particular order)==
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 ==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>
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 [[Category:Strategic Relocation]]
 [[Category:American Redoubt]]
 [[Category:Investments in Tangibles]]
 [[Category:American Gun Rights Advocates]]
 [[Category:Gun Blogs]]
 [[Category:Blogs]]