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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. "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>
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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>
  
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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")
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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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James Wesley, Rawles (“JWR”) is the most popular survivalist author (for both non-fiction and [[: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.  
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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. 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]].
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[[James Wesley Rawles]] founded the website in 2005, and he 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>
  
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Mr. Rawles is a Christian, and holds to [[Reformed doctrine]]; his view of [[history]] is of the geographical determinist school 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.
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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:
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{{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>
  
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==See Also==
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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>
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* [[James Wesley Rawles]] of [[survivalblog.com]] and the [[American Redoubt]] movement
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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>
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Survival Blog tends to use a lot of [[acronym]]s, but Rawles has compiled a glossary.
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==Views on online encyclopedias==
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Rawles has been a critic of Wikipedia, which he sometimes calls the "[[Wikipedia|LiberalPropagandaPedia]]" or "LeftistAgendapedia".
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In a March 28, 2016 editorial, Rawles called upon his readers to edit Wikipedia to remove [[Examples of bias in Wikipedia|liberal bias]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://survivalblog.com/the-world-through-pink-colored-glasses-wikipedias-leftist-editorial-distortions/|title=The World Through Pink-Colored Glasses: Wikipedia’s Leftist Editorial Distortions|accessdate=April 10, 2016}}</ref>
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<blockquote>There are only two cures for Wikipedia’s now deeply entrenched bias. First, a larger number of Constitutionalists, conservatives, libertarians, and Christians need to get involved in watching Wikipedia and correcting errors. Second, the alternatives to Wikipedia (such as Conservapedia) should be promoted.</blockquote>
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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).
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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>
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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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==Accessing the blog==
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The blog's primary IP Address is http://64.92.111.122 and a backup IP address of  http://50.193.232.247<ref>Survival Blog posts its IPv4 address (also referred to as a “dotted quad” or [[IP address]]) as a sort of insurance policy since recent events have proven that a [[Department of Homeland Security|government agency]] or a malicious [[hacker]] can fairly easily seize or hijack a domain name.</ref>
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==See also==
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* [[:Category:Survivalism|Survivalist preparation]]
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* [[American Redoubt]]
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* [[Survivalist fiction]]
 
* [[Kenneth Royce]] ([[Boston T. Party]]) of [[Free State Wyoming]]
 
* [[Kenneth Royce]] ([[Boston T. Party]]) of [[Free State Wyoming]]
 
* [[Free State Project]]
 
* [[Free State Project]]
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* [[Chuck Baldwin]]
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* [[Chuck Baldwin]] - renowned [[clergy]]man in [[Montana]]  
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* [[Mel Tappan]]
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* [[Mel Tappan]] - [[Oregon]] Survivalist - the "Grandfather of the Survivalist movement"
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* [[Dave Duffy]] of [[Backwoods Home Magazine]]
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* [[Claire Wolfe]] of [[Backwoods Home Magazine]]
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* [[Claire Wolfe]]
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* [[Joel Skousen]] of [[World Affairs Brief]] and author of [[Strategic Relocation - North American Guide to Safe Places]]
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* [[Joel Skousen]]
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* [[Alex Jones]] of [[InfoWars]] [[libertarian]] news
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* [[Alex Jones]]
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* [[Jack Spirko]] of [[The Survival Podcast]]
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* [[M.D. Creekmore]] of [[thesurvivalistblog.net]]
 
* [[Survivalist retreat]]
 
* [[Survivalist retreat]]
  
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==External links==
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==External Links==
 
 
* [http://www.survivalblog.com Main website]
 
* [http://www.survivalblog.com Main website]
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* Their primary IP Address: http://64.92.111.122
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* http://feedvalidator.org/check?url=http://www.survivalblog.com/atom.xml
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* Backup IP http://50.193.232.247<ref>Survival Blog posts its IPv4 address (also referred to as a “dotted quad” or [[IP address]]) as a sort of insurance policy since recent events have proven that a [[Department of Homeland Security|government agency]] or a malicious [[hacker]] can fairly easily seize or hijack a domain name. This has already happened to at least 75 U.S. web sites without [[Fourth Amendment]] [[due process]] of law (http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/130763-homeland-security-dept-seizes-domain-names-). Their [[DNS]] records were changed, essentially erasing them from the “phone books of the Internet.” Also see this article: U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Web sites, ‘By Mistake’ (http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-shuts-down-84000-websites-by-mistake-110216/). To insure against this, Survival Blog is distributing their IPv4 address. This can be pasted or typed into a web browser window in place of “http://www.SurvivalBlog.com” -- http://survivalblog.com/dottedquad Accessed December 5, 2014</ref>
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* [[News Reader]] [[RSS Feed]]: http://www.survivalblog.com/atom.xml
  
 
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Latest revision as of 06:33, September 10, 2016

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."[1] It is ranked as the fourth most popular survivalist blog based on its Alexa rating of 98,060.[2]

According to its statistics page, it has more than 220,000 unique visitors per week.[3][4]

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

James Wesley Rawles founded the website in 2005, and he has since stepped back to the role of "Senior Editor." The current Managing Editor of the blog is Hugh J. Lattimer[5]

SurvivalBlog has created a very large virtual "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:

“ 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.[6] ”

However, SurvivalBlog is not a social media site and is not open to reader comments on any topic.[7]

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.[8]

Founder and former editor Rawles is a Christian, and holds to Reformed doctrine / Reformed Churches denomination. His view of history is of the geographical determinist school[9][10][11] and his view of economics is of the fiscally conservative Austrian School of Economics. Politically, Mr. Rawles is a Constitutionalist Christian libertarian. All of these have shaped his views on preparedness.[12]

Survival Blog tends to use a lot of acronyms, but Rawles has compiled a glossary.

Views on online encyclopedias

Rawles has been a critic of Wikipedia, which he sometimes calls the "LiberalPropagandaPedia" or "LeftistAgendapedia".

In a March 28, 2016 editorial, Rawles called upon his readers to edit Wikipedia to remove liberal bias.[13]

There are only two cures for Wikipedia’s now deeply entrenched bias. First, a larger number of Constitutionalists, conservatives, libertarians, and Christians need to get involved in watching Wikipedia and correcting errors. Second, the alternatives to Wikipedia (such as Conservapedia) should be promoted.

On September 16, 2013, Rawles wrote, "As I’ve mentioned before, Wikipedia’s editors have strong leftist and statist 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 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 ‘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.",[14][15]

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.)"[16]

Accessing the blog

The blog's primary IP Address is http://64.92.111.122 and a backup IP address of http://50.193.232.247[17]

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://survivalblog.com/about
  2. ↑ Survival Top 50. Retrieved on April 10, 2016. (The Alexa website itself ranked it globally in 106,786th place as of April 07, 2016.)
  3. ↑ SurvivalBlog home page
  4. ↑ Statistics for Survivalblog.com, Online logs from The Survival Blog
  5. ↑ What is SurvivorBlog?. Retrieved on March 25, 2016.
  6. ↑ Murphy, Kim. "The American Redoubt, where survivalists plan to survive", Los Angeles Times, February 8, 2012. Retrieved on March 25, 2016. 
  7. ↑ What is SurvivalBlog?. Retrieved on March 25, 2016.
  8. ↑ Note from JWR (Sept. 22, 2009). Retrieved on April 10, 2016.
  9. ↑ https://duckduckgo.com/?q=geographical+determinism&ia=about
  10. ↑ "1. (Sociology) social theory that human activity is determined by geographical conditions. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Geographical+determinism Accessed December 5, 2014
  11. ↑ 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, soils, and topography." http://jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/Geographic_determinism.html Accessed December 5, 2014
  12. ↑ SurvivalBlog Archive DVD 2005-2013. http://survivalblog.com/archivecd Accessed December 5, 2014.
  13. ↑ The World Through Pink-Colored Glasses: Wikipedia’s Leftist Editorial Distortions. Retrieved on April 10, 2016.
  14. ↑ Embarrassing Truths: An Example of Why You Shouldn’t Trust Wikipedia (September 16, 2013). Retrieved on April 10, 2016.
  15. ↑ Bender, William. Marcus Hook Mayor arrested, seeking re-election. Philly.com.
  16. ↑ Odds 'n Sods (March 1, 2013). Retrieved on April 10, 2016.
  17. ↑ Survival Blog posts its IPv4 address (also referred to as a “dotted quad” or IP address) as a sort of insurance policy since recent events have proven that a government agency or a malicious hacker can fairly easily seize or hijack a domain name.
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