The Survival Blog

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The Survival Blog is the most popular 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."[1]

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 Survivalist author James Wesley Rawles of the American Redoubt (Idaho-Montana area - "Somewhere West of the Rockies")

James Wesley, Rawles (“JWR”) is the most popular survivalist author (for both non-fiction and Survivalist 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 "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 leftists 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.

Mr. Rawles is a Christian, and holds to Reformed doctrine / Reformed Churches denomination. His view of history is of the geographical determinist] school[2][3] 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 and thus most of the news and articles on his 1,441 pages worth of in-depth articles[4] are from this perspective.

Survivalist Subject areas include (in no particular order)

Survival Blog tends to use a lot of acronyms. If any of them are unfamiliar, please consult the Survivalist Glossary.


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 "LiberalPropagandaPedia."

To quote him, "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.)"[6], [7]

2400 Words Quotes Authorized from SurvivalBlog.com Works

In general (for non-Conservapedia editors), Rawles, founder/owner of The Survival Blog, has suggested 800 words seems to be a reasonable and commonplace Fair Use except/quoting amount for Fair Use (See Important Fair Use Provisos). However, for editors of Conservapedia, on December 30, 2014, he made a special authorization of 3 times that quantity saying "You are certainly welcome to use up to three quotes of 800 words each, in any of your wiki articles."

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References

  1. ↑ http://survivalblog.com/about
  2. ↑ "1. (Sociology) social theory that human activity is determined by geographical conditions. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Geographical+determinism Accessed December 5, 2014
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Tools for Survival - What You Need to Survive When You’re on Your Own. https://www.amazon.com/Tools-Survival-What-Survive-You%C2%92re/dp/0452298121, December 30, 2014, "In his earlier bestselling nonfiction book, How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, James Wesley Rawles, outlined the foundations for survivalist living. In this book he details the tools needed to survive anything from a short-term disruption to a long-term, grid-down (blackout) scenario. Rawles covers tools for every aspect of self sufficient living, including Food preservation and Cooking, Welding and Blacksmithing, Timber, Firewood, and Lumber, Firefighting, with a strong emphasis on firearms", Accessed December 7, 2014
  6. ↑ 156 word quotation: Fair Use Source: James Wesley, Rawles (“JWR”), Blanket Conservapedia Fair Use Article Citation Authorization "You are certainly welcome to use up to three quotes of 800 words each, in any of your wiki articles." Authorization Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:46:09 -0700. Idaho, American Redoubt: The Survival Blog, 2015, Online. Amazon.com, Accessed 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
  7. ↑ Bender, William. Marcus Hook Mayor arrested, seeking re-election. Philly.com.
  8. ↑ 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. 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
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