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.

According to its statistics page, it has more than 220,000 unique visitors per week.[1][2]

"Since its launch in 2005, SurvivalBlog has been the Internet’s most popular daily blog on survival and preparedness topics."[3]

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

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[4]

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.[5] ”

However, SurvivoalBlog is not a social media site and is not open to reader comments on any topic.[6]

Mr. Rawles is a Christian, and holds to Reformed doctrine / Reformed Churches denomination. His view of history is of the geographical determinist] school[7][8] 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[9] 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.)"[11], [12]

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."

See Also

Bibliography


External Links

References

  1. ↑ SurvivalBlog home page
  2. ↑ Statistics for Survivalblog.com, Online logs from The Survival Blog
  3. ↑ Abpit The Survival Blog
  4. ↑ What is SurvivorBlog?. Retrieved on March 25, 2016.
  5. ↑ Murphy, Kim. "The American Redoubt, where survivalists plan to survive", Los Angeles Times, February 08, 2012. Retrieved on March 25, 2016. 
  6. ↑ What is SurvivalBlog?. Retrieved on March 25, 2016.
  7. ↑ "1. (Sociology) social theory that human activity is determined by geographical conditions. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Geographical+determinism Accessed December 5, 2014
  8. ↑ 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
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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
  11. ↑ 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
  12. ↑ Bender, William. Marcus Hook Mayor arrested, seeking re-election. Philly.com.
  13. ↑ 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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