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• n  someone who tries to insure their personal survival or the survival of their group or nation

• Eric Rudolph liked to think of himself as a great survivalist.
• Living "off the grid" is usually the choice of the hardened survivalist, the mountain man and perhaps the odd fugitive running from bounty hunters.
• A Survivalist's Death Camp .

News & Articles

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• Moderate PAC calls for gun group leader's resignation
  A nascent state political group is calling on the president of the Kansas State Rifle Association to resign after the gun group's leader posted the chairman's name and address in an online survivalist forum as part of a discussion thread that included threats of violence.
  June 11, 2013 - The Topeka Capital-Journal
• HeRe, HaVe a DaTa DouGHNuT...
      . .   This pattern is not just a test Our freedoms are being suppressed Will people stand by As liberties die? Prepare for some social unrest... The Limerick King   . .       .   .     . WB7 So what is so surprising about all of this data hoarding bullsheet? Not much if you proudly count yourself one of the fringe low brow morons who hang around financial survivalist blogs like Zero Hedge ...
  June 7, 2013 - Zero Hedge
• Preppers gather in Dalton in name of preparedness (June 6-8)
  Not everyone has the mindset to fill a bunker with enough supplies to survive an apocalypse, but the basic rules that guide survivalists might apply to any disaster.
  June 6, 2013 - Chattanooga Times Free Press

Quotes

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• George Monbiot in CNN International
  Despite expecting a hostile reaction -- Monbiot joked about being the first sacrifice to the "cannibal Dark Mountain survivalist cult" -- both men garnered applause, as an open-minded audience tried to grapple with the complexity of the position...
• John Peyton in Florida Times-Union
  The city is not going out of business. Let's not go into paralysis and survivalist thinking and make terrible decisions,Peyton said, stressing the importance of keeping public works projects flowing as a channel to local employment.
• Alex Steffen in San Francisco Chronicle
  With only slight irony, Steffen, 40, said he and his girlfriend could serve as "poster children for the well-adjusted, urban liberal survivalist," given that they keep a six-week cache of food and supplies in his basement in Seattle (although...