Changes at FP. But, for now, here’s this week’s PNW! (Not just for the prepper set).
17 Friday Aug 2018
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10 Friday Aug 2018
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America, Christianity, churches, culture, decline, Post Christian America, society, South Carolina, The West
The State (Columbia) does a great job looking into the predictable decline of the Church in South Carolina, the South, and the West:
FAITH BY NUMBERS
The South is slowly catching up to national and European trends shifting toward what many call a “post-Christian” culture — that is, a society with characteristics no longer dominantly rooted in Christianity.
Studies and surveys have documented the decline of self-identified Christians and the rise of “nones,” or the religiously unaffiliated, across the United States for years.
The Pew Research Center describes the United States as in the midst of “significant religious change. ”The share of Americans who identify with Christianity is declining, while those who say they have no religion is growing rapidly.
This isn’t new but it is still a little surprising in the Bible Belt. The Southern Baptist numbers are interesting, if alarming: adding 11 churches while shedding 78,516 members… This partially illustrates one of the problems with Protestantism: when does the schism stop? At this rate, in a few years, SC might only have 50,000 Southern Baptists, each attending his own, individual church…
This is the result of decades of decline, confusion, and degeneracy in society generally and in the parishes. In a time and place where literally anything goes (unless it makes sense), people look for refuge from the Church. Increasingly what they find is more anything goes, worldly conformity, postmodernism, tattoos, taboos, rock n’ roll services, Churchianty, cotton candy theology, and, in many cases, outright evil. It’s not a recipe for success.
The State is correct; it is starting to look like Post Christian America. This is change we don’t need.
We are assured long-term survival though it may be a little painful.

“No Moshing in the Pulpit…” The State.
10 Friday Aug 2018
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07 Tuesday Aug 2018
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This should be it.
Some of you have noticed that I have lately minimized my presence on FB. I’m still there, technically and for now, for FP work (posted as FP) and possibly some TPC promotions. This post should be the last post from this Highly Respected Web Log pushed (by me) to FB.
The algorithms won, I guess. That and the following render the platform of little use to me via this site.
Banning and shadow banning is bad enough. Hell, the general inanity is enough. Buying and selling banking information is unspeakable. And, when Gary Cohn compares FB to the Big Banks, circa 2008, you know something is seriously amiss.
Vox Day’s advice on the matter:
Delete your Facebook account NOW
Forget the thought policing. Forget the Infowars ban. Facebook is going to get a LOT worse very soon.
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At this point, if you’re still on Facebook, you’re not merely putting your children’s privacy at risk and aiding and abetting your would-be destroyer, you’re downright stupid. I’ve never been banned from Facebook, I used it sparingly at best, and I got rid of my account anyhow. The ability to indirectly exchange pictures with your extended family or cyberstalk your high school boyfriend just isn’t worth it.
If you need to have group communications, get on Idka. If you want more conventional social media, try Oneway. Or go radio dark if that suits you. But regardless, at the very least, deactivate your Facebook account and encourage your friends and family to do the same. It’s not going to get better.
No, it’s not. Be warned, whether your a conservative, a libertarian, a lefty, a pot pusher, a foodie, or just a cat video-loving normie. You ain’t safe.
I will no longer respond to likes, comments, friend requests, etc. on FB (with the possible exception of my own “liking” of TPC promos – again, for now).
The good news is that you are here, right now. You can like and comment and communicate here and you can always add yourself to the automatic distribution service (see the sidebar on the PC version).
You can do the same thing at TPC and on Youtube: follow the links on the sidebar.
I see this issue, of the socials and of greater popular society, as our American Akallabeth. The man behind the throne is lying us towards destruction. We are the faithful. Man the ships.
-Perrin


06 Monday Aug 2018
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“Imagine if BP, Exxon, Chevron and Sunoco all moved, on the same day, at the same time, to charge $5.00/gal for gasoline at their service stations. That would be illegal collusion to take advantage of a monopolistic position. That’s essentially what happened today when Facebook, YouTube, Apple and Spotify did today in simultaneously banning the Alex Jones broadcast from their platforms; and purge him from the internet.”
The corporate thought police moved in unity today to unperson Alex Jones and his Info Wars media site from popular social media platforms. Imagine if BP, Exxon, Chevron and Sunoco all moved, on the same day, at the same time, to charge $5.00/gal for gasoline at their service stations. That would be illegal collusion to […]
03 Friday Aug 2018
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All of them. They only have 1,600 years or so left…
The “doomsday clock”, developed by economists Hiroshi Yoshida and Masahiro Ishigaki, calculates the Japanese will disappear completely by 3546.
Within 558,167 days, the Japanese could be consigned to history, according to the “birth clock” calculator if fertility rates do not improve.
As of April 1 2018, there were 15.53 million Japanese and other children in the nation, down 170,000 from the previous year.
The efforts of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to combat the low birth rate appear to be failing as demographers look for answers to explain the precipitous drop.
Some experts have pointed the finger at silicone love dolls and life-like robots women and men in Japan are replacing with real people. [Believe that’s backwards but we get the point].
That was always the plan: replace real people with droids. My research suggests they may have as little as 379,552 days. The countdown begins…

She love you long time, killing you in the end.
30 Monday Jul 2018
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No, this isn’t about Elizabeth Warren’s proposed new minimum tax rate.
Young Charles Donaldson III thinks we as a nation are hoarding the cash in an effort to keep education off-limits to someone.
“America to Me” subject Charles Donalson III used his platform during the Starz docuseries panel at the Television Critics Association press tour on Saturday to call out what he called America’s “hoarding” of wealth, citing examples he saw right there at the conference’s Beverly Hilton setup.
The gap of financial resources is particularly prevalent in the entertainment industry, Donalson added. He’s now a small part of that business, and so is everyone he addressed.
The high school graduate pointed out “all the money it takes just to set up this room,” referring to the Beverly Hills Ballroom. He continued, “Jesus Christ, you know how much food you have out there? Y’all are laughing, but I’m being dead serious right now. You all know how much food it is out there?”
One might wonder how a TeeVee show, spotlighting a school, somehow takes money (and food) away from the school. One may wonder…
Donaldson is a recent graduate of Oak Park and River Forest High (Chicago). It’s obvious the school needs more money. (Isn’t that always the solution?). The district only spends $14,822 per year per student on instructional costs, compared to $7,853 per student state-wide. That, by the way, is where the 189% comes from. This also exceeds the national average. It’s not enough…
For all the money, only 15% of the students get “free” lunches. Maybe that’s what Donaldson was getting at. Maybe Starz could donate some biscuits or something.
Also, for all the money, less than half of Donaldson’s peers are proficient in reading; only 12% understand math. Yet, per the fraudulent national trend, the school graduates 93% of its students. These numbers might explain – to someone who did not graduate from Oak Park – that the money isn’t the issue or, at least, that it is misplaced.
Oak Park is a “Title One” school. That means, well, nothing. In 1994, a useless Congress declared:
it to be the policy of the United States that a high-quality education for all individuals and a fair and equal opportunity to obtain that education are a societal good, are a moral imperative, and improve the life of every individual, because the quality of our individual lives ultimately depends on the quality of the lives of others.
Declarations like that are meaningless, but they are not cheap. We spend and spend. All measures of progress drop and drop.
Ah well, what’s the point? Nothing college for all won’t surely fix.

The AP success rate is impressive… USN.
25 Wednesday Jul 2018
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Disturbing stuff:
It’s also interesting that a petition is circulating to reinstate Gunn. Also interesting is FB’s nosedive.
21 Saturday Jul 2018
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Smoking a good cigar can be one of life’s great joys. It can also be a little intimidating for a beginner. When I started out I had to endure several long months of trial and painful error. I hope you can avoid that.
**NOTES: This article is a little long. Therefore, I’ve divided it into sections with bold caption headings. If you have a question about a particular subject, just scroll down until you see it. Of course, I think the story is worth reading in its entirety.
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12 Thursday Jul 2018
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The concept of a “flying train” is floated in France.

I like this (yes, Perrin likes some tech) because it’s an interesting multi-use and it could possibly prevent crash fatalities. The tube will likely be made from light composite. In the event of a certain crash, the tube fuselage could detach from the wing rig and parachute down safely. That’s my idea; don’t necessarily look for it.
Interesting.
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