The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Vista Outdoor, the parent company to several ammunition makers such as Federal, CCI, and Remington, has warned prices for ammunition are expected to rise in 2024 due to a worldwide shortage of gunpowder.
In a letter sent to customers, Vista Outdoor warned that they would begin to increase prices on all of their ammunition products due to “an anticipated global shortage of gunpowder.”
Vice President of Sales Brett Nelson stated, “Due to world events, our suppliers have notified us of unprecedented demand for and an anticipated global shortage of gunpowder, and thus has increased our prices substantially.”
Nelson did not refer to what world events are causing the gunpowder shortage, but it’s quite clear the War in Ukraine and Gaza has resulted in an increased need for ammo.
More food for the thought from Imperium Press.
Whereas a command can simply be followed, an end must forever be interpreted—it’s a legal realist boot stomping on the law forever. “Ends” are exactly how we can drum up gay marriage from the American constitution: we judge not by the letter of the law, not by what the framers actually wrote, but by their supposed “intentions”, which are invariably our intentions. The constitution can’t simply be followed, it must forever be recast, remade, reinterpreted, it must be a ‘living document’, which is just to say, it must be thrown out. Judging ends and intentions is smuggling in our own, often unwittingly. This is the historical rule, and we can tell because in practice teleology has been followed by rampant atheism and/or the collapse of the social order, both anciently and in the modern world. This is the same process we described in our article Liberalism, Then and Now: an idea moving to its logical conclusion, becoming ever more internally consistent.
Read it all: https://imperiumpress.substack.com/p/authority-a-la-carte?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
“Is the Deep State mafia setting up a massive cyber attack false flag on the american people that will disrupt the 2024 election? Well it turns out that U.S. intel agencies have been running table top exercises on this exact scenario. And now Department of Homeland Security head Myorikas says the greatest cyber threat to america is something call Kill Ware. What’s really going on here.
I have to admit that I have a high level of anxiety concerning the immediate future. While the past 15 years have been a series of continual teachable moments, the events now unfolding around the world and in our nation are peaking.
No one but our Father knows the day or the hour: we can only gather and qualify information to analyze and formulate intelligence upon which we can plan our actions. Sometimes intelligence tells us to wait and sometimes it is telling us to see the blinking red lights everywhere:
I have no need to warn people concerning the government’s tactics to divide and conquer us. Race, religion, sexual gender, politics and cancel culture are everywhere. While we are seeing propaganda being exposed (mainly by Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk), we also have to be wary of people who seemingly represent our side but are actually working against us.
An example of this misinformation is Aesop’s blog including his latest:
If you still want to keep huffing hopeium, and/or kissing Vlad’s ass, go ahead on; we don’t care. If you’re convinced the intel from any twenty Russian shill blog sites are giving the straight poop, shovel it down with both hands with our enthusiastic blessing.
Your delusions are your own problem, not ours.
I don’t normally follow Aesop but once again, it was pointed out to me in a message that another patriot site is still promoting his links. I was asked why and I have no answer. In these times where the forces of evil are arrayed against good people, we have to start consolidating our trust. Reread that last sentence again.
I have stated in the past that we should only prepare and be concerned about events or issues that we can personally impact. I hope that no one believes that they will have any impact concerning the war in Ukraine or the Gaza Strip. I can list another ten wars/issues that are thrown at us everyday that we cannot change. We must concentrate on the war our government is leading against us and recognize those who are distracting us from this effort.
Focus on what you will be facing in your own areas of operation. Prepare to make a difference when war comes to your doorstep. As for people who state you are kissing Putin’s behind for knowing the truth, ask yourself what is their true goal?
You only have a limited amount of time for preparations, training, generating intelligence and organizing your area. Use your time wisely.
David DeGerolamo
The following is an interesting thought exercise from Imperium Press.
“Paganism is seen by Christians, Jews, and others as “choose your own theology”, where you just make it up as you go along. To be fair, some of this is criticism is deserved. It’s true that there’s a lot of paganism à la carte—a pinch of Druidry, a dash of Wicca, a dollop of Buddhism, etc. Such things are obviously not serious. But this kind of paganism is quickly losing ground to serious reconstruction—authentic worship that takes one or another branch (Norse, Roman, Greek, etc.) and restores its original practices.
This is the paganism of historical pagans. To this paganism, the accusation of “making it up as you go along” could not be any less appropriate. In fact, historical pagans made exactly this accusation of Christianity, which was seen as a kind of anti-authoritarianism. “You think you can choose your own god?” This struck them as grotesque and impious, some sort of atheism. If you’re the judge of what’s worthy of worship, then your god is you. For the ancient pagan, authority was simple—it came from tradition.
Modern pagans don’t have that luxury, because our tradition just is Christianity. Or is it? Strictly speaking, it’s not quite Christianity now, is it? It’s secular humanist liberalism. If you live in the West, you live in a secular society. That is your tradition. Maybe you think you don’t get your tradition from your society though—maybe you think you get it from your parents. We’ll come back to that.
Suffice it to say that you can’t point to a social authority with any clout and come up with a justification for anything but liberalism. So, we need something else to justify Christianity. Sure, you can give a logic-chopping argument, but if you’re being honest with yourself, nobody is really moved by any of that. Very few people work through a syllogism, fall to their knees crying, and then convert.
If you look a little deeper, you find that people justify by pointing to authority. If you’re in perfect agreement with modern liberalism, this is easy—you just point to who’s in charge and say “might is right”. For anyone else, pointing to authority involves what we have called the ancestral principle. The idea is that you point to whatever it was that made everything great possible. For Steven Pinker, everything great is basically science, and what made it possible is the Enlightenment. For the Christian, everything great is basically the West, and what made it possible is Christianity.
If we were to formalize the ancestral principle, we would say that authorship is authority. What makes X authoritative over Y is that X is the father of Y. This is the deepest layer of Abrahamic morality, as we find in the book of Job. After Yahweh whoops Job just to prove a point to Satan, Job finally stands up and calls out Yahweh. Job gets an answer he didn’t expect. Instead of giving… well, any reason at all, Yahweh tells Job to shut up and stop asking questions. “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the world?” Yahweh is the boss of Job because without Yahweh, there is no Job.
This might seem abhorrent to someone like a classical liberal, but when you get right down to it, they make exactly the same argument. When you point out that the Enlightenment basically made every man his own highest authority and thus authority impossible, Steven Pinker will point to modern science and say “but it made that possible”. He’s wrong, it didn’t—but the point is that the form his argument takes is the same: whatever he’s justifying was the father of everything good. Even the lefty progressive does the same thing when he asks rhetorically, “do you want to go back to the dark ages of slavery and ignorance?” Never mind that he’s wrong—it’s the same argument all over again: whatever he’s justifying was the father of everything good. It turns out that the ancestral principle is the form that all justification takes in practice. When every logical proof of Yahweh’s existence is defeated, the Christian will take refuge in the ancestral principle—“where were you when Christianity laid the foundations of the West?”
Whether for classical liberals, Christians, or Jews, authority just is authorship. That is, the father is the paradigm of authority. All the way back, what makes something authoritative is just that it made everything after it possible, including you. If you disagree with it, you’re just wrong, full stop. This is exactly what pagans believe, only more consistently. They say “if it disagreed with its own father, it was wrong, full stop.”
A consistent application of the ancestral principle—the very form of moral justification—leads one invariably to paganism, because paganism built everything. Society, law, custom, governance, technics, arts, ritual, myth, philosophy—everything. Where were you when paganism laid the foundations of the world? Every axiom you hold, every intuition you have, every feeling in your gut—all these were given to you or bred into you by hundreds of thousands of years of paganism. And anything that wasn’t given to you by paganism was justified—wrongly or rightly—on the basis of axioms, intuitions etc. that paganism begat. Everything that came after, all the way up to modern liberalism, can only critique paganism on the basis of foundations that paganism laid.
And this brings us to the ultimate point—that the source of authority cannot be other than tradition. You can’t ask why it’s good to obey (or disobey) the tradition without invoking norms, and tradition is the source of those norms. One can object that the old gods are not real, and so the tradition is invalid. But that objection can only be made on the basis of assumptions, and those assumptions have come down from the tradition itself, which has its ultimate source in paganism. It’s impossible to argue against the tradition without invoking its authority.
For us to argue anything at all is to invoke tradition, which is to invoke the ancestral principle. Society tells us that our tradition is secular humanist liberalism. Perhaps we want to say “no, I got tradition from my parents, and that’s Christianity”. But then, your father got it from his father, and all the way back until someone abandoned his tradition. If he did that for a reason, that reason must ultimately rest on assumptions, and those assumptions on tradition. There is no way to abandon tradition without abandoning authority altogether. Your father’s father’s father etc. was an anti-authoritarian, an enemy of authority who based his (and ultimately, your) whole worldview on nothing more than whim. Only paganism can claim to derive authority out of something other than whim and caprice.
As it turns out, the accusation made against paganism that it’s just making things up, could not be more wrong—paganism is the sole alternative to “choose your own god”. The fact that we’ve been off-track for a long time hardly matters. Ancient error is still error. Ancient anti-authoritarianism is still anti-authoritarianism. The ancestral principle is simply the recognition that you don’t get to choose your own authority. Only paganism holds this principle consistently, because your forefathers didn’t get to choose their own authority either. All morality and even all knowledge rests on this principle. If the principle seems new, that’s because your tradition has been anti-authoritarianism for a long time. The ancestral principle is not new, but simply the articulation something that was once so obvious that it never needed articulation.”
Imperium Press 12/13/2023
Migration and the 2030 Agenda
The 2030 Agenda is part of a backdrop of other important global processes that have boosted recognition, momentum and further opportunities for migration as a development force. Some are directly related to migration, such as the Global Compact for Migration (GCM). Others have indirect implications for migration, such as the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (IOM, 2017g). The development of the GCM signifies that all aspects of migration governance will continue to be a key focus for the international community going forward. The GCM “will be the first intergovernmentally negotiated agreement prepared under the auspices of the United Nations, to cover all dimensions of international migration in a holistic and comprehensive manner”2 It will have a firm rooting in the 2030 Agenda, and will provide a significant opportunity to improve the governance of migration, address the challenges associated with it, and to strengthen the contribution of migrants and migration to sustainable development.
As I watched the above video, I thought of the people who voted for Obama and Biden. And then I thought about the people who accepted the voter fraud for both.
The US has instituted endless wars under the guise of Democracy. Millions have died including children under Obama’s drones. Who paid for 300 miles of underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip? Who armed the Taliban in Afghanistan after a hasty withdrawal? Who supplied a worldwide black market in arms using Ukraine as the hub since it worked so well in Libya?
Supporting evil has consequences. Whether it is in Ukraine, the Middle East or Washington, D.C., there will be a high price to be paid. As for Israel, the first question to be asked is why the US vetoed a ceasefire after 18,000 men, women and children have been killed in the Gaza Strip?
David DeGerolamo
I wrote an article last year concerning Christmas and Christmas cards. People sent me Christmas cards from across the United States and I even received one from England. My intent was to send cards back in return but I fell ill and spent the holidays in the hospital.
However, I did keep the cards and envelopes and have sent out cards today except for two (I could not match the names with the addresses). If you sent me a card and do not receive one back this year, let me know in the comments here and I will take send one out.
It appears that we are at the point in time in which I had hoped would not come: war and economic collapse. Some of you know that I have purchased land and built a community center for my area. I have not written much about my plans because its purpose is for the local community. This year has allowed me the time to finish the center’s outbuildings and other requirements.
Up to this point, I have financed everything personally. The library is off to a good start but if anyone wishes to donate books, board games or DVDs, please send them to:
David DeGerolamo
TEB Community Center
84 Roberts Road
Murphy, NC 28906Books and educational material for classroom instruction are especially welcome.
David DeGerolamo
