Winter is Coming: Are We Running Out Of Gunpowder?

I’ve been warning about this for a bit now. If your stocks of ammo don’t number into the 4 figures, it’s a good time to stock up. Based on what I’m seeing, 2025 is going to be a repeat of 2020. Only with more sporkiness. –Mike

A gunpowder shortage is here, but it hasn’t affected the supply of popular ammo like 9mm and 5.56 NATO, yet. There is still plenty of popular ammo on dealers’ shelves both in brick-and-mortar retail stores and online. But the gunpowder shortage is here and coming at us like a slow-moving hurricane. We know it is coming, just not sure when it will hit. 

The problem when covering news like a gunpowder shortage is that it is almost a self-fulfilling prophecy causing a run on ammo supplies. I tend to be skeptical and not cynical, but I am suspicious. I have no crystal ball, but I do know people in the ammunition making and selling industries. Is it a grand marketing scheme to sell ammo? Or is it real? From those I’ve spoken to, the shortage is real, but it is not all gloom and doom. Some call it a typical manufacturing cycle. Others call it economics 101 and a simple case of supply and demand. There are other added factors, too, like a war in Europe and conflict in the Middle East, that play into the shortage. 

It’s called the FUD factor: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. We have had a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt in past years. Good reasons to buy ammo. Lots of ammo. The mere hint of a lack of supply causes a run on products. It’s a vicious circle.

The rest at link.

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The Right of the People

by Robert Gore

Whoever is inaugurated in January will become the nominal head of a failing government. It is buried under promises it can’t keep and debasing its currency to devalue its debt. Well over half the people it governs despise it. Its confederated empire falters as much of the world rejects its hypocritical “rules-based order.” The military is incompetent and dangerous; a war-making operation that showers defense contractors, politicians, bureaucrats, and revolving-door brass with trillions of dollars.

At home, no significant facet of life remains untouched by the incompetent and corrupt hand of government. The ruled are legally responsible for following hundreds of thousands of laws and regulations that the rulers violate with impunity. Trillions are showered on those who produce nothing, and those from whom the trillions are stolen are presented with a protection racket: pay or else. Millions of the former have been invited into the country; the latter foot that bill, too.

The rest at link.

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Child Services Dept Working With Biden-Harris Admin Tracked ‘Trans Kids’ on Secret Database

This is some diabolical stuff. There is no situation that can’t be made worse by the presence of government…

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—An Ohio child welfare agency created a “confidential spreadsheet” tracking the sexual orientation and transgender identity of children as young as 5, according to a document exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services created a database tracking the sexual orientation, transgender identity, and pronouns of children who interacted with the child welfare system in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, featuring entries dated from March 2018 to the most recent entry in August 2024. The spreadsheet was part of its “Safe Identification” program, which teaches social services staff how to collect information about the sexuality and gender identity of children.

The rest of the story at link.

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Seven Lessons from Helene + Bonus

Worth listening to and putting into practice.

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A More Realistic Death Toll

Eustace Conway asks why the government is lying about the death toll in NC. Why indeed…

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A Guide to Home Preparedness

From the Epoch Times. This is an excellent starting point.

Full article.

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Hurricane Helene Exposes A Deep Betrayal Of America

Americans across several states are suffering and attempting to survive under unimaginably harsh conditions, without food and water, in that aftermath of Hurricane Helene which tore across ten states in the Southeast last week, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. And a week later, these people have found that they are largely on their own, as all the real help that has arrived has come through the efforts of individuals and nonprofit groups such as Samaritan Purse, Mountain Mule Packers Ranch, Save Our Allies and Aerial Recovery, which has exposed the fact — to anyone who didn’t already know — that the Biden regime doesn’t give a good damn about them, as Biden and his minions have engaged in not just dereliction of duty but the worst betrayal of the American people ever witnessed, since the birth of the nation.

The rest of the article at this link.

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FEMA “Actively Blocking Shipments” For Relief

Around lunchtime, Elon Musk shared a dire message from one of his SpaceX engineers on the ground in the storm-ravaged state. Musk said, “FEMA is not merely failing to adequately help people in trouble, but is actively blocking citizens who try to help!”

Rest of the article at American Partisan.

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Where to Donate

You may not be able to go to Eastern TN or Western NC to help dig people out. But maybe you can fund those who are. That’s what I’m doing. Here are organizations that I believe to be high in integrity and will get the dollars to the people in need without skimming most off the top as the Red Cross does. DO NOT donate to the Red Cross, FEMA, TEMA or any other government site. Also beware of GoFundMe campaigns as A) there will be scammers and B) GoFundMe has a really bad habit of cancelling campaigns and keeping the money if the campaign doesn’t line up with their leftist ideology.

Grindstone Ministries. They have an Amazon Wish List from which you can purchase items for direct ship to their Forward Operating Base in East TN. Or you can simply give dollars.

Samaritan’s Purse. On the ground in Boone, NC. I know people there and they are helping those in need.

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Update from the Front Lines

Some good news from Bear of Grindstone Ministries. They are on the ground in East TN and he reports the situation is generally OK. Relief is getting to people and they are well supplied. Earlier reports of TEMA confiscating supplies from school drop off points are NOT TRUE. The supplies were picked up and moved in coordination with Grindstone Ministries to Bristol Motor Speedway for inventory and redistribution. So, that is good news! Watch the short video below for more info.

I’ve followed Bear (T.J.) for 6-7 years now and while I have some quibbles with his theology, I believe him to be a good, sincere and honest man who gets things done. He’s also very frank. If you can support the relief efforts, Grindstone Ministries is an excellent and safe way to do it.

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