there are many things in our world you can't trust but you can find some solace in the possession of a firearm and the ability to feed and operate said tool. this escalates when trouble comes your way and the police are only an hour away, and untrustworthy at best;

It’s no secret that mainstream press coverage of gun ownership in the United States tends to be in favor of gun control – especially when those reporting on the topic are not firearm owners themselves. Journalists focus on how many people are killed by guns, how many children get their hands on improperly stored firearms, and how many deranged individuals go on shooting sprees.

This anti-gun news bias is widespread among the “urban elite” who have very little personal experience with guns and yet write for influential newspapers like The New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Despite this bias, law-abiding private citizens owning guns does have positive impacts on American society that often go unreported – many of which are significant.

Criminals and the Armed Citizen

Perhaps the most notable impact of gun ownership on American society is how it influences the behavior of criminals.

The fact is, criminals fear armed citizens more than they do the police. There’s many reasons for this, but here are the most prominent:

• Police are rarely onsite during a crime.
• Police are bound by policy and procedures, and are trained to only use their firearms if it’s absolutely necessary.
• Civilians are also less trained...........https://governmentslaves.news/2019/12/02/gun-ownership-in-america/

the world is made unsafe by the empire, and that won't change until the empire is brought to its knees, or even better, removed;

Even decades after the entirely illegal tortures that the CIA perpetrated after 9/11 and which produced no usable information, the CIA officials and George W. Bush are not prosecuted for having broken both American and international laws, and the mere fact of that illegality has made impossible any court-trial anywhere of the alleged terrorists who remain at Guantanamo. The US regime is rampant and unrestrained illegality, lying, and it’s even blatant violence, and injustice, all with no accountability whatsoever.

Unfortunately, the only global solution would be a second American Revolution, but, this time, the news-media are far less honest, and so almost no support exists amongst the US population for doing that.

Consequently, the outlook for the future, worldwide, is grim.

If the warning (hidden by the media as it is), this time from Bolivia, is not heeded, how can this cancer ever be stopped from engulfing the entire world?..........https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zuesse-why-second-american-revolution-necessary-entire-world

political correctness follows us 'all the days of our lives' and its created by faceless crowds we'll never find exposed, but they're creating a new world that is swinging this time in the opposite direction the last swing took;

Everyone raised in the Unites States over the last fifty years has been required to memorize the official dogma regarding Jim Crow laws. These were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. The official version preached to this day is that they were draconian restrictions on blacks preventing them from having a normal life. Modern blacks are told that their condition is the direct result of white discrimination against blacks via these laws.

Now, there is a debate as to the intent and the effect of these laws, mostly because the Left has re-imagined that period in American history. The official version of the Civil Rights era is a fantasy with little connection to reality. What is not under dispute is that these laws existed and they had a negative impact on blacks. Black institutions did not receive public support. Blacks were denied access to the legal system, which often denied them justice when the victims of white malfeasance.

The best argument against these sorts of laws is that they created a second class of citizens, as a legal construct. You cannot have democracy if you have second class citizens, as democracy assumes all men being equal before the law. If the effect of Jim Crow was separate and equal, then maybe they would fit into democracy. In reality, they were separate and unequal, even accounting for the differences in the races. Therefore, as a legal construct, they violated the ideal of equality before the law..........https://www.theburningplatform.com/2019/12/01/the-jim-snow-laws/

our lives are affected in large part by those we never see or realize are making it happen;

I increasingly see liberalism [rather than democracy] as the problem that ails the West. We never got the chance to vote on countless things like mass immigration, political correctness, multiculturalism, gay marriage, etc. Those key decisions were all made on behalf of the public by our elites. The British voted for BREXIT and Americans voted for Trump’s agenda and look what happened.

The following excerpt comes from Simon Reid-Henry’s book Empire of Democracy, The Remaking of the West Since the Cold War, 1971-2017:

“On a troubled and lonely late-night flight across the country on Air Force One in September 1995, President Clinton “ambled back to the press Cabin,” reported one of the journalists present, and confided to the rest of the press pack that the country seemed to him in something of a “funk”; not down, by a long way, but out of kilter. In Europe as well, admist the new prosperity, there could be no denying the almost palpable sense that public life had somehow lost its soul. Something strange had transpired amid the post-Cold War peace dividend and what seemed to many Westerners, at the height of the 1990s, as the economic boom of ages. Confidence in democracy was not growing stronger; it was ebbing slowly away...........https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/democracy-dies-darkies-us-europe-racially-inundated-now-ruled-authoritarian-technocrats

have you noticed that there are people in the streets in lots of countries but you only hear about those in which the empire has a stake. you don't see the french yellow vests, or those citizens in bahrain who have difficulties with those who rule them. you hear about venezuela but not columbia, and so on;

The protesters came out again on Sunday, after a week of quiet since last Sunday’s elections, where democracy forces won a big majority of district council seats. Only one of the three approved protests had any violence, seemingly tasked to make sure there were some new tear-gassing photos for Western media.

The protesters were pushing for their five new demands, when Hong Kong authorities quickly disavowed any intention of deporting Hong Kong citizens to mainland China.

RT has an excellent investigative piece below by Michele Greenstein, showing what a classic con job that was, handled in a way that only foreign intelligence agencies can, and who have close cooperation with their domestic media.

“Hong Kong’s violent anti-government movement continues to rage. It has won the world’s attention and the support from politicians in the West. But what’s really fueling the chaos?

Through exclusive interviews and copious research, RT America’s Michele Greenstein, who was an eyewitness to the violence, paints a comprehensive picture of the protests. “Hong Kong Unmasked” explains what sparked the unrest and the social problems”..........https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/12/01/neo-hong-kong-is-now-a-tale-of-two-cities/

sixteen minute video of a citizen encountering the power of the state and what then transpires;


https://youtu.be/g3yaM-QOWO4

having read a lot on this subject i've come to the point where the following makes a lot of sense. lbj was neck deep in the plot that killed jfk;

The National Enquirer, ironically, has come a long way from its previous reputation as a purveyor of laughably fake sensationalist news. While this short article offers little in the way of background context and substantive evidence, it correctly cites the source of a widely-based secret “executive action” plan that accomplished an objective that had long been germinating in Lyndon B. Johnson’s brain. The missing pieces in the article relate to how he had managed to inculcate the idea into key high-level officials in various government agencies, bureaus and the military-intelligence entities that he would rely upon to execute his plan. The fact that the operation coincided with the very peak of the cold-war with the U.S.S.R. would become the catalyst and “critical mass” that gave the plot life, direction and momentum — uniting the men through a common cause that brought the elements together — should have at least been mentioned within the article.

While The National Enquirer still promotes certain stories that seem a bit “beyond the pale” they are mostly about personal scandals of Hollywood actors struggling with their latest identity crisis or love interest, and are therefore quite inconsequential. But other articles they have explored — such as the “outing” of presidential candidate John Edwards as a serial fornicator and father of a baby with a mistress, or establishing the factual physical evidence of President Bill Clinton’s involvement with a young lady who had the presence of mind to save it by not having her blue dress cleaned — involved matters much more pertinent to compromised people whose careers had taken them into the highest levels of public governance. But the reportage of these events was considered by the mainstream media (MSM) as much too pedestrian for their standards, causing them to abdicate their constitutional duty of being a government watchdog; fortunately (or not, depending upon one’s biases) the tabloids were there to fill that void. There were many other instances where they have covered stories like this latest one, that the MSM has carefully avoided since their “handlers” have declared them out-of-bounds due to political correctness constraints..........https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/12/phillip-f-nelson/the-alternative-news-sites-and-the-national-enquirer-scoop-the-msm-with-a-blockbuster-lbj-ordered-the-murder-of-jfk/