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Throughout the years many people have enjoyed those golden opportunities to walk through communities most other people never see. The blocks where the streetlights don’t work. The corners where neighbors still wave. The small towns you pass on a highway and don’t think twice about - unless something stops you. A broken sign. An empty storefront with faded paint. A house that’s been vacant too long. Empty asphalt lots that mother nature is successfully taking back from year to year for lack of public use, and so on...
You might live in one of these places right now.
**World Side** (@worldsidefeed) on YouTube started sometime last year (2024/25) began highlighting geographic data that was very useful, relatable, and fun to learn. When they launched, their videos were about places far away. China. Brazil. Russia, etc.. Countries most Americans likely only see on news feeds. They called themselves a "global" documentary platform, exploring “the other side of every country on what they refer to as the "globe."
But then they shifted.
The international videos appear to have gotten fewer. And suddenly, they are offering viewers more **our towns** style current (relative to the published date) content.
Not so much the big cities though - and certainly not those predictable, glitzy tourist destination spot videos. But, rather, the small ones. The struggling, yet charming, and still thriving ones - even those objectively referred to as "weird ones." All in all - those ones not many people seem to talk about much anymore... until now... once again.
The content creators have now documented at least **134 different American towns** across seven major video series so far.
Places like Helltown in Ohio. Moonville, where the train still runs through the night. Sister Bay in Wisconsin. Fairhope, Alabama - the town built on a utopian dream. East Cleveland, where the homeless population is exploding. Portsmouth, where two different video series both mentioned it because it’s struggling in multiple ways.
Baseline entertainment with a look and feel of drawing back interest that helped make these towns what they once were along with what they can be again - and, those that further still are.
This is a mirror.
And if you’re reading this, you might be looking at, and living on a reflection of one of those towns right now.
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About the mirror
What Happens When We Stop Looking at Our Own Back Yards?
I’ve worked with peacekeeping organizations and investigative teams for a long time. I’ve seen what happens when communities lose their sense of themselves. When people stop caring about the street they walk on every day. When local government becomes something you complain about on Facebook instead of something you participate in.
It doesn’t happen overnight.
It starts with the small things. The town meeting nobody attends. The county commission you don’t elect for, but there they are in that local Seat. The local sheriff’s office you don’t understand. The jurisdiction that covers your land, your soil, your home - things most people have never thought to question.
But there’s something happening now. And it’s bigger than any single person.
The Peacekeeping Task Force North America has been working on a Federation initiative called the **Union State Development Project for 2026**.
It’s been approved by the Federation. It’s assisted by PKTF. And it’s focused on something that sounds complicated but is actually very simple: **getting people involved in their own Union State Assemblies**.
You might not know what that means. Most people don’t. But here’s what it means in plain English:
It means your town. Your county. Your community.
It means the people who live where you live, making decisions together about the soil they all stand on, and the land that supports it completely.
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The Lawful Truth Most People Never Heard
Union State means all the living people together.
**Soil Jurisdiction**
Not federal jurisdiction. Not corporate jurisdiction. The actual soil beneath your feet. The land your house sits on. The ground your town was built on.
According to historical precedent, there was a **resurgence** of these land and soil jurisdiction governments. They’re secular. They’re not religious. They’re the government you were supposed to have all along.
For those among the living, breathing men and women people who don’t bring forward their State Assembly stands to experience “grave danger.”
Such danger in the sense that those same Union State (local counties) can get “officially annexed by another Union State" (of which the Peacekeeping Task Force was partly service implemented to help keep this particular preventative measure from occuring when at all possible) at any point in the near future during the Reconstruction resumption and Restoration process.
Most of the 1776 Union States - the original ones - are “not in play yet.” However, they need us - the people - their own people. Since you live in any one of these American towns, they need you.
They need the people in your town to show up and say: "This is our soil. This is our jurisdiction. This is our community."
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Why a YouTube Channel Started Showing Us Our Own Towns
Maybe the World Side channel didn’t know they were doing this. Maybe it was organic. Maybe the content creators just started getting more interested in American communities than international ones.
But the pattern is clear.
Early videos (Trying to find a theme that fits).
Foreign countries. Places outside the States of America. Places where the Soil Jurisdiction isn’t your problem.
Their later videos.
**Our towns.** (so far)...
- 56 unique small towns across America that you’ve never heard of
- 10 U.S. towns where homes sell for $23,000 because nobody wants to live there
- 15 creepiest small towns in Ohio that locals say you should stay away from
- 20 small remote towns in Ohio that are dying but some are thriving
- 15 remote small towns in Kansas with unbelievable stories
- 15 weirdest small towns in Wisconsin you’ll swear are fake
- 15 Pennsylvania towns with disturbing true history
They also have, for example playlists called “Crisis Town in America,” “Ghost Towns in America,” and “USA’s Snowiest Cities and Towns.”
It’s a great record (and still growing) of what’s happening to American communities right now. The ones that are struggling. The ones that are forgotten. The ones that are still fighting and very much thriving.
And if you’re reading this, you might be in one of them.
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The Part Nobody Talks About
Here’s the thing most people don’t want to admit:
**Sadly, many don’t seem to care much about our towns anymore.**
Not like we used to. Not like we should.
These days, we often times find ourselves scrolling through our phones and watching video content about countries we’ll never visit. Some of us often times complain about politicians we’ve never met. We post on Facebook about problems we’ve never tried to solve.
But we don’t go to the town meeting. Why not? We don’t run for the county Assembly service or committee work. We don’t ask the sheriff what jurisdiction covers our land. We don’t participate in our Union State Assembly.
The PKTF News editorial page says something important about this. The Union State Development Project operates at **Union State levels comprising all 50 American states**. But it’s not about the big government. It’s about the local level. The community level. The place where you actually live.
They’re saying: "This is your job. This is your responsibility. This is your freedom."
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What This Means for You
If you live in a small town - maybe one of the 134 towns World Side documented so far - you’re not forgotten. You’re not irrelevant. You’re not on the edge of something bigger.
**You’re at the center.**
Your town (no matter it's current condition) is the place where Soil Jurisdiction actually exists. Your county is the place where Union State Assembly participation starts. Your community is where freedom gets restored, or where it gets lost.
American State Citizens of each State of the Union operate through State Assemblies. And there are fifty of these various State structures. The people from their Union State (local to their community) to help “bring forward” their State Assembly (both land and soil "at the same time.")
That means us - we the people. That means potentially our neighbor. That means potentially the lawful person who lives three houses down from us.
It means showing up to cast our ballots. It means participating at local and/or State of the Union committee that draws our interest and potential skills. It means caring about the street we all walk on and off of where we live every day.
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The Bottom Line
Peacekeepers and peace builders mold their entire professional careers concerned about the public safety.of these very same endeavors. About peacekeeping overall. About helping to more closely ensure lawful communities don’t fall apart.
Genuine safety doesn’t originate from outside. Neither does it's level of safety become valid from any federal program alone. Nor does it come from de facto corporate solutions.
**Real safety should derive first - from the nearest town.**
It comes from the people who live where you live. It comes from the Union State Assembly you participate in. It comes from the Soil Jurisdiction you protect. It comes from the location where we go to when we want to speak with our de jure Sheriff.
An obvious wake-up call.
Your town matters. Your county matters. Your community matters. And if you’re living in one of those 134 towns they documented - the struggling ones, the weird ones, the dying ones, the thriving ones - you’re not on the edge.
**You’re at the center of everything.**
So do consider showing up where you live locally. Participate. Care.
Because freedom doesn’t start (and never will) in Washington DC. It absolutely starts and ends in our towns and counties.
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Bravo! By: Paul Robert Bowman Jr All Rights Reserved. UCC 1-308
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