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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Indemnity Bond Authorization and Process

 By Anna Von Reitz

This afternoon I am issuing an Authorization Letter that will allow members of our Assemblies to claim their exemptions guaranteed by the Private Registered Indemnity Bond which I established to protect the States of the Union and the assets of the people living within their borders: AMR100001 RA 393-427-640 US. 

We presume that the reasonable and customary international common law governing trade and commerce applies and that your claims of exemption and your guarantees will be honored, either directly under the indemnity bond, or as debt swaps (Mutual Offset Credit Exchange Exemptions).  

I am asking each Assembly to designate an Officer responsible for affirming the eligibility of the individual members seeking protection. That Officer should attach a brief signed affirmation and contact information for the Assembly, saying that the individual is a member of the Assembly and is naturally eligible to claim exemption and guarantee under the indemnity bond.

An unsigned copy of the Letter of Authorization is being attached to this for your interest; a signed jpeg scan of the letter will be made available this afternoon.  Please use the signed jpeg to send with your Assembly-level affirmation and specific mortgage details. 

This is to be regarded as an insurance claim. Please treat it accordingly.  Those who can continue to pay the mortgages assigned to them should do so to avoid any controversy, knowing that more general relief will be available in the near term as our banks come online. 

I am sorry but with everything else we have to contend with, there isn't staff or time available to further assist at this time. 

Granna


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A Message for California and All Assemblies

 By Anna Von Reitz

The California Assembly has been called to assemble like all State Assemblies nationwide, yet three times already The California Assembly has been dissolved.  Why?  Because individual people tried to lead the whole process astray. 

We are now facing a similar challenge.  Again.  

This is precisely why the Summoning Authority exists and why the Federation is responsible for guiding and overseeing the assembling process --- to ensure that when you start out to create an American State Assembly, you reach your destination. 

In good faith, I recently named additional Coordinators to assist Michelle Ford.  Now, those same people who were established by my authority propose to act against that same authority.  

I have taught you all the truth that there are many ways to declare your intentions and choices about your political status.  You may declare it in your own words.  You may record it via publication in a newspaper.  Or in a court record.  Or a State of State Land Recording Office or a County Recording Office.  You can do this via the Global Family Bank's international Land Recording and Publishing Service.  You can do this via the new Bucolic Law Recording Service.  

It must be in writing.  It must be published so that the public is given notice of your decision.  

There is absolutely no requirement that you must declare, record, and publish via an Assembly Land Recording Office (LRO).  This is as true for officers of an Assembly as it is for anyone else. 

Now, these renegades who have acted in Breach of Trust are trying to pretend that they, people appointed by the Federation to act as Co-Coordinators in California, can establish different rules apart from the Public Law and enforce their opinions on other Californians, requiring them to declare, record, and publish on the Assembly LRO. 

They further propose that, once appointed by the Federation, they cannot be removed for cause by the Federation.  

They have been removed, for Cause. 

When these individuals came forward to act as Co-Coordinators they were given simple instructions.  Those instructions were to bury any hatchets and seize upon a new start and a clean slate.  Make it a new day and work together to create an effective team of Coordinators for California.  

Nobody raised any objection to this and they were allowed to proceed. 

It soon became apparent that these individuals were not following instructions and were instead engaged in an effort to find an excuse --- any excuse -- to sideline and get rid of Michelle Ford. 

This began with a vacuous claim that because she has had to travel to visit her children in another State, she wasn't really a Californian anymore.  Then, against my instruction, they dredged up two incidents where mistakes were made in the past and tried to make something of those --- against my explicit instruction to leave the past in the past.  And now this completely whackjob demand that Michelle and other people in The California Assembly be forced to meet "their" requirements and publish declaration paperwork on the California LRO. 

These people clearly are hard of hearing and not concerned with doing things the right way.  They want to impose non-existent limitations on how people can "officially" express their political status choices and define what constitutes such a declaration and recording and publishing process. 

If this were allowed, the California LRO would quickly establish a monopoly and dictatorship based on access to the LRO and meeting the "requirements" of the LRO.  Having once established coercive control over the means to declare, record and publish, they would have the power to decide who can be recognized as a Californian and who would be blackballed.  

They are trying to run The California Assembly like a private club and not following the clear instructions provided to them --- so I fired them. 

I instructed that their Coordinator credentials and Federation emails be shut down --- and all for Cause.  It didn't have to be this way.  They could have made other choices, but it is what it is. 

Each assembly has a big job to do and it must be approached in a serious-minded and even-handed way if we are to restore our traditional public government in this country.  If the Federation did not hold the line, we'd have fifty completely non-aligned, squabbling, self-interested little principalities ruled over by petty tyrants, instead of the egalitarian, peaceful, and familial government we are supposed to enjoy in this country.  

Nothing these people do or say has any remaining official sanction. Nothing undertaken by them will be recognized by the Federation and no organization that they try to form or which they commandeer will be recognized as The California Assembly.  

Michelle will be calling for new volunteers to assist her as Co-Coordinators.  People who are obsessed with blame and past errors need not apply.  People who want to disrupt progress while screaming about lack of it, need not apply.  Anyone who feels that their own opinion is sacrosanct and that they can ignore our reasonable and customary Public Law, need not apply.  

We don't need people who can't follow simple directions. We don't need people who deliberately and with malice aforethought create drama and controversy.  We need people of even-temperament and good judgement who are willing to work in good faith toward a common beneficial goal --- restoring public government in California. 

Please ignore the call for a "Special Meeting" these failed would-be Coordinators have put out via abuse of Assembly mailing lists after they were removed as Coordinators. 

As things stand, Michelle Ford remains the only competent and recognized Coordinator in California.  If you really want to help your State, Californians -- stand up and help her get the job done. 

There is a need for a Coordinator Team.  Maybe this is your wake up call to engage as a Coordinator and build that team.  

All other Assemblies, take heed.  Our Assemblies work within an established framework of laws and requirements.  If you don't discipline yourselves to follow these requirements, you will end up with an invalid result and all your work will be for naught. 

It is the Federation's job to make sure that doesn't happen in California or anywhere else.  

Granna  

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Monday, June 30, 2025

International Public Notice: Understanding World Finances in Five Minutes

 By Anna Von Reitz

For the "American" side of things and for living people in general-- take this in: 

There are two large government services corporations, one called "the United States" (Incorporated) which is a Roman Municipal Corporation and one called "the United States of America" (Incorporated) which is a British Crown Corporation.  From time to time in the past, there have been Scottish-based corporations calling themselves "The United States of America" (Incorporated), too.  

These corporations are owned by the same group of people, and are played against each other as if they were at war, when this is actually just a means of extracting profit for these corporations.  

The owners pit these two organizations against each other like players on two separate ball teams, and then they both send the bill for their activities to us. 

From time to time, on schedule, one of these "teams" goes bankrupt and the other acts as the Receiver, with their own people in place to act as Bankruptcy Trustees. 

They split the take 60:40, with the Pope's Boyz getting 60% and a controlling interest in the corporations, and the Committee of 300, basically the heirs of the British East India Company, getting the rest. 

And they just keep doing this, like a Money Mill, taking the loot out of one pocket and putting it in the other pocket, and each time they do this, the bill for paying off their corporate debts lands on us and a "reset" occurs. 

They have been cheeky enough to pretend that this bankruptcy "reset" that we pay for ourselves, is the Jubilee mandated by the Bible.  LMAO.   But that is another subject, peculiar to the Air Jurisdiction corporations, and this is the Big Picture.   

On one hand, these corporations charge off their bankruptcy on us as the Underwriters (Insurers), and on the other hand, they discharge their debts on us as Shareholders.  We get it in the shorts both coming and going. 

They double dip, and are allowed to do so, because they appear to be two separate entities --- but they really aren't, thanks to the pre-existing ownership interests that have been established between the British Crown and the Popes acting as Roman Pontiffs going all the way back to King Henry the Eighth. 

This is just part of the overall scheme, but it is a big part, because each time they pull this bankruptcy exchange trick, their debts get offloaded on us, so that we get poorer and they get richer.  When we say "they" --- we mean the parent corporations and all their franchises and most especially, all their actual shareholders, which does not include us --- Joe Average on the street.

All these corporations like AUSTRALIA, UNITED KINGDOM, etc., are just franchises of the (now bankrupt) UNITED STATES, INC.  All these other corporations like Australia (Inc.), and the United Kingdom (Inc.) and the State of Israel (Inc.) are just franchises of the United States of America, Incorporated. 

These corporations have abused their positions of trust to "corner the market" on government services worldwide and have been masquerading as the governments of all these various countries for well over a hundred years in most cases, but they are not the actual government.  They are government services vendors who have found means to defraud their employers and access their employer's credit by impersonating their employers.  

They do this by employing a complex identity theft scheme using similar names to deceive, substitution, and impersonation that we have described elsewhere as the Dead Baby Scam coupled with a False Registration Scam that unlawfully converts the identity, nature, and political status of the victims and subjects living people to a system of laws meant to regulate the activities of corporations.  

This whole series of fraud schemes grants the Perpetrators control of the victim's private and public assets, without the victim being aware of this cozy accommodation.  

Next, although you have heard about "the National Debt" since babyhood, there is no such debt.  Never was.  That may rattle your brain a little the first time you think about it, but just as time does not exist in the way we think of it, debt does not exist, either. 

Time, as we currently think of it, was created to unitize and therefore be able to monetize labor for purposes of peonage and enslavement and to expedite the theft and control of labor resources.  This is how and why people "work by the hour" and have "hourly wages".  The hour-based time clock is part of a scheme to render labor a "commodity" that can be rigged like any other commodity. 

But we digress....  

For generations military scrip has been passed off as an I.O.U. —-a promissory note presented as legal tender—- for example, a Federal Reserve Note, a United States Note, etc. 

In inequitable exchange, the living people have given actual goods and services—- and their resulting credit has never been credited to them. 

This is what the AUTOTRIS accounting system and the GMEI Utility indexes actually track -- the credit and profit-investment side of the purported debt, illegally separated from the debt, and never balanced against it.  Other systems such as the Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports track the profits being spun off reinvestment of these credit accounts. 

This credit accounting system is largely, but not entirely, limited to tracking the share of the trade activity that is owed back to the actual asset owners as profit plus capital assets, plus labor assets --  but it never gets applied to the debt and it never gets paid back to the actual asset owners, either. 

Instead, it is all kept as a gigantic, multi-tiered, interactive Slush Fund under the control of the Perpetrators of all this fraud.  

On the level of the "personal" franchises, like Michael P. Paxton (Incorporated) the Slush goes into a foreign generation skipping trust..,. which in turn provides SLUSH for the Municipal Corporations and of course,  more "Investment Funds" for the Perps.... 

All these individual shelf corporation franchises of the British Crown based in this country have been managed out of Puerto Rico in the water-bound Territorial Jurisdiction, and all the shelf corporation franchises of the Municipal Corporation franchises has been handled out of the Municipality of Washington, DC, an independent, international, (and patently illegal) city-state plopped down in the middle of the City of Washington, DC. 

All the "international" Air Jurisdiction Municipal Corporations and their franchises have piggy-backed along on the British Crown Corporations and their franchises, like fleas on a dog, even though by contract they are supposed to restrict their presence and operations to a one mile square portion (like Vatican City) established by the Boundary Stones on Capitol Hill. 

So much for good intentions. 

Meantime, the actual asset owners, the living men and women who are unknowingly acting as public underwriters for all this bogus debt know nothing about any of it. 

Make no mistake— the "National Debt" meets the definition of Odious Debt:  a debt created by some means of fraud (failure to balance the books and fully disclose) of which the victim is unaware and from which they do not profit. 

When we say there is no such thing as a National Debt we know what we are talking about— and it is all the same across all jurisdictions, in over half the countries on Earth.   

In this country the Fed Res takes the seigniorage which should go to the underwriters of the currency they print for us.  Thus they get 96% profit off a single dollar bill, a 996% profit off a $10 bill, and a 9996% profit off every $100 bill, in the very first round of trade of every bill in existence. 

No wonder that Obummer sent the printing presses and engraving plates of the United States Mint and supplied the paper and inks to counterfeit vast quantities of Federal Reserve Notes in other countries.  

This served two purposes --- immense and immediate profits to the Perpetrators, and it served as an excuse to get rid of cash, which is actually the evidence of the crimes committed against us. 

The reason that the Perps want to go to a cashless society is: (1) digits entered in a computer cost far less to produce than paper bills; (2) digits can be moved and marketed and stolen with a click of a button, no need to counterfeit them or launder them physically; (3) having everyone dependent of "digital dollars" grants them vast coercive and political power over individuals; (4) digital dollars can be erased instantly, with no evidence of their commercial and financial crimes left in the possession of the victims. 

This is why we don't want and won't tolerate a cashless society. 

And this is why Mr. Obama engaged in this vast counterfeiting scheme against the Federal Reserve Note. He created the problem (counterfeiting) so that he could come forward with the solution to the problem he created ("safe" digital currency) --- classic Hegelian Dialectic.   

Anyway, so much for the banker's claims that we still owe them 4% for the printing costs and any "debt" purportedly owed for this "unpaid" debt.  They got paid— paid like princes in a Money Mill dream. They simply didn't account for the payment. 

And then let's talk about the Money Mill itself—- after the first round trade when the banks have been paid off for everything—- what happens every time that I.O.U. -- "note" -- changes hands?  

Why, the living people provide actual goods and services equal to the face value of the bills being presented.   This is a fraud scheme beyond fraud scheme, the ultimate "Something for Nothing" Fraud.  

Every time that phony debt note changes hands, new non-existent debt is created —only the wrong people are being charged for it, and equally, are not being credited for their side of the ledger.  This makes the actual creditors look like the debtors. 

Therefore, if you want to fix the world banking system, realize that those misidentified as the debtors are in fact the asset owners, underwriters and creditors of the whole shebang.  It is exactly opposite to what it seems.  The corporations are the debtors.  The living people are the creditors.  The corporations simply found a way to foist their debts, even their "personal" taxes, off onto the General Public. 

The credit owed to us, the living people, is insurmountably large when viewed as a debt, but flip it over on its head, and that same debt becomes our credit ---legitimately an asset that is available to fund an entire new prepaid credit economy, and, the assets are properly credited to the rightful owners, too. 

No need to fuddle around with long term amortization and fairytale stories trying to account for this situation.  Just chug it down whole, gasp, and go upward and onward.  

There is no debt left on our side at any time- and no interest owed on any debt, either. Paying off the military debt side of it is equally simple. (1) Balance the books upon the instant the cash or credit is issued- assign all but 4% of the first trade (seigniorage) as credit owed to the asset owner; (2) Figure out a reasonable estimated "lifetime" for every physical bill and a transaction life estimate for every dollar listed as money of account— compare this with the actual AUTOTRIS system tallies and GMEI utility indexes.  This is the Money Mill credit owed to the living people as a result of all their unwitting "investments" in British Territorial and Roman Municipal  corporations.  

Then you can start similar tallies for all the property taxes and franchise taxes we paid but didn't owe, all the mortgages that neither we nor our States owed, all the Income Taxes, too—- plus reasonable and customary interest. 

This will never be an exact accounting; that ship sailed long ago -- but we can get within reasonable parameters and call it good, because the amount owed to the living people is so vast and the asset pile is so large that even an "honest" ten percent loss is functionally meaningless. 

Then add in all the value owed for resource extraction, fees and rents owed to us..... 

And all the "concessions" —- and insurance annuities, for example,  that have been purloined from the actual Underwriters under False Pretenses.

You will shortly see that all this is Due and payable. We did the Due Process years ago, 

As we have discussed, the parent corps set it up so that we had to pay all their bills and the bills of their franchises —their taxes were, for example, foisted off onto us. 

Their bankruptcies were charged off to us as shareholders and also as underwriters. 

These "government services vendors"  forced legal tender on us at a 1:1 exchange rate, one paper I.O.U.  In inequitable exchange for one Silver Dollar, under the Emergency Banking Act of 1934. 

This was basically a theft under force.    

They defrauded everyone under color of law, went bankrupt with that debt to us still outstanding, and pretended that it was proper to charge their debt which was owed to us, off as a debt we purportedly owed as public underwriters.

To make matters worse, they went around door to door and stole our privately held gold, too.  FDR admitted collecting 20,000 tons of gold under color of law and physical duress -- and "investing" 6,000 tons of this loot in the Federal Reserve Banks and the rest in the World Bank and IBRD -- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. 

That's our money, too.  

We were never voluntary nor even knowing underwriters for any of this.   We were the victims of a phony illegal mercenary "occupation" of our country for over 160 years.  They just herded us up like sheep and we went along with it because we trusted "our" government, never realizing the depths of their deceit and the gross nature of the Breach of Trust being practiced against us by persons who owe us "good faith service" under contract. 

We haven't even begun to talk about all the "trading platform" shenanigans in which the same Parties and their affiliate Cronies, have "blocked" our asset accounts and used these assets to issue (mostly) Medium Term Notes to banks in a monopolized credit-currency scheme controlled by a couple British corporations. 

The profit due the owners of the assets have never been paid to the owners, who, thanks to the Dead Baby Scam are all supposed to be dead without a Will --- and except for the ASBLP accounts held by the World Bank, aren't accounted for.  Even the ASBLP accounts are being handled in such a grossly crooked and unaccountable way that it beggars description. 

As it turns out, the living people of this planet, en masse, are the donors and the beneficiaries, of all these private and public trusts named after us and even named after our countries.  

Therein lies the rub --- for the Perpetrators.  

It adds up to an unimaginable debt owed to us by the Principals responsible for the operations of these corporations. It's a debt they can't possibly pay even if they gave up the ownership of every corporation they pretend to own. 

So what's the "solution" they came up with?  The same "Final Solution" they came up with in Nazi Germany: kill their creditors on a vast scale, then claim their creditor's property as "abandoned property" belonging to "unknown foreign entities".  

Theft and murder, in other words. 

They think that by keeping all their nefarious dealings and False Claims in Commerce under wraps and killing all their creditors before the living people wise up, that they can reduce the claims on their treasuries and come out ahead, by claiming all the actual assets as abandoned assets belonging to vacated public estate trusts. 

Fat chance, Charlie.  That's a ship that has already sailed, too. 

Too bad that these crooks have no imagination.  They just had to pollute the human genome with their crap, give two-thirds of the population AIDS under conditions of deceit and False Pretenses and color of law ---- so now, we have all these innocent, sweet people dying from immune deficiency-related diseases. 

Already, the Vermin have tried to "redefine" the victims who received these injections as Genetically Modified Organisms called "transhumans" and have: (1) claimed that these "organisms" have no human rights, and that they are no longer strictly human because they have a scrap of patented DNA added to their genome; (2) claimed that these "transhumans" are literally owned by the principal patent holders which include DARPA, NIH, Anthony Fauci, et alia; (3) and have prepared to profit from the die off of these victims in various ways too complex to address here. 

We have this to say: it's all fraud, it's all null and void. The damage done is incalculable and all those involved in promoting the phony pandemic are guilty of treason and other capital crimes against humanity --- crimes that go beyond genocide and amount to democide. 

Our actual government roused itself from sleep and produced our first Public Law in over a hundred years, specifically outlawing claims against the victims of this crime.  Now we are intent on dissolving the guilty corporations and bringing their managers to justice. 

The Good News to the extent that there can be any, is that the worst threats are being dismantled and we have enough prepaid credit and hard assets to completely fund the world without taxes of any kind for the next thousand years or more.  

Remember that taxes are simply a means to control and coerce. They have no other legitimate function. So just say "no" to them from now on. 

You will be happy to know that the IRS and the Internal Revenue Service are now both officially and unequivocally dead.  We are making sure that current cases in process are dropped as the whole operation was based on fraud.  


Issued by: 
Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652

June 30th 2025

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Sunday, June 29, 2025

International Public Notice: Stop the Madness

 By Anna Von Reitz

We are hearing rumors to the effect that Donald Trump is preparing to release a $150 Trillion dollar "National Endowment" that was set up during the Civil War in what is being billed as "the greatest wealth transfer in human history" --- delivering around $1.1M to every household counted in the last census. 

There are numerous problems with this plan: 

(1) What wealth? There is no "wealth" vested in paper debt notes, or digits representing paper debt notes,  which they are proposing to use as the medium to exchange for a National Endowment held in gold? That not only violates the Law of Kinds, but is a self-evident fraud scheme to exchange something for nothing;  

(2) While it is being described as a "National Endowment" we are not satisfied that this is actually what the source of this largesse is. The source needs to be fully disclosed; 

(3) Although $150 Trillion sounds like a huge number to the man on the street, it is really a pittance compared to the total actual wealth owed back to the living people.  They should have full disclosure of the source of the largesse and any strings attached to it and any results of acceptance;

(4) We see nothing that prevents Mr. Trump from "interpreting" acceptance of this $1.1M as "voluntary acceptance and settlement" of all the additional debt and property owed to the living people. We are here to object to any such grossly inequitable presumption on the part of the British Crown and its auxiliaries; 

(5) The proposal would pay the same to a "household" of one man as to a household composed of a couple and ten children, thereby preserving actual social inequity, howbeit, using a different basis to create the inequity; 

(6) Disbursing $1.1M to every household in America would cause hyperinflation as bad as what we witnessed in the Weimar Republic, would destroy whatever "value" could be ascribed to the currency this willy-nilly non-payment is issued in, and would undermine confidence throughout the supply chains necessary to sustain life. 

This so-called "wealth transfer" would be explosive but not in a good sense.  More like a financial atom bomb.  

We are referring this situation to the UCC Court responsible and fully informing the United Nations and United States Trustees.  

Shame on Trump and Jim Rickards, both.  Trump is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business and certainly knows better and Jim Rickards, the man most responsible for undermining the Bretton Woods Agreements does, too.  

Issued by: 
Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652

June 29th 2025

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Suspension of New Coordinators in California

 By Anna Von Reitz

Since I was a little girl, I was told that if I want to change the world, I would have to change myself first.   Change my mindset.  Change my assumptions. Change my orientation toward the world.  Think about what I was doing to contribute to the overall bad result. 

And then change myself to align with the better world I want to create. 

It seems like a simple enough process, doesn't it?  But that kind of self-examination is tough. And weeding out the bad in oneself is even tougher.  

Still, the fact remains --- we have to think differently and therefore act differently before there can be any change at all.  

So I looked at the lives and words of people who changed the world for the better.  I looked at Jesus, Gandhi, JFK, MLK, RFK.... I looked at what they actually said and did.  

And I noticed something.  Changing the world for the better takes sacrifice and suffering.  The ego has to take a real beating.  You can't be "concentered all in self" to quote Sir Walter Scott.   

So I learned to take the insults and the misplaced rage of people who are reacting instead of acting.  I learned to distance my true self from the pain and anger that are natural in response to being treated unjustly.  I grew a thick skin.  I learned to keep my eye on the prize. 

If you want to change the world and make it better, you have to take the lumps and friction and carry on.  Just throw it over your shoulder and keep walking forward, forward, forward.  

The suspension of the new California Coordinators is a good example of failure to change ourselves and therefore, being stuck in re-creating the same old ugly world we say we want to leave behind.

One of the new Coordinators abused her trust and used the whole California mailing list in an inappropriate way, after she'd been told not to.  This was a breach of trust and a misuse of the contact roster. 

That in itself is a serious matter and shows lack of judgement and lack of respect for her own position of trust, but it was also the latest in a series of attacks against Michelle Ford, our long-time Coordinator. 

When the new Coordinator Team was formed, everyone on it was told --- okay, this is a new day, a fresh start, a clean slate.  We are all going to bury any hatchets and let any bygones be gone.  We are going to work together as a team and get the job done. 

Everyone was told that, point blank, nothing obscure or hidden about it. Everyone knew what was expected of them. 

The first attack was an attempt to use Michelle's unsettled domestic situation and need to travel to see her kids as an excuse to sideline and exclude her.  

That didn't work.  

Next, it was to drag up a purported and long past misrepresentation by Michelle that was so slight that nobody but the "victim" even thought about it. 

Next, it was to drag up the unjust Time Out that David Hara suffered and blame that on Michelle, even though California was not alone in misapplying Time Outs.  Lots of other Assemblies had the same misunderstanding and made the same mistakes, but Michelle couldn't be forgiven. 

Next, it was the False Claim that Michelle isn't papered up, because her declaration paperwork isn't published on the California LRO --- and this is after I have spent MONTHS, even YEARS explaining the many different ways that people can declare, record, and publish. 

Michelle is one of the people that published on the original LRS and still has her card to prove it.  She also has a Global Family Bank account and card, proving again that she is papered up.  I have no doubt that if anyone had asked her nicely, in the name of keeping standardized records, she would have provided the LRO paperwork, too.  

But they didn't ask nicely.  Instead, a Big Alarm was raised and the email contact list was abused and Michelle was slandered and set up "under suspicion" --- and told that she couldn't attend Coordinator meetings until this was corrected to the satisfaction of her critics. 

And I said, basically --- enough of this crap.  

You are all gone until you grow up and change your mindset. 

We have serious work to do.  You were all told about the "clean slate" when you started and instead, it's been one thing after another, trying to disqualify, isolate, sideline, and exclude Michelle.  

Same old Corporate Politics.  Same whining and entitlement mindset coming forward from the Nanny State.  

Everyone I work with every day has suffered greatly, including me.  We've lost homes, wives, husbands, children, and years of our lives.  Many have been sent to federal prisons on trumped up charges. We still bear the scars of all of this, and yet, we aren't bitter.  We don't sit around staring at our navels.  We don't look for anyone to blame. 

We don't let the past poison what happens today. 

And neither can any Coordinator Team.  

They were let go and told that if and when they change their mindset, they can come back and help change the world.  

Until then, if they aren't going to concentrate on the actual work we have to get done, we don't need them ginning up more problems and disruption. 

And that is really all there is to it, for any of us.  

If we want a new world, we have to change ourselves. 

Granna

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Third Sunday After Pentecost

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

At the Introit of the Mass the Church calls upon all to invoke our Lord:

INTROIT Look Thou upon me, and have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am alone and poor. See my abjection and my labor, and forgive me all my sins, O my God. (Ps. XXIV.) To Thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul. In Thee, O my God, I put my trust, let me not be ashamed. Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

COLLECT O God, the protector of them that hope in Thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: multiply Thy mercy upon us, that, guided and directed by Thee, we may so pass amid temporal goods as not to lose the eternal. Through our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the Unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end, Amen.

EPISTLE (I Pet: V. 6-11.) Dearly beloved, Be you humbled under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the time of visitation: casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you. Be sober and watch: because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction befalls your brethren who are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you. To him be glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen.

EXPLANATION In this lesson St. Peter teaches that if we would be exalted we must humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God. This necessary humility shows itself in us by giving ourselves and all our cares up to the providence of God who, as St. Augustine says, provides for one as for all. We should not fail, however, to be sober and circumspect, and not think ourselves secure from the lusts of the world. The devil like a lion seeking prey, desires the ruin of our souls, tormenting us by temptations and afflictions. By confidence in God's help we can and should resist him, especially when we consider that after the trials of this life the crown of glory will be our portion for all eternity.

ON DRUNKENNESS
Be sober and watch. (I Peter, V. 8.)

Sobriety is the mother of vigilance; intemperance is the mother of sloth and of numberless other vices which cast many souls into the jaws of the devil who, like a hungry lion, goes about day and night seeking for prey. Woe, therefore, to those who because of their drunkenness live, as it were, in constant night and in the perpetual sleep of sin! How will they feel when, suddenly awakened by death, they find themselves before the judgment seat of God burdened with innumerable sins of which they were unconscious, or of which they wished not to know they were guilty! Who can number the sins committed in a state of intoxication, sins for which the drunkard cares nothing, for which he has no contrition, and has not confessed, because the light of reason is extinguished, his life is a senseless stupor, and he is therefore unconscious of his thoughts, words and actions.

But will the divine Judge find no sin in such persons? Will He permit the shameful deeds committed while intoxicated, the curses, blasphemies, sneers, detractions, outrages, and scandals to remain unpunished? He who demands an account of every idle word, will He demand no account of the time 'so badly spent, of the money so uselessly squandered, families neglected, church service unattended, education of children omitted, and the other great sins committed? They will indeed excuse themselves, pleading that these sins were committed involuntarily, or as a joke, when they were intoxicated; that their intoxication was excusable, as they were not able to stand muck; but will God be content with such excuses? Will they not add to their damnation? That they took more than they could bear of the intoxicating drink, deprived themselves of the use of reason, and thus voluntarily caused all the sins they committed while in that state, is what will be punished.


What then can they expect? Nothing less than the fate of the rich man spoken of in the gospel, who on account of his debaucheries was buried in hell; where during all eternity his parched tongue was not cooled by one drop of water. (Luke XVI. 22.) Yes, this will be the place of those unconverted drunkards of whom St. Paul says that they will not possess the kingdom of God. (I Cor. VI. 10.) How rare and how difficult is the conversion of a drunkard, because with him as with the unchaste this habit becomes a second nature, and because he generally abuses the remedies: the holy Sacraments of Penance and the. Altar.

This should certainly deter any one from the vice of drunkenness; but those who are not thus withheld, may consider the indecency, the disgrace, and the injury of this vice, for it ruins the body as well as the soul.

Is it not disgraceful that man endowed with reason, and created for heaven, should drown that reason in excessive drink, degrading his mind, his intellectual spirit, the image of God, rendering it like the brute animals, and even lower than the beasts. "Are not the drunkards far worse than the animals?" says St. Chrysostom. Yes, not only on account of their drunkenness, but far more so because of the shameful position of their body, their manners, their speech, their behavior. How disgracefully naked lay Noah, although he was intoxicated not through his own fault, exposed in his tent to the ridicule of the impudent Chain! (Gen. IX. 21.) Even the heathen Spartans considered the vice of drunkenness so disgraceful that they were in the habit of intoxicating a slave, and bringing him before their children that they might be disgusted with such a state.

Finally, that which should deter everybody from this vice is its injuriousness. It ruins the body as well as the soul. By surfeiting many have perished, (Ecclus. XXXVII. 34.) and it has ruined the health of many more. Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who fall into pits, who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink off their cups? (Prov. XXIII. 29. 30.) Daily observation confirms this truth of Scripture, and the miserable old age, accompanied by innumerable weaknesses and frailties of one addicted to drink is a sufficient testimony of the injuriousness of this vice.

Third Sunday After PentecostGOSPEL (Luke XV. 1-10.) At that time, The publicans and sinners drew nigh unto Jesus to hear him. And the Pharisees and Scribes murmured, saying: This man receiveth sinners and eateth with them And he spoke to. them this parable, saying: What man of you that hath an hundred sheep, and if he shall lose one of them, Both he not leave the ninety-nine in the desert, and go after that which was lost until he find it? Arid when he hath found it, lay it upon his shoulders rejoicing: and coming home, call, together his friends and neighbors, saying to them:

Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost? I say to you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven upon one sinner that doth penance, more than upon ninety nine just who need not penance. Or what woman having ten groats, if she lose one groat, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she find it? And when she bath found it, call together her friends and neighbors, saying: Rejoice with me, because I have found the groat, which I had lost? So I say to you, there shall be joy before the angels of God upon one sinner doing penance.

What moved the sinners to approach Jesus?

The goodness and benevolence with which He met the penitent sinners. Do you also humbly and trustingly approach Him, and you may rest assured that, even if you are the greatest of sinners, you will receive grace and forgiveness.

What is Christ's meaning in the parable of the lost sheep and groat?

He expresses by this His desire for the salvation of the sinner, His joy and that of all heaven when a sinner is converted. Moreover, He shows the Pharisees, who in vain self-righteousness avoided all intercourse with acknowledged sinners, and who murmured at the goodness of Jesus, that the sinner, being truly unhappy, deserves our compassion rather than our anger.

Why do the angels rejoice more over one sinner who does penance than over ninety-nine just?

Because the places of the fallen angels are thus refilled; because the angels see how the good God rejoices; because they find their prayers for the conversion of sinners granted, as St. Bernard says: "The tears of the penitents are wine for the angels;" because, as St. Gregory says, "the true penitents are usually more zealous than the innocent."

ASPIRATION I have erred like a sheep that has lost its way; but I thank Thee, O Jesus, my good Shepherd, that Thou hast so carefully sought me by Thy inspirations, admonitions and warnings, and dost now bring me back to true penance, that I may be a joy to the angels. Amen.