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Sunday, April 25, 2021

Additional Issues for The International Court of Justice -- Blood Money 15 - Our Employees

 By Anna Von Reitz

Our particular kind of government allows for one State Assembly in each State of the Union. This is the sovereign and unincorporated State in each case. Together, these States by custom and for their mutual self-interest, delegate certain of their international and global powers to The United State of America. Both The United States and The United States of America being referenced are unincorporated entities employed as instrumentalities by the fifty (50) sovereign States of the Union.
As of the first of October 2020 the pre-Civil War State Assemblies voted unanimously to enroll the western Territorial States created under the Northwest Ordinance since 1860 and chosen to make enrollment effective with the date and time that these states entered Territorial Statehood.
All fifty (50) States of the Union are populated, all fifty (50) State Assemblies are in Session, and all members of these Assemblies are properly declared and publicly recorded birthright Americans. All fifty (50) are fully empowered, enrolled, and endowed with equal powers.
Our State Assemblies are lawful, unincorporated, and have standing as sovereign states under national, international, and global law.
Our paid Federal Employees who are by definition District Persons/PERSONS have been running around behind us, trying to put together District Assemblies populated by District Personnel, because they are struggling under the misapprehension that we need Confederate States, that is, States of States, to function in international trade and global commerce.
This is not the case. The incapacity of the Confederation and the incapacity of the Federal Republic are both moot issues in the face of the actual Federation of States.
Our unincorporated Federation of States, The United States of America, which is the source of all the delegated powers in international and global jurisdictions, is completely competent to function in both international trade and global commerce without any representation or grant of agency. Indeed, our Federation did exactly that for a period of five years and has the option of doing so now --- and has availed itself of that option.
Both the Territorial United States and the Municipal United States must stand down and cease and desist from all efforts to impersonate us, to interject themselves as our agents, or to otherwise pretend to be us or represent us apart from their clearly enumerated constitutional obligations.
The Principals responsible for these organizations are required by Treaty and Commercial Contract to cease and desist attempts to latch our assets, traffic our assets, securitize our assets or in any other way pretend authorities never vouchsafed to them.
The Pope, the Queen, and the Lord Mayor together with their respective Governments, have no authority or occasion to impersonate us, substitute themselves and their citizenry for us, or to conduct business for us; as we are present and accounted for and taking care of our own affairs.
We have served Public Notice and Due Process of these facts to these Principals and throughout the International Community, and we are addressing The International Court of Justice, Vatican Chancery Court, and the Court of the Lord High Steward in affirmation of these truths.
No man and no nation should be deceived further by any semantic deceit seeking to misrepresent The United States of America as an incorporated entity, nor seeking to impersonate our States of the Union as State Trusts, nor otherwise attempting to pass off foreign Persons as Americans and pretending that their foreign District Assemblies are in any way required to exist for any emergency purpose nor pretend that District Assemblies are competent to replace the actual State Assemblies.
In all cases, circumstances, and jurisdictions, our State Assemblies are the only sovereign governmental entities on this continent; any other kind of assembly composed of foreign persons, is self-evidently posturing upon our strictly limited delegated authorities and trying to assume the powers of our State Assemblies without any vested authority to do so.
In fact, the existence of District Assemblies on our soil was never contractually agreed to, and their operations have caused a considerable amount of disruption, fraud, and confusion. These "assemblies" of foreign persons on our shores have indiscriminately welcomed non-Federal Employees and conscripted our people without full disclosure as well as latching upon our Given Names and presuming against our self-evident nationality via unconscionable registration processes and adhesion contracts ---- all of which we disallow.
We wish it to be universally known and fully acknowledged that the Americans are home, and in truth, the vast proportion of us never left. Any pretensions by our Federal Government Subcontractors or their incorporated instrumentalities otherwise, must be recognized as self-interested prevarication amounting to constructive fraud and purposeful deceit being pursued in the cause of unjust enrichment.
The sum total of any powers ever delegated to any of our Federal Subcontractors or secondarily entrusted by them against their Honor-- to agency personnel, are matters of Public Record established more than two hundred years ago.

No, we have not all adopted any form of Federal citizenship; no, we have not agreed to employment or dependency; no, we have not agreed to enfranchisement; no, we have not recognized any emergency powers; no, we have not vacated our government; no, we have not yielded any legislative power to our paid employees and their dependents except for those legislative powers allowed within the District of Columbia as already discussed.
Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary                                                     The United States of America

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Today, I was accused of being a Nazi.

 By Anna Von Reitz

I know too much, though nobody told me.
Nobody left me anything but an American tattoo.
And the cologne called 4711 that smells like plum blossoms.
And a way of walking through the rainstorms in spring, smelling the Earth, and thinking yes, I have inherited too many graveyards.
I wish I could turn off other people’s memories of who they were and who they are.
I wish that the hardships were not so much a part of every one of us.
Most of all, I wish we could stop becoming what we hate—
Because there we are, all the liberal progressives unconsciously acting as Fascists....
Telling everyone else how to live and what to value....
Judging everyone according to a Liberal Stick and
Not listening.
Maybe that’s how we become Nazis?
Hannah Arendt said it a long time ago.
It’s no brilliance of mine to repeat it....
But we do become what we hate and love what we loathe.
Just think of all those ineffectual Trump Haters out there?
Turning into Orange Men despite themselves?
Taking on a New York accent
Learning to grease the palm?
It’s funny isn’t it, that we become what we hate and the wheel of karma
Hides that fact from us

Until it’s too late.

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Additional Issues for The International Court of Justice -- Blood Money 14 -- English

 By Anna Von Reitz

INTERNATIONAL CRIME BULLETIN
Please note that English is the official language of this country. The language conventions of Roman Civil Law do not normally pertain to our communications with the High Courts and should not be assumed to have meaning apart from the context of commercial subjects. .
We wish you to observe that The United States is the name of this country, not "the" United States, a name applied to the Municipal United States Government and its various corporations which have been established in our names without any granted authority to do so.
This results in a situation in which we have been presumed to be the owners and operators of these corporations and have been held accountable for their debts, when in fact they have been operated in our purported absence by our foreign Federal Subcontractors.
These same Subcontractors have used our money, our assets, our charter powers and our names without our agreement, knowledge, or consent, to create these corporations. Now they want to pretend that they own them, but in fact, the use of our charter powers, names, money, and our assumption of their debts through multiple bankruptcies prove that all of the corporations appearing to belong to both the United States Municipal Government and its STATE OF STATE franchises, and all those corporations chartered by the Territorial Government and its State of State franchises belong to The United States and are subject to the direct powers and international jurisdiction of The United States of America, our Federation of unincorporated States.
All emergency powers claimed and used by both the Municipal United States and the Territorial United States are usurpations in the absence of law or contract and are null and void from inception.
We have made provision for lawful purposes language to be adopted by these corporations and for them to stand under validated and migrated charters; the only other solution to this problem is the liquidation of these US and USA Corporations and their franchises.
It has also come to our attention that efforts are being made by these criminal enterprises to monetize the Labor Bonds referenced in our earlier correspondence, and that this activity is being pursued in Puerto Rico.
We are in possession of the bonds but we have not accepted them for commercial purposes.
Let us underline this with a broad brush: securitization and monetization of labor is both illegal and unlawful and any entity, bank, level of government, agency, or personnel caught doing any such thing are all subject to immediate arrest for bank fraud, treason, and enslavement.
Securitization and monetization of labor has been illegal worldwide since 1926.
The Bearer Bonds that have cured are the unique property of The United States of America --- our unincorporated Federation of States, and the people in whose names these bonds appear. Any trade, transfer, collection, transport, or monetization of these, our assets, by any bank in the world, will be grounds for the immediate liquidation of that bank, the arrest of its officers and board of directors, and the imprisonment of any agency personnel involved in such activities.
Our Public Law overstands all forms of legislation and private law. Period.
Both the Municipal and Territorial Governments are bound by our Public Law throughout The United States including actions pursued in our Territories and Possessions.
All interference in the administration of our assets by us, coming from all and any purported representatives, must cease and be recognized for what it is -- crime and criminal obstruction.
We call for the immediate retraining of all US Marshals, all FBI Agents, all Municipal Agencies, and all Territorial Officers.
Those Labor Bonds are private assets and anyone caught trading in them or pretending to trade in them on our behalf is breaking the Public Law of this country and is in violation of the international conventions against both peonage and slavery.
We are issuing this INTERNATIONAL CRIME BULLETIN AND FRAUD ALERT to all Municipal and Territorial personnel, especially those stationed in Puerto Rico, and we are presenting the immediate need for a worldwide mandatory protective injunction to the High Courts responsible.

Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
The United States of America

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Additional Issues for The International Court of Justice -- Blood Money 13 - One Compact

 By Anna Von Reitz

The genesis of America as a modern nation lies in the far distant past when the hardy sea-faring people of the Normandy coast known as Armoricans, a tribal nation within the Kingdom of Gaul, began trading with the Natives of what is now known as Nova Scotia and the Northeastern United States for furs. This trade was established and recorded in Roman times and continued unabated for at least 600 years, most recently evidenced by the French and Indian Fur Trade we still read about in our history books.
It is from the Armoricans that America inherits its name and so far as European colonization and government goes, it is with the Government of Gaul that it all begins. Gaul is the ancient Roman name for France and it was under the Kingdom of Gaul that the original Armorican trade in furs began. The Belle Chers are the equally ancient and dominant tribal nation of Gaul and the chieftain-kings of Normandy, including the land and blood of the Armoricans.
So in fact the first European claims concerning this country result from the Armorican Fur Trade and the very name of this country -- America -- is a British transliteration of Armorican.
As the tribal chieftains of Gaul, the Belle Chers and their nations own all of France and their peoples also populate and own the Kingdoms of Aragon and Castille in Spain, and the Kingdom of Powys in Central England.
From Powys these European tribal chieftains migrated to America in 1608. They have remained in this country and populated it ever since. Those who came to this country were independent sovereigns in their own right as a result of The Settlement of the Norman Conquest in 1087 A.D. and kinsmen of William of Normandy, of the same family and lineage.
James Clinton Belcher --- Belcher being the British transliteration of Belle Cher -- is the chieftain of the Belle Chers in America. His ancestral name in France is Guilleroi de Armentrois du Lac and the honorable history of his House of Belle Garde in Northern France is well-known. It is his Coat of Arms that forms the basis of the Great Seals of both the United States and the United States of America.
Thus by both name and shield, and by history of service of his ancestor William Belcher of Connecticut in the Continental Army and afterward, the history of America on land and sea is inextricably connected to France as well as Spain and England, and by dust and by blood they make One Compact via the hand of the Clan Chieftain of the Belle Chers, who has summoned the actual States of this country into Session.
All of the jurisdictions of the law, national, international and global, all the local forms of law engaged in by our country and our countrymen, come together in One Compact.
Article VI Section 2 of all three Federal Constitutions fully admits that Treaty is the highest form of law among nations and that all treaties are honored including those concluded prior to the settlement of The War of Independence; the new American Government assumed all treaty debts, obligations, and contracts.
This allows us to be sure that this country functions in all respects in a single unbroken Compact and our knowledge and physical presence guarantees that that Compact has never been vacated at any time; thus, bono vacantia does not apply and ownership interest in this country is not limited to those Principals present in 1776, but includes a far more venerable heritage.
The Mayflower Compact signed November 11th of 1620 according to the Julian Calendar forms the first public declaration of law brought forward by the English settlers coming to these shores, but even prior to that, the British-lineage Belchers had established their own Testament and Declaration of Law in 1608, when they arrived in Boston, Massachusetts and began building the Old South Church.
Both of these foundations are international treaties established by sovereign Principals, inherited under Article VI, Section 2. Both pre-date the earliest known treaties with North American Indian tribes: they predate The Treaty of Fort Pitt, also known as the Treaty with the Delawares, by over a hundred and fifty years.
Likewise, our Seat of Government and General Post Office for The United States of America comes by Treaty with the Belle Chers in Spain in 1702, and has been established in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1732. To this day, The United States of America is not a member of the Universal Postal Union, and maintains its own separate service and private postal designations. James Clinton Belcher is the American Post Master on the land and the American Postmaster on the sea by International Treaty and inheritance pre-dating The War of Independence. This is the foundational Postal Treaty that connects our country to postal services on an international and private basis.
The United States Post Office by contrast was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1778 and also located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to serve the United States bureaucracy, and the citizenry of the United States including the Native American Tribes subscribing to Roman Civil Law and Municipal citizenship. The USPS is a member of the Universal Postal Union and operates in global commerce.
Both of these Postal Treaties are vital to the proper functioning of our country as a member of the community of nations, and both must be honored and regulated according to our published treaties and constitutional agreements.
When we re-issued our Sovereign Letters Patent on 4th November of 2015 according to the Gregorian Calendar, we served the Principals and International Courts with our action as The United States of America-- our unincorporated Federation of States; when we issued the Joint Sovereign Letters Patent on 6th November 2015 according to the Gregorian Calendar, we established a Treaty of Peace between ourselves and the Native American nations of the United States.
Never again will Native Americans suffer the atrocities and alienation from the land and soil that they have suffered for the last 150 years.
All these actions, all these agreements on air, land, and sea, make for peace and for plenty for all people; they are treaties stretching into the distant past and into the freedom of the future, woven into one tapestry of living history memorialized, One Compact of Law which belongs to everyone.

We call upon the High Courts of every jurisdiction to bow to the logic and the history, the signs and the symbols and names which cannot be erased, the noble purposes and intentions that have inspired us for centuries, and the end of the spiritual war which has been based on the delusion of separateness.
Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
The United States of America

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Breaking Big Pharma

 By Anna Von Reitz

You may think that breaking the back of Big Pharma is impossible, and that we will never get sanity back into the health sector of our economy --- but it's not really that difficult.
In fact, most of our problems in this area, as in other areas, derive from not doing our job and self-governing.
Self-governance is something we rarely talk about. It's the exercise of our own volition -- our own mind, our own will -- to rule our own lives, first and foremost.
Secondly, it's the joining together of other self-governing people in State Assemblies to organize and restore our lawful American Government.
Third, it's taking the meaningful actions necessary to control our public employees --- get them back in line and actually providing services according to our priorities -- not theirs.
When it comes to health there isn't a single word about health in the only contracts that we have with either one of the Federal Service Providers, or their State of State franchises. Not a single word about health in any constitution anywhere.
That's right. They have no authority to say one word to any American about their personal health, no "emergency powers" allowing them to mandate masks, no excuses for invading our privacy or shutting our businesses down.
When it comes to vaccines or, to put it bluntly, genetic modification experiments--- it really is: "My body, my choice."
In view of what we have uncovered about the lies and omissions that have been used to undermine our lawful government, evade constitutional obligations, and privateer against innocent Americans---- can you trust "your" government?
Your own government, the one that you staff and control---- yes.
The foreign paid-for employees, no. They've been misdirected for decades and it will take more than a few minutes to get them back on track.
In the same way, can you trust Big Medicine and Big Pharma?
Absolutely not! Since Tricky Dick Nixon enabled health providers to incorporate as for-profit corporations, costs of health care have skyrocketed and actual progress toward the goal --- health for more people for longer --- has tanked.
Health care costs hundreds of times more and sadly, is overall less effective than it was in the 1970's when this craziness began. Millions more American suffer from chronic diseases than ever before, and there is no significant progress on nailing down the causes and the cures.
Why? Go figure. Chronic illness is Big Business. There is no motivation to provide cures and health, when these businesses are being so handsomely rewarded for providing pain and more illness.
On top of this, 106,000 Americans die every year simply because prescription drugs are not safe.
Like the recent situation with my dog, doctors and vets, both, are prescribing drugs and using us as the guinea pigs. Heads you win, tails you lose---- big time.
Taking many of these drugs, much less combining them, is like playing the slots. Yet millions of Americans just like me-- people my age-- trust their doctors and swallow these pills, slather on these creams, and hope for the best without knowing the risks.
If you love yourself, if you love your loved ones--- think about the burgeoning problem we have with Big Pharma and Big Medicine. Both.
Here is just one example. Taking any kind of prescription sleeping pill astronomically increases your risk of death -- over five times more likely to kick the bucket, bite the big one, and pack it away.
Sleeping pills, even when not used often, can harm your health as if you were smoking two packs a day.
I don't know about you, but when I want to sleep, I also want to wake up.
So how to get off this merry-go-round? Remember how we got on it.
Start holding medical corporations of all kinds accountable. Liquidate those that harm the people they are supposed to help.
Reverse Nixon's wrong-headed decision to turn our health services into profit-driven juggernauts with a captive clientele.
Tell the politicians and their hired security services where to get off and stay off.
Study, test, and share alternative health answers from people who don't make their money off of disease or selling drugs.
Join other Americans who are already in high gear ---- go to The Healthy American website and weigh in. Queue up Leigh Dundas' latest rant exposing the vaccine industry and our own mindless acquiescence to quasi-science that makes us, Americans, likely victims of medical malpractice of every kind.
As you join your State Assemblies, realize that these organizations are inherently able to change your world for the better in ways that are only limited by your own awareness and creativity and willingness to work together.
You can break the stranglehold of unaccountable drug manufacturers. You can put common sense back into the health sector of our economy. You can make your own difference. Join your State Assembly, form a Corporate Accountability Committee, and get going.


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Instruction on the Third Sunday After Easter

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

The Church continues to rejoice and praise God for the Resurrection of Christ and sings accordingly at the Introit of this day's Mass:

INTROIT Shout with joy to God all the earth, alleluia: Sing ye a psalm to his name, alleluia. Give glory to his praise, alleluia, allel. allel. (Ps. LXV.) Say unto God: How terrible are thy works, O Lord! In the multitude of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee. Glory & c.

COLLECT O God, who showest the light of Thy truth to such as go astray, that they may return to the way of righteousness, grant that all, who profess the Christian name, may forsake what­ever is contrary to that profession, and closely pursue what is agreeable to it. Through etc.

EPISTLE (I Peter II. 11-19.) Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims to refrain yourselves from carnal desires, which war against the soul, having your conversation good among the Gen­tiles: that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may, by the good works which they shall, behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation. Be, ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to the king as excelling, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of the good: for so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: as free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God. Honor all men: Love the brotherhood: Fear God: Honor the king. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is thanks‑worthy, in Jesus Christ our Lord.

EXPLANATION St. Peter here urges the Christians to regard themselves as strangers and pilgrims upon this earth, looking upon temporal goods only as borrowed things, to which they should not attach their hearts, for death will soon deprive them of all. He then admonishes them as Christians to live in a Christian manner, to edify and lead to truth the Gentiles who hated and calumniated them. This should especially be taken to heart by those Catholics who live among people of a different religion; for they can edify them by the faithful and diligent practice of their holy religion, and by a pure, moral life lead them to the truth; while by lukewarmness and an immoral life, they will only strengthen them in their error, and thus inure the Church. St. Peter also requires the Christians to obey the lawful authority, and therefore, to pay all duties and. taxes faithfully, because it is the will of God who has in: stituted lawful authority. Christ paid the customary tribute for Himself and Peter, (Matt. XVII. 26.) and St. Paul expressly commands that toll and taxes should be paid to whomsoever they are due. (Rom. XIII, 7.) St. Peter finally advises servants to obey their masters whether these are good or bad, and by so doing be agreeable to God who will one day reward them.

ASPIRATION Grant me the grace, O Jesus! to con­sider myself a pilgrim as long as I live and as such to use the temporal goods. Give me patience in adversities, and so strengthen me, that I may willingly obey the lawful authority, though its laws and regulations should come hard and its tribute press upon me.

GOSPEL (John XVI. 16‑22.) At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: A little while, and now you shall not see me: and again a little while, and you shall see me: because I go to the Father. Then some of his disciples said one to another: What is this that he saith to us: A little while, and you shall not see me: and again a little while, and you shall see me, and, because I go to the Father? They said therefore: What is this that he saith, A little while? We know not what he speaketh. And Jesus knew that they had a mind to ask him, and he said to them: Of this do you inquire among yourselves, because I said: A little while, and you shall not see me: and again a little while and you shall see me. Amen, amen I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman, when she is in labor, hath sorrow, because her hour is

come: but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. So also you now indeed have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice: and your joy no man shall take from you.

What is the meaning of Christ's words: A little while and you shall not see me; and again a little while and you shall see me?

St. Chrysostom applies these words, which Christ spoke to His apostles a few hours before His passion, to the time between the death of Jesus and His Resurrection; but St. Augustine, to the time between the Resurrection and the Ascension, and then to the Last judgment at the end of the world, and he adds: "This little while seems long to us living, but ended, we feel how short it is." In affliction we should console ourselves by reflecting, how soon it will terminate, and that it cannot be compared with the future glory, that is awaiting eternally in heaven him who patiently endures.

Why did our Saviour tell His disciples of their future joys and sufferings?

That they might the more easily bear the sufferings that were to come, because we can be prepared for suf­ferings which we know are pending; because He knew that their sufferings would be only slight and momentary in comparison with the everlasting joy which awaited them, like the pains of a woman in giving birth to a child which are great indeed, but short, and soon forgotten by the mother in joy at the birth of the child. "Tell me" says St. Chysostom, "if you were elected king but were obliged to spend the night preceding your entrance into your capital city where you were to be crowned, if you were compelled to pass that night in much discomfort in a stable, would you not joyfully endure it in the expectation of your kingdom? And why should not we, in this valley of tears, willingly live through adversities, in expectation of one day obtaining the kingdom of heaven?"

PETITION Enlighten me, O Holy Spirit! that I may realize that this present life and all its hardships are but slight and momentary, and strengthen me that I may endure patiently the adversities of life in the hope of future heavenly joys.

CONSOLATION IN TRIALS AND ADVERSITIES
You shall lament and weep. (John XVI. 20.)

That Christian is, most foolish who fancies that the happiness of this world consists in honors, wealth, and pleasures, while Christ, the eternal Truth, teaches the contrary, promising eternal happiness to the poor and oppressed, and announcing eternal affliction and lamentation to those rich ones who have their comfort in this world. How

much, then, are those to be pitied who as Christians believe, and yet live as if these truths were not for them, and who think only how they can spend their days in luxury, hoping at the same time to go to heaven where all the saints, even Christ the Son of God Himself, has entered only by crosses and sufferings.

 

PRAYER IN TRIBULATION O good Jesus! who hast revealed, that we can enter heaven only by many tribulations, (Acts XIV. 21 .) hast called them blessed who in this world are sad, oppressed, and persecuted, but patiently suffer, and who hast also taught us, that without the will of Thy Heavenly Father, not one hair of our head can perish: (Luke XXI. 18.) I therefore submit entirely to Thy divine will, and beg Thy grace to endure all adversities for Thy sake, that after this life of misery I may enjoy eternal happiness with Thee in heaven.