By Anna Von Reitz
In 1911, John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil, which was an oil pipeline transfer company --- the shipper, not the producer -- was accused by the U.S. Government and convicted of building a monopoly and abusing that monopoly interest to manipulate accessibility to oil transfer services and manipulate settlement of refinery contracts.
If John D. had skin in the game or wanted to acquire your company for pennies or just didn't like the way you parted your hair, you could be forced to default on an important delivery contract (similar to what JP Morgan did with silver two weeks ago) and lose your spot on the commodity exchange or worse --- all because John D. refused to turn a valve in time, or arbitrarily placed other oil-to-refinery deliveries in front of yours.
He operated the oil transfer niche so ruthlessly and coercively and with such self-interest that the press (which still existed back then) started investigating and exposing Standard Oil as a monopoly.
That, and public outcry, led to key figures in the industry and politics bringing inquiries to the Department of Justice and federal regulators, that finally resulted in enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Standard Oil, like AT&T many decades later, was broken up and sold off to ensure that the monopoly control and manipulation on oil transport services was ended. Life moved on. Oil production and availability boomed, refined oil product prices stabilized, all seemed right in the world.
But John D. wasn't finished. He went on to create and control an even more crucial transfer monopoly, the SWIFT System, that for decades has been virtually the only means to transfer money between banks worldwide.
SWIFT is a transfer monopoly. It's just as illegal and unlawful and coercive and manipulative as the Standard Oil monopoly ever was, yet nobody has ever manned up and put an end to it.
Instead, plans were hatched to create two (2) separate new transfer monopolies, one to transfer actual physical asset monetary products (BRICS) and one to transfer financial (fiat) currency products (QFS).
So now we have two systems, but they are both monopolies. They just monopolize the transfer of two different kinds of "money" products, like having one monopoly that transfers corn and another that transfers soybeans.
Our point is simply this. If it was wrong for Standard Oil to monopolize oil transfers, it's just as wrong for SWIFT to monopolize transfers of fiat money. And it is wrong again to create two new monopolies to transfer different kinds of monetary / financial products.
Monopoly inducement and operation of a monopoly in obstruction of trade are serious crimes that nobody hears anything about, though we are confronted by hard evidence of monopoly influence and monopoly market manipulation at every turn.
It's like all the multiple intelligence agencies flipped the Stupid Switch all at once and all together, and all the Law Enforcement and Security Agencies, like the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service, did too. Forget DOJ, because the Government Corporations own parts of the action.
Every business and person on Earth has been at the mercy of SWIFT for decades, knowingly or unknowingly, and ever-increasingly, SWIFT has been used to play more and more reckless games.
The Night Window Fraud is one of the most popular. A bank member of the SWIFT system sends a transfer from Bank A to Bank B, but SWIFT blocks the transfer midway and holds it overnight. This "micro-blocked" money can be traded on trading platforms, yielding profits off your money while it is in transit.
This little profit-taking sideline has become so popular and lucrative, that SWIFT transfers can be held up for weeks while the colluding banks and the SWIFT System block actual transfer of the funds and effectively set up day trading accounts on money that is supposed to be in transit.
What started out as a hidden opportunistic crime blamed on "regulations" --- one that impacted transfers of five million dollars or more --- quickly expanded to much smaller transfers, down to $5000.
The excuse is that they are "bound by regulatory authorities" --- which is SWIFT-ese for "Joey and Bobby want their cut".
These and similar manipulations are only made possible because SWIFT has no viable competitors.
Even with BRICS and QFS bringing two new systems online, the problem of monopolization of the funds transfer process remains. They will be able to pull all the same tricks and probably more, with funds transfers in asset-based money and fiat financial instruments, both, and the only convincing function of the regulators will be to stand in line to be paid off.
And then came politically-motivated "de-banking" where the banks were allowed to just arbitrarily shut down accounts and keep the change.
This is why we built the Global Family Bank bilateral bank network to serve living people and provide basic old-fashioned banking services under land law. We are here so that coercive monopolies aren't the only game in town.
We gave up on waiting for the Regulators to do their job. We stopped waiting for Law Enforcement to enforce their own laws.
We realized that the people sitting in Congress didn't care about or serve the needs of individual living people.
So we took on that job.
Notice to Principals is Notice to Agents; Notice to Agents is Notice to Principals.
Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
February 3rd 2026
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