By Anna Von Reitz
Put on your History "Thinking Cap" and revisit the nineteenth century, looking especially at nineteenth century public utility (electricity, etc.) and public transportation (railroads and omnibus development) and mining operations.
Here you will find the concept of "the Company Store" --- a system by which a corporation employed workers, and then also required those workers to buy virtually everything they needed from a store run by the same corporation, thus creating a monopolistic economic micro-climate.
The worker was circumstantially enslaved. The employing corporation controlled everything --- his wages, his hours, his work assignments, and at the end of the day, he could only buy his personal supplies from the Company Store, which also limited his access to commodities to pre-approved brands and pre-approved amounts.
A Chinese immigrant employed by the Great Southern Railroad Corporation as a lineworker in 1906 was limited to buying a certain number of pounds of rice per day --- not with money, but with company issued grocery vouchers --- and only rice of a specific brand, provided by a specific supplier, was available.
No other store would accept the company-issued vouchers.
These micro-climate monopolies were very, very profitable and offered instant coercive powers that would make Genghis Khan blush.
These corporations controlled every aspect of their employees' lives ---and profited from every aspect of their employees' existence.
Like a modern factory farm, the entire "organism" was exploited for profit and managed by coercion -- from birth to death, and in every aspect, people were treated like farm animals, managed, exploited, and in the end, discarded, while the industrialist masterminds became unimaginably wealthy and exercised god-like coercive powers over the masses of people they employed and controlled.
Enter labor unions. Enter wage and hour laws. Enter social reform. Enter free trade and anti-monopoly legislation. Enter "human" rights, quite apart from the natural and unalienable rights of mankind.
For those who remember the past, the present is not hard to recognize as a repeat off all these repugnant nineteenth century practices on steroids, a vastly expanded and generalized form of Robber Baron Capitalism and a situation in which the remedies of the past have failed, because the Perpetrators moved their operations to a different jurisdiction of law in order to evade their social obligations and evoke a different form of law more amenable to their operations.
Today, they run entire countries -- entire domestic economies -- as "company stores", controlling every aspect of consumer choices and consumer access, and profiting all the way to the colluding central banks and back.
There's a reason the CIA calls its parent corporation "the Company" and a reason why the British Crown Corporation is called "the Firm".
This is all grossly unlawful under American Land Law and also illegal under American Admiralty Law, but by controlling the American Bar Association, the Perpetrators of these abundant crimes against humanity and against the interests of National Governments, have contrived to "redefine" things in a manner that benefits them at the expense of the people they are supposed to serve in "good faith".
Because private corporations have been left in control of public functions, a form of upside-down-and-backward administration results. Instead of the Employers telling the Employees what to do, the Employees are calling the shots, determining their own wages and benefits, and organizing everything to best benefit themselves--- regardless of the cost to their Employers and culture at large.
Of course, it benefits them to control everyone and everything, especially as they can charge off the cost of enforcement and surveillance and their whole "command and control" structure to the victims of their schemes. It also benefits them to manage entire national economies as monopolies that are not questioned or fully perceived by the victims.
The most obvious and prevalent monopolies of this kind are enforced as "currency monopolies".
Let us reiterate. Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln's Treasury Secretary, the man who is still lionized by Chase Bank, advocated the creation of the Greenback, a fiat currency. Then, the Treasury created "1040 Bonds" that offered exceptional returns on investment ---and added the requirement that these bonds could only be purchased using Greenbacks.
The Greenbacks were paid for in gold, and then, secondarily, used to purchase the 1040 Bonds. When the victims sought to cash out their highly lucrative 1040 Bonds --- what happened?
General Sherman asked, what did you use to pay for the 1040 bonds?
Greenbacks.
Then why, he asked, would you expect to be paid back in gold?
Gold was exchanged for paper having no actual value, that paper was exchanged for Treasury Bonds, more paper having no actual value, and then the Treasury Bonds were paid out in what? More paper.
The Shell Game succeeded in hiding the "nugget".
The gold was essentially stolen. The investors were deceived. Something of physical value and substance was exchanged for paper, that paper was exchanged for other paper -- Treasury Bonds based on the value of the victim's own labor -- and the investors were duped into paying for everything via their own enslavement.
It's brilliant and also highly criminal.
The same old schtick was dusted off and used to create a variation in much more recent times ---the so-called Petro Dollar.
The Saudis agreed to sell all their oil to the Federal Reserve and therefore only accept Federal Reserve Notes as payment for crude oil; the rest of the oil producers in the Middle East followed suit.
Thus, if you wanted to buy oil, you had to convert your money -- gold and silver -- into Federal Reserve Notes which are? Paper representing the debts of an unknown Municipal corporation calling itself the "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA".
Hmm.... same old story, being forced to convert something of physical substance and actual value into paper, in order to buy something else.
Gold converted into Greenbacks to buy Treasury Bonds, which are redeemed as more Greenbacks.
Gold converted into Federal Reserve Notes to buy oil.
In each case a Third Party Currency Monopoly is established by the Seller of a commodity --- Treasury Bonds in one case, the Saudi Government / OPEC oil in the other case.
This swindle is only made possible because traditionally, the Seller of Goods or Services has the right to demand payment in whatever form they desire.
Thus, the U.S. Treasury demanded payment in Greenbacks, just as the Oil Producers demanded payment in Federal Reserve Notes.
If you get enough Sellers demanding payment in your Third Party currency, it becomes "the Reserve Currency" and this same schtick is then applied to all the other currencies in the world.
The scary thing about this is that all any government has to do is create or own a product, service, or commodity that everyone else needs for whatever reason, and you can set up the same scheme.
The Chinese have moved to corner the world's silver commodity supplies and in days to come will demand payment for value-added products containing silver in specific currencies -- probably BRICs currencies or Yuan.
Just as "the US" demanded payment for value-added petroleum products In Federal Reserve Notes.
Anyone, as China and Russia have noted, can play this game and unjustly enrich themselves, simply by restricting free trade via the exercise of the Seller's privilege to demand payment in a specific currency.
Once everyone gets in on the act, consumers will have to pay for flour in one currency and fuel oil in another, and each one of these artificially created micro-monopolies will take an arbitrary toll on consumers.
Another way to look at it, is that the Third Party Currency Monopolies are a form of Tariff exercised at the currency exchange level; everyone is left paying in actual goods (precious metals) to obtain paper "intellectual property assets" that are the arbitrarily demanded payment sought by the Seller of a commodity or service.
It works the same way whether the Seller is the U.S. Treasury selling Treasury Bonds for Greenbacks, or the Oil Emirates selling crude oil for Federal Reserve Notes or the U.S. selling refined oil products for Federal Reserve Notes or the Chinese selling computer chips and batteries that require silver the Chinese are now hoarding to create a silver supply monopoly they can exploit to ensure the continued dominance of Chinese technology products....
People all over the world are harmed by Third Party Currency Monopolies and all the Company Store Monopolies and commodity supply monopolies and it all boils down to obstruction of free trade based on the Seller's sacrosanct right to demand payment in a form that is acceptable to them.
This "choice" on the part of the Seller has been politicized and weaponized against other countries and against consumers --- and the end result has been the destruction of free trade and fair trade, both.
The League of Nations tried to prevent this outcome by creating conventions that accept International Bills of Exchange without limitation to specific currencies, and many land jurisdiction governments passed laws against monopolies and monopoly inducement, and against obstruction of free trade, generally.
The entire bulk of Federal Title Fifteen attempts to address these issues and to both punish obstruction of trade and support free trade against the influence of monopolies and illegal interlocking trust directorates.
How, you may ask, is it possible that these evils have been recognized for centuries -- literally -- and all these countries have all these laws and conventions and treaties against monopolies and against obstruction of trade, and yet, these crimes only grow and spread?
Failure to enforce.
The Perpetrators of these circumstances switched the jurisdiction in which they are operating and were thus enabled to access a different form of law that allows them to evade their Constitutional obligations and consider enforcement of the Public Law "discretionary".
We are here to tell the British Privateers (and the original Men in Black) that enforcement of the Public Law is not discretionary.
Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
January 9th 2026
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