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Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Brits at the Bottom of Every Dog Pile .... Again and Again and Again

 By Anna Von Reitz

We are not the only ones who early on identified the actual Enemies of Humanity, those who are consistently and always at the bottom of every dog pile, every act of violence, every war-for-profit, every colonialist oppression. 

There was Susan Kokinda (sp?) and Promethean Action zoned in on the same realization.  

We know about Venezuelan oil and why the USA, Inc. needs closer crude oil to maintain its market in refined oil products.  We know that in the short term, Venezuelan oil can make a strategic difference for the Western Hemisphere, which, after all, includes Venezuela.  We know that Venezuelan silver is at least an equal prize in the so-called "resource war".  

But there is something else going on, the quiet dismantling and rearrangement of an offshore banking empire that began prior to the American Civil War, and which has been the means of promoting a criminal mercantile syndicate that has killed millions of people and has aimed at killing billions more.  

If Suzie Q. is right, Trump has just bitten the Big One right in the butt: 


And yes, we do agree with her that Venezuela is a "node" in the web of international piracy, money laundering, drug trafficking, and human trafficking that the British offshore banking cartel supports: 


Quite apart from any commodity-based resource hoarding or monopolization scheme, there's the offshore banking scheme that is the foundation and Mother of Them All.  

If we can penetrate the records in Venezuela, we will shortly have the whole story, front to back, bottom to top, from the World's Fair to the British Throne.  And back again. 

Please stay tuned in and follow the threads covering all aspects of this story.  Stay open, stay alert.  Set your Shinola Sensor on "High" and join the daily Rat Watch 2026 effort! 

Granna

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International Public Notice: What is "the Fourteenth Amendment"?

 By Anna Von Reitz

Most people think that the so-called Fourteenth Amendment is a legitimate amendment to the service contract known as The Constitution of the United States of America issued in 1789.  

This idea is understandable, especially as it was calculated and presented in a manner to give that impression and promote that assumption.  

However, closer examination shows that the "Fourteenth Amendment" was a by-law amendment added to a very similar document also calling itself "The Constitution of The United States of America" that was issued in 1868 as the Articles of Incorporation for a foreign commercial corporation registered in Scotland.  

That is, the "Fourteenth Amendment" was a By-Law Amendment of a corporation charter.  It had nothing to do with the Constitution issued by our government in 1789. 

As a corporate by-law amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment did not require ratification by the States of the Union, and that is exactly what we observe.  The Fourteenth Amendment, like the Sixteenth, was never ratified by the States of the Union. 

We have thus established --- importantly --- what the Fourteenth Amendment was not and is not.  It is not a ratified amendment to the actual Constitution of the United States of America issued in 1789.  It's a different kind of amendment, a by-law amendment, being applied to a very different kind of "constitution" which was never fully disclosed to nor adopted by the American public, and which was never ratified by our States of the Union. 

The Fourteenth Amendment should have disappeared in 1907, together with its Corporate Constitution, when the underlying corporation went bankrupt.  Instead, the constitution of this defunct commercial corporation and its equally defunct fourteenth by-law amendment continued to be circulated and published and took on a life of its own.  

Amid the endless discussions about what the "Fourteenth Amendment" means and requires, people have forgotten to ask what it fundamentally is --- and that is unfortunate, because a by-law amendment to a corporation charter issued to a defunct and bankrupt corporation means little or nothing at all.  

It's a historical artifact.  The only possible legitimate interest in the Fourteenth Amendment is as an example of large-scale criminal commercial fraud in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. 

So, having determined both what the Fourteenth Amendment is and what it is not, we are prepared to make some additional observations. 

It is not possible to "confer" citizenship obligations on people. 

Municipal "citizenship of the United States" is a contractual obligation that the Fourteenth Amendment purportedly created and arbitrarily conferred on freed plantation slaves, using the argument that these same former slaves were "stateless" and in need of a political status that would allow them to stay in this country. 

Everyone born on the land and soil of an American State is automatically a national of that State regardless of race, creed, or color, regardless of land ownership, economic condition, or age.  

The only American Negroes who could be considered "stateless" were those born in geographical areas outside the borders of any State of the Union -- in the Territories, precisely the areas under the control of the British Territorial U.S. Government and Congress, a responsibility of theirs under the Northwest Ordinance. 

Thus, the Fourteenth Amendment was a corporation by-law amendment reflecting a corporate Public Policy allowing the British Territorial U.S. Government to latch onto American Negroes born in the then-Territories and arbitrarily presume that they were Municipal citizens of the United States.  

Why wouldn't they be considered U.S. Citizens, if the U.S. Congress was so concerned about them being "stateless"? 

U.S. Citizens were "winners" in the illegal mercenary conflict known as "the American Civil War", and they were intent on collecting "war" reparations from the losers in the conflict --- the Municipal citizens of the United States who sided with the Southern Confederacy.   

By presuming that freed black people born in the Territories were citizens of the United States, the U.S. Congress could claim they were "criminals" and therefore "slaves" and attach them as chattel property; instead of being private property, the victims became public property.  Not only that, the citizens of the United States could be taxed to pay war reparations, denied trial by jury, denied habeas corpus protection, and be subjected to a foreign legal system that presumed they were guilty until proven innocent. 

Of course, the men charged with enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment -- then as now -- were mostly ignorant workers, taking directions from experts they trusted to interpret the law and determine which form of law applied to individuals. As a result, the presumptions applied to Negroes born in the Territories were also liberally applied to Negroes born in the States, so that as a practical matter, all people of color were disadvantaged by a foreign citizenship obligation imposed on them without their knowledge or consent.  

The Fourteenth Amendment was a By-Law Amendment adopted by a foreign corporation operating under conditions of deceit and criminal self-interest; although it was never ratified by the States of the Union, and never a part of the actual Constitution of the United States of America (1789), it was and is often confused with and misrepresented as an actual Constitutional Amendment.  

No such honor may be accorded the Fourteenth Amendment, which has instead served to undermine and deny the actual protections owed to all Americans and to obfuscate the nature of the actions undertaken by the U.S. Congress in the wake of the civil war --- actions used to promote unlawful political conversion, aggravated identity theft, and deliberate denigration and impersonation with intent to defraud.

Instead of arguing about what the Fourteenth Amendment means, we need to recognize what it is and isn't. 

It is our implacable position that the Fourteenth Amendment was and is evidence of crimes committed against humanity, and especially against people of color; that this historical evidence of crime has no existing source of power or authority, that it was never a Constitutional Amendment applicable to any actual Federal Constitution, never ratified by the States of the Union, and was instead a By-Law Amendment attached to a deceptively named and presented corporation charter for a British Crown entity dba "United States of America" --- Incorporated. 

We are not deceived. 

We prohibit any continued misapplication of the Fourteenth Amendment on our shores and all similar so-called Amendments, such as the Sixteenth Amendment, which were never ratified by the States of the Union and which do not represent valid Amendments to any actual Federal Constitution issued by the American States. 

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

January 5th 2026

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International Public Notice: About "the Monroe Doctrine", Etc.

 By Anna Von Reitz

Notice to Principals is Notice to Agents.  Notice to Agents is Notice to Principals.  

As we have noted, we have an venerable service contract known worldwide as "The Constitution of the United States of America" with the British Territorial company/corporation doing business initially as "the United States of America (a Trading Company)" (1789 -1843) and various iterations of "the United States of America, Incorporated" acting as Successors ever since. 

Recently, we have heard that a new version, the "United States of America, LLC" has been drummed up by Trump and his pals at Palantir and Black Rock, et alia, and may be substituting itself as another Successor.  If so, they are again acting under conditions of deceit and non-disclosure.

These entities are British and/or British Territorial commercial corporations. 
 
Donald J. Trump is President of the British commercial corporation undertaking the constitutional service contract.  
 
The British commercial corporation operates under contract in maritime and Admiralty jurisdiction. 

It operates as a "ship made of paper", with Trump as the captain.  

Hence, Mr. Trump holds the Naval Office of "Commander in Chief". 

Are you a British Subject?  Are you at sea? 

USA, Inc. has delegated powers and authority to exercise those powers on the High Seas and Navigable Inland Waterways.  This is the result of old Naval Treaties that recognized the British Monarch as the Trustee of Americans on the High Seas and Navigable Inland Waterways.  

Briefly, note that in the wake of the War of Independence, we were left with a huge commercial fleet and no navy; we needed protection on the High Seas and Navigable Inland waterways, so we hired the British Navy, then the most formidable naval force on Earth, to defend American merchant shipping.  

A special form of United States Flag known as the Title IV Flag which is defined according to specific proportions was set aside for the use of the USA, Inc. when it is exercising our delegated powers on the High Seas and Navigable Inland Waterways or in the Territories and Possessions of the United States.

This British Crown corporation acting as USA, Inc. or Successors thereof, is a mercantile entity and has no actual powers of government on its own and only strictly limited delegated powers as a services vendor, as stipulated by The Constitution of the United States of America. 

The ownership interest in this corporation is privately held and is most likely highly influenced by the Zionist AIPAC lobby, similar to the undisclosed ownership interests involved in fronting the Federal Reserve, Inc. 

The principal role and responsibility of the USA, Inc. is to protect our commercial shipping, and to regulate interstate commerce, so as to promote the free flow of commerce in these designated jurisdictions. 

It also has a responsibility to develop new "United States" Territories under the Northwest Ordinance, and provides a (supposed to be) temporary government for these territories while under development to become full-fledged States of the Union. 

The USA, Inc. and any Successor to Contract also serves as a more-or-less permanent government for the Commonwealth nation of Puerto Rico, and the other "Insular States" considered to be Possessions of the United States, such as Guam, American Samoa, the American Virgin Islands, Mariana Islands, and so on. 

The USA, Inc., and any Successor to Contract, has no delegated authority of its own to declare martial law within any State of the Union nor to otherwise declare war or to set any policy related to our country and people so as to allow or engender any permanent state of war or mercenary conflict or permit occupation by foreign armed forces, including mercenary forces.

The Insurrection Act of 1792 refers to insurrection against our States of the Union and their governments. The Insurrection Act of 1807 extends those provisions to insurrection against the Territorial Government and its territorial "State" franchises, while the Insurrection Act of 1871 extends these protections to the Municipal Government and its STATE franchises.   

These Insurrection Acts do not provide authority to maintain any quasi-military occupation of this country nor do they allow for imaginary rebellions or rebellions against foreign entities, rulerships, or monarchs

None of these Acts provide for action against the sovereign nation-states employing the federal or federal franchise instrumentalities.    

There is no granted contractual authority for the USA, Inc. or its President to create or defend the so-called "Monroe Doctrine" which is a private policy of a foreign commercial corporation acting at its own behest, not associated with the actual government of this country nor with its own duties owed under The Constitution of the United States of America.  

Our service contract clearly stipulates "defense" of our actual country and borders, and self-evidently does not extend to any corporate "policy" such as the Monroe Doctrine which allows chronic, routine extra-territorial meddling and expense related to the defense of other countries or other ill-defined material interests of the USA, Inc. 

Our country has been incorrectly  charged for the expenses that these Federal Service Vendors incurred in two World Wars and countless lesser conflicts that they willfully participated in with no authorization from the American Government to act on our behalf or otherwise serving to rewrite our meaning of "defense". 

The participation of the Federal Service Vendors in all or any of the wars or conflicts against other countries has taken place without any grant of governmental authority from us and without any obvious connection to the actual defense of this country and without any formal declaration of war from our Congress.    

This morning we are being peppered with correspondence asking our position on President Trump's attacks against locations within Venezuela and reports that "Jesuit" agencies are claiming that this action was undertaken in pursuit of the Monroe Doctrine. 

Trump does have reasonable capacity under Article II to act extraterritorially in pursuit of felons -- which has nothing to do with the Monroe Doctrine, and everything to do with police powers under international law.  

We have not seen the evidence that President Trump acted upon, but it is to be expected that this action in Venezuela is a police action, not a political one.  

Accordingly, it cannot legally or lawfully result in any destruction of Venezuela's sovereign nation status, any occupation of Venezuela, or any theft of Venezuelan resources.  

It certainly does not mean that President Trump is now "President" of Venezuela. 

Police actions inhabit a grey area of international law.  

We are not bound to suffer the abuses and activities of criminals simply because they are foreign; they are subject to prosecution, arrest, and in the case of capital crimes, some crimes, like piracy on the High Seas, are punishable by death.  

This is agreed upon, traditional, customary, and a known hazard undertaken by foreign nationals engaged in such activities. 

Any government supporting such criminal activities also assumes a risk for doing so.  Think: Ukraine.

If the puppet regime in Ukraine hadn't hosted and provided safe harbor for every repugnant criminal activity on Earth from money laundering and human trafficking to organ harvesting and biowarfare research, there would have been no Ukrainian war with Russia.  

Russia might have exercised its treaty provisions and acted to protect ethnic Russian populations in Ukraine; it might have taken advantage of other treaty positions to promote a Russian-Crimean government, but there would have been no reason for war.  

International law and diplomacy were sufficient to resolve the treaty concerns.  It was the brazen and accelerating criminality being fostered by Zelensky's government, profiting itself by offering transnational crime syndicates free reign and room and board, that finally prompted Russian action. 

Smuggling dangerous drugs (and precursor chemicals used to make these dangerous drugs) into our country --- drugs that cause an estimated 100,000 deaths per year --- are capital crimes precisely because this contraband causes death on such a scale. 

For years now, President. Maduro has been associated with befriending both home-grown Venezuelan drug syndicates and larger scale regional cartel operations acting within Venezuela.  These unregulated substances wind up on American streets and kill American kids, undermine our workforce, and harm our productivity.

The sale of these illicit drugs nets billions of dollars in dark revenue per year, but the losses to our country extend beyond the monetary costs, impacting lives, employment, and GDP.  For every single person addicted to these drugs, 3.5 more people are adversely impacted, and for every billion dollars wasted on illegal opiates and synthetic drugs, 2.8 billion more gets siphoned out of our economy. 

There's a reason that the Chinese called their fight with Britain over Heroin imports "The Opium War".  

We are facing a similar "war" with the same colonialist powers --- only it's not just Opium or barbiturate drugs anymore; now it is a whole vast range of Cookbook and Designer Drugs, that cost thousands of lives every year, and untold financial and social losses and suffering.

Until we see the evidence that Mr. Trump acted upon, we are withholding judgement concerning the action undertaken against targets inside Venezuela.  

Prevention of civilian deaths, both American and Venezuelan, is the ultimate goal of armed police actions, and without the existence of a clandestine trade in deadly substances, there would be no need for and perhaps more to the point, no excuse for such actions.  

Actions taken to restrain international cross-border trade in dangerous substances should not be mistaken for action under the Monroe Doctrine and should be recognized as international police action, even when those police actions are undertaken by what appear to be military forces. 

Please remember that our military was deceitfully and secretly converted into a private mercenary force during the tenure of Abraham Lincoln and has remained in that status until now, when we are making efforts to one-by-one lawfully convert military personnel back to their natural political status and standing as members of an honorable national military service.  

The Monroe Doctrine has a far more fluid and insidious agenda quite apart from conventional international law enforcement, and while it may appear similar to police action under international law, the Monroe Doctrine is a public policy of an incorporated entity, one designed to promote and assert armed protection of "American" business interests in foreign countries, but actually being extended to British Crown Colonial interests, instead. 

When you say "American" you have to be clear about "which America" you are talking about.  

It is not in the interests of our government to promote any form of colonialism, nor to pay for its evils and upkeep.  

We have never supported colonial enterprises and do not support peonage, enslavement, press-ganging or forced conscription or any of the other unlawful, illegal, and immoral practices that have been employed by the British Crown to subject people and entire countries via a process of aggravated identity theft.

The British Empire did not sincerely forsake its ill-gotten colonial gains and pursuit of colonialist enterprises; it acted in Bad Faith and simply changed jurisdictions and began operating in the international jurisdiction of the sea instead of operating on the land. It went from the Commonwealth form of colonialism to the much more violent and insidious Territorial form of colonialism.  

While outwardly conforming to the conventions outlawing both peonage and slavery brought forward by the League of Nations and passed as international law in 1926, the British Crown sought to evade these obligations by redefining the playing field, and using incorporated franchises as a means to impersonate entire countries and subject them and their people to foreign forms of law that were never meant to be applied to living men and actual countries. 

This gross breach of trust and violation of their service contracts led to investigation by the American Government and their conviction by our Courts of Record in 2014.  

With the admission by the Roman Curia that legal fictions have no standing related to living people and actual countries, and that the law of corporations does not apply to us, the reign of terror inflicted by the British Empire and its Continental European adjuncts, is coming to an end. 

We can all say good-bye to claims and obligations based on "enfranchisement" and  "registration",  and claims against foreign public trusts established "in our names", and all similar misrepresentations and impersonations promoted by the Masters of Deceit.  

We can also say good-bye to the Monroe Doctrine, the Fourteenth Amendment, the Sixteenth Amendment, and all the other arbitrary, unilateral, and unratified pretensions foisted off on us all -- not just Americans.  

People worldwide have suffered from the plague of deceit and lawlessness unleashed by the European monarchies beginning in earnest in the 1860's.  

By these various "legal" but unlawful devices and inaccessible remedies purportedly legalizing institutional criminality, they have continued to practice peonage and enslavement, genocide and illegal conscription, press-ganging, and other crimes against humanity -- on paper; unfortunately, they have then also used their "pretend world" on paper as an excuse to justify enforcement of their fantasies on living men and women and actual resources. 

The result is a world devolved to the level of Dark Age Robber Barons, hiring and misdirecting uniformed thugs to promote and protect their own corporate interests--- and using the public purse to do it, against the Public Interest.  

This form of renegade non-consensual government which we have dubbed "Corporate Feudalism" makes a practice of misrepresenting living people as corporation franchises, and waging "war" against franchises belonging to other corporations.  Although this might seem harmless, considering that these are all legal fiction entities without actual substance, the line between imagination and reality gets blurred and actual people and property interests are harmed.  

We are pleased to announce that the American Government, our government, is back in the saddle. The Law of the Land is being enforced for the first time in over a century and a half.  

Today, we have received word that the U.S. Supreme Court has finally overturned all gun permits nationwide.  They are echoing principles of jurisprudence set down more than two centuries ago, affirming that a right cannot be converted into a privilege and that resulting privilege then be used to produce licensing revenues.  

Two centuries, and the court is finally backing the established jurisprudence on the subject.  Be still our hearts. 

We may assume that the same provisions apply to the right to travel, which has been unlawfully converted into a privilege to drive and obtain private commercial profits from the use of public roads --- and then been licensed and misapplied to millions of Americans who never voluntarily engaged in any form of commerce at all --- much less obtained any profit from commercial activities. 

The courts that have participated in these acts of personage and barratry are now compelled to justify their activities and herein and elsewhere are placed under demand to Cease and Desist enforcement of licenses misapplied to occupations of common right, common activities such as travel for non-commercial purposes, and exercise of common public property rights, such as use of street side and public parking. 

These same corporate administrative tribunals are similarly enjoined from enforcing claims of property tax, federal income tax, franchise tax, gas tax, and utility tax; because of the widespread aggravated identity theft that has occurred and the temptation to secure tax revenues from people who are tax exempt, all commercial and asset claims and public trust interests asserted by members of the International Bar Association and American Bar Association are self-interested, in conflict of interest, suspect and disallowed any benefit of presumed contract based on registrations, enrollments, promissory notes, prior compliance, and similar Third Party, undisclosed, and unstated contracts, identities, and obligations seemingly conferred by legislative action on British Subjects and Municipal citizens of the United States.  

Misapplication of these "laws" and misidentification of Americans as persons subject to these "laws" is at an end. 

Because of the widespread misrepresentation of Americans as British Subjects and resulting "title taking" over their lands and homes and other assets to be included as chattel administered by and held in British Territorial Trusts, most especially, the "Northern Trust",  and Roman Municipal TRUSTS, ;ike the US TRUST, these courts have operated in gross and undisclosed conflict of interest.  

The "ownership" of the bulk of the Fortune 500 Companies has been purloined from American soldiers and sailors and their progeny using the False Presumption that they are British Subjects. 

The "ownership" of most of the land assets of this country has been purloined in the same way.  Our silver, our gold, all our substantive and material assets have been purloined, by the same guilty parties who owe us "good faith service" instead. 

The people responsible of managing the purloined assets for the British Crown are members of the American Bar Association and/or International Bar Association, and they have sat in judgement over the actual American owners using the impersonation of these Americans as British Subjects as a device to coerce, control, and impose non-consensual debt obligations.

All this has been accomplished under color of law and all without telling the Americans one word about any of this "convenient accommodation" and "special relationship".  

They have acted in gross, inexcusable, criminal self-interest and in conflict of interest. They have robbed their friends and neighbors.  They have betrayed the most basic precepts of justice, human decency, and contractual obligation.  They have made "war" against their employers and conscripted and press-ganged their employer's sons and daughters and used them as cheap mercenaries under pretense of honorable military service.  

These False Friends and Disloyal Allies have grossly misrepresented this country and its people, and deliberately hid their own identities and roles so as to unjustly enrich themselves and their "Prince" or should we say, "Arch-Treasurer"? 

The Monroe Doctrine may be the doctrine of their foreign British Crown corporation and part of its public policies as well; none of that has anything to do with America or Americans; none of it is suggested by The Constitution of the United States of America nor by any other treaty or contractual service agreement we have with them. 

We do not accept any cost associated with their application of their Monroe Doctrine; we have no such doctrine amounting to a license to engage in eternal meddling and coercion and mercenary "war".  This doctrinal license to bully is not what America stands for, not what America contractually agreed to, and we can safely say, not anything that America wishes to be associated with.  

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

January 5th 2025

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Sunday, January 4, 2026

Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus


Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

(Sunday after the Octave of the Nativity or January 2)

Who instituted this festival?

Pope Innocent XIII in the year 1721 commanded that the most Holy Name of Jesus should be solemnly honored throughout the Catholic world. St. Bernard, with the sanction of the Apostolic See, had established the solemn veneration of this most Holy Name in his order a few centuries before.

In the Introit of this day's Mass, the Church proclaims the glory of this name:

INTROIT In the name of Jesus let every knee bow of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth; and let every tongue confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father (Phil. 2:10-11). O Lord our Lord, how wonderful is thy name in the whole earth! (Ps. 8:2). 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, Who didst ordain Thine only-begotten Son to be the Savior of mankind, and didst command that he should be called Jesus: mercifully grant that we may enjoy in heaven the blessed vision of him whose holy name we venerate upon earth. 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 (Acts 4:8-12). In those days, Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said: Ye princes of the people and ancients, hear: If we this day are examined concerning the good deed done to the infirm man, by what means he hath been made whole, be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God hath raised from the dead, even by him this man standeth here before you whole. This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders; which is become the head of the corner: neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.

EXPLANATION This Epistle speaks of the omnipotent power of the name of Jesus, through which miracles are not only performed, but also on which our salvation depends. Jesus alone can give us redemption and happiness; He alone under heaven has been given to man by God, that through Him happiness could be reached; He alone can break the fetters of error and sin in which all mankind lies captured. He alone is the truth, He alone, as the Son of God, has power to render perfect satisfaction for sin, and to make us truly good; and the good alone can be saved. Cling, therefore, ever faithfully and firmly to Jesus, and depart not from Him; without Him you can accomplish nothing; with Him, through Him, you can accomplish all things.

[For the GOSPEL of this day, see the gospel of New Year's day.]

GOSPEL (Lk. 2:21). At that time, after eight days were accomplished that the child should be circumcised, his name was called Jesus, which was called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

REMARKS OF ST. BERNARD ON THE SWEET NAME OF JESUS

The sweet name of Jesus produces in us holy thoughts, fills the soul with noble sentiments, strengthens virtue, begets good works, and nourishes pure affections. All spiritual food leaves the soul dry, if it contain not that penetrating oil, the name Jesus. When you take your pen, write the name Jesus: if you write books, let the name of Jesus be contained in them, else they will possess no charm or attraction for me; you may speak, or you may reply, but if the name of Jesus sounds not from your lips, you are without unction and without charm. Jesus is honey in our mouth, light in our eyes, a flame in our heart. This name is the cure for all diseases of the soul. Are you troubled? think but of Jesus, speak but the name of Jesus, the clouds disperse, and peace descends anew from heaven. Have you fallen into sin? so that you fear death? invoke the name of Jesus, and you will soon feel life returning. No obduracy of the soul, no weakness, no coldness of heart can resist this holy name; there is no heart which will not soften and open in tears at this holy name. Are you surrounded by sorrow and danger? invoke the name of Jesus, and your fears will vanish. Never yet was human being in urgent need, and on the point of perishing, who invoked this help-giving name, and was not powerfully sustained. It was given us for the cure of all our ills; to soften the impetuosity of anger, to quench the fire of concupiscence, to conquer pride, to mitigate the pain of our wounds, to overcome the thirst of avarice, to quiet sensual passions, and the desires of low pleasures. If we call to our minds the name of Jesus, it brings before us His most meek and humble heart, and gives us a new knowledge of His most loving and tender compassion. The name of Jesus is the purest, and holiest, the noblest and most indulgent of names, the name of all blessings and of all virtues; it is the name of the God-Man, of sanctity itself. To think of Jesus is to think of the great, infinite God Who, having given us His life as an example, has also bestowed the necessary understanding, energy and assistance to enable us to follow and imitate Him, in our thoughts, inclinations, words and actions. If the name of Jesus reaches the depths of our heart, it leaves heavenly virtue there. We say, therefore, with our great master, St. Paul the Apostle: If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema (I Cor. 16:22).

Saturday, January 3, 2026

Letter to President Ibrahim Traore

 By Anna Von Reitz

We have listened with great interest and appreciation to the news reaching us from Burkina Faso.  The integrity of your words and actions speak for themselves. So does your love for your country and your continent. 

We are writing today to draw your attention to something important -- at least, from our standpoint. 

In a newscast explaining the takedown of a US forward base and purported anti-terrorist operation called "Sahel Shield" which turned out to be a CIA-style hostile intelligence and surveillance program that you dismantled, we noted that you kept identifying this deceitful operation as "American".  

But it was not American.  It was British.  And it wasn't a military operation.  It was a mercenary operation.  

If you stop and think about it, you will know that the actual Americans fought colonialism for eight long years in an effort to get rid of the British Empire --- England, Great Britain, the actual Colonial Power that held America in bondage prior to the War of Independence. 

With your intimate familiarity with the European Colonialists and their activities in Africa, it will be easy for you to recognize how the British Colonialists snuck back into power in this country and took by guile and deceit what they could not take by force of arms. 

Ever since the so-called American Civil War they have been silently using America as a puppet government.  They converted our lawful military into a private mercenary service.  They pretended that our actual government was "missing, in interregnum" while suppressing it ---and murdering or buying off the only people who knew better. 

They substituted their British Territorial commercial corporation "President" for our President.  They substituted their "state of state" organizations for our American State of State organizations.  They substituted their personnel for our people.  And for 160 years, they have pretended that their Tories (short for British Territorial Citizens) were Americans --- and they look like Americans.  They sound like Americans.  They were born in American towns, went to American schools.  

But they are British Subjects, not Americans. 

They have stripped our country of its natural resources and traded our markets and industries for their advantage; they have used our sons and daughters as cheap mercenaries for hire without telling them their true status.  They have unlawfully converted the political status of our people and impersonated us as if we were British Subjects.  They have evaded their obligations under treaties and contracts.  They have rampaged all over this planet and engaged in war-for-profit "in our names". 

And that is what we wish to address with you, President Traore. 

It was never the American Government engaging in these immoral and unlawful activities. It was the British Territorial "United States Government" masquerading as the American Government -- Federal Service Vendors who long ago commandeered our military and our resources.  It was "the US", not "the Americans". 

Please stop saying that Sahel Shield was an "American" operation. Please make the distinction between "America" and "the US", because if you don't --- they win.  They successfully avoid accountability for their thievery and violence.  They make everyone think it was "the Americans" instead of the actual culprits, the British.

Please understand.  The actual Americans have been the victims of Colonialism -- just as your people have been victims of Colonialism. While you have suffered under the French, we have suffered under the British.  Despite all their protestations and pretensions, the Europeans never gave up colonialism -- they simply changed jurisdictions and kept right on promoting the same abuses. 

Now, we finally know what happened to our country and our government. We share this with you and with the world, so that you, too, know the truth and are able to see things clearly --- able to know who the Enemies are --- and aren't. 

It's not the Americans, who have been the victims of colonialism, both overtly and covertly.  It's the same Enemies of humanity, the same purveyors of peonage and enslavement, the same colonialist powers that always were and still are --- the European Monarchies. The Brits.  The French.  The Belgians. 

The Brits have been using and abusing us, the Americans, like sock puppets, without our knowledge, without our consent, ever since the illegal mercenary conflict known as the American Civil War. 

You may well ask --- how is this possible? 

Precisely for the same reasons we have described here.  They look like Americans, talk like Americans, are born in America, are educated in American schools -- the British Territorial U.S. Citizens are virtually identical to Americans in all ways, except that they are British Subjects.  

Those British Subjects have faked everyone out, even their American counterparts, but we are no longer deceived, and neither should you be deceived.  

Most sincerely, 

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

January 2nd 2025

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