Bank Update

By Anna Von Reitz

To understand what  American States and Nations Bank is, you have to understand the difference between commerce and trade.

Trade is business between unincorporated businesses and people.

Commerce is business between incorporated businesses.

Of course, unincorporated businesses can do business with incorporated businesses in the realm of international trade.

American state nationals naturally function on the land jurisdiction and participate in trade. They and their Mom and Pop businesses and even their larger more substantial private businesses all participate in trade.

When they step across the state (national) border they engage in international trade. Strange to tell, when someone from Georgia sells a car to someone in Florida, they are engaged in international trade. This is because each state is a nation.

When Porcupine and Sons, a local unincorporated family-owned sawmill in Three Pines, Georgia, sells a shipment of flat-sawn pine flooring to MacKenzie Restoration Design, Inc. located in Princeton, New Jersey, they are engaged in international trade.

Me selling ten raspberry bushes to my next door neighbor? That is intra-state trade.

Me selling the same ten raspberry bushes to someone in Oregon? That is international trade. (Why?

American States and Nations (Trading) Bank --- Part Two

By Anna Von Reitz

In Part One we discussed the difference between actual money, which must have actual value as a commodity in-and-of-itself and “legal tender”---- stocks, bonds, letters of credit, insurance indemnity receipts, etc.
We also discussed the fact that while the original members of Congress were enabled to act as either Fiduciary Deputies and convene a Continental Congress representing the land jurisdiction government under Article X (a public office), or, act as Representatives and convene a United States Congress to oversee the nineteen operations delegated to the federal government in international jurisdiction (a private corporate office), they in Breach of Trust ceased to operate the land jurisdiction office with the passage of the 19th Amendment to their corporate constitution called “The Constitution of the United States of America”.
Ever since then they have been obliged to operate on legal (fiction) tender and to issue look-alike but significantly altered coinage, because only lawful land jurisdiction governments can issue actual money.

American States and Nations (Trading) Bank -- Part One

By Anna Von Reitz

The question has come at me from multiple sides for many weeks now--- sometimes softly, and sometimes loudly, but the same question voiced in many different ways and even languages: “Our world is in trouble, because of crooks infesting and controlling the monetary system--- what do we do about it?”

Before I can deliver my answer, I have to cover some basics.

First ---- Money versus Legal Tender

The world has used many forms of money, but central to the definition of “money”, it has to have actual value as well as any symbolic value we attach to it.  For example, the United States Silver Dollar (that is, our “United States”, not THEIR look-alike sound-alike version) is defined as a weight of fine silver. That is the actual “value” of it—the weight and the purity of silver. 

In addition, because people around the world trust Americans (not citizens of the United States) to deliver the actual weight of silver in the specified purity, the United States Silver Dollar has also acquired a certain amount of “non-tangible value”.  Given a choice between our United States Silver Dollars and coin from other places, many people would still rather choose our coinage because it is known to be a quality product.

That is what lawful money is---- an actual specifically defined unitary measure of an asset (an ounce of fine silver for example) with a brand name (United States Silver Dollar, for example). 

Money is a commodity like any other. 

A Heart-Breaking Call for Help

by Anna Von Reitz

Yesterday I got word that approximately 6,000 homeowners were hit with gigantic tax bills and --- along with the bill --- eviction notices, out of the blue. 

We are not talking about normal tax bills.  We are talking about tax bills equal to or greater than the entire value of the homes and property---- plop!  Good ole JOSEPH RALPH DOE owes $135,095.00 in taxes on a $100,000.00 home.  Pay up, or else your place will be sold two weeks from now on Saturday.....

Sounds like a nightmare, doesn't it? 

American States and Nations Bank Update

From Anna Von Reitz

I have established the American States and Nations Bank--- actually three banks--- (1) a repository bank, (2) a sovereign international bank and (3) a state bank operated under Article X. These serve different purposes, but overall serve the same end of securing American assets, expediting trade, and promoting the use of lawful money---- basically all asset-based currencies.

My concern is that over half the world either currently is or will soon be trading in currencies backed by precious metals. Only 1% of Americans have any gold, which leaves them unable to trade with all the countries that are or will be using gold. It also concerns me that the abuse of legal tender may lead to problems that leave Mom and Pop and the Kids back home unable to purchase simple things at the grocery store.

Questions about the new proposed bank

Questions about the Bank

Hi Paul,

I have been keeping up with your blog regularly for quite some time now... as well as with the writings of Anna Von Reitz, that you have so diligently promoted.

The work both of you are doing to expedite the educational process for all of us who are interested is genuinely appreciated. 

I am looking forward to the compilation and publishing of the work of the new Living Law Firm that is intended to provide sorely needed guidance toward freedom as they perfect and lay out that information for us. 

You have noted the benefits of using that information to create a database of documents and a roadmap that can be followed by everyone. This will enable the implementation of that accumulated work into documents where and as they are needed in relation to the many various individual cases. I am aware that Anna has expressed some frustration from time to time with the immense load of cases that people want her to assist them with, because they feel ill equipped to handle these difficult, technical, and confusing matters by themselves. She, along with the apparent few knowledgeable enough to be of any significant assistance to her in this effort, have felt the overwhelm of expectations (or at least hopeful anticipation) from all those facing seemingly overpowering court pressures with their individual situations. It is of course obviously unrealistic for so few to do the massive amount of work that so many need to have help with in accomplishing.

For Jed --- More Questions and Answers About American States and Nations Bank

by Anna Von Reitz

I set up the Articles of Organization for the American States and Nations Bank and helped establish its first business office here in Alaska.  I also function as its first Comptroller, a responsibility I will not relinquish until I am sure that the endeavor is properly safeguarded, organized, and in good and honest hands going forward. 

These very simple statements--- Articles of Organization--- condense the nature, purpose, and fundamental organizational structure and accountability of managers within the bank. 

There is, of course, a great deal of work and security development behind all of it that is not immediately apparent, but becomes so upon reflection.  Each of the principal managers, including the Comptroller, have multiple functions at the start that are too complex, ephemeral, and varied to describe in the Articles as any part of the permanent position within the organization. 

American States and Nations Bank Partners With Karatbars, International

by Anna Von Reitz

Everyone who knows anything about me knows that I don't believe in money. I consider all the present systems of currency and exchange that exist to be fundamentally flawed, dishonest, subject to manipulation, idolatry, and fraud. Okay? It makes no sense to pass around I.O.U.s and pretend that they are "money" and it makes no sense, either, to choose one, two, or three commodities like gold, silver, and platinum and pretend that they somehow represent all other commodities including labor. Both systems are bonkers and it is only a matter of choosing between two forms of insanity until everyone throughout the world wakes up, looks at this, and like me says---- WTF???

Meantime, we are stuck with needing some means to exchange goods and services on a national as well as international level. You have the fiat currencies and the banking cartels and governments that support those v. the commodity-backed currencies and the banking cartels and governments that support those, and for various reasons, the line between wavers back and forth. Joe Average and Mom and Pop are stuck in the middle, wondering what to think and where to go. 

I will be honest with everyone. I reviewed the Karatbars program back in 2011 and decided against it. I don't like Multi-Level Marketing schemes to begin with, and the entire Karatbars "niche" was obviously to repackage gold in small, known, trade-ready quantities suitable for making daily purchases---with the repackaging adding between 30-36% to the overall cost of the gold product being advertised. Why not just buy coins of various denominations and sock them away somewhere for a rainy day?