What Is Important About December 5th?

By Anna Von Reitz

It's the anniversary of the murder of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Let's begin with a few facts: the Ancient Religion that the bankers follow is not Judaism.  We call it Satanism in the modern day, but Satan is another name for earlier anti-deities of the male gender, and what it all comes down to is that these people worship duality and use sex as a sacrament. 

As a result, there is a male and a female, a positive and a negative, to everything they do-- and they actually believe that if things get out of balance things will fall apart into utter chaos and destruction.  This is also the root of their fascination with accounting and accounting ledgers and keeping everything balanced at all times.

But what happens when everything becomes incredibly unbalanced? 

Then we have a self-fulfilling prophecy, because the men who have created the Mess wanted to bring about utter chaos and destruction.  If they can't rule the world, they want to destroy it.

The IMF, which has functioned as "The U.S. Department of the Treasury" since 1946, owes us $190 Trillion USD, which it can't pay. 

This is essentially because the Federal Reserve didn't pay anyone for anything for almost a hundred years, just operated on I.O.U.s and at the end of the day, declared bankruptcy and skipped town.

The IMF let them get away with this behavior because they thought that, hey,  the Americans have been asleep for 150 years--- what's the chances of them ever waking up again?

The IMF "collected the debt" and smiled, thinking that at the end of the day, the Priority Creditors (the good old US of A) would never show up and never claim back its assets.

At that point, all our wealth and assets and everything that is owed to us would become fair game for the Secondary Creditors --- as "abandoned assets"----and, "abandoned debts".  

They were thinking of most of that $190T as a credit for them, and that they could shuffle off another round of debt for our weary shoulders to bear as "U.S. Citizens" --- but now, it turns out to be their debt instead.  Oh, my!

On December 1, the IMF defaulted on what it owes.  Three days grace time....December 2, December 3, December 4..... and on December 5, it becomes official.  The Municipal Treasury is defunct.  And now the Territorial Treasury, too, goes the way of the Dodo.

Conveniently, most of the "U.S. Government" will be shut down on December 5th, for the funeral of GHW Bush. 

And the only government left standing is The United States of America [Unincorporated].

So then they tried to take us out and leave themselves an open gate and claims in hand.

"Oh?  There is still an American Government?  We will take care of that....just use the new Resonance Weapons to start a nice little earthquake in Big Lake, Alaska...."

They made the common mistake of thinking that my husband and I are the American Government. 

It hasn't quite come home to them yet that every man and every woman born on our soil is a sovereign in their own right, all heirs to our claims, all enabled to come forward in exactly the same way.

A friend of mine has a tag-line at the end of all his emails: "They Lost When They Killed LaVoy Finicum". 

That's what the goons in Switzerland, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg, the P2 Freemasons and the Scottish Templars, don't quite understand yet.

They could kill James Belcher. They could kill me, too.  They could succeed in their mad attempt to obliterate Big Lake, Alaska.  Just like the cowards set their ambush and swaggered around and murdered LaVoy Finicum using undeclared commercial mercenaries and ignorant local police all operating under color of law....

But they will still be facing 350 million sovereign Priority Creditors who are fed up with all the legal eagle fraud and usurping "government services providers".  They will still be under the watchful eyes of the rest of the world and billions of other people who are fed up and clued in now.

Just remember that everything and anything bad that results after December 5th is being brought to you by the French Nazi UN CORP and its municipal corporations and expedited by their endlessly corrupt UNITED KINGDOM affiliates.  And by the British Monarchs who owe their survival through two World Wars to you. 

Remember that you are the victims of fraud and fraud has no statute of limitation. 

Remember that your servants are not meant to be your masters, and that you are suffering as a result of people who take their paychecks from your pockets.

Most of all, remember who you are: the sons and daughters of the Living God, Americans --- not "U.S. Citizens". 

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News For Knotheads

By Anna Von Reitz

Now the rumor is circulating that "White Hats" were responsible for the attack on Big Lake, apparently yet another rumor started by Kent Dunn.

Lets make this very, very clear--- anyone who attacks American soil is not a White Hat.  They are traitors guilty of treason against this country and its people. 

Anyone stupid enough to mistake me and my work as that of a cabal agent can't read "the fruits" and tell what kind of tree I am.  And hasn't bothered to read my book, Disclosure 101, either.

If you are too clueless to tell the difference between an apple and a fig, I suppose it is possible to think that GHW was a good guy, and not understand why he was nicknamed after his favorite plant-- the poppy.

There is a long history of Americans being misled by con artists and it would not surprise me if some dull blades have been co-opted and misled to attack their own soil and their own people. 

If there are such Americans involved, they are being set up to be the Fall Guys and they need to high tail it.

I have it on very good authority that the attack was by the US NAVY and was allowed by the USAF, which means it was orchestrated by the Uber-Cabal operating out of Switzerland and Belgium.

Not some ignorant wannabe White Hats.

Please note: all actual White Hats have sense enough to recognize it when they are being co-opted and also know better than to attack their own country.

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Why Can't President Trump Stop This?

By Anna Von Reitz

The short answer--- (1) Mr. Trump is presently an employee of the Queen who is illegally continuing to exercise our own Delegated Power against us, even after her own actions have invalidated any claim she has to do so; (2) the US NAVY which planned and directed the attack has always been under the control of British affiliates and collaborators in Switzerland and Belgium -- so now you begin to see how this connects-- the British have con...trol of Mr. Trump and the British protect their MUNICIPAL collaborators; (3) the USAF that allowed the attack is also under control of the Swiss-Belgain affiliates, so same story there, though Trump could remove the recently appointed Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Commander for his part in this inglorious affair.

In a sane world, employees who attack their employers are considered criminals and are arrested as such. We are waiting to see if the world is sane or not.

The rest of the answer that as "President" of the United States Mr. Trump is just a corporate CEO running two big bankruptcies.

To my knowledge, he has never accepted our offer to step into his Public and Bonded Office as The President of The United States of America --- for whatever reasons.

As President of the United States, he is a "Level 18 Administrator" --- there are ten (10) higher levels in the "International Government" which has crept in and claimed to be "Majestic", while in fact being unauthorized and criminal.

As the lawful Fiduciary for The United States of America and the unincorporated World Trust, I am a Level 28 Principal and 1:1:1 Administrator.

I am lawfully entitled to settle all this nonsense. If the usurpers can be persuaded to step aside and let me do my job, we can all get through this with a minimum of harm and a great deal of good being done.

Until they do, they will continue to run amok and cause trouble because they are not mentally or emotionally mature enough to understand the situation they are in. Think: two year-olds with hammers.

We will continue to take their "hammers" away from them and muffle their blows and ride herd and thwart them every step of the way until they wind down like two year-olds at the end of a busy day.
Our point isn't to hurt them. Our point is to take the hammer(s) away and prevent them from doing more damage.

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Disaster Update Day Four

By Anna Von Reitz

The mopping up and evaluation continues apace.

The gas company got to the Anchorage office yesterday we got the gas turned back on, only to discover that the furnace had suffered a fried electrical relay and was inoperable despite having gas.  Okay, so.... several hours later, we managed to get our furnace expert to replace that and voila!  One expensive and unexpected repair later, we have gas heat and hot water!

This is a cause for much celebrating, because the promised ice storm hit last night and both the woodpiles and the pathways to and from are like ice skating rinks this morning. 

Anchorage and Mat-Su Valley (where I normally live) schools are closed for the week with no set date for reopening. 

The U.S. Mail Service is limping along as best it can, with many problems--- some locations closed, some storage and routing stations out of commission and others overloaded. The Christmas rush was just starting for them, too, so mail is backed up. 

The Big Lake Post Office is closed for repairs with no stated date for reopening, so suggest that all mail and donations be re-routed to our Anchorage location:

Anna Maria Riezinger

1336 Staubbach Circle

Anchorage, Alaska 99508

Fed Ex and UPS are also limping along as best they can.

Some bank and credit union locations are open and others not, but the computer systems linking them and the ATMs are functioning, so, its still possible to get credit and cash transfers through to members in our group who live in outlying areas.

The only businesses open in Big Lake, according to my son, are one liquor store and one gas station --- the gas station that installed its own emergency generators at my prompting some years ago.

This would be a good point for everyone to make with their local gas station businesses.  The cost of a generator and extra gas storage tank is pretty minimal compared to losing pumping capacity during an emergency and during the clean up thereafter. 

The food store in Big Lake remains closed along with other mini-mall and separate location businesses with no stated date for reopening.  Thankfully, one of the Three Bears grocery stores 3.5 miles from us is rumored to have reopened, so at least people can get the basics: food and gas to get there.

Our own toll has increased a bit. 

One of our members has been having heart palpitations since the earthquake, went to the hospital, and is now facing bypass surgery. All the excitement pushed him over the edge.  It also destroyed his "other" job that was keeping him and his family afloat--he was working construction and the building he was working on was only halfway up.  It collapsed during the quake and the owners have called it a day for now.  So, he is facing heart surgery and unemployment, both at once.  To top it off, I just got word that his wife took a fall (thanks to the ice storm)and is in an ambulance on her way to the hospital -- feared broken hip and ribs from fall off an ice covered second story porch.

One of our members was away on a business trip when all this happened and his house lost heat long enough for pipes to burst.  The gas got turned back on this morning and we got control of the water, but the carpeting is soaked and ruined and all has to be removed to prevent more damage to the subfloor and basement.

An attached car port collapsed on Saturday as a result of aftershocks and continued shifting of the earth---and crushed a car which was the only transportation for a family of four. We have arranged a loaner and jacked up the car port roof on new supports and hope that their disaster insurance will pay off the car loss. No word on that yet.

Otherwise, we continue to dig out and do what we can to moderate the suffering.  Thanks to our remote location it is hard to get help even to Anchorage.

Thank goodness that we had a "Prepper" mindset long before this and had prepared by having multiple means and fuels to keep houses heated and had plenty of food set aside, clean water provided for, and were able to get through this (and get others through this) in fairly good shape.

If a primary system failed we had two back-ups ready to go in most locations. We dropped back into 19th century mode, got out our hand-cranked egg beaters and sailed on.

Damn those Tin Hats, eh?

The truly disturbing part is to consider --- how many people in America are prepared to do the same?

What if the Vermin had succeeded in their plan to "unzip" the West Coast fault zone? 

California? Oregon? Washington State?  Are you all paying attention? 

They also meant to cause a tsunami that would have wiped out most of Hawaii and caused extension damage to Japan, coastal China, Russia, New Zealand....Australia.... ?

Are you folks prepared?  Do you know who to turn to and where to go? Have you got your food and water and heat plans well-established?  Reviewed your First Aid?  Have your medicine chest and wound supplies and disinfectants and drugs topped off? 

How about hand-cranked and/or solar powered radios?  Plenty of extra batteries and storage containers?  Blankets including "Space blankets"? 

Provisions for domestic animals and pets?  Extra gasoline? Lots of garbage bags including the big contractor garbage bags? Alternative stoves, grills, etc., so you can heat water and cook your food? 

Nobody in our society likes to think about death and disaster, but we need to.

There are elements out there in the world now that are crazier than bat-shit, and you'd better believe it.  And you had also better believe that "the government" is in no shape or mindset to help you, either.

When the Miller's Reach Wildfire took out most of our little town in 1996, FEMA didn't show up for three weeks.  And when they did, it was only to go around with flip-charts and "assess damages". 

Be aware that when something like this happens, you are going to be on your own, except for the help of local police and firefighters and friends and neighbors and family near and far. 

When the fire hit, the Salvation Army showed up and dug in for the duration.  The Mormons and the Mennonites came.  Catholic Social Services arrived and the Baptists did what they could.  And that was it, folks.

More than 400 buildings destroyed in a town with a year round population of 2500, and no grand action by FEMA or the National Guard or any of these other high-paid "government" organizations was taken. 

Ground zero for this earthquake was centered a block and a half from my home in Big Lake, Alaska.  Big Lake is not on a fault zone.  We saw the "Green Beam".  We know who did this. 

And if "friendlies" had not intervened, most of South Central Alaska would now be entombed as a glorious monument to GHW Bush, and earthquakes and volcano cores and tsunamis would have taken out millions of people throughout the Pacific Rim.

Think about that. That's how insane and petty and warped these people really are, and that is how stupid and irresponsible and reckless and self-serving some parts of the military command structure can be. 

Best stop caring about what the clueless neighbors think and start preparing.

Better safe than sorry.

The thoroughly modern neighbors will show up on your doorstep looking very sheepish indeed, if and when the axes fall on your neighborhood. 

They will remember laughing at you and you will remember them laughing at you, and then it will be up to you whether or not you take them in, and whether or not you included enough supplies to share when you were scurrying around like the Country Mouse and foregoing your vacation cruises because you had the foresight to spend your money on "other things".

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The Final Straw?

By Anna Von Reitz

The attack on Big Lake was only 10% of what they planned to deliver. The other 90% of the strike was deflected in the Upper Atmosphere and harmlessly jettisoned into space.

Their intention was to make a new Seal out of Anchorage and Big Lake and Wasilla and most of South Central Alaska, in retribution for our work removing the Seventh Seal, and at the same time, trigger a humongous seismic event, one that would open up the entire West Coast system of fault lines like a zipper. 

But it didn't work out. Instead, they've shown their hand. And we know who did this craven attack. 

Several weeks ago the perpetrators contacted me and told me that their plan was to leave only 144,000 people alive on the planet. Of course, I was invited to be one of the "lucky" survivors.

I told them that the Sirian Capture Fleet has agreed to extend its mission here and to stay until full deployment of the new planetary Guardians. I also told them that the Mixed Array Fleet of the Devic Kingdoms under King Bryan Brychan is deployed and ready to engage and prevent any such murderous rampages by the "gods". I suggested, mildly enough, that they just continue on their way.

My Visitor looked discomfited and amazed. Earth has been their playground and cat box for thousands of years. They were looking forward to killing off almost all of seven billion people and harvesting all that "anomalous" energy.

Instead, they have had two big setbacks in as many weeks. First, their plan to "Open the Gates of Hell" on Long Island fell through, and now this. 

Being liars themselves, they assume everyone else is lying, too.

I wonder when it is going to occur to them that I told them the truth? 

And that the third attempt to create misery, death, and destruction isn't always "a charm"?

Sometimes it's just the Final Straw.

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Disaster Update

By Anna Von Reitz

All the evidence here is continuing to unfold.

Ground Zero of the 7.0 Earthquake that started "mysteriously" in my hometown of Big Lake, Alaska, was a vacant lot approximately a block and a half from my house. 

The HAARP-type resonance technology used is typically activated by the Navy which has mobile units on board its ships and submarines, but would also have to be allowed by the ground-based Air Force counter-measure units.

This technology leaves a characteristic "energy imprint" --- and as one Witness put it, "The Earth Just Rang Like a Bell and We Don't Know Why".

Well, we do know why.  And we do know who is responsible.

The energy imprint and the compression wave that followed are all consistent with a Resonance Energy Weapon attack on a tiny, defenseless, unincorporated hamlet in the middle of Alaska. 

The plates in my kitchen cabinets didn't fall or slide out onto the floor as a result of shaking and sliding that occurs in a normal earthquake.  Instead, whole stacks of plates broke in half as a result of a Karate Chop-like force hitting them at 90 degree angles to the progress of the shock wave.

To the Bullies and Bad Men who did this --- you are all a bunch of cowards and criminals who deserve to be removed from this planet.

I am waiting for the day when the "Tares" are swept away. 

Any member of the U.S. Military involved in this --- you have committed treason against this country and its people. 

Any member of the UN "Peacekeeping Forces" involved in this --- you have committed international crime and violated the ENMOD Treaty: Big Lake is not a "domestic target".  And neither are we.

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Parting Shot From "Poppy" Bush and Threats from the Treasury

By Anna Von Reitz

I have a friend in MI6 -- a man I have known more than forty years. He is a loyal Brit, despite being aware of the many failings of his government. We have a grumpy fondness for each other-- trade bad puns, commiserate, and observe the world on a purely social basis.

He got in contact with me this morning and unequivocally stated that the "strike" on Big Lake was a "parting shot" in honor of "Poppy Bush" ---George Herbert Walker Bush, who was "executed" that same day by lethal injection "for his part" in 911 and many, many other crimes.

If so, that would be consistent with reports coming in from American Intelligence sources, too: "The strike on Big Lake was a coordinated strike carried out by the US NAVY and allowed by the USAF, both operating under the UN CORP. Their default to creditors should be final December 5, this coming Wednesday." 

So, a parting shot from them, too.

My old Brit friend and I had a good laugh about all the reporters fondly gushing about GHW Bush and calling him "Poppy" right in the press, without a clue that this nickname refers to his kingpin status in the opium drug trade and isn't just a fond family substitute for "darling Papa". 

The wannabe Communists fall right in line and support the Fascists. The Fascists never make the same mistake. That is, the Communists regularly mistake Fascists for Communists, but the Fascists never make the same mistake and support Communists.

Please remember that George Herbert Walker Bush was knighted by the Queen for his service -- to whom and what can only be inferred.

Please also remember that the United States Navy has always been under the control of the British Monarchs, and that the municipal US NAVY has been under the control of their UN CORP counterparts in Switzerland and Luxembourg, some of the nastiest and most sanctimonious Fascists on Earth.

When you go to the U.S. Patent Office and begin sorting through the mess they left there, everyone will see how often the US NAVY shows up as the offender registering false patents and trademarks and trade names, and how they have then used those patents, trademarks, and trade names to pull horrendous fraud schemes and make false commercial claims against entire countries.

You will also see how Serco, the British multi-national corporation operating as Paymaster for the British Territorial Government, allowed all this malfeasance by the US NAVY.

They and their predecessors allowed the continuance of the fraudulent banking system, too. Buried deep in the Mess at the Patent Office you will find eight principle patents controlled by multi-national banks --- which are all actually operating as securities investment firms.

Each bank controls a patent and one step or part of the overall system.

So it was all based on "mutually assured destruction"--- none of the rats could rat on the others, or the whole thing would collapse. Deutsche Bank, being the loser in WWII, got stuck holding all the "derivatives" being spun off the securitization of living people and the copyrighting of their names and the patenting of their DNA.

The Vatican Bank was underwriting and allowing all this under its ancient canon laws pertaining to vacant commonwealth properties "Bono Vacantia" and "Bastardy Funds" and property of "missing persons" and intestate estates in probate.

Everybody got a share of the kickbacks, including the British Territorial Government and the Municipal United States Government run by the "US CONGRESS". 

And they then shared out the wealth coming off this monstrous scheme by offering more kickbacks to the Territorial and Municipal "state of state" organizations as bait to get them to incorporate as franchises owned and operated by the parent British and Municipal corporations in DC.

I have reason to believe that you will see a lot of arrests of prominent people in all fifty states who have been siphoning and cheating in every way possible --- Medicare Fraud and bribing of judges and prosecutors and misapplication of "General Improvement Funds" and all sorts of relatively minor ($500,000 to $3,000,000) offenses.

But what I want you to keep your eye on is the far, far greater Kickback Scheme that the "federal government" employed via LBJ's "Block Grants" and similar ploys to influence and take over the organizations functioning "as" your State Governments.

And all the "Local Government Councils" promoted and funded by David Rockefeller as part of the final drive to take over and own and control everything in sight, including the water you drink and the air you breathe.

That is the real problem, and while the small fish are being sacrificed, be sure that the Big Ones don't get away unnoticed.

I received a call from the "U.S. Treasury Department" today -- bearing in mind that the actual United States hasn't had a Treasury since 1924 --- and the Agent told one of the lawyers working with us that "they would destroy him and his business and his family" if he continued to help.

The "U.S. Treasury Department" is in fact the IMF, which has been running the show since 1946.

And the IMF owes us $190 Trillion that they can't pay back.

My reply to the "U.S. Treasury"? 

Make peace with your brother on your way to court.

Don't make nasty threats. 

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The First Sunday In Advent

Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's
The Church's Year

The first Sunday in Advent is the first day of the Church Year, and the beginning of the holy season of Advent. The Church commences on this day to contemplate the coming of the Redeemer, and with the prophets to long for Him; during the entire season of Advent she unites her prayers with their sighs, in order to awaken in her children also the desire for the grace of the Redeemer; above all to move them to true penance for their sins, because these are the greatest obstacles in the path of that gracious Advent; therefore she prays at the Introit of the day's Mass:

INTROIT To Thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul: in Thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed: neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on Thee shall be confounded. Show me, O Lord, Thy ways, and teach me Thy paths (Ps. 24). 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 Raise up, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy power, and come; that by Thy protection we may deserve to be rescued from the threatening dangers of our sins, and to be saved by Thy deliverance. 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 (Rom. 13:11‑14). Brethren, knowing the time, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep: for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. The night is past, and the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and strife; but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ.

What does St. Paul teach us in this epistle?

After fully explaining the duties of a Christian life to the Romans who were converted mainly by St. Peter, he exhorts them to hesitate no longer to fulfill these duties, and he seeks to move their hearts by this time of grace, presented them by the Christian dispensation, and by the shortness of the time of grace.

What is here meant by sleep?

The stupidity and blindness of the soul that, forgetting her God, is sunk in a lukewarm, effeminate, slothful and lustful life, which, when it is gone, leaves nothing more than a dream.

Why does St. Paul say, "salvation is nearer"?

He wishes to impress upon the Romans that they now have far greater hope of salvation than when they first became Christians, and that they should secure it by a pious life, because death, and the moment on which depended their salvation, or eternal reward, was drawing near. "What is our life," says St. Chrysostom, "other than a course, a dangerous course to death, through death to immortality?"

What is the signification of day and night?

The night signifies the time before Christ, a night of darkness, of infidelity and of injustice; the day represents the present time, in which by the gospel Christ enlightens the whole world with the teachings of the true faith.

What are "the works of darkness"?

All sins, and especially those which are committed in the dark, to shun the eye of God and man.

What is the "armor of light"?

That faith, virtue and grace, the spiritual armor, with which we battle against our three enemies, the world, the flesh, and the devil, and in which armor we should walk honestly before all men. A Christian who in baptism has renounced the devil and all his pomps, must not live in vice, but must put on Christ Jesus, that is, must by the imitation of Christ's virtues adorn his soul, as it were, with a beautiful garment. This text (verse 13) moved St. Augustine to fly from all works of uncleanness in which he had been involved, and to lead a pure life which he had before thought difficult.

ASPIRATION Grant, O Lord, that we may rise by penance from the sleep of our sins, may walk in the light of Thy grace by the performance of good works, may put on Thee and adorn our souls with the imitation of Thy virtues. Amen. GOSPEL (Lk. 21:25‑33). At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: There shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars: and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea and of the waves, men withering away for fear and expectation of what shall come upon the whole world. For the powers of heaven shall be moved; and then they shall see the Son of man coming in a cloud with great power and majesty. But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is at hand. And he spoke to them a similitude: See the fig tree, and all the trees; when they now shoot forth their fruit, you know that summer is nigh. So you also, when you shall see these things come to pass, know that the kingdom of God is at hand. Amen I say to you, this generation shall not pass away till all things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Why does the Church cause the gospel of the Last Judgment to be read on this day?

To move us to penance, and to induce us to prepare our souls for the coming of Christ, by placing the Last Judgment before our minds. Should not the thought of this terrible judgment, when all good and all evil will be revealed, and accordingly be rewarded or punished in the presence of the whole world‑should not this thought strengthen us in virtue!

What signs will precede the Last Judgment?

The sun will be obscured, the stars will lose their light and disappear in the firmament (Is. 13:10), lightning and flames will surround the earth, and wither up every thing; the powers of heaven will be moved, the elements brought to confusion; the roaring of the sea with the howling of the winds and the beating of the storms will fill man with terror and dread. Such evil and distress will come upon the world, that man will wither away for fear, not knowing whither to turn. Then will appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, the holy cross, the terror of the sinners who have scorned it, the consolation of the just who have loved it (Mt. 24:30).

Why will all this come to pass?

Because as the people love the creatures of God so inordinately, more than the Creator, and use them only to His dishonor, He will destroy them in this terrible manner, arming all creatures for vengeance against His enemies (Wis. 5:8‑24, and showing by the manner of their destruction the evils which will fall upon all sinners. The darkness of the sun will indicate the darkness of hell; the blood-red moon, the anger and wrath of God; the disappearance and falling of the stars, will represent the fall of sinners into the abyss of hell and their disappearance from earth; and the madness of the elements, will exhibit the rage of the beasts of hell. Sinners will then vainly, and too late, repent that they have attached their hearts to things which will end so horribly, and that only increase their torments.

Why does Christ nevertheless command: "Lift up your heads, for your redemption is at hand"?

These words are spoken to the just who as long as they live on earth are like prisoners and exiles, but who at the Last Judgment will be taken body and soul into their long desired fatherland, the kingdom of heaven: into the freedom of the children of God. These will have reason to raise their heads, now bowed in mourning, and to rejoice.

How will the Last Judgment commence?

By the command of God the angels will sound the trumpets, summoning all men from the four parts of the earth to come to judgment (I Thess. 4:15). Then the bodies of the dead will unite with their souls, and be brought to the valley of Josaphat, and there placed, the just on the right, the wicked on the left (Mt. 25:33). Then the devils as well as the angels will appear; Christ Himself will be seen coming in a cloud, in such power and majesty that the sinners will be filled with terror. They will not dare to look at Him, and will cry to the mountains to fall upon them, and to the hills to cover them (Lk. 23:30).

How will the judgment be held?

The book of conscience, upon which all men are to be judged, and which closed with this life, will be opened. All good and evil thoughts, words, deeds and motives, even the most secret, known only to God, will then be as plainly revealed to the whole world as if they were written on each one's forehead; by these each one will be judged, and be eternally rewarded, or eternally punished.

O God! If we must then give an account of every idle word (Mt. 12:36), how can we stand in the face of so many sinful words and actions!

Why will God hold a universal public Judgment?

Although immediately after death, a special private judgment of each soul takes place, God has ordained a public and universal judgment for the following reasons: First, that it may be clearly shown to all how just has been His private judgment, and also that the body which has been the instrument of sin or of virtue may share in the soul's punishment or reward; secondly, that the justice which they could by no means obtain in this life, may be rendered before the whole world to the oppressed poor, and to persecuted innocence, and that the wicked who have abused the righteous, and yet have been considered honest and good, may be put to shame before all; thirdly, that the graces and means of salvation bestowed upon each, may be made known; fourthly, that the blessed providence of God which often permitted the righteous to suffer evil while the wicked prospered, may be vindicated, and it be shown on that day that His acts are acts of the greatest wisdom; fifthly, that the wicked may learn the goodness of God, not for their comfort or benefit, but for their greater sorrow, that they may see how He rewards even the slightest work performed for His love and honor; finally, that Christ may be exalted before the wicked on earth as before the good in heaven, and that the truth of His words may solemnly be made manifest.

ASPIRATION Just art Thou O God, and just are Thy judgments. Ah, penetrate my soul with holy fear of them, that I may be kept always in awe, and avoid sin. Would that I could say with the penitent St. Jerome: "Whether I eat or drink, or whatever I do, I seem to hear the awful sound of the trumpet in my ears: `Arise ye dead, and come to judgment."'

Status Report - December First 2018

By Anna Von Reitz

I recall asking certain of my neighbors to join our Food Storage Club some years back.  Alaska is inordinately dependent on food shipped in from the Lower 48. Except for salmon and a few moose, berries and home gardens and barley, there isn't much here in terms of food, unless you are a really careful and knowledgeable forager (like my husband). 

And even he prefers not to eat lichen boiled in saltwater.

How they laughed at me!  How they derided the whole idea of a Food Storage Club!  What was I?  A "Prepper"???  A "Sovereign Citizen"???  Oh, ha-ha-ha!  Even here in Alaska, they were all too good for me. Too modern. Too sophisticated. They dog-trotted away with horrible fixed grins on their faces and didn't look back.

I and a few Northern Mormons and a Sergeant Major's widow did it anyway.

Today, after an actual disaster, it's a different story.

Two of these neighbors (who never read this blog) are huddled in front of my old stove keeping warm and eating bowlfuls of corn chowder as if it was the most exquisite thing ever.  Two more have been keeping warm via electrical heat exchange units I provided and at least a dozen more who snubbed the whole idea are eating today because of our lowly little Tin Hat Food Storage Club.

As I write, I have three elders, seven small children, and three people recovering from injuries/surgeries under my care.  I am at the Anchorage office pinch-hitting and tending woodpiles and woodstoves around the clock. More than 600 homes and businesses remain without gas for heat, and many additional businesses including food stores and gas stations, are closed for repairs.

This is exactly the scenario I described in my 2007 book, "Alaska's Gas" where I explained how dependency on natural gas for heat in a cold climate can turn into a disaster --- and it has. 

Once a portion of the gas grid goes down or the "drop out valves" related to specific homes go out, an actual technician has to check the system, re-pressurize the whole thing, and turn the gas back on. 

This is a time and tech expensive process.  It can take a long time to turn the gas back on --- days, even weeks, given limited numbers of trained technicians. And in the meantime, people have to stay warm and their houses need to stay above freezing or the water pipes blow and a whole different kind of frozen flood disaster begins. 

Thank God the electrical grid in Anchorage didn't go down at the same time as the gas grid. Many people would be living in their cars watching the fuel gauge run out--- and freezing to death after that.  

Do you know what happens when the lights go out?  If you don't have a generator and fuel for it, the lights stay out.  And the gas stations have gas, but 99% of them can't pump it, because guess what?  Their pumps need electricity and the gas stations don't have generators....

Many years ago, I noted this formula for disaster to the local gas station owner in Big Lake.  He looked thunder-struck.  He'd never really thought about it, but.... soon thereafter he installed generators and reserve tanks at his gas station, and lo, and behold, yesterday when people were desperate, I heard the radio announcer saying, "Hey, folks, if you are on the Parks Highway and looking for gas, the station at Big Lake is still pumping…."

Yep.  Us Tin Hats at work again.

When I installed an old-fashioned iron water pump with a handle people laughed, too.  Some asked if it was a decoration.  No, I had to explain, it was fully functional and fitted with a special gizmo that allows me to pump water directly into my house system and keep it pressurized. 

Ah, so, my toilets flush, my water runs, and I all I have to do is go outside and pump the handle.  It's a lot easier than I had it as a kid, doing the same thing back on the farm and having to carry two five-gallon buckets sloshing all the way back to Grandma's house. 

So the Uppity Neighbors who laughed and thought I was odd are now grateful to have drinking water and a five gallon water container to carry it home, too.

The State Troopers who used to cruise past my house verrry slowly, called me up and asked if my pump was in service and would I be making water available to people in need, if electrical service couldn't be promptly restored?

All it takes is a 7.0 Earthquake to jolt things back into view.

This is the moment when the Grasshopper Politicians confront the fact that: (1) they have no way of restoring gas service to over 600 locations at once, and (2) they have no way to pump fuel during electrical outages, and (3) there are "no" safe supplies of drinking water when the grid goes down because almost nobody has private wells and hand pumps anymore.

Almost. Unless you happen to me, or one of my Knothead buddies.

"Oh," chuffed one local Blowhard, "no need to store any food. The stores will stay open."

The food store isn't open today in Big Lake, Alaska.  It might not be open tomorrow or even next week. 

As for our Team here, we are all still standing, battered, but not down. 

Several of us lost all or nearly all of our china and glassware; some (including me) lost major and minor appliances that "fried" when the electrical grid went bonkers.

There were a lot of minor injuries--scratched arms, twisted legs, bruised shoulders, cuts from broken glass.  Nearly everyone is stiff and sore and gimping around.

One of our Team was hit by a heavy ceiling lamp fixture that nearly cold-conked her and took a gash out of her scalp. She also lost about 200 years-worth of family glassware.  She's hurt and disoriented and sorting through the rubble today, and though she is a tough lady, there's some sniffing and extra nose-blowing going on. And of course, there's the splendid designer bandage on her head.

Another Team Member very narrowly avoided being run off the road by a crazed driver who barreled through a broken stoplight intersection at 80 mph.

Apparently, some people don't know that when stoplights go out, every intersection becomes a four-way stop and everyone has to take turns. [They don't remember hand directional signals, either: hand up, elbow at right angle means "right turn", while arm straight out means "left turn".]  

Another Team Member had a gas leak and was lucky enough to avoid inhalation or explosion. Another one of our guys was just recovering from surgery when this hit and should be resting, but isn't.

And now we are having a sleet storm with gale-force winds.  Oh, joy. That makes hauling wood and splitting it a real treat.... picture me in my flannel shirt, Helly Hansen rain gear, Irish fisherman's sweater, pack boots with ice grips and a woolie helmet hat with the flaps down over my ears....

I have no hot water where I am and no central heat.  We are keeping the home fires burning---literally, in a cast iron woodstove, and I am washing dishes the old way:

First, you find water.  Then, you find a way to heat water. Then, you find a pan or a water-tight sink.  Then you pour hot water into the dishpan or sink, and if you have it, dish soap and/or vinegar into the hot water.... then you dump all the dirty eating utensils except sharp knives to soak in the bottom of the pan while you do the glassware first, the scraped plates second, and the dirty eating utensils next.  The heavily soiled pots and pans come last.

There is a logic to washing dishes by hand.  There are tricks to every trade.

Some people add bleach to dish water, but I don't care to eat bleach, so I use vinegar or salt to kill bacteria on contact.  You might have to use bleach if you are fighting a disease like cholera, but for normal cleaning, vinegar, salt, and baking soda will do. 

You use hot water to wash dishes, as hot as you can stand, with enough soap to make bubbles but not enough to form a slimy film on dishes.  To save fuel, you will want to rinse your dishes in cold water--which only works well if you learn to use the right amount of soap.

I spent enough years washing dishes by hand to know the tricks: how to conserve energy, how to sterilize things, how to kill bacteria, the right amount of soap, the proper order of things to wash....and as I did this, today,  I wondered how many young people know? 

And if the world keeps being tilted off its axis by criminals, how many other people will need to know?  Almost certainly the neighbors who have been snickering all these years will need to know.

Final note--- we are facing hard times here and its ten times worse because of this earthquake.  Team members are pretty plucky or they wouldn't be team members, but even some of them are dragging around like Eeyore, the Donkey, in Winnie-the-Pooh: "I guess we'll make it. Don't have any choice..."

Well, right.

We need cash donations to replace necessary things and pay for fuel. It's frankly too cold and too late in the year to send foodstuff that can be spoiled by being frozen in transit.  That includes canned goods. 

As a group we have lost two kitchen stoves, a Toyostove, a freezer, and a computer to electrical surges, and at least five replacement sets of every day dishes, sustained three visits to Urgent Care facilities for bangs and cuts and gashes, and several of us are now accruing large electric bills because the gas is off to so many homes.

If you can help, I am still Grandma-in-Charge. I am still here, doing my best to take care of everybody. Even the Pooh-Pooher neighbors.

My PayPal is: avannavon@gmail.com, and my snail mail for checks and money orders is: Anna Maria Riezinger, c/o Box 520994, Big Lake, Alaska 99652.

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