First Sunday In Lent

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

This Sunday is called Invocabit, because the Introit of the Mass begins with this word, which is taken from the ninetieth psalm, wherein we are urged to confidence in God, who willingly hears the prayer of the penitent:

INTROIT He shall call upon me, and I will hear him; I will deliver him, and glorify him; I will fill him with length of days. (Ps. XC. 15-16.) He that dwelleth in the aid of the Most high shall abide under the protection of the God of heaven. (Ps. XC. 1.) Glory be to the Father, etc.

COLLECT O God who dost purify Thy Church by the yearly fast of Lent; grant to Thy household that what we strive to obtain from Thee by abstinence, by good works we may secure. Through our Lord, etc.

EPISTLE (II. Cor. VI. 1-10) Brethren, we exhort you that you receive not the grace of God in vain. For he saith: In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in the day of salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now, is the day of salvation. Giving no offence to any man, that our ministry be not blamed: but in all things let us exhibit ourselves as the ministers of God; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labors, in watchings, in fastings, in chastity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in sweetness, in the Holy Ghost, in charity unfeigned, in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the armor of justice on the right hand, and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report, and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastised, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as needy, yet enriching many; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

EXPLANATION The Church very appropriately reads on this day this epistle of St. Paul, in which he exhorts the Christians to make use of the time of grace. A special time of grace is Lent, in which everything invites to conversion and penance, a time, therefore, in which God is ready to make rich bestowal of His graces. St. Anselm says, those do not use the grace who do not cooperate. Let us, therefore, follow St. Paul's exhortation, and earnestly practise those virtues he places before us, and especially those of temperance, patience, chastity, liberality, love of God and of our neighbor. Let us arm ourselves with the arms of justice at the right and the left, that is, let us strive to be humble in prosperity and in adversity, confident of God's help. Let us never be led from the path of virtue, by mockery, contempt, nor by persecution, torments, or death.

ASPIRATION Grant, O Jesus, that we may always faithfully cooperate with Thy graces, and employ well the time Thou hast again given for our salvation.

GOSPEL (Matt. IV. 1-11.) At that time, Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. And the tempter coming, said to him: If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. Who answered and said: It is written: Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God. Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him upon the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him: If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down; for it is written: He hath given his angels charge over thee, and in their hands shall they bear thee up, lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said to him: It is written again: Thou shaft not tempt the Lord thy 'God. Again the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; and said to him: All these will I give thee, if, falling down, thou wilt adore me. Then Jesus said to him: Begone, Satan, for it is written, The Lord thy God shaft thou adore, and him only shaft thou serve. Then the devil left him; and behold, angels came, and ministered to him.

INSTRUCTION

I. Christ went into the desert by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost to prepare by fasting and prayer, for His mission, and to endure the temptations of Satan, that, as St. Paul says, He might be one tempted in all things such as we are, without sin, and so become for us a High-priest who knew how to have compassion on our infirmities, (Heb. IV. 15.) and to show us by His own example, how we should, armed with the word of God, as with a sword, overcome the tempter. (Eph. VI. 17.) – Let us, therefore, courageously follow Christ to the combat against all temptations, with His assistance it will not be hard to conquer them. He has certainly taught us to overcome the hardest ones: the lust of the eyes, of the flesh, and the pride of life, and if we overcome these, it will be easy to conquer the rest.

II. If Christ, the only Son of God, permitted Himself to be tempted by Satan, even to be taken up on a high mountain, and to the pinnacle of the temple, it should not appear strange to us, that we are assailed by many temptations, or that we should find in the lives of so many saints that the evil spirit tormented them by various images of terror and vexation. This we find in the history of the pious Job, where we also find at the same time, that the evil spirit cannot harm a hair of our head without God's permission.

III. From the coming of the angels to minister to Christ, after He had conquered Satan, we see that all who bravely resist temptations, will enjoy the assistance and consolations of the heavenly spirits.

INSTRUCTION ON TEMPTATION

To be tempted by the devil. , (Matt. IV. I.)

What is a temptation?

A  temptation is either a trial for instruction and exercise in virtue, or a deception and incitement to sin. In the first sense, God tempts man; in the second, he is tempted by the devil, the world or bad people, and the flesh, by evil thoughts, feelings, words, or work.

By what are we principally tempted?

By our own evil concupiscence and inclination to sin which adhere to us through original sin, (Fam. I. 14.) on account of which it is said, that the flesh lusteth against the spirit. (Gal. V. 17.)

Does the devil also tempt us?

He does, and is therefore called, in this day's gospel, the tempter. St. Peter teaches us this, having himself experienced it: Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring-lion, goeth about, seeking whom he may devour. (I Peter V. 8.) Not all temptations are to be ascribed to the devil, however, they often come from our own corrupt nature, our own incautiousness, or looseness of our senses, by which we expose ourselves to the danger of falling into sin.

How does the devil tempt us to sin?

In a twofold manner: He incites the concupiscence of man to those sins to which he sees him inclined, and then seeks to blind and confuse his imagination, so that he neither reflects, nor properly sees the temporal injury, disgrace, and derision, nor the shamefulness of sin and its eternal punishment. Thus the devil seduced Eve, our first mother, and thus he tempted Christ, with whom he could not, of course, succeed, for He was incapable of sin. He tempts bad people to persecute us, or to try us by their wicked vanities, as he did by the friends of Job.

Can the devil force us to evil?

He cannot; “for as a chained dog,” says St. Augustine, "can bite none but those who go near him, so the devil cannot harm with his temptations those who do not consent to them. Like the dog he can bark at you, but cannot bite you against your will.” Not by force but by persuasion Satan strives to injure, he does not force our consent, but entreats it. Seek, therefore, to subdue your passions and your senses, especially your eyes, and you will either remain free from all temptations, or easily overcome them.

Does God also tempt us?

God does indeed tempt us, but not to sin, as St. James expressly teaches. (Fam. I. 13.) God either Himself proves us by sufferings and adversities, or He permits the temptations of the devil or evil-minded people to give us opportunity to practise the virtues of love, patience, obedience, etc. Thus He said to the Jews through Moses: The Lord your God trieth you, that it may appear whether you love him with all your heart, and with all your soul, or no. (Deut. XIII. 3.)

Does God permit us to be tempted by man also?

He does, and for the same reasons. Thus He permitted the chaste Joseph to be tempted by Putiphar's wife; (Gen.XXXIX. 7.) Job by his wife and his friends. (Job II. 9.) But He never permits us to be tempted beyond our strength, but gives us always sufficient grace to overcome and even to derive benefit from the temptation. (I Cor. X. 13.)

Are temptations pernicious and bad?

No; they are useful and necessary, rather. “Hard is the fight,” St. Bernard writes, “but meritorious, for although it is accompanied by suffering, it is followed by the crown;”

(Apoc. III. 12.) and Origen says. (Libr. Num.) “As meat becomes corrupt without salt, so does the soul without temptations.” Temptations, then, are only injurious when consent is given, and we suffer ourselves to be overcome by them.

When do we consent to temptations?

When we knowingly and willingly decide to do the evil to which we are tempted; as long as we resist we commit no sin.

What are the best means of overcoming temptations?

Humility; for thus answered St. Anthony, when he saw the whole earth covered with snares, and was asked "Who will escape?" "The humble;" he who knows his own frailty, distrusts himself, and relies only on God who resists the proud and gives His grace to the humble; (Dam. IV. 6.) the fervent invocation of the Mother of God, of our holy guardian angels and patron saints; the pronouncing of the holy name of Jesus, making the sign of the cross, sprinkling holy water; the remembrance of the presence of God who knows our most secret thoughts, and before whom we are indeed ashamed to think or do that which would cause us shame in the presence of an honorable person; frequent meditation on death, hell, and eternal joys; fleeing from all those persons by whom, and places in which we are generally tempted; fervent prayers, especially ejaculations, as:

"Lord, save me, lest I perish! Lord, hasten to help me!" finally, the sincere acknowledgment of our temptations at the tribunal of penance, which is a remedy especially recommended by pious spiritual teachers.

PRAYER O Lord Jesus! who spent forty days in the desert without food or drink, and didst permit Thy self to be tempted by the evil spirit, give me, I beseech Thee by that holy fast, the grace to combat, during this holy season of Lent, under Thy protection, against intemperance, and to resist the suggestions of Satan that I may win the crown of eternal life. Amen.

International Public Notice: The Temptation of the Generals

 By Anna Von Reitz

Let's begin with the fact that in the case of America, the train went off the track in 1861 when Abraham Lincoln seized control of the Federal Republic and arbitrarily assigned his Cronies to fill the empty seats in the United States Congress --- a move that will forever brand Lincoln as a traitor, not a hero. 

The whole train moved off the track and went steaming off into the sunset in 1863 when Lincoln issued his General Order 100 and via this very first "Executive Order" unlawfully converted the powers of our intended government and handed it over to U.S. Army Generals. 

As the armed hostilities faded, Ulysses S Grant (a made up nom de guerre) and William "Tecumseh" Sherman, and the rest of the U.S. Army Generals had the same choice that our modern day Generals have now.  

The past is eerily repeating itself. 

The Generals have loyally and with gusto retrieved vast amounts of American precious metals, land, and other assets; they have collected debts worldwide.  They have shaken down the Eurozone and NATO and everyone else.  To which we say, fine, fine. 

Our precious metals should have never been loaned out to Central Banks and rat-holed in bunkers in Switzerland and the Philippines, never taken "offshore for safekeeping".   Our babies should have never been sold as British Subjects in peonage and never enfranchised and enslaved as Municipal souls, either. 

We could go on for days about all the ways that Grant and his Generals failed us, failed to protect our persons, failed to be honest about the situation, failed to disclose, acted in self-interest to establish coercive control, and otherwise betrayed the people and their Constitutional service contracts. 

The Generals then and now will say that they acted in our best interest to preserve our wealth, to secure it in "safekeeping" and so on, but the words ring hollow.  We know how we've lived. 

We know that "security" is too often a synonym for coercion and control.  We know what their version of "security" has cost us. Literally. 

To their military minds, it seems obvious that they have got control and they should keep it.  They went and dug the gold out of the foreign bunkers, they strong-armed the Pope and various other Parties to throw down or give in.  Having been alerted to the real origins of Jamie Dimon's silver stash, we are sure they will attend to that.  

The problem is that they are acting "for" us, and there isn't a single word in The Constitution of the United States of America authorizing them to do so. 

The Federation of States is supposed to hold the purse strings via their Continental Congress.  Just as you might guess, we, the Employers, are supposed to define the form of our currency and issue it as appropriations to our Federal Subcontractors, who then further allocate it via their "Congresses" to fulfill their delegated duties.

The old American Federal Republic was put in charge of the United States Mint and made responsible for producing our currency, while the United States Treasury was responsible for keeping the records and providing oversight.  

There isn't a word anywhere about the military in any form controlling any aspect of our money until 1863, when the King's Corporation headed by Abraham Lincoln went bankrupt, and the U.S. Army was made responsible for our money under the provisions of Lincoln's first Executive Order, General Order 100, otherwise known as the Lieber Code and today morphed into the Hague Conventions. 

Did Lincoln have any authorization to seize hold of our money or grant control of our money to the U.S. Army Generals?  No.  Mr. Lincoln was acting in insurrection from the moment in 1861 when he overturned the Federal Congress and converted it into a British Territorial Congress. 

So is any of this lawful or legal, either one?  

No.  

The so-called American Civil War was an illegal mercenary conflict, not a war.  The actual States weren't even involved in it.  The whole thing was drummed up by commercial corporations and fought on our land and soil without our consent.

Lincoln seized control using the excuse of a "National Emergency" but there were no emergency powers granted as part of his contract. 

It was all more or less kinda sorta implied and shined on, but as you will note, the American Civil War was never declared by Congress so it wasn't a war, and the continued interference of the U.S. Army, in our domestic and international affairs--- including control of our money---  is the unjust fruit of an illegal mercenary occupation. 

If we want their help, we can ask for it.  

There is a reason that the military is not allowed, not even by implication, to control our monetary affairs ---and why the military is supposed to obey our government.  

Quite simply, the military does not share our values. 

It may be perfectly reasonable in the sight of the Generals to spend $100 billion on the development of a new jet fighter, rather than apportion $2 billion to each State of the Union to improve public education, but that is not supposed to be their call to make. 

What happens over time is exactly what has happened.  A disproportionate amount of the budget is spent on the military.  Cost controls and accountability go out the window  ($21 Trillion dollars of the "defense" budget is "lost" and can't be accounted for) and graft and corruption spiral out of control.  

Just as the Roman Republic was ruined by the military usurpation of Julius Caesar, the American Federal Republic was ruined by Lincoln's clandestine usurpation.  

The trouble, betrayal, and misadministration began almost immediately after Lincoln issued his General Order 100 and then, the next day, bankrupted the United States of America, Incorporated, the British Crown Corporation he was "President" of.  His Generals immediately greenlighted the more unsavory aspects of the Lincoln Administration, including the development of central and commercial banks and issuance of "Greenbacks" -- essentially bonds issued on labor and future tax revenues based on peonage and enslavement. 

It's not a mistake or coincidence that America had no banks of this kind until 1863. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrog-ERttcc

Now, Mr. Trump's Administration, still pretending to act "for" us in these matters, has illegally and immorally seized upon the so-called "gold bond" --- actual bullion returned from the Vatican related to their part of the birth certificate scandal.  

The British Territorial Subcontractors under Mr. Trump's direction claim to represent millions of the British Territorial Subjects who conveniently don't exist, and have acted to commandeer gold owed to each and every American -- not just British Territorials. 

We are aware of the sneaky fraudulent misregistration of millions of American babies as British Territorial Subjects.  We are aware of the fact that our military is required to adopt that political status upon entering the service.  

Our point is not to deprive our sons and daughters in the military of anything owed to them as Americans. Our point is to make sure that their nationality, rather than their citizenship, is the defining factor when they claim the gold.  

Our further point is that the Americans are owed gold, not paper. 

We object to Mr. Trump's plan to just pay everyone off as if they actually were British Subjects, and then use their acceptance of the payment as proof that they "voluntarily" adopted British Territorial citizenship.  

We didn't.  We still don't.  We are Americans, not lost British Territorial Merchant Mariners.  We are owed gold as living men and women, not more paper I.O.U.s issued by a corporation that is supposed to be working for us and operating in "good faith". 

We have our own lawful bank and we have our own lawful currency, the American Federation Dollar.  We have our own United States Treasury.  

There is no reason for Americans to be misconstrued and misrepresented as British Territorial Subjects, or for tying their eligibility for remedy to forced acceptance of such a foreign political status.  

It's true that the Roman Inferior Trust being liquidated and released would not exist except for the prior existence of a British Territorial Public Trust named after us, but is it also true that the same British Territorial Public Trust would not exist except for a first fraudulent and undisclosed entrapment --- the registration of American babies as United States Citizens. 

We demand the total liquidation of all foreign public and private trusts established in our Given Names and return of our American birthright estates, which were, purportedly "waived" for us during our minority by our Mothers or other "Informants" and we remind everyone---  under international law, including the Hague Conventions, any forced or coerced assumption of foreign nationality is a capital crime. 

Mr. Trump and Mr. Bessent are already making merry and at least in their minds spending our money and credit "for" us, with a few thousand dollars in tax relief and that sort of thing for the actual owners. 

We don't agree to this proposed settlement of these issues. 

We were subjected to foreign law and subjected to peonage and enslavement, with no valid contract and no conquest in evidence as justification for any of this chicanery.  We have been deliberately and with malice aforethought misregistered and misrepresented by those owing us "good faith service".  

This current attempt by the Trump Administration and the U.S. Army to justify their continued interference in our Government and our people's private affairs, commandeering of our assets, both physical assets and credit derived from our physical assets, is a crime in progress. 

The "set up" so that Americans are forced to accept some form of foreign citizenship in order to get a small dollop of the restitution that they are owed is not acceptable. 

If the U.S. Army wants to do what is right, they must return our assets and our credit to our control and cease and desist from all subterfuge designed to coerce foreign citizenship obligations and accept tiny portions of what is owed to us as settlement.  

It's our land, our soil, our flag, our money.  

We are the "People" to whom they owe their service contracts and their debts.  It's time to fly straight again.  

Issued by: 

Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

February 19th 2026

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Retail Investors Just Set a Record. History Says Be Careful.

https://youtu.be/VbWLamWjqcI

Retail investors just did something we’ve never seen before. 

They poured $48 billion into U.S. equities in just 21 days — the largest surge on record. And they did it at all-time highs. 

$15000 Gold in 2027  What Happens Next

https://youtu.be/xyqcfztGU0A

Gold has officially closed above $5,000 an ounce on a weekly chart, marking a new all-time high. That alone is significant. Weekly closes carry more weight than daily spikes because they filter out short-term volatility and reflect sustained buying pressure. 

Over the past few weeks, gold has swung sharply — trading as low as $4,400 and as high as $5,600. Yet despite the turbulence, it finished the week at a record level. That tells us something important: this move isn’t just noise. 

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By Paul Stramer

In 2024 we started using the new mint in Indiana to stamp and ship our silver rounds, after over 18 years with the previous mint in Utah.

The mint is now experiencing a larger volume of orders and has extended their production schedule up to six to eight weeks for new orders.

 We expect our volume to rise also, and that run has already started.

 Here are some of the things that are changing for the better for you, our customers.

1. The old 500 ounce minimum order is gone. The new minimum order is now 50 ounces. 

2. They will be very competitive in their price structure, and right now we are offering a price plan based on the volume of metal in each order. See below.

These will be shipped by UPS Ground, fully insured.

 We will still be accepting wire transfers, or cashiers checks like always. 

We can only lock an order after we have received the funds. Here is the formula we use to figure your price.

Go to this link on Kitco.com and look up the ask price of silver. 

https://www.kitco.com/price/precious-metals

It's in the first table on that page. 

The mint is closed Friday, through Sunday, so we can't lock an order on those days.

For a 60 oz. to 99 oz. order, take the ask price and add $5.00

For a 100 oz. to 199 oz. order, take the ask price and add $4.50. 

For a 200 oz. to 299 oz. order, take the ask price and add $4.25. 

For a 300 oz. to 999 oz. order, take the ask price and add $3.75. 

All orders over 1000 ounces will be $3.50 over spot ask price.

Take that number times the number of ounces (50 or over) and then add $30.00 for each 60 to 99 ounce box for shipping, or for large orders add $50 per 500 ounce box for shipping.

Once we have your funds we will run this same formula to finalize the price with shipping.

Be sure to call us when you are ready to order so we can answer your questions.

When you call I will get your email address and send you the bank info for wire transfers or the mailing info for your payment. You can then reply with your shipping address for UPS.

If you have any questions here is my contact info.

Office phone  406 889 3183  8 AM to 2 PM and 4PM to 6 PM weekdays.

Cell  406 253 4257  when I am not in the office. Try the Office line first.

pstramer@gmail.com   or  pstramer@eurekadsl.net

Thanks for your support over the years.  We are now open and taking orders.

Paul Stramer   S.A.G.

International Public Notice: The Key Importance of Jurisdiction

 By Anna Von Reitz

Jurisdiction roughly translates to "the right to speak to an issue".  

To have jurisdiction means to have authority to address and decide issues; if you don't have authority to address a person or a topic, you are barred from doing so.  

It is a fine knife-edge to tread in some cases, but normally, jurisdiction is cut and dried.  

Land law applies on land.  

Sea law applies on the sea. 

Air law applies to air assets. 

This was always the case for thousands of years, even before the creation of Pope Boniface's Unam Sanctam Trust in 1302.  After that, the rules applying to these separate jurisdictions and their separate systems of law simply became more organized and codified.

Land law naturally applies to landsmen and physical assets of all kinds, including the land itself, and its natural resources. 

Sea law applies to ships, sailors, cargoes, and navies. 

Air law applies to spirits and energies and ideas, therefore to patents and copyrights, trademarks, concepts, designs, and later,  corporations and "professional" performances.  

For centuries, land law was practiced in land jurisdiction courts by Lawyers.  

Sea law was practiced in special courts by Attorneys. 

Air law was practiced in other special courts by Magistrates and Clerics.  

Everything was tidy and obvious, no big mysteries about how life and law were organized, and then, as usual, Britain and Rome "started something" and landed both at the bottom of the jurisdictional dog pile and train wreck we face today.  

The problem started when the Protestant William of Orange was imported to act as the King of England following the beheading of Charles II and the grimy administration of Oliver Cromwell.  This started the practice of Germans ruling over England and Scotland. 

And when Queen Mary came to the throne, things really got interesting.  

Queen Mary vacated the Throne of England and the then-new Constitutions and the land jurisdiction of England in favor of serving as the Monarch standing over a maritime commercial company dubbed "Great Britain".  

She stopped operating as the Queen of England and started operating as the British Monarch, instead.  She changed the jurisdiction, and in doing so, she changed the law.  She evaded the pesky British Constitution and deprived the people of the protections and limitations set forth by the Social Contract. 

So long as the people didn't know what Queen Mary did, how she was evading the "constitutional" part of "Constitutional Monarchy", all was well.  Or so a long line of Successors to Queen Mary, culminating with Charles III, have thought.  

The Pitchfork Brigades could simply be left in the dark and the dust, assuming that they had a Constitutional Monarchy -- back on the land; but the Monarch would go to sea and stay there, and by so doing, each subsequent Monarch evaded the Constitution, and Subjected the British People under a completely different law, the Maritime Law of the Sea, instead.  

When you change the jurisdiction, you change the law.  The Constitution no longer applies.  People are no longer people, they are "persons", instead.  They are no longer English Nationals, they are British Subjects and British Citizens, instead.

This Substitution Fraud happened over three hundred years ago, and to be fair, Queen Mary probably never knew what happened.  She was, by all accounts, more interested in bon-bons than affairs of state and probably just signed whatever the members of the Privy Council fed to her.  

Who could imagine the strange repeat of history?  The long shadows from the reign of Charles II have come home to roost during the reign of Charles III.  

The English and Scottish people are just waking up from a bad dream and realizing that they have already paid through the nose and ten times over, realizing that they have been cheated by their own leaders and representatives, left holding the bag for three centuries of self-interested "lawfare" and misrepresentation. Three centuries during which the British Constitution has been nothing but a shell placating the nation, but in fact, being skillfully evaded by people who were little more than German mercenary invaders. 

Makes sense now, doesn't it?  The layers and layers of taxes and "administrative units" and "councils" and "districts" and so on, all having nothing to do with traditional English or Scottish government. 

All the voracious, incompetent, unjust courts.  The venal politicians. 

WWI -- Fight among two groups of German Mercenaries. 

WWII -- Fight among two groups of German Mercenaries. 

Never had anything to do with freedom, or a fight against evil that they did not create with malice aforethought.  It had nothing to do with paganism versus Christianity.  It had nothing to do with the people of "Great Britain".  

It didn't even have anything to do with the people of Germany. 

We were all already erased, impersonated, enfranchised, and if we let them pull any more fraud schemes on us, we will be emancipated next --- but not meaning what you might suppose. 

That's our next International Public Notice.  

Issued by: 

Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

February 18th 2026

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Granna Bytes: A Word to INAC Assemblies Around the World

 By Anna Von Reitz

The best way to start is with your own history.  

We just discovered that an insurance company foreclosed on the Australian Territorial Government in 1907 and took over the administration of the Australian Government at the Territorial level without telling anyone.  

The Great White Fleet (Inc.) was a mercenary service when it sailed into Australian waters and harbors, not a peace mission.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent the battleships painted white on a debt collection mission.  

The Great White Fleet liberally "mistook" all the living people of Australia for British Subjects and Territorial Persons, and used the resulting confusion to impose upon and presume upon the lawful Australian Government and People -- gratuitously redefining them as "Debtors" owing debts they never owed. 

The details are different, but the method is the same.  Foist off the debts of British Territorial Corporations onto Third Parties, then used Roman Municipal Corporation franchises to act as the "Muscle" and enforce debt collections.  

Nobody ever seems to notice that the people being misidentified and imposed upon and merely "presumed" to be debtors, are instead the preferential creditors of the scum.  

They have been working this two-handed aggravated identity theft scheme for over a hundred years throughout most of the known world, and you'd better believe that the Principals involved are responsible for this.  

Take a look at your own country's history.  All western nations have been impacted by this gradually spreading cancer of corruption, and many eastern countries, too, have fallen victim to these secretive and insidious corporations.  

If you look back far enough you will discover the traditional ways and means your ancestors used to organize their culture, how they viewed nature, how they secured justice and security for themselves. 

And you.  

The land jurisdiction of your forefathers still exists; you never knowingly or willingly left it. Being fraudulently misidentified as a foreign person in your own country doesn't change that. 

Refute the foreign citizenship status that these self-interested corporations have foisted off on you.  Object to the British Crown copyright these snakes took to your Given Name.  Bring claim and bring outrage and most of all, bring certainty about who you are and what you are owed.  

Granna

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Coordinator Training Program Launching

 By Anna Von Reitz

We are very pleased that we have a new Coordinator Training Program in the works and scanning its launch checklist.  

Lisa Schaffer, with many years of teaching experience and a stellar performance as the former Ohio Coordinator, will be leading the effort to train a whole new generation of volunteers who are either inheriting the torch or who will be adding to a Coordinator Team.  

Many of you have been attending our Coordinator Training calls and getting questions answered each week.  This is your chance to step up and take it to the next level.  Those who take this training and pass their basic background checks will be fully prepared to help your State of the Union organize and thrive! 

Our tradition up to this point has been a rough road with few signposts through a wilderness of functions and questions and processes. Our early volunteers didn't have the benefit of anyone who had done it before, because their predecessors, the Circuit Riders, were all dead and gone.  Even many of the records and instructions were lost.  

We are now at the point where at least a few Assemblies are at or nearing the completion of their State Assembly pillars and are functioning as our ancestors envisioned. A few, Ohio among them, are at the point where they can look back and say -- we did it! 

They are ready to start sharing the insights of their experience with other States and their Coordinators are now ready to help other Coordinators and Coordinator Teams succeed. 

Training starts this Friday, February 20th 2025, 10 AM, and can accommodate 100 students. Playbacks will be available for those who can't make Friday morning sessions.  

This training is highly recommended for everyone, both experienced and inexperienced volunteers contemplating the rigors of being a Coordinator for their State. 

I, for one, am very grateful that we now have a core cadre of experienced State Coordinators, people who have faced the nuts and bolts of building a State Assembly in the modern era, and having hacked their way into the future and having overcome a 160 year silence, stand ready to help others do the same. 

If you can see the need and feel the call, please contact: 

swohiorecordingsec@protonmail.com

Granna Bytes: For All Assemblies About Committees and Decorum Guidelines

 By Anna Von Reitz

Recently, people have been complaining about having to sign "contracts" compelling good behavior in our public meetings.  This should not even be a question.  

Public meetings are customarily conducted under rules of decorum, so that the attendees are not imposed upon or forced to waste their time listening to random diatribes and non-agenda discussion items. 

Public meeting decorum rules are not anything controversial. Don't let any paranoid spoilers pretend that they are.  The rules are there to safeguard your time as a group.  Make use of them to reach the goal of short (preferably an hour or less) productive meetings. 

Experience has proven that shorter meetings are more productive. They force people to move things along and stay on topic and everyone enjoys the sense of getting important things decided and in motion. If absolutely needed, individual meetings can be extended by a vote, or if it is more convenient, a second meeting can be scheduled for later in the same week.  

The idea here is that meetings are work sessions -- time set aside from our busy lives to consider questions and make decisions for the betterment of our lives and our communities.

The Decorum Agreements are not contracts --- an agreement is not a contract, but aside from that important distinction, we understand the once-burned twice-shy reluctance to sign anything after what we have all been through, and signatures are not needed.   

I recommend that the decorum rules adopted by the Assemblies be posted as an entry page and in the chat room of all discussion forums and given to all new members as part of their orientation package.  That way they have been given notice of the rules and have no cause to object or be offended if they ignore the rules and are muted or removed from a meeting. 

Some people think that their right to come to a public meeting and rant on some off-topic subject that wasn't on the agenda supersedes the equal right of all the other people to get work done in the Public Interest.  It does not.  

We all have the right to speak our minds freely and to be heard; but our individual right is no more special than the rights of others to speak and organize their time and direct their efforts toward specific agenda topics important to the group as a whole.  

Instructions on how to get issues on the Agenda should be given to everyone as part of their Orientation package.  If a topic is especially urgent, such as a looming emergency, the agenda can always be temporarily set aside if the group is amenable.  

Remember the LaVera Adage: "My rights end where another person's rights begin."  We all have rights. Learning to respect the equal rights of others is an essential part of self-governance. Good decorum standards reflect this truth and help people learn it in a practical way. 

Moving on to the issue of Committees.  There has been an unfortunate misunderstanding to the effect that Coordinators have to call Committee Meetings or have to be present at Committee Meetings.  This is absurd.  No Coordinator could possibly meet this additional demand on their time. 

Committees are the traditional way that Americans get the work of the government accomplished.  They may be "Standing Committees" which are needed to organize work and processes on a continuing basis, or they may be "Special Committees" devoted to researching individual topics or addressing temporary needs, but all Committees are designed to function in a quasi-independent manner.  

Let's go through the process of forming committees --- again.  

At a General Assembly Meeting the Coordinator or Chairperson announces the formation of a Committee, say, the Elections Committee.  Volunteers are asked for and noted down.  The Elections Committee is now formed.  

A time and date (and if physical, a place) is established for the first meeting.  At the first meeting a chairperson is selected by the volunteers from among the volunteers.  The members select a day and time for their meetings and how often they will meet.  Details of their meeting forum are established --- will they meet at Nellie's Downtown Diner, every other Tuesday, at 4 PM, or will they meet on Zoom as a teleconference every first Monday of the month at 6 PM.  

You will shortly see that some Committees are far more active than others.  Research Committees tend to be very active for a relatively short period of time, while most Standing Committees only come into play when their services are needed or when a process requires their attention.  

As Committees fade in and out of action, they post their weekly or bi-monthly or monthly meeting times ahead of the General Assembly meetings so that members who are interested can attend their Committee Meeting.  Committee Meetings are not closed, not private, and not secret.  

As they publish their meeting schedules and particulars ahead of the General Assembly Meeting, they also give a very brief summation of what they are currently working on.  

For example: 

Elections Committee: 7 PM on Tuesday, November 14th, via Zoom teleconference link: (link info).  We will be discussing updating and maintaining eligible voter records and polling place security.  

Rio Grande Rehabilitation Committee: 1 PM on Saturday, November 6th, First Episcopalian Church basement, 112 Sunset View Drive, Sedona, Arizona, public event, education, diorama, bbq.  Bring the kids! 

Ombudsman Committee: Thursday, November 9th, 7PM, via video FreeConference: (Meeting access codes, etc.). Our meeting will host Darren Pilsner, Professional Arbitration Specialist from A &E Arbitration Services, presenting "The Basics of Civil Arbitration". 

Outreach Committee: Friday, November 10th, 7 PM Community Meet and Greet at the Historic Emmler Fire Department, 1915 Butte Street, Emmler, Arizona. Featuring "On the Road in America", famous American monologues on stage, plus multimedia documentary, suitable for all ages.  

Above are examples of the kinds of Committee news that should develop over time.  As you can see, both Standing and Special Committees are represented.  The Committee Meetings and Events are shared with all the members via postings.  Coordinators participate as they can and check in with Committee Chairs to answer questions and assist if needed. 

At least once a year, Committees report to the General Assembly.  Some Committees may report monthly or even weekly.  It just depends on the work and functions of each committee how often they present before the General Assembly. 

The Treasury Committee might give a very brief report at each meeting, and a much more complete End of the Year report, while the Banking Committee might report once per quarter.  

Each Assembly is in the process of growing and refining so there is no set order being imposed in terms of what committees are needed first, but there is no doubt that Committees are needed and volunteers for Committees are needed. 

And no, Coordinators do not preside over Committee Meetings or need to be present for Committees to conduct business and get work done. That would be an unreasonable control over Committees and an unreasonable amount of work for our Coordinators. 

Granna

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