1/31/2016

Final Notice of Commercial Obligation Lien to World Bank/IBRD/IMF


This page is an index of the writings of Judge Anna von Reitz from Big Lake Alaska.

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If you really are serious about knowing how to restore the Republic and your freedom you need to put some effort into knowing how our freedoms are being robbed from us by fraud, deception, threat, duress, coercion, and intimidation every day of our lives and have been for over 100 years by the criminals who have hijacked our government, wealth, and heritage for their own gain and evil intentions.

Knowledge is power, and the ultimate civil power resides in every individual in America. By studying the following links in the order presented, you will know more about freedom and what the creator expected from us and endowed us with Through His Divine Son, and you will know your responsibility in that regard.

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Anna has two books. They are both very important to freedom. Here are the links.

"Disclosure 101" is a compliation of some of her earlier writings: Disclosure 101

"You Know Something Is Wrong When... An American Affidavit of Probable Cause" is the blockbuster you need to read. This book blows the lid off the corrupt corporate entity calling itself our Federal government, and shows the entire history of Fraud, Deception, Threat, Duress, Coercion, and Intimidation the perpeTRAITORS have used to steal our entire heritage and prosperity for over 150 years: Get it Here at Amazon



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A NOTE FROM JUDGE ANNA about this information: Please post my apologies that I cannot practice law while sitting as a judge and cannot possibly respond to literally millions of foreclosure cases and custody cases and so on. I have one set of hands and only 24 hours each day, like everyone else. The facts of the fraud have been established and presented. All members of the Bar Associations are liable. We have placed a huge lien on them. See article #85 on this page. People all over this country need to be filing claims and going after these corporations. Look up commercial obligation liens and liquidation of corporations guilty of criminal activity-- and see what you will see.

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INTRODUCTION: Notice To Congress  http://www.annavonreitz.com/noticetocongress.pdf

1. My Dear Archbishop George  http://www.annavonreitz.com/annavonreitz.pdf

2. The Nut is Cracked  http://www.annavonreitz.com/nutiscracked.pdf

3. For a Deeper Understanding  http://www.annavonreitz.com/deeperunderstanding.pdf

4. Open Letter to Karen Hudes  http://www.annavonreitz.com/lettertokarenhudes.pdf

5. Final Judgment and Civil Orders  http://www.annavonreitz.com/finaljudgmentandcivilorders.pdf

6. Final Judgment with Addendums  http://www.annavonreitz.com/finaljudgmentwithaddendums.pdf

7. Civil Orders 6 10 2014  http://www.annavonreitz.com/civilorders6102014.pdf

8. Civil Orders 7 4 2014  http://www.annavonreitz.com/civilorders742014.pdf

9. Notice of Default  http://www.annavonreitz.com/noticeofdefault.pdf

10. Regarding "Political Action"  http://www.annavonreitz.com/politicalaction.pdf 


An Open Letter to Sheriff Ward of Harney County Oregon-
and to All County Sheriffs in America from Judge Anna

Dear Sheriff Ward,


I am writing to you today to ascertain your office and position with respect to the Hammonds and the developing situation at the Bundy Ranch with respect to "Federal Officers".


My name is Anna Maria Riezinger, also known as Anna von Reitz because my actual name is German and a mile long. I am an American Common Law Superior Court Judge in Alaska where operation of the Seventh Amendment Courts started up again in conjunction with the Common Law Grand Juries more than a year ago and I also serve as a Federal Postal District Court Judge for the Western Region.


As you can clearly see by reading the Seventh Amendment all matters pertaining to living people and their property must be addressed to Common Law Courts. How then, are the Hammonds being addressed by federal admiralty courts?


The answer lies in the past.


During the Civil War the normal court system owed the people in the South shut down and did not immediately reopen. Commanders in the military districts in ten states appointed civilian tribunals to function under "Special Admiralty"----- a euphemism. For the purposes of these military tribunals, people and property could be addressed in an arbitrary fashion without regard for the Law of the Land. This was very convenient for the administrators and very unfortunate for the people.


In 1866 the Supreme Court addressed the situation in Milligan Ex Parte and decided that so long as the American Common Law Courts were running there was no excuse for the use of any form of martial law. Be advised that the American Common Law Courts are up and running.


But both the military administrators and the judges and most particularly, the Bar Associations, had a taste of arbitrary power and the bit in their teeth back then--- and a concerted effort to shut the Common Law Courts down began, so as to usurp their jurisdiction and "move the venue" of the local courts off the land and into the international jurisdiction of martial law and the sea, where power could be exerted against the people and their assets on the land in a comparatively arbitrary fashion.


By 1965 the rats had achieved their ends and almost all Common Law Courts in America were either shut down or functioning with only two offices--- justice of the peace and notary publics.


This allowed the members of the Bar Associations to impose admiralty law on the people and to avoid the guarantees of The Constitution. The use of "Special Admiralty" in a courtroom is signified by the heavy gold fringe on the flag.


A word here about the Bar Associations and some facts about the ABA that deserve to be far more widely known, also some information about the current Court System that you probably don't know:


The American Bar Association is an offshoot of the London Lawyer's Guild, an avowed Communist organization. The American Bar Association and the IRS are both owned and operated by Northern Trust, Inc. They are private, foreign debt collection agencies, not units of government, not "professional associations", and certainly not "non-profit organizations". As an organization representing a foreign (British) government, the Bar Associations are only allowed to function here via a Treaty (the last one in 1947) that they have abundantly violated. Their members are required to present Foreign Agent Statements as part of their credentials in open court, which they hardly ever do.


As a result of their misdeeds and usurpation against the Law of the Land and the people and their violations of both their corporate charter and their Treaty, a commercial obligation lien of $279 trillion dollars has been assessed against the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association, and the "US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE"----which, it turns out, is just another private subcontractor performing "governmental services" and doing a criminally bad job of it.


The "US District Courts" are also private for-hire subcontractors that run all the related courts in their districts. Please see Title 28, Sections 80 to 131. All these "State" Courts and "County" Courts are being run as franchises of the "US District Court"---and they are all private corporate institutions having no public office or function at all, and being related to the actual state and county only insomuch as they are operating within the geographical boundaries of a state and a county. This can be readily proven by looking up the Dun and Bradstreet Numbers, CAGE numbers, and corporate filings of these organizations. And, as was recently demonstrated by the Lufkin Case in Texas, neither the "US District Court" nor its "State" and "County" affiliates have any authority to collect debts outside the ten square miles of the District of Columbia.


We should also clear up another misunderstanding. Back in 1864, the "United States Congress" acting as a Board of Directors for The United States of America, Inc., changed the meaning of several words by executive fiat, without telling the rest of us. For their purposes and from June 30, 1864 onward, the words "state" and "State" and "United States" are code for "District of Columbia Municipal Corporation". Thus, instead of "US District Court" you should be reading "District of Columbia Municipal Corporation District Court" and the "Idaho State Supreme Court" for example, should be read as "Idaho District of Columbia Municipal Corporation Supreme Court".


Are you beginning to feel as if you have landed in the Land of Oz?


Yes, all this means that until you make some important decisions, you aren't working for the people of your county as an elected public peace officer. You are working as an employee of a federal corporation franchise in a private capacity. Your election is being "interpreted" as an election to an office in a private corporation. You are presently acting as a mall cop. You have no public office, no public bond, and no public oath. If you are like most members of the "law enforcement community" you are not even licensed or bonded or insured in a private capacity by your cheapskate employers. You are working for The Man, not the people.


And all this got off track 150 years ago.


So all those "federal agents" who are harassing the Hammonds and who are offering to arrest them and transport them to a private prison facility? They are private corporate employees of a franchise or subcontractor of the District of Columbia Municipal Corporation having no more authority than a floorwalker at JC PENNY, despite their pretensions otherwise. They are misinformed as to their authority and also misinformed regarding the identity of the Hammonds. These "federal agents" are literally foreign with respect to the Hammonds and have no jurisdiction related to them at all.


As part of the overall outrageous circumstance and fraud scheme the members of the American Bar Association have also contrived to change the citizenship of American State Citizens---- people born on the land of the Continental United States like the Hammonds have been "kidnapped on paper" and their civil records have been falsified--- which is in violation of international law, the Law of War, and the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which both the Federal United States and the British Government have signed.


An examination of the paperwork will reveal that virtually every single American State Citizen has been deemed a "foundling" and ward of the state, the unwanted child of an unwed mother---- almost 400 million of us, and not a Daddy to be found? This is the result of a systematic and repugnant scheme by international commercial banks and the ABA, and again, all serving to change the natural venue on the land to a court venue in the international jurisdiction of the sea.


The fact is that although human slavery has been outlawed worldwide since 1926, it is not against the law to enslave a corporation.


So what have the criminals among us contrived to do? To "redefine" living people as corporations---- specifically as foreign situs trusts doing business under names styled like this: John Quincy Adams, and ESTATE trusts operating under names styled like this: JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, and now, most recently, Puerto Rican public transmitting utilities styled like this: JOHN Q. ADAMS.


Look at the paperwork in your hands seemingly addressed to the Hammonds. Depending on the style used to write their names, you can tell whether the documents are addressed to foreign situs trusts owned and operated by the "State of Oregon, Inc." , a Cestui Que Vie Estate Trust owned and operated by the "STATE OF OREGON, INC." or a public transmitting utility owned and operated by "OREGON"---- a franchise of the UN Corporation.


Please bear in mind that these "legal fiction entities" were created without the Hammond's knowledge or permission and they are completely, 100%, the responsibility of those who created them. If the HAMMONDS referenced are ESTATE trusts belonging to the "STATE OF OREGON" it is high time for someone who is responsible for the "STATE OF OREGON" to pay any debts related to the franchise without delay----and without bothering the living people these franchises are named after.


It also behooves them to leave the living people and their property strictly alone and forego any pretense that the living Americans known as the Hammonds have knowingly or willingly agreed to act as Federal United States Citizens or have any agreed upon responsibility to act as "co-trustees" of the Public Charitable Trust, which they most likely don't make use of and don't even know that it exists.


Bottom line--- these "courts" and their presentments and "orders" have nothing whatsoever to do with the Hammonds as living people, nor their actual physical property assets at all. They have to do with the mis-administration of public trusts and "legal persons" operated by private, mostly foreign-owned corporations which are attempting to entrap and enslave Americans and lay false claims against their property via probate fraud, identity theft, and coercion.


This is the kind of criminality and fraud we are dealing with, Sheriff Ward, and at the end of the day, the pedal hits the metal in your office.


The British Government contrived the means to "press gang" the "land assets"--- living people and their property assets--- of America into the jurisdiction of the sea during the Second World War. They enslaved us and our property assets under false pretenses and via the use of legal chicanery "for the war effort" --- and after the war, they simply continued on with these abuses.


You have a choice.


You can continue to operate as a good little debt slave of the Queen acting on "automatic" and taking orders regardless of where those orders come from----- that is, you can act as a corporate mall cop in a private capacity and take your licks when the people catch up with you, or you can honor the truth---- that the people of your county elected you in Good Faith, with the understanding that you would enforce the guarantees of The Constitution owed to them and faithfully impose the land jurisdiction of the united States of America on any British agents who put a tentacle outside their actual jurisdiction.


As a Sheriff duly elected by the people of your county and operating the land jurisdiction owed to the Continental United States you have the authority to take your lawful Oath of Office, obtain a bond for your own security, and deputize as many men as you require to restrict the "federal agents" to their actual capacity. It is your duty to inform these foreign agents that the living people known as the Hammonds do not "reside" in any "federal territory" nor act in any capacity subject to the District of Columbia Municipal Corporation. You also have the right to collect Bounty from the Secretary of State and the US District Court under the terms of the 14th Amendment to cover any costs you incurr as a result of having to deal with these improper demands and false claims made by their agents.


If these "federal agents" persist, you have the authority to address the "US District Court" responsible and request their removal from your county. If they still won't behave and honor The Constitution and the actual limits of their own jurisdiction, you have the right and responsibility to arrest the whole kit and caboodle, just as you would arrest the keepers of a tavern operating outside the Public Law.


You also have the right and responsibility to inform the "US District Court" and their franchise affiliates operating the "State" and "County" Courts that the American Common Law Courts and Grand Juries are in operation again and any use of martial law including "Special Admiralty" is no longer excusable.


Acting as an elected Officer of the American Common Law Court indigenous to your county, along with the justices of the peace and the notary public, it is your duty to convene the Common Law Grand Jury chosen at random from among the landowners


of your county to investigate crimes, including this one against the Hammonds, and to convene a Common Law Trial Jury if necessary before the Justice of the Peace, to decide any and all matters affecting the living people and actual property assets of the county on the land. If there is no one able and willing to serve as Justice of the Peace in your County, a Justice of the Peace may be appointed by any Federal Postal District Judge in your region. Contact me if you need help.


Please also know that as the Sheriff duly elected by the people of your county you have the authority and responsibility to demand the return of any American State Citizen being held in "federal custody" for a non-capital crime (murder or assault with a deadly weapon) within 72 hours of their arrest. So if the "federal agents" make the mistake of arresting the Hammonds under false pretenses and holding them in a private capacity, it is your right and role to present a Public Custody Order to the "US District" or other court responsible demanding that the Hammonds be released to your custody. You may then use your own discretion whether to keep them in custody or release them on parole pending final resolution of the jurisdictional complaint.


These are matters that affect millions of people and they must be addressed openly and with determination. The British Monarch has acted in Breach of Trust against the Americans, Canadians, Australians, and others. This criminality and the resulting surreptitious use of the Americium Bar Association members as licensed privateers operating on our shores is a serious international crime which is being addressed.


The misrepresentations of Americans as "foundlings" and "bastards" resulting in them being declared wards of the corporate "state" and further misrepresentations leading to them being declared "legally dead" are criminal acts of self-interested fraud carried out against us by avowed "allies" and "friends in perpetuity"-- parties who are bound by the most solemn obligations of international trust and treaty, who have abused America and Americans for their own profit.


This same pattern of lying about us and making false claims against us and seeking to "re-venue" us to foreign jurisdictions has also been attempted against our federation of nation-states as a whole. Two weeks ago, international banks and governmental services corporations in their employ appeared before the UN Trust Committee---North America, and claimed that the States of America no longer exist. They claimed among other things that we no longer have a national currency in circulation. They claimed that all 400 million Americans had voluntarily accepted Federal United States Citizenship. They claimed that our country is "civilly dead" and "de-populated" and that there are no American State Citizens.


This was, of course, done behind our backs by people representing secondary creditors of defunct federal "governmental services corporations" claiming to be the beneficiaries and/or creditors of our estates.


It's time to set the records straight and for us to act in our naked sovereign capacity.


A Declaration of Joint Sovereignty was issued by lawful heirs of the National Trust(s), together with Sovereign Letters Patent in behalf of the United Colonies of America, the united States of America, and the Native American Nations and delivered to the UN Trust Committee--North America and to the UN Security Council, the Pope, the Queen, Ban Ki Moon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Bank of International Settlements.


The criminals responsible for this circumstance are being recognized for who and what they are and the die is cast. We are going to get down to the bottom of this fraud and misrepresentation once and for all.


If you wish to be called "Sheriff" of a county in America, you must now step up and earn the title and begin operating the land jurisdiction owed to the Continental United States. You are under moral and lawful obligation to protect the Hammonds against any "federal agent" and to fully inform those agents of the limitations of their jurisdiction while standing on our soil. If there is no American Common Law Court presently operating in your county, it is your duty to organize one without further delay. In most counties there are active Justices of the Peace who still perform private marriage ceremonies and public notaries are still active. You may draft your Grand Jury and if needed, Trial Juries, from among the landowners listed in the county land records. All actions of the actual County Court should be stamped in red and signed in black. All actions by admiralty courts ---by whatever name they operate under---are stamped in blue.


Sincerely,


Judge Anna Maria Riezinger



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1/30/2016

The Big Short (2015) Is A Must See Movie


Author: jakob13 from United States
13 December 2015
The Big Short' is a winner. Based on Michael Lewis book of the same title, it tells the sorry story of the fraud and deceit practiced on the American people, nay, on the world by Wall Streets finance capitalism. We know the culprits: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Lehman Bros., Morgan Stanley, Citibank, Wachovia, Credit Suisse, UBS and on and on who invented financial instruments such as CDO, credit swaps and other fancy unintelligible names, based on mortgages, with the connivance of the credit agencies--Dow Jone, Standard and Poor's and Fitch.

The Big Short' with a light seriousness is a crash course on the duplicity of Wall Street investment bankers who earned large fees on junk bonds with triple A ratings; who bundled junk to palm off on an unsuspecting public looking for big gains by pandering to the snake oil elixir of getting rich quickly; and who feed on the naivety of the broad American have-nots with the dream of owning a home of their own. And so with some humor but much sadness are we lead through the byways of four different groups of bankers who saw the hoax for what it was and its impending implosion that would bring down the deck of cards of capitalism. And the took out bets on the market, by buying short. And they won big time!

But the banks are still around, and the ratepayers footed the bailout, but at what cost! And we see this in the turmoil of the Republican party: for the discontent abroad in the US has thrown more than 25 percent of the population into poverty, loss of jobs, home, into heavy debt and no future for their children. And these banks have not reformed their ways...now they've come up with the same of gimmicks with a fancy name--something like beneficial financial tranche--as the play the same old mug's game. And like the Bourbons, t The cast is stellar--especially Christian Bale and Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling as well as the minor players. And like the Bourbons, in the words of Talleyrand, 'they learned nothing and forgot nothing', but the contempt they have for all of us. And to make the case stronger, the fools on the Supreme Court have strengthened the hands of big money and the oligopoly and the fat cats of Wall Street and the coupon clippers and the devil take the rest of us!



Published on Nov 6, 2014
The abject failure of the nation's top law enforcer to enforce the law against bankers of any significance in the wake of a $10,000 billion crisis is notorious. Less well-known are (1) the astounding lengths to which Eric Holder's DOJ has gone to protect criminal banks, which just so happen to be clients of his law firm, (2) the degree to which the rule of law has been subverted (it's been destroyed; we have been living under the rule of man, officially, for some time), and (3) the broader implications of Holder's reign on U.S. national sovereignty (grave).

This video series explores all three topics and more.

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/untouchables/

Martin Smith, who wrote and produced the Untouchables, received the 2014 John Chancellor Award for Excellence from Columbia's journalism school. While putatively for his work on the Retirement Gamble a year later, the award has the appearance of a veiled accolade for the more powerful Untouchables. (It's not unlike, say, Dennis Hopper's 1986 Oscar nomination for Hoosiers instead of for his more controversial role in Blue Velvet the same year.)





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