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Breeauna Sagdal

May 30

🧵Challenging Biased Shareholder Assumptions🧵

Guess who's invested? Who do YOU think is fighting to heal the land, soil, and water of the Texas panhandle, following the worst fire in the history of the state?

drive.google.com/file/d/1Tk2A4P…

After the state told farmers that it had zero interest in seeding the burned lands in time for this hay season, an outfitter, ranchers and @modernTman with the @beefinitiative worked collaboratively to get over 20 tons of seed on the ground for wildlife and cattle alike!

The official decision from state and federal land regulators would have made farmers dependant upon other states for hay this coming winter, driving up feed costs industry-wide. In addition, the quick action being taken by actual land stewards will ensure that wildlife thrives.

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Breeauna Sagdal

@Breeauna9

May 19

🚨🚨FARMERS v BIDEN et al.🚨🚨

The Breaking Farm Credit Fiasco That Nobody Is Prepared For.

MAY 18, 2024 - America's farmers and farmlands are facing a multi-pronged attack from within the governing structures meant to protect the nation's food supply. The Beef Initiative has worked to outline the economic, regulatory, and private interests that are currently driving rural communities out of business. Now, a developing story helps to piece together another vital component of the total picture.

Tennessee rancher and agricultural attorney Dustin Kittle has just filed a lawsuit against President Joseph Biden for alleged failures to execute his duties as POTUS. According to the filing and Congressional Research Council reports, Biden has failed to appoint two of the three-member board required for the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) to function.

During the Trump administration, former banking specialist Rodney Brown had been tapped to serve as a member of the FCA Board. The Senate Agriculture Committee sat on Brown's appointment for two full years, finally returning Brown's nomination to Donald Trump once Biden took office.

Jeff Hall, whom Trump had appointed Brown to replace, is now the longest sitting member in the history of the FCA board, serving a twice expired term under Biden. Without an acting board, the FCA has not conducted proper oversight in over three years.

Unfortunately, this non-functioning regulatory Board is tasked with overseeing the farm credit system and all of its lending institutions across the country.

According to the allegations, Kittle and other farmers have been extorted by threats to take their farmlands without remedy or oversight from the FCA.

Dustin Kittle represents multiple clients who have loans at the farmer-owned co-op association known as Alabama Farm Credit. As a condition of lending, farmers are required to buy $1,000 dollars in stocks of the Alabama Farm Credit, making them stockholders and co-owners. The Alabama Farm Credit, as an institution, is prohibited from holding deposits, a condition of the federal law that governs the charter.

Although the loans are often backed by the U.S. government, similar to student loans, farm credit has been allowed to take collateral—a ton of collateral.

In the late 1990's, regulators created an ambiguity in the law that allowed farm credit institutions to begin a program called a “voluntary advance conditional funds held account.” Unfortunately, nothing about it was actually voluntary.

This careful use of legal language effectively allowed non-deposit farm credit institutions to condition the underwriting of loans for poultry farmers upon 33 to 65 percent assignments, paid from companies like Tyson or Pilgrim's Pride (USDA certified poultry tournaments) directly to the lending institution.

On a 50 percent assignment, Tyson would cut two checks; one directly to the farmer for 50%, and the other to Farm Credit for the other half of the proceeds. According to Farm Credit, these forward payments helped to mitigate interest. The reality is likely closer to covering liquidity shortfalls, as the farm credit system appears to have been in financial trouble for some years.

In 2021, these accounts suddenly disappeared without prior notice. One of Kittle's clients, a poultry farmer, is paid ahead by more than two years on his loan, yet he cannot access that money.

Overnight, Alabama Farm Credit took an estimated 20-40 million dollars and moved that into the bank's general fund. Farmers, who must make upgrades to their poultry houses in order to remain in compliance with USDA, and now EPA regulations, are unable to access their own money in order to stay in the tournament system.

Over A Barrel and Over Collateralized
Farm Credit has now begun offering farmers high interest, variable rate loans at 10 percent or higher, so long as they pledge their properties as collateral. Unregulated by any banking oversight, or regulatory agency, Alabama Farm Credit has allegedly conducted appraisals in-house, drastically undervalued property, and at times, has cross-collateralized the properties of family members—liening farms owned free and clear.

According to court filings, during the Covid pandemic, Farm Credit began placing these loans in distressed status, even when a Farmer had never missed a single payment.

According to FCA criteria, loans or lines of credit, can be placed into distressed status for any number of reasons. Perhaps an avian flu outbreak threatens your ability to pay your loan, or a fire rips through your herd, like it's done much of the Texas panhandle. Distressed status is the only option to restructure a loan under FCA regulations.

Criteria for distressed loans outline two options available for the farmer;
Distressed option to restructure
Distressed notice of Farm Credit's option to foreclose in 45 days.

According to annual stockholder reports, Alabama Farm Credit did not approve a single restructure of a loan from 2020-2022, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, Alabama Farm Credit's CEO and executive staff, who have given themselves raises, and six-figure bonuses without approval from farmer stockholders, have now hired the largest law firm in the state with stakeholder dollars to pursue option 2.

Filings indicate that farmers are sent a notice of distress on their loans, the first step to a Farm Credit foreclosure. Accounts are then turned over to Bradley Arant, the law firm, who is paid hourly with the farmer-stockholders' own money—including the stolen funds from poultry farmers. The firm is contracted by the Farm Credit executives to negotiate with distressed farmers and take a deed in lieu of foreclosure.

In that negotiation with the distressed farmer the lawyer demands a release of liability for future legal claims, and a non-disclosure agreement to keep farmers quiet.

Essentially, what amounts to the extortion of farmers, has gone completely unchecked by the Farm Credit Administration, due to a non-functioning board, and egregious conflicts of interest.

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Breeauna Sagdal

@Breeauna9

Apr 21

🚨🚨🚨SO IT BEGINS🚨🚨🚨

GUILTY UNLESS PROVEN INNOCENT- The Contents of Konstantin Malofeyev’s Bank Account Sent to Ukraine...

On April 4, 2022, a Southern District of New York grand jury, under SEALED INDICTMENT, indicted Malofeyev with "conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act" (“IEEPA”), 50 U.S.C. § 1705. (IEEPA was again reauthorized and expanded to encompass ALL online transactions, under the Biden Administration, on Feb. 28, 2024—days before the House passed the TikTok forced divestiture bill 7521.)

The U.S. sought forfeiture of the approximately $5.4 million, held in the Texas based Sunflower Bank account under the authority of 18 U.S.C. § 981(c) for "violations of IEEPA."

On February 2, 2023, the U.S. sought a judgment of forfeiture, United States v. $5,379,876.94, DE 6 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 2, 2023), which the district court granted the SAME DAY, Id. at DE 8 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 2, 2023).

In addition to $45 billion in the Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations of 2023, Congress provided authority for forfeited cash, and the proceeds from the sale of forfeited assets from individuals listed on the OFAC "Blocked Persons" list, alledged of "violating certain U.S. laws and/or subject to U.S. sanctions," to be used to fund the Ukrainian proxy war—outside of an official declaration of war by Congress!!!

"While Konstantin Malofeyev’s case involves the first actual transfer of Russian-Oligarch-related assets sent to Ukraine, it will not be the last.

"In fact, the Biden Administration’s ability to supplement foreign aid to Ukraine with Russian Oligarchs’ assets may prove to incentivize Justice Department forfeiture actions involving 'covered forfeited property.'”

HR 7521, the supposed "TikTok Ban" is actually expanded centralized authority to the POTUS, under sanctions laws, to force the sale of private property (tangible and intangible).

According to the language of H.R 7521, Section (g)(c)”Definitions” the bill applies to;

“a person subject to the direction or control of a foreign person or entity.” When the President determines that a person or entity poses a risk to national security, the President merely needs to issue a public notice via OFAC of impacted entities, and then notify Congress 30 days prior, "outlining a classified annex and description of assets that must be divested" (sold).

As we've just seen with Malofeyev, indictments are sealed, until after the judgement!

To review, literally anyone can be alleged of IEEPA violations, or U.S law violations, indicted under seal, have their property and assets seized, and then sold in order to fund undeclared wars for indefinite periods of time.

And when there's no more "Russian oligarchy" money left in the U.S? Yet, precedent has been set???.... Which enemy will the Biden Administration go after next? Who's assets will be seized next?

Maybe your own, if alleged of being "subject to the direction or control of a foreign person or entity.”

And so it begins...lewisbrisbois.com/newsroom/legal…

@ReadeAlexandra @RealBookerScott @xAlphaWarriorx @Andreafreedom76

Ugh, whose* assets will be seized next... sorry for the typo.

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Breeauna Sagdal

@Breeauna9

Apr 6

🚨🧵THE WAR ON MEAT, IS A WAR ON PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THE VALUE OF THE DOLLAR🧵🚨

Seasoned Veterinarians and livestock producers, alike, have been scratching their respective heads trying to understand the media's response to the avian flu. Headlines across every major news outlet warns of humans becoming infected with the “deadly” bird flu, after one reported case of pink-eye in a human.

The entire narrative is predicated upon a long disputed claim that COVID-19 was the result of a zoonotic jump—the famed Wuhan bat wet-market theory.

While the source of Covid is hotly contested within the scientific community, the policy vehicle at the center of this dialectic began years prior to Sars-Cov-2 and is quite resolute in force and effect.

In 2016, the Gates Foundation donated to the World Health Organization to create the OneHealth Initiative. Since 2020, the CDC has adopted and implemented the OneHealth Initiative to build a “collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach—working at the local, regional, national, and global levels—with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment.”

In the aftermath of COVID-19, the OneHealth Initiative began taking shape, due largely in part to millions of tax dollars appropriated through ARP (American Rescue Plan) funding.

Through its APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Investigation System) the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) was given $300M in 2021 to begin implementing “a risk-based, comprehensive, integrated disease monitoring and surveillance system domestically…to build additional capacity for zoonotic disease surveillance and prevention,” globally.

“The One Health concept recognizes that the health of people, animals, and the environment are all linked,” said USDA Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Lester Moffitt.

According to the USDA's press release, the Biden-Harris Administration's OneHealth approach will also help to ensure “new markets and streams of income for farmers and producers using climate smart food and forestry practices,” by “making historic investments in infrastructure and clean energy capabilities in rural America.”

In other words, the federal government is using regulatory enforcement to intervene in the marketplace, in addition to subsidizing corporations with tax dollars to direct a planned economic outcome—ending meat consumption.
usda.gov/media/press-re…

Climate-Smart Commodities - Planning the Economy through Subsidized Intervention.

Under the recently announced Climate-Smart Commodities program, the USDA has appropriated $3.1B in tax subsidies to one hundred and forty-one new private Climate-Smart projects, ranging from carbon sequestration to Climate-Smart meat and forestry practices.

Private investors such as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos - who just committed $1B to the development of lab cultured meat-like molds, and meat grown in petri dishes, to
Ballpark, formerly known for its hotdogs, but is now harvesting python meat - are all rushing to cash in on this new industry, and the OneHealth/USDA certification program.
usda.gov/climate-soluti…

Culling The Herd - Regulatory Intervention in the Marketplace

Meanwhile, the last vestiges of America’s food freedom and decentralized food sources, are quietly being targeted by the full force of the federal government.

The once voluntary APHIS System, is poised to become the mandatory APHIS-15, which among many other changes, “the system will be renamed Animal Health, Disease, and Pest Surveillance and Management System, USDA/APHIS-15. This system is used by APHIS to collect, manage, and evaluate animal health data for disease and pest control and surveillance programs.”

Among those “many changes” that APHIS-15 is undergoing, one should be of particular interest to the public—the removal of all references to the voluntary* Bovine Johne's Disease Control Program.

“Updating the authority for maintenance of the system to remove reference to the Bovine Johne's Disease Control Program.”

In addition to removing references to the once voluntary herd culling program, the USDA is also implementing mandatory RFID ear tags in cattle and bison.

According to the USDA/APHIS-15, expanded authority places disease tracing in their jurisdiction and the radio frequency ear tags are necessary for the “rapid and accurate recordkeeping for this volume of animals and movement,” which they say “is not achievable without electronic systems.”

The notice clearly spells out that RFID tags “may be read without restraint as the animal goes past an electronic reader.”

“Once the reader scans the tag, the electronically collected tag number can be rapidly and accurately transmitted from the reader to a connected electronic database.”

However, Industry leaders and lawmakers alike, have said the database will be used to track vaccination history, movement, and that this data may be used to impact the market rate of cattle and bison at time of processing.
federalregister.gov/documents/2024…

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Breeauna Sagdal

@Breeauna9

Mar 24

🚨🧵Sanctions, Economic Fascism, and The Slow Road to “Owning Nothing”🚨🧵

Giovanni Gentile, was a neo-Hegelian philosopher, and the intellectual author of the “doctrine of fascism,” which he co-authored with Benito Mussolini. Influenced by Hegel, Nietzsche, and Karl Marx, Gentile believed that all private action should serve the state's interests.

“Fascism is a form of socialism, in fact, it is its most viable form,” Gentile wrote in his economic postulates, while defending compulsory state corporatism.

Gentile, like Mussolini, understood that a free society would not accept an authoritarian (state centered) regime, without incremental steps and the correct framing or socially engineered messaging to garner tacit agreement from the public.

Among the most prominent forms of economic fascism is the centralized authority to direct and plan the economy, trade, or commerce through restrictive and coercive methods. Centralization is defined as a sole individual, or a limited number of unelected individuals, who have been delegated the authority to control or manipulate the market—typically framed as a necessity for national security or for the welfare of the public (collective).

“Government alone,” Mussolini insisted, “is in the right position to see things from the point of view of the general welfare.” The government’s responsibility is to determine how much money is invested, how and where it should be invested and how the results will be judged.

In Italy after 1925, this was accomplished through the administrative state (the state within the state), such as the National Fascist Confederation of Industry, the National Fascist Confederation of Agriculture, the National Fascist Confederation of Commerce and the National Fascist Confederation of Banking.

After 40 years of Chevron doctrine being upheld in the United States, “highly trained experts” within administrative agencies have been given such deference to interpret the laws passed by Congress, it's now generally accepted among scholars that these agencies have the authority to promulgate new rules, beyond the scope of what Congress intended.

Citing the constitutional basis for the legality of American fascism (the interstate commerce clause, and preemptive doctrine), attorney Charlotte Twight, examines the economic consequences of interventions in her 2002 book Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control over the Lives of Ordinary Americans. Outlined are the affects of the administrative state, such as: licensing, regulation, and rate making; product control; increasing the power of the executive branch; control over labor and agriculture; import-export and foreign exchange controls.

For the purpose of H.R 7521, the so-called “TikTok Ban,” we will zero-in on the aforementioned affects of the administrative state, bearing in mind the framework of economic fascism and social engineering.

According to a Nov. 6, 2023 Congressional Report, entitled “Sanctions Primer: How the United States Uses Restrictive Mechanisms to Advance Foreign Policy or National Security Objectives,” the number of Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs) has risen by 900 percent since 2000, as the U.S increasingly uses sanctions as a weapon.

“Restricting Economic Transactions and Use of Financial Services The President is authorized to impose a variety of economic and financial restrictions pursuant to
enacted statute directing the imposition of sanctions, such as under IEEPA during a declared national emergency.”

It should be noted that President Joseph R.Biden declared just such an emergency on Feb. 28, 2024, days before H.R 7521, the so-called TikTok ban, was introduced, then passed by the House.

The Report continues;
“The Department of the Treasury’s
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) oversees such restrictions, often in coordination and consultation with other departments, as directed by the President through executive order. Restrictions often include
• blocking access to and prohibiting transactions related to property within the
jurisdiction of the United States of designated persons;
• prohibiting transactions between persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction and
designated individuals; and
• blocking access by designated individuals to the U.S. financial system.

“The executive branch or Congress may also prohibit or restrict investment by U.S. persons in foreign assets, or prohibit or restrict U.S. financial institutions from making loans or providing credits to designated persons.”
crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/…

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Breeauna Sagdal

@Breeauna9

Mar 20

🚨🧵SECTION 721 WEAPONIZATION? IS THIS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TIKTOK BILL? 🧵

In April 2022, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Lisa Monaco emphasised the centrality of national security to DOJ’s white collar enforcement efforts, noting in particular the enforcement of sanctions evasion and export control violations as a key part of deterring corporate crime, stating “one way to think about this is as sanctions being the new Foreign Corrupt Practices Act."

Lisa Monaco is said to have drafted H.R 7521, the TikTok bill.

Is Section 721 - US sanctions law - being weaponized against US citizens, companies, and crypto currency—like section 702 has been?

Monday, March 11, 2024,
"As part of the new Russian sanctions actions, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added almost 300 entities to its list of “Specially Designated Nationals” (the SDN List)."

"U.S. persons are prohibited from engaging in virtually all dealings involving SDNs."

The greatest risk is not to the notified SDN, but to the US citizen or entity that "knowingly, or unknowingly, directly or indirectly," transacts with a designated SDN.

Penalties for U.S persons violating sanctions carry 20 year prison sentences and up to 1 million dollars in fines per violation. Sound familiar? The language is nearly verbatim that of The Restrict Act.
@MikeBenzCyber

natlawreview.com/article/us-gov…
iclg.com/practice-areas…

Between 2023 and 2024 the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added 1,000 new Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs) to its list.

However, in October of 2022 OFAC sent a very clear message to US companies when it fined a Bellevue, WA based virtual currency exchange $24 million and $29 million, respectively, to Bittrex, Inc. (Bittrex).

"COMPLIANCE IS NOT OPTIONAL"

Why?
"Bittrex had reason to know that these users were located in jurisdictions subject to sanctions. At the time of the transactions, however, Bittrex was not screening this customer information for terms associated with sanctioned jurisdictions. This information was not voluntarily self-disclosed."

So, for not adopting then recently created, OFAC screening standards, Bittrex was fined millions for allowing third party transactions in jurisdictions subject to sanctions. They should have known...

home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…

Lawfirms are now advising their clients of the consequences of not knowing, because apparently it's just that easy to get caught into the net of those who "should have known."

Now, with Congressional Democrats setting their sights on X, and Elon Musk, perhaps it's time to start asking more questions about the use of sanctions for compliance. And perhaps, there's more to this TikTok bill that must be answered prior it passing.mofo.com/resources/insi…

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