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May 30 8 tweets 2 min read
🧵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! Image
May 19 7 tweets 6 min read
🚨🚨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.
Apr 21 7 tweets 4 min read
🚨🚨🚨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
Apr 6 7 tweets 6 min read
🚨🧵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…
Mar 24 11 tweets 10 min read
🚨🧵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.
Mar 20 5 tweets 4 min read
🚨🧵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…
Mar 15 7 tweets 3 min read
THREE DAYS AGO, WHILE MSM DEBATED TIKTOK, carefully steering the narrative to the Spooky CCP... THREE DAYS AGO, while the so-called "TIKTOK BAN" sailed through the House, after the RULES WERE SUSPENDED to pass it that quickly...

Once you realize that TikTok and its parent company Bytedance have been working WITH the Biden Administration and CFIUS for the last three years to become compliant, once you realize that On January 19, 2021, one day before President Biden assumed office, the US Department of Commerce (Commerce) published an interim final rule implementing its sweeping new authority to block, unwind, or condition "transactions" involving information and communications technology and services (ICTS), once you realize that TikTok's servers are in Texas, and then understand that the company already has an American board, and has already turned over ALL records of shareholders to the satisfaction of our federal government - then you start to understand the REAL target isn't TikTok - it's YOU via "X," Rumble, Gettr, Crypto, and so on down the line of non-compliant, divergent thought, content hubs and decentralized financial mechanisms.

Don't think it's possible? I have news for you. All it takes is an Executive Order declaring a National Security threat exists and invoking IEEPA (economic sanctions), like the Biden Administration did on Feb. 28, 2024—days before H.R 7521 passed out of the House. The seizure or freezing of assets can happen WHILE an investigation is being conducted, AND all an investigation requires is mere hearsay, or a small amount of evidence such as this below, in order to begin.

And so here we are. This is how it starts, saying the quiet parts out loud and laying the foundation for what comes neXt—the truth behind "the so-called TikTok ban" (H.R 7521). Because, the ultimate and uncomfortable truth is that the Free Market is the enemy of stakeholder capitalism, and stakeholder capitalism IS Economic Fascism!!! A system that exists to financially starve out dissenters, and those who fund "them" as opposed to "us."

Economic Fascism explained;

Time saver;
fee.org/articles/econo…
CFIUS final rule change;
arnoldporter.com/en/perspective…
Jan 12 5 tweets 2 min read
🧵 UN vs. Israeli/U.S Rights to Defense as "Oppressors"🧵

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"I hope you seek to dismantle the United States."

"Of the most oppressed a$$ people, indigenous women are like at the top of the f- ing list on Turtle Island."

#2

U.N Attorney, Francesca Albanese, claims a nation state has no right to self-defense if it's the "Oppressor."

Albanese then claims that Israel has no right to invoke article 51, right to self-defense, as it wages war against the oppressed.

Dec 8, 2023 9 tweets 6 min read
🚨🧵The National Defense Authorization Act FY24🧵🚨

This massive Omnibus is extremely eye-opening, and I've only been able to get through 508 sections this far, so buckle up!

1. The DOD has been given "permanent authority" to call up retired members for active duty. Image 2. Congress and the Secretary of the Interior have authorized amendments to the "Sentinel Landscape Partnership," redefining "agricultural land owner" to "eligible owners" and "land managers."

"Sentinel landscapes are areas where conservation, working lands, and national defense interests converge. They are anchored by at least one high-value military installation or range and contain high priority lands for USDA, DOD, and DOI."Image
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Nov 30, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
A letter sent to the SEC related to Natural Asset Companies, by U.S. Senators @MikeCrapo
@SenatorRicketts
and Senator James E. Risch details multiple points of concern and demands answers no later than tomorrow, November 30, 2023
- Risch.senate.gov
risch.senate.gov/public/_cache/…

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Nov 24, 2023 6 tweets 4 min read
🧵Sen. Gary Peters Crowned The Whopper King🧵

The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee (DSCC) is playing fast and loose with the facts. Honestly, an FEC ethics violation is warranted given these whoppers. At the head of the DSCC sits Michigan Senator Gary Peters—The Whopper King.

According to DSCC, the PAC is focused on flipping senate seats in Florida and Texas. However, aside from being completely inaccurate, the actual messaging of the PAC, geared towards donors via ActBlue, is solely critical of HOUSE Republicans.

Some of the allegations made by this PAC range from scaring recipients into believing that their Reproductive Rights are in jeopardy due to "MAGA Republicans in the House," even after Roe was turned over to the states and Congress has no power.

Now, I've received a text alert claiming that Speaker Johnson is trying to cut 1.5 Trillion in Social Security benefits and Medicare.

So what's Peters actually up to, and what's the truth behind these whoppers?

Let's take a look:


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2. It’s worth noting Social Security is in financial trouble and its funding is expected to be depleted as soon as 2033, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

So let's begin with looking into what's draining Social Security, because if you thought SSA was just a trust that went back to those who have paid into it their entire lives, you'll be shocked.
Aug 30, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
🧵"Free Lunch"🧵
A Hard Pill to Swallow?

Incoming progressive, Rep. Wittman (D-Brookings), has announced a legislative proposal for "Free School Lunch," that could quickly fuel the culture fire, depending on how it's funded.

Recently passed SD laws; protecting women in sports, and prohibiting puberty blockers for minors, would quickly be overturned if South Dakota's legislature agrees to accept federal funding for the School Lunch Program.

Under the Biden Administration's amendments to Title IX, South Dakota would also be mandated to incorporate gender identity and sexual orientation throughout K-12 curricula...1/2 The established policies "violate Title IX when they categorically ban transgender students from participating on sports teams consistent with their gender identity."

After redefining Title IX, the Biden Administration then directed the USDA to enforce adherence to the thousand-plus-paged document, by granting investigatory authority over recipients of the National School Lunch Program (FNS).

The action effectively leveraged federally funded school lunch, for mandatory compliance to the Title IX amendments.

“As a result, state and local agencies, program operators and sponsors that receive funds from FNS must investigate allegations of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation,” USDA said in a statement. “Those organizations must also update their non-discrimination policies and signage to include prohibitions against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.”

The change means that schools receiving any kind of subsidized school lunch funding, will now be subject to the new Title IX LGBTQ interpretation.

@GovKristiNoem
has been adamant that South Dakota's State sovereignty will not be handed over for federal coin.

Still, left-leaning media and the SDDNC continue to message in lock-step, omitting the true costs of progressive policies. 2/2
Aug 22, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
🧵Do Federal Funds = Institutional Compliance?🧵

Last year, as South Dakota was appropriating daycare dollars from federal funds, I wrote an article about the fine print.

Many shrugged off concerns related to the fine print stating, "the pandemic is over."

But after a year, and billions spent, perhaps it's time to review that fine print, and see exactly what was agreed to in order to receive said funds?

Internal memo (below) originally shared by @stkirsch* This may NOT be the case across the board, but in the case of South Dakota state licensed daycares who received federal funds, they had to check a box on the application agreeing to the following;

"17. Eligible providers must certify in their application to:

-being open and serving children during the grant periods

implementing policies, when open and providing services, that are in line with;
- guidance and orders from corresponding state and local authorities and, to the greatest extent possible, implementing policies in line with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (available at )..."-DSS FAQ
Aug 17, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
🧵 Thread on Oregon's new laws 🧵

According to legislative research council, detransitioning treatments are excluded from health insurance coverage, due to the following definition of what constitutes
“Gender-affirming treatment;”

"means a procedure, service, drug, device or product
that a physical or behavioral health care provider prescribes to treat an individual for
incongruence between the individual’s gender identity and the individual’s sex assignment
at birth."

The bill's mandate to health insurance companies creates a loophole in the language, excluding destrans individuals, as the incongruence is between their gender identity and the sex assignment made by medical professionals—as opposed to "at birth." The bill, HB 2002, has also expanded the list of providers who can diagnose and prescribe gender affirming care, and reproductive health services to;
-Dentists, and unless for an initial eye exam for contacts,
-Optometrists
- Naturopathic Doctors
- Registered Nurses

*School based health clinics were removed from the enrolled version.
Jul 28, 2023 4 tweets 4 min read
A Thread on Body Image, and the Body Positivity Movement. 🧵

1. A tale of two cousins

At five-years-old, I was twice the size of my cousin Tamara, whom you might recognize if a child of the 80's, as Tamara was on contract for Barbie, Disney, Nickelodeon etc., commercials for… https://t.co/mVc5deZvfUtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Image 2. "You're very tall for your age."

Looking back now, I wish I could go back in time and tell my younger self that you're beautiful, you're strong, and exactly the right size.

I never heard that though, and grew up feeling out of place, and very uncomfortable in my own skin.… https://t.co/behkLEQZLBtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…


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