Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that his country has only received around $76 billion in aid from the United States despite America authorising around $175 billion to support the war-torn country. In an interview with the Associated Press published over the weekend, President Zelensky said he doesn’t know where most of the money the United States allocated under the Biden administration to Ukraine has gone. An analysis by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) found last year that nearly 70 per cent of Ukraine aid was spent in America, including replenishing U.S. weapons stockpiles, purchasing weapons to be sent to Ukraine, and funding Defence Department accounts. There have been long-held concerns in Washington over sending billions of dollars to Ukraine given its issues with graft. In 2023, Transparency International ranked Ukraine as the second-most corrupt European nation, only behind Russia, with a score of 33 out of 100. The Oversight Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives has found that “Ukrainian government officials allegedly engaged in bribery, used government vehicles for personal use, and purchased inflated food supplies for Ukrainian forces.” Despite previously downplaying the widespread corruption in the former Soviet state, the New York Times reported in 2023 that unnamed Ukrainian officials admitted U.S. taxpayer money intended for military contracts had “failed to produce weaponry or ammunition and that some money has vanished.” British government estimates have claimed that nearly a tenth of all English farmland will need to be ‘rewilded’ by 2050 to hit green agenda targets. Projections in the government’s “land use framework” said that approximately 760,000 hectares, or around nine per cent of agricultural land in England, will need to “change away from agricultural land for environmental and climate benefits,” the Financial Times reports. The move could see the UK become even more reliant on foreign imports to meet its food supply needs, with the country already importing around 40 per cent of its food. Farmers have also expressed outrage over the left-wing Labour government’s plans to remove the inheritance tax exemption from many farms. Under the scheme, farms valued at at least £1 million (£2 million for married couples) will face a 20 per cent inheritance tax by 2026. As many farmers operate on a thin profit margin, many have warned that the tax raid will force families to sell off parts of their land just to pay the tax when their parents die. This has led to large-scale protests throughout the country in recent months. Yesterday's report that the US government has been funding outlets such as Politico, the Associated Press, the BBC, and others raised more questions than it answered - though the obvious implication is that the US government has effectively been propping up regime-friendly media, which then peddles regime-friendly coverage - and spent years attacking independent outlets such as ZeroHedge, The Federalist, and many unlucky ones who have since been starved out of business. And while funding for Politico and others has come from all over the federal government - WikiLeaks, citing a RSF report, highlighted that USAID was funding over 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 "media" NGOs, which includes 90% of the reportage out of Ukraine. Of course, the RSF report, and another from the Columbia Journalism Review are sounding the alarm over the 'silencing of independent media' around the world. The critical context they omit, however, is that USAID - despite the best of intentions when it was formed, has been corrupted into a deep-state slush-fund. The U.S. Department of Education is calling on the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) to revoke the titles and championships awarded to transgender athletes competing in girls’ and women’s sports during the Biden administration. The department issued the call after first sending a letter to the NCAA and NFHS on Tuesday, prompting the organizations to “restore to female athletes the records, titles, awards, and recognitions misappropriated by biological males competing in female categories.” In addition, the letter informed the organizations that to comply with current administration policy, the high school and college governing bodies should remove any accolades from those athletes that “unfairly competed against girls and women in athletics.” The call for the removal of awards comes on the heels of President Trump’s signing of the Keep Men Out of Women’s Sports executive order on Wednesday. An order mandates educational institutions receiving federal money conform to the Title IX changes instituted by the Trump administration. Guest post by Leo Hohmann – republished with permission. USAID sent $9.3B to Islamic terror states that killed 3,000 American soldiers. The explosive disclosures about how U.S. taxpayer monies are being used to subvert governments worldwide, while propping up others, continues to shed light on the outragious fools our own government must take us for. They steal our money and use it however they wish, often in secret deals that reward obedient foreign regimes while punishing the disobedient. Somalia, along with other Islamic terrorist entities, including the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Houthis in Yemen, and Hamas in Gaza, were among the top beneficiaries of USAID cash, Greenfield reports. USAID sent $2.1 billion to Gaza and the “West Bank” since the Hamas attacks of Oct 7. In 2024 alone, $917 million was programmed for the terrorist areas occupying Israel. USAID provided more than $3.7 billion to Afghanistan since the Taliban took over with $832 million in the previous fiscal year alone. The money was so unaccountable that USAID refused to cooperate with SIGAR: the government watchdog tracking spending in Afghanistan intent on blocking money from aiding terrorists. A kayaker in Chile became a modern-day Jonah on Saturday when a humpback whale decided to approach him. The incident happened off Chilean Patagonia when 24-year-old Adrián Simancas was kayaking with his father, Dell, in the Strait of Magellan, CBS News reported Friday. His father was recording from not far away when the whale came out of nowhere and swallowed his son and his yellow kayak. Video footage shows the moment the whale surfaced and Simancas disappeared inside the creature’s mouth. Seconds later, the whale released Simancas, who tried to get his bearings after such an intense few moments. He later said, “I thought I was dead. I thought it had eaten me, that it had swallowed me.” During the incident, his father is heard telling him to stay calm. When Simancas emerged from inside the whale’s mouth, his kayak was also seen popping up out of the water. After the frightening brush with the humpback whale, Simancas and his father returned to shore safe and sound, although a little shaken. The story is reminiscent of the Book of Jonah in the Bible when the prophet was swallowed by a whale and later spit back on land. [Just wanted to clarify: the Bible does not say a whale swallowed Jonah; it was a great fish.] A Delta plane crash landed on a snowy runway at Toronto Pearson Airport in Canada on Monday afternoon. Update: According to ABC News, at least 15 people are injured, including one child. ABC News reported: Fifteen people, including one child, have been taken to hospitals, but none of the injuries are considered to be life-threatening, according to Peel Regional Paramedic Services. Ornge, which provides medical transport, said three people suffered critical injuries: one child, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 40s. The flight arrived from Minneapolis when it crash landed and flipped upside down. All passengers and crew are accounted for,” the airport said in a statement. Emergency crews rushed to the scene. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/breaking-delta-plane-crashes-toronto-flips-upside-down/ 70 Christians In Congo Church Found Beheaded In Devastating Massacre By Islamic Terrorists: Seventy Christians have been found beheaded in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in what’s the latest devastating attack on believers in the northeast of the country. According to field sources, at around 4 am last Thursday (13 February), suspected militants from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) – a group with ties to so-called Islamic State (IS) – approached homes in Mayba in the territory of Lubero, saying: “Get out, get out and don’t make any noise.” Twenty Christian men and women came out and were captured. Shaken by this incident, people from the local community in Mayba later gathered to work out how to release those held captive. However, ADF militants surrounded the village and captured a further 50 believers. All 70 of those kidnapped were taken to a Protestant church in Kasanga where they were tragically killed. In the last month alone, the group have killed more than 200 people in Baswagha chiefdom, according to a local news website. This explains why DRC rose six places to number 35 in the latest World Watch List. Last year, 355 were killed for their faith, compared with 261 the previous year, whilst an estimated 10,000 were internally displaced, which is ten times more than in 2023. Houses have been looted and burnt, schools relocated, churches and health facilities closed, and several Christian villages have been abandoned altogether. The recent activities of the M23 rebel group, reportedly supported by Rwanda, has added to the vulnerability of Christians. In posts to X, Musk said, "It is time to begin preparations for deorbiting the (space station). It has served its purpose. There is very little incremental utility. Let's go to Mars." When pressed about whether or not he meant to up the current schedule that calls for it to be safely brought down after 2030, Musk said, "The decision is up to the President, but my recommendation is as soon as possible. I recommend two years from now." https://phys.org/news/2025-02-elon-musk-deorbit-international-space.html The New York Post reports Biden’s $475B student debt cancellation plan blocked as federal appeals court issues final decision A federal appeals court delivered a crushing blow Tuesday to a more than $475 billion student debt cancellation program begun by former President Joe Biden, ordering the underlying regulation be blocked in its entirety. Judge L. Steven Grasz in a 25-page opinion ruled that Biden’s Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona, had “gone well beyond” his constitutional authority in creating the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan. In 2023, the Penn Wharton Budget Model estimated the so-called “repayment plan,”which Grasz said allowed for student debt to be “largely forgiven rather than repaid, would cost taxpayers $475 billion over the next decade. “He isn’t ‘forgiving’ debt. He is taking the debt from those who willingly took it out to go to college and transferring it onto taxpayers who decided not to go to college or already paid off their loans,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) charged in a statement last year. Student Loan Borrowers Are Losing 100+ Credit Points The College Investor reports Student Loan Borrowers Are Losing 100+ Credit Points For thousands of federal student loan borrowers, the past few weeks have been a wake-up call. As credit monitoring services send out alerts, many are realizing that their credit scores have dropped by over 100 points—some by as much as 200—due to missed student loan payments.
Zelensky Claims Ukraine Received Less Than Half of U.S. Aid, ‘Don’t Know Where All That Money Went’:
Great Reset: Tenth of English Farmland Needs to Be ‘Rewilded’ for Green Agenda, Says Gov’t Report:
WikiLeaks: USAID Has Been Funding Over 6,000 Journalists Worldwide Across Nearly 1000 Platforms:
Department of Education Calls on NCAA, NFHS to Strip Awards ‘Misappropriated’ by Trans Athletes:
Hohmann: USAID funded Terrorist Regimes that Killed Thousands of US Soldiers:
WATCH — ‘I Thought It Had Eaten Me’: Stunned Kayaker Recalls Being Swallowed by Humpback Whale:
BREAKING: Delta Plane Arriving From Minneapolis Crashes in Toronto, Flips Upside Down – At Least 15 People Injured (VIDEO):
Elon Musk calls for deorbit of International Space Station as soon as possible:
Student Loan Borrowers Crushed By Appeals Court Ruling, Credit Scores Plunge:
