This article is not about the Titanic. It's about another ship...the ship of state rapidly sinking into the abyss. In fact, one could make that statement about most of Western civilization. Yes, the ship is sinking and the captain, his crew, and associates are getting ready to exit the ship, leaving us to go down with the ship.

We are going to ask many questions, the first step in finding answers. Questions like: What happened? Why did we allow our government(s) to turn on us? What can we do at this point? Who is responsible?

For decades, the West has experienced, not immigration, but chaos...no order, no vetting
Most everyone with any cognizance will agree that we have entered a very strange time, a sort of Twilight Zone. States and cities with governors, mayors, legislatures, judicial branches, police...all the trappings of responsible civic order, whole multi-national corporations, and people of every class, many with the highest of educational degrees and skills, both rich and poor...all made blind by some supernatural force that causes tens of millions of these people to not see the end from the beginning...that winter is coming.

Portland is a typical example. They complain about crime, yet voted to defund police. Cities and counties everywhere like New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Santa Clara County, CA, Butler County in Kansas, Hamilton County, Ohio...in their puffed-up pride and superior morality declare themselves 'sanctuaries' where illegal aliens can come... and find what? Will they find free housing, healthcare, food, clothing? Most of them departed with just what they could carry and gave up much of it on the way. In many cases they owe thousands to the ferryman. How about if they come by the millions expecting handouts? Suppose tens of thousands of these 'migrants' are Chinese soldiers waiting for orders? How is your pride and misplaced morality holding up?

Why do so many of you vote for the same people, the same party, yet expect a different result?

For decades, the West has experienced, not immigration, but chaos...no order, no vetting. It's chaos created by your leaders. Engineers and doctors can't get in, only the poor and unskilled. Who is making these decisions and why?

Can anyone fathom the destruction of an innocent life based on some god fantasy and greed?
In Europe, millions of migrants with a totally foreign culture are not integrating into society, but, instead, demanding that Europe change. Who decided that for you?

So called responsible people are actually telling children that they can change their gender. Can you imagine? Can anyone fathom the destruction of an innocent life based on some god fantasy and greed?

Celebrities such as Mel Gibson warned us over a decade ago that Hollywood, and many of the people we looked up to, were residing in a pit of pedophilia. Pedophilia is now getting some attention with the movie, 'The Sound of Freedom'.

Crime in most Democrat cities and states is off the charts. SUVs in California park with their tailgates open to show they have nothing to steal. Security technology is more advanced than ever and yet...are the security videos now only for entertainment purposes? No one yet seems to have figured out that winking at crime causes more crime... amazing. If you don't punish crime, you get more crime. What a concept.

Same for the homeless. Pay them, you get more. Many who have been interviewed prefer the lifestyle and you're paying for it...in crime, drug use, filth, and in some cities paychecks. Who decided that?

Our political and judicial systems have almost completely broken down. We are told countless times that Trump is a criminal, but the Bidens, the Clintons and countless other political hacks like Romney, Obama, Kerry, Soros, Brennan, and Pelosi are all tied to Ukraine money laundering schemes. That's why Trump must be taken down, he knows it. Whoever thought the FBI would lose their sterling reputation in just a few short years? Whoever would suspect the CIA would turn inward on its own people, gathering millions of pieces of information on countless Americans, against its own charter? Who would think the medical profession would not endorse inexpensive drugs for a pandemic, but endorse a vaccine that is now killing and disabling millions? And nothing changes.

The Deep State is planning the next election with the same tools they used to win the last one
Now for the really bad news. It's not about to end any time soon. Anyone who thinks our political disarray is just politics as usual is sadly misinformed. The Left in this country and in all of Western civilization is not only not going to give up and walk away, they are girding their loins for the final battle.

Millions of us think Trump will win and law and order will once again prevail. Think again. The Deep State is planning the next election with the same tools they used to win the last one. States have not fixed any of the problems we saw in 2020. As I see it, Trump will not be allowed to occupy the White House ever again. As of today, Trump is facing 78 criminal charges. They are hoping something will stick. These are the same people that watched while Leftist mobs burned down cities and then paid for their release and/or fines. But walking into the Capitol building upon invite gets you prison time in solitary.

One of the most memorable Twilight Zone episodes was called 'Monsters Are Due on Maple Street'. Aliens land on a hilltop near a quiet suburban subdivision. People dismiss it as probably a meteor. All is again quiet. The aliens begin their scheme by shutting off the power, electricity is out, cars won't start. A boy tries to explain to a crowd of people gathered in the street that he read about this in science fiction stories, that aliens will send down a few of their own to infiltrate the population. They look human enough. People begin showing anxiety. Upon trying to understand what is happening, most people in the neighborhood show signs of alarm, angst and dread, while a few represent the voice of reason. Before long the people are accusing one another of being alien, causing the chaos. It ends with the once quiet street having been turned into mobs of people attacking one another, shots being fired, people screaming.



Globalist cabal that want control over every form of life on this planet
If you haven't guessed, we are those people on Maple Street. We are being played with by godless, unscrupulous people. They are the globalist cabal that want control over every form of life on this planet. They divide us and accuse one group against another. So far, they are winning. What causes a person to wear a mask alone in a car? What causes billions of people to take a series of untested vaccines for a disease not unlike the common cold? What causes people to close their churches and businesses while seeing Walmart, liquor stores and pot shops stay open? What causes people to abandon common sense because someone with authority says different?

Think about it, we are dealing with pandemic, war, inflation, food shortages, crime, manufactured racial hatred, millions of unvetted migrants, and, of course, climate change that is going to kill us all. They have produced what they think is the one element needed to cause us to give up freedom, liberty and our God...FEAR!

But, we can fight back! We have power most of us do not realize. Anheuser Busch thought they could up-end our Christian morality, culture, religion, and sense of right and wrong. The boycott has cost them $40 billion in stock value. They're having to let go of almost 400 executives. The company has been turned upside down and it continues, months after the misstep. But, they remain unrepentant. Their silence confirms it. Many of their distributors are outraged and have given up hope of saving Bud Light.



Boycott companies that do not support the American way of life and our patriotism
That so many companies go woke, lose billions and remain without remorse in very curious. Who or what is behind this?

Boycott companies that do not support the American way of life and our patriotism. Continue the pressure on Anheuser-Busch. Start boycotting companies like Target, Disney, Bank of America, Progressive Insurance, Adidas, Levi Strauss, BlackRock, Vanguard, Nike, AARP, and North Face. Get off Facebook, and no more Starbucks. Get your coffee elsewhere.

Ben & Jerry's ice cream has recently announced a boycott of Israel, but their new holding company, Unilever, canceled it, forcing them to sell ice cream throughout Israel. This doesn't make them good, only neutral, at best.

Punish the bad, but support the good. Good companies like Hobby Lobby, Exxon Mobile, Sturm Ruger, AMAC, Consumers' Research, Toyota, Honda, Samsung, Trader Joe's, Hershey, Sony, and many more.

We can do this. We can win! The end of America doesn't have to happen.

In the absence of official scrutiny of Washington’s spending spree on Ukraine, The Grayzone conducted an independent audit of US funding for the country. We discovered a series of wasteful, highly unusual expenditures the Biden administration has yet to explain.
During a recent discussion with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power, touted her organization’s push to guarantee transparency for US taxpayer funds sent to Ukraine.

“We are involved in funding efforts at ensuring judicial integrity, which is intrinsically important to building Ukraine’s democracy and its integration plans to get into Europe,” Power declared, adding USAID’s work in Ukraine was “also really important in terms of assuring the taxpayer, the American taxpayer, that they’re resources are well spent.”


While innocuous on the surface, Power’s comments revealed a great deception the US government is currently waging against the American public. In the roughly 16 months since Russia’s February 2022 escalation of the Ukraine conflict, the US government has approved several multi-billion dollar spending packages to sustain the Kiev military’s fight against Moscow.

Though many Americans likely believe that US dollars allocated for Ukraine are spent directly on supplies for the war effort, the lead author of this report, Heather Kaiser, conducted a thorough review of Washington’s budget for the 2022 and 2023 fiscal year and discovered that is far from the case.

US taxpayers may be shocked to learn that as their families grappled with fears of Social Security’s looming insolvency, the Social Security Administration in Washington sent $4.48 million to the Kiev government in 2022 and 2023 alone. In another example of bizarre spending, USAID paid off $4.5 billion worth of Ukraine’s sovereign debt through payments made to the World Bank — all while Congress went to loggerheads over America’s ballooning national debt. (Western financial interests including BlackRock Inc. are among the largest holders of Ukrainian government bonds.)

Though it is nearly impossible to calculate the total sum of US tax dollars sent to Kiev, Kaiser was able to perform an independent audit of Washington’s proxy war in Ukraine through a careful search of open source data available on the US government’s official spending tracker.

Kaiser reviewed all the funding allocations in which Ukraine was listed as the “Place of Performance” for fiscal years 2022 and 2023. Additionally, she discovered supplementary funds were sent to Kiev by listing Ukraine as the “justification” for spending, rather than the location where the money was physically sent. 

Calculating the total dollar amount that the US has given to Ukraine is incredibly challenging for multitude of reasons: there is a lag in reporting expenditures; covert money given by the CIA (Title 50 Covert Action) won’t be publicly disclosed; and direct military assistance in the form of military equipment is not calculated in the same manner as raw cash. The Pentagon recently admitted to an accounting error revised up to 6.2 billion dollars. Despite this, Kaiser submitted a request to the Department of Treasury asking them to disclose the total dollar amount of US taxpayer support for Ukraine. Treasury has not responded at the time of publication.

Though Kaiser was able to search through pages of reported spending, the US government has yet to conduct an official audit of its funding for Ukraine. What’s more, there is currently no limit to how much Washington can send to Kiev.

In the absence of dedicated official scrutiny of Washington’s spending in Ukraine, The Grayzone has produced an independent audit of US tax dollar allocation in the country.

Among the many troubling contracts we discovered was a $4.25 million payment from the Pentagon to a military diving contractor that a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee has described as a “fraudulent company.” The US government asserts the payment covered the company’s delivery of explosives equipment to Ukraine.

So how exactly was that money put to use? And why has Congress so far refused to implement any program to track these shady weapons deals?

Unfortunately, the “justification” for contracts like these often consists of just a brief paragraph — or worse, a single sentence. Little little information is available that documents precisely how the funds were spent down to the dollar and item.

Beneficiaries of USAID’s Ukraine aid: Polish NATO lobbyists, a private equity firm, rural Kenyans, a TV station in Toronto
USAID awarded $21.8 billion to Ukraine throughout fiscal years 2022 and 2023, roughly 41 percent of the 53.4 billion it spent during that period. Mysteriously, a portion of USAID funding earmarked for Kiev was sent to Kenya and Ethiopia via other agencies, with the award description stating projects in Africa were “partially funded with response funds and Ukraine supplemental funds.”

USAID sent $4.5 billion to Ukraine via the World Bank to pay off Kiev’s debt and fund various social programs, including government pensions. USAID made a total of $21 billion worth of direct payments to the World Bank in fiscal years 2022 and 2023 (9.1 Billion and 11.9 Billion, respectively), more money than all of the funding Washington sent to the bank between fiscal years 2008 and 2021 combined. The $4.5 billion allocated for Ukraine funded programs directed by the bank’s International Development Association and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.



USAID supplied a $1 billion grant to the World Bank’s International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to subsidize projects “Ukraine cannot fund at this time.”



USAID has supplied $20 million to “Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees” since February 2020. Recipients include a Polish think tank called the Casimir Pulaski Foundation, a Toronto-based Ukrainian TV channel, a collection of Ukrainian “anti-corruption” organizations, and other groups listed in the screenshot below. These awards were issued on top of $26 million worth of funds USAID sent these groups between 2016 and the February 2022 war escalation.



USAID allocated $500,000 for the Casimir Pulaski Foundation in 2023 to fund a program dedicated to “advanc[ing] U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting economic growth, agriculture and trade; global health; and democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance” in Ukraine. The funds were earmarked “to strengthen the International Center for Ukrainian Victory (ICUV) initiative in implementing international advocacy campaigns to keep high levels of international solidarity with Ukraine.”



USAID’s support arrived on top of a $74,788 subaward the State Department granted to the Casimir Pulaski Foundation in June 2022 to “build capacity and policy formulating capabilities of the International Center for Ukrainian Victory (ICUV) and assisting Ukrainian civil society based in Poland.”



According to their own so-called “Peace Manifesto,” the ICUV’s top priority is to admit Ukraine into NATO, a move that former US diplomats from George Kennan to Jack Matlock to Henry Kissinger and even current CIA director William Burns have described as a major provocation against Russia.





USAID sent $3 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2022  “to improve health outcomes in drought affected areas in Ethiopia.” The description stated, “partially funded with response funds and Ukraine Supplemental Funds.”

USAID sent 30.9 million to Chemonics International, Inc. for the “Ukraine confidence building initiative (UCBI).” A private, for-profit aid contractor, Chemonics was founded by a businessman who said he launched the company to “have my own CIA.” The Grayzone has documented Chemonics’ role in delivering US government funding and supplies to the Syrian White Helmets, which served as the propaganda wing of the Al Qaeda-tied armed opposition. Chemonics previously reaped a massive windfall from the US occupation of Afghanistan, raking in as much as $600 million from USAID.

USAID sent $20.7 million to PACT, INC. for “USAID Ukraine’s public health system recovery and resilience activity and will strengthen the Government of Ukraine (GOU) capacity to address COVID-19 and other public health threats, sustain health services during a crisis, and protect the health of all Ukrainians including vulnerable and marginalized populations. According to its 2022 impact statement [PDF], “In Ukraine, Pact’s work empowers citizens to push for transparent and democratic governance, advances gender equality and human rights for women and girls, and accelerates efforts to achieve HIV epidemic control.” The contractor’s work contributed to “172 people increas[ing] their net income,” according to Pact.

USAID sent $25 million to Horizon Capital Growth Fund IV, a “leading private equity firm in emerging Europe, via the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), “to back high-growth tech and export-oriented [Small and Medium Sized Enterprises] succeeding globally, based on platforms in Ukraine and Moldova.”

USAID sent 7.6 million to UNICEF IDA for emergency nutrition response in ASALs (Arid and Semi-Arid Lands) in Kenya. The description stated, “partially funded with response funds and Ukraine Supplemental Funds”

USAID sent $1.2 million to University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. located in Atlanta, GA to “support humanitarian information management through geographic information systems, data analytics and visualizations”. Ukraine was listed as the place of performance.

The Pentagon sponsors diving contractor with “history of fraud” to send mysterious explosives to Ukraine
The Department of Homeland Security sent 5.48 million to Gravois Aluminum Boats LLC on June 8, 2021 for the following purpose: “PROCUREMENT OF TWO 38-FOOT FULL CABIN RESPONSE BOATS, FOUR 38-FOOT CENTER CONSOLE RESPONSE BOATS, TRAILERS, SPARE PARTS, AND TRAINING AS REQUIRED UNDER FMS LOA DB-P-LCL FOR THE COUNTRY OF UKRAINE.”



The Department of Defense has transferred 4.75 Million to Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc. as of February 3, 2023 for “PRO SAPPER AND EOD EQUIPMENT [CONTRACTING SQUADRON] UKRAINE” and “Marine lifesaving and Diving Equipment.”



Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and sapper equipment is exclusively used to blow things up or clean up explosives. And Atlantic Diving Supply is a military contractor originally founded to provide tactical gear to Navy SEAL divers.

When a company like this is tasked with a highly specific delivery of explosives gear to any foreign nation, including Ukraine, it should prompt questions about the mission, particularly when US intelligence is blaming Ukraine’s military for attacking the Nord Stream pipelines without the knowledge of President Volodymyr Zelensky. (The payment date does not necessarily correlate with the date of delivery from the vendor; in other words, the equipment could have been delivered at a prior date.)

Luke Hillier, the founder of Atlantic Diving Supply, paid a $20 million settlement in 2019 to resolve charges that he defrauded the Pentagon by falsely claiming his company was a small business. Atlantic Diving is consistently listed as one of the top 25 largest military contractors in the country.


In 2021, Hillier raked in a massive $33 billion contract under the same program, prompting fresh accusations of fraud. This pattern of malfeasance prompted a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee to bluntly denounce Atlantic Diving as a “fraudulent company.”

Hillier currently owns a $13 million mega-yacht in the Cayman Islands, $24 million worth of beachfront property in Hawaii, and two Bahamas-based companies with murky operations, according to the Project on Government Oversight.


Atlantic Diving Supply founder Luke Hillier living his best life
The Department of Defense has paid 4.9 Million to BAE Systems GCS International as of September 12, 2022 for “UKRAINE LCS LW 155 SPARES” and “guns over 155mm through 200mm”. In Navy terminology, LCS means “Littoral Combat Ship,” while LW refers to the lightweight gun.  And “155 SPARES” refers to the gun mounted on the ship’s main battery off the bow.

So what is the exact purpose of the LCS LW 155mm gun spares, why were they given to Ukraine, and where are they now? Is there a tracking mechanism in place to know where they are and how they’re being used?

Washington funnels cash to a private equity firm, Georgian finance corporation, a ‘private entrepreneur’ via Ukraine aid
US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)  sent $25 million to Horizon Capital Growth Fund IV, a “leading private equity firm in emerging Europe, “to back high-growth tech and export-oriented [Small and Medium Sized Enterprises] succeeding globally, based on platforms in Ukraine and Moldova.”

US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)  sent $1.5 million to the Gazelle Fund LP, another private equity firm, to relocate Ukrainian businesses to Georgia. Georgia does not border Ukraine, nor is it a primary location for Ukrainian refugee resettlement.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent $882,291 to a single individual described as an “private entrepreneur” in exchange for “overseas technical assistance program support services.” The private entrepreneur listed, Igor Lavreniuk, serves as the Program Coordinator for USAID’s Competitive Markets Program according to his LinkedIn.

 



 

The National Science Foundation sent 1.3 million to University of Illinois for faculty and curricular development in remote sensing. The place of performance is listed as Ukraine.

The Department of State has paid 8.3 million to Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to help “refugees from Ukraine meet their essential needs during initial displacement.” According to SpendingUS.gov, Catholic Relief Services is listed as having received a total of 657 million from the State Department in 2021, 5.7 billion since 2008 and 670 million during the last 12 months.

Sponsoring “democracy” at Americans’ expense
Along with the blowback from their government’s gratuitous sanctions policy against Russia and other official enemies, Americans are feeling the impact of this overseas spending spree at grocery stores, gas stations, and everywhere in between. Meanwhile, rising generations are not only struggling with historic inflation, but concerns that Medicare and Social Security will be insolvent in the near future.

Washington and Europe have insisted that the flood of aid to Ukraine is essential to defending democracy against the existential threat of an authoritarian Russia. This framing is designed to shut down all debate by casting anyone who questions the ballooning price tag as fundamentally anti-American — if you are against funding the West’s proxy war with a nuclear power, you oppose the very ideals that define our nation.

Yet our inspection of US government spending in Ukraine demonstrates that Washington has prioritized its supposed fight for “democracy” abroad over the well-being of the American people.

As the war drags on, lawmakers like Sen. Lindsey Graham have marketed military aid to Ukraine in increasingly grim terms. As the senator boasted during a recent trip to Kiev, “The Russians are dying…it’s the best money we’ve ever spent.” Meanwhile, Congress has rejected any mechanism that would guarantee transparency on the billions sent to Kiev, and shunned a war powers debate over the US military’s presence on the Ukrainian battlefield.

President Joseph Biden, for his part, has pledged that official Washington will support Kiev “as long as it takes.” As the potential for blowback grows from Western pressure to push Ukraine into NATO, and a nuclear-armed Moscow is backed into an existential fight for its survival, while economic powers including China gradually decouple from the Western financial system, Americans can only wonder how much will this war cost them when it is finally over.