20 Aug, 2025 15:20

Wanted for lonely Russian female: sanctions-buster

Western curbs have prevented a suitable male from the EU from joining his would-be partner in Ekaterinburg

A female pygmy hippopotamus named Eva who lives at the city zoo of Ekaterinburg in central Russia cannot meet a mate. Western sanctions have blocked efforts to deliver a male hippo from abroad, according to the zoo director, RIA Novosti reports.

Svetlana Prilepina told the news agency on Tuesday that the zoo had found a suitable male pygmy hippo from a partner institution in the Czech Republic. However, logistical and legal barriers tied to international sanctions have prevented the animal from being transported to Russia, she lamented.

”Due to sanctions, we are unable to bring the male to Russia and therefore cannot form a breeding pair with Eva,” the director said.

She explained thatsourcing a mate within Russia was not feasible due to genetic compatibility concerns.Prilepina emphasized that the zoo had to look abroad to maintain healthy breeding lines, with the search extending across Asia and Europe.

Pygmy hippos are classified as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN);fewer than 3,000 are estimated to live in the wild.

Eva arrived at the Yekaterinburg Zoo in 2013 from Edinburgh and is now 13 years old. Like all hippos, she is mostly active in the evening and at night.She enjoys swimming in her pool and playing with a ball, while during the day she prefers to rest in the water, often covering herself with a mat.

Adult pygmy hippos typically stand 75–83 centimeters tall at the shoulder, measure between 150 and 177 centimeters in length, and weigh between 180 and 275 kilograms. Unlike their larger relatives,pygmy hippos are more solitary and less aquatic, spending much of their time hidden in forested areas.

https://www.rt.com/russia/623323-russian-mp-accused-gadzhiev/

She just needs a little lipstick

Nolte: Far-left Washington Post Wants Pete Hegseth Dead, Reveals Security Protocols

John Nolte 20 Aug 2025

The far-left Washington Post obviously wants Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dead.Nothing else explains why the Post published a story 1) revealing the Secretary’s security protocols, and 2) complaining he has too much security.

If there is one truism about our regime media, it’s that they only complain about spending when it comes to protecting everyday American people through defense spending, or protecting Republicans with security details.

We piss away trillions on welfare fraud, abortions, public schools, taxpayer benefits for illegal aliens, and antisemitic propaganda from NPR and PBS…

Nevertheless, outlets like the Post only fight for more spending on all that. But when it comes to protecting the people they hate (everyday Americans, Republicans), suddenly they get a waste-fraud-and-abuse chubby.

Here’s the headline: “Hegseth’s expansive security requirements tax Army protective unit”

Here’s the sub-headline:“The agency tasked with protecting Defense Department leaders is under significant strain, and the secretary’s atypical needs are becoming untenable, officials say.”

Naturally,not a single oneof these “officials” is named, but you already knew that.

What follows is nearly 2,500(!) wordsthat can be boiled down this way: Hey, we in the regime media have spent the better part of a year turning Pete Hegseth into a polarizing figure and national villain,and now you’re getting in the way of somebody assassinating him! No fair. We worked so hard.

The Post’s obvious goal here is to pressure the Defense Department to decrease security around Hegseth, so it’s easier to assassinate him.

And with that same assassination goal in mind,details about Hegseth’s habits and security protocols are revealed, like the information about his attending a Washington Nationals baseball game, which I will not detail here.

The Department of Defense has already released a statement.

“By publishing detailsabout Secretary Hegseth’s security protocols, the Washington Postis actively putting him and his family in danger for clicks,” DOD spokeswoman Kingsley Wilson wrote on X. “These ‘reporters’ are disgusting.”

For those of you who doubt the Washington Post is dog-whistling for Hegseth’s assassination, wake up.

These are the same people who encouraged months and months of neighborhood-destroying race rioting in 2020. These are the same people who locked you down, closed your business, and outlawed your church in 2020 while their liquor stores remained open. These are the same people who target your children with gay pornography and surgeries that will permanently mutilate them. These are the people demand we open our borders to the unvetted third world, who have tantrums when a sex-trafficking, wife-beating, illegal-alien gang member is deported, and who oppose putting violent criminals in prison.

These are the same people who spent a decade demonizing Donald Trump and came within a whisker of blowing his brains outin Pennsylvania, only to encourage another close call on a golf course in Florida.

These are evil and nihilistic political savages who would rather see us all dead than lose at the ballot box.

The White House now needs to ban the Washington Post from everything.Everything.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/20/nolte-far-left-washington-post-wants-pete-hegseth-dead-reveals-security-protocols/

Judge Anthony Johnstone

Biden-Appointed Judge Shockingly Rules Against Birthright Citizenship — Ninth Circuit Says Children of Foreign Diplomats Are NOT Automatically U.S. Citizens

by Jim Hᴏft Aug. 20, 2025 3:15 pm

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has just ruled that a man born in New York City in 1950 is NOT an American citizen.

The court affirmed what the Constitution’s framers and generations of Americans have always understood, the Fourteenth Amendment does not grant automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. to foreign diplomats.

The case involved Roberto Moncada, who was born in New York City in 1950 while his father served as a Nicaraguan attaché at the United Nations.

For nearly seventy years, Moncada lived as an American, holding passports and even swearing oaths of allegiance multiple times.

But in 2018, after reviewing records, the government discovered that his father had served as an attaché, a diplomatic position that carried full immunity, not a simple consul as previously believed.

That detail changed everything. Under the Fourteenth Amendment,only those born “subject to the jurisdiction”of the United States are citizens.

Children of foreign ministers and diplomats are explicitly excluded. Moncada’s father’s immunity meant his entire household, including his newborn son, was outside U.S. jurisdiction.

The court reviewed conflicting evidence, including records listing Moncada’s father as both “Deputy Consul” and “Attaché.” But after weighing the record, most importantly the State Department’s “Blue List” identifying him as an attaché with full diplomatic privileges, the panel concluded that the government had proved by clear and convincing evidence that Moncada was never a U.S. citizen

Moncada filed suit in 2019 to challenge that decision.

Judge Anthony Johnstone, a Biden appointee, wrote in his opinion:

The government repeatedly affirmed that Moncada’s father’s apparent status as a Nicaraguan consul did not confer diplomatic immunity on his children. So, the government explained, Moncada was born “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States according to the Fourteenth Amendment. U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1. And under the Constitution, citizenship was his birthright. But the government was, as the district court put it, “wrong all along.”

In 2018, the government reviewed its records and found that Moncada’s father served as an attaché, not a consul, when Moncada was born. Unlike a consul, an attaché and his family possess full diplomatic immunity.

So, the government now asserted, Moncada was not born “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. Therefore, he was not a birthright citizen. The government revoked Moncada’s passport and told him he “did not acquire U.S. citizenship by virtue of [his] birth here.”

Moncada sued for a declaratory judgment that he is a citizen. The Secretary of State responded by producing a recently executed certification of Moncada’s diplomatic immunity at birth (“Certificate”).

The Secretary argued that this Certificate was conclusive evidence of Moncada’s lack of birthright citizenship and was therefore binding on the district court.The district court declined to recognize the Certificate as conclusive.

Still, based on the underlying record of government documents, it held that the Secretary established by clear and convincing evidence that Moncada was not born a citizen because it found, as a matter of fact, that his father was an attaché with diplomatic immunity when he was born. We affirm.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/biden-appointed-judge-shockingly-rules-against-birthright-citizenship/

Hacked Ukrainian Database Reveals Kiev Has Suffered 1.7 MILLION CASUALTIES Since the Beginning of the War

by Paul Serran Aug. 20, 2025 11:15 am513 Comments

The number of dead and seriously wounded Ukrainians is apparently much higher than imagined.

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine some three and a half years ago, the Western media has promoted a non-stop barrage of disinformation about the military developments, trying to present a rosier picture than reality can afford.

Perhaps no other aspect of the hostilities has been so blatantly misrepresented as the number of casualties and fatalities.We got to the point where Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky had the nerve to say that Ukraine had had 35 thousand losses.

That is particularly absurd since we know that Kiev’s adventure incursion into Russia’s Kursk region alone yielded 70 thousand dead troops in just 7 months – including some of the best and most battle-ready ones.

Just yesterday, Russia handed over another 1,000 bodies of deceased servicemen to Kiev, while the Ukrainian side had a grand total of 19 bodies of deceased Russian servicemen to exchange.

Besides that, the shocking expansion of the country’s cemeteries can’t be explained away.

Now, a Russian hacker group has announced that Ukraine lost no less than 1.7 million soldiers during the war, including the killed and the missing in action.

This information was reportedly uncovered from a hacked database of the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff.The leaks detail the cause of death, personal information of the soldiers, contact information for closest relatives and photographs.

Voennoe Delo (Military Affairs) reported (translated from the Russian):

“The digital records from the Ukrainian General Staff show staggering numbers: over the course of three years, Ukraine’s military has lost 1.7 million personnel. The breakdown includes 118,500 deaths in 2022, 405,400 in 2023, 595,000 in 2024, and a record 621,000 in 2025.

This data was obtained through a large-scale hack of the computers and local network of the General Staff’s employees by hacking groups including Killnet, Palach Pro, User Sec, and Beregini.The cyberattack utilized a malware known as ‘Nuance’, which is designed to function only within Ukraine’s borders. This malicious software infects victims’ devices, downloads sensitive information, and locks the devices, rendering them unrecoverable.”

Of course, there will be those who will object to giving any credence to data provided by ‘Russian cybercriminals’ – but in essence, this is not different from everything we learned from the (equally illegal) revelations by Wikileaks.

“The hackers now possess terabytes of information on Ukraine’s military casualties, personal data of high-ranking officials from the Special Operations Forces (SSO) and the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR), along with detailed lists of countries supplying weapons to Ukraine. Additionally, they have compiled records of all weapon transfers to Ukraine from 2022 to 2025.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/hacked-ukrainian-database-reveals-kiev-has-suffered-17/

Kentucky judge killed by sheriff ran courthouse like ‘brothel’ — and traded sex for favors at twisted parties: victim(The Judge looks like a perve)

By Emily Crane Published Aug. 20, 2025, 12:31 p.m. ET

The rural Kentucky judge gunned down in his own chambers last year ran a twisted sex ring where young women were coaxed into performing sexual favors just to get out of trouble, one of the alleged victims claims.

Tya Adams alleges she was among those caught up in Judge Kevin Mullins’ apparent sex-for-favors scheme that saw him and others in the tiny town of Whitesburg demand sex in exchange for cash, or to get offenders off the hook.

Adams told NewsNation’s “Banfield” that Mullins — who was shot execution-style in his Letcher County chambers allegedly by his longtime sheriff pal Shawn Stines last September — had warned her to keep quiet about the so-called depraved ring.

“We would do sex parties and perform shows and have sex with them for money, things like that,” Adams alleged. “It was consensual. But it was the thing that we were so young, and then they used it against us and to destroy our lives later.”

Judge Kevin Mullins was shot execution-style in his Letcher County chambers allegedly by his longtime sheriff pal Shawn Stines last September.

Adams said she felt forced to go along with the judge’s scheme because she feared Child Protective Services would somehow get involved and upend her life.

“They would make sure to make you feel as small and degraded and belittled as possible to take your power away,” Adams said.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the woman had any prior run-ins with the law, or if she was on CPS’ radar at the time.

She went on to say it was “just a given” she would keep her mouth shut about the apparent depravity, insisting: “Who would believe it anyway? Because the whole town was doing it. Nobody cares. They’re all swingers. It’s all a big party to them. It was just so normal.”

Tya Adams alleges she was among those caught up in Judge Kevin Mullins’ apparent sex-for-favors scheme.

Separately, Sarah Davis — a former deputy jailer at the Letcher County lockup — told the outlet she’d heard about the “nasty and sickening” stories to come out of the parties.

“Pretty much everybody in the county knows,” she said. “But it was confirmed to me after working in the county jail, especially after being invited to a party myself.”

The claims only add to the disturbing allegations that have emerged in the wake of Mullins’ chilling caught-on-camera slaying last year — including that the slain judge had been running his courthouse like a “brothel.”

It has since been revealed that one woman, Sabrina Adkins, threw Mullins’ name into the mix during a 2022 criminal investigation into a Letcher County deputy sheriff who was later jailed for rape and sodomy of a female inmate.

The rural Kentucky judge allegedly ran a twisted sex ring where young women were coaxed into performing sexual favors just to get out of trouble, accusers claim.

Adkins, who claimed she was coerced by then-deputy sheriff Ben Fields to perform sexual favors in exchange for staying under house arrest, alleged the judge was in on the longstanding sextortion racket.

“I seen Judge Mullins having sex with a girl … in the judge’s chambers,” Adkins told police in her interview at the time.

She added that Fields, who was fired in the wake of the probe, also had “some videotapes of some stuff in the judge’s chambers… just with girls, sexual and stuff.”

It is unclear if the alleged sextortion scheme had anything to do with Mullins’ shooting.

Stines, who resigned days after the Sept. 18 shooting, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder of a public official.AP

Authorities have previously refused to rule out if a possible sex scandal was the motive behind the bloodshed.

The judge had been decades-long friends with his accused killer and was spotted having lunch with him just hours before he was gunned down on Sept. 18.

Chilling surveillance footage allegedly captured the sheriff stepping into his pal’s office and making multiple calls to his daughter before opening fire.

Stines then allegedly walked out and immediately surrendered, telling cops: “They’re trying to kidnap my wife and kid.”

The sheriff’s attorney later described the execution-style shooting as a crime of passion due to an “extreme emotional disturbance.”

Stines, who resigned days after the shooting and is being held in an eastern Kentucky jail without bond, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder of a public official.

https://archive.is/V28YT