😈 Iranian MMA fighter KICKS a ring girl in the derriere before being knocked out and then beaten up by crowd
☆ An MMA fighter has been banned for life following his bout this weekend
☆ He kicked a ring girl on the derriere before his fight even started
☆ He was then knocked out, before being beaten up by the crowd afterwards
👉 What’s more weird and annoying is the government of Orthodox Christian Russia cosying up to the hateful, barbaric and Antichrist Islamic regimes of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
Has the Judo black belt Russian President Putin noticed this sort of Islamic hatred in his own Moscow backyard?
⛧ There is no such dirty and evil worship in this world as Islam, which shows bold contempt for God, has no respect for human beings, animals and the natural world. The evil books of Islam prove that Islam is particularly hostile to women and black people.
☪ Islam is a carnal cult that appeals to the basic fleshly instincts of mankind. The carnal soul is formed when animalistic desires dominate man.
💭 “Germany’s worst period should not be printed on a jersey,” the German historian Michael König said.
⚽ Adidas has banned fans from personalizing the German national team jersey with the number “44” after outrage over the resulting resemblance to Nazi symbolism.
Historian Michael König appears to have been one of the first people to notice the resemblance between the “44” and the symbol for the “Schutzstaffel,” also known as the SS, which was responsible for planning and carrying out the Holocaust under Adolf Hitler. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, last Friday, König included screenshots of Germany’s national team jersey, which is sold by the company, with the number “44” and said it was “questionable” to allow the shirts.
König’s post quickly gained steam. As of Tuesday morning, it had been viewed more than 7.4 million times on X and prompted many media articles on Adidas’s blunder.
“It was a shock for me to see the numbers like that. It reminded me directly of the SS runes,” König, who is German himself, told Gizmodo via direct messages. “And I don’t understand why nobody at Adidas saw it.”
Fans were able to choose the number “44” because Adidas allows them to personalize some of their apparel with specific names or numbers. In light of the criticism, Adidas quickly disabled the personalization option for the jerseys in its online store.
In a statement to Gizmodo on Tuesday, Adidas tried to shake off the criticism and pointed out that the German Football Association, or DFB, and its partner, soccer apparel merchant 11teamsports, were responsible for the design of the names and numbers on the jerseys.
“Our company stands for the promotion of diversity and inclusion, and as a company we actively oppose xenophobia, anti-Semitism, violence, and hatred in any form,” Adidas said. “Any attempts to promote divisive or exclusionary views are not part of our values as a brand, and we firmly reject any suggestion that this was our intention. Our company stands for the promotion of diversity and inclusion.”
The German Football Association responded to the backlash over the jersey on Monday in a post on X. The association explained that it checks the numbers 1-9 and then sends numbers 1-26 to UEFA, the governing body for soccer in Europe, for review, according to a Google translation of the text.
“None of the parties involved saw any proximity to Nazi symbolism in the development process of the jersey design,” the German Football Association said. “Nevertheless, we take the information very seriously and do not want to provide a platform for discussions.”
The association added that it was working with 11teamsports on an alternative design for the number 4.
König, the historian, said he applauded the swift response to the situation from Adidas. He said that certain groups of people shouldn’t be able to express their right-wing views to the outside world. That would have been possible, König pointed out, with the “44” on Germany’s team jersey. He added that the issue is of even higher importance because Germany was hosting the UEFA European Championship this summer.
“Germany’s worst period should not be printed on a jersey,” König said.
🏃 Born to a single mother in war-torn Ethiopia, Habtamu Franke lived the first two years of his life in poverty.
His mother died shortly after he was born, whereupon he was placed into foster care because his extended family were unable to take him in.
Fortunately, he was adopted by a loving Dutch family, and he has since made the most of his life in the Netherlands, becoming a personal trainer, nutritionist, and mental coach.
He has also recently become a world record holder, with the support of his friend Stan Browney – a YouTuber with three million subscribers – who helped organize Habtamu’s record attempts.
Habtamu broke two world records in one day, first performing the most chest to ground burpees in three minutes (81), surpassing the previous record of 77, then doing the most chest to ground burpees in one hour (1,010), breaking the previous record of 1,002.
Habtamu also attempted the most chest to ground burpees in one minute, however, with a total of 36, he failed to beat the current record of 38, held by Philippe Jouan (Canada).
The reason Habtamu chose to attempt these records is because he finds burpees to be extremely challenging. “Burpees are the hardest fitness exercise that exist,” he said. “When I can do burpees, I can do anything else.”
Chest to ground burpees are a more difficult version of regular burpees, as they involve outstretching the arms to allow the chest to come fully into contact with the ground before doing a push-up, bringing the feet forward, then doing a small jump before returning to the chest-to-ground position.
Habtamu’s confidence was buoyed after he attempted and successfully achieved the three-minute record first. However, he then failed two attempts at beating the one-minute record, after which he says he “felt awful”.
“I was so disappointed in myself, I was so angry, I was so upset.
“I had to focus on my third Guinness World Records attempt that started a few minutes after, so I had to change my feelings from upset and disappointed to confident and happy, and that was very difficult.”
Whilst the first two record attempts were about speed, the one-hour record attempt required calculated pacing and endurance.
Habtamu had previously set this record last year with a total of 986, but it was broken twice afterwards.
He revealed that the first 10 minutes were the hardest: “You know you failed the last Guinness World Records attempt. Your heart rate goes from 0 to 180 in maybe one minute […] I had the feeling that I had to puke.”
Habtamu received a confidence boost when he reached the 30-minute mark and realized that he’d done 549 burpees – more than half the required number.
As he neared the end of the record attempt, Habtamu recalls his body being in “a lot of pain”.
“Every repetition that I did became more awful, more painful,” he said. “In the last 10 reps, I had to give everything.”
Upon completing his record attempt, Habtamu was overjoyed to turn around and see on the screen that he’d done 1,053 burpees. However, Official Adjudicator Jack Brockbank informed him that not every burpee was performed to the required standard, so the footage had to be reviewed in slow motion while Habtamu nervously waited for the verdict.
Luckily, only 43 burpees were deducted from the final total, meaning he’d successfully achieved the record.
Habtamu says he now plans to break the record that eluded him on this occasion.
“I broke two Guinness World Records titles, but I came to break three, so that means in the next year I’m going to break the record for the most chest to ground burpees in one minute.”
😈 Saudi ‘SPORTSWASHING’ is Like a Dirty Sports Trick
💭 Lawmakers probing the PGA-LIV deal are accusing Saudi Arabia of “sportswashing” its image
The chairman of a Senate investigations subcommittee issued a subpoena Wednesday for documents on Saudi Arabia’s new golf partnership with the PGA Tour, saying the kingdom had to be more transparent about what he said was its $35 billion in investments in the United States.
A non-exhaustive list of Saudi Arabia’s human rights violations
Experts and rattled senators testifeid to several of PIF’s links with growing human rights abuses under bin Salman’s leadership. Some specific examples that came up:
➡ High-level Saudi officials weren’t held accountable for the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, despite evidence of their involvement. Saudi Arabia’s PIF owns a company whose jets were used to transport the killers of Khashoggi from Saudi Arabia to Turkey, where the Washington Post journalist was murdered in 2018. According to the CIA, bin Salman approved the operation,.
➡ As defense minister between 2015 and 2022, bin Salman “carried out scores of indiscriminate and disproportionate airstrikes on civilians and civilian objects in Yemen, hitting homes, schools, hospitals, markets, and mosques,” Shea said
➡ Saudi government documents submitted to a Canadian court as part of an ongoing legal claim revealed that, in 2017, one of bin Salman’s advisers ordered Yasir al-Rumayyan, the supervisor of PIF, to transfer 20 companies captured as part of an “anti-corruption campaign” directly into the fund’s ownership. “There is a risk that these companies were ‘transferred’ from their owners without due process,” Shea said.
➡ In August, Saudi border guards were accused of the mass killing of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers.
➡ The Republican senator Ron Johnson, who has repeatedly called upon the Department of Justice and the FBI to share “complete, unredacted records of Saudi Arabia’s role,” centered his testimony on the kingdom’s association with the 9/11 attacks.
🔥 Trump’s relationship with Saudi Arabia and his ties to Saudi Investment Funds could cause major problems, for him and for America.
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🎾 Even The Top Players In Tennis Are No Match For This Bug.
A Troubling “US Open bug” is making the rounds among star athletes at this year’s tournament, resulting in shocking upsets and withdrawals as the athletes struggle to fight on the court through coughing fits and stomachaches.
“I’m a zombie because I have a flu,” Tunisian tennis star Ons Jabeur, 29, said at a news conference Thursday after defeating Linda Noskova in three sets.
The No. 5 seed was visibly unwell during the match, and was seen coughing and sometimes even struggling to reach the ball on difficult shots.
“I’m taking a lot of medicine,” the No. 5 seed admitted at the conference, adding that she “basically took every medication” the tournament doctors could offer.
Jabeur — who was upset by Zheng Qinwen of China over the weekend— is one of many players felled by the so-called “US Open bug” since the tournament opened at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Aug. 28.
Emil Ruusuvuori, 24, of Finland, withdrew ahead of his first-round match due to an unspecified illness.
Austrian Dominic Thiem, 30, subsequently retired in the second set of his second-round match on Wednesday after collapsing onto the net with a stomach issue, the outlet reported.
Czech player Petra Kvitová, 33, also complained of stomach pains before ultimately losing to Caroline Wozniacki on Wednesday, Tennis World reported.
I got the us open bug.. in a way still feels like I’m in the tournament but at home
“I got the us open bug.. in a way still feels like I’m in the tournament but at home,” Tennys Sandgren, 32, who failed to advance past the qualifiers, tweeted on Thursday.
“Def a bug going around [at the Open],” he added in a separate post.
Also on Thursday, Polish player Hubert Hurkacz, 26, struggled on the court and was treated by medical staff before ultimately falling to Jack Draper, the New York Times reported.
During the match, sniffles, coughs and other signs of illness were heard throughout the tennis grounds, the outlet added.
🎾 A tennis fan was ejected from the US Open on Monday night after being accused by Germany’s Alexander Zverev of shouting “the most famous Hitler phrase there is in this world”.
The incident happened during Zverev’s victory over Italy’s Jannik Sinner on Arthur Ashe Stadium during the late-night slot, which has often been criticised for overly boisterous atmospheres.
Having taken a 2-1 lead into the fourth set, Zverev was serving at 2-2 and 0-15 in the fifth game when he suddenly stopped his motion and approached the British chair umpire James Keothavong.
“He just said the most famous Hitler phrase there is in this world,” Zverev told the umpire of a fan in the stands to his left. “This is unbelievable.”
Following the game, Zverev told a reporter that the supposed fan had been singing the ‘anthem of Hitler’ – the banned first verse of the original German National anthem.
‘He started singing the anthem of Hitler that was back in the day. It was `Deutschland über alles’ and it was a bit too much,’ the Hamburg-native said.
‘I love when fans are emotional. But I think me being German and not really proud of that history, it’s not really a great thing to do and I think him sitting in one of the front rows, I think a lot of people heard it. So if I just don’t react, I think it’s bad from my side,’ he added.
“Lied der Deutschen” (Song of the Germans) – also known as the “Deutschlandlied” (Song of Germany) became the official national anthem of the Weimar Republic in 1922.
However, the first few lines mean, ‘Germany, Germany above all / above all in the world’ took on a new meaning under Adolf Hitler and the Nazis to emphasize what they saw as German superiority over all other nations.
Following the end of WW2, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer requested to reintroduce the song as the national anthem in 1952, in West Germany.
The Allies agreed, but only if the third verse of the song, meaning ‘unity and justice and freedom, for the German fatherland’, was used.
After being told about the incident, the umpire turned around in his chair to directly address the most expensive courtside seats, asking the culprit to identify himself.
When nobody owned up, Keothavong made an announcement to the whole crowd to respect the players, while security was dispatched into the area to try and remedy the unsavory situation.
Play continued, before cameras then cut back to the stands a few minutes later to show a middle-aged male being spoken to by security and then led out of the arena – much to the delight of the fans around him.
It is unclear exactly what was allegedly said by the man, or if the man pictured by ESPN cameras was the fan alleged to have made the slur.
🦚 A peacock disrupted the Davis Cup match between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ethiopia. The video shows the peacock scampering across the court, with players and officials laughing as the peacock scurried around the court.
Tournament organizers and officials took quick action to remove the bird and restore order to the tournament. The Democratic Republic of the Congo defeated Ethiopia 3-0.
⚽ A SPANISH third-tier match has been abandoned after a player suddenly collapsed.
An ambulance rushed to the pitch after Cordoba ace Dragisa Gudelj fainted during the game against Racing Ferrol at the Estadio Nuevo Arcangel.
The Incident Took Place In The 11th Minute Of The First Half In Front Of A Worried Crowd.
According To marca, Gudelj Suffered A Cardiac Arrest And Was Thankfully Revived By The Medical Team.
The Centre-Back Left The Stadium In The Ambulance While Conscious And The Crowd Showed Their Support With A Standing Ovation.
The 25-Year-Old Appeared To Be Wanting To Carry On Despite The Worrying Incident But He Was Ultimately Taken To Reina Sofia Hospital For Observation.
The game was tied 1-1 before the referee suspended the match in Cordoba.
Cordoba assured the fans on social media that Gudelj is in stable condition.
The club also thanked the medical team that acted swiftly to “save” the Serbian.
Gudelj is the younger brother of Sevilla ace Nemanja Gudelj, who plays in LaLiga. Nemanja also competes for Serbia and appeared in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Dragisa plays predominantly as a centre-back but can also operate at left-back.
The versatile defender has amassed a total of 24 appearances in the Primera Federacion this season.
💭 Security video caught a female bodybuilder fighting off a man trying to attack her while she was working out alone in a Florida gym.
Nashali Alma, 24, was exercising in the gym at the Inwood Park Apartment Complex in Tampa when Xavier Thomas-Jones attacked her Jan. 22, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office charged.
♰ A Christian group is spending $100 million on a new campaign to promote Jesus Christ and the values they believe he held.
The “He Gets Us” campaign has already started appearing online and will take over billboards and airwaves across the nation with the goal of presenting Jesus in a new light to Millennials and Gen Z, according to Christianity Today.
The group’s TV commercials — including a $20 Million Super Bowl ad, per The Washington Post — and content optimized for other high-profile platforms were created with assistance from Michigan-based marketing agency Haven.
🏈 Super Bowl viewers this Sunday may be surprised to see two ads that don’t seem to have anything to do with Christianity until the end when the words “Jesus” and “He Gets Us” flash across the screen.
The He Gets Us ads running during the Super Bowl, the most watched U.S. event of the year, were created by a nondenominational group to share the message of Christ’s love to whole new audiences.
💭 Here Are 3 Things To Know About The ‘He Gets Us’ Ad Campaign
👉 What is He Gets Us all about?
The two Super Bowl ads created by the campaign will focus on “the behavior Jesus modeled in relationship and conflict,” He Gets Us spokesman Jason Vanderground told CNA.
“Instead of responding to divisiveness in anger or avoiding conflict altogether, Jesus demonstrated how we can and should show confounding love and respect to one another,” said Vanderground.
More than just Super Bowl commercials, the He Gets Us campaign first surfaced in March 2022 and has been causing waves through TV spots, billboards, and digital ads.
Vanderground told CNA the campaign is “a movement to reintroduce people to the Jesus of the Bible and his confounding love and forgiveness. We believe his words and example offer hope and believe they still have relevance in our lives today.”
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The campaign is not about politics, or even a specific church or denomination, say the organizers.
“We simply want everyone to understand the authentic Jesus as he’s depicted in the Bible — the Jesus of radical forgiveness, compassion, and love,” the He Gets Us website says.
According to an official He Gets Us partners website, the campaign has reached 431 million YouTube views, connected 113,923 people to churches, and has 19,501 churches involved.
Those numbers are before this Sunday’s Super Bowl ads aired which are expected to reach an audience of close to 100 million.
👉 Who created He Gets Us?
According to Vanderground, a group called HAVEN, a creative hub and marketing resource, is the lead agency behind He Gets Us.
“What began as a campaign to answer the question, ‘How did history’s greatest love story become known as a hate group?’ has quickly grown into a movement,” said Vanderground.
He Gets Us is also an initiative of the Servant Foundation, which is managed by the Kansas-based foundation and donor-advised fund The Signatry.
Founded in 2000 by Kansas philanthropic adviser Bill High, The Signatry has received over $4 billion in contributions and has helped make more than $3 billion in charitable grants, its website says.
According to its website, The Signatry funds “discipleship and outreach efforts, Bible translations, cultural care, church plants, anti-human-trafficking missions, student ministries, poverty alleviation, clean water initiatives, and so much more.”
👉 Who sponsors the He Gets Us Super Bowl commercial?
💭 Buffalo Bills Owner’s Wife Kim Pegula Suffered Cardiac Arrest & Collapsed Like Damar!!
The campaign is quiet about its specific donors, saying most of its sponsors “choose to remain anonymous.”
Hobby Lobby co-founder David Greene announced in November that he is one of the campaign’s major donors. Greene was confirmed to be one of the campaign’s major donors by Vanderground.
“We are wanting to say—we being a lot of people—that he gets us,” said Greene. “He understands us. He loves who we hate. I think we have to let the public know and create a movement.”
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