I hope Fox hires her
A Russian news anchor made headlines herself by giving the middle finger on air, seemingly aimed at President Obama.
And now she's lost her job.
REN TV's Tatyana Limanova is seen flipping the bird in a newscast that aired earlier this month, but went viral on the web after a report Wednesday by London's Daily Telegraph newspaper.
The attention has now led the station to fire her.
"A decision has been taken that T Limanova cannot and will not continue to work on the REN TV channel as a presenter," it said.
In the segment, Limanova delivers an item on Russian President Dmitry Medvedev assuming the rotating chairmanship of the Asia Pacific Cooperation organization, adding that he was taking over for President Barack Obama. At the mention of Obama's name, the award-winning television journalist immediately raises her hand in the rude gesture.
Sources at the network -- which is available to 120 million viewers across Russia -- told the Telegraph that the anchor thought she was off camera and just doing a voiceover, aiming the insult at studio technicians who had teased her earlier.
The footage, however, seems to show her looking up at the camera when she makes her questionable editorial statement.
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The problem with any of these lists is this. On any night there's a fight for "Heavyweight Champion of the World" (yeah, I know, there are several belts) on TV, there is some guy at home in his Lazy Boy with a beer in his hand who could whip both the guys in the ring at once without putting his beer down. Same applies to whatever endeavor you care to name.
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11/24/2011 10:01 Comments ||
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nice list - voters are all good/famous guitarists, and each individual guitarist's review is written by another famous guitarist. Well done, even if Gromky's his usual bitchy self
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11/24/2011 10:39 Comments ||
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Al Di Meola
I forget about him sometimes. Suitable for any list of top guitarists except for one measuring influence on the masses of guitarists. Then, yes, Hendrix.
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I always thought Susanna Hoffs was great with a guitar. ;-)
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Music is totally subjective but here's my $.02 --Hendrix is one of the most influential rock players of all-time because of an album and half of material -- but he is not a top-10 guy anymore. Same w/Clapton who hasn't done anything worth of note after the Dominoes album or in the last 30 yrs...(besides cheesy beer jingles...Lay Down Sally? Gimme a break.) Jeff Beck's guitar playing is technically real good but listening to his music is like putting ketchup and ice cream together - good separated but crap together. He's another one that bores me now. Last album he did w/Joss Stone sounded like a drunk teen-ager noodling w/a strat (Joss Stone is great btw). Like Clapton I think Beck is way over-rated.
No Uli Jon Roth, Randy Rhoads in the top 10? I call Shenannigans...
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If you make improvizational ability a criteria,
(excluding Jazz/classical players like Montgomery, Burrell DiMeola, McLaughlin, etc.) the list would be:
1) Jerry Garcia
2) Duane Allman
3) Warren Haynes
4) Trey Anastasio
and on
Posted by: DJ Curtis C ||
11/24/2011 18:53 Comments ||
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It's not a bad list, maybe at times they got confused between great guitarists (who pushed and redefined the instrument) and guys who have made great guitar songs?
I would have pushed up guys like Andy Summers (Police) and Johnny Marr (The Smiths). Plus Dick Dale ought to be in the top 10- he defined an entire genre of music.
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Hendrix was a definite Rock guitar iconoclast. He played a right-handed guitar, strung for a right-handed person; left-handed and did it brilliantly. That puts him out of the running because of how the question was put forward.
In my humble Troll opinion, here are my picks for Best Guitarist of All Time in descending order:
Gary Moore, Julian Bream, Chet Atkins, Clapton and Mark Knopfler.
[Al Ahram] Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... has replaced the controversial head of the country's main anti-corruption agency in one of the world's most graft-ridden nations.
Farida Waziri had served as Nigeria's chairwoman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission since 2008 and had faced regular criticism over the alleged ineffectiveness of the agency under her watch.
She has been replaced with Ibrahim Lamorde, who served as the agency's acting chairman before Waziri was appointed, a statement said Wednesday. He returned to the agency in December 2010 as director of operations, setting off speculation that he would replace Waziri.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan "has approved the appointment of Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde as the Acting Chairman/Chief Executive of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC," a statement from the president's front man said. "The appointment takes immediate effect, and effectively relieves Mrs. Farida Waziri of her position as EFCC Chairman."
Lamorde also served as a deputy to Nuhu Ribadu, who led the agency from 2003 until he was forced out in late 2007.
Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... in a report released in August said the agency has been hobbled by incompetence, internal graft allegations and suspicions of political interference. The report made reference to graft allegations against the EFCC under Waziri, as well as the widespread perception that she has been ineffective.
The US-based rights group said it could find no concrete evidence of corruption, but called for Jonathan's administration to examine Waziri's performance. It also pointed out that the commission faces enormous obstacles in carrying out its work in Nigeria, where corruption is deeply rooted and part of everyday life in all levels of society.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] James Murdoch has resigned as a director of several British newspapers including The Sun and The Times, documents and sources said Wednesday, in the latest shake-up at his father Rupert's empire.
But despite facing pressure over the phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid, James remains overall chairman of News International, the British newspaper arm of US-based News Corporation.
According to documents filed at Company House, Britannia's main register of companies, in late September, James stepped down as director of News Group Newspapers Limited, publisher of The Sun, and Times Newspapers Limited, which operates The Times and Sunday Times.
The Sun tabloid is the biggest-selling newspaper in Britannia, while the Times is an upmarket daily.
Upmarket: does that mean no 'page 3' girl?
A source close to News Corp. confirmed the details, but rejected suggestions that James Murdoch's resignation leant weight to speculation that the company is planning to sell off its British newspapers.
The source said the fact that he was staying in the "juicy" role of News International chairman, and also remaining on the editorial board of Times Newspapers, showed the company's commitment to its UK interests.
His resignation was partly because he was required to spend more time in the United States because of his appointment earlier this year as deputy chief operating officer of News Corp, the source added.
News Group was the publisher of the News of the World, which was shut down in July amid a stream of allegations about the illegal hacking of voicemails.
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Marine Le Pen, the leader of Frances far-right National Front, has made abandoning the euro one of the pillars of her presidential election campaign, launching a powerful attack on the ailing single currency as she seeks to bolster her already strong showing in the opinion polls.
Presenting her presidential project, Ms Le Pen said Europe should give up the euro, which had asphyxiated our economies, killed our industries and choked our jobs for years, as well as causing France to accumulate Himalayan debts. In any case, she added, the country should prepare a planned exit from the currency union. We need to anticipate the collapse of the euro rather than suffer from the collapse of the euro, she said in a television interview on Sunday. Ooo. European markets on Monday should be special.
Some demonstrators are planning to occupy retailers on Black Friday to protest "the business that are in the pockets of Wall Street." Getting between a hunting holiday shopper and her prey is not the safest idea in the world. But these people aren't particulary known for their brains.
Organizers are encouraging consumers to either occupy or boycott retailers that are publicly traded, according to the Stop Black Friday website.
"The idea is simple, hit the corporations that corrupt and control American politics where it hurts, their profits, " states the Occupy Black Friday Facebook page.
A few of the retailers the protesters plan on targeting include Neiman Marcus, Amazon and Wal-Mart. My guess is that these targets (and others listed on the website) also just happen to be non-union.
Their website states the following:
"Keep in mind that we are not occupying small businesses or hardworking people--we must make a distinction between the businesses that are in the pockets of Wall Street and the businesses that serve our local communities. Of course, unlike the typical OWS 'protester' these businesses often contribute to the local economies where they are located. Besides providing hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs, sponsoring events and quietly contributing to organizations (United Way for example). But, of course, to the typical OWS protester these don't count because it's not being given to them personally.
We are NOT anti-capitalist. Just anti-crapitalist.
This is not the first time the demonstrators have taken action against corporations by using their money as weapon for change. Of course their weapon just happens to be as dangerous as a wet noodle...
On Nov. 5th many demonstrators participated in "Bank Transfer Day" and moved their money from banks to credit unions. Which was so effective... nobody noticed.
Well at least their parents will have a chance to hose down their basements. I hear sales of Bleach and Pine-Sol are at an all-time high.
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Guess they couldn't google 'riot black friday walmart' otherwise they'd perceive their fate. Can't wait for this years batch of Youtubes particularly of some utes of pale color at the Wallymart in the hood trying to obstruct the run dogs of capitalism.
#7
Oh, yes PLEASE get in the way of the ladies hitting Macy's for the Black Friday sales, especially in the Bridal Department. Live chickens being thrown into a pit of starving pit bulls would have a better chance of survival.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Nigerian President 
James Murdoch has resigned as a director of several British newspapers including The Sun and The Times, documents and sources said Wednesday, in the latest shake-up at his father Rupert's empire.
