Evening Blues (weekend edition) preview 8-29-15
Tonight's Evenng Blues (Weekend Edition) will be hosted by me. It will feature an eclectic mix of artists and music including Jimi Hendrix, The Coasters, Freddy Fender, The Kinsgmen, The Grateful Dead, Bob Maley, Leadbelly, and The Rolling Stones that I'm calling not quite country.
Some examples:
New Riders of the Purple Sage - Glendale Train
The Rolling Stones - Far Away Eyes - OFFICIAL PROMO
The Kingsmen - Long Tall Texan - 1963 45rpm
Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee
Kinky Friedman and and the Texas Jewboys - Asshole from El Paso
There will be plenty of Greens and also Venezuela, Colombia, China"news" such as:
Turkish jets attack IS Syria targets - BBC News
Turkey has carried out its first air strikes as part of the US-led coalition against the Islamic State group.Turkey's foreign ministry said its jets began attacking IS targets across the border in Syria late on Friday.
Turkey has stepped up its operations against the militant group in recent weeks, granting US jets access to a key air base close to the Syrian border.
"Our fighter aircraft together with warplanes belonging to the coalition began as of yesterday evening to jointly carry out air operations against Daesh targets that constitute a threat against the security of our country," the foreign ministry said in a statement, using a pejorative term for IS.
Colombia, Venezuela recall ambassadors amid dispute - SFGate
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) \u2014 Venezuela and Colombia each recalled their ambassadors for consultations on Thursday amid a dispute over the closing of a major border crossing and a weeklong crackdown on Colombian migrants and smugglers.In a televised address, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said he had recalled the country's ambassador from Venezuela, complaining that Venezuelan authorities hadn't let Colombia's Ombudsman enter a border city.
The diplomatic protest by Santos, more than a week into the crisis, came hours after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro appeared on national TV and accused his counterpart of undermining reconciliation efforts by telling lies. Until then, Maduro had centered his verbal attacks on Santos' arch rival and predecessor, Alvaro Uribe.
For CCP, stock meltdown takeaway isn't "interference is bad"; It's "why didn't interference work?"
By Peter Lee on August 27, 2015 in AT Opinion, ChinaI suppose much of the journo commentariat was born since 2008 and therefore has no memory of TARP, Too Big To Fail, or Jamie Dimon rolling around naked inside a gigantic vat of taxpayer money, so there has been a considerable amount of handwring about how the CCP defiled the purity of the stock market by flinging a trillion or so RMB at the markets in a faltering attempt to moderate the collapse of share prices on the Shanghai exchange.
"Purity of the stock market." Chew on that a while.
I expect the poohbahs of Zhongnanhai are more concerned with the interesting question of why a few phone calls and a trillion RMB were unable to stem the decline in a neat, orderly way, and it turned out the best way to handle the rout was to stand back and let the stock market crater.
And, no, I don't think the red emperors' conclusion is "cmarkets are awesome and all-powerful and the CCP must accept its new role as humble handmaiden to high finance."
Obama defends Arctic drilling decision on eve of Alaska climate change trip
Barack Obama has been forced to defend his decision to allow the hunt for oil in the last great wilderness of the Arctic, on the eve of an historic visit to Alaska intended to spur the fight against climate change.
Extreme Arctic sea ice melt forces thousands of walruses ashore in Alaska
Read moreThe three-day tour - which will include a hike across a shrinking glacier and visits to coastal communities buffeted by sea-level rise and erosion - was intended to showcase the real-time effects of climate change.
But a defensive White House was forced to push back against campaigners who accuse Obama of undermining his environmental agenda by giving the go-ahead to Shell to drill for oil in the Chukchi Sea, only weeks after rolling out his signature climate change plan.
Obama, in his weekly address on Saturday, insisted there was no clash between his climate change agenda and Arctic drilling.
America was beginning to get off fossil fuels, he said. But Obama went on: "Our economy still has to rely on oil and gas. As long as that's the case, I believe we should rely more on domestic production than on foreign imports."
Hope to see you there, 5:02 pm
Comments
Israeli West Bank settlers are often Americans
link
Figures like Meir Kahane & Baruch Goldstein are often Americans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Kahane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Goldstein
Perhaps it's only "puzzling" in a world where the obvious is dismissed as conspiracy theory.
Thank you el, I like Freddy Fender
I got to know him from following Ry Cooder. I love their haunting "Across the Borderline."
The old talking point used to justify drilling in the arctic.
But the US economy does not depend on Arctic drilling for oil and gas. And further the US is doing quite well on domestic production. Obama has also recently opened up the Atlantic coast to deep sea drilling. His press secretary said much the same thing after the BP ecocide, "well, we don't want to get our oil from dangerous places in the world." It's the old Obama admin talking point.
To thine own self be true.
Great Selection
And by the way I had Deadhead night last night. I started listening to Truckin' and by the time I finished listening to all the other Grateful Dead tunes it was way past my bedtime but definitely worth it.
Homers24
Love the dead
Honey thinks they suck. But, get into a zone when I listen.
Only attended 10 or so concerts, but each was different, and each was neat. Towards the end of The Jerry-rigged era, I didn't go. I understand he was slowly losing it, getting more and more distracted, and worse.
" What we call god is merely a living creature with superior technology & understanding. If their fragile egos demand prayer, they lose that superiority. "
not quite country.
Its probably just me but when I see that statement I have to admit it forces me to think of the best country song ever written by the group that only wrote one. Fairytale by the Pointer Sisters. Ever heard it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQWgKvvbT1g&list=PL1CE2524D1AA172ED
I hope I didn't cross the line.
Homers24
Re: I hope I didn't cross the line.
Woud that be the line that Tommy James and the Shondells were draggin'?
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Perfect, drop by tonight & embed that in the comment thread.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
We know how the CIA overthrew the Iran govt in 1953
and that was admitted a couple years ago.
Here's a past attempt on Syria most people don't know about.
Newly discovered documents show how in 1957 Harold Macmillan and President Dwight Eisenhower approved a CIA-MI6 plan to stage fake border incidents as an excuse for an invasion by Syria's pro-western neighbours, and then to "eliminate" the most influential triumvirate in Damascus.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/sep/27/uk.syria1?cat=politics&t...
Excellent post over at the GOS about
that most "progressive" of presidents (not) Bill Clinton. Really shows how sad the label "progressive" is getting these days.
And my contribution to the mix:
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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-- John Lennon