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, China

I 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.
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The 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