Reading about the fence, thinking about how we could decorate it.

Not locks, ala Paris. How about black ribbons of mourning? Needs to be something very difficult to remove. Bright colors would attract more attention especially if we could reach the top - 8 feet of rope, ribbons, colored wool...some draped making it easier to hang posters.

Of course Build Bridges not Fences...Never $hrillary....Bernie or Bust....Vote Your Conscience...

4 miles of 8 foot tall fences -

It would be great to hear the democrats shouting "Lock Her Up" when Hillary Clinton steps on stage.

That would be the ultimate irony.

There needs to be a demonstration of disgust during the coronation based on the E-mail scandal.

two dem heroes at NN16 were Sen from OR Jeff Merkley and Rep from MI Ralph Ellison

(Aside, listening to an interview on private prisoner prisoner transport - a woman who spent 2 weeks on a prisoner transport van from So. CA to Alabama because she didn't return a rental car on time. No warrant. No bathroom facilities. I didn't realize that this was happening. With real criminals and only stopped a couple of days. Another horror story going on here in US. A NYT reporter was in on the call. Van cross lines. Not in custody of where started or where is going. Atty general will look into it she told a legislator. Woman who was on the van -- keeps her in fear, glad that the story comes out,

Here is the link to an article on this issue

Inside the Deadly World of Private Prisoner Transport Tens of thousands of people every year are packed into vans run by for-profit companies with almost no oversight.

..... )

I apologize for the interrupt. As the empire collapses, more and more crimes come out.

In any case, Jeff and Keith were upbeat. They were on important panels that used the word "coup", one on TPP and the other on monopolies. Zephyr Teachout was also on that panel. But will their hopeful work and hopeful talk be realized?

They made a very important point that the TPP can be beat and this is something we need to make sure happens. Need a sustained effort on this . The dems seem to be willing to loose an election on this issue to deliver the bacon to the oligarchs.

Here is an article from today about the hope at NN16 from the Bernie supporters in the dem party, and not sure how it will turn out

Disorder on the Democratic Left The Tim Kaine pick and WikiLeaks revelations have riled up the Bernie brigade on the eve of Hillary Clinton’s coronation.

This is by David Dayen and his book just out is on another part of the coup, the criminal behavior of the banks, prosecutors, etc. in the mortgage disaster - disaster for people, not for the banks and the oligarchs who protect them.

Chain of Title: Uncovering Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud

Ummmmm, did you read that? Bernie will say that she's 'far superior to Trump', he having no political experience (rather than Hillary's experience of callously doing disastrous things whether without understanding the situations and incidentally profiting a lot or because she did understand that she'd profit a lot by callously doing disastrous things,) and doing stream-of consciousness fascist rants to (also) gain the Presidency for his own ends/those of the .001%.

... "Sanders will stress that the most progressive platform in Democratic Party history includes agreements he reached with Clinton to dramatically expand health care access and to make public colleges tuition-free for students from families with annual incomes up to $125,000 a year.

(Reminding everyone that ONLY due to being publicly pushed by Bernie she's promised to do a few inadequate things which she actually likely has no intention of doing anyway because she's not concerned with the people/democracy/America but with the ever-increasing profits and power which her corporate /billionaire owners will share some fractional percentage of with her. At least while she's still useful/necessary for the corporate coup and the claimed 'legitimacy' of any such brokered hostile take-over of democracies around the world.)

"In his remarks, Sanders also plans to rip into Trump for siding with the Koch brothers and echoing fossil fuel industry claims that climate change is a hoax despite the virtually-unanimous scientific consensus that the warming planet is causing devastating harm.

(Reminding everyone that fracking-promoting, fossil-fuel employee Hillary Clinton also plans devastating planetary harm-for-.01%-profit and power. To repeat: because she's not concerned with the people/democracy/America but with the ever-increasing profits and power which her corporate /billionaire owners will share some fractional percentage of with her. At least while she's still useful/necessary for the corporate coup and the claimed 'legitimacy' of any such brokered hostile take-over of democracies around the world.)

"Sanders also will send a message to the convention and to the 13 million voters who supported him that they have begun a political revolution to transform America and that the revolution – Our Revolution – continues. 'Together,' he will say, 'we continue the fight to create a government which represents all of us, and not just the 1 percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice.'”

Self-explanatory, I would have thought.

The Clinton/corporate faction will be spitting nails at this deft maneuver around an impossible situation - but it's always a mistake to underestimate Bernie Sanders.