Bloomberg builds empire in London; Bloomberg Place = one city block

[HiPointDem]

It is the biggest development in this city’s buzzing financial district, and even Olympics-jaded Londoners call it grandiose: two bronze-and-stone towers, connected by sky-bridges atop the ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman temple.

Bloomberg Place, roughly the size of a Manhattan city block, is the future European home of Michael R. Bloomberg’s company and charity. But it is only one piece of the New York City mayor’s growing British empire. He is underwriting a major expansion of one of England’s most prestigious galleries, in Kensington Gardens, designed by the noted architect Zaha Hadid.

He has the ear of London’s raffish mayor, Boris Johnson, who dispatches aides to City Hall in New York for tutelage in municipal management.

Mayor Bloomberg and his aides court the city’s elite, holding expensive dinners for tastemakers and Downing Street officials. The buzz is so great that a chief aide to Prime Minister David Cameron impishly floated the idea of a Bloomberg candidacy, for mayor of London.

As he imagines a more global life for himself after City Hall, unshackled from the 24/7 needs of running New York, Mr. Bloomberg — an Anglophile with a taste for English Regency style — is exporting his vast quantities of financial, social and political capital to this ancient city, where he has long yearned for influence.

“There is no question,” Ms. Peyton-Jones said, “he’s among the most important supporters of contemporary culture in this country.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/nyregion/bloomberg-builds-an-empire-in-london.html?pagewanted=all

[graham4anything]

1. he’s among the most important supporters of contemporary culture in this country

from the article-
“There is no question,” Ms. Peyton-Jones said, “he’s among the most important supporters of contemporary culture in this country.”


I can understand though why the NRA hates him.

BTW, they don't have the gun problem in the UK like we do here.

Mr. Bloomberg and his charity will give away billions, most all to liberal causes and to preserving the arts.
PBS in the US is one of the big benefactors
and Mike and Mr. Rogers were on the same team when Fred was alive.
Due to Mike and people like him, PBS continues here in the USA and PBS brings alot of European culture to the US children and adults.

Thank God for Mike Bloomberg!
Wish more of the rich would do 1/2 as much good will toward mankind as Meek Mayor Mike

aka

The Great Equalizer going against the NRA when everyone else remained silent.



but I do understand why the NRA hates him. But then, the NRA is dead

And soon in the US, thanks to Meek Mike and many others, guns and bullets will no longer be allowed in the hands of private citizens once the SCOTUS changes from the corrupt 5 to a better 2 or 3.

All it will take is a net shift of ONE or two and the guns/bullets will be a thing of the past after a reinterpretation of the 2nd occurs.
All other talk will be rendered meaningless.
TGFT

[HiPointDem]

2. fuck bloomberg

[graham4anything]

4. To paraphrase Paul Simon "Mama gonna take their guns and bullets away"

Paul Simon was always 100% correct

though the NRA folks "hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest"

BTW, Mike Bloomberg is the Boxer, he scaped his way from nothing by the work and sweat he gave, and he like Robin Hood is giving it back to the people who need it the most.

Wellness rules forever.

One day at a time.

[HiPointDem]

5. It's so funny to see you slobber over billionaires. Yeah, Bloomberg, son of a real estate agent,

born in the toney precints of Allston MA (median home price $317K) came from 'almost nothing'.

Slobber slobber

[cali]

7. Allston is not tony and it sure wasn't when

Bloomberg was born. Not even close.

[HiPointDem]

10. It ain't the south bronx, appalachia, or anywhere that could be described as 'almost nothing'.

Bloomberg's mother had a degree in accounting and his father in bookkeeping.

[graham4anything]

14. Here is a new thread for you to opine on.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022597040

[HiPointDem]

18. slobber slobber

[graham4anything]

21. I await your answer while watching the 3 stooges April Fools Day marathon on AntennaTV

So far watched from Midnight to 1am and 3am to 5am, and 730am-on.
(and to think I have the complete set in a box but am watching on tv
nyuk nyuk nyuk

[cali]

24. didn't say it was. You claimed it was tony. Simply pointing out the reality.

[HiPointDem]

29. median home price of $300K is toney. about $100K above the US median. I live in a neighborhood

where the median is about $65K.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:KoRaB5Ntv00J:www.census.gov/const/uspriceann.pdf+us+median+home+price&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgE7fmjrIbAcuo7QU-MsvC2pJqvGJYkKuVurlM8wQpUMDmmNBjhAW5bnnlxO6B-ArUusWcqcGw_R6yhqgivS8t7dUSM3qA0jr3tj8c32Id5uIdcKx9SM4ifIZ84iM6NeBRe1KWv&sig=AHIEtbS59SUdjAVkmPomKEqFTUlHwbkHpg

[graham4anything]

8. See my new thread with an interesting question that I shall ask everyone about redistribution

[Agschmid]

11. Hi time exists... Just FYI. N/t

[HiPointDem]

15. no idea what you're talking about...just fyi.

[cali]

9. bullfucking shit. Bloomberg did not come from "nothing"

He came from a solidly middle class background and attended the best schools. Came from nothing my ass. Stop making shit up.

[graham4anything]

12. He went bankrupt and had ZERO, before finding a new job and working hard to move up.

He was just middle class. Nothing more, nothing less.

here is a new thread of interest
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022597040

[HiPointDem]

16. Middle class is not 'nothing'.

[cali]

25. exactly. glad to see you admit you were making shit up when you claimed he

came from nothing. It's total bullshit. At least you admit that.

[graham4anything]

27. After having nothing and being bankrupt, a job change/hard work/sweat made his fortune.

It wasn't handed down to him.

He earned it the old fashioned way through sweat and long hours.

It's a made up thought to say he was rich. He was not. He was nothing but average.

And he did it 100% legally dotting every I and crossing every T.

[cali]

28. Educated parents with good jobs, safe neighborhoods to grow up in

those are huge advantages as anyone with a brain cell or two knows. Compared to 99% of the world he comes from great privilege. duh.

[graham4anything]

30. I have educated parents with good jobs, safe neighborhood and don't blame Mike for not being rich

You are making a false analogy.
bloomberg was not in any sense rich. He was one of the 80% middle.

Which is the point of my other thread.

So to justify the logic being presented ZERO should have educated parents and zero good jobs so that 100% have nothing?
Because otherwise it is only jealousy at the upper rich, tear them down, get rid of them,
but you do realize you can get rid of 100% of the rich, and it helps NOTHING to the bottom 20%, who are the ones the real concern should be focused on. Which would mean the 60% in the middle of the top 20 and bottom 20 would also need to be put in the bottom 20.

See?

[graham4anything]

19. Who's gonna be your raison'd'railingagainst when Christine Quinn is mayor in a few months?

BTW, Chrstine Quinn just went 180 degrees opposite the mayor on a most important issue.
Showing she is 100% independent of him.

[HiPointDem]

20. slobber slobber. quinn is bloomie's creature.

[graham4anything]

22. I guess you want Rudy G back or Ray Kelly as Mayor?

[HiPointDem]

23. slobber slurp lick lick

[cali]

3. LOL. You are a treat.

So building on a 2,000 year old Roman temple is supporting and preserving culture. Yeah, that's the ticket.

YOU would defend an establishment dem or Bloombergian independent if they were caught with a bloody knife in their hand standing over the corpse of a kid.

[Skidmore]

6. Bloomberg to London and Trump to Scotland.

Hmmmm. Jumpin' ship?

[HiPointDem]

13. Nah, just reporting to their paymasters.

[cali]

26. they are the paymasters, but I'd be curious to see who you

think they're reporting to.

[xchrom]

17. du rec. nt