AP has published: UN list targets firms linked to Israeli settlements - By JOSEF FEDERMAN and JAMEY KEATEN - February 12, 2020 GMT

Link.

Bloomberg will participate in the Nevada debate; despite his not being on the ballot.

Seattlel PI carries an AP feed on the 60 billion dollar man. Fitting excerpting:

On Tuesday, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren offered a preview of one line of attack the billionaire can expect face to face.

“It's a shame Mike Bloomberg can buy his way into the debate," she tweeted, “but at least now primary voters curious about how each candidate will take on Donald Trump can get a live demonstration of how we each take on an egomaniac billionaire.”

Anyone who would vote for Bloomberg, this time unlike his last NYC mayor bit, he will call himself a Democrat, not a Republican, which he is, by policy, along with Mayor Pete and Amy, each of whom would be a better choice - Bloomberg v. Biden? A toss-up.

Mendacity shall be its own reward.

Warren's analysis is spot-on and Bloomberg is audacious to even put his name into consideration - as a Democrat. Klobuchar, in that Republican wing of the Democratic Party represents a better choice. She's been honest about herself and her record.

How will Bloomberg spin? That's been answered two paragraphs ago.

UPDATE: I favor Bloomberg over Mayor Pete. He is more seasoned an opportunist, and hence less a worry about how bad he'd be in office if elected. Mayor Pete, perhaps like the last Rhodes Scholar President. Yuk! That awful! Don't risk it. There is the devil you know, all $60 billion of him. Back flips for Wall Street; but Pete would be no different yet with less respect among the Wall Street movers and shakers - who want to be like Mike.

FURTHER: Related links: Juan Cole, here and here re jobs; Common Dreams re Green policy aims; last, here, here and here(the last item likely ghost-written, but note claimed authorship), the last item suggesting the nation make cuts to aid for the poor, by one not so poor:

To help make the final push as the Dec. 31 [2012] deadline for reaching a deal looms, I have signed on as a co-chair of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, a bipartisan national group committed to achieving a comprehensive debt-reduction agreement.

This week, there have been signs that Congress and the White House are beginning to move toward an agreement that would include modest tax increases and spending cuts, as well as a commitment to enact broader-based tax and entitlement reforms in 2013. While the tax revenue and entitlement cuts being discussed are both less than what I and many others believe are necessary to maximize long-term growth, the specifics of the deal are to some extent less important than the act of getting one.

"Campaign to Fix the Debt" is what the name suggests; a proposal to rend asunder the safety net which the nation badly needs enhanced and not torn up by those sitting on a giant safety net of their own, a/k/a sixty billion. The item shows one candidacy which has a legacy. Enjoy.

Naval gazing - What is Bloomberg up to?

View the entire "Mike" BS as not wanting to buy the Presidency [for himself], but attempting to buy the hammer at a brokered convention. The power of that, and not having to soil his hands being actually in office, would let him either be kingmaker if he uses the hammer to help a winner, and being alternatively a Republican-satisfied Bloomberg with four-more. Either way the surrogate takes the heat for unpopular steps in office, with propaganda support to lessen the sting, while the billionaires get their continued privilege, distanced from having to take any of the heat. In effect, status quo with Bloomberg owed something. It would not be a bad thing to aim for from Bloomberg's position, if motivated more toward dark enterprise vs responsibility to an entire populace. The class war against the rest of us going on, same old, same old.

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Relevant to this post and the one below, four excellent links. Without excerpting. First, here. Read it if not any of the other three because it is the most thought provoking. Also, here, here and here. Which outlet do should you trust?

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Is the Klobuchar borderline staying power together with her disproportionate press coverage [e.g., NYT endorsed] a precursor to a Bloomberg - Klobuchar ticket? It would play better than a Bloomberg - Buttigieg pairing, and could spend what it takes. Progressives should be cautiously cognizant. A Bloomberg - Biden ticket, how would that play? Bloomberg - Yang? Bloomberg - Warren? Unlikely, but never say never.

Sanders' network has published some of its background research on Bloomberg. The item is concisely written. Factual, not argumentative.

Read it.

You might conclude otherwise. It is published by a Sanders supporter, so read it skeptically - but do read it.

The Bern. What it will stiffle and why we need it. Images worth two thousand words?

Both from https://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/

The Bern- A bark at oligarchs. Feel it now, or later wish you had.

In step together... Together with three likely as proud trailing suits, or whatever.

Sometimes you have to love The Daily Mail, for its imagination -

That shows how a pairing can be a four more. No matter how much spent.

(click the image to clearly read - THE HORROR)

UPDATE LINK - Buying room to Bloom. Expect an early frost? Hope for one?

It puzzles. Why does mainstream media use the term "moderate" when "corporatist tool" is the more appropriate description?

Euphemism is its own reward? What? "Crypto-Republican?"

Or the plain old truth without shading, "Rightwing class warrior against the poor, against the prols?"

What they are is what they should be called. Clear and present -- candidates.

UPDATE: A new term, may it grow legs

Status quo Klo