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Bloom or blooming may refer to:

Science and nature[link]

• Bloom, one or more flowers on a flowering plant
• Algal bloom, a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in an aquatic system
• Bloom (bloomery) (sponge iron), a porous mass of iron and slag produced in a bloomery
• Bloom, a collective noun for a large group of jellyfish
• Bloom (casting), a semi-finished metal casting
• Bloom (shader effect), a graphics effect used in modern 3D computer games
• Bloom (test), a test to measure the strength of a gel or gelatin
• Bloom filter, a probabilistic method to find a subset of a given set
• Blooming (directed-energy weapon), an effect of laser beams and particle beams in air
• Thermal blooming, an atmospheric effect on high-energy laser beams
• Active_pixel_sensor or Charge-coupled device overload aka bloom, property of CMOS or CCD image sensors, causes charge from the potential well of one pixel to overflow
• Bloom syndrome, autosomal recessive human genetic disorder that predispose patient to a wide variety of cancer
• Epicuticular wax bloom, a whitish haze due to small crystals of wax, occurring on the surface of many fruits
• Wax bloom, an efflorescence of wax or stearic acid affecting materials such as crayons, oil pastels, and wax-based coloured pencils
• Bloom, pigment migration from wetter to drier surfaces of a watercolor painting
• Saponification bloom, a chalky white efflorescence on an old oil painting
• Bloom Energy Server, a home solid oxide fuel cell manufactured by the Bloom Energy company
• Bloom Festival, a gardening show

Places[link]

• Bloom, Kansas, United States
• Blooming, Oregon
• Bloom, Wisconsin, United States, a town
• Bloom City, Wisconsin, United States, an unincorporated community
• Bloom Township (disambiguation), multiple places in the United States:

Music[link]

• Bloom, by Billy Pilgrim, 1995
• Bloom (Audio Adrenaline album), 1996
• Bloom (Beach House album), 2012
• Bloom (Gabriel & Dresden album), 2004
• Bloom (Jeff Coffin album), 2005
• Bloom (Eric Johnson album), 2005
• Bloom (Lou Rhodes album), 2007
• Blooming (album), album by Ami Suzuki, 2010
• Bloom, album by G.NA, 2012
• Bloom (song) by Gigolo Aunts, 1991

Entertainment[link]

• Bloom (novel), a 1998 science fiction novel by Wil McCarthy
• Bloom (film), award winning Irish film
• Bloom (Winx Club), a fictional character from the Winx Club animated series
• Bloom (software), a generative music application for the iPhone and iPod Touch
• Bloom County, American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed
• Club Blooming, a football (soccer) club and academy from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
• The Brothers Bloom, a 2009 movie

Businesses[link]

• Bloom (store), a U.S. supermarket chain operated by Food Lion LLC
• Bloom Brothers Department Stores, a defunct chain of department stores in Pennsylvania and Maryland
• Bloom Cigar Company, a Pittsburgh cigar store
• Bloom's restaurant, England's longest-standing kosher restaurant
• Bloom Energy Server, a solid oxide fuel cell

Other uses[link]

• "Blooming", a less offensive version of the term Bloody
• Chocolate bloom, the appearance of a white, mouldy-looking film on chocolate

People bearing surname Bloom[link]

• Adam Bloom (born 1971), English comedian
• Allan Bloom (1930–1992), American philosopher and author
• Alan Bloom (plantsman) (1906–2005), English nurseryman
• Andy Bloom (born 1973), American Olympic shot putter
• Benjamin Bloom (1913–1999), American educator
• Bill Bloom American songwriter and musician (born 1948)
• Bobby Bloom (1945–1974), American singer songwriter best known as one hit wonder for "Montego Bay" in 1970
• Claire Bloom (born 1931), British actor
• David Bloom (1963–2003), NBC journalist
• Davis Bloome, fictional character in the TV series Smallville
• Harold Bloom (born 1930), American literary critic
• Harry Bloom (1913–1981), South African novelist and activist
• Howard Bloom (born 1943), American author
• Jeremy Bloom (born 1982), American athlete
• John Bloom (businessman) (born 1931), British entrepreneur
• Leopold Bloom, fictional character in James Joyce's Ulysses
• Lily Bloom, French actress
• Luka Bloom (born 1955), Irish musician
• Matt Bloom (born 1972), American wrestler
• Molly Bloom, fictional character in James Joyce's Ulysses
• Moses Bloom (1833–1893), Jewish American politician, former mayor of Iowa City
• Orlando Bloom (born 1977), English actor
• Rube Bloom (1902–1976), American composer
• Steve Bloom (born 1953), Photographer
• Ursula Bloom (1892–1984), English writer
• Verna Bloom (born 1939), American actress, best known for role in Animal House

See also[link]

• Blum (disambiguation)
• Bloombase Technologies
• Bloomberg (disambiguation)
• Bloomfield (disambiguation)
• Blumenthal (disambiguation)
• Bloomer (disambiguation)

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Godfrey Bloom MEP
Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and the Humber, UK
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 2004
Personal details
Born	(1949-11-22) 22 November 1949 (age 62) London, England
Nationality	British
Political party	UKIP

Godfrey Bloom (born 22 November 1949 in London)^[1] is a Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and the Humber for the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). He was first elected in 2004, and re-elected in 2009.

Before becoming an MEP, Bloom worked as a financial economist.^[1][2]

Godfrey Bloom is the president of the European Alliance for Freedom, a eurosceptic pan-European political party.^[3]

Career as an MEP[link]

In 2004, Bloom's election to the Yorkshire and the Humber seat was the UKIP's first seat in the region in the European elections.^[2]

Comments on the counterproductive nature of women's rights[link]

A few weeks after his appointment to the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality on 20 July 2004, Bloom told an interview in Strasbourg that, "No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age. That isn't politically correct, is it, but it's a fact of life. The more women's rights you have, it's actually a bar to their employment."^[4] Around the same time, he was reported^{[by whom?]} as commenting, "I just don't think [women] clean behind the fridge enough" and that "I am here to represent Yorkshire women who always have dinner on the table when you get home."^[5][6]

Bloom told BBC Radio 4's Today that his comments were "said for fun" to illustrate a more serious point, that equal-rights legislation was in fact putting women out of work.^[6] Bloom claimed that MEPs had "little or no business experience" and did not understand the consequences of their actions.^[6]

Bloom confessed that he used to visit brothels in Hong Kong claiming that "terrified young women beaten into prostitution often from Eastern Europe... is only a very small aspect of the flesh trade,", and concluded that "in short, most girls do it because they want to."^[7]

After inviting students from the University of Cambridge Women's Rugby Club to Brussels, he was accused of sexual harassment, misogyny, and use of offensive language. One student later handed in a formal letter of protest to the President of the European Parliament, critizising Bloom's behaviour. Bloom who sponsored the club with £3,000 a year, later admitted making misogyny comments but denied a sexual harassment.^[8][9]

Speeches made while under the influence of alcohol[link]

In December 2008, Daily Telegraph blogger and fellow MEP Daniel Hannan reported that Bloom "had to be carried out by an intern" after making a European Parliament speech while drunk.^[10] In February 2012, Bloom admitted to making a speech in Strasbourg having consumed alcohol and "very heavy" prescription painkillers.^[11]

Comments on climate change[link]

Bloom is a prominent non-believer of anthropogenic global warming theory. He stated in 2009: "As far as I am concerned man-made global warming is nothing more than a hypothesis that hasn't got any basis in fact. Every day more scientists are modifying their initial views." ^[12] He claims that the alleged consensus opinion of scientists about climate change is a "Scam Scam Scam!" of "climate crooks".^[13]

Comments on the Rainbow Warrior bombing[link]

Bloom was filmed at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen congratulating the French for bombing the Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace ship, in 1985. Bloom's comment prompted outrage from the environmental group, which accused him of "celebrating" the killing of Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira in the bombing in Auckland. Bloom was filmed posing in front of the present Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior II, during the climate summit at the Copenhagen harbour. In the footage, he said: "Here we have one of the most truly fascist boats since 1945, Well done the French for sinking (it)." The video appeared to have been uploaded to Bloom's YouTube channel Goddersvision on 16 December during the last days of the summit, but was later taken down.^[14][15]

Nazi jibe-incident[link]

On 24 November 2010 Bloom was ejected from the European Parliament after directing a Nazi slogan at a German MEP Martin Schulz as the latter was speaking during a debate on the economic crisis in Ireland. Godfrey Bloom interrupted Schulz and said "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" - one people, one empire, one leader.^[16] This was reference to the European Union increasing its powers in the midst of the Euro crisis, making a comparison to that of Nazi Germany.

He was then removed by the President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, who told Bloom: "As you know, most of the members of the chamber cannot accept your behaviour. I will therefore ask you to leave the chamber at this point.".

This decision generated heavy protest from Barry Madlener, a representative of the Dutch Freedom Party, who noted that Schulz had himself recently referred to fellow MEP Daniël van der Stoep (also a member of the Dutch Freedom Party) as being ´a fascist´ for which Schulz himself was not removed. On the same day, Bloom published the following statement on his web page: "'My father spent 5 years of his youth fighting the ideals of the fascist Schultz. I need make no apologies on behalf of my late father or myself for telling the truth.'"^[17]

Notes[link]

1. ^ ^{a b} "Godfrey Bloom". European Parliament. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch/view.do?country=GB&partNumber=1&zone=Yorkshire+and+the+Humber&language=EN&id=28513. Retrieved 2010-01-21. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "UKIP wins first seat in region". BBC. 2004-06-14. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yorkshire/3803065.stm. 
3. ^ About EAF, European Alliance for Freedom, http://www.eurallfree.org/?q=node/65, retrieved 7 July 2011 
4. ^ Booth, Jenny (2004-07-20). "UKIP man champions a woman's right to clean fridges". London: TimesOnline. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article459538.ece?print=yes&randnum=1151003209000. 
5. ^ "UKIP MEP in row over working women". BBC. 2004-07-21. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3912205.stm. 
6. ^ ^{a b c} Daniel, Mark (2005). Cranks and gadflies: the story of UKIP. Timewell Press. p. 149. ISBN 1-85725-209-8, ISBN 978-1-85725-209-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=My7bPb1XnVIC&pg=PA142. 
7. ^ http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/around-yorkshire/local-stories/brothel_visit_euro_mp_under_fire_after_saying_most_prostitutes_not_exploited_1_2609582
8. ^ http://archive.varsity.co.uk/605.pdf
9. ^ The Independent (London). 16 October 2004. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukip-man-in-brussels-faces-harassment-claim-after-trying-to-quash-his-sexist-reputation-6159897.html. 
10. ^ Hannan, Daniel (10 December 2008). "A drunk Eurosceptic makes more sense than a sober federalist". London: Daily Telegraph. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/5940683/A_drunk_Eurosceptic_makes_more_sense_than_a_sober_federalist/. Retrieved 8 February 2012. 
11. ^ "UKIP MEP makes Euro Parliament speech on booze and drugs cocktail". Political Scrapbook. 6 February 2012. http://politicalscrapbook.net/2012/02/ukip-mep-makes-euro-parliament-speech-on-booze-and-drugs-cocktail/. Retrieved 8 February 2012. 
12. ^ Climate change: man-made or myth? Len Tingle, BBC News, 1 October 2009.
13. ^ Climate crooks
14. ^ "Rainbow Warrior bombing praised". The New Zealand Herald. 8 February 2010. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10624771. Retrieved 8 February 2010. 
15. ^ "MEP Godfrey Bloom hails Greenpeace ship attack". BBC. 10 February 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_yorkshire/8509540.stm. 
16. ^ BBC news on the incident
17. ^ [1] http://www.godfreybloommep.co.uk/

External links[link]

• Official website
• Profile on European Parliament website
• YouTube video on Nazi slur incident in European Parliament
• YouTube video showing Godfrey Bloom being escorted out of the plenary meeting at the European Parliament in Strasbourg