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From Volume 37, Issue 7 of EIR Online, Updated Feb. 25, 2010
Saving the Planet Now!
A Global `Glass Steagall'
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
February 8, 2010— For any actually competent economist today, a global equivalent of a ``Glass Steagall'' reform was implicit in President Franklin Roosevelt's 1944 fixed-exchange-rate Bretton Woods system. It was the contrary actions of President Harry Truman, made as concessions to Winston Churchill, and to Wall Street, after Roosevelt's death, which sent the world careening, step, by step, by step, into the direction of the presently terminal phase of decline gripping the world today.
The ultimate consequence of the Truman administration's concessions to London and Wall Street is, today, that all recipes known to me, for a so-called ``new Bretton Woods'' contrary to my efforts, have been fraudulent in effect, whether this was the intended effect, or not. Such has been today's outcome of the official suppression of President Franklin Roosevelt's anti-Keynes, Bretton Woods intention for the post-war world.
Today, without a kind of Glass Steagall reform, which would virtually wipe out the monetarist features of both Wall Street's and of the City of London's systems, the chances for escaping an already oncoming, planet-wide, ``new dark age,'' were virtually ``zilch''!...
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We have delayed posting the new EIR, so that we may bring you a special double issue (Feb. 26/March 5, 2010), to include an extensive, new piece by Lyndon LaRouche, entitled, ``The Senile British Lion: Evil, Wicked & Stupid!''
In the meantime, the news digests (``This Week's News'') have been updated, with the latest developments.
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This Week's Cover
A Global 'Glass Steagall'
'Today, without a kind of Glass-Steagall reform, which would virtually wipe out the monetarist features of both Wall Street's and of the City of London's systems, the chances for escaping an already oncoming, planet-wide, 'new dark age,' were virtually 'zilch'!'
The 'Banco Santander Syndrome':
City of London's Sucker Game
Lyndon LaRouche blew the whistle on the British game, which was intended to convince Moscow that there is a vast pool of money, centered in institutions such as the London-controlled Banco Santander, which were going to be the resource for the Russians, when the British succeeded in bringing down the United States. The story behind the story.
The Anglo-Venetians Behind Santander
On the surface, Banco Santander appears to be a regional Spanish bank whose savvy has catapulted it into an elite international operation; but when you peer beneath that facade, you find yourself in the dark heart of the Anglo-Venetian empire.
London's Control Over Banco Santander
From EIR, 'Empire Strikes Back: Spanish Banks Recolonize Ibero-America,' July 2, 2004.
The Euro System Is on the Brink of Collapse
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
The European Union summit in Brussels on Feb. 10-11 did absolutely nothing to avert the looming collapse of the system. The focus on Greece is itself a deception, because the Greek debts to European banks are a relatively small problem.
Economics in Brief
Congress Has Lost Its Leading FDR Democrat
John P. Murtha (1932-2010).
From the Moon to Mars:
The New Economics
'The human species, beginning with the American population, must be educated with the understanding that the various steps toward becoming a spacefaring species—the industrialization of the Moon, the development of fusion power, and the colonization of Mars—are not optional ones. The problems here on Earth are not local ones. The fundamental scientific breakthroughs required to address these problems, lie, along with the answer to their origins, in the stars.' The transcript of a halfhour video produced by the 'Basement Team' of the LaRouche Political Action Committee. Part 2 of a series.
Impeach the British Puppet Now!
U.S. Economic/Financial News
Obama's Stimulus Hasn't, and Won't, Reduce Unemployment
Bank Failures Continue Apace in 2010
One Way or Another, 2 Million More U.S. Homes Will Be Lost
Feb. 18 (EIRNS)—On the one-year anniversary of President Obama's signing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009—the "stimulus"—it's an official failure. The Washington Post's lead story is headlined, "Growth hasn't hit payrolls a year into the stimulus effort." And, the Federal Reserve projects that unemployment will stay at January's high 9.7% level throughout 2010.
The $862 billion stimulus has gone into tax breaks for employers hiring workers—an area prone to fictional reports; tax breaks to individuals who work; money to state governments, to keep state workers employed (hardly a towering success to date); and funding multiply extended unemployment benefits. As Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) put it in announcing his retirement, "The stimulus has not created one new job."
For example, a $5 billion Federal weatherization program intended to save energy and create jobs, has done little of either, according to ABC News: Only 9,100 homes had been weatherized as of Dec. 31. Obama claimed that the stimulus would fund the weatherization of 593,000 homes.
A recent poll shows that only 6% of Americans believe that the stimulus created jobs, while at least 7% believe Elvis is still alive.
Until January, NerObama was oblivious to demands for more job creation, but now that unemployment has become an explosive political issue, he wants to throw another $100 billion at "jobs." The House passed a $154 billion jobs bill in December. However, Senate Leader Reid so far lacks the votes to bring even a $15 billion jobs bill to the floor.
Feb. 20 (EIRNS)—The FDIC closed four banks on Feb. 19, bringing to 21 the total number of failures so far in 2010, a rate comparable to 2009 when about 140 banks failed for the year. The largest of the four failures, yesterday, was La Jolla FSB in La Jolla, Calif., with $3.6 billion in assets and $2.8 billion in deposits. La Jolla was sold to OneWest FSB of Pasadena, Calif. According to Bloomberg, OneWest was created out of the wreckage of IndyMac Bank, one of the earliest victims of the mortgage blowout, by an investor group led by former Goldman Sachs banker Steven Munchin and including a number of giant hedge fund managers, among them George Soros. The La Jolla failure will still cost the deposit insurance fund some $882 million.
The other failures on Feb. 19 included George Washington Savings Bank of Orland Park, Ill., with $412 million in assets and $397 million in total deposits; La Coste National bank of La Coste, Texas, with $54 million in assets and $49 million in deposits; and Marco Community Bank of Marco Island, Fla., with $120 million in assets and $117 million in deposits.
Feb. 17 (EIRNS)—The Financial Times reported today how mortgage-lending banks in the U.S. have moved to abandon the 2009 charade of President Obama's thoroughly failed plan to "modify" millions of mortgages (the "year of mortgage modification," 2009, is over). Instead, the banks have decided that 2010 will be the "year of the short sale." This is how they will deal with the immense wave of 4.5 million more homes expected to enter or re-enter some stage of foreclosure in 2010—after American households' outright loss of 2.3 million mortgaged homes in 2008-09. Some 109,000 homes were lost in January 2010, alone, starting 2010 with a 30% increase over the disastrous rate of home loss one year earlier.
In short sales, mortgage lenders graciously allow households whose homes' sale prices have fallen well below their outstanding mortgage debt, to sell the home at a substantial loss. The household loses both the home and its equity investment, if any; and often continues to be in debt for the "second mortgage," "top-off mortgage," "home equity loan," etc. The bank takes part of the loan asset as a loss. But the banks reap fees, early repayment penalties, etc. from the defeated would-be homeowners.
Big mortgage-servicing banks like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Citibank are hiring lots of short-sale specialists, holding seminars for brokers on how legally to arrange short sales, and approving short sales in under a month (previously, it took a year if the household got the approval at all). But from the households' standpoint, while they avoid the foreclosure eviction, repossession, and ruination of their credit, a bank short sale is still a way to lose your home and be unable to own another. The number who lose their homes this year, by all competent forecasts, is heading towards 2 million, almost as many as the past two terrible years combined.
Global Economic News
The Takedown of Japan Continues, as Oil Refineries Close
British Housing Collapse on the Way
8 Million British Subjects Are 'Economically Inactive'
Spain's Economy Continues into the Tank
Feb. 18 (EIRNS)—Japanese oil companies are cutting their domestic refinery capacity due to declining oil demand, as industry refuses to "come back." Domestic oil demand is expected to keep declining by 3.6% annually until FY2013, according to projections.
Domestic oil refineries, whose daily maximum production totals about 4.83 million barrels per day (bpd), only ran at about 75% capacity in 2009. Even idle plants cost money to maintain and keep in shape for potential operation. Yet, that cost is minimal compared to that of constructing a new plant; so, a decision to reduce facilities is a very serious one, indicating a severe long-term discouragement with prospects of revival.
Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. announced Feb. 16 that it would close a Kawasaki oil refinery belonging to its affiliated company Toa Oil Co. after Autumn 2011. Nippon Oil Corp. and Nippon Mining Holdings Inc. will cut their refining capacity by about 20%, equivalent to 400,000 bpd, by shutting down some equipment at the Mizushima refinery in Okayama Prefecture and others, after they merge in April. Cosmo Oil Co. plans to reduce its oil-refining capacity by about 10% or 80,000 bpd, by cutting production at three refineries. Idemitsu Kosan Co. also is considering a production cutback.
Feb. 16 (EIRNS)—The Daily Telegraph reports that, by next January, mortgage lenders will have to start paying £319 billion borrowed from the government during the crisis of 2007—a quarter of the U.K.'s entire £1.3 trillion stock of mortgages. This, at a time when mortgage lending and the raising of funds by mortgage lenders has collapsed. Mortgage approvals have fallen from an average of £3.4 million annually during the reckless years 2005-07, to £1.3 million. While lenders were able to raise £130 billion in the 12 months prior to the credit crunch, they raised just £11.5 billion in the last two years!
Mortgage lenders do not have access to the almost free money the Bank of England gives to British banks, so this most likely will have to come from the government, again, which has obvious consequences for the budget deficit.
Feb. 18 (EIRNS)—Great Britain is following Spain into the economic trough. The Daily Telegraph reports that the number of people who are neither working nor seeking employment reached 8.08 million in the last three months of 2009, the highest on record. This is out of a population of 61 million, and comprises 21.3% of working-age adults.
The Office of National Statistics reports that those seeking unemployment benefits increased by 23,500 to 1.64 million in January, the highest since April 1997. Official unemployment is 2.46 million. This has shocked the talking-head economists who forecast a fall of 10,000 from the unemployment rolls. All of which is pointing in the direction of a so-called "double-dip" recession. The Independent reported that underemployment has increased by 700,000, to 2.8 million, which they say masks the poor employment situation in the U.K. It is worse if youth unemployment is taken into consideration.
Meanwhile, the Bank of England announced a 3.5% inflation rate for January, up from an average 2.9% for the previous 12 months. The BOE blamed the increase in VAT and rising oil prices, claiming that inflation will come down again in a few months. The Daily Telegraph was not so sure, writing, "inflationary pressures may continue to prove surprisingly persistent. Easy money globally has been boosting prices and favoring commodity price inflation. And the pound's continuing frailty brings inflation into the U.K. economy...."
Feb. 15 (EIRNS)—Spain's official National Statistical Institute (INE) reported yesterday that 2009 was a disastrous year for businesses. In 2009, 25% fewer companies were created than in 2008 (which itself suffered a 28% collapse); their average capitalization was down 21% from a year earlier; and business closings (mainly due to bankruptcy) rose by 7.2%.
Non-performing loans rose from 5.0% in 2008 to 5.1% in 2009, and the figure wasn't much higher only because total loans and letters of credit fell by 19% over this time period. Spain has an official unemployment rate of 19%, with youth unemployment in the range of 45%.
This is a dead physical economy, with a huge debt and derivatives speculative bubble sucking what little blood remains—with London's Banco Santander being Vampire in Chief.
United States News Digest
DOJ Clears Torture Memo Authors, in Whitewash of War Crimes
Obama Still Pushing Nazi Health Plan
As Revenues Plunge, States Cut Medicaid
Obama Lies in Creating Fascist Commission
Issa asks Bernanke for Fed's AIG Documents
Feb. 20 (EIRNS)—The most senior member of the Justice Department's top permanent bureaucracy has overruled the DOJ's own ethics office, which had found former DOJ officials John Yoo and Jay Bybee guilty of professional misconduct for their authorship of key opinions authorizing conduct that is universally regarded as constituting torture and war crimes.
This decision is also consistent with President Obama's repeated avowals that he has no interest in pursuing the crimes of the Bush-Cheney Administration.
The DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), in a 269-page report, had determined that Yoo and Bybee had committed professional misconduct (deemed "intentional" on Yoo's part), and that they should be referred to their respective state bar associations for disciplinary proceedings. Among other things, OPR found that Yoo and Bybee had ignored legal precedents (on waterboarding, for example), and had given slipshod legal advice to the White House in possible violation of U.S. and international laws on torture.
The decision to overrule OPR, and to clear Yoo and Bybee, was made by David Margolis, who has been at the DOJ since 1965, and who is now the last of the old "permanent bureaucracy" gang that Lyndon LaRouche and his associates targetted during the 1980s and 1990s around the LaRouche frameup and other DOJ atrocities. In the Yoo-Bybee case, Margolis said that OPR had applied too high a standard (!), when it contended that the two had "a duty to exercise independent legal judgment and to render thorough, objective, and candid legal advice."
Both Sen. Patrick Leahy, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Rep. John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, say they will hold hearings on the DOJ decision.
Feb. 19 (EIRNS)—Lyndon LaRouche's associates have been told that many Congressional Democrats are becoming increasingly angered by President Obama's obsessive pushing of his Nazi health-care plan despite widespread public opposition, but that Obama won't, or can't, let it go.
Indicative of the chaotic state of affairs, are reports that the White House may, or may not, have a bill ready to be posted on the Internet by Feb. 22, some 72 hours before the summit; and that Obama, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may, or may not, have agreed to try to ram a bill through Congress using "reconciliation" procedures which would require on 51 votes, rather than 60, in the Senate.
The White House has put out the word to Politico and others that Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are preparing to begin the reconciliation process the Feb. 25 "bipartisan" White House health-care summit. House minority whip Eric Cantor indicated yesterday that Republicans will attend the summit, but they are warning the White House against trying to jam through a back-room deal—which is exactly what the White House seems to be doing.
The White House is said to be pushing a pared-down $200 billion bill that would have to be attached to the budget bill to allow the use of reconciliation procedures.
But, says Politico, Democratic sources stress that neither Pelosi nor Reid knows if they have the votes to pass such a reconciliation bill.
"There has not been a collaborative process," said a Congressional Democrat with decades of health-care experience, quoted in the New York Times. "We have not been consulted. This is very much a White House proposal."
Feb. 19 (EIRNS)—Almost all U.S. states are making major cuts in Medicaid services and payments, or are planning to do so in the near future, the New York Times and other news outlets report.
Barred from reducing eligibility, states instead are cutting "optional benefits," such as dental and vision care, and are reducing payments to doctors and other health-care providers. Medicaid already pays doctors and hospitals at levels well below those of Medicare and private insurance, and often below costs. As a result, many doctors do not accept Medicaid patients, and additional cuts will further curtail participation in the program, which primarily serves low-income children, disabled adults, and nursing home residents.
Enrollment in Medicaid is at record levels, due to the economic collapse. More than 3 million people joined Medicaid in the year that ended in June 2009, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, bringing enrollment to a record 46.8 million.
Further compounding the situation is the plunge in state revenues, since states pay from 25% to 50% of Medicaid costs. The Rockefeller Institute of Government reports that tax collections nationwide declined by almost 11% in the 3rd Quarter compared to a year ago, the third consecutive quarter in which tax revenues fell by double-digit percentages. In the quarter, personal income tax revenues fell by 11.8%, sales taxes by 8.9%, and corporate income taxes by 22.6%.
Feb. 18 (Eirns)—President Obama lied in the process of establishing a National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform by Executive order, after the U.S. Senate had rejected a proposal by Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad (N.D.) and Republican Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.) to create such a commission, with the authority to make binding recommendations, as in violation of the responsibilities of the Senate. After meeting with Democrat Erskine Bowles and Republican Alan Simpson, co-chairmen of the commission, Obama claimed that Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and veterans benefits would not be affected by his spending freeze, while not mentioning that the entire mission of the commission he is setting up is to cut these very programs.
The Executive order creating the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform states that its mission is to "propose recommendations designed to balance the budget, excluding interest payments on the debt, by 2015." How this is to be accomplished is left largely to the Commission, except that "the Commission shall propose recommendations that meaningfully improve the long-run fiscal outlook, including changes to address the growth of entitlement spending and the gap between the projected revenues and expenditures of the Federal Government."
In other words, the entire purpose of the Commission, like the IMAC provision of Obama's death-care policy, is precisely to cut the very entitlement programs he claimed would not be affected by his three-year freeze.
As reported by the Miami Herald, Bowles said, later in the day, that "everything is on the table," including raising taxes and cutting Medicare and Social Security.
Feb. 18 (EIRNS)—Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, asked Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, in a letter dated yesterday, to deliver documents related to the AIG case by March 2. "In light of your professed commitments and your apparent desire to cooperate with this committee's investigation, I am writing to request that you voluntarily produce to this committee all records and communications in the possession of the Federal Reserve," regarding the AIG bailout.
The Fed is reviewing the letter, said David Skidmore, a Fed spokesman.
Ibero-American News Digest
Mexico: Drug Cartels Taking Over Agriculture
Britain Taunts Argentina Over Malvinas Oil Find
Largest Bond Dealer Will Keep Playing Brazil Carry Trade
Feb. 20 (EIRNS)—During a Feb. 16 seminar sponsored by the Mexican Bar Association, the president of the Superior Agricultural Court (TSA), Ricardo García Villalobos, stunned his audience with the charge that the country's drug cartels now control at least 30% of the country's agricultural lands, on which they either force farmers to produce poppies and marijuana plants, or pay them rent for use of the land.
García Villalobos's remarks were backed by federal legislator Cruz López Aguilar, head of the National Peasant Confederation (CNC).
Absent a state policy of support for agriculture, which has resulted in greater rural poverty, combined with Mexico's enormous dependence on food imports, peasants and farmers are left to their own devices, said García. The drug cartels have effectively replaced the state, he explained, providing credit, protection, and even weapons. Isn't it obvious, he asked, that this is a grave national security problem? Where is the government?
The Calderón government, like all of its predecessors, has allowed the British Empire's criminal North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), to dismantle Mexico's once vibrant agricultural sector. Moreover, according to the daily El Universal Feb. 17, the government's Procampo program, which is supposed to eliminate the "inequities" in the agro sector, by offering subsidies to poorer farmers, provided 500 million pesos to the Cargill Corp. cartel, between 2005 and 2009! During this same time frame, 3,000 peasants in the impoverished state of Chiapas received less than 1,000 pesos from Procampo to help in planting of corn.
Moreover, Infoveracruz reports that among the beneficiaries of the Agricultural Ministry's ASERCA farm subsidy program, are well-known narco families such as the Beltran Leyva, Guzmán Loera and the infamous "El Chapo" Guzmán. Victor Suárez, head of the National Association of Agricultural Marketing Companies, charges that, since its founding in 2000, ASERCA has served simply as a mechanism to transfer public funds to large monopolies and financial middlemen.
Feb. 18 (EIRNS)—For the past month, the British have repeatedly taunted Argentina with reports of immense oil and natural gas finds in the waters off the Malvinas Islands (called the Falklands by the British), which Britain illegally seized from Argentina in 1833 and has occupied ever since.
British oil firms are feverishly preparing to begin exploration in the North Falkland Basin, amidst euphoric reports about the "billions" of barrels of oil that might be found there. The London Economist today crowed that the islands could become "a Saudi Arabia with penguins," while boasting that the 2,400 residents of the Malvinas already enjoy a higher standard of living than Argentina.
President Cristina Fernández is "wildly unpopular," the City of London mouthpiece lied, charging that she and her husband, former President Néstor Kirchner, have wreaked economic havoc with their corruption and outdated nationalism.
On Feb. 16, Fernández de Kirchner issued a decree, mandating that ships travelling in Argentina's territorial waters, or stopping in Argentine ports en route to the Malvinas, must first obtain a government permit. This provoked shrieks from London that Argentina had imposed a "blockade" on the islands.
In remarks that Argentina's Foreign Minister charged were "whipping up the specter of war," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today that "all the preparations necessary" have been made "to make sure the Falklands Islands are properly protected." The British Ministry of Defence stated today that the U.K.'s existing "deterrence" force on the islands would not be increased, but warned that any Argentine interference with the free movement of shipping on the high seas "would be illegal and we would make a decision to use our deterrence force."
Feb. 21 (EIRNS)—Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO), the world's biggest bond fund, which is run by the giant German insurance firm Allianz, announced that it plans to continue playing the Brazil carry trade, despite the fact that the country is facing Presidential elections in October 2010. It is confident that the winner of the elections, whether President Lula's choice Dilma Rousseff or São Paulo Governor José Serra, will allow the speculative looting to continue. "We have every comfort that the policy in Brazil will remain sound," PIMCO's co-head for emerging markets, Michael Gomez, told Bloomberg on Feb. 17. "It doesn't really matter who the president is in the next election, as long as the policy is taken care of. We are fans of local debt markets in Brazil.... Brazilian bonds are a great value."
PIMCO had joined London-run Banco Santander and Rothschild agent Mario Garnero in betting heavily on candidate Lula da Silva and Brazil during the 2002 Presidential election—and won big. See "London's Brazil Carry Trade: Smoke, Mirrors—and Genocide," in this week's InDepth, for how this game worked.
It's Official: Britain Is the Top 'PIG'
German Constitutional Court Could Block Any Bailout
Deutsche Bank Says 'No' to Return to D-Mark
Brittany Regional Slate of Solidarity and Progress Party Certified
'Assisted Suicide': Coming to a Neighborhood Near You?
Feb. 19 (EIRNS)—"Shock as British Deficit Equals That of Greece," shouts the headline of the London Independent today. The collapse of tax revenue that caused a record £4.3 billion deficit for January, is front-page headline news all over the British media. Now, almost all the relevant numbers have made Great Britain the top PIG (the acronym PIGS refers to the supposedly weakest economies in the Eurozone: Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain). First, the announcement pushed up the interest on British 10-year treasury bonds, or "gilts," to 4.2%, up 17 basis points. While this is still lower than Portugal (4.41), Ireland (4.75), or Greece (6.53), it is considerably higher than Spain (4.02) and Italy (4.05). As for the deficit as percentage of gross domestic product, Britain is headed toward 12.8%, as compared with Greece's 12.7%. Even if Britain is within the government's own official forecast, it will be at 12.6%. The overall borrowing this fiscal year, which ends in March, is officially forecast to be £178 billion, but could exceed £180 billion.
A closer look at the "fundamentals" of tax receipts, shows it could hardly be worse. The collapse of revenue was 9% in a month—January—for which economists had forecast a 2.8% increase. Income tax returns collapsed by 20%, and corporate tax by 6%. The Value Added Tax (VAT) increased only because the rate was increased from 15% to 17.5%. Public spending increased 15%, especially because of increased unemployment benefits. The Independent reports that the figures may have been massaged, because there are indications that the government has been holding back the reimbursements for overpaid income tax, which would make "the figures better now, at the cost of making them worse in a couple of months time." Because income tax revenues are collapsing, especially in the top 10 percentile which accounts for 53% of the intake, the VAT will likely be increased to 20%.
The collapse of revenues among British municipalities is expected to lead to the loss of more than 20,000 municipal jobs.
Feb. 15 (EIRNS)—Wolfgang Münchau, one of the chief commentators of the Financial Times, writes in today's edition that, while last week's EU summit may have agreed to a bailout for Greece, Germany's Constitutional Court rulings on the Maastricht and Lisbon treaties could make that a dead letter. While saying the anti-bailout sentiment "borders on hysteria," he admits that Chancellor Angela Merkel "is contained by the 1993 Maastricht Treaty ruling of the German Constitutional Court—which as I understand was an important consideration in determining her stance last Thursday [Feb. 11]. The court stipulated that stability is an unalienable basis for Germany's participation in a monetary union. Should this principle be violated, the legal basis for Germany's participation would no longer be valid."
A source in the German Bundestag confirmed to EIR, that, the bailout for Greece, if it comes, may be taken to court, by a "constitutional body" in Germany, such as a group in the national parliament, or by the Bundestag as a whole (not very likely), or another body (state government, state parliament, etc.).
These remarks, as well as the increasing media coverage of the constitutional issue, prove that Helga Zepp-LaRouche was on the mark, when she said that the crisis of the euro showed it is high time for Germany to quit the euro system and return to its national currency, the deutschemark.
Feb. 19 (EIRNS)—An interview with Nicolas Heinen of Deutsche Bank, in the Germany daily Die Welt, on the Greek issue and the euro crisis, is just another piece of evidence that the debate about a return to the German deutschmark is intensifying.
When the interviewer asks, "But, would Germany not been better off with the d-mark? The speculative attacks are also hitting us, although their target is the Greek state finances," Heinen replies: "Even if at present, predominantly the frictions inside the eurozone are perceived, the advantages [of the euro] prevail. If we still had the d-mark, there would be a massive flight from other European currencies into the mark. It would be been strongly revalued, and the high exchange rate would strangle our exports—in addition to the reduced demand on the world markets."
PARIS, Feb. 16 (EIRNS)—The 91-candidate slate of Jacques Cheminade's Solidarity and Progress Party, called "Brittany, a Lighthouse of the New World," for the March 14 regional elections, was officially certified by the Prefecture yesterday.
The four LaRouche Youth Movement members leading the slate held a press conference following certification. Four journalists attended: the Rennes local TV station; the national FR3, which covers regional news; the largest regional daily Ouest France; and the Telegramme de Brest.
This morning, the Telegramme writes that besides the seven usual slates, four newcomers are spicing up the debate. "Then, there was the breakout of the Solidarity and Progress party of Jacques Cheminade, which has chosen Brittany to present his only regional slate". Ouest France this morning has a small article, "Solidarity and Progress, the Surprise Invitee," showing the four leaders of the slate in front of the Theatre of Rennes. "On top of his program, Alexandre Noury places a reform of the international financial system which today 'imposes short-term profit and sacrifices the future.' He also denounces wind, energy which he considers 'ruinous for all' while demanding small nuclear reactors for the region."
Feb. 20 (EIRNS)—Just as Barack Obama prepares his new attempt to ram through his British-modelled Hitler health plan, the British government is planning its next step—decriminalizing "assisted suicide."
The U.K. Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, who issued a guidance last September on when you can kill someone without being prosecuted for murder, is scheduled to publish his final guidelines this coming week. According to British press reports, as in the Daily Telegraph of Feb. 19, Starmer's guidelines will amount to a "checklist" of circumstances under which you can avoid prosecutions.
Current British law calls for punishing anyone who aids or abets another to end their life by up to 14 years imprisonment. In the face of numerous "test cases" flouting the law, the House of Lords has still refused to legalize assisted suicide. Now, this administrative move will effectively circumvent the Parliament, and permit the practice.
According to the Telegraph account, the Crown Prosecutor will effectively be setting out in detail the way people can commit the crime of murder, without being held to account. Not even Hitler dared to make such a public declaration of intent.
Russia and the CIS News Digest
Ukraine Election Result Sets Back British Geopolitics
Feb. 15 (EIRNS)—One week after the run-off in Ukraine's Presidential election, the country's Central Electoral Commission yesterday certified the victory of Party of Regions leader Victor Yanukovych over Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, by 887,909 votes (48.95% to 45.47%). Thus, one of the George Soros-financed 2004 Orange Revolution figures, President Victor Yushchenko, was eliminated in the first round, and his former ally, Tymoshenko, in the second. It was Yanukovych's victory in 2004 which was overturned by the Orange coup. (Supporters of Tymoshenko, who earlier had said that even a "10-vote margin of victory" would be a clear victory, announced Feb. 15 they would attempt to challenge the election result in court, but the bid was dropped later in the week.)
The election of Yanukovych is already affecting Ukraine's relations with Russia, reducing the capability, which London geopolitical strategists have often bragged about and frequently used, of exploiting every conceivable tension between the two countries.
Speaking on Feb. 14, Yanukovych confirmed that he will not pursue Yushchenko's plan of taking Ukraine into NATO. "Ukraine's joining NATO is not on the agenda today," said Yanukovych. "Ukraine is interested in taking part in the project for a European collective security system, supporting the initiative of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev for that, as President Nicholas Sarkozy has supported it." In an interview the previous day, Yanukovych said that he is open to talks with Moscow on Russia's Black Sea Fleet continuing to use its base in Sevastopol, Crimean Peninsula, after the current lease expires in 2017.
The prominent Ukrainian weekly Zerkalo nedeli of Feb. 13-19 carried a major article on the prospects for revival of Ukraine's nuclear industry, including through purchase of reactors from Russia. This would bring a different dimension to Russia-Ukraine energy relations, as against the natural gas price wars of recent years. Last week, Yanukovych announced, "I now want to discuss with Russia, moving ahead to build another three nuclear power units in a partnership arrangement."
Southwest Asia News Digest
Israeli Source Confirms: Brits Were Fully in on Hamas Hit
Anglo-Israeli 'Doomsday' War Scheme Advances
Dubai Police Chief Calls for Arrest of Mossad Head
'Sykes-Picot'-Model Assassination in Dubai
Britain Was Informed in Advance of Israeli Hit
Feb. 20 (EIRNS)—A senior Israeli source, closely tied to the Netanyahu government, has confirmed that the British were complicit in the Mossad assassination of a prominent Hamas official in Dubai on Jan. 20. According to the source, the British intelligence services provided the Mossad with all of the passports used, to conceal the identities of the hit squad members. "Not only were the British passports given to the Mossad. The Brits provided the German and Irish passports as well," the source said. "They were fully witting before the fact."
According to the source, the modus operandi of the assassination was similar to the murder, in 1990, of weapons designer Gerald Bull, outside his apartment in Brussels. He explained that the friction between the British and the Israelis after the killing of the Hamas official, was due to the fact that the Israelis obtained a large number of documents from the murdered man's briefcase, and have so far refused to share the contents with the British.
Feb. 20 (EIRNS)—Sources close to the Israeli government have warned EIR that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's inner cabinet is close to making a decision to launch a preventive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. Such a decision could come as early as tomorrow, when the cabinet convenes.
According to the source, a fierce debate is raging within the military, over whether Israel has the capacity to successfully strike Iran's nuclear facilities at Natanz or elsewhere. Recently, former Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Dan Halutz told Israeli media that the IDF does not have the ability to seriously damage the Iranian program. But, according to an Israeli source close to the inner cabinet, several options are being reviewed for just such an attack.
According to the source, in recent visits to Russia, both Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman pressed Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for permission to stage attacks against Iranian targets from sites inside Russia. Putin reportedly strongly rejected that option. Similar approaches have been made to the government of Kazakhstan, according to the Israeli source. The source added that the preferred option, being promoted by factions in the IDF, is to launch attacks from Israeli submarines, equipped with cruise missiles. The source noted that the accuracy of such submarine-launched cruise missiles is unreliable, and most of the Iranian sites on the Israeli target list are in urban areas.
The source confirmed that the Obama Administration's national security team has delivered a series of strongly worded messages, warning Israel against any unilateral attacks on Iran. U.S. military leaders, as well as Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, National Security Advisor Gen. Jim Jones (ret.), and Vice President Joe Biden, all recognize that a military strike against Iran is the worst-case, last option, and that they are not even close to the point of having to make that decision. It is widely believed, including among Israeli planners, that Iran has a retaliatory asymmetric capability that would involve crippling the Persian Gulf oil flow, blowing out the world economy, if attacked.
Lyndon LaRouche warned that circles in London, including former Prime Minister Tony Blair, are the real potential architects of this "doomsday" scheme. It is those in London, who are desperate over the collapse of the entire British System, who may be contemplating an Israeli "breakaway ally" attack on Iran, which would bring on a planetary dark age. Testifying before the Chilcot Commission, Blair taunted the commissioners with the need to take military action against Iran today, just as he lied the U.S. and Britain into the 2003 invasion of Iraq. These people would have to be totally desperate, to be contemplating such a doomsday act, and I am afraid that they are, LaRouche warned.
Feb. 18 (EIRNS)—Dubai's police chief, Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, today called for Interpol to issue a red notice, requesting that the suspects be arrested pending extradition, against the head of the Mossad as a killer, if the Mossad is proved to be behind the murder of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was killed in a Dubai hotel in January.
Tamim told the English-language Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National that Interpol had issued red notices for 11 suspects wanted in the killing of al-Mabhouh.
Feb. 18 (EIRNS)—There are mounting indications that the January assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai, was nothing less than a "Sykes-Picot" assassination—a collusion among European powers to destroy Southwest Asia, as in the Franco-British Sykes-Picot Treaty of 1918. Dubai officials have identified between 11 and 18 suspects whose pictures were seen on bogus passports from Britain, France, Ireland, and Germany, but the British, French, and Irish foreign offices have summoned the Israeli ambassadors for an explanation.
On Feb. 18, Robert Fisk, the London Independent's veteran Beirut-based correspondent, wrote that the real story is the collusion between Israel, the British, and other Europeans. He writes that the United Arab Emirates "suspect—only suspect, mark you—that Europe's 'security collaboration' with Israel has crossed a line into illegality, where British passports (and those of other EU nations) can now be used to send Israeli agents into the Gulf to kill Israel's enemies."
Fisk reports that he received a call from an "impeccable" Abu Dhabi source, who told him "the British passports are real. They are hologram pictures with the biometric stamp. They are not forged or fake. The names were really there. If you can fake a hologram or biometric stamp, what does this mean?" The source went on, "There are 18 people involved in the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Besides the 11 already named, there are two Palestinians who are being interrogated and five others, including a woman. She was part of the team that staked out the hotel lobby."
The source sent a later message saying, "The command room of the operation was in Austria ... meaning the suspects when here did not talk to each other but thru the command room on separate lines to avoid detection ... but it was detected and identified OK?"
The source went on, "We have sent out details of the 11 named people to Interpol. Interpol has circulated them to 188 countries—but why hasn't Britain warned foreign nations that these people are using passports in these names? ... We have identified five credit cards belonging to these people, all issued in the United States."
While the EU countries and Britain are cooperating, the source said he found it very strange that "not one of the countries we have been speaking to has notified Interpol of the passports used in their name. Why not?"
He concludes on a very interesting note: "Collusion is a word the Arabs understand. It speaks of the 1956 Suez War, when Britain and France cooperated with Israel to invade Egypt. Both London and Paris denied the plot. They were lying. But for an Arab Gulf country which suspects its former masters (the U.K., by name) may have connived in the murder of a visiting Hamas official, this is apparently now too much."
Feb. 19 (EIRNS)—Britain's Daily Mail today reported that Israel had informed the British intelligence services before it carried out the assassination of an Hamas operative in Dubai last month, and that it had used British and other European passports.
The Mail cites an unnamed "British security source," who met the Mossad agent, who informed him. "This is a serving member of Israeli intelligence. He says the British government was told very, very briefly before the operation was going to happen. There was no British involvement and they didn't know the name of the target. But they were told these people were traveling on U.K. passports. This was not a request for permission to use the passports but a 'courtesy call'.... The Mossad agent said that they understood the British authorities will have to 'slap them on the wrist" and added: "The British government has to be seen to be going though the motions."
The Mail adds that the scandal will not hurt British-Israeli relations, because Israel was supplying information on the U.K. Muslim community.
India-Russia Nuclear Cooperation Moves Ahead
Marjah Offensive Spells Disaster for Troops and Civilians
India and South Korea Start Nuclear Cooperation
India Offers China Security Cooperation in the Indian Ocean
Feb. 15 (EIRNS)—The visiting Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Sobyanin told RIA Novosti yesterday that Moscow and New Delhi are "working on an agreement between our states on cooperation in the field of the peaceful use of atomic energy. The agreement has already been initialed, and I am sure it will be signed during [Prime Minister] Vladimir Putin's visit to India middle of next month." According to Sobyanin, the development of atomic energy is one of the top priorities for India, and Russia "is ready to give it assistance in this."
The key to this agreement, is cooperation in order to speed up the development of commercial thorium reactors. India is already building a prototype reactor fuelled by fissile uranium-233, and bred from fissionable thorium-232. India is also breeding both uranium-233 and plutonium-239, both fissile materials, in fast-breeder reactors. These reactors have a judicious mix of fissile plutonium, which will act as the charger, and fertile zones inside the core; Indian nuclear scientists have shown that their design can breed not one, but two nuclear fuels: uranium-233 from thorium and plutonium-239 from depleted uranium-238, within the same reactor. India's 17 indigenous pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWRs) produce plutonium-239 as spent fuel.
This totally novel concept of fertile-to-fissile conversion has prompted its designers to christen the planned reactor as the Fast "Twin" Breeder Reactor. Their calculations show the sodium-cooled FTBR, while consuming 10.96 tons of plutonium to generate 1,000 MW of power, breeds 11.44 tons of plutonium and 0.88 tons of U-233 in a cycle length of two years.
India-Russia cooperation in the area of thorium-232 as reactor fuel has been progressing for some time. In 2000, the countries signed a protocol for cooperation in developing thorium-based nuclear fuel for use in the pressurized light water reactors now being supplied by the Russians for Koodankulam nuclear power plants in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. At present, the VVERs are designed for use with enriched uranium (about 6% of fissile U-235, and the rest, non-fissile U-238) as fuel. The second interesting aspect of the proposal records that the Kurchatov Institute had developed "a safe, low-cost, nuclear fuel design with thorium utilization for Russian VVER reactors that offers a nuclear fuel."
Feb. 14 (EIRNS)—The U.S. offensive against the Taliban stronghold of Marjah in the opium capital of the world, Afghanistan's Helmand Province, has begun, as the commanders admit that the objective is not military, but psychological—except that many more pointless deaths will be the result. John McCreary, an advisor to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, told the London Times, "What Marjah is really all about is turning around the perception that we're losing.... It's an attempt to retake the information war."
U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen is reported by Reuters to have said today, in Israel, that "this is not focused on the Taliban, and it is a strategy not just to clear the area but to hold it and then build right behind so that there is a civilian component here and there is a local governance." The U.S. strategic hamlets of the Vietnam War come to mind—setting up U.S. troops and civilians as targets in a counterinsurgency war which is programmed to lose.
Another insane aspect of the plan is to "secure a 200-mile stretch of land up to the border with Pakistan, with the aim of forcing the Taliban to negotiate," according to the London Times.
The Times gloats: "Military strategists were puzzled that the enemy was being given so much detail." A source close to the Afghan government told EIR that there was a massive NATO publicity campaign through radio, television, print, and airdropped leaflets, providing details of the invasion, expecting the Taliban to flee or defect.
While most insurgents may have fled (with the opium crop, of course), the U.S. and British troops, and their Afghan Army allies, were greeted with fierce opposition. The Dawn quotes one Capt. Ryan Sparks comparing the intensity of the fighting to the bloody offensive against the Iraqi town of Fallujah in 2004.
Feb. 16 (EIRNS)—South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's state visit to India during the week of Jan. 25, where he met with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and was guest of honor at India Constitution Day festivities, has already begun to bear fruit.
South Korea and India are starting a program of exchanging engineering visits in the nuclear field. Six engineers from India's Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) arrived in South Korea today. Tomorrow, they will attend a seminar in Seoul on general atomic energy policies, safety and research, and development efforts. Later in the week, they will visit the Doosan Heavy Industry and Construction Co., which produces the APR1400 reactors, and the Gori nuclear power plant in Busan, and meet with their counterparts at state-run companies such as Korea Electric Power Corp., Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, and Korea Nuclear Fuel Co. South Korean experts plan to visit Mumbai to hold talks with their Indian counterparts early next month.
A knowledgeable Indian source informed EIR that, "What these Indian engineers are looking for is the South Korean capability to provide components for the nuclear power-related industry. The other day, India's Atomic Energy Commission told a media person: 'The pace of growth itself is challenging. The major challenge is the delivery of components by the industry for the new nuclear power plants. The government has sanctioned building of four more pressurized heavy water reactors (700 MW capacity).'"
A "decision on setting up five nuclear parks," the source related, in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, and Maharashtra, has been taken. Each one of these parks will house multiple reactors to have around 10,000 MW power generation capacity. The parks will also have facilities like reprocessing units."
Feb. 19 (EIRNS)—India's Minister of State for Defense Pallam Raju, in an interview with the Financial Times of London published today, offered Beijing protection by the Indian Navy to help China secure its ships in the Indian Ocean shipping lanes. Raju recognized that these shipping lanes are critical for both nations to meet their energy needs for its fast-growing economies.
Raju said New Delhi is prepared to collaborate with Beijing to guarantee safe passage of supplies: "China and India have similar interests to secure trade, particularly in regard to energy and resources."
Raju's statement followed quiet talks between Beijing and New Delhi following their joint anti-piracy naval operations off the Somali coast last year. There have been discussions of the need to improve support and supply arrangements in strategic locations for Chinese ships, notably in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
If India and China progress quickly in providing each other the necessary security in these shipping lanes, the British, and their collaborators in both India and China with the British mind-set, will be struck a decisive blow. The British game is to keep India and China at each other's throats by keeping them engrossed with "issues," such as border disputes, or Tibet, or the Chinese arms and nuclear-related supplies to Pakistan.
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Coup in Asia-Allied Niger
Niger: One of World Largest Uranium Producers
Feb. 19 (EIRNS)—The African government of Niger was toppled in a coup yesterday. The nominal leader of the coup is a lower-ranking colonel. President Mamadou Tandja had made a large uranium deal with France during his eight years in office, and had made or was negotiating several more development deals with Asian nations. African countries that are collaborating economically with China and other Asian nations are being targetted by advocates of the British imperial financial system.
Last year, when Tandja moved to overturn the term limit which required that he leave office on Dec. 22, 2009, Western nations in the orbit of the British empire cut off aid to the very impoverished country, and encouraged the internal opposition. As soon as Tandja announced a referendum in July to change the constitution to allow extending his Presidency beyond two terms, the European Union suspended more than $600 million in annual budgetary support and development aid. On Dec. 22, the United States froze an estimated $50 million of non-humanitarian support. Because drought and pest infestations last year cut food production by 26%, this aid cutoff generated internal pressure against Tandja, which contributed to opening the way for the coup.
The coup has been widely condemned in Africa, since there had been negotiations, mediated by African institutions, between Tandja and the opposition. Senegal authorities announced Feb. 17 that President Abdulaye Wade had been named by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to oversee mediation efforts, and his foreign minister, Madicke Niang, was on the way there when the coup took place. Also, Nigerian Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar had been mediating on behalf of ECOWAS. South African President Jacob Zuma condemned the coup, and pointed out that efforts were underway to resolve the internal conflicts.
But the British press service Reuters asserted, the day after the coup, that it provides the best chance for elections. And Alex Vines, of Britain's Chatham House (home of the Royal Institute of International Affairs), came to the defense of those who carried out the coup, saying they were more professional than other military officers who have led coups in Africa. The Niger civilian opposition supported the coup, and the new military junta has assured the French state-owned nuclear group Areva, that it has nothing to worry about.
Will the British empire now be able to steer the country away from its newly developed Asian collaborators?
Feb. 19 (EIRNS)—Niger, most of whose territory is in the Sahara Desert, has large uranium reserves. It is the world's fourth-largest producer of uranium, as the second-largest deposit in the world is presently under development. Ousted President Tandja had begun several mammoth projects, worth billions of dollars, including a hydroelectric dam, an oil refinery, and what will be the largest uranium mine in Africa.
Niger is near the bottom on the UN's Human Development Index. Tandja brought a level of economic advancement which the country had never seen before. The French nuclear company Areva began working on a deposit last year, which is the largest in Africa. Areva has already invested $1.5 billion in the mine. This deal was expected to push Niger into the #2 spot of uranium producers in the world, behind Canada.
During Tandja's tenure, Korea, India, and China also became involved in Niger. Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) signed a deal with Areva to jointly develop a uranium mine in Niger. According to the South Korean news agency Yonhap, the latest deal came after the South Korean state-run power company purchased a 10% stake in the French group's subsidiary, Areva NC Expansion, which owns a 67% stake in the Imouraren mine in Niger, at an investment of 300 billion won ($258 million). In March, 2009, it was announced that Korea also bought 5% of a uranium mine in central Niger from China. This mine has a reserve of 13,000 tons, and is scheduled to begin production this year, with an initial output of 800 tons/year. Korea imports 97% of its minerals and energy; gets 40% of its power from nuclear plants; and is Asia's fourth-largest crude oil importer. An Indian company also had a mining permit in Niger.
In 2008, China National Petroleum Company signed a $5 billion deal for oil exploration in Niger, that was supposed to start producing this year. China is also involved in uranium in Niger.


Gary Johnson is the performance artist candidate we've been waiting for. Or, more specifically, he sometimes utilizes performance to communicate his ideas. Often, it is read as "class-clown" humor (which is a fair observation) but there is a part of me that respects his acknowledgment of non-traditional forms of communication. Unfortunately for Johnson, however, when you are running for president these performances are only effective when they articulate a nuanced understanding of complex issues rather than deflect or derail the conversation at hand. Here is a good example of how he used performance to make his point.
CUBS WIN! The takeaway from the next day's papers is that professional photographers are professionals for a reason.
I was thinking about this weaponization of tears as a response/alternative/combat stance to the tear inducing mechanisms of riot police. Pepper spray in reverse.
Another important aspect of the strike is its effect on Philadelphia public school students. 30,000 students use SEPTA trans passes to get to school everyday. Not to be overlooked is how the strike disproportionately affects the students (and Philadelphians in general) with the fewest transportation alternatives and the longest commutes.


During the presidential debates, Donald Trump routinely attacked Hillary Clinton for using a private email server during her time as Secretary of State. Though he changed his mind after winning the election, Trump went so far as to promise the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate her illegal activity.
With chants of "lock her up" echoing through the adoring crowds attending his rallies, Trump often reminded his supporters that Hillary's email-server scandal was likely criminal due to the serious threat it posed to national security.
Hillary's "extremely careless" behavior, as the FBI called it, proved to be a valid concern. During their investigation, the FBI confirmed that Hillary's email servers, as well as her cell-phones, were repeatedly targeted by hackers. Due to the lack of proper security features, the hackers may have had some success.
Concern over Hillary's threat to national security was well justified, which is why a recent story in Politico about Donald Trump should create the same concern where have recently learned that the Tweeter-in-Chief is using cell-phone equipment that creates the same threat to national security.
Trump say he's sticking w/ a potentially hackable iPhone because it is "too inconvenient" to change — same exact argument "Lock her up" Hillary Clinton used to justify using a private email server.
According to senior officials in the White House, Trump is using a cell-phone that isn't equipped with the vital security features considered necessary to protect him from hacking or surveillance.
Trump uses two iPhones—one for voice calling and one for his Twitter fixation—and aids have urged him to swap out the Twitter phone on a monthly basis. However, Trump has rejected these security-check requests, calling them "too inconvenient" to comply with, which is the same excuse used by Hillary when her cell-phone equipment was investigated by the FBI.
Apparently, Trump often goes up to five months between security checks on his Twitter phone. It's unknown how often Trump's voice phone is swapped out, but since it has a camera and a microphone, it makes Trump susceptible to hackers who can use those features to monitor his movements.
Trump has the authority, of course, to override or ignore the advice of his staff on this issue but doing so is irresponsible and creates a national security risk. Just like Hillary!
David Leach is the owner of The Strident Conservative. His politically incorrect and always "right" columns are also featured on NOQReport.com and TheResurgent.com.


When one wakes up in the morning before a hard days work, one of the first things on the to do list is to make a cup of coffee. It becomes such a routine thing to do that we never actually consider purchasing a new machine.
When we actually get round to buying a new one we tend to get totally overwhelmed by what is on the market. Certain brands such as Nespresso and Ninja Coffee tend to command really high prices that are out of reach for many average coffee consumers.
Here at Love My Coffee Cup one of our favorite coffee maker brands is Mr. Coffee.
Mr. Coffee offer a fantastic range of coffee makers that are able to suit all budgets and preferences. Their specialty is automatic drip machines which are fantastic for time limited consumers.
Mr. Coffee automatic drip machines come with a variety of different pot sizes. The smallest being a two pot, and the largest being a twelve pot. The twelve pots are ideal for a commercial or large family set up, while the smaller two and four pots would suit an individual drinker or couple.
Furthermore, some of the Mr. Coffee machines have more advanced features such as temperature programming and modes which allow for your coffee preferences.
We at https://lovemycoffeecup.com have decided to field test and review our favorite three machines and decide what is the best Mr Coffee maker.
The four cup switch maker is the most simplistic machine that Mr. Coffee has produced. Coming with a four cup pourer which you place on a heating pad; all you have do is press the ON button.
Despite the very basic price point, the Mr. Coffee switch maker has some pretty cool and interesting features.
One of the most notable is the "grab a cup" feature where the machine stops brewing at an interval just before the brew process is complete which will give you plenty of time to freely pour your drink. This also will save you time!
The machine also has a transparent filter which is removable and will allow you to quickly and easily fill up with water. The transparent filter also has markings for filling.
Our favorite feature is the lift and clean coffee filter which you can simply remove and take to your sink which will help reduce the hefty clean up process which all so often puts us off brewing our own coffee.
Overall we think that this machine is a pretty good entry point for those just getting into brewing their own coffee. It is pretty simple and not massive on the more advanced features which could put some (especially older consumers off).
The price point also puts the machine at a small initial investment and is great for those just getting their feet wet in the coffee brewing world.
We have structured this review to showcase three different Mr. Coffee products. We feel it is important to always show the basic model in order to cater for our more budget conscious and entry level readers. This also allows us to give you guys room to compare between products and decide what you really want. However, our previous results from writing reviews indicate to us that most coffee lovers will go for an intermediate product.
We felt that the Mr. Coffee eight cup stainless thermal coffee maker was just that, an intermediate product. Boasting a super impressive price point of below fifty bucks this maker really steps up the game when it comes to features. In terms of design it is really similar to the basic model which we previously discussed. Boasting a cool black backing and stainless facing this product has a fantastic programmable interface which looks really pleasing to the eye and will look great in any kitchen.
This coffee maker also comes with a stainless steel theme flask, pourer which will keep your brew warmer for longer once it is removed from the heating pad.
One of the features we love about this product is the interface. With the touch of the button you will be able to control how you have your coffee. It has two modes, strong or regular.
You will also have the ability to time your coffee which will be perfect for when you wake up in the morning, or come back from a busy shift at work.
You will furthermore have the option to hot hold your coffee for up to two hours to keep it at the desired temperature if you are too busy or don't desire to drink it all at once. If you are the owner of a bed and breakfast, or a business owner purchasing a machine for staff this is a fantastic feature.
This product also boasts the same lift and clean coffee filter which makes the daunting clean up process simple and mess free.
Overall, we absolutely love this machine for those willing to spend a little bit extra for a few more features.
For the less price dependent coffee consumer; we think that the Mr, Coffee cafe barista machine is absolutely out of this world. Boasting a deep red exterior and black outer shell this machine is a real eye catcher.
This machine has a variety of mode settings allowing you to enjoy a great espresso or a creamy latte. This is totally different from the other makers that we have looked at as it is more centered around different types of coffee as opposed to a simple filter brew.
It is fantastic for those who are only looking for the one cup and not so much to make a batch for the whole family. Although the brewing process and is pretty quick (and you can utilize the double cup system to make a cup for two people) it won't be a problem to make a drink for others.
This machine also comes with an automatic milk throther which is ideal for making cappuccinos and lattes and will save the trial and error with frothing you own milk. The fifteen bar pump system will allow you to make an awesome espresso.
A really interesting feature with this machine is the self cleaning cycle which will keep the machine smell and bacteria free. This will save valuable for those in a rush.
So What is the Best Mr Coffee Maker?
After reviewing the three different types of Mr. Coffee machines we feel they are all really good value for money.
Our favorite however, is the Mr. Coffee eight cup stainless thermal coffee maker.
We were extremely impressed with the ultra competitive price point of the machine which offered great value for money and provided a fantastic entry level product for the average coffee lover.
This machine had some really impressive features and we felt that it would be really well suited to most consumers and ideal for those wanting to avoid the messy clean up process that brewing can incur!


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Q: Error loading type library/DLL when I try to add file in VS (HRESULT: 0x80029C4A) I have a trouble when I try to create a view in my web project.
Here is my error message:
There was an error running the selected code generator: 'Error loading type library/DLL. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80029C4A (TYPE_E_CANTLOADLIBRARY))'

I've already checked other response. If I run as admin or none, same issue. I have another computer that hasn't this error with same OS + VS. If there is something to copy, I can do it.
I don't find this exception in event viewer to see details (how?)
Thanks in advance

A: I finally fixed this by using repair tool of Visual Studio.
For people that repair will not help, this is compiled things I've read to fix this issue:

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*Reset via CLI VS settings: vswindexpress /resetuserdata - geoffwebbercross blogpost

*Reset via Doc/AppSettings and regedit

*Rebuild the project, restart VS, restart computer

*Repair VS (this fixes my issue) msdn

A: I simply went to Add or remove programs in control panel. Repaired my visual studio from there and this worked for me like a charm.

A: I faced with the same error after I installed .Net Core 1.1 from official web site. I did repair of VS(2015 Upd5) and it did not help. Then I uninstalled .Net Core and repaired VS and finally it started working normally.
Update: I also uninstalled Entity Framework 6.x (from Programs and Features)

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City Leaders and UP Elementary School students will plant a tree in Curtis Park in observance of Arbor Day on Friday, November 6. The program will include remarks from City leaders noting the 10th anniversary of the City being designated a Tree City USA community. Each child will be given a seedling to plant at home.


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Manchester City 2-1 Southampton: City regain eight-point Premier League lead after late Sterling show
Manchester City reaffirmed their status as Premier League favourites after seeing off a spirited Southampton display to get all three points at the Etihad Stadium.
The league leaders struggled to break down a well-organised visiting team and went into half-time goalless – a rarity for a side that has scored 44 goals in their opening 14 matches.
However, Kevin de Bruyne's free-kick was deflected in by Virgil van Dijk just minutes after the break to put City in control.
The Saints refused to give in, however, and were rewarded in the 75th minute when Oriol Romeu struck to put his side on the verge of an upset – only Everton have taken points off the Pep Guardiola's side.
The hosts continued their attacking to the final whistle, and Raheem Sterling scored with a fine, curling effort in the 96th minute to give his club all three points, which means that they remain eight points ahead of neighbours Manchester United, to spark joyous scenes.
Manchester United vs Liverpool – Premier League hopefuls clash in Michigan Due to the clubs' historic rivalry, Manchester United against Liverpool on Saturday night is going to be the nearest thing to a competitive match at this summer's International Champions Cup. With the large proportion of games taking place in the United States, the Premier League sides a.. JULY 27, 2018
Monaco v St Etienne – AS can confirm with title by avoiding defeat With two matches spare, AS Monaco are almost there. They have all but won the Ligue 1 title for the first time since 2000 and it is completely deserved. The club from the principality have scored 102 times – 20 more than PSG – and lead the Parisians by three points with two matches to go.. MAY 16, 2017
Inter v Fiorentina – an exciting match expected on Serie A matchday one While the attention in Serie A - and pretty much all of Europe, in fact, apart from Paris Saint-Germain – has been on AC Milan due to their remarkable transfer splurge, Inter have quietly gone about their business as they look to build on their hugely disappointing seventh place last season. L.. AUGUST 18, 2017
Norway v Sweden – a Scandinavian derby in Oslo Norway host neighbours Sweden on Tuesday night, with both countries heading into the summer break with different mindsets. Last week's impressive 2-1 win over France means that the Swedes head Group A after six fixtures and, courtesy of their superior goal difference, are heading to Russia aut.. JUNE 13, 2017
Strasbourg vs Guingamp – a close mid-table clash in Ligue 1 Ligue 1 is back after its three-week winter break, and matchday 20 kicks-off on Friday night with Strasbourg against Guingamp. Both teams are looking comfortable in their mid-table positions; Strasbourg in particular will be more than content with their eighth place having just been promoted to Fran.. JANUARY 11, 2018

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The Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists is the professional association of Speech and Language Therapists in Ireland. It provides up-to-date information for the general public to aid in the understanding of common speech and language disorders and to increase awareness of available services. www.iaslt.ie
CORU is Irelands statutory registration of Health and Social Care Professionals www.coru.ie/
The Irish Heart Foundation is the national charity fighting stroke and heart disease, www.irishheart.ie
The Volunteer Stroke Scheme operates stroke support groups in various locations around Ireland www.strokescheme.ie
Headway provides support and services to people affected by brain injury. It aims to heighten public and political awareness of acquired brain injury and the impact it has on individuals, families and carers. www.headway.ie/
Different Strokes is a UK based charity providing advice and support for those affected by stroke. www.differentstrokes.co.uk/
Aphasia Ireland is an Irish charity set up to provide advice and support to people with aphasia and their families. www.aphasiaireland.ie
Speakability is part of the UK's Stroke Association and provides information on the different types of aphasia after stroke. www.speakability.org.uk
Patience, Listening and Communicating with Aphasia Patients An 18-minute video produced by the Richmond, Va Aphasia Group. A good introduction to aphasia.
Parkinson's Association of Ireland is an Irish charity which provided information and advice for those affected by Parkinson's disease. www.parkinsons.ie
Move 4 Parkinson's Disease is an Irish charity promoting self-management and mindfulness in Parkinson's disease. move4parkinsons.blogspot.ie
UK Parkinson's Disease Association is a good website with up to date information and advice for those affected by Parkinson's disease. www.parkinsons.org.uk
The Alzheimer Society of Ireland provides dementia specific services and advocates for the rights of people living with dementia. The Alzheimer Society of Ireland also operates a National Helpline offering support to anyone affected by dementia at 1800 341 341. www.alzheimer.ie
Understand Together is a national campaign offering information, support, and training for both carers of people with dementia and the general public. www.understandtogether.ie
Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing
St. James's Hospital


going after people trying to cheat insurance companies. I know it is wrong but they would be better spending the effort on stopping nuisance calls which serve to part vulnerable people from their money.
It isn't just the insurance companies that lose out with this, it's damaging the already heavily-tarnished image of British working class slobs on the take in Tenerife even more.
UK holidaymakers who are found guilty of making a fraudulent claim face up to three years in jail, the Ministry of Justice said.
Wonder how many prosecutions there have been, and how many of those ended up with a jail sentence. I'm sure it would only take half a dozen well-publicised cases to deter most fraudulent clamaints.


Hyde Park, NY – Celebrated young New York City restaurateur Mario Carbone returned to The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) to deliver the keynote address during commencement ceremonies at his alma mater on Friday, April 11. Carbone's epynomous restaurant in Greenwich Village is a finalist for the 2014 James Beard Foundation Award for Best New Restaurant.
The 2000 alumnus told 91 new fellow CIA graduates that their years of studying at the world's premier culinary college are just like a tree's roots, creating the foundation that will grow into the successful careers that everyone will see.
"Take this incredible education, plant it, and let it grow roots," said Chef Carbone, owner and partner, with Rich Torrisi '00 and Jeff Zalaznick, of New York City's five-restaurant Major Food Group. "It's not important what you become, but that you do everything in your power to be great at whatever it is."
Carbone and one of the Major Food Group's other restaurants, ZZ's Clam Bar, made the 2013 Zagat Survey list of the hottest tables of the year. Another of the group's concepts, Torrisi Italian Specialties, was New York magazine's #1 Italian Restaurant for 2011. Its other restaurants are Parm and Parm Yankee Stadium, and two more are in the works.
Mario Carbone, 33, was a nominee for the Beard Award for Best Chef in America in 2011. He and former CIA classmate Torrisi were, as a team, named among Food & Wine magazine's Best New Chefs in 2012 and were twice semi-finalists for the Beard Award for Best Chef: New York City. We'll find out if Carbone is the Best New Restaurant in the United States on May 5, when this year's Beard Award winners are announced.


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La Reserva de fauna de Dja es un bien natural camerunés catalogado por la Unesco como Patrimonio Mundial de la Humanidad en 1987.
El origen de los programas de protección data de 1950 cuando el Alto Comisionado Francés para Camerún creó la reserva. En 1982 fue designada como Reserva de la Biosfera por la UNESCO, y desde 1992 es administrada por ECOFAC, un programa financiado por la Unión Europea para el establecimiento de una red de áreas protegidas en el Continente Africano.

Este espacio protegido es una de las junglas africanas mejor conservadas, con un 90% de su superficie total completamente virgen. El río Dja bordea casi completamente el área, creando un paraíso para una de las más ricas regiones del planeta en términos de biodiversidad.
De entre las 107 especies de mamíferos que pueblan la reserva, es notable la gran variedad de primates. Algunas de las especies amenazadas son el elefante africano de bosque (Loxodonta ciclotys), el chimpancé (Pan troglodytes) o el gorila de llanura (Gorilla gorilla).

Para más información, véa www.dja.cm

Enlaces externos
 Red Internacional de Bosques Modelo
 Parques naturales de Camerún
 Movimiento Mundial por los Bosques Tropicales

Patrimonio de la Humanidad en Camerún
Espacios naturales de África
Dja

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Q: Eager Loading disabled by Custom Extension I have a database table called Accounts and there's a column isCustomer.
To make my /Entity/Customer.php only return accounts that are actual customers I used a Custom Doctrine ORM Extension
There is also a relation with the Contacts table. I'd like to add Contacts to Customer when the /customers URL is requested. This relation exists and is working properly, and is also eager loading.
The moment I created the /Doctrine/CustomerExtension.php the result set only consists of customer accounts (with contacts), like I expected.
But at the same time the Eager Loading ORM Extension doesn't work anymore.
All relations are lazy loaded now even with @ORM\ManyToOne(fetch="EAGER") on every relationship.
How do I add  $queryBuilder->andWhere('isCustomer = 1'); by default AND keep eager loading?

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*My first attempt has been to add normalizationContext={ "groups": {"boost"} } to /Entity/Customer.php and put all the properties in that group. It didn't fix eager loading :(


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Prabodhini Ekadashi
Prabodhini Ekadashi also known as Devotthan Ekadashi, is the 11th lunar day (ekadashi) in the bright fortnight (Shukla Paksha) of the Hindu month of Kartik. It marks the end of the four-month period of Chaturmas, when god Vishnu is believed to sleep. It is believed that Vishnu sleeps on Shayani Ekadashi and wakes on Prabodhini Ekadashi, thus giving this day the name "Prabodhini Ekadashi" ("awakening eleventh"), Vishnu-prabodhini ("awakening of Vishnu") and Dev-Prabodhini Ekadashi, Utthana ekadashi ("opening of His eyes") , Deothan, Dev uthav ekadashi or Dev Oothi ekadashi ("god's awakening"). The end of Chaturmas, when marriages are prohibited, signifies the beginning of the Hindu wedding season.[3] It is also known as Kartiki Ekadashi, Kartik Shukla ekadashi and Kartiki.[4] Prabodhini Ekadashi is followed by Kartik Poornima, which day is celebrated as Dev Diwali or Diwali of gods.[5]
प्रबोधिनी एकादशी
Vishnu sleeps on the Shesha Shaiya - bed of Shesha
Also called
Devutthi ekadashi, Utthana, Deothan, Kartik Shukla ekadashi
Observed by
Hindus, especially
end of the chaturmas
Prayers and religious rituals, including puja to Vishnu
Decided by the lunar calendar
Shayani Ekadashi
It is also believed that Lord Vishnu married to goddess Tulsi on this Day.[6]
RitualsEdit
A fast is observed on Prabodhini Ekadashi and the ritual marriage of the Tulsi plant is performed with god Vishnu, in the form of the holy black colored Shaligram stone, which is regarded as the husband of Tulsi, in its twenty four permutations. During evening time people prepare floor designs by geru paste( red soil) and rice paste which is a very well known tradition. Images of Lakshmi and Vishnu are also prepared from it. Lakshmi pujan and Vishnu pujan is observed at evening time with sugarcane, rice, dried red chillies, etc. And, is then given to pandits.[7] This ritual marriage is known as Tulsi Vivah and may be conducted on the next day of Prabodhini Ekadashi instead of Prabodhini Ekadashi itself.[8]
In Maharashtra, Prabodhini Ekadashi is linked with the god Vithoba - a form of Vishnu. Varkari pilgrims throng the Pandharpur temple of Vithoba on this day. The celebrations in Pandharpur continue for five days, till the full moon day (Kartik Poornima).[9] On Prabodhini Ekadashi, the chief minister or a minister of Maharashtra state performs ritual components of worship on behalf of the Government of Maharashtra. This form of worship is known as sarkari-mahapuja.[10]
Mt. Girnar
In Gujarat, more 800,000 pilgrims perform the 32-km Lili Parikrama ,circumambulation of Mt. Girnar, over a two-day period. This performed as a gesture of thanksgiving to the gods, who are believed to have assembled on the mountain.[11]
Puskar Mela, 2006
In Pushkar, Rajasthan, the Pushkar Fair or Pushkar mela commences on this day and continues till the full moon day (Kartik Poornima). This fair is held in the honour of god Brahma, whose temple stands at Pushkar. A ritual bath during the five days of the fairin the Pushkar lake is considered to lead one to salvation. Sadhus gather here and stay from ekadashi to full moon day in caves. About 200,000 people and 25,000 camels assemble in Pushkar for the fair. Pushkar fair is Asia's largest camel fair.[12][13][14][15][16]
Sugarcane harvest
Prabodhini Ekadashi also marks the beginning of sugarcane harvest. The farmer performs a puja in the field and ceremoniously cuts some sugarcane, laying some at the boundary of the field and distributing five canes to a Brahmin (priest), blacksmith, carpenter, washer-man and water-carrier and taking five canes at home. At home, figures of Vishnu and his consort Lakshmi are drawn on a wooden-board with cowdung and butter. The sugarcane are tied together at the top and placed round the board. Some cotton, betel-nut, lentils and sweets are offered along with a yagna (fire sacrifice). A prabhatiya, or song urging the god to wake, is sung. The canes are then broken and hung off the roof till Holi, when they are burnt.[17]
Swaminarayan sect
Prabodhini Ekadashi is considered as an important Ekadashi in the Swaminarayan sect. The day commemorates the diksha, or religious initiation, of Swaminarayan by his guru Ramanand Swami on October 28, 1800.[18] The day also commemorates the passing of authority by Ramanand Swami to Swaminarayan on November 16, 1801.[18] Swaminarayan followers observe a waterless fast and offer an offering of fresh vegetables to the deities.[19]
^ Ekadashi 2017 Dates Calendar
^ Prabodhini Ekadashi Vrat 2018
^ Agrawal, Priti (November 5, 2010). "Divine Wedding". Times of India.
^ Kutch in festival and custom By K. S. Dilipsin p.90. The name "Deva-Diwali" is also applied to Kartik Poornima that occurs 14 days later
^ "Varanasi gearing up to celebrate Dev Deepawali". Times of India. November 10, 2010.
^ About Prabodhini Ekadashi
^ Fasts and festivals of India By Manish Verma p.58
^ Desk, India com Buzz (2019-11-08). "Devauthani Ekadashi 2019: Know The Significance, History, Puja Muharat And Rituals of Tulsi Vivah". India.com. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
^ Mokashi, Digambar Balkrishna; Engblom, Philip C. (1987). Palkhi: a pilgrimage to Pandharpur - translated from the Marathi book Pālakhī. Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 34–50 and 263–278. ISBN 0-88706-461-2.
^ Pathak, Dr. Arunchandra S. (2006). "Pandharpur". The Gazetteers Dept, Government of Maharashtra (first published: 1977). Retrieved 2008-07-14.
^ India Guide Gujarat By Anjali Desai p.74
^ Fairs and Festivals of India By S.P. Sharma, Seema Gupta p 133-34
^ Nag Hill at Pushkar brims with sadhus, 27 October 2009, Times of India
^ Land and people of Indian states and union territories: in 36 volumes, Volume 1 By S. C. Bhatt, Gopal K. Bhargava p.347
^ Viewfinder: 100 Top Locations for Great Travel Photography By Keith Wilson p.18-9
^ Frommer's India By Pippa de Bruyn, Keith Bain, Niloufer Venkatraman, Shonar Joshi p. 440
^ Festivals In Indian Society (2 Vols. Set) By Usha Sharma p.190
^ a b Kim, Hanna (2001). Being Swaminarayan: The Ontology and Significance of Belief in the Construction of a Gujarati Diaspora. Ann Arbor, MI: Bell & Howell Information and Learning Company. p. 288.
^ Williams, Raymond (2001). Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press. pp. 143. ISBN 0 521 65279 0.
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Q: Is it possible to Fit-to-page with Silverlight 4 Print API? I have a silverlight control that prints to about 1.5 pages. I'd like to try and scale to fit onto a single page.
I'm using the new Printing API in Silverlight 4.
I've modified the docToPrint.PrintPage handler as follows :
    var renderHeight = item.RenderSize.Height;
    var printableHeight = args.PrintableArea.Height;

    var scale = printableHeight / renderHeight;

    item.RenderTransform = new ScaleTransform()
    {
        ScaleX = Math.Min(1, scale),    // dont zoom in
        ScaleY = Math.Min(1, scale)
    };

    item.UpdateLayout();
    args.PageVisual = item;

This just calculates the transform needed to fit to page. In fact the on-screen rendered control shrinks accordingly - but it always prints out full size.
I know Shawn Wildermuth blogged about printing - and some of the comments at least suggest that transforms don't work for printing.
Is there a workaround for this yet? To be frank I don't actually need printing support - but was just adding it as a bonus feature - so I'll just have to split the page at an arbitrary point if i can't figure this out.

A: I have got something like that to work ... mine takes all the objects from a particular stackpanel  and scales them to a page and then puts them back
Print Class :
  public class PrintReport
 {
    private Grid _visual;
    private StackPanel _panel;
    private FrameworkElement _header;

    private string _pageText = "Page ";
    private string _dateText = "Date ";
    private string _title;
    private string _subTitle;
    public StackPanel pageroot;

    public PrintReport()
    {
        _visual = new Grid();
        _panel = new StackPanel()
        {
            Margin = new Thickness(40),
        };
        PageNumber = 0;
        _visual.Children.Add(_panel);

    }

    public void Print()
    {
        CreateHeader();
        var pd = new PrintDocument();
        pd.DocumentName = this.Title;
        pd.PrintPage += new EventHandler<PrintPageEventArgs>(pd_PrintPage);
        pd.EndPrint += new EventHandler<EndPrintEventArgs>(pd_EndPrint);
        pd.Print();
    }

    void pd_EndPrint(object sender, EndPrintEventArgs e)
    {
        OnEndPrint(e);
    }

    private UIElement currentElement = null;
    private List<UIElement> pastElements = new List<UIElement>();
    private void pd_PrintPage(object sender, PrintPageEventArgs e)
    {
        PageNumber++;
        if (currentElement != null)
        {
            _panel.Children.Remove(currentElement);
            pastElements.Add(currentElement);
        }
        currentElement = pageroot.Children.First();
        if (_panel.Children.Count == 0)
        {
            _panel.Children.Add(_header);
        }
        _visual.Height = e.PrintableArea.Height;
        _visual.Width = e.PrintableArea.Width;
        double totalHeight = e.PrintableArea.Height - this.Margin.Top - this.Margin.Bottom;
        double totalWidth = e.PrintableArea.Width - this.Margin.Left - this.Margin.Right;
        double height;
        if (_header.ActualHeight > 0)
        {
            height = _header.ActualHeight;
        }
        else
        {
            _header.Measure(new Size(totalWidth, totalHeight));
            height = _header.DesiredSize.Height;
        }

         var hold = currentElement;
         pageroot.Children.Remove(hold);
          _panel.Children.Add(hold);

        e.PageVisual = _visual;
        e.HasMorePages =  pageroot.Children.Count > 0;

    }

    private TransferCalcs CalcScaleVar(double objW, double objH, double totalWidth, double printHeight, double TopMargin, double BotMargin, double Header)
    {
        var retVal = new TransferCalcs();
        retVal.scaleX = totalWidth / objW;
        retVal.TranslateX = (objW - totalWidth) / 2;
        retVal.scaleY = (printHeight - TopMargin - BotMargin - Header) / objH;
        return retVal;
    }

    private void CreateHeader()
    {
        var border = new Border()
        {
            BorderThickness = new Thickness(2),
            BorderBrush = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Black),
            Margin = new Thickness(0, 0, 0, 10),
            CornerRadius = new CornerRadius(3),
        };

        var grid = new Grid();
        grid.ColumnDefinitions.Add(new ColumnDefinition()
        {
            Width = new GridLength(10)
        });
        grid.ColumnDefinitions.Add(new ColumnDefinition()
        {
            Width = new GridLength(1, GridUnitType.Star)
        });
        grid.ColumnDefinitions.Add(new ColumnDefinition()
        {
            Width = new GridLength(0, GridUnitType.Auto)
        });
        grid.ColumnDefinitions.Add(new ColumnDefinition()
        {
            Width = new GridLength(0, GridUnitType.Auto)
        });
        grid.ColumnDefinitions.Add(new ColumnDefinition()
        {
            Width = new GridLength(10)
        });
        grid.RowDefinitions.Add(new RowDefinition()
        {
            Height = new GridLength(0, GridUnitType.Auto)
        });
        grid.RowDefinitions.Add(new RowDefinition()
        {
            Height = new GridLength(0, GridUnitType.Auto)
        });

        // Title
        var tb = new TextBlock()
        {
            FontWeight = FontWeights.Bold,
            FontSize = 14,
        };
        tb.SetBinding(TextBlock.TextProperty, new Binding()
        {
            Path = new PropertyPath("Title"),
            Source = this,
        });
        grid.Children.Add(tb);
        Grid.SetColumn(tb, 1);

        // SubTitle
        tb = new TextBlock();
        tb.SetBinding(TextBlock.TextProperty, new Binding()
        {
            Path = new PropertyPath("SubTitle"),
            Source = this,
        });
        grid.Children.Add(tb);
        Grid.SetColumn(tb, 1);
        Grid.SetRow(tb, 1);

        // PageText
        tb = new TextBlock()
        {
            VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Center,
        };
        tb.SetBinding(TextBlock.TextProperty, new Binding()
        {
            Path = new PropertyPath("PageText"),
            Source = this,
        });
        grid.Children.Add(tb);
        Grid.SetColumn(tb, 2);

        // DateText
        tb = new TextBlock();
        tb.SetBinding(TextBlock.TextProperty, new Binding()
        {
            Path = new PropertyPath("DateText"),
            Source = this,
        });
        grid.Children.Add(tb);
        Grid.SetColumn(tb, 2);
        Grid.SetRow(tb, 1);

        // PageNumber
        tb = new TextBlock()
        {
            VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Center,
        };
        tb.SetBinding(TextBlock.TextProperty, new Binding()
        {
            Path = new PropertyPath("PageNumber"),
            Source = this,
        });
        grid.Children.Add(tb);
        Grid.SetColumn(tb, 3);

        // DateValue
        tb = new TextBlock()
        {
            Text = DateTime.Today.ToShortDateString(),
        };
        grid.Children.Add(tb);
        Grid.SetColumn(tb, 3);
        Grid.SetRow(tb, 1);

        border.Child = grid;
        Header = border;
    }
    public event EventHandler<EndPrintEventArgs> EndPrint;

    protected virtual void OnEndPrint(EndPrintEventArgs e)
    {
        if (currentElement != null)
        {
            _panel.Children.Remove(currentElement);
            pastElements.Add(currentElement);
        }
        foreach (var item in pastElements)
        {
            pageroot.Children.Add(item);
        }
        var handler = EndPrint;
        if (handler != null)
        {
            handler(this, e);
        }
    }

    public int _pageNumber { get; set; }

    #region PropertyFields
    public FrameworkElement Header
    {
        get { return _header; }
        set { _header = value; }
    }
    public Thickness Margin
    {
        get { return _panel.Margin; }
        set { _panel.Margin = value; }
    }
    public string Title
    {
        get { return _title; }
        set
        {
            if (_title != value)
            {
                _title = value;
                OnPropertyChanged("Title");
            }
        }
    }

    public string SubTitle
    {
        get { return _subTitle; }
        set
        {
            if (_subTitle != value)
            {
                _subTitle = value;
                OnPropertyChanged("SubTitle");
            }
        }
    }

    public string PageText
    {
        get { return _pageText; }
        set
        {
            if (_pageText != value)
            {
                _pageText = value;
                OnPropertyChanged("PageText");
            }
        }
    }

    public string DateText
    {
        get { return _dateText; }
        set
        {
            if (_dateText != value)
            {
                _dateText = value;
                OnPropertyChanged("DateText");
            }
        }
    }

    public int PageNumber
    {
        get { return _pageNumber; }
        set
        {
            if (_pageNumber != value)
            {
                _pageNumber = value;
                OnPropertyChanged("PageNumber");
            }
        }
    }
    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

    protected virtual void OnPropertyChanged(string propertyName)
    {
        var handler = PropertyChanged;
        if (handler != null)
        {
            handler(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
        }
    }
    #endregion
}

Usage :
private PrintReport printReport;
private void PrintButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {

        printReport = new PrintReport()
        {

            SubTitle = init.PrettyFieldName,
            Title = "Entire Screen Sample" + (DateTime.Now - new DateTime(2009, 12, 23)).TotalMilliseconds,
        }
        printReport.pageroot = pageroot;
        printReport.Print();
    }

A: Check solution on my blog:
Silverlight printing: fit to page.


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Casualty of war or Casualties of war may refer to:

Entertainment
Casualties of War, a 1989 film directed by Brian De Palma, and starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn
Casualties of War (Doctor Who), a BBC Books original novel written by Steve Emmerson
Casualties of War (album), a 2007 album by Hip Hop supergroup Boot Camp Clik
"Casualties of War" by Eric B. & Rakim

See also

Statistics
 Casualties of the 2006 Lebanon War
 Casualties of the Iraq War
 Casualties of the Second Chechen War
 Civilian casualties of the War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
 List of wars by death toll
 Ottoman casualties of World War I
 United States military casualties of war
 World War I casualties
 World War II casualties

Related terms
 Casualty (person)
 Civilian casualties
 Collateral damage
 Conflict epidemiology
 Fragging
 Friendly fire


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Royal Family News: Prince Harry Blames US Capitol Event On Violent Extremism?
By Tanya Clark
British royal family news shows that once again non-politician, recently relocated Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex who was born and raised in the UK, is spouting off about American politics from his millionaire's perch in California.
Royal Family News: Since When is Prince Harry So Politically Aware?
On January 6 individuals ransacked the US capitol building, a move some pundits claim was the fault of then-President Trump.
After living a few months in the US, Harry apparently knows everything he needs to in order to weigh in on another country's inner workings. He told the Fast Company website yesterday: "We have seen time and again what happens when the real-world cost of misinformation is disregarded. There is no way to downplay this. There was a literal attack on democracy in the United States, organized on social media, which is an issue of violent extremism."
Royal Family News – Prince Harry Wants To Clamp Down On Social Media
Harry then implied that the world needs tighter restrictions on social media as if that would have prevented the chaos at the capitol.
In his elitist way, he added, "I'm not saying we should abandon technology in favor of Speakers' Corner.
"Rather, it's that we should avoid buying into the idea that social media is the ultimate modern-day public square and that any attempt to ask platforms to be accountable to the landscape they've created is an attack or restriction of speech."
Royal Family News: Is The Queen 'Relieved' That Joe Biden Is President?
Royal Family News – Since When Did Prince Harry Become Such an Expert on So Many Things?
The man who not so long along thought that fun times was shooting at wildlife in Africa, blathered on, "I think it's a false choice to say you have to pick between free speech or a more compassionate and trustworthy digital world. They are not mutually exclusive."
Last year, he and his wife Meghan Markle went on tv to beg the citizens in the United States to vote for change.
Meghan said: "Every four years we are told the same thing, that this is the most important election of our lifetime. But this one is."
Harry breaches royal protocol every time he wades into politics as it is traditionally not something they discuss. Apparently, he is not bothered by his double standard hypocrisy but at least one US Congressman has asked the UK to look into his "interference."
Harry cannot vote in the US because he is not a US citizen but he has urged Americans to, "reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity."
Be sure to catch up on everything happening with the royal family. Come back here often for royal family spoilers, news, and updates.
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Diane says 2 years ago
Perhaps Mr. Windsor should go home and straighten out his own family's racist treatment of Meghan! So they say.
Depends on which "rag tag" Paper, Magazine or Social Media outlet one reads. Humm, imagine that, two or three different papers, magazines or even social media and the Same Story is written differently, thus printing nearly lies or half truths to suit the Articles owner. Can't imagine that would happen only in England and let's say surely not the USA. So Mr.Windsor, which article do we believe? The racist comment article or the one that says Meghan was welcomed with open arms, loved by all the UK and accepted by every Royal!! Care to comment? There's a reason why the USA is free of Monarchy Rule and could care less what the UK does. There are no Heads with Crowns here, however you'd think so lately. Yes, we see what goes on and who wishes they had a crown, those who think they do and who really yields the power so your opinion is not needed, Go home or perhaps you could quickly apply for Citizenship because it looks like we will be giving it away.