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The letter prompted an outcry of "treason" from supporters of the administration, with one lawmaker branding Senator Tom Cotton, who lead the initiative, as "Tehran Tom." Some critics said the letter violated the law.
This incident reminds us of when President Ronald Reagan was trying to prevent the Soviets from building a beachhead in Central America, by supporting the anti-communist Nicaraguan resistance fighters to oust the Sandinista regime.
At that time, in March 1984, senior members of Reagan's opposition in the House wrote a letter to Sandinista junta commander Daniel Ortega. In what became known as the "Dear Comandante" letter, the lawmakers – including future House Speaker Jim Wright – the lawmakers apologized to the Sandinistas for their president's behavior.
The signatories included Majority Leader Jim Wright (written on his majority leader letterhead), the majority whip, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the chairman of three subcommittees of the Foreign Affairs Committee, two members of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee, and two other members of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
The lawmakers told Ortega that they viewed him as a role model for the future of the region: "We believe that you have it in your power to establish an example for Central America that can be of enormous historical importance."
We reproduce a copy of the letter here.
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Among the many experts and practitioners invited to participate in the White House's Countering Violent Extremism strategy summit, not one was involved with the Defeat Jihad Summit strategy sponsored earlier this month.
This is significant, as the Defeat Jihad Summit authors approach the issue as an ideological one, requiring ideological warfare – something that the White House has opposed.
Equally significant is the White House's invitation of a number of figures from the Muslim Brotherhood, who operate through known front organizations. The participant list has not been officially released, but word is leaking out.
Boston participants, for example, are from the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB), the local chapter of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which is a known Muslim Brotherhood front organization.
Adburahman Alamoudi is a founder of ISB. He is a Muslim Brotherhood operative and convicted felon, now serving a long sentence on terrorism-related charges, including a Qaddafi-backed plot to assassinate the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and the funding of al Qaeda.
In its Form 990s filed with the Internal Revenue Service, the ISB stated that Egyptian Islamist theologian Youssef al-Qaradawi was a "trustee" in 1998, 1999 and 2000.
Qaradawi is considered the intellectual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood whom the Clinton administration banned from entering the United States in 1999, due to his support for terrorism. When a news organization asked ISB about Qaradawi in 2005, ISB said he was never a trustee and that the reports to the IRS were simply an "administrative oversight."
Another ISB trustee, Osama Kandil of Herndon, Virginia, publicly defended Alamoudi after his conviction, calling him "our community leader," and seeking his release from federal prison.
In 2007, a federal court in Texas found former ISB trustee Jamal Badawi to be a terrorist financing co-conspirator.
ISB Cambridge mosque trustee Anwar Kazmi publicly called for leniency in terrorism sentencing of two of its members.
USA Today reported in 2013 that several terrorists and terrorist suspects are tied to the ISB mosque in Cambridge, Massachusetts:
At a rally in 2012, Anwar Kazmi called the prison sentences for Saddiqi and Mehanna "excessive" and asked authorities for leniency. Saddiqi's crimes include possession of cyanide canisters, planning a chemical weapons attack on New York City, and shooting at US military officers and FBI agents, according to USA Today.
The Obama Administration hails ISB as an example of local Muslim cooperation with authorities against terrorism. The ISB's Nicole Mossalam reportedly is part of this week's White House summit.
Even though ISB spokespersons have said that they have nothing to do with Alamoudi, Qaradawi or Kandil, they continue to show animus against the FBI and local counterterrorism efforts that target Islamist radicals.
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However the record should show that Nigeria asked the US for a "strategic relationship" to "destroy" Boko Haram years before, in 2011 and 2012.
The US did not respond favorably.
Frustrated with the inattention from Washington, Nigeria's presidential national security advisor, Owoye Andrew Azazi, went public in an op-ed published on January 4, 2012.
The US still did not respond. I had the privilege of working closely with General Azazi in the two years preceding, after the emergence of Boko Haram in 2009. He was killed in December 2012, still without the strategic cooperation he had sought.
General Azazi's op-ed appears below.
Washington Times, January 4, 2012.
by Owoye Andrew Azazi
Terrorists from Nigeria have again turned the joyful celebrations of Christmas into a D-Day for premeditated mass murder. This year, extremists slaughtered worshippers in a church during Christmas services near the Nigerian capital and elsewhere in the country.
America is at risk for this type of violence. Two Christmases ago, a militant from my country – the infamous Underwear Bomber – tried to blow up an American jetliner over Detroit.
Nigeria welcomes the White House's rapid Christmas Day declaration of support against the perpetrators of that day's attacks, but we must stress that the threat emerging in our country is far larger and may be headed America's way.
It's time for a strategic security relationship between Nigeria and the United States.
Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation. We are blessed with more people than Russia or Japan and are America's fourth-largest foreign supplier of oil.
In the past two years, a group called Boko Haram has wounded and murdered hundreds of innocent Nigerians. Many observers in the United States and Nigeria dismissed Boko Haram as a tiny, weak, even incompetent terrorist group that, at best, was aimed only at destabilizing our democratically elected president.
They were mistaken. In August, Boko Haram escalated its attacks by sending a suicide bomber to blow up the United Nations building in Abuja. The terrorist group issued a statement to taunt not the president of Nigeria, but the president of the United States.
We can destroy Boko Haram in its early stages, before it goes truly international. We don't want or need American troops. But we would benefit greatly from American know-how and other forms of support as we develop our new counterterrorism strategy. We have much to offer through our own expertise, human resources and experience.
Well before the Christmas bombings, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Homeland Security held a hearing on Boko Haram and issued a landmark report that contained some excellent proposals.
"Historically, Boko Haram has been focused on Nigerian government targets. Until recently, Western intelligence services did not widely view Boko Haram as a potential threat," said Rep. Patrick Meehan, Pennsylvania Republican and chairman of the subcommittee on counterintelligence and terrorism, and Rep. Jackie Speier, California Democrat, in an unusual joint statement at the Nov. 30 hearing.
The lawmakers made a bipartisan call for the State Department and intelligence community to take greater note of Nigeria, and to work with us against terrorism and ideological extremism.
The subcommittee report is a fine first step. It observes that small extremist groups can quickly endanger the American homeland before Washington even recognizes the threat.
Like other Islamist extremists, Boko Haram sees itself as fulfilling part of a global mission. Churches are not the group's only religious targets. Boko Haram claims to be Islamic, but targets the Muslim faithful. Boko Haram is an enemy of all decent people. It is striving to spark a religious war the way racist extremists in the past have tried to provoke race wars. Those who fail to understand the enemy threat doctrine will fail to see the danger until it is too late.
The subcommittee leaders appear to agree: "In the recent past, the U.S. intelligence community has underestimated the intent and capability of other terrorist groups to launch attacks against the U.S. homeland," and did not foresee those groups attempting to strike the U.S. at home. "These assessments and general assumptions," Mr. Meehan and Ms. Speier said, "nearly proved fatal" in America.
The report's conclusions mean that each country requires the assistance from the other. So far, however, the bipartisan congressional recommendations have yet to become U.S. policy, even as the U.S. Africa Command has made clear its similar concerns. The State Department, however, has yet to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization.
Nigeria's president intends to create a climate where no supporter of terrorism will be safe. In November, Nigerian authorities made the unusual move of arresting a federal senator from the president's own party, based on intelligence that he was facilitating Boko Haram.
Such an arrest and prosecution of a sitting lawmaker is rare in any democracy. The severe action indicates both the profound nature of the threat as well as Nigeria's sense of purpose in wiping it out.
The congressional homeland security panel called for the administration to "increase its support for programs that enhance the ability of Nigerian security forces to more effectively target Boko Haram and counter its evolution."
Such support will certainly assist Nigeria and West Africa as a whole, but it will also be a low-cost, high-impact way of eradicating Boko Haram – and others like it – as a threat to the United States as well.
With recent developments reverberating across Africa, Nigeria is working out strategic partnerships with key players to track and neutralize extremists wherever they may be – before they become violent. We should not be seen merely as a tactical ally of convenience. The United States has been helpful on a small-scale basis, but is far behind other countries in forging a meaningful, strategic counterterrorism relationship with Nigeria.
Nigeria can defend its interests without U.S. support. But the United States cannot well defend its homeland from Boko Haram and other threats without Nigeria. We welcome a mutually beneficial partnership with the U.S. against terrorists like Boko Haram while there is still time.
GEN Owoye Andrew Azazi was national security advisor to President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria when he wrote this article.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/4/combating-a-common-terrorist-threat/?page=1#ixzz3RfKwYPcg
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Made available with English subtitles by MEMRI, the video, aired on Kurdish television in October, is a four-minute musical skit of bearded men in front of an ISIS flag, playing air guitar with an AK-47 and singing about all the worthlessness and silliness of ISIS practices and ideology.
"Our pockets are full of Qatari money," the satirists sing with glee. "We'll milk the goat even if it's male."
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The US Department of State used to maintain a page on its website to advise people "How to identify misinformation."
The site, launched on March 9, 2005, has since been taken down and scrubbed from the State Department's electronic archive. The URL was http://usinfo.state.gov/media/misinformation.html.
An image of an archived State Department page that contains the text of a May 31, 2005 State Department news conference referencing the misinformation identification tips, is illustrated at right.
Below we reprint the full text of the State Department's "How to identify misinformation" page, with dead hyperlinks embedded.
How can a journalist or a news consumer tell if a story is true or false? There are no exact rules, but the following clues can help indicate if a story or allegation is true.
Does the story fit the pattern of a conspiracy theory?
Does the story claim that vast, powerful, evil forces are secretly manipulating events? If so, this fits the profile of a conspiracy theory. Conspiracy theories are rarely true, even though they have great appeal and are often widely believed. In reality, events usually have much less exciting explanations.
The U.S. military or intelligence community is a favorite villain in many conspiracy theories.
For example, the Soviet disinformation apparatus regularly blamed the U.S. military or intelligence community for a variety of natural disasters as well as political events. In March 1992, then-Russian foreign intelligence chief Yevgeni Primakov admitted that the disinformation service of the Soviet KGB intelligence service had concocted the false story that the AIDS virus had been created in a US military laboratory as a biological weapon. When AIDS was first discovered, no one knew how this horrifying new disease had arisen, although scientists have now used DNA analysis to determine that 'all HIV-1 strains known to infect man' are closely related to a simian immunodeficiency virus found in a western equatorial African chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes troglodytes. But the Soviets used widespread suspicions about the U.S. military to blame it for AIDS. (More details on this.)
In his book 9/11: The Big Lie, French author Thierry Meyssan falsely claimed that no plane hit the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Instead, he claimed that the building had been struck by a cruise missile fired by elements within the U.S. government. No such vast conspiracy existed and many eyewitness accounts and evidence gathered on the scene confirmed that the hijacked airliner had struck the building. But, nevertheless, the book was a best-seller in France and has been translated into 19 languages, demonstrating the power that even the most groundless conspiracy theories can have. (More details on 9/11: The Big Lie.)
Does the story fit the pattern of an 'urban legend?'
Is the story startlingly good, bad, amazing, horrifying, or otherwise seemingly 'too good' or 'too terrible' to be true? If so, it may be an 'urban legend.' Urban legends, which often circulate by word of mouth, e-mail, or the Internet, are false claims that are widely believed because they put a common fear, hope, suspicion, or other powerful emotion into story form.
For example, after the September 11 attacks, a story arose that someone had survived the World Trade Center collapse by 'surfing' a piece of building debris from the 82nd floor to the ground. Of course, no one could survive such a fall, but many initially believed this story, out of desperate hope that some people trapped in the towers miraculously survived their collapse. (More details on this.)
Another September 11 urban legend is that an undamaged Bible was found in the midst of the crash site at the Pentagon. In reality, it was a dictionary. But, if a Bible had survived unscathed, that would have seemed much more significant, and been seen by many as a sign of divine intervention. (More details on this.)
Since 1987, the false story that Americans or others are kidnapping or adopting children in order to use them in organ transplants has been widely believed. There is absolutely no evidence that any such event has ever occurred, but such allegations have won the most prestigious journalism prizes in France in 1995 and Spain in 1996. (More details on this.)
This urban legend is based on fears about both organ transplantation and international adoptions, both of which were relatively new practices in the 1980s. As advances in medical science made organ transplantation more widespread, unfounded fears began to spread that people would be murdered for their organs. At the same time, there were also unfounded fears about the fate of infants adopted by foreigners and taken far from their home countries. The so-called 'baby parts' rumor combined both these fears in story form, which gave it great credibility even though there was absolutely no evidence for the allegation.
In late 2004, a reporter for Saudi Arabias Al Watan newspaper repeated a version of the organ trafficking urban legend, falsely claiming that U.S. forces in Iraq were harvesting organs from dead or wounded Iraqis for sale in the United States. This shows how the details of urban legends can change, to fit different circumstances. (More details in English and Arabic.)
Highly controversial issues
AIDS, organ transplantation, international adoption, and the September 11 attacks are all new, frightening or, in some ways, discomforting topics. Such highly controversial issues are natural candidates for the rise of false rumors, unwarranted fears and suspicions. Another example of a highly controversial issue is depleted uranium, a relatively new armor-piercing substance that was used by the U.S. military for the first time during the 1991 Gulf War.
There are many exaggerated fears about depleted uranium because people associate it with weapons-grade uranium or fuel-grade uranium, which are much more dangerous substances. When most people hear the word uranium, a number of strongly held associations spring to mind, including the atomic bomb, Hiroshima, nuclear reactors, radiation illness, cancer, and birth defects.
Depleted uranium is what is left over when natural uranium is enriched to make weapons-grade or fuel-grade uranium. In the process, the uranium loses, or is depleted, of almost half its radioactivity, which is how depleted uranium gets its name. But facts like this are less important in peoples minds than the deeply ingrained associations they have with the world 'uranium.' For this reason, most people believe that depleted uranium is much more dangerous than it actually is. (More details on depleted uranium in English and Arabic.)
Another highly controversial issue is that of forbidden weapons, such as chemical or biological weapons. The United States is regularly, and falsely, accused of using these weapons. (More details on this inEnglish and Arabic.)
In the same way, many other highly controversial issues are naturally prone to misunderstanding and false rumors. Any highly controversial issue or taboo behavior is ripe material for false rumors and urban legends.
Consider the source
Certain websites, publications, and individuals are known for spreading false stories, including:
(More details on Islam Memo and Jihad Unspun in English and Arabic.)
There are many conspiracy theory websites, which contain a great deal of unreliable information. Examples include:
Extremist groups, such as splinter communist parties, often publish disinformation. This can be especially difficult to identify if the false allegations are published by front groups. Front groups purport to be independent, non-partisan organizations but actually controlled by political parties or groups. Some examples of front groups are:
(More details on Muhammad Abu Nasr in English or Arabic.)
Research the allegations
The only way to determine whether an allegation is true or false is to research it as thoroughly as possible. Of course, this may not always be possible given publication deadlines and time pressures, but there is no substitute for thorough research, going back to the original sources. Using the Internet, many allegations can be fairly thoroughly researched in a matter of hours.
For example, in July 2005, the counter-misinformation team researched the allegation that U.S. soldiers in Iraq had killed innocent Iraqi boys playing football and then 'planted' rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) next to them, to make it appear that they were insurgents.
Using a variety of search terms in 'Google,' a researcher was able to find the article and photographs upon which the allegations were based. Because weapons did not appear in the initial photographs, but did appear in later photographs, some observers believed this was evidence that the weapons had been planted and that the boys who had been killed were not armed insurgents.
The researcher was also able to find weblog entries (numbered 100 and 333, on June 26 and July 15, 2005) from the commanding officer of the platoon that was involved in the incident and another member of his platoon. The weblog entries made it clear that:
Thus, an hour or two of research on the Internet was sufficient to establish that the suspicions of the bloggers that the weapons had been planted on innocent Iraqi boys playing football were unfounded.
Finally, if the counter-misinformation team can be of help, ask us. We cant respond to all requests for information, but if a request is reasonable and we have the time, we will do our best to provide accurate, authoritative information.
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About foresight.
They weren't anything special, really. What made them significant was that they examined and interpreted facts that most people didn't want to know or discuss.
The first article, written in 1999 for Insight magazine, chronicled the rise of Vladimir Putin before most Americans had ever heard of him.
In that article, I said that his appointment from relative anonymity to prime minister marked an "ominous trend" of the KGB taking over the Russian government. At the time, few in Washington – of either political party – wanted to criticize Russian president Boris Yeltsin and his team (including Putin).
The second, written in 2013 for Investor's Business Daily, was about US "provocative weakness" toward Russia – a weakness that would invite trouble in places like Russia and Syria.
One need not have 20/20 hindsight to write such articles. In these cases, the articles were written in advance of Putin's rise to assume dictatorial powers and become an aggressor, or for American "provocative weakness" to provoke Russia into taking extreme actions, and to provoking elements in Syria – as ISIS would – to the point that events would spin out of control.
Here is the collection of my articles about the rise of Putin.
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Ashleigh seemed very skeptical – and rightly so – about the effort, and CNN invited me over for an interview. She called the State Department videos "embarrassing."
I hadn't seen the State Department videos until the live CNN broadcast, and tried not to show how appalled I was at the very premise of them. (They relate just fine to civilized audiences, but they don't get into the heads of prospective recruits.)
Instead, I argued that the President should have used his bully pulpit at the NATO summit in Wales to hold the state sponsors of ISIS – especially Qatar – accountable, and to treat the funders, organizational backers, and ideological authorities supporting ISIS the same way we would treat the terrorists themselves.
I also said that NATO's declarations to single out ISIS would inadvertently help ISIS recruit even more jihadists, that the emphasis on fighting ISIS as an organization (rather than fighting the ideology that animates the terrorism) would not solve the problem.
This clip from CNN is truncated so it doesn't contain the full interview. Click here for the full transcript.
What is more likely to work is a total commitment to absolute victory, an us-against-them approach that will force regimes like Qatar to decide who's side it's on, and military assurances to the local tribes supporting ISIS out of a sense of self-preservation.
The biggest point, given our country's lack of strategic communication capabilities, is to convert the ideological and financial sectors of ISIS support in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and elsewhere, into opponents – by any means necessary.
I didn't say it on air, but in my view, the US won't take a strong stand against Qatar because Qatar has managed to corrupt the leadership of both political parties here in Washington. Until we force Qatar to choose absolutely between us or the terrorists, Qatar will continue to use its gas money to play both sides.
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"A once-feared KGB general now sits on suicide watch in a Vienna jail, a tawdry end to terrible tale. His strange story—worthy of a thriller—is a case study of how the former KGB uses forged documents to influence Western reporters, diplomats and politicians."
That's the lead of my piece in Forbes, published September 3, which focuses on a former KGB major general from Kazakhstan who had forgeries made to try to make himself look like a victim in the Western press, and to attack his critics for being agents of the Kazakhstan intelligence service.
People like former British prime minister Tony Blair and former President Bill Clinton. And former CIA director Jim Woolsey. And, of course, human rights protesters picketing the KGB man's Vienna court hearing, urging the Austrian government to investigate the murder of his young mistress.
The forgeries in this instance were mainly about helping the ex-KGB man wage political battles against his ex-father-in-law who rules Kazakhstan, and to run criminal rackets in Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
And possibly the United States. The Kazakh chekist even used phony documents as bases on which to file lawsuits in United States federal court, in London's High Court and elsewhere.
He had a lot of people in Europe, and some in the US, calling him a heroic "dissident" because he opposed the Nazarbayev regime. In reality, he represented the worst of the post-Soviet gangster class of ex-KGB agents and Communist Party functionaries.
The former KGB general, Rakhat Aliyev, "styled himself as a 'progressive political dissident' from Kazakhstan in a bid to win public sympathy. Even after his arrest in June 2014, the BBC headlined Aliyev as a 'dissident,'" I wrote.
"The media never seemed to question the documents he supplied.
"But judges and lawyers soon did."
The unmasking was due in part to an elderly forensic documents specialist on forgeries, Gideon Epstein, who helped put away war criminals like the infamous Nazi doctor, Josef Mengele.
Aliyev is no Mengele, but he appears to be a multiple murderer with his own sadistic twist, according to my research.
One of his top accomplices is a naturalized American citizen, Issam Hourani (also spelled Khorani). His activities will be interesting to watch.
While researching this story, I found a lot more than I would write in one piece, and also discovered that other journalists are also on the trail.
Stay tuned.
A conclusion about this Kazakh KGB general: "His trial should provide vital lessons for the press and the public: Not all 'dissidents' have clean hands and not all 'documents' are real."
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As a collective defense alliance, NATO is made up of members with their own strengths and weaknesses – mostly weaknesses.
However, where NATO as an organization is terribly weak – defense against hostile propaganda and subversion – there is one ally that can add value far beyond its small size.
That ally is Lithuania. I visited Lithuania this week as a guest of the government to discuss Russian propaganda and subversion against Lithuania and its neighbors, against the NATO alliance in general, and what to do about it.
The small Baltic republic has a warrior spirit in every good sense of the term, and has contributed beyond what is generally known to the US-led fights in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Lithuania brings to NATO's table a special set of instincts: inherent understanding of the danger of hostile propaganda and subversion that can undermine and even destroy the alliance. The country also has a gutsy, can-do mentality to add a lot of value to NATO's present and future needs.
I was encouraged to see this not only within elements of the Lithuanian military, but in parliament, among the president's advisors, and in the local news media.
Lithuanians know that the collective defense triggering mechanism of the NATO treaty – Article 5 – is triggered only in the case of armed conventional attack.
Article 5 does NOT defend NATO members against hostile propaganda, psychological warfare, political warfare, and other types of subversion.
Russia is subverting Lithuania and the other Baltic states in many ways, including energy, economics, entertainment and the news media.
This is a big hole in the treaty that needs to be addressed.
Lithuania can't do it alone. It can't act effectively without strong support from the entire alliance, or at least from major allies like the US. It's time for American policymakers to pay more attention to Lithuania and what it offers to strengthen NATO as a whole.
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Here's the beginning of my article:
Last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin's security council publicly raised the idea of cutting off America's military and spy satellite program at the knees.
All Putin needed to do was to shut down the supply of RD-180 engines that the U.S. Air Force was buying to power the lift-offs of the American Atlas V rockets into space.
The KGB strongman had the power to cut the supply in an instant. Not because he had pulled off an incredible intelligence coup against the United States – although FBI sources say that Putin's hostile espionage operations against the U.S. have exceeded Cold War levels – but because the U.S. government placed the opportunity right in Putin's hands.
Washington had made the Putin regime the sole-source supplier of reliable engines to launch U.S. Air Force military and intelligence satellites into orbit. The RD-180 engine is made in Russia by NPO Energomash, a state-controlled military space company founded under Stalin.
What began as an urgent program to provide the U.S. with an alternate means of deploying a constellation of new satellites into space to fight the global war on terror became, over time, an exclusive monopoly that gave Putin effective control of U.S. national security mission launches.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/19/why-did-we-give-putin-control-over-our-satellite-launches/#ixzz32UmkcD2o
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Bergamasco joins Aironi
ESPNscrum Staff
December 3, 2011
Mauro Bergamasco is excited to return to Italy © Getty Images
Italy flanker Mauro Bergamasco has signed for RaboDirect PRO12 strugglers Aironi from Stade Francais.
Bergamasco, who has won 88 caps for the Azzuri, will join up with his new team on Monday after agreeing a deal until the end of the season with an option for a second season. He will be available for Aironi's RaboDirect PRO12 clash with Ulster on December 17.
"After eight years in France, I am coming back to Italy to bring my experience and my desire to continue playing at the highest level," Bergamasco said. "I'm really excited with the opportunity to play in what is a really new competition for me and with a young and ambitious Italian team.
"I never hid my will to continue playing in a big European championship, and do it with an Italian team is a great new motivation."
Bergamasco joined Stade Francais in 2003 after a spell with Benetton Treviso. He won the French Top 14 with the club in 2004 and 2007.
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Demo of tree root strangulation invasion
Earlier today I pried out a few of the 'red-flagged' hostas here at Hosta Hills.
Here's a shot of the tree roots from two small hostas that I dragged out of the Hosta roots from these two small plants.
For size comparison, I left my very large size garden gloves hanging off the front of the wheel barrow containing the tree roots removed:
First, a Hosta that grew better for a few years, then began to diminish, and in the last few years, it may diminish DRAMATICALLY FAST.
So if you see one getting smaller, after only one or two or three years, it may SUDDENLY be so small that you don't even recognize it.
I really should look through pics and try to document this, but haven't, sorry.
With the vigor of this group, there may already be good documentation of this (one of the few) Hosta problem, so perhaps others will provide links to past threads, or . . .
If not, I will try to expand the informaton about this.
YAY, IT's SUMMER,
here is a pic of silver maple.. during a septic field rebuild.. at the neighbors ...
i wonder what soil that grass is growing in .. the sand above the grass was from the backhoe ... you can see the sparse grass.. best.. over to the right ...
Last year I dug up my 'Sagae' (planted in 2007) because it was still really small. Its roots were huge but since it was competing with a lot of tree roots there was hardly any top growth on the hosta. I removed the tree roots and added compost, bonemeal and a handful of alfalfa pellets to the plant hole and replanted 'Sagae'. At the time I thought that if I provided more fertilizer and more regular water the hosta would grow better because 'Sagae's roots were massive. This year I found improved top growth but am now wondering whether I should relocate it in the fall. I seem to remember that franknjim had success with tree root competition and that he watered his hostas even when it was raining.
HH, how big were the roots on the hostas that you dug out?
That picture is really worth a thousand words! It shows a real cutaway not a drawing. If even grass has a hard time finding a hold, not just because of shade but root competition, what chance do plants have with more top growth to sustain!! Wow. Nice one.
irawon, the roots were, as usual, about the same size as the above ground foliage, though sometimes much, much larger, as in the size the plant originally attained.
Earlier today I managed to find the time to find yet another 'red-flagged' plant and took this picture:
Besides that it has shrunk for the past couple of years (photographically documented), Note the following:
The color is much paler than normal for this plant.
Observe the asymmetric leaf pattern: the size of some leaves are notably wider on one side of the center rib. This is VERY characteristic of this problem!
Often, and this is a perfect example (see HL), the plant bears little (and in this case NO) resemblance to a healthy one.
Finally, note the tip of the leaves curling back under the leaf.
BTW, this is (was for the time being) H. Silver Bowl.
Came across another dramatic example of tree root strangulation invasion found here amongst the Red Pine Trees.
H. 'Beauty Substance' before:
I'm embarrassed that I let it get this far, but we have enough of this cultivar elsewhere that I decided there were more pressing matters.
Those leaf tips are not cut off. They're curled under themselves, a symptom I noted earlier.
Myrle has had the same experience with roots but from Cedar trees. She has had the expense of purchasing grow bags after all the work of digging them out and getting the roots separated , Not a nice job. We were at our daughter's place in Arizona where they had just purchased a home and all the sewage lines had to be dug up and replaced and these were from the black popular,
They travel to where the water is the most plentiful, i guess.
I have killed at least a dozen Hostas from tree root strangulation before I finally figured out what the problem was....Neighbors behind have mature Douglas Fir trees and both sides have arborvitae hedges. Both will grow roots up into newly worked and amended topsoil.
Clematis and Oriental lilies will both dwindle and die too though there are plants that will live with the trees...
The roots spread at least ten feet for the hedges and twenty or more for the trees :( basically they take up our entire back yard. I had no idea when we bought the house.


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Hello, lovely people of DermHerpFo. Thank you so much for your thoughtful and kind responses. I have stayed away for a couple of days just trying to get my shit together. And I have been working hard to redirect my attention away from the rash as much as possible (which seems nearly impossible at times). I signed up for a dress sewing class, I have been knitting up a storm, and meditating in my backyard. I have been reading and cooking like crazy. And little by little, I have been going back to my work, with the help of my most darlingest, sweetheartiest significant other, who has a lighter workload during the summer. I hope to be able to exercise again in the near future. So, basically, I am just trying to learn to live with the rash, rather than let it dictate my living (emphasis on "trying" - some days are more successful than others).
Anyway, IT (the horrid rash) still ebbs and floes, but the overall trends still seems to be improving. GAH! I am afraid to even say that. Too many times over the last few months I have eaten those words and they are not delicious, AT ALL
My emotional health is slowly recovering, though I do wonder if it might take even longer than the rash to clear. Man, IT really messes with my head. IT has brought me to depths of despair that I never even knew existed. I become convinced that everyone is so sick of me and of hearing about my rash. I'M sick of hearing about my rash. The other day I decided that my SO would be much better off without me, that I am such a burden and just no fun to be around now. He gathered me up and hugged me and said he wasn't going anywhere. That man is a treasure. Things are starting to feel a little more "possible" these days, and I truly hope that continues.
I am working on not being afraid of food. That has been one of the saddest things about this illness - before this, I was a big foodie from a big foodie family. We talk about food all the time. As we finish one meal, we are planning the next. We grow food just so we can have the best and freshest. We have chickens and ducks and bees and are talking about getting goats. We plan travel itineraries around food. My parents traveled to Puerto Rico with me and they brought a small carry-on for clothes and a cooler full of cheese and meat to check, EACH. We are obsessed with food, you see. And I am currently obsessed with food but it has been in a completely different way - not the loving jumble of appreciation for taste, texture and togerherness, but out of fear that what I put in my mouth will make me miserable. The past week I have been working to reverse that some, even within the constraints of being Low-Iodine and gluten free. I made lamb and parsnip stew in the crockpot, roasted chicken with garlic cloves stuffed under the skin, carrot cardamom muffins, zucchini-cilantro soup, and pesto pesto pesto on everything (minus the parm, of course)
In a way it feels like I have been holding my breath for the last week, just waiting and watching and waiting some more. It really does seem to be getting better. I saw my physician yesterday and she was so pleased with how much better it looks than the last time she saw me three weeks ago. My SO said it looks so much better today when we were taking the daily rash pictures. So far, so good. I whisper to my skin sometimes "please. please keep healing"
The many permutations of this rash are fascinating. Just when I think I have figured out how it works, it changes. I am no longer getting the water blisters, just the red dots and sometimes hives. And they are no longer in big clusters, but more individual. And they do not stick around as long. But I have also not had a day without at least one itchy lump or bump in 6 weeks, whereas all spring it would flare and recede, flare and recede. So, I dunno. It's odd. I think it's getting better but sometimes I just wonder if I have gotten better at tolerating it. (I think I saw Simone say something similar)
Oh! and I've noticed a new thing to improve with being totally gluten free - or rather, my SO noticed it. He said this morning "You know, you don't snore anymore. " And we both surmised that it must have something to do with the inflammation calming down now that I am Gluten-Free. Cool, huh?
Squirmy - thank you for continuing to share your experience. You must know that it means so much to those of us who are newer at this to hear from someone who has been at it a little longer. You have given me so much information to work with and that is empowering. I do see a little tiny light at the end of the tunnel, and on my good days, I am running like hell toward it. The itch still makes me cry sometimes (though I haven't cried in a few days) but it hasn't make me want to die in a while. I am sleeping better, and haven't needed ice packs at night in about a week. I keep wondering how long I will have to do LI, but I am trying to just focus on the present. (I really really really miss cheese and butter, though)
Simone - You take the "cookers" too?! (That's what I call the hot showers) They are a life saver for me - they gave me at least 3 hours of relief at the worst of it, and lately even more. It's such an intense pleasure/pain! Then I moisturize afterwards with olive oil. Yes, I smell like salad dressing for a little bit, but it really has become my favorite moisturizer. And I agree - this forum, and most especially Squirmy and Prickly, have been so incredibly helpful and kind. I don't know what I would have done had I not found my way here. You and I MUST vow to help the next generation of DH folks when we are able, ok?
Thank you for the cookbook rec - I will check it out! I have started introducing very small amounts of grains back, just for a bit of variety and to loosen the restrictions that are on me right now - so far just a tiny bit of rice and masa. But mostly, I am eating epic amounts of veggies, which makes for epic pooping. (I think it's safe to say that we are all obsessed with our bowel movements in here. Never TMI! Heh. )
Ok. I'm about to turn into a pumpkin. Good night all. I wish you deep, itch-free sleep.


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Gradually over the past ten years, Netscape morphed into the Mozilla browser, which in turn gave rise to Firefox. Today, Firefox owns a market share of around 20% worldwide (and much higher in certain places). How was Firefox able to accomplish this rise from the ashes of Netscape and go from underdog to hero?
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January 23, 1998—Netscape announces the release of the source code for Netscape Navigator 5.0.
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March 31, 1998—The first Mozilla code (for Netscape Communicator 5.0) became publicly available under the terms of an official open-source license and a governing body for the project, the Mozilla Organization, began its public work.
March 18, 1999—America Online acquires Netscape.
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Certainly you remember the browser wars of the mid- to late-1990s—the ones that Netscape lost handily. Although we were fortunate that Netscape cared enough to maintain a Linux version, we used the Communicator out of necessity, not passion.
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Raymond also called Netscape's decision, "the long-awaited breakout of free software into the commercial world". Little did he know the prescience of his words at the time.
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|Sep. 16 10:48 AM PT11:48 AM MT12:48 PM CT1:48 PM ET13:48 ET17:48 GMT1:48 10:48 AM MST12:48 PM EST1:18 PM VEN21:48 UAE12:48 PM CT-Prado has had an appendectomy and will miss the rest of the season. The team announced Wednesday that Prado had the surgery early Tuesday. He was placed on the 60-day disabled list.
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|Sep. 16 8:17 AM PT9:17 AM MT10:17 AM CT11:17 AM ET11:17 ET15:17 GMT23:17 8:17 AM MST10:17 AM EST10:47 AM VEN19:17 UAE10:17 AM CT-Prado collected two more hits in Monday's 1-0 walkoff loss at Tampa Bay.
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|Sep. 4 3:08 PM PT4:08 PM MT5:08 PM CT6:08 PM ET18:08 ET22:08 GMT6:08 3:08 PM MST5:08 PM EST5:38 PM VEN2:08 UAE (+1)5:08 PM CT-Prado remains unavailable because of a mild left hamstring strain, sustained Tuesday night. He ran at about 50 percent Thursday, which he termed jogging.
Analysis: "I don't want to be a hero and go there and get hurt and then not play until the end of the season,'' he said. ''So I'd rather miss a couple days and make sure that my leg is OK to play the 20 or 25 games we've got left.''
|Aug. 25 10:08 PM PT11:08 PM MT12:08 AM CT1:08 AM ET1:08 ET5:08 GMT13:08 10:08 PM MST12:08 AM EST12:38 AM VEN9:08 UAE12:08 AM CT-Prado went 6 for 14 with two doubles, a home run and five RBIs in the New York Yankees' three-game sweep of the Chicago White Sox this weekend.
Analysis: He's batting .406 (13 for 32) with five doubles, two homers and nine RBIs in his last eight games.
|July 31 2:36 PM PT3:36 PM MT4:36 PM CT5:36 PM ET17:36 ET21:36 GMT5:36 2:36 PM MST4:36 PM EST5:06 PM VEN1:36 UAE (+1)4:36 PM CT-Arizona has traded third baseman Martin Prado to the New York Yankees
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|July 27 12:45 PM PT1:45 PM MT2:45 PM CT3:45 PM ET15:45 ET19:45 GMT3:45 12:45 PM MST2:45 PM EST3:15 PM VEN23:45 UAE2:45 PM CT-Prado was 3 for 4 with his fifth homer and five RBIs in a 10-6 win at Philadelphia on Saturday.
Analysis: Prado is 8 for 18 during a five-game hitting streak.
|July 24 8:31 AM PT9:31 AM MT10:31 AM CT11:31 AM ET11:31 ET15:31 GMT23:31 8:31 AM MST10:31 AM EST11:01 AM VEN19:31 UAE10:31 AM CT-Prado went 2 for 4 on Wednesday.
Analysis: Prado went 4 for 11 in the series.
|July 19 10:55 AM PT11:55 AM MT12:55 PM CT1:55 PM ET13:55 ET17:55 GMT1:55 10:55 AM MST12:55 PM EST1:25 PM VEN21:55 UAE12:55 PM CT-Prado was ejected for the first time in his 933 big league games in the Diamondbacks' 5-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Friday night.
Analysis: Prado went 2 for 4 but fantasy owners were left ruing the fact he didn't get another at-bat.
|June 8 12:34 PM PT1:34 PM MT2:34 PM CT3:34 PM ET15:34 ET19:34 GMT3:34 12:34 PM MST2:34 PM EST3:04 PM VEN23:34 UAE2:34 PM CT-Prado had three hits in Saturday's win over Atlanta.
Analysis: Prado is off to a scorching start in June, batting .520 in six games.
|June 6 3:41 PM PT4:41 PM MT5:41 PM CT6:41 PM ET18:41 ET22:41 GMT6:41 3:41 PM MST5:41 PM EST6:11 PM VEN2:41 UAE (+1)5:41 PM CT-Prado stayed hot with three hits in a 12-7 win at Colorado on Thursday.
Analysis: Prado is hitting .413 with two homers and 11 RBIs in his last 13 games.
|May 11 9:33 AM PT10:33 AM MT11:33 AM CT12:33 PM ET12:33 ET16:33 GMT0:33 9:33 AM MST11:33 AM EST12:03 PM VEN20:33 UAE11:33 AM CT-Prado went 2 for 4 on Saturday.
Analysis: Prado has been awful with a .589 OPS and needs to turn it around for fantasy owners.
|Apr. 17 5:12 PM PT6:12 PM MT7:12 PM CT8:12 PM ET20:12 ET0:12 GMT8:12 5:12 PM MST7:12 PM EST7:42 PM VEN4:12 UAE (+1)7:12 PM CT-Prado had three hits in Arizona's 5-2 loss to the New York Mets on Wednesday.
Analysis: Prado, now batting .261, was 1 for 16 in his previous five games.
|Mar. 23 3:57 PM PT4:57 PM MT5:57 PM CT6:57 PM ET18:57 ET22:57 GMT6:57 3:57 PM MST5:57 PM EST6:27 PM VEN2:57 UAE (+1)4:57 PM CT-Prado went 1 for 8 in the two-game season-opening series in Australia against the Dodgers.
Analysis: Prado is off to a slow fantasy start after he was second on the D-Backs with 167 hits a year ago.


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Electric bikes are great for making short journeys a touch more effortless and one upcoming electric bike may never even need to be plugged in to charge. The Leaos Solar e-bike has solar panels built into its frame, which the manufacturer says can make it energy independent at certain usage levels. Read More
In Pictures: Technology proves big fun at the Nuremberg Toy Fair
It might seem strange that Gizmag spent a good chunk of the busy month of January playing with toys at two major toy fairs, London and Nuremberg. The toy segment is following consumer technology closely, though, and many of the same trends that we see at major shows like CES and IFA are also evident at the international toy fairs ... only in smaller, simpler, more child-friendly packages. Proclaimed as the world's biggest toy fair, the Nuremberg Toy Fair ("Spielwarenmesse" in German), which wrapped up earlier this week, gave us a good feel for how toy companies are incorporating the latest technologies, including robotics and connectivity. Read More
Sbyke scooter-bike-board slaloms the crowds in London
There are all sorts of scooters, bikes and skateboards on which kids (of all ages) can get around. For those who can't decide which they prefer though, the Sbyke combines them all. Gizmag took a closer look at the London Toy Fair. Read More
1950 Vincent Series C White Shadow sells for US$224,250
Only 15 White Shadows were produced, which makes them the rarest version of the second most desirable motorcycle to collectors (Brough Superior is the most coveted marque). It was therefore logical that this bike, which went to auction in Las Vegas last night, would join the other 14 Vincent V-twins in the top 100 motorcycles of all time. Read More
ZumZum balance bike's wooden frame offers natural suspension
Among the many bicycle designs we look at here at Gizmag, we see a fair number of balance bikes, including the multifunctional LittleBig Bike. We've even seen a wooden one or two, but we've never seen a balance bike quite like the ZumZum, which is built around a curved wooden frame that serves as its own suspension system. Read More
Evelo Omni Wheel turns almost any bike into an electric bike
Whether you cycle to work or just for pleasure, there are no doubt times when a little help wouldn't go amiss. The Evelo Omni Wheel can provide just that assistance, replacing the front wheel of most bikes to give an electrified power boost. Read More
Tubeless tires are pretty much standard on higher-end mountain bikes now, due to their lower weight and rolling resistance, along with their ability to contain sealant. However, they do have one drawback – you need to use a CO2 cartridge or an air compressor to put the things on. Bontrager has set out to change that, with its TLR Flash Charger pump. Read More
Last November, Frenchman Francois Gissy hit 285 km/h (177 mph) on a rocket-powered bicycle. Now, at the Circuit Paul Ricard in the South of France, he's knocked his own world record out of the park. Dialing in a massive 4.5 kN of thrust, which generates roughly the equivalent of 560 horsepower (418 kW), Gissy took his rickety-looking rocket bike up to a monstrous 333 km/h (207 mph), hitting top speed in just 4.8 seconds and generating about 1.96 Gs worth of acceleration. We had a quick chat with Gissy, who tells us he's hoping his next run will put him over 400 km/h (249 mph) in less than two seconds on a machine he's calling the "Spine Crusher." Read More
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