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Innovation comes from myriad sources, including the bastions of East Coast learning, but Stanford has established itself as the intellectual nexus of the information economy. In early April, Facebook acquired the photo-sharing service Instagram, for...

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A Race Recast by YouTube and Twitter

A law passed in 2007 that was intended to keep campaigning orderly and clean — it bans the Mexican equivalent of political action committees, limits spending, regulates language in advertisements and tightens the official campaign period to just 89...

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The Flight From Conversation

WE live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

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South Sudan calls for U.N. sanctions on Khartoum

The United Nations should impose sanctions on Sudan for failing to obey a Security Council resolution calling for an end to hostilities and renewed negotiations with South Sudan over oil and border disputes, South Sudan's negotiator said on Friday.

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Analysis: Why Arab Springs Falter - Bahrain

Is the Arab Spring over? It’s a question on the minds of many observers of Middle East politics. Back in 2011, in Bahrain, Syria and Egypt, television stations broadcast scenes of defiant democracy movements and socially mobilized youth taking to the streets, in most cases peacefully demanding the removal of old systems along with their entrenched...

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G8 Summit to Focus on Africa Food Security

Food security remains a recurring problem across Africa, despite hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid each year. The Horn of Africa endured a severe drought last year that turned to famine in Somalia, and several countries in West Africa are now going through a food shortage that aid agencies have warned needs immediate international...

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Mladic taunts survivors at start of genocide trial

Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic taunted Srebrenica survivors on Wednesday at the start of his trial for genocide, running his hand across his throat in a gesture of defiance to relatives of the worst massacre in Europe since World War Two.

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Ratko Mladic's Genocide Trial Gets Under Way

Twenty years after his troops began brutally ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs, Gen. Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal at the Hague accused of 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

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Why Do Terrorists So Often Go For Planes?

Why do terrorist groups keep trying to defeat the multiple layers of security at airports when there are so many soft targets?

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Sovereign Challenge 9 Seminar Information

Social Media Around the World

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  Ushahidi

  "Ushahidi", which means "testimony" in Swahili, was a website that was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008. Since then, the name "Ushahidi" has come to represent the people behind the "Ushahidi Platform".
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  Baidu

  Baidu offers many services, including a Chinese language search engine for websites, audio files, and images. Baidu offers 57 search and community services including Baidu Baike, an online collaboratively-built encyclopedia, and a searchable keyword-based discussion forum.
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  Renren

  The Renren Network("Everyone's Website"), formerly known as Xiaonei Network is a Chinese social networking service that is similar to Facebook. It has been called the Facebook of China. It is popular among college students in China.
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  LiveJournal

  LiveJournal, or Zhivoy Zhurnal in Russia is a social network owned by SUP Media where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary - a wide variety of political pundits also use the service for political commentary, particularly in Russia, where it partners with the politically-independent online newspaper Gazeta.ru
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  B Kohtakte

  B Kohtakte is the largest European social network with more than a 100 million active users. VK is a networking project that helps people express their opinions and find an audience. You can communicate with a broad community of interesting people or keep in touch with friends and family.
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  RuTube

  RuTube is a Russian online video sharing and transmitting service and is not associated with YouTube. As of 2008, it is visited by 400,000 people daily and plays over 40 million videos every month. According to TNS Gallup Media, over 5.5 million unique users visit it every month.
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  Futubra

  Futubra is the latest release from the Mail.ru group which already provides a free email service, ICQ and a stable of browser and social network games. It also has a stake in VKontakte, Russia's most popular social network, which is somewhat like Facebook.
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  Sina Weibo

  Sina Weibo is a Chinese microblogging website. Akin to a hybrid of Twitter and Facebook, it is one of the most popular sites in China, in use by well over 30% of Internet users, with a similar market penetration that Twitter has established in the USA.
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  Kaixin001

  Kaixin001 (aka "Happy Net") is a social networking website launched in March , 2008 and ranks as the 13th most popular website in China and 67th overall according to Alexa Internet. Kaixin001 cloned and brought the most famous successful Facebook applications to the Chinese Market before anyone else.
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  Tudou

  Tudou, Inc. is one of the largest video websites in People's Republic of China, where users can upload, view and share video clips. Tudou states they are one of the world's largest bandwidth users, moving more than 1 Petabyte per day to 7 million users
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  Tencent

  Tencent QQ, generally referred to as QQ, is the most popular free instant messaging computer program in mainland China. As of September 30th, 2011, there were 711.7 million active user accounts for QQ IM, possibly making it the world's second largest online community.
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  Youku

  Youku is a video hosting service based in the People's Republic of China. Youku permits users to upload videos irrespective of length. Youku has partnered with over 1,500 license holders, including television stations, distributors, and film and TV production companies in China that regularly upload media content on the site.

Admiral Olson's 2011 Posture Statement

The Commander's annual "Posture Statement" provides a comprehensive update.

Sovereign Challenge is posting on the web portal Admiral Eric T. Olson's prepared testimony before the US Senate Armed Services Committee, 1 March 2011.. View the document.

Sovereign Challenge VII Report of Proceedings

Report of proceedings from this June's conference in Dearborn, Michigan.

The United States Special Operations Command hosted 79 Foreign Defense Military Attachés, Law Enforcement Attachés, and Diplomats representing 55 countries at the Sovereign Challenge VII Conference in Dearborn, Michigan. View available documents.

Sovereign Challenge VI Executive Summary (Nov 10)

Updates and transcripts from this November's annual conference in El Paso, TX.

Read and download updates and transcripts from this years annual conference Border, Migration and Security: Division, Continuities and Shard Affinities. View available documents.

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will there be discussion on how Islamists use the INternet to radicalize  youth

 

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Thank you for this great article! But, this is only first part.

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