Tuesday, August 11, 2026 Strategy, technology, media, and social systems

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Sorin Adam Matei

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Tag: Middle East

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As lost flight MH370 remains are again “found” in the South Indian ocean by Australian search and rescue authority some ask if its target was Diego Garcia

Australian rescue authorities boosted worldwide hopes that MH370 will be eventually found announcing that some debris was identified on FOUR DAYS OLD satellite pictures  in an area off the west coast of Australia over Naturaliste Plateau, much further south to the last known…

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Were WMD found in Iraq? Yes, on the battlefield. Between 2004 – 2009 Several Chemical Warfare Improvised Explosive Devices Were Found or Used

Perusing the Iraqi Sigact files acquired by Wikileaks, I found much to my surprise not only that WMD were found in Iraq, but that there were used at least several times on the battlefield. These typically involved Chemical Improvised Explosive Devices made of 150/2/5…

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Monitoring by Social Mention Indicates that Positive Reactions to Obama Middle East Speech Declined Dramatically in Social and Traditional Media (CHART, PICS)

After a great start, with great positive reactions on Twitter, President Obama’s Middle East speech has become only a few days later a more controversial proposition, both for social media audiences and for newsmakers. According to Social Mention, a social media monitoring…

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Obama Middle East Peace Speech Sentiment Analysis: Greater Enthusiasm on Twitter than in Media or Blogs

NEW: Read latest update on social mention sentiment analysis of President Obama’s Middle East speech Textual analysis of the rhetoric and of the social media buzz created by President Obama’s speech on the future of the Middle East (see transcript of Middle…

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An academic grant worth the cost of an aircraft carrier?

What you say if you got a $1.5 BILLION grant?  Samuel Ting (Nobel Prize laureate, 1974, MIT professor) got precisely this amount over 10 years to put a new experimental device in space. The device was meant to detect anti-matter. Although intriguing,…

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Private and confidential information on House ethics committee staffer computer compromised by peer to peer (p2p) music sharing software

Image via Wikipedia P2P software used for sharing music is not only a huge problem for copyright holders, but also a gigantic privacy problem for its users. It is an even bigger information security for their employers. Did you know that some…