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The RP’s Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Tech

By Zack Adams, RP Staff, on Thu Dec 1, 2011 at 3:00 PM ET

The Politics of Tech

An Android app developer named Trevor Eckhart has offered what he believes to be conclusive proof that millions of smartphones are monitoring key presses and other information. If true, this is certainly a bombshell. [The Register]

NBC Universal is certainly in favor of SOPA. [Techdirt]

Elvis Costello to fans: my label is gouging you on my new box set; don’t buy it. Buy Louis Armstrong music instead, and download my stuff by “unconventional means.” [Elvis Costello]

The smallest V12 engine in the world. Amazing! [YouTube]

The NYPD is using a new piece of tech called the Panoscan to review crime scenes. Warning: some graphic crime scene images in the link. [NY Times]

Here’s a cool story about a DSLR camera that was lost at sea for over a year until it was found washed up on a beach. The finder used Google+ to post recovered pictures and locate the original owner. [Engadget]

 

 
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The RP’s Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Fame

By Grant Smith, RP Staff, on Thu Dec 1, 2011 at 1:30 PM ET

 

The Politics of Fame

 

 

Newt Gingrich officially becomes the latest “Non-Romney.” [Washington Times]

America’s spy agencies plan a more muted series of holiday parties due to the economy. [Washington Post]

Suspicions are building around the group of stockbrokers who won the Connecticut Lottery. [CNBC]

 

 
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The RP’s Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Food

By Sandra Moon, RP Staff, on Thu Dec 1, 2011 at 10:00 AM ET

The Politics of Food

In order to meet the needs of the world’s population, the global food system must reduce its dependence on fossil fuels. [Businessweek]

Feeling the need to detox after your Thanksgiving binge?  Here are some healthy ways to do so. [EmpowHer]

One small step for beer, one giant leap for beerkind.  Natty light is the first beer launched into space. [Huffington Post]

Free-range.  Cage-free. Organic.  Natural.  What do these labels on egg cartons really mean?  [MSNBC]

 
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THE RP’S BREAKING NEWS: The Politics of a Market Surge.

By Patrick Derocher, on Thu Dec 1, 2011 at 9:15 AM ET

Reuters takes a cogent look at the policy enacted regarding Europe that allowed yesterday's strong bull market.

Yesterday, the Down Jones Industrial Average had its best day since March of 2009, soaring by nearly 500 points. But why, exactly, did it happen then? Reuters is here to explain, with a straightforward Q&A regarding the moves made by central banks that allowed the surge. Long story short: they’re bracing us for impact by making it easier and less stigmatized to lend to European banks. [Reuters]

 
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Jeff Smith: Should Obama have led the supercommittee?

By Jeff Smith, on Thu Dec 1, 2011 at 8:30 AM ET

He should have played a more active last fall by working with Sens. Durbin and Coburn – both friends of his – to build some modicum of bipartisan consensus around the recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles commission that he created.

It’s not inconceivable to think that something could’ve passed during the 2010 lame duck session, when “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was repealed with the support of several Republicans. By the time the supercommittee got down to work, it was probably too late; opinion had congealed on both sides.

(Cross-posted, with author’s permission, from Politico’s Arena)

 
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