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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Cheat Sheet - The Kids of DC's Elite Are Spoiled Rotten

Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

February 27, 2014
CONNECTED
Is Washington's child-rearing motto "get elected, get your kids rich?" Clare Malone finds a few egregious examples of the new nepotism in American politics, like the governor's daughter who was made CEO without a MBA and the senator's son who started a hedge fund right out of college.
DANGER ZONE
Ever since the Charge of the Light Brigade, Crimea has been synonymous with disaster for the West. Now Russia now sees it as ground-zero in the battle with Ukraine's new masters. Michael Weiss writes that the Kremlin's reaction to the revolution in Kiev might well culminate in the invasion and partitioning of the former Soviet satellite.
BACK TO THE FUTURE
The current crisis in the Ukraine and the looming crisis on the Korean Peninsula would be much easier to manage if the Cold War was still going strong, according to top lawmakers on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. Josh Rogin reports on the nostalgia for the days of mutually assured destruction in Washington.
ONE-EYED MONSTER

The British spy agency GCHQ, along with its trusty sidekick the NSA, took and kept millions of webcam images from Yahoo chats, including of users who were not suspected of doing anything wrong. In just one six-month period in 2008 (i.e. when people still used Yahoo) the program, codenamed Optic Nerve, collected webcam images from over 1.8 million Yahoo accounts around the world. Yahoo denies knowledge of the program and called it "a whole new level of violation of our users' privacy."

BARF

A new report from the Environmental Working Group has found that more than 500 different foods in U.S. grocery stores contain the potentially dangerous industrial plastics chemical azodicarbonamide (ADA). The chemical, which is approved by the FDA for use in food, is a flour bleaching and oxidizing agent used in dough. However, the World Health Organization says that there is "abundant evidence that azodicarbonamide can induce asthma, other respiratory symptoms, and skin sensitization" for people who use it. It is banned in food in Australia, as well as some countries in Europe.


HERE WE GO AGAIN
Paula Deen: I'm Like Michael Sam
"That black football player."
CHUTZPAH
Team Christie Targeted Rabbi
New Bridgegate documents released.
HEALTH SCARE
Eric Holder Hospitalized
For shortness of breath.
KILLJOYS
EU Cracks Down on E-Cigs
Introduces new regulations.
CHA-CHING
Bullock Paid $70M for 'Gravity'
Thanks to deal she struck with Warner Bros.

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