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11:10 AM ET, February 2, 2007

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Ian Sample / Guardian:
Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study  —  Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.  —  Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute …
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Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Global warming man-made, will continue  —  PARIS - Scientists from 113 countries issued a landmark report Friday saying they have little doubt global warming is caused by man, and predicting that hotter temperatures and rises in sea level will "continue for centuries" no matter how much humans control their pollution.
Richard Garner / Independent:   All pupils to be given lessons in climate change
Jerusalem Post:
Eleven Palestinians killed in ferocious Gaza fighting  —  Eleven Palestinians were killed, including two children - aged eight and five - in ferocious fighting Friday between Hamas and Fatah gunmen.  —  Also among the dead were a Palestinian Authority intelligence commander, his bodyguard …
Discussion: Classical Values
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Bryan / Hot Air:
Surprise! Iran is meddling in Gaza, too
Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Gaza erupts in fatal clashes after truce
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Majority in Senate support 'stay the course' resolution  —  A bipartisan majority in the Senate yesterday united behind a firm "stay the course" resolution on the war in Iraq, despite searing public criticism from both sides in Congress over President Bush's handling of the war.
Discussion: Sirotablog and Reason Magazine
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Compromise Senate Measure Rebuffing Bush's Iraq Buildup Gathers Support
Discussion: Bradford Plumer
Washington Post:
Senate Democrats Split on Measure Opposing Bush
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Clifford Krauss / New York Times:
Exxon and Shell Report Record Profits for 2006  —  Oil prices have fallen, but Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell left their smaller competitors in the dust and reported record annual profits Thursday.  —  By making $180 million a day between them, the two largest publicly traded oil companies displayed …
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Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Higher Oil Prices Help Exxon Again Set Record Profit
Discussion: The Left Coaster
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A Failed Cover-Up  —  Why was the White House so nervous in the summer of 2003 about the CIA's reporting on alleged Iraqi attempts to buy uranium from Niger to build a nuclear bomb?  That's the big question that runs through the many little details that have emerged in the perjury trial …
Discussion: onpointradio.org and Soccer Dad
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David Corn:   Libby Trial:Was Scooter Set Up? Did Cheney Conspire?
Associated Press:
FBI Agent Testifies Libby Learned About Plame from Cheney
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Daily Mail:
Police praise Muslim soldiers who acted as 'bait' for beheading gang  —  Two British Muslim soldiers targeted by the alleged beheading gang were used in an extraordinary "sting" operation to snare their assassins, it has emerged.  —  The courageous pair agreed to act like "tethered goats" …
Discussion: Hot Air and Jihad Watch
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Duncan Gardham / Telegraph:   Websites denounce British Muslim soldiers
coburn.senate.gov:
Dr. Coburn Votes to Protect Salaries of Low-Income Families from Flawed Wage Bill  —  (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) released the following statement today regarding his vote against, H.R. 2, the Minimum Wage Act:  —  "This bill is unfair to workers and …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Senate Adds Tax Breaks To Minimum Wage Bill
Maya Angelou / Washington Post:
Molly Ivins Shook the Walls With Her Clarion Call  —  The walls have not come down, but they have been given a serious shaking.  —  That Jericho voice is stilled now.  —  Molly Ivins has been quieted.  —  The writer and journalist, dearly loved and admired by many, hated and feared by many …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Pottersville
Washington Post:
Iraq at Risk of Further Strife, Intelligence Report Warns  —  A long-awaited National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, presented to President Bush by the intelligence community yesterday, outlines an increasingly perilous situation in which the United States has little control …
Associated Press:
Punxsutawney Phil predicts early spring  —  PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - A new pair of hands pulled Punxsutawney Phil from his stump this year, so it was only fitting that the groundhog offered a new prediction.  —  Phil did not see his shadow on Friday, which, according to German folklore …
Discussion: Argghhh! and Suburban Guerrilla
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Senators Challenge Gen. Casey On Iraq War  —  Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the Bush administration's nominee to be the Army chief of staff, got an unusually harsh reception yesterday from some members of the Senate Armed Services Committee for his performance as the top U.S. commander in Iraq …
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David S. Cloud / New York Times:   General Parries Senate Attacks on Iraq Record
Spork Incident / A Spork in the Drawer:
And This Is The Thanks We Get?  —  Well, by golly, the US (pure as the driven snow) sacrificed and sacrificed and sacrificed to free the Iraqi people and it turns out they're a bunch of childish ingrates.  At least, that's how Charles "Squeaky Wheels" Krauthammer sees it:
Discussion: Soccer Dad and Eschaton
Washington Post:
Border Policy's Success Strains Resources  —  Tent City in Texas Among Immigrant Holding Sites Drawing Criticism  —  RAYMONDVILLE, Tex. — Ringed by barbed wire, a futuristic tent city rises from the Rio Grande Valley in the remote southern tip of Texas, the largest camp …
Tom Lasseter / Real Cities:
Mahdi Army gains strength through unwitting aid of U.S.  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military drive to train and equip Iraq's security forces has unwittingly strengthened anti-American Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia, which has been battling to take over much of the capital city …
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
An Inarticulate Kickoff  —  What is it, exactly, that white people mean when they call a black person "articulate"?  —  I'll leave it to Joe Biden to explain (or figure out) why he used "clean" as one of a logorrheic string of adjectives describing his Senate colleague Barack Obama.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Blog news  —  Beginning next Thursday, February 8, this blog will be moving to Salon, where it will be a featured front-page blog (full access to Salon is available by subscribing or for free, by clicking through an ad to obtain a 24 hour day pass).  I will also be a Salon Contributing Writer and will write …
Morning Call:
Gore ex-campaign chief wishes on her star  —  'Wait till Oscar night,' Donna Brazile says of a possible 2008 run.  —  By Daryl Nerl Of The Morning Call  —  Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are the hot early front-runners, while 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry has already bowed out.
Discussion: Liberal Values
 
 
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Richard Spencer / Telegraph:
Kim's son lives it up as people starve
Benedict Brogan / Daily Mail:
No 10 kept Blair's questioning by police secret for a week
Discussion: One Hand Clapping
Denise Grady / New York Times:
U.S. Reconfigures the Way Casualty Totals Are Given
Discussion: The Impolitic
Brady Averill / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Pawlenty drawing more national interest
CNN:
Cost balloons when 'surge' support troops are counted
Discussion: Demagogue
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Michael Freund / Jerusalem Post:
Right On: The straightforward arithmetic of jihad
Discussion: Dr. Sanity
Wikinews:
Cartoon promotion goes awry and causes bomb scare in Boston
Discussion: Donklephant
U.S. Newswire:
Landmark Legal Foundation Nominates Rush Limbaugh for 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Newsweek:
The 'Lame Duck' Label
Discussion: Mercury Rising and Attytood
 

 
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Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Sources: CVC Capital Partners and a major European broadcaster, thought to be France's Groupe TF1, are among those considering a takeover of the UK's ITV

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Trade body data: copyrighted music revenue was $45.5B in 2023, above cinema box office spending of $33.2B in 2023 and $41.9B in 2019; record labels made $28.5B

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
SCOTUS seeks the US government's views in the $1B copyright fight between Cox Communications and Sony, Warner Music, Universal Music, and other music companies

 
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