In 2011, RSN offered the selection below:
Al Gore | The
Dirtiest Fuel on the Planet
Al Gore, Reader Supported News
Al Gore writes, "The tar sands are the dirtiest source of fuel on the planet. As I wrote in Our Choice two years ago, gasoline made from the tar sands gives a Toyota Prius the same impact on climate as a Hummer using gasoline made from oil. This pipeline would be an enormous mistake."
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Al Gore, Reader Supported News
Al Gore writes, "The tar sands are the dirtiest source of fuel on the planet. As I wrote in Our Choice two years ago, gasoline made from the tar sands gives a Toyota Prius the same impact on climate as a Hummer using gasoline made from oil. This pipeline would be an enormous mistake."
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WikiLeaks:
Iraqi Children in US Raid Shot in Head
Matthew Schofield, McClatchy News
Matthew Schofield, McClatchy News
The bodies of three of the five children reportedly killed by US troops during a raid in the rural Ishaqi area of Iraq, 03/15/06. (photo: AP)
Excerpt: "A US diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that US troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence.... autopsies performed in the Iraqi city of Tikrit showed that all the dead had been handcuffed and shot in the head. Among the dead were four women and five children. The children were all 5 years old or younger."
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Hacking's
Stunning Victim List
Brian Cathcart, The Daily Beast
Intro: "Scotland Yard has a list of 3,870 people whose phones were tapped. From the 'schoolboy killer' to Prince William, Brian Cathcart reports on the scandal's huge scope."
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Brian Cathcart, The Daily Beast
Intro: "Scotland Yard has a list of 3,870 people whose phones were tapped. From the 'schoolboy killer' to Prince William, Brian Cathcart reports on the scandal's huge scope."
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Lawsuit
Reveals Details of CIA Torture Flights
Stephen Braun, Associated Press
Excerpt: "More than 1,700 pages of court files in a business dispute between two aviation companies reveal how integral private contractors were in the government's covert "extraordinary rendition" flights. They shuttled between Washington, foreign capitals, the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and, at times, landing points near once-secret, CIA-run overseas prisons."
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Stephen Braun, Associated Press
Excerpt: "More than 1,700 pages of court files in a business dispute between two aviation companies reveal how integral private contractors were in the government's covert "extraordinary rendition" flights. They shuttled between Washington, foreign capitals, the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and, at times, landing points near once-secret, CIA-run overseas prisons."
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US Earthquake
Caused Massive Nuclear Storage Casks to Move
Peter Bacque, Richmond Times-Dispatch
Peter Bacque, Richmond Times-Dispatch
Intro: "Last week's central Virginia earthquake caused 25 spent-fuel storage casks - each weighing 115 tons - to move on their concrete pad at Dominion Virginia Power's North Anna nuclear power plant. The shifting of these massive casks holding used nuclear fuel was the first caused by an earthquake in the US, according to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
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