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"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." March 16 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: You Elected Him - Now Line Up And March Towards The Future, Because The Past Sucked [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 8:30 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
Most startling is the sharp drop of boys among the Aamjiwnaang Anishinaabek: “A greater rate of change than has been reported previously anywhere,” said a 2005 study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
It’s the kind of attention this tiny community of 850 never wanted. In the beginning, they could not conceive what was happening in their community.
Their pain and questions began in 2002, when biologist Michael Gilbertson found elevated levels of PCBs, pesticides and heavy metals on the reserve. Gilbertson asked if they had more girls than boy children.
Tribal members were first baffled, and then aghast as they realized that they had enough girls for three baseball teams, but not enough boys for even one team. [In Full @ Indian Country Today]
U.S. envoy George Mitchell has indefinitely postponed a planned trip to the Middle East in the midst of what Israel's ambassador to the United States has called "most severe crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations" in decades. [In Full @ Foreign Policy Morning Brief]Also, see this history lesson from Juan Cole @ Informed Comment (Professor Cole teaches Middle East & Persian history at the University of Michigan)
"...the New York Times leaked U.S. military plans for the current offensive in Somalia on March 5 in a report titled “U.S. Aiding Somalia in Its Plan to Retake Its Capital.” (Note that the Transitional Federal Government is presented as Somalia itself and Mogadishu as its capital.)" [In Full]
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