{"id":40,"date":"2013-07-07T20:31:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T20:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimparys.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2013-07-07T20:31:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T20:31:43","slug":"select-stories-for-week-ending-july-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimparys.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Select Stories for Week Ending July 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inequality in education increases in China:\u00a0 <\/strong>Asia Weekly of June 23 has a piece of how Chinese are more and more protesting the selection of university students.\u00a0 More are going to the streets complaining of corruption in the selection of students and the growing disparity between kids from the city or with parents in the government and others in the countryside.\u00a0 The former are 17 times represented in the nation\u2019s colleges and universities.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Those with the means are \u201cvoting with their applications\u201d forgoing the national test in favor of the SAT, some traveling to Hong Kong to take it.\u00a0 In Shanghai, centers for studying for the SAT continue to grow but the number taking the national Chinese test dropped from 108,000 in 2008 to 53,000 this year.<\/p>\n

Is the ICC a \u201cwhite man\u2019s Justice?\u201d:\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Le Monde <\/em>asks this question this week\u00a0 and tries to answer in four separate articles.\u00a0\u00a0 Even with the replacement of the Court\u2019s prosecutor from the activist Argentinian Luis Moreno Ocampo to an African, nothing has changed.\u00a0\u00a0 Since 2002, the court has nine primary cases, and Le Monde <\/em>has a nice graph where each one, all against Africans only, is.\u00a0\u00a0 It has only finished two cases, one acquittal and one currently under appeal.\u00a0\u00a0 The greatest failure has been its indictment of Omar Al-Bashir, the president of Sudan.\u00a0 The African Union and several states, members included, have opposed the indictment and have hosted him. One former colleague of mine in Sudan who worked for de Campo claimed that he turned to this hunt as a personal mission when in fact many of his staff thought Bashir was mostly trying to hold on to power and balance a whole host of those who led the killing in Darfur against others.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In response to this situation, the African Union has taken on its first case in a court in Senegal against the former Chadian leader, Hissene Habre who was accused of having a hand in the deaths of 40,000\u00a0 people during his rule 1982-1990 by a national commission.<\/p>\n

Exuberance<\/strong>\u00a0in Espana explained:\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>The Times Literary Supplement <\/em>reviews Antonio Munoz Molina\u2019s new book (not translated into English, yet), Todo Lo que Era Solido (Everything that was solid).\u00a0 This Spanish author, who himself had decamped to New York, describes a litany of stories of crazy Spaniards who got lost in a dream of continued growth and profit.\u00a0\u00a0 In 2006, one invites 20,000 New Yorkers to paella in Central Park, importing most of the ingredients from Valencia, including 4,143 liters of water.\u00a0 Next year he\u2019s nearly broke and moves to Brazil.\u00a0\u00a0 He takes the causes to Franco and the lack of real institutions following.\u00a0\u00a0 Much of this resonates to me when I studied the treatment of juvenile delinquents during the seminal year of 1982, which under Franco was completely given to catholic clergy.\u00a0 Like everything, the Spaniards were opening up to modern methods and it seemed the real final nails to Franco\u2019s coffin were only in after the Socialists took power that year. Four terms of control, the Socialists did give the foundations to this modernization, but seemed to have left out the need to build a disinterested bureaucracy that could have questioned the back and forth between the reformed conservatives (People\u2019s Party) and the Socialists.<\/p>\n

All Awaiting in Algeria:\u00a0 <\/strong>In a multi-article special, Jeune Afrique <\/em>describes the current state of suspense in Algeria after the longest serving leader of 14 years, Bouteflika,\u00a0 had a stroke and before next April\u2019s presidential election. \u00a0\u00a0No one has yet to declare their interest in running for president next year.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Dependent on gas and oil, this country still faces a great challenge to provide education and employment opportunities for its oversized youth population, not an uncommon state for many Arab countries.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The mal of Monsanto:<\/strong>\u00a0 The French press continues its attack on GMO products.\u00a0\u00a0 France24 has an extensive expose on cotton in India where it reports 90% of production is now GMOed.\u00a0\u00a0 One farmer family is interviewed where the household head killed himself after he could not pay back for the GMO seed, a cost four times traditional cotton.\u00a0 The cotton crop has not given the yields Monsanto had promised and some pests had adapted some years later.\u00a0\u00a0 It reports there are 10,000 such cases.\u00a0 Le Monde\u00b8 <\/em>for its part, reports that the banning of GMO corn (MON810) by the government of May 2012 was excessive based on little evidence and so, with a picture of lots of protesters showing all sorts of images of \u201cFrankenfood.\u201d\u00a0 The government still has the union of beekeepers on its side since they maintain this corn is problematic for pollination.<\/p>\n

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