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National pediatricians group backs gay marriage
CHICAGO -- The nation's most influential pediatrician's group has endorsed gay marriage, saying a stable relationship between parents regardless of sexual orientation contributes to a child's health and well-being.
The American Academy of Pediatrics' new policy, published online Thursday, cites research showing that the parents' sexual orientation has no effect on a child's development. Kids fare just as well in gay or straight families when they are nurturing and financially and emotionally stable, the academy says.
The academy believes that a two-parent marriage is best equipped to provide that kind of environment. Their policy says that if a child has two gay parents who choose to marry, "it is in the best interests of their children that legal and social institutions allow and support them to do so."
The policy cites reports indicating that almost 2 million U.S. children are being raised by gay parents, many of them in states that don't allow gays to marry.
The academy announced its position Thursday. Officials with the group said they wanted to make the academy's views known before two gay marriage cases are considered by the U.S. Supreme Court next week.
"We wanted that policy statement available for the justices to review," said Dr. Thomas McInerney, the academy's president and a pediatrician in Rochester, N.Y.
The pediatricians' stance is not surprising. They previously joined other national groups including the American Medical Association in supporting one of the Supreme Court cases, which contends the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. The academy also previously supported adoption by gay parents.
The academy's statement notes that several other national health groups have supported gay marriage. Those are the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association and the American College of Nursing.
Dr. Ben Siegel, a Boston pediatrician and chairman of an academy committee that developed the new policy, said its focus is on "nurturing children. We want what's best for children."


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Democratization in the Caucasus: Elections in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia
Democratization in the Caucasus: Elections in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia
Testimony Before the U.S. Helsinki Commission
Cory Welt testifies before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission).
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Thank you to the Helsinki Commission for convening this briefing. I appreciate the opportunity to join this distinguished group of panelists.
I want to first make some observations relevant to all three states, and will then address some issues specific to Armenia's parliamentary elections earlier this month and Georgia's upcoming parliamentary elections in October. I will conclude with a brief comment on Azerbaijan.
- My first point is that, leaving out the earliest years of transition from Soviet power, elections in the Caucasus have yet to serve their basic democratic function of transferring power from one political party to another. Where an incumbent team has lost power—which really only happened in Georgia's Rose Revolution—it did so outside a normal electoral process.
- Second, in all three states, elections have still not produced a viable multiparty democratic system, in which opposition political parties have enough of a presence in parliament to serve as a check on authorities, or to realistically position themselves as governments-in-waiting. All three states still operate within the paradigm of a "party of power" rather than a modern democratic paradigm of parties that alternate power.
- Third, problems with the electoral process, at this point, are less related to the mechanics of voting day—the casting, counting, and recording of ballots—than to the overwhelming power advantages with which authorities are able to control or at least greatly influence the country's overall political climate, including campaign and election processes, legal and judicial contexts, and public expectations and opinion—in other words, the gamut of so-called "administrative resources," the broad and frequently illegal use of government finances and officials for political purposes.
- Fourth, governments in all three states have utilized particular electoral systems to shore up their rule. A long-running debate focuses on the benefits and drawbacks of proportional vs. majoritarian electoral systems for constructing multiparty democracy. In the Caucasus, the conclusion is clear: The more majoritarian seats there have been in parliament, the better it has been for the party in power. Particularly in Armenia and Georgia, mixed systems with a majoritarian component repeatedly lead to substantially greater ruling party representation in parliament than there would be in a strictly party-list system.
As a result of these considerations (and others), elections in Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan have tended to reinforce—or at least not weaken—the power of those in power in ways that fall short of normal democratic practice.
This is inherently problematic. But the hesitation to fully embrace democracy also constitutes the main domestic barrier to these states' closer identification with the Euro-Atlantic community to which they all, to varying degrees, aspire. Bureaucratic modernization and security cooperation may be necessary conditions for continued integration with the West, but so too is multiparty democracy, in which political transition is a normal and expected feature of politics.
I will now make a few specific remarks on Armenia and Georgia.
Of the three states in the Caucasus, Armenia has had the most complex electoral evolution. One distinctive characteristic has been the relatively low popularity of the ruling Republican Party, which has maintained power through shifting coalitions with a handful of other parties.
The main difference in this last round of elections is that two out of three of the government's past coalition partners could not be relied upon to join the government.
A second difference is that one of these two—Prosperous Armenia, led by oligarch Gagik Tsarukian—emerged as a full-blooded contender to the ruling Republican Party, ultimately winning 30 percent of the vote to the ruling party's 44 percent. This is the largest second-place electoral finish in Armenian history.
Whether this outcome constitutes grounds for optimism about Armenian democracy, however, is open for question. Some see the rise of a division in the ruling elite into politically and economically autonomous factions as a positive precondition for democracy.
There are, however, a number of reasons for caution:
- First, let us keep in mind that the official election results handed the ruling Republican Party its most successful election ever. Its share of the party-list vote went from 24 percent in 2003 to 34 percent in 2007 to 44 percent today. The ruling party also increased its total seat count, including via a greater number of victories in majoritarian races.
- Second, it is highly likely that Prosperous Armenia will again join the ruling coalition and again support the incumbent president, when he campaigns for reelection next year.
- Third, even if Prosperous Armenia enters opposition, the ruling party will have more than sufficient numbers to govern without it.
- Fourth, if Tsarukian himself were to run for president next year and win, it is not clear whether or how he would govern any differently or preside over the transformation of Armenia's political system into a multiparty democracy.
- Fifth, parties considered to be more committed to democracy building (the Armenian National Congress and Heritage) came in third and fourth place in the popular vote, but with only a combined count of 13 percent, and without any majoritarian deputies.
In the end, we are left with the unsatisfying need to rely on either an intra-elite power struggle or the ruling party's foresight as the basis for a future consolidation of democracy in Armenia.
Of the three states, Georgia has gone the furthest to enable a pluralistic electoral environment. In particular, I wish to highlight the high level of public discussion and debate that led to improved laws on elections and campaign finance, as well as to profound constitutional changes that tilt Georgia toward a more parliamentary system of governance. Opposition parties and civil society organizations have been fully empowered to participate in the crafting of these institutional reforms, and many of them have done so.
I also wish to stress that of all three states, Georgia has moved the furthest toward a clean election-day environment. Election-day violations and fraud are not entirely a thing of the past, but the spring 2008 parliamentary elections were already an improvement upon the snap 2008 presidential election before them, and the 2010 local elections, despite returning an overwhelming majority of ruling party representatives to power, were also not so problematic from an election-day perspective.
I would also note the dramatic decline overall in reported levels of corruption, and the steady rise of independent broadcast media.
All this said, Georgia still faces a number of serious challenges in democratizing its electoral environment. These challenges less concern election day itself than the overall political context. They include the following:
- First, ownership of the two leading national private television channels—the main source of news for most of Georgia's population—was long ago transferred to government loyalists. Until the end of last year, this fact was formally hidden by nontransparent ownership schemes, which have since been made illegal.
- Second, despite new legislation that bans the use of "administrative resources" for political purposes, reports of bribery, intimidation, and reprisal allegedly designed to affect citizens' political behavior remain frequent, especially outside the capital city of Tbilisi.
- Third, laws continue to be selectively applied—and even created—for seemingly political purposes rather than to provide an objective context for the political process. For example, Georgia's parliament did not see the need for more stringent campaign finance laws until there arose a political opposition, led by oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, that had the potential to outspend the ruling party. Another example is the application of Georgia's citizenship law to Ivanishvili. His loss of citizenship, granted several years ago by presidential fiat, may have been legal, but nonetheless highly selective and curiously inflexible in its implementation.
- Fourth, government officials regularly cast Georgian domestic politics as an integral element of the heavily charged Russian-Georgian conflict. They appear to do this as an act of delegitimization, in particular accusing opposition figures (without foundation) of directly working for Russian interests to the detriment of Georgia's own.
- Fifth and finally, I wish to highlight one major overlooked deficiency of Georgia's transition to a more parliamentary system of governance. This is the incongruity of electing under one constitutional system a parliament that next year will form a government under a different constitutional system. The problem is that political parties appear to be under no obligation to tell voters who they intend to nominate next year as prime minister, who will be Georgia's lead executive and a powerful one at that. Georgian citizens are thus being called to vote in October without knowing, for example, who the ruling National Movement intends to nominate as its prime minister—whether it be outgoing president Mikheil Saakashvili or anyone else. If political parties are under no obligation to announce their prime ministerial candidate, Georgian voters will have little say in the formation of the country's new government.
As with Armenia, we are thus most likely left in Georgia with the need to rely on "managed democratization" by the ruling party or an eventual intra-elite power struggle as the basis for the consolidation of democracy.
Finally, let me briefly mention Azerbaijan. Despite commonalities among the three states' political systems, it is clear that Azerbaijan occupies a different position on the political spectrum. The government and ruling party dominate political life to a far greater degree than they do in Armenia and Georgia. The Azerbaijani government is still reluctant to abide by basic principles of freedom of expression necessary for normal democratic life, whether via strict laws on public demonstrations, the absence of independent broadcast media, or the imprisonment of young people who speak out in opposition to the government. It has also preempted potential splits among the political elite though a variety of measures, including the long-term imprisonment of former government officials. Azerbaijan's political context is different enough from Armenia or Georgia to warrant separate consideration.
Thank you, and I look forward to discussion.
Cory Welt is an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for American Progress and associate director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.
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Of course as happens so often, some liberals/Democrats express their concerns rationally and others have a habit of using things like this to fuel their "Obama derangement syndrome" (ODS). A good example would be the contrast between how someone like Adam Serwer (who has been a pretty harsh critic of President Obama on civil liberties) handles it with how the king of ODS Glenn Greenwald deals with it.
If you want to do the hard work of being an informed citizen, I'd encourage you to take a look at those two articles and make up your own mind about what's going on here. I have another purpose in mind for what I want to talk about.
What has bothered me most about the ODS crowd on these issues is how they are so insistent on ignoring history and/or current practices that don't feed their need to blame President Obama for everything. To listen to them, you'd think that the U.S. had never tortured anyone before Bush/Cheney came along and that, until Bradley Manning, no prisoner in this country had ever been subjected to solitary confinement. As I wrote about before, in his new book Glenn Greenwald seems to think there was some utopian time in our country's past where the "rule of law" reigned supreme. It all reeks of incredible ignorance.
And Greenwald is up to it again in his poutrage about NDAA. His big beef on this one is all about the issue of "indefinite detention." Unlike others who have critiqued his take on all of this, I was struck by one short sentence in his article about it that I linked above.
But this is the first time this power of indefinite detention is being expressly codified by statute.
That is simply not true. First of all, you have to acknowledge that the real crime in the first place was in declaring a "War on Terrorism." Because once we are legally "at war," the law allows for holding prisoners indefinitely until the hostilities have ended. Like most countries, this has been common practice for the U.S. The problem is with declaring war on a tactic instead of a country (or alliance of countries). Its the indefiniteness of the war that is the issue here.
And secondly, as I've written about before, Greenwald also completely ignores that there is one arena in our prison industrial complex where indefinite detention has been practiced for decades. I don't know the particulars in other states, but here in Minnesota, we have as many as 600 people who have been indefinitely detained because of sex crimes.
Among their ranks are more than 40 elderly offenders, some in wheelchairs; low-functioning adults considered to be little risk of re-offending; and young men without felony records who were hastily committed to the sex-offender program after completing juvenile sentences.
The most outrageous of cases includes:
...a Rice County man who was convicted of possessing child pornography as a juvenile and ended up at the program's Moose Lake facility when he became an adult.
Now I know that people freak out over sex crimes in a way that they don't over other criminal activity (seems to be true of "terrorism" as well). And the media has done a great job of convincing folks that "once a sex criminal...always a sex criminal," just as they created the myth of the super predator that sent thousands of (mostly black) young men to jail for life.
But whether you agree or disagree with the practice of indefinite detention for sex crimes, Glenn Greenwald is simply wrong when he suggests that its never been codified into our laws before.
For me, that doesn't make it right. Its simply yet another example of the selective poutrage by folks like Greenwald and why - until they embrace ALL of the victims of these kinds of practices - I'll simply write them off as ignorant at best and suffering from Obama derangement syndrome at worst.


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Ryan Says He's 'Cautiously Optimistic' On A Bipartisan Budget Deal
Republican Paul Ryan, who ran for vice president last year, has been one of President Obama's toughest critics when it comes to the economy. We reached him yesterday to talk about the president's new budget that's out this week. The White House says it's a compromise. Ryan does not see it that way.
REPRESENTATIVE PAUL RYAN: I have a hard time seeing the plan as a compromise, given that we have trillion-dollar deficits, we have debt that is too high that's getting out of control, and they propose to add more to it.
GREENE: But as we got into specifics with the House Budget chairman, it began to sound like the bitter battles over the budget could be toning down in Washington. We asked Ryan if he was impressed that the president, angering some in his own party, was talking about changes in entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.
RYAN: Given that the president did put what is widely considered a fairly controversial proposal on the table, with respect to entitlement programs, I see that as a new move, something that's fairly unprecedented for this White House, and something that I interpret as an olive branch. So I see that as a good thing. But if you're asking me whether this budget is a compromise, it's a budget that has net spending and tax increases and never balances the budget. So I don't really see that in the aggregate as a compromise. I see some component parts within this budget as a move toward compromise.
GREENE: We know that you and the president, I mean from the campaign and from what many people in your party have said, I mean there are different approaches. But when it comes to actually finding a way to get some sort of agreement now, I mean when it comes to taxes we went through a period when House Speaker John Boehner and the president, you know, talked about numbers and came to an agreement on a level of tax increases. It seems like you're talking about the entitlement program, what the president is saying is an olive branch. It feels like there is room to work here and that we might be closer to some sort of agreement that we haven't seen in this country in a while.
RYAN: No, I think that's right, I think that's right. So what I see this year that's different from last four years is the president put a budget with some olive branch proposals, I guess we should say. The Senate actually passed the budget - they haven't done that in four years. What that does is it keeps the budget process continuing. This is the first time in this presidency that I have seen a chance at a bipartisan budget agreement. So I am cautiously optimistic about that. Do I believe that there's going to be a grand bargain where we fix all of our fiscal problems, where we deliver Medicare and Social Security solvency in perpetuity? I don't necessarily see that. But do I see an opportunity to get a down payment on the deficit, a down payment on the debt, hopefully tax reform that's pro-growth? I think that there are Republicans and Democrats here on Capitol Hill that agree with these things. And I think the president is adding a few proposals that gets us toward that kind of a compromise, and that is where I am cautiously optimistic.
GREENE: If I man, Congressman, I mean you said the president is offering some olive branches. I'm hearing you say that you want a down payment. Does that mean that when it comes to your budget on the House side - you authored it, it passed the House - would you be willing to back off on some of the discretionary cuts in spending that you've offered?
RYAN: Yeah, of course, we understand that. I mean, look, we know that we're not going to get everything that we propose in our budget. To give you just sort of the macro-differences, we achieved $5 trillion in spending savings in our budget. The president raises net spending by about a trillion. So there's a pretty big gulf in between there. Do I believe he's going to come all the way and agree with us and agree with every one of our $5 trillion in savings? No, I don't. I think that's unrealistic. But do I believe that somewhere in between the two of us we can find a common ground to meet? That's my goal and I hope we get there.
GREENE: One of the president's aides called your budget the Romney economic plan, and you, of course, have a strong relationship with Mitt Romney. You ran with him.
RYAN: Mitt is a very good friend. I wish he were the president of the United States today.
GREENE: What do you think of that comment? Is it an accurate way to describe your budget?
RYAN: Well, you know, our plan on the Romney-Ryan ticket is very similar to this budget. One of the reasons I think Mitt Romney selected me to be his running mate is because I've been authoring budgets here in Congress and I'm the chairman of the Budget Committee. We are at a time where we have a budget crisis. We have a deficit and debt crisis. So am I proud to be labeled by the White House as a person who is standing up and taking on the fiscal challenges, as politically perilous as they may be, because I want to prevent America from being engulfed in a European-like debt crisis? Absolutely. That's what Mitt Romney and I were campaigning on, that's what we were talking about. That's the work I've been doing in the House for a number of years, and that is what is we're trying to accomplish here today.
GREENE: And that campaign was largely an argument over the role of government. And I guess I wonder, can the president not point to his election victory and say it was a fairly clear statement about where a majority of the county wants to go right now when it comes to budget and the fiscal health of this country?
RYAN: No less and no more than we in the House of Representatives can point to the same statement that the House of Representatives was resoundingly reelected in the majority as well. The point is, it was more or less of a status quo election where you have divided government. Divided government hasn't worked in the last two years. We want to make it work in these two years of this term, and this is why we have to figure out a way to make it work.
GREENE: Congressman, we have heard from both Republicans and Democrats on the Hill that this president did not do a great job always reaching out to members of Congress during the first term. He's been doing a lot more outreach lately. You've met with him. From where you sit, has his new approach been constructive?
RYAN: It is. I think that's correct. The question is, is it temporary? Was it for political cosmetics or atmospherics or was it real and sincere? And time will tell on that.
GREENE: The day the budget comes out, the president invites some of your Republican colleagues from the Senate over to chat about the budget and other topics. And I wonder, do you worry that if your ideas and the president's do remain far apart that the White House and Senate might go through a process of negotiating and you and House Republicans might not have a voice at some point?
RYAN: No, I don't worry about that, because the House is controlled by Republicans and you can't pass legislation through the House if the House doesn't pass legislation. And so we - we're a big part of this. It's divided government. We control a third of that equation. So I can't imagine that they would try to do something that doesn't include the House because they wouldn't be able to get anything done then.
GREENE: But if they came to, you know, a pretty solid agreement, doesn't that put a lot of pressure on you and your House colleagues?
RYAN: No.
GREENE: Why not?
RYAN: Because it doesn't.
GREENE: If there's a big deal made, I mean you don't feel like there would be pressure to sign on?
RYAN: No, no. We don't bow to pressure based on politics and press. We do what we think is right.
GREENE: You have come on our programs before, but this is the first time since we've spoken to you since the long campaign. I just wonder if that experience changed your thinking and approach to your job in any way.
RYAN: You know, that's a good question. I think it gave me a better view of the country. It gave me a better sense of just the passion people have for the ideals that built this country. And when you go through a national campaign and all that comes with it, you become far more familiar with yourself and you just become more attuned to, I guess I'd call it the white noise of politics. And it just doesn't get to you as much. So it sort of gives you a sense of experience, I hope to call it wisdom, on not fretting the small stuff and not worrying about the white noise that comes with politics.
GREENE: Congressman Paul Ryan is the chairman of the House Budget Committee. Congressman, thanks so much for your time.
RYAN: You bet. Nice to be with you. Take care.
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Today is Saturday, Feb. 2, the 33rd day of 2013. There are 332 days left in the year. This is Groundhog Day.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Feb. 2, 1913, New York City's rebuilt Grand Central Terminal officially opened to the public at one minute past midnight.
On this date:
In 1536, present-day Buenos Aires, Argentina, was founded by Pedro de Mendoza of Spain.
In 1653, New Amsterdam — now New York City — was incorporated.
In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War, was signed.
In 1870, the "Cardiff Giant," supposedly the petrified remains of a human discovered in Cardiff, N.Y., was revealed to be nothing more than carved gypsum.
In 1882, Irish poet and novelist James Joyce was born near Dublin.
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It's a thriller and an engaging one. Four characters dominate the movie. There's Omar (Neil Nitin Mukesh) playing the new immigrant to the United States and Indian Americans Sameer Shaikh (John Abraham) and Maya (Katrina Kaif) who meet up at New York State University two years before 9/11. Irrfan Khan plays Roshan, an FBI agent. He is the catalyst who sets the story going. This is right at the start of the movie, when he meets up with Omar, seven years after 9/11.
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Terrible crimes in the name of investigation happened after 9/11, many of them committed by police officers and the American government. If you have heard of the Patriot Act you will know that this Act allows the United States government to detain suspected terrorists without a trial. And if you have heard of Guantanamo Bay which President Obama closed down recently then you know what happened to the detainees there. That they were tortured horribly, for months. It's difficult for those who go in to lead a normal life again. An actor who plays one such detainee acts brilliantly, although I could not get hold of his name. I shall add it here when I do but it was this man's acting which stood out.
The director is not judgmental. He simply tells it how it is, and in fact a major character in the movie, Roshan, even explains why such tactics were necessary. At the end of the movie one does get the message that detaining and torturing people is morally wrong, but one also gets the message that this is what happens, and no one can be blamed. Freedom has to be protected, whatever the cost.
The acting was fine, and Katrina was quite good, playing the devoted girl friend, wife and mother. John did his hurly burly act and Neil did his emotional one. Irrfan's role didn't call for much except looking stern. He is now playing these sterotypical roles which is sad because this actor is capable of much more.
The movie is entertaining suspense thriller and its best you don't know how it ends. There aren't too many light moments and the background music is good but I found the songs too long and too intrusive. Although no one actually sings them, they seem unnecessary and tagged on.
I liked the cinematography. It was beautiful the way they shot New York. I am not sure if those buildings actually look so beautiful and colourful, the way they do in the shots.
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June 28, 2009 12:56 pm
After 8 years of 9/11 our mainstream bollywood has been awakened from its cocoon sized world.Congrats to YRC…and kudos to Kabir Khan for bringing movie like Kabul express and Newyork.
I have seen this movie yesterday only and find it delicately balanced between entertainment and awareness. No great bashing to with clumsy dialouge USA & Jehadist in this movie make it good watch. It reminded me of a good pakistani movie 'khuda ke liye' of similar subject.
For those who want to know about condition of illegal detainess ,watch multiple prize winner documentary 'The Road to Guantanamo'.
For more scrutiny of movie, few scenes were adapted from other movies. Like opening race scene was taken from Oscar winner movie, 'Chariots of Fire' and police seacrh of Katrina from 'Crash'.
In the end, a fine coming to reality type film from our bollywood…
yayaver, I hope you don't mind that I linked my own Khuda ke liye review to the film. 🙂 – Nita
June 28, 2009 8:08 pm
Whatever you say for movie. I was disappointed.
It is totally commercial but end cuold have been much action pack.
It was only my inclination like immigrants in movie, so called "Dream America!", that kept me to seat till end.
Songs are good, but could have been lot better.
sunny, yeah in the beginning it was a little slow and overall definitely not as action packed as some hollywood movies. – Nita
June 28, 2009 11:45 pm
nowadays the site photo heading is missing
vasudev, I have made the caption of the header now. 🙂 – Nita
June 29, 2009 11:51 am
Thnx Nita. Which is the rural location? Seems out of this world. Just wanna check if it is some road down which I have sauntered, years ago…
June 29, 2009 11:59 am
about a decade (or more) ago i had visited some real rural area of thane dt. (forgot the name but it was off dahisar or beyond). there were many tribals there and there was this small christian church (chapel). the tribal woman would walk 10 kms or more to fetch water. that road looked like this one. hence i asked.
Vasudev, this place is on the way to Jawhar, from Mumbai. You can read the travel post here.
June 29, 2009 2:12 pm
haha! so i am not off the mark despite the time gap. thnx nita. sorry for the diversions…
June 29, 2009 7:14 am
Nita,good thank you.I prefer your reviews than those of Masand.As soon as I get back to India ,NY will be the first one
Thank BK. 🙂 – Nita
June 29, 2009 7:24 am
I recommend the speech given by the defense counsel for the Guantanamo detainees Edward . I can't remember the last name. He gives the details of the travesty of justice that Guantanamo is an epitomy of. Schizophrenics were not given medical treatment. Evidence procured by torture was allowed in courts and the judge directed the jury that these were evidences 'procured in circumstances that elicited the truth'. A detainee who had a paranoid fear of insects stinging him was not to be tortured by keeping him in a room with stinging insects but it was permitted to keep him in a room full of non-stinging insects and let his paranoia torture him. Then ofcourse, there was the famous debate on whether waterboarding (look itup in wikipedia) was torture or not.
June 29, 2009 8:16 am
Some highlights –
(i) The person leading the justice system (Susan Crawford) did not want any of the accused to escape the death penalty. Though she assumed they were tortured (fyi, those who are tortured are not to be prosecuted at all!!) she took the govt's word that there was other evidence. In one of the federal cases that Susan Crawford was the judge her directions to the jury on the statements of the defendants procured through torture were "Pls approach these statements knowing that they were made in circumstances that were designed to elicit the truth…".
So, there's a new euphemism there for us. 'Circumstances designed to elicit the truth'.
What were these circumstances?
The judge's summary to the jury says it all – "He was in the company of interrogators for X days for Y hours each day. He was naked in the presence of a woman. His mother and sister were insulted. He was leashed and made to perform a series of dog tricks. He was threatened with military dogs…"
(ii) There were no death-trained lawyers
(iii) the statute drafted for this system prevented the use of any established case law principles
(iv) not only legal, but even medical help that is routinely granted to defendants was refused. One of the Gitmo inmates suffers from schizophrenia and mentally ill people are not to be given the death penalty!!
(v) There were no translators to Arabic in any of the trials. The defendants had no clue what was going on.
(vi) the place was understaffed.
(vii) there was nothing setup to accomodate the jurors.
June 29, 2009 8:14 am
It's Edward Macmohan.
July 1, 2009 2:20 pm
I quite liked 'New York'. It is definitely Katrina Kaif's best role up till now.
I didn't really buy the arguments that Irrfan Khan's character put forward, explaining why the FBI detained mere suspects and tortured them for months. There can be no excuse for such gross human rights violations!
I think the actor you were looking for (John Abraham's fellow detainee) is Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
July 7, 2009 8:02 am
honestly, i didn't like the movie. this wasn't expected from Kabir Khan who made Kabul Express. That movie was better made than New York. New York has a great storyline but suffers terribly from the performances. The director couldn't extract best from Neil Nitin considering his debut performance in Johnny Gaddaar. I wasn't impressed by the songs either as they were interrupting the flow of the movie.
openlight permalinkJuly 16, 2009 12:19 am
I have not watched the film and will not.
Reading the reviews, one thought strikes to mind, the difference in India and USA.
In USA "Freedom has to be protected, whatever the cost" and it also shows the way to achieve it, but in India we let the the bombers,murderers and muslim extremist off the hook as 'their' freedom needs to be protected for votebank politics sake as, they have the first right to be in India as per our remote-controlled PM.
Duty bound and courageous police officer is killed in encounter in delhi and muslim politician wants inquiry to set in but no word on 2 terrorists who escaped in the militant breeding jamia university.
Film highlighting such situation will not be made in India or by any director.
Vinit Bhatia permalinkAugust 22, 2009 6:10 pm
Just saw the movie yesterday. It was horrible! Pure propaganda! Most of it was not even true of how the USA treated suspects after 9/11. The depiction of the FBI was a big joke…not even close to reality! Most terrorist suspects after 9/11 were released unharmed and this sort of depiction in the movie simply DID NOT HAPPEN. Many of these interrogation techniques were used against sustpected terroists caught on the battlefields in Iran and AHGHANISTAN, but to depict that this happened in the USA against US ciizens is simply not true. I feel bad for andbody that was propagandized by this so called film. Its sad that movies like these are what "educate" Indians on what is going in the USA in their fight against terrorists.
September 6, 2009 4:52 pm
I'm going to review this movie myself as I just watched it on DVD. I didn't like the fact that terrorists here are portrayed as just "misled guys" who took to their violence because of the torture and detention by the American investigation agencies post 9/11.
I think a more balanced approach would have depicted the leader of the terrorists are ruthless killers manipulating misled youth into committing terrible crimes, not as soppy sentimental husbands who want to keep their "terrible secret" away from their families and loses the will to live soon after it is discovered. Bah…
Amar permalinkSeptember 13, 2009 2:10 pm
Just watched it. Waste of time. Bad script, bad acting, bad direction makes for a terrible
September 27, 2009 1:53 pm
hi my name is riddhi pandey i have seen NEW YORK. I THINK THAT IT IS A FANTASTIC MOVIE WHICH IS EVEN BASED ON THE 9/11. AGAIN I SAY THAT IT IS A OSSAM BLOOSAM MOVIE
October 6, 2009 2:45 am
I have been reading your blog for sometime now, but have not left a comment until now.
Sorry to nitpick. You mention "And if you have heard of Guantanamo Bay which President Obama closed down recently….". Actually, Obama has only signed an order to close down the Guantanamo Bay facility by end of Jan 2010. However, recent reports suggest that deadline is not feasible and may be extended.
Good review and overall I like your blog and several of your posts.
Thanks Ravi. Always great to hear from a lurker. Welcome and hope you keep reading. And thanks for the correction on Guantanamo Bay. Looks like Obama is a politician alright! – Nita
sara permalinkApril 17, 2012 9:25 am
is there any link to watch this online?


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On PlayStation 4, Cage says it will be possible to go past the 30,000 polygons of the characters in games like Beyond: Two Souls to highly realistic, real-time characters that are only possible on CGI movies currently. "We start to reach a point where you can see very subtle emotions on the face of the character... where you can see his soul just looking in his eyes... We are now only limited by our imagination."
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Media Molecule representative Alex Heavens came out to talk about using the Move controller to "create your dreams." According to Heavens, three-dimensional game creation tools haven't changed very much in recent years, thanks to what he called "the tyranny of the polygon." It takes way too long to make basic stuff with current tools, he said. "How can we scoop away the techy mess?"
The answer he came to, after two years of research, was the Move controller. He created a sculpting tool that lets the PlayStation 4 track every move you make to chip away at clay sculptures on the screen very quickly. With this, you "can put down your ideas as fast as you think of them," he said.


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A spokesperson for Sony Ericsson says that the company has no plans to build new Symbian-based smartphones. Much like Motorola, which restored its competitiveness by dropping Symbian and its own in-house Linux effort in favor of Android in 2008, Sony Ericsson appears to be committed to Google's mobile operating system.
This reflects the general trend of declining interest in Symbian among handset makers. The last major remaining ally of the Symbian platform in the smartphone market is Nokia, which recently launched new Symbian^3 products and intends to use the platform on budget midrange handsets as it transitions to Linux-based MeeGo for high-end smartphones. Sony Ericsson will remain a member of the Symbian Foundation, an organization that was founded to facilitate vendor-neutral collaboration around the platform. It's possible that Sony Ericsson could eventually start using Symbian again if the foundation succeeds in its efforts to modernize the platform.
As we explained in our recent coverage of Symbian^3 from NokiaWorld, the new version of the operating system ameliorates some of its legacy technical limitations by improving performance and multitasking, but doesn't offer a truly competitive user experience compared to Android and Apple's iOS. As usability and look and feel become more important to consumers, the flexibility of Android and its support for a richer graphical experience will continue driving its adoption among handset makers.
Sony Ericsson created an elaborate and visually distinctive user interface shell to differentiate its Android-based Xperia X10 from other competing smartphones. Although the device offers a moderately impressive user experience, it ships with an extremely outdated version of Android and hasn't been updated yet. It's expected to get a bump to Android 2.1 later this year, but it's not entirely clear yet when it will get Android 2.2.
Building a unique Android experience obviously comes with some trade-offs and poses challenges for keeping the phone up-to-date. These issues have hindered sales and prevented the product from achieving the popularity enjoyed by competing Android handsets from Motorola and HTC. Sony Ericsson needs to up its game if it wants to move ahead in the smartphone market. In a statement during the grand opening of the new Sony Ericsson headquarters, CEO Bert Nordberg hinted that we might see some "surprises" emerge over the next few months. This has prompted some speculation that Sony Ericsson is preparing to deliver a rumored Playstation-branded gaming smartphone powered by Android.
Such a product could help boost Android's profile among game developers and attract some bigger titles. It would also help Sony Ericsson deliver something unique that would stand apart from the growing number of Android handsets that are being brought to market by various handset makers.
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All right, so I had my hiatus while everyone was starting Mists of Pandaria, and then it was extended as I jumped into the fray and found myself completely awash in things to do. I mean, geez, there are ALL THE THINGS and only one of me!
September Wrap-Up: Caught Being Good
We didn't have a lot of response to the September Challenge; I'm hoping that's because of the MoP release and not because there are just so few people caught being good. Here are the ones we did have, though; I found them very encouraging! I'll add my own story, as well; I just had my own Caught Being Good experience a couple of days ago.
That Was An Accident! – After some encounters that left Mechalis feeling a little gunshy, there was a friendly–if very odd–mage that came along and managed to brighten the day.
Shards of Imagination – Rakuno shares an encounter in Lineage 2 that will stick with me for a while–when you play with people, sometimes it can't be just a game. It is personal to me.
The Daily Frostwolf – Navi busts out the super warm fuzzies with a shoutout to a bunch of the people who have made her happy for one reason or another along the way. I love it!
Pained from Dark Democracy Rocks, Period
My own Caught Being Good story happened a few days ago as I was doing Golden Lotus dailies in the Vale. I added NPCScan just out of curiosity a week ago, and it alerted me (it is completely unmistakable and will give you a heart attack if you aren't expecting it) that there was a rare below me. I went and found him, a Pandaren in a cave with over 4 million health.
I pulled him and promptly died because I forgot about the spell Pandaren cast at range (Chi Burst, hurts for a lot). I managed to rush back before anyone else showed up and try again. I got started, and about that time I saw a horde shadow priest named Pained show up. I died by not running quickly enough out of crane kick. I knew when I got back that the priest would likely be killing it. I'd help, because I just think it's a nice thing to do, but I was a little disappointed that I had let it slip away.
When I got back to my body, I was surprised to see the rare still sitting there in his cave. Pained stood outside, looking at him. I rezzed, healed up, and waited for a moment for the priest to pull, but it never came. So, cautiously, I approached the cave, realizing that I would have to pull him out into the open with a LoS this time.
Sure enough, I did that, and it worked. And then, to my surprise, I realized I no longer had aggro–Pained had the rare. In fact, Pained helped me through the entire fight, interrupting when my interrupts were down, ping ponging the aggro, and being repeatedly chased by Spinning Crane Kick until it was dead. When the encounter was over, Pained /bowed, mounted, and flew away–but not before I could get off a /hug.
I'm extremely appreciative, and even though my guild proceeded to call us Care Bears, well; I am A-Okay with that. These are the people and the moments I remember. Pained will always get a /salute or a /hug from me; this is the kind of people I want to share my server with, Care Bears or not.
Thank you, Pained, for being awesome.
October Challenge: Your Character's Costume
This one's easy (especially since I'm giving it to you with only a couple of weeks to go!): Halloween is right around the corner! Many games have in-game events for the holiday, but rarely do we get the chance to fully dress up in costume.
The challenge is this: If your character were going Trick or Treating in Azeroth, Tyria, or wherever they call home, what would their costume be? Tell me all about the what and the why, and if you can find a picture of it or something similar, please post that with it–I'd love to see!


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Oak Ridge girls race past Lady Devils
What a difference a little motivation can make. The Lady Wildcats led from start to finish Wednesday night behind their best start of the season to propel them to the District 3-AAA semifinals with a 45-34 win over Halls at Campbell County.
Oak Ridge (15-12) poured it on the Lady Devils early, getting a pair of big 3-pointers from Kendra Holmes and another by Whitney Mitchell to jump out to a 12-6 lead that only grew.
"Getting out to that fast start and being that aggressor, that's what I've been preaching," coach Kerra Jackson said. "That kind of got us going early and led us into transition, which really helped us early on."
The transition offense got going in the second quarter when Holmes slashed to the basket time and time again with nice passes from Mitchell. The two, who scored 40 of the team's 45 points, set each other up on the way to the basket to the tune of 26 first-half points.
"I think our mindset coming into the tournament has been completely different," coach Jackson said. "The seniors are definitely playing with more confidence and I think that has given our freshmen more confidence."
Holmes agreed about the turnaround.
"Before district we were tired and worn out," the senior guard said. "We just had to fight through it and play as a team."
Meanwhile, the team defense held Halls (12-14) to just three field goals in the first and third quarters and two in the second quarter.
Freshmen Taniya Smith and Caelyn Thompson created havoc in the front court for the Lady Devils guards, while Caitlyn Ledden came down with rebounds and Asia Anderson and Taylor Howe got into passing lanes.
"Everybody that went in did something for us," coach Jackonson said. "That's what I like to see. In the scoring column it would be nice to see everyone contribute, but a lot of people were doing the small things.
"Our defense was the difference. A lot of times they were struggling to even get a shot off. That's a credit to the kids that got in there and really got after it."
The win avenges the Lady Wildcats 31-38 loss to Halls just a week ago that, coupled with their loss to Powell, caused them to fall to the No. 4-seed and miss out on a first round bye.
Mitchel led all scorers with 21 points after her 20-point performance Monday against Karns. Holmes had 19. Kaitlyn Cantrell and Sarah Miller had eight to lead Halls.
The win also makes up for the Lady Wildcats performance a year ago when for first time in more than 30 years that they didn't make it into the Region 2-AAA tournament.
"That was a goal," said coach Jackson about the region berth. "I told them to be happy about it but don't be satisfied. We still have two games ahead of us (in the district), and we want to get that top seed coming out of the district."
To do that, Oak Ridge will return to action Saturday at 4:30 p.m. to take on No. 1-seed Anderson County. The Lady 'Cats were the only district team to defeat the Lady Mavericks this season.
"We can beat them," coach Jackson said. "We have quickness and I think it is hard for them to match up with our quickness sometimes. It really depends on the tempo of the game who will win."
Added Holmes, "If we bring the intensity like we had tonight, we will be able to beat them again."
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6 large yellow onions, cut in large dice
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Hi Chef John,
Thank you for another great receipe!
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Thank you..yumm. Now I know what I'm doing for lunch:)
Marie Antoinette: "Let them eat American French Onion soup"...
Looks good. I have made your original version of this soup in the past and it turns out very well, but I am tempted to try this, too.
YUM. My recipe is very similar to yours. The one thing - and it's so silly - is that I have the worst time with the bread. I toast it and put it in but it always winds up sinking into the container. Perhaps too much cheese? I dunno.
I love your blog.
I love your videos.
Definitely trying the onion soup, American style!
oh my... i can even TASTE it from this video!!! It's THAT delicious looking!!! I must try this one! :-)
Hi Chef John,
This isn't a comment on your recipe, its on your website. The past few weeks your videos pause every twenty seconds or so, for about five seconds. I have no problems with other sites, and I even tried watching your videos from work, which has a super fast connection. I've concluded your popularity has surpassed your sites bandwidth. A good problem!
I noticed today that I'm not watching complete videos because it is annoying to have the interruption of the video stopping. So this problem could impact your business, because us websurfers are a fickle bunch.
Hope you get the bandwidth and speedy server you deserve.
My oldest daughter and I made this tonight; it was absolutely delicious. Looking forward to enjoying it agian in the near future.
Hey, fickle web surfer, you want a refund? LOL, BTW, the videos play without pausing, and your conclusion doesn't hold dirty dish water.
A slowcooker is another lazy man's way to both sweat and caramelize those onions.
Anonymous...the videos are hosted on YouTube. So the issues you are experiencing are due to their site speed, not FoodWishes'. Try starting the video, then after a second, pausing and letting it pre-load for about 5 minutes before you watch it.
Chef John,
I have an ingredient question. In your beef stock recipe, you add tomato paste. In your recent chicken broth recipe, you add ketchup. And in your older chicken stock recipe, you add neither. What's the deal with the tomato products and when/what should we use for making stock/broth?
It's about time some bold American took onion soup away from those cheese-eating surrender monkeys! Should we call it "Freedom Onion Soup" now?
Vidalia onions are coming into season. They're much sweeter than yellow onions and caramelize beautifully. Perfect for onion soup.
For deglazing I like to use Bourbon whiskey instead of sherry. One shot for the onions and two for the chef.
Because if I've learned anything at all from Food Wishes, it's that I'm the boss of my own questionable life decisions.
Thanks, Chef John!
As always, it looks and should taste great.
I have to admit I'm a bit suspicious of the diced vs. Frenched thing since I think part of the charm of French onion soup is the stringy onion bits, but that's probably just me. I'll definitely give it a try.
One variation: I like making my FOS with Maui-style onions, which I think I picked up from a Ming Tsai recipe back when Food Network was actually about food. They're a bit sweeter than regular yellow onions.
I've also done it with Texas 1015s, so there is definitely room for variation.
The combination of ingredients is simply perfect! I'm hungry now!
Thanks for sharing. I love french soups, especially with onion. Greetings from Polnad. I'll be back soon.
steven, there is no system. i just use what i feel like depending on the use.
I think you may have improved a French classic! I've always disliked the long onion strands as well. (Funny how you get so used to doing something one way that even slicing the onions differently seems revolutionalry :) The recipe looks wonderful and we'll definitely be having it soon (maybe even tomorrow, as they're predicting snow in Montreal!). The only change I'll make is adding a lot more red wine :) Thanks for another great recipe!
Can I make this a British American French onion soup by enjoying it with a cup of tea?
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It's morel season in "my" woods so a new morel recipe would be such fun!!
Thanks in advance,
I like how you included beef and chicken broth. I've been drinking beef broth and loving it. I like how you also include a little bit of dry sherry wine to give it a unique flavor.
Don't you think about doing any activism, using your fame to bring awerness about any of the many problems we have in this world? Thanks.
Made this yesterday for dinner, boy was it good! I have to admit I added some soy sauce and onion powder and Worcestershire to beef up the seasoning, the salt and pepper didn't quite do it. But my family just loved it and I will be making this again and again.
Any particular reason I couldn't brown the onions in the oven in my dutch oven? Then I wouldn't have to do the transfer from pan to pot
Hi Chef John,
I've made this soup before with great success. It's a fantastic recipe, I love french onion soup.... it's just I usually strain out the onion because I have textual issues with onion floating in my soup. I have recently had some success hiding diced onion in various dishes and I was wondering (I know you can't provide me a definitive answer) if you could provide your best guess of what might become of the flavour of the soup if I used a fine dice instead of large chunks of onion (for the purpose of actually eating the onion and not having to strain it out). While I will probably wind up trying it all the same, I
thank you in advance for a educated guess.
All the best,
-A Very Strange Fan of Your Site.
It will probably taste just about the same! Enjoy!
Wow that Onion Soup looks great and I love it. I've never made it by browning the onions in the oven. And I was sure when I cooked at the Brown Derby ( Pennsylvania Restaurant ). It's been a while and I want to say provolone and mozzarella mix. I just found you yesterday looking for a lasagna recipe. I would love to bring you home with me. Are you married? :)~~~
It looks great. I'm going to get the ingredients minus the sherry, vinegar and cheese. I've only ever made it with the crouton like you did with mozzarella and provolone mix if my memory serves me correctly. I will try your cheese combo. I found you yesterday looking for a lasagna recipe and it looks yummy. I ordered the dish yesterday after I watched the video. I am in Pennsylvania so if you live close to me. I will make it and you can come have dinner with me. We can make our own desert. You know like canoli's or however you spell that word. I also noticed reading what you say about the Snuggle blanket. My nickname at the gaming sites I use is xXxSnugglesxXx. Have a great day, afternoon, evening wherever you live. :)~~~
This worked wonderfully! I have struggled with French onion soup, I simply didn't want to "surrender" to the time needed with most recipes, this one worked first time brilliantly!
This worked perfectly first time! I have struggled with French onion soup and simply did not want to "surrender". Chef John you've done it again. You made the complex "doable" and fun. Thanks.
Three mistakes. #1)caramelize the onions in your pot and skip the skillet(I use a 5-qt. LeCreuset dutch oven) and brown the onions a bit more. #2)Toast slices from a good baguette and rub each crouton on each side with a raw garlic clove. #3)Gruyere is the only cheese to use on this dish. Also, use some decent crockery to present the dish. Those souffle dishes don't have the same ambience. Other than that, good recipe.
I made this soup and followed every step to the letter and it was fantastic! Not only because of taste, but the changes you made prevented the inevitable onion soup heartburn I have always suffered.
Thank you from the bottom of my un-burning heart!
I love this recipe, I've made it a bunch of time... Lots of compliments!
I tried doing the whole thing from start to finish in a Dutch Oven. It works great, and saves a bunch of time! I think the onions even brown faster.
Just spreading the joy, one lazy American to another.
Would this freeze well? I'd like to double it and freeze in smaller portions. It's a little time consuming, but I love onion soup!
In my monthly menu, I have been doing a lot of Italian and Mexican, so I thought it was time to put some French recipes in there, too. So, for my month of French, I'm making this. Wow! It's only an hour in and it's already wonderful. I made a couple of changes. I didn't have sherry vinegar, so I substituted balsamic. I had leftover turkey stock, used that instead of chicken. I also added shallots in oil to the butter, and of course, I had to add a little Pensey's Sunny Paris herb mix. It's perfect, I mean absolutely perfect! Thank you!


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