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require 'rails_helper'
require 'rspec/mocks'

describe "Dataset Items" do

  create_entire_hierarchy

  let(:dataset_item_attributes) {
    FactoryGirl.attributes_for(:dataset_item, {audio_recording_id: audio_recording.id})
  }

  let(:update_dataset_item_attributes) {
    {end_time_seconds: (dataset_item.end_time_seconds + 5) }
  }

  before(:each) do
    @env ||= {}
    @env['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = admin_token

    @create_dataset_item_url = "/datasets/#{dataset.id}/items"
    @update_dataset_item_url = "/datasets/#{dataset_item.dataset_id}/items/#{dataset_item.id}"
  end

  describe 'Creating a dataset item' do

    it 'does not allow text/plain content-type' do
      @env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = "text/plain"
      params = {dataset_item: dataset_item_attributes}.to_json
      post @create_dataset_item_url, params, @env
      expect(response).to have_http_status(415)
    end

    it 'does not allow application/x-www-form-urlencoded content-type with json data' do
      # use default form content type
      params = {dataset_item: dataset_item_attributes}.to_json
      post @create_dataset_item_url, params, @env
      expect(response).to have_http_status(415)
    end

    it 'allows application/json content-type with json data' do
      @env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = "application/json"
      params = {dataset_item: dataset_item_attributes}.to_json
      post @create_dataset_item_url, params, @env
      expect(response).to have_http_status(201)
    end

    it 'allows application/json content-type with unnested json data' do
      @env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = "application/json"
      params = dataset_item_attributes.to_json
      post @create_dataset_item_url, params, @env
      expect(response).to have_http_status(201)
    end

    # can't catch json content with multipart/form-data content type
    # because the middleware errors when trying to parse it

    it 'does not allow empty body (nil, json)' do
      @env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = "application/json"
      params = nil
      post @create_dataset_item_url, params, @env
      expect(response).to have_http_status(400)
      parsed_response = JSON.parse(response.body)
      expect(parsed_response['meta']['error']['links']).to eq({"New Resource"=>"/datasets/2/items/new"})
    end

    it 'does not allow empty body (empty string, json)' do
      @env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = "application/json"
      params = ""
      post @create_dataset_item_url, params, @env
      expect(response).to have_http_status(400)
      expect(response.content_type).to eq "application/json"
      parsed_response = JSON.parse(response.body)
      expect(parsed_response['meta']['error']['links']).to eq({"New Resource"=>"/datasets/2/items/new"})
    end

  end

  describe 'Updating a dataset item' do

    it 'does not allow text/plain content-type' do
      @env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = "text/plain"
      params = {dataset_item: update_dataset_item_attributes}.to_json

      put @update_dataset_item_url, params, @env
      expect(response).to have_http_status(415)
    end

    it 'does not allow application/x-www-form-urlencoded with json body' do
      # use default form content type
      params = {dataset_item: update_dataset_item_attributes}.to_json

      put @update_dataset_item_url, params, @env
      expect(response).to have_http_status(415)
    end

    it 'allows application/json content-type with json body' do
      @env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = "application/json"
      params = {dataset_item: update_dataset_item_attributes}.to_json

      put @update_dataset_item_url, params, @env
      expect(response).to have_http_status(200)
    end

    it 'does not allow empty body (nil, json)' do
      @env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = "application/json"
      params = nil
      put @update_dataset_item_url, params, @env
      expect(response).to have_http_status(400)
      parsed_response = JSON.parse(response.body)
      expect(parsed_response['meta']['error']['links']).to eq({"New Resource"=>"/datasets/2/items/new"})
    end

    it 'does not allow empty body (empty string, json)' do
      @env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = "application/json"
      params = ""
      put @update_dataset_item_url, params, @env
      expect(response).to have_http_status(400)
      expect(response.content_type).to eq "application/json"
      parsed_response = JSON.parse(response.body)
      expect(parsed_response['meta']['error']['links']).to eq({"New Resource"=>"/datasets/2/items/new"})
    end

  end

  describe "filter" do

    it 'does not allow arbitrary string in sort column' do

      @env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = "application/json"
      params = {
          sorting: {
              order_by: "; select * from projects",
              direction: "desc"
          }
      }.to_json

      post "/dataset_items/filter", params, @env
      expect(response).to have_http_status(400)

    end

  end

  describe "list next for me" do

    # filters sorts and pages an array of dataset items
    # to mirror what should be returned by the api, so that it can be compared
    # @param items, array of created dataset items
    # @user User object. The sort order is dependent on the user
    # @page int which page to get
    # @limit int how many items per page
    def filter_and_sort_for_comparison (items, user, page = nil, limit = nil)

      # if limit is not supplied, default is 25
      limit = limit || 25
      page = page || 1

      # filter only dataset items with the right dataset id
      filtered = items.select { |item| item[:dataset_item][:dataset_id] == dataset.id }

      # sort by number of views, number of own views, id
      sorted = filtered.sort_by { |item| [
          # number of progress events of type "viewed"
          (item[:progress_events].select { |progress_event| progress_event.activity == "viewed"}).size,
          # number of progress events of type "viewed" created by the user
          (item[:progress_events].select { |progress_event|
            progress_event.activity == "viewed" && progress_event.creator_id == user.id
          }).size,
          # order
          item[:dataset_item][:order],
          # dataset item id
          item[:dataset_item][:id]
      ] }

      # get the ids in the order we expect them back
      sorted_ids = sorted.map { |item| item[:dataset_item][:id]}

      from_index = (page - 1) * limit
      to_index = from_index + limit - 1

      from_index = [from_index, sorted_ids.count].min
      to_index = [to_index, sorted_ids.count].min
      sorted_ids = sorted_ids[from_index..to_index]

      sorted_ids

    end

    before(:each) do
      @env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = "application/json"
      @dataset_item_filter_url = "/datasets/#{dataset_item.dataset_id}/dataset_items/filter"
      @dataset_item_next_for_me_url = "/datasets/#{dataset_item.dataset_id}/dataset_items/next_for_me"
    end

    # creates 12 dataset items. Every 3rd dataset item has a progress event created by the writer user
    # and every 2nd has a progress event created by the reader user.
    # Half the items are with one audio_recording and the other half with another (alternating between them)
    # Resulting in dataset items 2,4,6,8,10,12 viewed by reader and
    # 3,6,9,12 viewed by writer, and 6,12 viewed by both and 1,5,7,11 not viewed
    # Adding these to the 1 dataset item already created in the create_entire_hierarchy, which
    # has a progress event, there are 13 dataset items, 4 of which are not viewed
    let(:many_dataset_items_some_with_events) {

      # start with the 2 dataset items created in the entire hierarchy
      results = [
          {dataset_item: dataset_item, progress_events: [progress_event_for_no_access_user]},
          {dataset_item: default_dataset_item, progress_events: [progress_event]}
      ]

      # create a progress event for the writer user on every 3rd dataset item
      # and a progress event for the reader user on every 2nd dataset item.
      # some dataset items will have no progress events, some by writer only, some by
      # reader only and some by both
      progress_event_creators = [
          {creator: writer_user, view_every: 3},
          {creator: reader_user, view_every: 2},
      ]

      # make more than 25 to test paging
      num_dataset_items = 32

      # create another audio recording so we can make sure the order is not affected by the audio recording id
      another_audio_recording = FactoryGirl.create(
          :audio_recording,
          :status_ready,
          creator: writer_user,
          uploader: writer_user,
          site: site,
          sample_rate_hertz: 22050)

      audio_recordings = [audio_recording, another_audio_recording]

      # random number generator with seed
      my_rand = Random.new(99)

      # create the dataset items one at a time
      for d in 1..num_dataset_items do

        # create a dataset item with alternating audio recording id
        # So that we can test the audio recording does not affect the order
        dataset_item = FactoryGirl.create(:dataset_item,
                                          creator: admin_user,
                                          dataset: dataset,
                                          audio_recording: audio_recordings[d % 2],
                                          start_time_seconds: d,
                                          end_time_seconds: d+10,
                                          order: my_rand.rand * 10)
        dataset_item.save!

        current_data = {dataset_item: dataset_item, progress_events: [], progress_event_count: 0 }

        # for this dataset item, add a progress even for zero or more of the users
        # If this dataset item is the nth created, add progress events for those users
        # who's view_every value is a factor of n.
        for c in progress_event_creators do
          progress_event = nil
          if d % c[:view_every] == 0
            progress_event = FactoryGirl.create(
                :progress_event,
                creator: c[:creator],
                dataset_item: dataset_item,
                activity: "viewed",
                created_at: "2017-01-01 12:34:56")

            current_data[:progress_events].push(progress_event)
          end
        end

        results.push(current_data)
      end

      results

    }

    let(:raw_post) {
      {
          sorting: {
              order_by: :priority
          }
      }.to_json
    }

    it 'gets all dataset items' do

      many_dataset_items_some_with_events
      post @dataset_item_filter_url, raw_post, @env
      parsed_response = JSON.parse(response.body)
      expect(response).to have_http_status(200)

    end

    it 'orders dataset items by least viewed first (admin user)' do

      # create an array that has the stuff from create_entire_hierarchy as well as the stuff created above
      all_dataset_items =  many_dataset_items_some_with_events
      sorted_ids = filter_and_sort_for_comparison(all_dataset_items, admin_user, 1, 25)
      get @dataset_item_next_for_me_url, nil, @env
      parsed_response = JSON.parse(response.body)
      expect(response).to have_http_status(200)
      ids = parsed_response["data"].map { |item| item["id"] }
      expect(ids).to eq(sorted_ids)

    end

    it 'orders dataset items by least viewed first (writer user)' do

      @env['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = writer_token

      # create an array that has the stuff from create_entire_hierarchy as well as the stuff created above
      all_dataset_items =  many_dataset_items_some_with_events
      sorted_ids = filter_and_sort_for_comparison(all_dataset_items, writer_user, 1, 25)
      get @dataset_item_next_for_me_url, nil, @env
      parsed_response = JSON.parse(response.body)
      expect(response).to have_http_status(200)
      ids = parsed_response["data"].map { |item| item["id"] }
      expect(ids).to eq(sorted_ids)

    end

    it 'orders dataset items by least viewed first (reader user)' do

      @env['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = reader_token

      # create an array that has the stuff from create_entire_hierarchy as well as the stuff created above
      all_dataset_items =  many_dataset_items_some_with_events
      sorted_ids = filter_and_sort_for_comparison(all_dataset_items, reader_user, 1, 25)
      get @dataset_item_next_for_me_url, nil, @env
      parsed_response = JSON.parse(response.body)
      expect(response).to have_http_status(200)
      ids = parsed_response["data"].map { |item| item["id"] }
      expect(ids).to eq(sorted_ids)

    end

    describe "batch check paging" do

      # for each user, check different combinations of page number and limit/items
      # to make sure that the correct items are returned for that user, and that the paging
      # metadata is also correct

      let (:user_tokens) { [admin_token, writer_token, reader_token] }
      let (:users) { [admin_user, writer_user, reader_user] }
      users_description = ['admin', 'writer', 'reader']
      pages = [1, 20, nil]
      limits = [1, 7, 40, nil]

      combos = (0..(users_description.length-1)).to_a
                   .product(pages, limits).map { |c| { u: c[0], page: c[1], limit: c[2] } }

      combos.each do | combo |

        u = combo[:u]
        page = combo[:page]
        limit = combo[:limit]

        it "orders items correctly for #{users_description[u]} page #{page} limit #{limit} " do

          @env['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = user_tokens[u]

          # create an array that has the stuff from create_entire_hierarchy as well as the stuff created above
          # this runs on every iteration ... so it's slow!
          all_dataset_items =  many_dataset_items_some_with_events
          sorted_ids = filter_and_sort_for_comparison(all_dataset_items, users[u], page, limit)
          qsp = {}
          qsp[:page] = page if page
          qsp[:items] = limit if limit
          get @dataset_item_next_for_me_url, qsp, @env
          parsed_response = JSON.parse(response.body)

          expect(response).to have_http_status(200)
          ids = parsed_response["data"].map { |item| item["id"] }
          expect(ids).to eq(sorted_ids)

          expected_page = page ? page : 1
          expected_items = limit ? limit : 25
          # all items this user should see, but with no limit
          expected_total = filter_and_sort_for_comparison(all_dataset_items, users[u], 1, 10000).count
          expected_max_page = (expected_total.to_f / expected_items).ceil

          paging_response = parsed_response.dig('meta', 'paging')

          expect(paging_response).to be_a(Hash)

          if paging_response
            paging_numbers = paging_response.slice('page', 'items', 'total', 'max_page').symbolize_keys
            expected_paging_numbers = { page: expected_page, items: expected_items, total: expected_total, max_page: expected_max_page }
            paging_numbers.should == expected_paging_numbers

            # next, previous and current pages are limited to between 1 and max_page (inclusive)
            # if next or previous ends up being the same as current after this limiting, it is not included
            if expected_page < expected_max_page
              expect(paging_response['next']).to be_a(String)
            else
              expect(paging_response['next']).to be(nil)
            end

            # if expected_page were > expected_max_page, the link to current and previous
            # would both be a link to the max page, so prev would not be included
            if expected_page > 1 && expected_page <= expected_max_page
              expect(paging_response['previous']).to be_a(String)
            else
              expect(paging_response['previous']).to be(nil)
            end

          end

        end
      end
    end
  end
end


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Kennedy added a number of other developments, including Falvey Linen whose $7 million facility has yielded 100 jobs, the solar energy project at Smith & Wesson, the redevelopment of apartments in the North End neighborhood and the reinvention of professional hockey in the region with The Thunderbirds. The new Balise Hyundai dealership represents a $7.5 million investment and created 80 new jobs.
The work on the Interstate 91 viaduct is five to six months ahead of schedule, Kennedy said. He added "if the winter is reasonable," the renovation of the span could be finished in 2017.
Other improvements since 2014 include the renovation of downtown apartments into Silverbrick Lofts, the creations of Make It Springfield, the construction of the Innovation Center to be completed in February and a Department of Housing and Urban Development loan fund to assist in the rebuilding of a dining district. Super Brush undertook a $3 million expansion.
Currently under construction is the Springfield Technical Community College's Student Learning Center, which is a $50 million project that should be completed in 2018.
Also completed in 2018 will be 60 new rental units at the former Indian Motocycle Building in Mason Square, a project that includes the redevelopment of the closed fire station there.
Kennedy included the controversial Palmer Renewable Energy project in the mix, saying it would yield 60 full time jobs when completed and "millions in taxes" to the city.
Kennedy also noted the creation of the Central Cultural District, whose components such as the Springfield Museums, the Springfield Symphony and CityStage among others bring in 2.7 million people annually and $37 million in revenue.
For 2017, Kennedy said the city is looking for a sponsor for a regional bicycle-sharing program. "Wayfinding" signs to make the downtown more walkable should be installed in the fall of 2017. In about three weeks, the design will be unveiled, he added, for the design of a 9/11 Memorial in Riverfront Park. The new Dr. Seuss Museum is slated to open in 2017. The Raymond Jordan Senior Center in Blunt Park is scheduled to open in 2017.
In January 2018, the commuter rail service developed by the state of Connecticut will link Springfield with Hartford and New Haven, CT, Kennedy said, providing more rail options. The Basketball Hall of Fame will undertake a $20 million renovation also in 2018. The Pioneer Valley Transit Authority is planning to building a $55.7 million operational facility on Cottage Street in 2018. Pope Francis High School is expected to open in 2018.
Among the opportunities for development include the 31 Elm St. building at Court Square that MGM Springfield is looking at for the location of some of the market-rate apartments it must build, Kennedy said. He added the historic paramount Theater is in "the early stages" of a planned renovation and a study is underway about the Civic Center garage.
The developments are not limited to the city's downtown, Kennedy noted. He spoke of the reconstruction of Central Street in the Maple High Six Corners neighborhood, which he believes will begin in the fall of 2017. Also in that neighborhood is a redesign of the rotary at Six Corners, he added.
Forest Park is will also be redesigned as will the Roosevelt Avenue - Island Pond Road intersection.
With all of these developments, Kennedy said, "The tax base is growing."
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The Life Elysian, Chapter 7
January 2, 2016 ~ Patricia
Chapter VII: The Gate of Hell
Zecartus is largely engaged with such contentious individuals as this companion of my father's, being possessed of a quick and clear insight, with a remarkable gift for tracing sequences. This man considered himself to be the victim of an injustice, and it was necessary to point out his error, so as to make him understand and acknowledge that his present condition was simply the natural result of his previous career, the penalty for which had to be discharged 'to the utmost farthing' before assistance and freedom could be secured.
I would point out – and have it always remembered – how perfectly the immortal life is provided with competent ministers to deal with every possible necessity that can arise. The law framed and the order established by God are fully able to supply every conceivable need, and carry to complete perfection the great paternal design which will have all men to be saved. The full and just penalty for sin must be paid – the last fragment of its harvest must inevitably be gleaned, but after that the heart of every son and daughter will turn homeward, and wherever the first repentant thought is born it must needs find a spiritual nurse waiting to deliver and minister to its well-being.
Well might the Psalmist ask, – Whither shall I flee from Thy presence? . . . If I make my bed in hell, behold Thou art there!"
Thus the rainbow of infinite love sweeps the everlasting span of life – earth, hell, and Heaven – and is everywhere inscribed with the consoling legend, 'God is good!'
My previous visits to earth in company with Cushna now enabled me to make some interesting observations concerning the relationship of the two sides of life, while Zecartus was engaged with my father's spiritual counterpart. The most significant fact I ascertained was that though I was standing in my old home it was voided of all interest or attraction for me, and the light of it was scarcely more than a softening of darkness. This latter condition denoted the true spiritual barometric reading of the place: God is light, and nearness to or distance from Him is automatically registered in light or shade. Still, though light failed, I cannot say the same of life, for phantom-like forms moved on every side.
"Who are these who make up this apparently aimless and reckless host?" I inquired as we left.
"Earth-bound souls, each seeking to gratify the particular vicious and evil passion by which it is enslaved," he replied. "The study of their painful employments would be helpful to you after what we have just seen, if you would care to undertake it."
"I should indeed, if the opportunity affords."
"That can easily be arranged," he replied, "but you must do it under the guidance of someone engaged in the ministry going on here, who will be far better qualified to instruct you than I am."
As he spoke he dispatched a thought-flash, which was almost instantly answered by the arrival of the leader of one of the bands of workers near at hand.
"My brother, Ladas," said Zecartus, introducing me. "Aphraar desires to know something of your mission; may I commend him to your discretion?"
"I cannot introduce you to the pleasures of Paradise, but it is possible you may see something of its joy," he answered. "Our work lies more in the shadow than the light, but it will show you much of the law and love of God."
"I wish to learn the law; I have already seen something of the pleasure." I replied.
"Ladas is well able to instruct you as you wish," said Zecartus; "I will entrust you for the present to his care, and take my leave."
With this he left us, and in charge of my new cicerone I was at once so placed in harmony with my present environment as to enable me to approach nearer to those with whom circumstances were about to bring me in contact, and the better establish communication with them if needed.
"You will already understand the principle regulating all divisions." he began – "every man to his own place, and no barrier or restriction but that erected by character?"
"Yes, I am familiar with that."
"Then you may regard the sphere of our operations as being the earthbound condition, by which I mean the temporary prison-house of those whose vicious passions and depraved natures still hold them in bondage to the earth and lead them to haunt the former resorts of their sin in the false hope of gratifying their evil desires, while every attempt they make recoils with its legitimate degree of punishment."
"Do you wish me to understand that they are still able to exercise an active influence upon men?"
"I do; and such influence – given favourable conditions for operation – is one of the least understood but most potent agencies for evil men have to encounter."
"May I ask what these conditions are?"
"They are two, of which the first and essential one is moral weakness or indecision in the individual tempted. In the presence of well-developed and resolute rectitude these spiritual brigands are utterly powerless. Evil in every form must flee from the man who is bold to resist it, since evil and weakness are synonymous, having no real power in themselves, but possessing a fatal ability to use such as they may succeed in borrowing. The first move downwards is always strategic, then, if an outpost be carried, the captured force is at once utilized in further operations, or in other words, its second condition is to inveigle the tempted one into the charmed circle of its deadly influence."
"I am not quite sure that I understand you."
"I know it, but I require your most careful attention, and secure it by first stating my proposition vaguely. Now that you are doubly eager to follow me I will make my meaning plain. The association of certain places with particular vocations is too well and universally recognized to need more than mention. The student will work with greater ease and effect in his study, seated in a given chair, occupying an accustomed position. Why? Because the room has become saturated with the spirit of his labours, and that chair occupies the centre of the radiation of past researches. From that point everything around him has been saturated with his mental creations, and in his accustomed place the spirit of the past mingles with present effort and produces inspiration. A place set apart soon begins to breathe the atmosphere of its association, and the strength increases by use until it is easy to understand, for instance, how complacently one
'may smile at Satan's rage
And face a frowning world'
when standing in a place which hallowed associations proclaim to be a house of God – a very gate of Heaven. There angels gather round and
'In the secret of His presence, there is rest-sweet rest.'
Now if this principle of sympathetic saturation be applied all the way round, it may be readily conceived how temptations to sin derive peculiar force through the agency of the place in which they are presented."
"This is a new doctrine indeed," I replied.
"It should and would not be if men would consider the plain teaching of the Christ with the same interest they give to commercial matters."
"Because Christ taught this great and important truth as clearly as any other single point in His ministry, when He spoke of the unclean spirit driven out of a man wandering in search of rest but finding none. You remember how he returned to find his old abode swept and garnished, but secured the assistance of seven more wicked than himself to carry the position, and all dwelt there, making the last end of the man worse than the first."
"How strange that I have never associated that before!"
"It is iniquitous that men should continue to be so wilfully blind, until they come here and the awful truth is practically forced upon them. Then they wonder that no provision is made for their escape from the consequences of their own neglect, and rave at the injustice of sins of omission being treated as equal to those of commission."
"Oh, the terrible responsibility of life!" I rather reflected than expressed, but the effect was the same, for Ladas heard it distinctly.
"The failure to recognize and act upon the spiritual importance of it is perhaps one of the most remarkable and indefensible follies of the human race," he replied. "As a commercial asset, life in its physical phase is one of supreme value; even its adjuncts, accessories, and parts are matters for which armies and navies are brought into existence to defend; in its spiritual aspect the value is practically nil; yet the former is evanescent, the latter abiding; the one vanishing even as we dreamed it away, the other eternal as God Himself. And the men who thus frolic with the shadow, while they neglect the substance, call themselves wise. We will visit some of them, that you may see what they are after the shadow is lost, and the plea of ignorance has received its just consideration.
"Is the earth-bound condition, then, another name for hell?" I inquired.
"No! It is in a double sense only the gate – the vestibule of hell. In the earthbound conditions are received actively vicious and openly rebellious souls who, having deceived themselves and being bound to earth by reason of their slavery to sin, thirst for and determine to have revenge upon their fellows; hence their cup of iniquity is not yet full, and in the violence of their passion they elect to continue their evil course in seeking to effect the downfall of others."
"And are they allowed to do so?"
"Yes, every individual is free to do as he wills in that respect. We have no barriers of restraint, though all are continually and faithfully reminded of the consequences of their action, and a ceaseless watch is kept for the first sign of weariness in their futile course. Then, when the measure of their sin is known, they pass from hence to the real punishment of hell."
"Then they do not actually endure suffering here?"
"Most mercifully they do, or vague indeed would be the hope of their reclamation! Every soul as it drops the flesh finds itself possessed of a spiritual body which is the true essence of the life producing it, and is only adapted to existence in similar conditions to that which called it into being. As in the physical state fish prefer water and birds the air, so here every soul gravitates to its own place by virtue of adaptation. Here, however, lies the one awful fact we must ever keep in mind or we shall misunderstand everything: each individual soul on entering this life is strung to the same exquisite delicacy of sensation; the brightest saint and the vilest sinner are thus equally sensitive to the pleasure or torment of the position they have deliberately qualified for. In this provision is manifest the perfect justice of God. So long as these rebellious souls remain here and unrepentant, every act of sin brings about its own immediate punishment, until the futility of their course works towards repentance through despair, at the first sign of which we intervene and the prodigal is carried away to commence the discharge of the debt it has incurred in the remedial punishment of hell."
"Then the actual penalty of hell does not begin here?" I gasped in amazement.
"How can it possibly do so?" he replied. "The liabilities incurred cannot be ascertained until the arms of rebellion are laid down; and God exacts strict justice, nothing more. Let me assist you by pointing out the difference between the punishment endured here and that of hell, then you will the better understand what it is I mean. It is possible that the punishment of the present may be equal to that the soul will there experience, but this is simply an effect immediately resulting from an act at the instant of its performance, that cause and effect may be clearly traced, and the mad career stopped. In the true hell a man is brought face to face with the full account which stands against him, and he is called upon for payment of both principal and interest. Whatsoever he has sown he has there to reap, and the identical sin he is in process of discharging remains visible before his eyes until it is blotted out in his payment of it. That is the difference between this condition and hell."
"But what of all those who come over neither good nor wholly bad, and those who repent in death?"
"They all go to their own place. Let me suggest a crude illustration which will help you to understand this – the legend of Mahomet's coffin. If you will increase the number of coffins indefinitely and consider Heaven and Hell to be the two magnets acting with greater or less force upon each coffin – some for the moment drawn down, others lifted up, according to varying degrees of sympathy, you may conceive what I mean by a man's own place. But you will need to introduce a new feature if the analogy is to hold throughout."
"Whatever may be the first attractive effects, they cannot remain static, since the law of spiritual evolution demands that the lower force must ever grow less and the higher increase, until all that are in suspense are drawn into abiding rest around the one Eternal Magnet. But come and see what this condition has to show you."
Thereupon I started upon a tour of revelation horrible, indescribable, and of such exquisite torture that language has neither strength nor colour to depict it – a veritable chaos of sin seething in a cosmos of overruling law.
Every scene and group I beheld was one of wild, lawless, fiendish passion, a foaming cauldron of iniquity, in which the foulest souls appeared to be tossed uppermost, and maddened vampires fought with frantic energy to reach and drag others into their awful, yet not destroying, agony.
I trembled even for my own safety as I watched the scene, but Ladas assured me of this by pointing out how the influence of every group was circumscribed to the spot which held it spellbound. Beyond these limits outside the struggling, fighting fringe of those who in the riot had been pitched from the centre to the circumference and clamoured to get back – all was order and quiet, where a host of waiting messengers stood ready to answer any genuine cry for assistance.
Nor were my observations limited to where I stood, but through the porch of death I saw the other side as well; saw victim after victim enticed within the fascinating circle over which the different groups exerted unseen and unsuspected, but all the more deadly, influence. Some wavered in doubtful uncertainty before they timorously yielded; some came curiously forward, careless and already half-inclined to try their luck in the speculative uncertainty; others seemed ashamed and anxious not to be seen and recognized; while still more were boldly confident they were able to take the plunge and come back enriched, unharmed. I heard the shout which from our side greeted each newcomer, a shout his ears were too heavy to hear, though he felt the force of the tempting influence which went forth with it, also the sting of conscience which smote him as the howl of success told of the punishment of his tempters.
Passion on earth makes men insensible to pain. Not so with us, it makes the agony more acute; but such was the fury of the sin I saw that it grew defiant even as the soul quivered in its supreme suffering, and fought to reach even more daring exploits. Hungry, wolfish eyes glared with determination to destroy; greedy, trembling, twitching hands reached riotously out, impatient to drag down the irresolute, though every soul well knew the greater scourge would fall upon himself should he succeed.
No, no! This is no poetic rhapsody, but a true, if imperfect and incoherent, memory of an awful experience which God in His mercy granted to me that I may speak of it and shout its warning to the sons of men. The fire of a Dante's fervid imagination would be as an iceberg compared with what my eyes beheld in living exposition of the truths Ladas had previously expounded, and in confirmation of the neglected assurance that 'the way of transgressors is hard.'
"Is there no possible way by which amelioration can be brought to such overwrought agony?" I inquired as my conductor led me away from the scene of such excruciating torture.
"None! If any assistance could be of service I could summon a thousand helpers for every suffering soul in want of it. But what could such ministers do? See the number who are already waiting to fulfil the office – hundreds waiting where only units are required, and always at hand before the call for aid goes forth. All that can be provided is as eagerly quivering to rescue as those we wait to assist are impatient to destroy. Fortunately such punishment is too fierce to be protracted except in very rare cases. Pain, like toil, naturally conduces to weariness, and when the fever of revenge and passion has run its course these spiritual prodigals come to their right minds, learn what has happened to them, accept the inevitable, and cease their useless warfare."
"What do you mean by learning what has happened to them?"
"Ah, that is an explanation I must make before you can truly understand what you have seen. It might have been well had I made it earlier, but it comes quite naturally now, and will make an aftergleam of useful service. What I mean is that most of these unfortunates wake up here without any idea of what has happened."
"Without a consciousness of death?" I queried incredulously.
"Yes! Without the shadow of a suspicion of it."
"Is that possible?"
"Not only possible, but under the circumstances it almost becomes natural that it should be so."
"Will you explain how?"
"Recall the nebulous confusion and ignorance existing on the other side concerning death: the idea that it is possible for a man to step redhanded from the gallows close to the throne, by accepting a belief; that the moment after death a newly-born child becomes perfected in all knowledge; that a death-bed conversion transforms the vilest soul into a spotless saint; the doubt as to whether the soul will or will not sleep till the day of judgement, when it will reenter its physical body and be caught up into the air to be for ever with the Lord. Concerning the wicked equally contradictory and irreconcilable opinions are held; they are at once consigned to the custody of the devil and his angels, who torture them in the fires of hell, from which there is no hope of escape; while, at the final judgement, they are to be brought before the Christ to be judged as to whether they are really guilty or not. Now, when these ideas are accepted, and have the sanction of constituted authority before death, why should it be thought incredible, when, having made the transition, the souls find nothing even remotely associated with any one of the expectations, it fails to understand what has actually occurred?"
"Still one can scarcely believe it possible."
"Why? It is an experience often met with even beyond the earth conditions. Did you at once understand what had happened?"
"No, I did not," I had to confess, for I had fallen into the common error pointed out by Zecartus of judging others by a different rule to the one I used for myself. "But my passage was so sudden – so unexpected, there may be some excuse for the confusion."
"The confusion of the transit is not so dependent upon its suddenness as upon the erroneous ideas as to what it will reveal. Ignorance produces ignorance. Those who prefer to travel in darkness cannot profit by the revelations light affords. The man who takes his journey by night from England into Wales and sleeps upon the trip, will wake uncertain as to whether the Severn Tunnel has been passed or not, and naturally inquires, 'Where are we?'"
"But I scarcely think the analogy holds."
"In throwing off the body so many changes have necessarily taken place."
"Had they not also occurred in your own case?"
"Yes, certainly," I was again constrained to admit, to my confusion.
"These changes were all related to externals." he went on. "You were, so far as your own judgement went, exactly the same as before, and what had taken place was not so at variance with the past as it differed from what you had anticipated death would reveal. Hence it was much easier for you to conclude that, in the period of unconsciousness between the present and the past, you had rather been the victim of a practical joke than that you had died."
"I must confess that you are right."
"That arises because this continuity of life grows so naturally out of that which has gone before. Changes do, of necessity, take place, but they are only such as doffing a physical garment and assuming a spiritual, which is so much better adapted to the new surroundings; and even this is not new, as in the sleep state every soul has been accustomed to the daily change."
"But that is not remembered on the other side."
"It might and ought to be so remembered; but to do this would disturb established authority, and the man who advocated the cultivation of such a channel of revelation and inspiration would find himself driven to ascend a social if not a physical Calvary. Nature, however, does not adapt her actions to the convenience of ignorance: all her laws are supposed to be intelligently understood. Let us push our inquiry just a little further. The sleep state, then, makes every being conversant with the truth whether it is remembered in the waking state or not. The only point we have now to settle is, what is the actual difference between sleep and death – and that is absolutely none. The man who falls asleep dies so far as the process is concerned. All the difference lies in the return or non-return of the soul to the body, not in its liberation. This being so, you need no longer wonder that many of these unfortunates have not yet learned what has happened."
"I thank you for your lucid and patient explanation," I returned. "May I now ask for information as to first impulses on recovering consciousness?"
"Yes. Would you prefer to watch such a case for yourself, or shall I tell you of one I have just attended?"
"I am not anxious to see more for the present than you have already shown me," I answered.
"Then I will take my last case as a very fair one to illustrate what you ask. It is that of a man who commenced life as a clerk in a broker's office, where he held a contented and confidential position for some years. Then temptation came, and after many refusals, much dallying, and several corrections of propositions, he at length consented, not to betray his employer's trust – he could never do that: Honour forbade it! But for a substantial commission he answered inquiries so equivocally as to serve the same purpose. The commission so gained was then privately used in accordance with the confidential information entrusted to him, and he began to dream dreams of possible wealth along the lines he had chosen; but his duplicity leaked out, and he was discharged. Now he set himself to realize his dreams in other ways, formed an ideal of amassing a fortune of two millions, to which object he, step by step, sacrificed everything, even life, for he was summoned hence when he needed an eighth to reach the height of his ambition.
"Apoplexy was the cause of his transition, and I was in attendance when he regained consciousness. His first surprise was to find he had awakened in a strange place, and he examined his body with considerable suspicion, but remembering he had swooned in the office, accepted the situation, and was anxious to get back without delay, leaving matters to explain themselves as best they might. You must now bear in mind that to all earth-bound souls the places and people who occupy the scenes of their bondage are almost as solid and substantial as ever, while they are unsubstantial and invisible in themselves. It is this all-important but uncomprehended difference which first bares their backs to punishment.
"He returned to his office to discover that his absence had been longer than he imagined, and that many unauthorized and objectionable changes had taken place in the interval; perhaps the most outrageous being the quiet appropriation of his private office by the manager, who appeared to be conducting business without any reference to himself. He peremptorily demanded an explanation, but his subordinate might have been deaf, dumb and blind in his refusal to notice the inquiry. He stormed, raved and appealed to others with precisely the same effect; then in a fury of rage, better imagined than described, he rushed home. Here he fared far worse than in the city, for to his disgust and consternation he learned that his family considered him to be dead, and he finally came back to us determined to find someone who would come to his assistance by helping him to be revenged.
"You may find this experience more or less perfectly duplicated in half the members of every group you may visit. Nor can we render them the slightest service or assistance until the wildness of their passion produces weariness, and they seek our help."
"And is the earth enveloped with such a delirious crowd of evil?" I inquired, beginning to see, as I never understood before, the dangers of the weak and unprotected in the presence of such maddened tempters to evil.
"No! If such were the case it would almost be fatal to the ultimate triumph of good over evil. These scenes are the festering pollutions of civilization, and the men and women who comprise them are those who know the right but deliberately choose the wrong in their greed for temporal success – wealth, position and power. They knew their Lord's will, but they did it not, therefore are they beaten with many stripes. Much has been given to them and much required in return, but having wasted their substance and made themselves moral and spiritual bankrupts, that which they have accumulated has to be taken away, and what you have seen is the first part of the stripping process – the commencement of the fire by which their souls must be purified."
"With what terrible emphasis everything insists upon retribution here!" I exclaimed.
"That is because you see law working out its justice – law that is always and invariably inexorable. The fatal mistake of the other side is to regard law as being inflexible in its physical aspect only, but in the spiritual sphere – that is if it should exist here, which is exceedingly doubtful – it is both capricious and easily evaded by repentant promises to do better. No man who understands the nature of dynamite will trifle with it carelessly, and yet dynamite is harmless compared with the spiritual laws men ignore. There is always a possible escape from dynamite, but not from law."
"But your illustration fails if these earth-bound souls are principally the product of civilization, for dynamite will explode equally in the hands of savage or cultured."
"No. My analogy still holds. The explosive is a product of civilization, and is inaccessible as its properties are unknown to the savage. If, therefore, such an explosion occurred it could only be by the dynamite being imported with some sinister intent, and the responsibility for the disaster would lie with the importer, not the savage. It is precisely the same with these groups of earthbound iniquity; every individual in all that awful host is entering on the legally and perfectly just reward of the deeds done in the body. But in further answer to your inquiry, let me point out how every group is bound to a certain place in their aggregate action: drunkards gather around taverns; gamblers on the race-course or other places 'devoted to sport', and so on until you have located every group; but apart from this collective grouping for greater strength each individual has his own particular bond to the scene of his personal transgression. As I pointed out in the case I have described, much of the torture arises from the fact that the fetters his conduct has forged compel him to witness-bound and helpless – the frustration of the project for which he had forfeited everything: to find that the egg for which he eagerly gave his soul hatches nothing but a scorpion to increase his own torment."
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CURE's Clinical Trial Corner: February 2021
Ryan McDonald
Here is a list of some recent trials that launched within the cancer space in February.
As the cancer treatment landscape continues to expand, patients and their caregivers should be aware of the various clinical trials currently being conducted — including studies they can possibly join.
Bayer and Orion Corporation recently announced the launch of a new phase 3 study to investigate the safety and efficacy of Nubeqa (darolutamide) plus androgen deprivation therapy versus placebo plus androgen deprivation therapy for the treatment of metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.
"Nubeqa has already shown in men with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer that it extends metastasis-free and overall survival," Dr. Scott Z. Fields, senior vice president and head of Oncology Development at Bayer's Pharmaceutical Division, said in a company-issued press release. "Given the encouraging results that we have seen with Nubeqa so far, it is important that we also evaluate the potential of Nubeqa in other stages of prostate cancer that may offer men with (metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer) a new treatment option."
The new randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (ARANOTE) is expected to enroll 555 men. The main goal of the study, according to the release, is to assess radiological progression-free survival (the time from treatment to disease progression or worsening).
Cartesian Therapeutics recently announced the beginning of a phase 2a trial assessing Descartes-11 (an mRNA CAR-T cell therapy) in patients with newly diagnosed, high-risk multiple myeloma.
The manufacturer anticipates enrolling 30 patients with newly diagnosed, high-risk myeloma across multiple cancer centers in the United States. The goal of the study, according to the release, is to assess the safety and early efficacy of the CAR-T cell therapy in patients who have completed a pre-transplant anti-myeloma drug combination regimen but still have residual disease.
"Patients newly diagnosed with high-risk multiple myeloma seldom achieve deep, durable responses after frontline therapy," Dr. Kenneth Anderson, Kraft Family Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Program Director of the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center and LeBow Institute for Myeloma Therapeutics, said in a company-issued press release. "Integrating a CAR-T cell therapy into our standard of care, without using lymphodepleting chemotherapy, would be a welcome addition to our toolkit for treating this currently incurable disease."
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey has treated its first patient with upper tract urothelial cancer with a recently approved treatment option.
The drug, Jelmyto (mitomycin gel), became the first approved therapy to treat this patient population.
"It's important to understand the indications for this drug, so visiting a center with expertise in (upper tract urothelial cancer) is essential," Dr. Saum Ghodoussipour, director of the Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute, said in a press release. "While (Jelmyto) gives patients a good non-surgical option, it's not necessarily for every patient and if there is recurrence after the treatment, the management of (upper tract urothelial cancer) can be complex, requiring multidisciplinary care from urologists, medical oncologists, pathologists and radiologists."
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Bell Allen
Author Tags: Interview Poetry Politics
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Bell is a poet and novelist who lives in Victoria, B.C. He has taught in English departments at several Canadian universities and has collaborated with Atom Egoyan on the screenplays of Family Viewing (1987), Speaking Parts (1989), The Adjuster (1991) and The Sweet Hereafter (1997), which was nominated for an academy award. He is the author of poetry titles that include The Simon Poems, A Motley to the View, Thy Harry's Company (Bayeux Arts, 1999), Puppet Poems and Ma Vie Va S'Achever' (Flask, 2007). These five collections were merged into a cumulative volume entitled Canada (Flask, 2009) which includes his wonderful poem about Bobby Orr from Thy Harry's Company. Allen also published 2003 interview with Noam Chomsky entitled A Hated Political Enemy (2005). "Poetry is about compression and concision," he writes.
Bell's consistent disdain for evil, violence and stupidity is oddly inspiring.
[BCBW 2009] "Poetry" "Politics"
Articles: 2 Articles for this author
The Simon Poems (Bayeaux $12.95)
The poetry hierarchy in every country is mostly determined by who you know, who you dedicate your poems to, who you write reviews about, who you drink with, sleep with, used to sleep with, or flatter, or denigrate. Poetry awards are usually allocated along these same lines.
Allen Bell of Victoria isn't likely to win poetry prizes. He's a poetry outsider who has co-written, with Atom Egoyan, screenplays such as The Sweet Hereafter, The Adjuster and Speaking Parts. Success in one field usually prevents success in another.
A self-described out-of-control worrier, Bell has released two recent poetry collections, Thy Harry's Company and Puppet Poems; now he's dusted off his first poetry manuscript, The Simon Poems (Bayeaux $12.95), written between 1976 and 1980. It's a series of narratives in which a separated father speaks to his pre-school son.
Bell, with deadpan concision, includes a wrenching 13-page account of the 1976 Port Moody kidnapping of Abby Drover by family friend Donald Alexander Hay, who kept the 12-year-old girl in a bomb shelter-like compound that was hidden beneath a cupboard with a false bottom, and while he participated in the search parties.
...Abby was handcuffed
And chained to the wall
And Donald Alexander Hay
Attempted to copulate
She remained
In the bomb shelter
The aforementioned 181 days
And the one person
To whom she had access
Was Donald Alexander Hay
He could come to the bomb shelter
For intercourse etc
And threaten to kill her
And in the lining
Of her boot
Abby concealed a note
And said whoever this may concern
If you find me died
My killer is Don Hay
Of 1601 Gore Street Port Moody
He kidnapped me March 10 1976
I also died if so
After my thirteenth birthday...
This deeply disturbing poem is beyond cleverness and obliqueness. It is trying to be useful. It expresses one parent's awareness of the fragility of our freedoms; it is chillingly instructive of the need to protect children from insanity.
It is an unedited news report from the trenches of evil. It doesn't edit out the people leaping from the burning buildings. And it doesn't direct us as to exactly how we must respond, emotionally and intellectually, to the reporting.
In light of crypto-fascist remarks made by western world leaders Silvio Berlusconi and George Bush-both of whom have openly asserted 'our' values are simply superior to 'their' values and therefore countries such as Italy and the United States simply deserve to dominate other countries and cultures-Bell's non-emotional chronicle of events in Port Moody's suburbia is sobering indeed.
Donald Alexander Hay is a terrorist.
Mankind is capable of horrendous evil. Mankind of all races is capable of unforgivable savagery. It is necessary and good to confront evil, to acknowledge it exists and to fight it with determined speed.
It is also necessary to be highly discriminating and lawful, to not take advantage of one's (temporarily) superior moral stance, to recall Tolstoy's fascinating viewpoint, 'the source of rage is within you.' To be overcome by rage, by vengeance, or lust for victory, is to be lost.
Although it is often next-to-impossible to abide by the Christian dictum, 'turn the other cheek,' as a wandering ex-carpenter once advised, that is a standard by which all human behaviour can be judged. Do unto others as you would have done unto you. We are animals and animals require training, some restraint, so as not to bite one another in the street.
Or, as Buddha once noted, 'You become what you oppose.'
...And they went into the garage
Had climbed up the ladder
And was doing up his pants
And the police heard a whimpering
And looked into the hole
And Abby was trying to climb up the ladder
And was completely hysterical
And said she wanted her Mom
And Donald Alexander Hay said
Why don't you guys blow me
And at the police station he said
Let me out the back door
And blow my head
And the prosecutor said
It was a tempting request
And he said
It spoke well
For the discipline
Of our police forces
And their regard
For the rule of law
That the request was not acted upon...
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A Hated Political Enemy (Flask Publishing)
On the wall in Noam Chomsky's book-strewn office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston there is a large poster of the British philosopher, mathematician and pacifist Bertrand Russell. Just as Albert Einstein owed "innumerable happiness to the reading of Russell's works";, the even-tempered Noam Chomsky has adopted Russell as a father figure, as a beacon of sanity.
Incarcerated for his refusal to serve in World War One, Bertrand Russell came to teach in New York City and inflamed public opinion by attacking the United States as a monger of atomic warfare. Chomsky has since adopted Russell's mantle as North America's leading 'refusenik', dismantling White House hypocrisy and doublespeak on a daily basis, seemingly immune to egocentric indulgences and unfettered by conformist tendencies.
Now there are posters of Noam Chomsky on the walls of college dorms in the United States and Canada. For some, the grandfatherly professor has become a symbol of America's best qualities, as inspiring as the Statue of Liberty. For others who support the regimes of the current White House, he is anathema.
In the verbatim transcript of his interview with Noam Chomsky, A Hated Political Enemy (Flask Publishing), Victoria screenwriter and poet Allen Bell offers America's senior political dissident an opportunity to respond to attacks on his character ("mirthless";) and his beliefs.
In particular, Bell cites innuendoes from a Globe & Mail book review [Feb. 15/03] and a 16-page article in the New Yorker [March 31/03] that maintains Noam Chomsky "long ago became alienated from the American political center"; and "elsewhere in the world he is a superstar.";
"That's not an article,"; Chomsky replies. "That's an exercise in character assassination against a hated political enemy.... Part of the scheme there is to say, well, you know, these crazy people elsewhere are coming to talks of mine. But in the United States nobody would pay attention.";
In fact, Noam Chomsky is a hugely popular speaker in the U.S. and he spends about an hour every night turning down offers to speak. He has always been estranged from the flip-flopping, liberal intelligentsia. His disenchantment with toadying liberal intellectuals dates from the Dwight Eisenhower era, long before Michael Moore was in diapers.
The individuality of Noam Chomsky and his reluctance to pledge allegiance to power has made him an unlikely hero-a linguistics professor who stands like Horatio at the bridge against sophistry and deceit.
Bell's understandable respectfulness as an interviewer allows Chomsky to ramble somewhat, but A Hated Political Enemy is a revealing and intimate window into Chomsky's personality. It shows him in a relaxed mode, seemingly immune to the conceits of performance.
Bell asks Chomsky, towards the end of their conversation, if Bertrand Russell were alive today, would Bertrand Russell consider George Bush I, George Bush II, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Tony Blair, Condoleeza Rice and Dick Cheney to be war criminals? Chomsky gives his most succinct answer, "I take that for granted but I can't speak for the dead.";
Here are samples from the book:
NOAM CHOMSKY on CANADIAN MEDIA
"My impression is that over the years the Canadian media have become less open, more restrictive, probably more corporatized. There's massive corporate takeover, by CanWest Global I guess it is, who are forcing editorials on the papers and cutting down content. There have been a lot of objections from journalists, and that really is ominous. I mean if the press gets taken over by a couple of corporate magnets-Conrad Black, Israel Asper, a couple of other guys-then it really is bad news. Independent media are critically important for a democratic society. If you eliminate independent media, you undercut the functioning of the democratic society. Which is, of course, the purpose.";
NOAM CHOMSKY on IRAQ
"The New York Times rather honestly called Iraq the Petri dish test cast for the new doctrine announced in the National Security strategy which basically comes down to a dismantling of international law and institutions and a very brazen announcement that the U.S. intends to dominate the world by force and to do so indefinitely and to destroy any potential challenge to its dominance.
"That has precedents but no precedent that I know of as a statement of national policy except for cases we'd rather not think about. Which is why it caused plenty of shudders in the foreign policy elite here as well as around the world. And Iraq was a test case that shows how it's done. Why Iraq? Well, you pick a country that's first of all defenceless-you don't want to attack anybody that can defend themselves, that would be ridiculous-and also worth controlling. No point in attacking Burundi, which is also defenceless but who wants it?
"On the other hand, Iraq has the great advantage of being both defenceless and disarmed, and also very valuable. It's got the second largest energy reserves in the world. With the United States firmly implanted right in the middle of the energy producing center of the world, it increases enormously the leverage for global control. So Iraq was the perfect test case for the military.";
NOAM CHOMSKY on REGIME CHANGE
"They didn't want him [Saddam Hussein] overthrown from within. Because then Iraqis would have been in charge. In fact, Bush practically announced that on the eve of the invasion. On the eve of the invasion there was a summit meeting in the Azores with Bush and Blair. And if you take a look at what they said, they said even if Saddam Hussein and his family leave Iraq we're going to invade anyway. Because we're not just interested in regime change. We're interested in putting in our regime, not one the Iraqis want.";
NOAM CHOMSKY on the ROLE OF THE MILITARY
"The military system has several functions. One is to control the world. But there is another function that is very significant and rarely discussed. And that is to maintain the economy. If you look at what's called the new economy-the advanced sectors of the economy like computers, and electronics generally, telecommunications, the Internet, automation and so forth-where did they come from? They came from places like MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] under the cover of military spending to socialize the costs and risks of research and development.
"It's costly, it's risky. So you socialize that. And then, after it gets to the point where it's marketable, you put it into the hands of private power. That's why IBM is producing computers and not typewriters. They have their fingers in the military-run programs at the research centers in places like MIT. That's what these institutions are for and that's the way the economy runs. The military system has been the basic backbone of the development of high technology industry. And many other sectors of the economy.
"Take what's called civil aviation. Many of these planes are modified bombers. The avionics, the metallurgy, the hard research, is usually done under a military cover. And then adapted to private commercial gain. Quite apart from the infrastructure-the airports and everything else. That's the way the public pays the costs, and you privatize the benefits. Aircraft extends enormously. It also leads to the biggest service industry, namely tourism. Trace all these things back and you find that quite typically they go back to the dynamic state sector of the economy and a lot of it is under military pretext.
"So quite apart from the task of controlling the world, there's the task of maintaining what amounts to a state capitalist economy by socializing risk and cost and privatizing profit.";
NOAM CHOMSKY on POLITICAL DISSIDENCE
"If you can't deal with arguments and evidence, and you don't have the power to throw the people in jail as they probably wish they did, then what you do is vilify them. So it's expected. And it hasn't been any different in the past. You should see the way Bertrand Russell was treated. He was an object of hatred and contempt because he was doing some decent and honest things.";
NOAM CHOMSKY on the MILITARIZATION OF SPACE
"The main UN (United Nations) disarmament commission has been paralyzed by a conflict between the United States and the rest of the world over militarization of space. I mean, every other country just about is trying to institute measures to prevent the militarization of space and the U.S. is blocking them. There have been votes at the General Assembly reaffirming and strengthening the outer space treaty which bans the militarization of space. The U.S. alone abstained-the U.S. and Israel. Same with the disarmament committee.";
NOAM CHOMSKY on TECHNOLOGY
"It's been known by specialists for some years that, with contemporary technology, the monopoly of violence in the hands of the rich and powerful is probably gone. It's now more balanced. They still have an overwhelming preponderance of the means of violence but they don't monopolize it anymore. That's what 9/11 showed as did the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 which came pretty close to succeeding. People tend to forget that. That wasn't [even] high technology. That was explosives. The wealthy and the powerful no longer have the monopoly of violence that they had in the past and it's driving them up the wall. If you do these things to other people it's no big deal. But when you do it to us-it's not allowed.
"I mean, take a look at 9/11. Look at the horrible atrocity, everyone in the world agreed with that. But if you look around the world, the reactions from much of the world were, yeah, a horrifying atrocity, but welcome to the club. You've been doing this to us for centuries.";
NOAM CHOMSKY on MANUFACTURING CONSENT
"a massive government media propaganda campaign began depicting Saddam Hussein as an imminent threat to the security of the United States-as involved in September 11, as tied up with al-Qaeda, planning new atrocities and right away, [in] a couple of weeks, about 60% of the population regarded Saddam as a threat to the security of the United States. They didn't think that in Kuwait even. Nobody thought he was a threat to their security. They hated him but he's not a threat to anybody. Except within Iraq. But pretty soon close to half the population, maybe more, thought he was involved in September 11. A complete fabrication . They succeeded in frightening probably a majority of the population.";
NOAM CHOMSKY on OIL
"The U.S. is probably not intending to use the oil. The U.S. has never really been much concerned with accessing the oil of the Middle East. It's concerned with controlling. Which is something totally different.
"Since the Second World War a leading feature of policy has been to control the oil, not use it. In fact, the U.S. was, and to an extent remains, a major producer. But to control it. World control is a source of enormous wealth which doesn't flow into the pockets of the population. Rather the energy corporations and the construction companies and high tech industry and so on.
"The U.S. is not interested in lowering the price too far. Never has been. It wants the price kept within a certain range. Not too high because if it's too high it harms certain power interests and if it's too low it cuts into the profits that largely flow back to the United States. There's no reason to believe that it's helpful to the people of the United States any more than the British Empire was helpful to the people of England.
"The propaganda does not say let's conquer Iraq because there will be more money in your pocket. The propaganda says let's conquer Iraq because it will save you from destruction by terrorists. And it will let in freedom and democracy. That's the way the propaganda works. It never appeals to people's vulgar interests. And the reason is the people who make the propaganda make the assumption that the general population is not like them. The general population is not a bunch of gangsters. They're decent, honest people so you have to lie to them about threats to their security and noble ideals. You have to make it attractive to the population in their terms. Which are usually moral and decent terms.";
NOAM CHOMSKY on RESPECTING DEMOCRACY
"The bad guys are the countries where the governments took the same position as the overwhelming majority of the population. Germany and France are the bad guys because the governments took the same position as perhaps 70% of the population. Turkey is hated because the government took the same position as 95% of the population.
"Who are the good guys? Spain and Italy where opposition to the war was higher than in France and Germany. But they're the good guys because the governments disregarded 80% of the population. In Eastern European satellites the populations are even more against the war than in France and Germany. But the leadership said, yeah, we'll go along. In fact, it was the former Foreign Minister of Latvia who was asked-I think [by] the Wall Street Journal-why they went along with the United States, and he said something like, 'Well, we know you have to say, yes, sir.' So they're the good guys.
"And it wasn't just Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld [saying it]. That was all the commentary. What's wrong with the French? What's wrong with Germans? What's the matter with the Turks? How come the governments don't disregard 95% of the population and do what we tell them?
"How can you have a deeper contempt for democracy than that? You find that in Stalin's Russia. And it passes without comment because it's so internalized. It's so deeply internalized that what they're supposed to do is take orders from us.";
NOAM CHOMSKY on OCCUPATION OF IRAQ
"I must say, I'm shocked at this, [that is] they're having trouble. I thought it would be a walkover. To fail to take control of Iraq and make it a viable society-that takes real talent. Just think of the situation they're going into. I mean, here was a country that was virtually devastated by sanctions. The sanctions are over. It was destroyed by war. The wars are over. It was being ruled by a brutal tyrant. Bad as the U.S. façade may be, it's not going to be that. How can you fail?
"I mean, compare it with other military occupations. Take the Nazis in Europe. They ran Europe with collaborators without much trouble. Every country had its collaborators that ran things for them pretty efficiently. There was a resistance but if it hadn't been supported from abroad they would have crushed it instantly. And they were under attack.
"Or take the Russians in Eastern Europe. They ran it without much trouble with collaborators all over the place.
"How come the U.S. can't do it under the most optimal circumstances?... Now they're in trouble. It's costing them too much. They can't pay for it. The army is starting to erode. It may get harder to go on to the next one. But it does reflect extraordinary incompetence.";
[Interview conducted by Allen Bell on May 9 and September 11, 2003]
[BCBW 2005]


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Priest Sentenced To Federal Prison For Vandalizing Georgia Navy Base
Five others who broke into and vandalized subbase are await sentencing. October 16, 2020 at 9:00 pm
Filed Under:anti-war, Base, catholic, crime, Georgia, Kings Bay, Military, navy, Political, Priest, st marys, Stephen Michael Kelly, Sub, Submarine, vandalism
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (CW69 News at 10) – A judge sentenced a priest with a long history of arrests during anti-war protests to federal prison for the April 2018 illegal entry and vandalism of Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in St. Mary's, Georgia.
U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood sentenced Stephen Michael Kelly, 71, of Massachusetts, to 33 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $33,503.51 in restitution, said Bobby L. Christine, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia.
A jury found Kelly, along with six other defendants, after a four-day trial in October 2019 on charges of Conspiracy, Destruction of Property on a Naval Installation, Depredation of Government Property, and Trespass. He was ordered to serve three years of supervised release after completion of his prison sentence.
There is no parole in the federal system.
"Damaging security barriers to enter restricted military areas and commit vandalism is not lawfully protected speech and will be prosecuted in the Southern District of Georgia. The late-night activities of Stephen Kelly and other defendants cannot be construed as peaceful protests. These defendants destroyed government property at a considerable cost to the taxpayers and caused a significant disruption on an important Naval installation," said U.S. Attorney Christine. "Worse still, their actions created a significant risk of serious injury and even death to themselves and base personnel."
As admitted by the defendants during the trial, with their own videos of the activities shown to jurors, the seven entered an outer security fence at the naval installation, after cutting a padlock from a gate during the late hours of April 4, 2018. Once through the security fence, the group damaged and vandalized property inside the facility before naval security personnel took them into custody.
Kelly served more than eight years in prison for previous similar trespass and vandalism convictions. At the time of the Kings Bay arrest, Kelly was serving probation for a September 2017 federal sentence for trespassing on Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in Washington State. He will be remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service on a warrant for probation violation from the Western District of Washington.
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Elizabeth McAlister, 80, of New London, Conn., previously was sentenced to the 17 months, nine days of time already served in the case, and Patrick M. O'Neill, 64, of Garner, N.C., is scheduled for sentencing Friday. The remaining defendants – Mark Peter Colville, 59, of New Haven, Conn.; Clare Therese Grady, 62, of Ithaca, N.Y.; Martha Hennessy, 65, of Perkinsville, Vt.; and Carmen Trotta, 57, of New York, N.Y. – are scheduled for sentencing in November.
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Tubas Say Thank You to the Symphonic Band of the Palm Beaches for the new Tuba!!
IMS Band Night at Jupiter High School!
The IMS Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Mrs. Murray, warms up for their first performance of the year!
The Symphonic Band acknowledges the applause of the audience after their performance.