nettime Death of a Hospital
Death of a Hospital Today we went to the LICH, Long Island College Hospital, for neurology issues. The hospital is being closed down so developers can build condominiums there. In our area there are seven 30+ storey buildings, condominiums scheduled for the next few years. Current condos go for around $700,000 for a one bedroom. The hospital has been the scene of protests in recent months; it serves a large number of neighborhoods and in particular seems to serve minorities. Patients were removed and sent elsewhere. An emergency vehicle was turned away as the emergency rooms were closed down, and someone died on the forty-five minute trip to the nearest still-functioning place. A mayoral candidate was arrested along with doctors and others a week or two ago. When we went, there were, now, security guards everywhere, to make sure there were no more protests. We were escorted to neurology by one of them. They were on the street, they were guarding everything. A receptionist was crying. Our doctor told us how he felt when his bag and belongings were searched as he reported for duty. They have maybe a month to clear out. The developers say they're beautifying the waterfront. The hospital is beautiful, with trees and gardens. The guards looked like thugs with military haircuts. Some of them had the word Summit on their uniforms. Their uniforms were black. I cannot describe the horror of all of this - after the Barclay Center was built through subterfuge and lies, including seizing buildings by eminent domain and declaring the neighborhood blighted (which it wasn't) - now this. Healthcare is collapsing in NYC; this is the second hospital I know to shut down. LICH has been around for 155 years. There are no really close-by others, and to get to others, you now have to negotiate traffic jams created by the Barclay Center over a mile away. LICH doesn't make a profit - it loses I think around 15 million a year. Since when is healthcare supposed to make a profit? We are now at the bottom of developed countries in terms of healthcare - there was a long report about this online. The US idea of healthcare is increasingly moving in two directions - every nicety and technological advance for the rich - and back- breaking financial burdens for the rest of us. Obamacare doesn't change this that much and it will probably be defeated anyway. The horror of people I know struggling to stay alive in the US is unimaginable. People are dying, are been driven into poverty, as a result of greed. There's no way out. I wish these developers will all get sick, unbearably, unbelievably, sick, sick to the point of death - and beyond - and that they lose all their money and have to get in lines for emergency care or be turned away at the door. I wish them hell. They make live miserable for the rest of us. I hope they go up in flames in this life because I sure don't believe in hell. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime why i wrote pgp
...not me personally, of course. But Philip Zimmermann. But in the light of the recent disclosures about internet surveillance by the NSA and the British Intelligence (and who knows on who Snowdon will spill the beans next - once is in exile), this is pretty interesting reading (or re-reading), in regards to your private electronic mail (email). But whoever reads these User´a Guides, anyway? ;) Yours, Tilman Baumgärtel ßß from : http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html Philip Zimmermann: Why I Wrote PGP Part of the Original 1991 PGP User's Guide (updated in 1999) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -Mahatma Gandhi It's personal. It's private. And it's no one's business but yours. You may be planning a political campaign, discussing your taxes, or having a secret romance. Or you may be communicating with a political dissident in a repressive country. Whatever it is, you don't want your private electronic mail (email) or confidential documents read by anyone else. There's nothing wrong with asserting your privacy. Privacy is as apple-pie as the Constitution. The right to privacy is spread implicitly throughout the Bill of Rights. But when the United States Constitution was framed, the Founding Fathers saw no need to explicitly spell out the right to a private conversation. That would have been silly. Two hundred years ago, all conversations were private. If someone else was within earshot, you could just go out behind the barn and have your conversation there. No one could listen in without your knowledge. The right to a private conversation was a natural right, not just in a philosophical sense, but in a law-of-physics sense, given the technology of the time. But with the coming of the information age, starting with the invention of the telephone, all that has changed. Now most of our conversations are conducted electronically. This allows our most intimate conversations to be exposed without our knowledge. Cellular phone calls may be monitored by anyone with a radio. Electronic mail, sent across the Internet, is no more secure than cellular phone calls. Email is rapidly replacing postal mail, becoming the norm for everyone, not the novelty it was in the past. Until recently, if the government wanted to violate the privacy of ordinary citizens, they had to expend a certain amount of expense and labor to intercept and steam open and read paper mail. Or they had to listen to and possibly transcribe spoken telephone conversation, at least before automatic voice recognition technology became available. This kind of labor-intensive monitoring was not practical on a large scale. It was only done in important cases when it seemed worthwhile. This is like catching one fish at a time, with a hook and line. Today, email can be routinely and automatically scanned for interesting keywords, on a vast scale, without detection. This is like driftnet fishing. And exponential growth in computer power is making the same thing possible with voice traffic. Perhaps you think your email is legitimate enough that encryption is unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide something? If you hide your mail inside envelopes, does that mean you must be a subversive or a drug dealer, or maybe a paranoid nut? Do law-abiding citizens have any need to encrypt their email? What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for their mail? If a nonconformist tried to assert his privacy by using an envelope for his mail, it would draw suspicion. Perhaps the authorities would open his mail to see what he's hiding. Fortunately, we don't live in that kind of world, because everyone protects most of their mail with envelopes. So no one draws suspicion by asserting their privacy with an envelope. There's safety in numbers. Analogously, it would be nice if everyone routinely used encryption for all their email, innocent or not, so that no one drew suspicion by asserting their email privacy with encryption. Think of it as a form of solidarity. Senate Bill 266, a 1991 omnibus anticrime bill, had an unsettling measure buried in it. If this non-binding resolution had become real law, it would have forced manufacturers of secure communications equipment to insert special trap doors in their products, so that the government could read anyone's encrypted messages. It reads, It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain
Re: nettime Death of a Hospital
I take it you haven't seen this: = http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324263404578614183479259720.= html (Executive summary: Brooklyn-based couple, old friends of and early investors with Warren Buffett, die leaving close to a billion dollars, ***$135M*** of which they leave to LICH. LICH successfully twists the conditions of the donation to misuse the money, goes broke anyway due to corruption and mismanagement.) On Jul 30, 2013, at 2:29 AM, Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com wrote: Death of a Hospital Today we went to the LICH, Long Island College Hospital, for neurology issues. The hospital is being closed down so developers can build condominiums there. In our area there are seven 30+ storey buildings, condominiums scheduled for the next few years. Current condos go for around $700,000 for a one bedroom. The hospital has been the scene of protests in recent months; it serves a large number of neighborhoods and in particular seems to serve minorities. [snip] -- Dave Mandl dma...@panix.com da...@wfmu.org Web: http://dmandl.tumblr.com/ Twitter: @dmandl Instagram: dmandl # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime International Spying History Association
http://www.intelligence-history.org/ It's a hoot to read scholarly contributions to legal warrant NSA and allies' gobbling everything as if concretizing love of knowledge against terror of ignorant barbarians. Greece is the ancient and modern navel of spookdom aka classical philosophy of everything worth knowing for western wisecracking of codes. Archeologied by Germany for cultural magnificence of Götterdämmerung. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
