we don't have a 'boss'
https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-arrested-for-suspected-online-terrorism-offences-475826
Man arrested for suspected online terrorism offences
A man has been arrested by officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command as part of an investigation into online Islamist terrorist and anti-Semitic material.
The 20-year-old man was arrested in north London on Wednesday, 22 November on suspicion of encouragement of terrorism and dissemination of a terrorist publication - both relating to Islamist Terrorism online content.
He was also arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred, which relates to anti-Semitic online content. The investigation predates the current Israel-Hamas conflict.
The man was initially stopped back in June 2023 during a Schedule 7 stop at Heathrow. During the stop, officers examined his electronic devices and they were subsequently seized and sent for further analysis, the results of which led to his arrest this week.
He was taken to a south London police station and has since been released on bail to a date in Feb 2024 pending further enquiries.
Commander Dominic Murphy, who leads the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said:
"While this investigation predates the current Israel-Hamas conflict, we know many people - particularly those in our Jewish communities - are concerned about certain material they may be seeing online. I hope this reassures the public that we will take action where people are breaking the law in this way. Anyone concerned about content that they think could be terrorist-related should report it to us.
"This arrest came about as a result of a schedule 7 stop at a port and these powers help us to keep the public and UK safe from terrorism. There is no place for hateful, terrorist ideology to be spread online and where we identify people who we believe to be committing offences, we will investigate and take action.”
If you have seen material online which you are concerned could be terrorist or extremist, please report it at: www.gov.uk/report-terrorism
Communities defeat terrorism, and information from the public is vital to our counter terrorism investigations. If you see or hear something unusual or suspicious and think someone may be engaging in terrorist activity, trust your instincts and ACT by reporting it in confidence at www.gov.uk/ACT or call the Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321.
https://www.newsday.com/business/long-island-affordable-housing-map-erase-racism-j9kmjuth
Long Island nonprofit ERASE Racism has created a mapping tool that allows users to identify "high-opportunity" areas that might make prime candidates for affordable housing.
The tool evaluates how suitable areas are for affordable housing, using data on financial stability, health outcomes, housing and school district quality.
The online mapping tool covers all of New York State, enabling users to analyze data by county, town, school district and census tract. ERASE Racism, a Syosset-based civil rights organization, said it hopes the tool will help inform discussions about development as New York faces a housing affordability crisis.
“When affordable housing is built, it’s normally built in low- to moderate-income neighborhoods, which increases economic and racial segregation,” said Olivia Ildefonso, a research consultant to ERASE Racism who developed the tool with its president, Laura Harding.
WHAT TO KNOW
The nonprofit ERASE Racism released a map that identifies areas it said would make prime candidates for affordable housing, using data from the U.S. Census and state Education Department.
The map highlights financially stable areas with strong school districts that have the resources to take on more students, said Laura Harding, president of the nonprofit.
Local leaders in housing and education said the tool will inform the housing debate on Long Island but overlooks major obstacles, such as zoning rules and environmental concerns.
“We’re really trying to advocate for more affordable housing and more inclusive housing all over New York State and Long Island, not just always in the same neighborhoods," said Ildefonso, who has a doctorate in Earth and environmental sciences from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation focused on the history of the public education system in the U.S. and how it reproduces social inequities.
Skeptics said the map leaves out key context about the reasons why housing hasn't been developed in certain areas, including zoning rules, infrastructure issues and environmental concerns.
Grading neighborhoods and schools
The new tool uses 30 measures, including health characteristics, such as life expectancy and percentage of the population with health insurance; financial characteristics, such as median income, employment rate and the percentage living above the poverty rate; and housing data, such as the percentage of people who pay a high percentage of their income toward rent.
The map’s Neighborhood Opportunity Index, which focuses on financial stability, health and housing, identified Lloyd Harbor and parts of Commack and East Setauket as showing the greatest opportunity for housing on Long Island.
ERASE Racism's Affordable and Inclusive Housing Tool shows which parts of Long Island it has identified as "high-opportunity" areas to add affordable housing. Credit: ERASE Racism
ERASE Racism’s Education Opportunity Index, which is separately broken out by school systems, showed the North Shore, East Williston, Merrick, Cold Spring Harbor, Quogue and Amagansett districts have the highest opportunity for housing. That rating reflects areas with fewer economically disadvantaged students, better performance on standardized tests and higher spending per pupil, among other measures.
ERASE Racism’s Education Opportunity Index is broken out by school districts on Long Island. The chart on the right includes all of New York State. Credit: ERASE Racism
The tool allows users to search specific addresses, see which areas of Long Island are the most and least racially diverse and view where subsidized housing was previously built.
It also provides data on changes in student enrollment between 2016 and 2021. Cold Spring Harbor schools, for example, saw a 12% decline in enrollment during the five-year span.
Areas with strong school districts that have seen enrollment fall make good candidates for new housing, Harding said.
"These are some places, which ended up usually to be predominantly white communities on Long Island and across New York State, that can stand to take more people — both from a housing perspective and a schoolwide perspective — and not see a loss in services or a derogatory, negative impact on housing and education," she said. "We should be looking at building affordable housing here."
The high cost of housing
Long Islanders are facing record home prices, and more than half of local renters spend at least 30% of their income on rent. A large majority say they want more housing options, according to a nextLI/Newsday poll of 2,910 local residents conducted last year. But there was less consensus on the types of housing Long Islanders would like to see built, with a majority saying they would like to see less "dense housing" built.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul made affordable housing a key part of her executive budget this year, proposing to increase the number of housing units in New York State by 800,000 over 10 years. But the proposal didn't make it into the final budget. It faced significant opposition from suburban lawmakers, including Long Island Republicans, who said it represented an overreach by the state into local zoning decisions.
The latest effort from ERASE Racism builds upon its previous work that showed student enrollment declined 12% on Long Island from 2007 to 2022. However, enrollment grew by 34% in the 11 Long Island school districts where students of color represent 90% of students.
“Segregation that concentrates all the high-needs students in the same school districts places a financial strain on these districts,” Ildefonso said.
Kevin Scanlon, superintendent of the Three Village Central School District, which serves Stony Brook and surrounding communities and was highlighted as a high-opportunity area, said he believes the district can absorb some additional students, but increasing enrollment could require more staffing. He noted the district’s students have become more diverse in the past decade, with its Asian population rising to 13% of students, from 9%, and its Hispanic/Latino students increasing to 9%, from 4%.
“Declining enrollment does not necessarily mean that any district has the capacity to take on new students,” he said. “Some districts have reduced their staffing based on declining enrollment. Adding students may require additional staffing, which would also mean an increase to the budget.”
He said the state’s 2% cap on annual increases to the property tax levy for school districts might require examining other potential cuts if spending were to increase.
While the map identifies areas of opportunity, it doesn’t address some of the key obstacles to housing development, including zoning rules that prohibit multifamily housing or require large lot sizes. Other areas lack the needed sewers to accommodate development or have been preserved because of environmental concerns, said Richard Murdocco, an adjunct professor of economic development and planning at Stony Brook University.
“Tools like this are not a three-dimensional solution to a three-dimensional problem,” Murdocco said. “… What it lacks is the nuance of why denser housing wasn’t put there in the first place.”
Murdocco noted that areas such as Bay Shore, which are in high-risk flood zones, are described as opportunity areas, while areas that include shopping malls that could be redeveloped for housing, including Lake Grove and Hicksville, aren’t highlighted.
Building affordable
David Gallo, co-founder and president of affordable housing developer Georgica Green Ventures, said he sees the tool as useful because it aggregates data in one place. He believes it will be helpful to community members as they consider housing proposals.
Georgica Green Ventures built 28 units of income-restricted apartments at…
Georgica Green Ventures built 28 units of income-restricted apartments at Sandy Hollow Cove in Southampton in 2019. Credit: Courtesy of Georgica Green Ventures
“Affordable housing has a place in all communities,” Gallo said. “Diversity of race, diversity of income, diversity of age, make our communities better and our children smarter.”
While Gallo said he couldn’t comment specifically on the high-opportunity areas identified on the map, he noted Georgica Green has had success building affordable housing developments on Long Island in high-income areas, including East Hampton, Roslyn Heights and Southampton.
“Everyone said we couldn’t do affordable housing in Southampton. ‘That’s impossible. The land costs are too high. There’s no sewers.’ But we were able to, and we’ve done two [projects] and we’ve done two in East Hampton,” Gallo said. “So, I never want to say it can’t happen in any community.”
Ian Wilder, executive director of Long Island Housing Services, said the tool will supply data for discussions about housing development on Long Island and could be used by people searching for housing, town planners and advocacy groups.
“We have any number of communities on Long Island that have great school districts, really good business opportunities, great neighborhoods, great shopping," Wilder said, "but the question is, does everybody have access to those?”
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some anons DGAF about politricks or performance art.
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BREAKING: UK to conduct surveillance flights over Israel and Gaza to help find hostages held by Hamas
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Iraqi militias have officially resumed targeting American positions: The Islamic Resistance in Iraq published a statement claiming responsibility for attacking an American position with a drone at Erbil airport in Iraq.
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"RFK Jr. Explains What The Covid Response Was Really About…"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp36Fq2wGh0
for those who may not know:
right click on any embedded video, hit copy link, and you got it.
why not have a pool of all trading/market gains realized by congress (who, by nature of clearance and committee status, have access to inside info) and their immediate families is distributed quarterly to enlisted military, scaled by rank. Seeing as the current base salary for all rank-and-file members of the U.S. House and Senate is $174,000 per year, plus benefits.
Chances the C_A and the SecSer would use the name Evergreen, and NOT be related undertakings?
VERY low.
Evergreen International Airlines was a charter and cargo airline based in McMinnville, Oregon, United States. Wholly owned by Evergreen International Aviation, it had longstanding ties to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_International_Airlines
do not eliminate the prospect that the Awakening is from ALL illusions, and the fact that the most widespread piece of medea ever distributed is the bible…
who publishes and subsequently benefits from a book teaching dominion? those who need to spread that idea into a belief into the action of submission to perceived authority.
What is the most widespread english translation? That of a KING, eh?
catch up fren.
belief is strong. perhaps the most powerful mind-leash there is save for language itself.
>anons will never be put in a box or fit any label
one does not need a government sanctioned and authorized media device to know the Creator, one's connection to all, and one's existence as a brushstroke in the divine masterpiece of creation. No need for dominion programming, slave/king perspective or any other mind colonizing bias skewing the truth that exists everywhere and in all.
How does acknowledging the bible is media equate to being an atheist? Faulty logic.
Notice how 'believers' (of anything) attack, dismiss, or wish to change those who do not carry those unnecessary bags? Curious and nearly universal in that population.
Fear is a potent motivator.