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Alles is vies, vuil, smerig, goor maar niet schoon en wel een troep in Amsterdam, en dat is niet pas sinds gisteren het geval maar JA21 Amsterdam is er wel mooi klaar mee. Daarom zet de partij het ultieme wapen in tegen de gemeente die we kennen van oplossingen als géén prullenbakken, peperdure grofvuil-bakfietsen om juist niet te gebruiken en stinkkliko's voor karton en GFTE om lekker frisjes in de portiek te posteren: een X-actie (Xie?). Al bijna een maand lang plaatst de partij elke dag een foto van troep in Amsterdam begeleid met de tekst: "Tot Amsterdam weer schoon is: elke dag een foto van de troep." Nou weet JA21 Amsterdam ook wel dat deze actie niet eeuwig vol te houden is, omdat de hoofdstad nu eenmaal nooit schoon zal zijn, en hoewel het de allersmerigste kanten van X toont mag dit best ludiek heten. Exemplarisch bovendien, want waar het de gemeente bijvoorbeeld wél telkens lukt om met de prikstok precies dat verfrommelde papiertje waar 'GAZA' op staat tussen het vuil vandaan te plukken, wordt de Amsterdammer de viezigheid gewoon vol in het gezicht gesmeten met al dat zwerfafval. Het is dus maar goed dat PRO, bekend van capabele wethouders uitzoeken, wethouder Troep en Vuil Hester van Buren niet op laat gaan voor een tweede termijn. Wel benieuwd welke vuilnisman (OF VROUW) de Amsterdammers ervoor terugkrijgen en wanneer JA21 Amsterdam de X-actie bij het vuilnis zet.

Steeds meer defensieprojecten krijgen het stempel ‘vertrouwelijk’, blijkt uit een inventarisatie van NRC. „Hoe kan ik dan controleren of de regering haar beloften nakomt?”

Plannen om een Amerikaans ebola-quarantainecentrum in Kenia te openen zijn met drie weken uitgesteld door de rechter. Bij een betoging tegen de komst ervan vielen maandagavond twee doden. „Kenia is een soevereine republiek.”

Niet iedere technologische innovatie in de zorg levert daadwerkelijk verbeteringen op voor artsen en patiënten, zien Feline Govaert en Kyra van Wijngaarden. Innovatie lijkt een doel op zich te zijn geworden.

Russia's domestic spy agency says it has uncovered a sprawling foreign espionage operation that allegedly turned the smartphones of senior Russian officials into pocket-sized surveillance devices, though it has so far offered little in the way of evidence. In a statement Tuesday, the Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed foreign intelligence agencies implanted malware on the mobile devices of high-ranking Russian officials, allowing operators to steal data, intercept conversations, and secretly activate microphones and cameras to monitor targets and their surroundings. “This software is used to steal existing data, eavesdrop on ongoing conversations, and conduct covert acoustic and video monitoring of the environment near electronic devices, all aimed at obtaining sensitive information,” the FSB said. The agency said it had opened a criminal investigation into illegal access to computer information and the distribution of malicious software. It did not identify the alleged intelligence service responsible, disclose how many officials were affected, name the malware involved, or provide any technical indicators that would allow independent verification of the claims. As things stand, the FSB has revealed the accusation but not the proof. However, the notion that foreign intelligence agencies might target the phones of senior Russian officials is hardly farfetched. State-backed mobile surveillance campaigns have become a routine feature of modern espionage, and Moscow has spent years accusing Western intelligence services of abusing consumer technology platforms for intelligence gathering. In 2023, the FSB claimed that thousands of iPhones had been compromised in a US National Security Agency spying operation. At the time, Russian security vendor Kaspersky disclosed what became known as “Operation Triangulation”, an iPhone surveillance campaign that infected devices through iMessage. Apple denied cooperating with any government, while Kaspersky stopped short of attributing the operation to the NSA. Moscow's spy agencies are hardly strangers to offensive cyber operations themselves. Last year, the FBI warned that hackers linked to the FSB's Center 16 were exploiting a years-old Cisco vulnerability to collect configuration files from thousands of network devices associated with critical infrastructure operators. So while the FSB's latest allegations may ultimately prove accurate, they lack the technical evidence security researchers would normally expect before accepting claims of a major cyber espionage campaign. ®

From cask to car, could red wine be Australia's next fuel? Australia's wine industry is investigating whether its current 263 million litre glut of wine would be better used as biofuel to power cars, trucks or even aircraft.

"Antisemitism breaks it. Islamophobia breaks it. Burning churches breaks it. Transphobia breaks it. The targeting of any Canadian for their faith, their origin, or their identity breaks it."

Canadian PM Mark Carney wrote this speech, and delivered it yesterday at the Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto. Notable excerpts: "We have also reaffirmed the importance of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism, which Canada adopted in 2019 as part of the Anti-Racism Strategy. This definition allows for the legitimate criticism of any government, including the government of the State of Israel, while naming hatred of Jewish people for what it is." "They [the new standards] are not curtailments of freedom of expression. They are not constraints on legitimate criticism of any government on any subject anywhere." "It requires that no Canadian child that goes to school is seen as a representative of any foreign state. It requires that no Canadian going about their day – on the subway, in a shop, at a hospital, at a university, in a synagogue, mosque or gurdwara or temple – bears responsibility for the actions of any government anywhere." The PM has also announced the launch of the new Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality, and Inclusion.

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Coromandel Place, Adelaide CBD

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Adelaide CBD

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Iconic Mexican restaurant in Moseley Street, Glenelg.
Has since closed down and the building demolished.