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UK, US and Netherlands issue advisory on Iran-linked spyware

UK, US and Netherlands issue advisory on Iran-linked spyware

Published by Sam Flores

LONDON, Sept 15 : Britain, the United States and the Netherlands on Tuesday issued a joint cybersecurity advisory detailing spyware they say is used by Iranian state-linked actors to target dissidents, activists and journalists. Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre said Iranian state-linked cyber actors had used a spyware family known as “CHOSEN BRICK” to steal emails, messages and other sensitive information through “spear-phishing” campaigns on messaging platforms including WhatsApp and Telegram. “The details of this cyber campaign reveal  how Iran ruthlessly uses digital surveillance in pursuit of  its  aim  to  repress critics of the regime, stealing emails and messages and accessing devices,” Paul Chichester, NCSC director of operations, said in a statement. Iran’s embassy in London did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The malware, according to the advisory, can collect information from contact lists, emails and social media accounts, capture screen content and access a device’s microphone. The NCSC said some victims’ personal details had later appeared on pro-Iranian leak sites. The FBI, in its own advisory, said Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence …

The Netherlands Will Never Be Rid of Louisiana Crawfish

The Netherlands Will Never Be Rid of Louisiana Crawfish

Published by Sam Flores

Confronted with a seasoned, boiled, arguably delicious crayfish, some of the people of the Netherlands are not sure exactly what to do. “Do you suck the head out?” I heard from the table next to me earlier this summer, at Two Chefs, a restaurant in Amsterdam that hosts a monthly crayfish boil. Yes is the answer: The best way to eat a crayfish is to shell the tail, then slurp the flavored juices out of the head, and pick out the remaining meat with your hands. This strategy might not be an immediate transatlantic hit. At the boil, one 29-year-old from Maastricht likened the meal to shrimp but with more work. Two twins told me that the crayfish would need to look a little more chic on the plate to appeal to the Dutch public. But, given the ever-growing population of crayfish in the Netherlands, coming around to eating more of them could benefit the country. Because if Dutch consumers aren’t sure how they feel about crayfish, crayfish inarguably love the Netherlands. They have invaded …

Twelve-Year-Old Euthanized in the Netherlands: Not a First

Twelve-Year-Old Euthanized in the Netherlands: Not a First

Published by Jenni Sidey

The media is (properly) reporting that a Dutch doctor euthanized — i.e. killed — a sick twelve-year-old child (illness not reported). It is a “first” under a new Dutch law that allows euthanasia for children ages one to twelve. From the story in The Independent: In a letter to parliament, Dutch health minister Sophie Hermans said that the child had died last year but did not clarify their age, date of death or the illness that they suffered, according to broadcaster NOS. The law in the Netherlands was changed in 2024 to extend euthanasia to children under the age of 12 to allow them to “die with dignity” if there was no route to escape extremely severe pain or suffering. The media always spout the “no route to escape” idea, which is often a false premise. But that point aside, this pediatric case is hardly the first we have seen in recent years. As the story notes, doctors commit legal infanticide when babies are born with terminal illnesses or serious disabilities. This is allowed under the “Groningen Protocol,” a bureaucratic checklist to determine which …

Autistic Teenager Euthanized in the Netherlands

Autistic Teenager Euthanized in the Netherlands

Published by Jenni Sidey

Wesley J. Smith April 16, 2026 2 Ethics The boy, aged between 16 and 18, had described his life as “joyless.” Wesley J. Smith April 16, 2026 2 Ethics This republished article first appeared in the National Review. Once killing becomes an acceptable answer to human suffering, the kinds of “suffering” that justifies killing continually expands. In the Netherlands, where mental illness can provide the pretext for being MAIDed and there are no age limits (including infanticide for disability), it was recently reported that a suicidal autistic teenager was lethally injected in 2023. From the National Post story: Four-and-a-half years after he was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, a Dutch teen was euthanized at his request. The boy, aged between 16 and 18, had described his life as “joyless.” He’d struggled with anxiety and mood-related problems, and where he fit in, in the world. Oversensitive to stimuli, “every day was an ordeal he had to get through,” according to the latest annual report from the Netherlands’ regional euthanasia death review committees. In the final weeks before his death, he …

Euthanasia of the Mentally Ill Increasing in the Netherlands

Euthanasia of the Mentally Ill Increasing in the Netherlands

Published by Jenni Sidey

This republished article first appeared in The National Review’s The Corner As the West lunges toward propagating a right to be made dead, the deleterious societal impacts of being legally “MAIDed” (killed by “medical assistance in dying”) are becoming increasingly clear. A recent professional analysis published in the Psychiatric Times illustrates the lethal influence on mentally ill suicidal people — including youth — in the Netherlands. From “Psychiatric Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Young People, Procedural Medicine, and the Limits of Psychiatry” (citations omitted): Requests for euthanasia on psychiatric grounds have risen sharply, with a disproportionate increase among young adults and, more recently, minors. The Dutch model, once presented internationally as careful and balanced, is now attracting attention for a different reason: growing uncertainty about whether psychiatry has crossed a boundary it cannot coherently justify. This increase has had a deleterious impact on suicidal youth: The numerical trend among youth underscores why concern has intensified. For many years, psychiatric euthanasia in the Netherlands was virtually nonexistent. Between 2002 and 2010, only 1 or 2 cases per year were reported …

How the Book of Esther echoes through 17th-century Netherlands to this day

How the Book of Esther echoes through 17th-century Netherlands to this day

Published by Sam Flores

RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — As the United States and Israel began pummeling Iran with airstrikes Saturday (Feb. 28), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered a biblical analogy to explain his motives for going to war. “Twenty-five-hundred years ago, in ancient Persia, a tyrant rose against us with the very same goal, to utterly destroy our people,” Netanyahu said in a statement, referring to the story from the biblical Book of Esther, which takes place in Susa, or Shushan, then the capital of the ancient Persian empire, now Iran. Then, as now, he said, “this evil regime will fall.” It was a timely statement. Jews read the Book of Esther during the holiday of Purim, which begins Monday evening (March 2), recounting the heroine’s resilience and determination to save her people from the king’s evil adviser, Haman. Through the years, Jewish girls have dressed up as Esther during the boisterous holiday. But Netanyahu was not the first to tie present-day battles to the Book of Esther. Since its inclusion in the Hebrew Bible, the story — …

35 Rembrandt Etchings Re-Discovered in the Netherlands

35 Rembrandt Etchings Re-Discovered in the Netherlands

Published by Jenni Sidey

Many people around the world were cooped up at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, but few had the same good fortune as Charlotte Meyer, who spent some of her unexpected downtime after a house move going through a folder of works on paper that her late grandfather had handed down to her. She shared her findings with the Rembrandt House in Amsterdam, who confirmed that the 35 etchings are in fact by the Dutch Old Master. According to Omroep, the Netherlands Public Broadcasting network, the folder had been stored in a drawer in the family home in Zutphen, a town in the eastern part of the Netherlands, for many years. Meyer’s grandfather acquired them between 1900 and 1920. Source link

Netherlands’ Jutta Leerdam on winning silver

Netherlands’ Jutta Leerdam on winning silver

Published by Sam Flores

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. U.S. women’s hockey team advances to gold medal game 00:43 Max Naumov honors late parents with Olympic skate 00:26 Team USA takes home more gold at the Winter Olympics 01:43 Team USA men’s hockey win third straight at Winter Games 01:06 Now Playing Netherlands’ Jutta Leerdam on winning silver 00:41 UP NEXT Dutch speedskater Femke Kok sets new Olympic record 00:36 Johannes Klæbo wins record ninth Winter Olympic gold 00:25 Sweden accuses Canada of cheating in men’s curling 00:37 Team USA defeats Japan in women’s curling 01:33 Team USA’s men’s hockey defeats Denmark 00:58 Stolz breaks Olympic record and wins second gold medal 01:06 Skier makes history with first medal win for South America 01:01 Scoring called into question after Americans’ silver finish 01:46 Athletes share emotional moments from the medal podium 01:41 Team USA women’s hockey defeats Italy, goes to semifinal 00:55 Watch highlights from day 7 of the Winter Olympics 01:58 Ilia Malinin stumbles through men’s skating performance …

The Netherlands learns a lesson on right and far-right alliances

The Netherlands learns a lesson on right and far-right alliances

Published by Sam Flores

Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom, at the House of Representatives in The Hague, February 3, 2026. JEROEN JUMELET / AFP No executive committee, no organizational structure, never any internal votes and no members – except for one, Geert Wilders himself. Since 2006, Wilders has been the sole person to allocate positions, set the party’s direction and speak on behalf of the Party for Freedom (PVV). Over the years, he has delivered harsh rhetoric that has fueled the success of his far-right party, which made it the most popular in the Netherlands by 2023. He launched tirades against the Quran, which he likened to Mein Kampf; condemned “scum”; promised to “deal with” Moroccans; stoked fears of a “tsunami” of immigrants threatening to turn the country into “a province of the Islamic Super State Eurabia,” and so on. The Dutch lawmaker’s party has been and remains a political anomaly; its autocratic structure has allowed it to avoid, for two decades, the internal rivalries and ego clashes that often plague – and sometimes destroy – …