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Dutch Doctors Euthanize Two-Year-Old Toddler In First Case Of Its Kind

A doctor in the Netherlands euthanized a toddler in what officials said is the country's first case involving a child under 12, and a government-appointed review panel concluded the physician acted "with due care."

The child, who was nearly 2 years old and suffering from severe medical conditions, died at the end of 2025, with details only becoming public this month after the supervising committee issued its finding.

The child was born at 26 weeks, suffered brain damage, and was later diagnosed with spastic cerebral palsy and a severe form of infant epilepsy, according to the report. The child's parents requested termination of life after the attending physician concluded the child's suffering was unbearable and without hope of improvement.

Independent doctors first consulted in the case concluded the child was not in continuous unbearable suffering and that reasonable alternatives still existed. Rather than stopping there, the attending physician sought another opinion, and a second doctor signed off. The first consultants said palliative options and different medication might improve control of the child's epileptic seizures. The official report did not say death was imminent; it said the child's life expectancy was shortened and depended on potentially life-threatening complications.

Until 2024, Dutch rules covered termination of life for newborns and separate euthanasia requests from minors age 12 and older. A special regulation that took effect in 2024 created a framework for termination of life in children under 12, subject to strict medical-review requirements.

News of the Dutch case comes days after a shocking report from Canada, where an 83-year-old Christian grandmother in Ontario was euthanized under the country's Medical Assistance in Dying program this summer, and her family said she never gave her final consent.

Brigitte Stegemann died by lethal injection on July 10 at The Pearl, a care home in Cannifton, Ontario, after being diagnosed with Stage IV stomach cancer. Relatives said Stegemann, a devout Christian, had already turned down MAID because it went against her faith, telling them, "No, I don't want that," and that her wish was to die naturally.

Stegemann's granddaughter and longtime caregiver, Brigitte Kranendonk, said the process moved forward anyway and sped up while she was away on vacation.

Meanwhile...

Canada is advertising assisted suicide.

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— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) September 28, 2026 Tyler Durden Tue, 09/29/2026 - 04:15

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South Korea Summons Acting Ukrainian Ambassador Over North Korean Prisoner Transfer Revelation

Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times,

The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Ukraine's acting ambassador to the country on Sept. 28 to convey Seoul's displeasure over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's revelation that two North Korean prisoners of war had been transferred to South Korea.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Seoul, South Korea, on June 8, 2026. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

South Korean First Vice Minister Park Yun-ju told acting Ukrainian Ambassador Andriy Beshkin that despite a clear agreement to keep the repatriation confidential, Kyiv unilaterally revealed the move during Zelenskyy's speech to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) last week, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.

The ministry further expressed strong regret over the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office's denial of the existence of the private agreement and has demanded an official explanation and apology from Kyiv, saying such actions seriously undermine trust between the two governments.

The Epoch Times contacted the South Korean and Ukrainian foreign ministries for comment but did not receive responses by publication time.

Zelenskyy revealed that the North Korean prisoners had been transferred to South Korea during his address to the UNGA on Sept. 23.

"Recently, we sent two North Korean prisoners of war to the Republic of Korea," Zelenskyy said in his address to the United Nations.

"These guys are not easy to capture alive. One of them, when he realized he was going to be taken prisoner, tried to kill himself. And he was shocked that fate didn't let him die.

"This is how they raise people in the North. It's reality. They take away their freedom. They take away their right to choose. And they drill into them that they must die, no matter what."

Since then, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and his office have alleged that Ukraine breached a nondisclosure agreement between Seoul and Kyiv, designed to keep the transfer secret and protect the soldiers from potential repercussions.

Lee said in an X post the day after Zelenskyy's remarks to the U.N. that "state affairs should be conducted for the country and the people, not for the interests or popularity of the government or those in power."

"Of course there were internal arguments for disclosing the fact that the North Korean prisoners had been brought to South Korea, since it would clearly have helped recover the government's approval ratings," Lee said, but noted that "considering the various problems that disclosure would create, keeping it confidential was appropriate in every respect, and that is what was agreed."

He labeled the revelation about the prisoners' transfer "cruel and irresponsible," saying that he did not "know what circumstances the Ukrainian side may have had in disclosing this in violation of the confidentiality agreement, but it is deeply regrettable."

In a later statement from the South Korean Presidential Office on Sept. 27, senior presidential secretary for public relations Seong Ghi-hong also expressed "strong regret" over Zelenskyy's disclosure of the repatriation and the subsequent denial of any confidentiality agreement, according to Yonhap.

Seong said the Ukrainian government had asked for confidentiality, as the revelation could spark domestic criticism over Kyiv giving up the chance to exchange the North Korean prisoners for Ukrainian prisoners held by Russia.

Seoul agreed to keep the repatriation confidential because of security, diplomatic, and humanitarian concerns, including the safety of the prisoners and their families still in the north, he said.

Ukraine captured the two North Koreans in Russia's Kursk region in January 2025, with Zelenskyy at the time describing the pair as the first North Korean soldiers to be captured alive since Pyongyang sent troops to fight alongside Moscow's forces.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/29/2026 - 03:30

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Where Robots Do The Most Housework

Over the past two decades, domestic robots like robot vacuums and lawn-mowing robots have evolved from gimmicks for tech lovers to actual mass-market products.

Today, these automated little helpers are capable of performing household chores as good as, if not better than humans, freeing up valuable time for their owners to focus on more important things such as (paid) work, family or leisure activities.

With advancements in technology, domestic robots have not only become smarter and more efficient, but also become a lot more affordable, with decent vacuum robots now available for just a couple hundred dollars.

As more households embrace smart technologies, the demand for these robots continues to grow, promising a future where mundane chores are handled effortlessly, leaving homeowners (and renters) with more time to enjoy the finer things in life.

As Statista's Felix Richter reports, according to Statista Consumer Insights, adoption of vacuum and lawn-mowing robots is still limited, though, with fewer than 1 in 5 respondents in each surveyed market calling either of the two their own.

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Interestingly, domestic robots are particularly unpopular in South Korea and Japan – two of the countries with the highest density of industrial robots.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/29/2026 - 02:45

British Schoolkids Told To List Only The Positives Of Mass Migration

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

Children as young as seven are being sat down in British classrooms and told to list the "positive" aspects of migration - and only the positives. No pressure on housing. No wages. No hotels. No community strain. Just the approved script.

Show Racism the Red Card, which brands itself the UK's "leading anti-racism charity," has produced lesson plans that treat migration as an unalloyed good.

Pupils are being handed headlines such as "how many more migrants can we take?" and instructed to rewrite them in a cheerier register - "migrant workers bring fresh hope to British economy" is the model answer. The materials describe the exercise as "an opportunity to explore what is positive and good about migration."

Children as young as seven are being taught that migration is a "positive" force in Britain by a charity whose funding was cancelled by a Reform council

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— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) September 27, 2026

It's pure insidious indoctrination.

The same packs tell British kids that women and children make up 80 per cent of refugees worldwide. They do not mention that adult men account for around three-quarters of those landing on British beaches in small boats.

Pupils are told it is "false" to claim most people fleeing their countries are adult men. They are told asylum seekers survive on £6.42 a day and are banned from working. They are not told what hotels, HMO placements and the rest of the support system actually cost.

Listed "benefits" include filling vacancies, plugging skills shortages, propping up social care and closing the "pension gap" with young foreign workers. There is no matching column for crowded classrooms, GP waiting lists, suppressed wages at the bottom end, or what happens when too many people arrive too fast into towns that never voted for any of it.

Sunderland's Reform-led council has now ended a 30-year relationship with the group. Council leader Christopher Eynon said the authority would no longer back "politically charged organisations with an agenda."

Labour Party chairman Bridget Phillipson called the cut "misguided, cruel and in no way backed by the people of Sunderland." Nigel Farage took the opposite view: "As ever an innocuous sounding organisation has a hard-Left agenda."

The lesson catalogue goes well beyond migration. It covers activism, Black History Month, the meaning and purpose of demonstrations, Windrush, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, "what makes a happy home," how to support people experiencing racism, anti-Semitism, and racism in online gaming, which the plans call "extremely common."

Anti-racism is one thing. Turning seven-year-olds into activists for a live political project is quite another.

The charity's own "Migration. Making Britain Great" programme was built to "counter and alter the negative narrative surrounding migration." That is the point. Not to weigh evidence. To alter the narrative.

A Department for Education spokesman said pupils should receive "a balanced presentation of opposing views on political topics," and that schools must promote fundamental British values. "This isn't optional, it's the law." The SRTRC packs do not look like balance. They look like one side of an argument, laminated and handed out as fact.

The same project has been running through British schools for years.

More than 1,100 schools and nurseries signed up to City of Sanctuary's Schools of Sanctuary scheme. Suggested reading for children as young as five includes Kind by Alison Green, which tells pupils that people who "had to leave their homes and their countries because of danger" are "brave and amazing," then offers the line: "Sometimes people say there's no room for anyone more. But maybe you can say 'There's plenty of room! Come on in!'"

Everybody's Welcome by Patricia Hegarty is even blunter: "Everybody's welcome, no matter who they are, wherever they may come from, whether near or far."

Then-shadow education secretary Laura Trott slammed the findings, stating "Classrooms should be places of learning not promoting political ideology." She added, "Portraying the arrival of small boats as a positive thing in books for children as young as five is indoctrination, this is an illegal practice." The organisation's aim, she noted, was to turn pupils into "ethically informed change makers."

The far left Green Party went further. A leaked dossier called for a Department of Migration to push into classrooms "the need for and moral obligation of asylum and humanitarian protection." Not an argument. A moral obligation - taught to children who cannot yet vote.

The BBC opened another door. Pro-migrant charity Heard, which has taken seed support linked to George Soros's Open Society Foundations, met producers of the CBBC show Pickle Storm - a comedy about a young "alien" fleeing persecution and settling in a British town.

Heard described the work as a way to "tap into children's media and directly impact framing of migration in children's content." The corporation claimed the group "had no power to influence editing or production."

Picture books. Lesson plans. Children's television. All are amplifying the same narrative.

While seven-year-olds are told to accentuate the positive, boats in the English Channel have delivered an army.

Home Office figures put small-boat arrivals since Labour took office on 4 July 2024 at 83,279. Regular Army strength sits at 83,000. Shadow home secretary Chris Philp put it plainly: "Labour has let an entire army-sized population cross the Channel illegally. More people have arrived in small boats than we have soldiers defending Britain. That is completely bonkers."

Former Royal Navy officer Chris Parry said Labour's intake amounted to six-and-a-half divisions of fighting-age men. "That's more divisions than were in the Allied assault wave on D-Day." Almost 90 per cent of those intercepted since 2018 have been male; two-thirds aged 18 to 39.

Farage, writing after another surge of landings, said: "It is utterly insane." Ordinary Britons, he added, "rightly ask if successive governments cannot stop people from arriving illegally in broad daylight... then what exactly is the point of having a border?"

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has herself warned that the UK's "generous" benefits and asylum support system is "drawing illegal migrants across the Channel." The Home Office says significant numbers of those in the boats are economic migrants. That is the adult conversation. The classroom version skips it.

Nobody needs a think tank paper to decode this. Charities write the worksheets. Schools deliver them. Broadcasters soften the story for the same age group. Parties draft "moral obligation" into education policy. And the raw numbers keep arriving on beaches.

The children being trained to rewrite "how many more can we take" will inherit the housing queue, the school places and the social care system those arrivals load. They are not being equipped to judge that. They are being equipped to applaud it.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/29/2026 - 02:00

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