Michael Bell University of Sydney In the early hours of March 23, the container ship Ever Given was blown off course by high winds on its way through the Suez Canal. At 400 metres long, the Ever Given is longer than the canal is wide, and the ship became wedged
What can you tell me about this photo? **NOTE this is my last VFYW photo. If fans of this series would like it to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz Yesterday’s photo was of the Waiotemarama Gorge Road on our way to the Wild
28th March 2021 In a new low of depravity, even for the amoral regime, a protestor was shot and refused treatment before being burned alive by the authorities. A neighborhood watch member was burned alive after being injured by gunfire from Myanmar’s security forces in Aungmyethazan Township, Mandalay, on
Naomi Levin aijac.org.au A little over three months ago, Australian academic Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert was spirited out of Iran after two years imprisonment in some of the world’s worst jails. Moore-Gilbert could be forgiven for laying low and adjusting to life back home after her long incarceration
Matthew Hanley mercatornet.com Matthew Hanley is the author of Affirming Love, Avoiding AIDS; What Africa Can Teach the West, published by the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia (USA). After earning his master’s degree in public health from Emory University in Atlanta in 2000, he worked for Catholic
If fans of this series would like it to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was taken on the 3rd of January 2021 of Mataura River from Kana Street Mataura. Editor Note: The BFD
27th March 2021 Below is the breakdown of today’s death toll by region. This does not account for fatalities where the authorities drag away the bodies and dispose of them elsewhere. The situation is escalating so much that civil war is becoming increasingly likely especially with a debilitating escalation
27th March 2021 The message below was broadcast to the sound of soothing, tinkling piano music on the eve of Armed Forces Day (used to be revolution day). Translation “This isn’t anything like video games you play, your heads or backs would be shots just like your friends who
Hendrik van der Breggen mercatornet.com Hendrik van der Breggen, PhD, is a retired philosophy professor who lives in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada. Hendrik’s parents survived the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands. Lebensunwertes Leben is German for “life unworthy of life.” As a justification of killing, this idea led to
Bruce Wilds brucewilds.blogspot.com Bruce Wilds is the author of the book “Advancing Time”, and this blog-site. Both the book and this blog focuses on how the ever-quickening pace of change impacts today’s society and the massive challenges it creates. He feels that it is crucial we understand
Mary A. Shiraef University of Notre Dame Shiraef is a researcher who studies studies processes of migration and identity politicization, with a focus on how collective memory takes shape in authoritarian regimes. In addition to her M.A. from Notre Dame, she holds a Masters of Literature (MLitt) in International
If fans of this series would like it to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was taken 27km North of Kraków, Poland. A limestone monolith, hidden behind it is Pieskowa Skala Castle. Pieskowa Skala
26th March 2021 Below is a letter from the Karen National Union to Min Aung Hlaing. It is a translation of the original Burmese letter sent to the General. This spells trouble for the regime and you can be sure that the KNU are talking to other EAOs. The Kachin
The National Party welcomes and affirms the joint statement from the New Zealand and Australia Foreign Ministers calling on China to grant ‘unfettered access to Xinjiang for United Nations experts, and other independent observers’, National’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Gerry Brownlee says. “In a phone conversation with the Chinese Ambassador
If fans of this series would like it to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was a view from the clubhouse looking out over the range at the Awakeri Shooting Range. Editor Note: The
