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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

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The Military Start Airstrikes

The Military Start Airstrikes

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

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After Her Own Release, Kylie Moore-Gilbert Helps Others

After Her Own Release, Kylie Moore-Gilbert Helps Others

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

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COVID-19 Responses Have Been Consistently Callous

COVID-19 Responses Have Been Consistently Callous

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

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View from Your Window

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

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The Death Toll Mounts

The Death Toll Mounts

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

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Just like Clockwork – The Slaughter Resumes

Just like Clockwork – The Slaughter Resumes

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

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Does Canada’s Bill C-7 Ignore a Dark Lesson from History?

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

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China’s Strength Should Be Evaluated without Emotion

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

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Closed Borders, Travel Bans and Halted Immigration: 5 Ways COVID-19 Changed How – And Where – People Move around the World

Closed Borders, Travel Bans and Halted Immigration: 5 Ways COVID-19 Changed How – And Where – People Move around the World

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

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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

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The Beer War Starts

The Beer War Starts

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

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Time for China to Welcome UN Investigative Team

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

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View from Your Window

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

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The Fightback Starts

The Fightback Starts

25th March 2021 Armed resistance to the coup regime is building. The Kachin Independence Army have started to engage the Tatmadaw in limited actions. The Kachin Independence Army (KIA), a major ethnic armed group based in Kachin State, has occupied a strategically important hill in Bhamo District held by Myanmar’

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