10th March 2021 Well, the situation is getting interesting. The BBC carried a report today and an interview with members of the Myanmar police force who had crossed the border and sought asylum in India as they didn’t agree with killing innocent people. Following on from my report about
Exhibit One, April 2018: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has banned future offshore oil and gas exploration in New Zealand. “We’re protecting industry and protecting future generations from climate change,” said Ardern. “This is a responsible step, which provides certainty for businesses and communities that rely on fossil fuels.” Exhibit
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 competition photo was of The Brook Street Dam, Nelson, now part of the Brook Waimarama Nature Sanctuary. The pest-proof fence
9th March 2021 Many of you may have seen and read of the attack on an ambulance and the brutal treatment of the medical staff recently, if not on The BFD then the MSM did carry a report. The window was shot out by a shotgun. Where did the cartridges
9th March 2021 Kneeling before them in the dust of a northern Myanmar city, Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng begged a group of heavily armed police officers to spare “the children” and take her life instead. The image of the Catholic nun in a simple white habit, her hands spread,
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 competition photo? Yesterday’s photo is the view from the window of a museum in the Telemark region of Norway, between Oslo and
A BFD reader recently received an email from their child who works in a funeral home in the UK. The email covers a number of things, but below are the most pertinent parts that I think will be of interest. As of now, we are still at the highest level
8th March 2021 As things progress in Myanmar with the same routine of a few deaths, a lot of beatings and pictures of violence and mayhem I will try and report on matters that the MSM miss or ignore. Of course, if there is unusual brutality or a change in
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7th March 2021 Today I was fortunate enough to contact a couple of my sources in Myanmar who are well placed in the civil service. What I am going to comment on is uncorroborated and probably won’t appear in the MSM. In the days leading up to the coup
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 is a view of Lake Hakanoa, Huntly. Editor Note: The BFD needs more views from your window. We particularly
As the old Tom Lehrer song, National Brotherhood Week put it, “Everybody hates the Jews”. That’s something that’s becoming sadly more true in recent years, as the scourge of anti-Semitism continues to fester on the right – and spread like a black stain across the left. But, as it
Despite the GNLM reports, all is not well in Myanmar as the economy continues to tank. In a continuation of its policy of pretending that life in Myanmar is carrying on as normal, the Global New Light of Myanmar carried this as its main story today. I.S.P.E
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 is the view of the “Stairway to heaven” in the Japanese garden at Lake Hakanoa, Huntly. Editor Note: The
Some of the most gut-wrenching scenes in the bleak, brilliant mini-series Chernobyl are when a squad of soldiers is tasked with exterminating the abandoned pets of Pripyat. An earlier scene had shown dogs forlornly running alongside the buses taking their owners away forever. The task of shooting the abandoned animals
