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The Other Big News from the United States

Our media may be ignoring it, but there’s other big news coming from the US that is not the US election. The War on Drugs is coming to an end. In the long term, this news may be of more significance than whether Trump or Biden wins. In Oregon

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Japan’s Hydrogen Push Another Green Boondoggle

Japan’s Hydrogen Push Another Green Boondoggle

The green dragon poisons everything it touches. You might think that a usually sensible nation like Japan would be largely immune to the pie-in-sky hysteria of green delusion. Think again. Like too many nations, Japan has fallen for the chimaera of “carbon neutrality”, which will almost certainly have the same

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Brazilian Perspectives

Brazilian Perspectives

Kerry Grant banana-boat-boy.com Old enough to know better … but It is a typical overcast Brazilian day (for this part of the country) pretending that it wants to rain but using the illusion to compound the humidity to at least double the usual. My body is responding accordingly – with rivulets

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View From Your Window
NZ

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 view was looking out at Bolton street cemetery from Sofitel 4th floor. Editor Note: The BFD needs more views from

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View From Your Window
NZ

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 competition view was looking out of Wendy’s Restaurant toward BP and Cameron Rd, Tauranga. The winner of the book

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Competition: View From Your Window
NZ

Competition: 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 view was of Queen Charlotte Sound taken from Karaka Point Reserve, Port Underwood Road. Editor Note: The BFD needs more

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View From Your Window
NZ

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 view was looking over Tawa towards Colonial Knob. From Johnsonville-Porirua Motorway. Editor Note: The BFD needs more views from your

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View From Your Window
NZ

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 view was of The Dez Dam, near Dezful, SW Iran.  The photo was taken January 1990. For the sharp of

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View From Your Window
NZ

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 that was taken January 1990 from a United Nations aircraft that a reader of The BFD was piloting? Yesterday’s view was

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How Have Dire Predictions for Sweden Panned Out?

How Have Dire Predictions for Sweden Panned Out?

covidplanb.co.nz An article in the NZ Herald on May 27, 2020 predicted Sweden would have 56,000 more COVID-19 deaths and had made “a fatal mistake”. At the time of publishing, Sweden had experienced 4408 deaths. So, how’s that prediction looking five months on? It was wrong.

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View From Your Window
NZ

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 view was the view out of the window of a reader’s room in his Covid managed isolation facility, the

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View From Your Window
NZ

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? The competition VFYW was taken while riding the Tairere Gorge train from Middlemarch to Dunedin, after doing the Otago Rail Trail. Today

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Competition: View From Your Window
NZ

Competition: 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 Competition photo? Yesterday’s photo was taken from Abilene Cres, Churton Park, looking northeast across Churton Park School to motorway and Granada village.

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View From Your Window
NZ

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 of Mangaweka in the Wanganui-Manawatu region. Editor Note: The BFD needs more views from your window. We particularly

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