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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell me about this photo? Yesterday’s view was taken from the taxi travelling from the railway station to the cruise terminal in Tianjin – a few years ago now when

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In Full: Journalist Maria Ressa’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

In Full: Journalist Maria Ressa’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

Hong Kong Free Press hongkongfp.com Hong Kong Free Press is a new, non-profit, English-language news source seeking to unite critical voices on local and national affairs. Free of charge and completely independent, HKFP arrives amid rising concerns over declining press freedom in Hong Kong and during an important time

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell me about this photo? Yesterday’s view was taken from Somerville Rd (alongside Somerville Park), Somerville, East Auckland. This is the eastern border of urban Auckland. Looking east, Mangemangeroa

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Sweden: One of the Freest Countries in the World during COVID

Sweden: One of the Freest Countries in the World during COVID

Andre Bothma sovereignman.com Hailing from South Africa, Andre is a seasoned marketer with extensive exposure to the Residency and Citizenship By Investment (RCBI) Industry. He writes extensively on retirement and passive income visas (including the D7 and Non-Lucrative Visa), Golden Visas and Citizenship By Investment programs. For countless people,

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How Could They Have Done This to the Children?

Vinay Prasad   brownstone.org Vinay Prasad MD MPH is a hematologist-oncologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. He runs the VKPrasad lab at UCSF, which studies cancer drugs, health policy, clinical trials and better decision making. He is author

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Japan’s Vaccination Policy: No Force, No Discrimination

Japan’s Vaccination Policy: No Force, No Discrimination

Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty is former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health. Japan’s ministry of health is taking a sensible, ethical approach to Covid vaccines. They recently labeled the vaccines with a warning about myocarditis and other

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell me about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was taken from Sulphur Point of Lake Rotorua. Please put View From My Window in the subject line. window@thebfd.co.nz

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Why Japan Didn’t Go Completely Batshit Crazy

Why Japan Didn’t Go Completely Batshit Crazy

Eye Patch Jack pacificnarrations.substack.com Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. Yes, how do you like this? This is my new Maori greeting that perhaps I shall use more, as I have recently found out that I am, by the New Zealand government’s definition, a member of

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell me about this photo? Yesterday’s view was of Lake Waitaki in front, Lake Aviemore behind it, Waitaki River Canterbury.  Taken from Invercargill to Christchurch flight. Please put View

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell me about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was taken of Poolburn Reservoir, Central Otago. Rohan in LOTR. Taken from Air New Zealand ATR 72, Invercargill to Christchurch. Please put

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I’m Fighting for My Right to Learn

Serena Johnson brownstone.org Serena Johnson is an English major who studied at The King’s University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for five years. She was one of the university’s first blind students. She was forced to take Academic Leave due to the vaccine mandate, which negatively impacted her

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Two Weeks in an Australian COVID Prison

Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,

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