‘Ripping up the playground rulebook is having incredible effects on children at an Auckland school.
Chaos may reign at Swanson Primary School with children climbing trees, riding skateboards and playing bullrush during playtime, but surprisingly the students don’t cause bedlam, the principal says.
The school is actually seeing a drop in bullying, serious injuries and vandalism, while concentration levels in class are increasing..’     source

‘The newly tribalised Australia. Men shoot man. Friends of victim react by attacking police:
A WILD mob fought with police after a man was shot dead in a suspected drive-by in Sydney’s south west this morning…..
Reader Notch: From one who was on scene in an official capacity when the abovementioned altercation took place, your suspicions on the ethnicity of the victim and “family and friends” are 100% correct…’             source
How long before the NZ Herald’s Greg Ansley manages to spin this as “violent white Australian youths”?

This clown is the Australian ABC’s go-to guy for commentary on Indonesian/Australian political interactions! Used frequently as an Indonesian “expert” to bash Tony Abbott.

Gets Parole and $4800 Fine
Mind you, those Germans don’t muck about.   They’re considering revoking his taxi licence too!

Lorikeets having a ball in 4oc, under a spray we set up for them this afternoon. Gecko pic, click for full size.

‘Fears of violence ahead of Australia Day
Drunk, flag-draped youths turning celebration of nationhood into affirmation of white power
The 260-year-old cottage once belonging to the parents of Captain James Cook, transferred stone by stone from Yorkshire to Melbourne 80 years ago, bodes ill for tomorrow’s Australia Day celebrations.
Not for the first time the English navigator’s family home has been sprayed in paint proclaiming, among other graffiti, “January 26 Australia’s shame”…’
In fact the graffiti is the work of self-loathing whites and leftist and Aboriginal activists, so where’s the connection with an “affirmation of white power”?
It’s a crude attempt to tie all the violence which occurs on Australia Day (and there’s plenty of it, fuelled by alcohol and feral youths) to white racism. Just as the Cronulla riots, sparked by violent Lebanese muslim youths, were laid at the feet of white Australians by the media… The Herald is a fucking disgusting rag, not fit for lining a cat’s litter tray.

(Thanks to Francis Porretto for the pointer)
‘..What neither side seems to realize is that the system is not reformable. There are multiple classes of people, but it boils down to the connected, and the not connected. Just as in pre-Revolutionary France, there is a very strict class hierarchy, and the very idea that we are equal before the law is a laughable nonsequitr…’
‘Burn the Fucking System to the Ground’

enables creeping fascism. Always.

About time. And NRO continues its downward spiral as merely a mouthpiece for the Republican establishment.

 HERE    The French may yet show the way.    (Thanks to Col. B. Bunny.)