Andrea Vance is despicable–even by the NZ media’s low standards.

She may not have concocted the headline but she wrote the shallow, misleading drivel below it.

‘Shoot the natives’, ACT conference told

Race relations dominated today’s ACT party conference with one delegate suggesting the party should introduce a policy to ”shoot the natives.”
The comment came as guest speaker Don Brash outlined why he thought the Treaty of Waitangi was ahead of its time.
”I’m not someone who wants to scrap the Treaty. I think it’s a fantastic document. It was a move that was well ahead of it’s time.
”In 1840, when the British colonial power arrived in Australia…[the policy] was to shoot the natives.”
 
One member piped up: ”Lets bring it back.” The remark was met with a groan…’

The NZ Herald did considerably better, although that’s faint praise:
‘ Don Brash has attacked the practice of public functions opening with a Maori prayer and claimed most people who call themselves Maori are actually a blend of races.
He has also unleashed a scathing criticism of his former colleagues in the National Party for their handling of Maori matters.
“Sometimes I think the Government cannot see other races but Maori,” he told Act’s annual conference today.
Dr Brash questioned why prayers – he was referring to karakia – were said in Maori at public events even when no Maori were present. “It’s beyond me.”
His comments, which drew loud applause, were something of a return to the themes of his landmark speech in 2004 on race relations which propelled him and National up the opinion polls just months after becoming that party’s leader…’  (before the National (Socialist) Party of Kiwiland stabbed him in the back, of course–honesty was never part of their agenda. kg)
REDBAITER does a better job of this story than the hurried, caffeinated Wabbit.

‘Like Clockwork: Eco-Tards Claim Earthquakes and Tsunami = AGW

Soylent Green gives the eco-scum a serve:
‘Just as predictably as the Catlin crew calling for rescue from the arctic ice, the Eco-tards at Grist instantly blamed last night’s 8.9-scale earthquake, and the resulting tsunami that wiped out Kurihara, Japan on Global Warming, Climate Change, Global Climate Disruption, Thermageddon.
Because, like, earthquakes and tidal waves never happened before industrialization.
Never let a crisis go to go to waste, eh Grist? Especially one with a massive death toll. You realize, don’t you, that we all saw this coming, that someone in the AGW Alarmosphere would make this imbecilic claim.  You win the hat pool, dickwads.
You fucking people are ghouls, feasting on cadavers before relatives are even notified.  If it were my choice, when you go, I would at least acknowledge your passing before leaving your CO2 and CH4 bloated corpses for the buzzards and crows, on the off-chance that they would recycle you into something useful. Fuck you.’

Democrats: Islam’s flunkeys.

‘Dems at radicalization hearings recite Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated group’s talking points
The Daily Caller has acquired the talking points that the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), a group with deep ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, supplied to its supporters as an aid in attacking the Muslim radicalization hearing New York Republican Rep. Peter King held Thursday. Save for Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s incoherent ramblings on Thursday, Democrats’ statements and testimony against King’s hearing, whether intentionally or unintentionally, largely mirrored MPAC’s talking points…’

Taiwan to fall?

Some stream-of-consciousness thoughts…..
catastrophe in Japan
Inflation, dodgy economy in China. Already inflation and some civil unrest due to food prices. Same across the M.E. Japan is one of China’s biggest customers and the ‘quake will reduce the market, placing further pressure on China’s economy.
What better time to take Taiwan, as a distraction at home while the U.S. is committed in Afghanistan and preoccupied with unrest in the M.E. and the resultant uncertainty of oil supplies?
Would be a massive blow to U.S. prestige- which would suit Obama very well, while allowing him to argue for more U.N. intervention and controls.