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"Matua Shane is the God of wind", said Pumpkin Head Shane Jones to a TVNZ One News reporter last night while brushing off comments made by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon as if he can say what he likes cos NZ First are running the show now based on a 6% mandate.

G News has noticed that Pumpkin Head resorts to suggesting he is a fictional persona acting up in a make believe world of politics when the pointy end of criticism prods him too sharply - and he tries to run away from being accountable for his torn sack mouth using the device of "Matua Shane God of wind" in the third person.

Truth is Pumpkin Head had crossed the line as he sledged the Judiciary at the Waitangi Tribunal and likely breached the Cabinet Manual and Luxon chastised Pumpkin Head Jones in the media - for being ill considered.

"James Shaw told Luxon what was going to happen when he said good luck to him in parliament", said an organic punga.

"Chippy said they would run rings around Luxon", remarked a flax bush, "Behold the coalition of chaos".

"Strong and stable" warbled a majestical tui before yelling "Yeah Right" and flying off to peck at Pumpkin Head's bung eye.

"For Luxon to come out in public like that and fire shots - it indicates his advisors are slapping their foreheads and gritting their teeth at Jones and Seymour who are just digging a deep hole here." - said G from G News.

"He is wed to the unmanageable", purred Monty sleeping under a fern frond.

In other news RNZ reported that, "The Environmental Defence Society says the government's "war on nature" has "gone nuclear" with this bill, while Greenpeace Aotearoa labelled it a "dark day for nature and democracy". An open letter from ten different scientific groups representing thousands of scientists say the approvals bill, along with other proposed changes, weaken environmental protection and call for evidence-based policy making."

Imagine "The God of Wind", "The Flapping flounder" and Simeon Brown making final decisions about environmentally destructive projects with Tama pretending he has some clout over in the corner? Cos that is the proposed reality.

All across Aotearoa New Zealand people still brood darkly how Bishop stepped over that line and gamed democracy about the list of stakeholders only hours before submissions closed.

Swearwords abound as curses are heard from the Cape to the Bluff and no amount of "he's one of the lads" will blow this away.

Jones was promoting "Clean Coal" and how popular it is "all around the world" to Oliver Sean Plunket during the week - while at the same time Luxon is giving away $41 Million in Corporate Welfare to get away from coal - which is the usual contradiction from the three headed push me pull you.

Press coverage of the $41 Million was muted as media bowed low to Luxon's "deeper relationships" and "incredible energy levels" while Luxon's government fail to strike a deal over Police pay.

Duplicity-Allan wrote a lightweight opinion in the NZ Herald about Aukus 2 this morning and was roundly booed on all sides which was refreshing. It's not like Duplicity understands the implications or words like "interoperability".

Duplicity deceptively stated that Labour had no credibility by using a straw man to misrepresent Labour's actual position and who can deny that Winston is making noises that we are going to dive deeply into Aukus 2 - while Luxon's spin contradicts that message - the Coalition of Chaos is full of mixed messages again.

Nobody reading this is Gerry Brownlee.

Hooray !!!

Jack Tame twisted the Israeli Ambassador into knots on Q&A this morning when he asked how bombing children is going to break the cycle of violence and how the 34,000 dead in Gaza ( 13,000 of whom are children ) will only radicalise more terrorism against Israel.

The Ambassador described a suicide bombing in 2002 that he survived and suggested he was all about reconciliation - so it was not necessarily about hate - but along the way he talked about people being beasts etc...so it was hard to swallow much of what he was saying.

Indira Stewart presented a great segment on a South Auckland low decile school where free school lunches are working and attendance is up and so is academic achievement.

Seymour ( described as see less by a pupil ) could not be arsed spending even one hour at the school as he seeks to rip 50% out of the school lunches program to "balance the books" with tax cuts for landlords a major priority.

The school had discovered that wet soggy sandwiches are a waste but hot food has no waste - and you don't need another review and Seymour from Epsom buggering everything up.

There was a flurry of reporting about a future cashless society and how Reserve Banks all over the world are looking at this - but it's still like years away.

Liam Dann reckoned the big difference between NZ and Aussie was they have a capital gains tax and compulsory super. You know how it is ...as they all talk about the brain drain again.

There is some naysaying and doubt about Stuff's ability to cobble together a news service in three months - but most of it is coming from rivals and has beens.

I guess it could be okay as long as Atlas Network Luke and Blue Blood Andrea are not fronting it. Last thing we need is another Atlas lens - propaganda news service.

There's a strong mood to fight the Government over its punch down on workers, intended environmental vandalism, anti democratic bull headed processes, anti-Treaty BS and punch downs on the poor.

No amount of media fluff and drivel can appease the rising tide.

Vicki's Dad is doing okay here, slowly recovering but still not right - and we are all doing okay in this wee whare in the bush.

Hope your Sunday is rolling out peacefully.

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