> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/119 - URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-119/ - Published: 2026-07-02T22:00:16.000Z - Updated: 2026-07-02T22:00:16.000Z - Description: 10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You - Author: Cam Slater - Tags: Ten@10, NZ Politics, World Politics, Media Bias **This is edition 2026/119 of the *Ten@10* newsletter.** Hi all, This is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media. Enjoy! --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/00851055-5420-4463-962c-df65ff079df3_1728x908.webp) ## 1\. Opportunity Is No Longer a Wasted Vote *Bryce Edwards — The Democracy Project* - 📊 TOP has broken out of its usual 1–2% polling range: **1News–Verian 4.6%** (just below the threshold) and **Roy Morgan 6.5%** (worth roughly 8 MPs). - 🧠 Edwards says the real barrier TOP has crossed is psychological — once voters believe a small party can enter Parliament, the “wasted vote” trap weakens. - 🏠 The party’s realistic path remains the party vote; electorate attempts by Gareth Morgan, Geoff Simmons, and Raf Manji in Ilam all “fell well short.” - 👩‍💼 New leader Qiulae Wong is contesting Mt Albert, which is “more interesting than previous efforts” but still not the main route. - ⚖️ Constitutional-law academic Andrew Geddis: once a party polls near 5%, voters “will have permission to consider them seriously” and the vote no longer feels “thrown into the sea.” - 😩 Edwards argues TOP is rising not because voters love land-value taxation or citizens’ assemblies, but because established parties look exhausted and minor parties look compromised. - 📉 National is leaking support to Winston Peters, Labour is avoiding specifics, the Greens look self-indulgent, ACT has lost insurgent energy, Te Pāti Māori is engulfed in internal conflict, and NZ First is busy with “leverage, grievance and theatre.” - 🏠 Public grievances fuelling the mood include housing, infrastructure, power prices, water, supermarket prices, banking profits, climate adaptation, and public services. - 📰 Edwards defends media coverage of a party polling 4.6–6.5%, while acknowledging Chris Lynch and Ani O’Brien’s critique that the attention is “something unhealthy.” - 🎯 Takeaway: TOP’s surge is less a policy revolution than a protest vote against a broken political market — and it could alter post-election coalition arithmetic. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1885783&post%5Fid=204388834&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA0Mzg4ODM0LCJpYXQiOjE3ODI4ODQ3MzAsImV4cCI6MTc4NTQ3NjczMCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE4ODU3ODMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.SGtQPAFII%5Fdp8n8eRfa8v5KdGf3gEKvBBbMKCBxXivQ&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/aac8fb6e-4fd4-48eb-960f-3b564616103a_957x620.webp) ## 2\. Politicising a Tragedy: PSA Takes the Gloves Off *Ani O’Brien — Thought Crimes* - 💀 A patient died in the toilets of Waikato Hospital’s ED waiting room; Health Minister Simeon Brown announced a rapid clinical review and a serious adverse event review. - 📢 The PSA press release opened reasonably — “No-one should be waiting nine hours or even longer at any Emergency Department” — but quickly became political. - 🗳️ PSA National Secretary Fleur Fitzsimmons explicitly urged voters to “vote to change the Government for one that properly funds health.” - 💰 Fitzsimmons blamed the Coalition for choosing “tax breaks to landlords and big tobacco rather than properly fund the health services New Zealanders need.” - 📊 O’Brien fact-checks: the six-hour ED target is 95%; under Labour by 2022–23 performance fell to 70–72%, meaning the share waiting longer than six hours roughly tripled. - 📈 Under the current Coalition, six-hour performance has risen to \~74% — still below target, but better than when Labour left office. - 💵 Total Crown health expenditure grew from $15.16 billion in FY2016 to $30.6 billion budgeted for 2026/27; the Coalition has increased health spending every year. - 👩‍⚕️ Nursing numbers rose by more than 9,000 between March 2023 and March 2024; Health NZ nursing vacancies fell from 10.8% to 6.8%. - ⚖️ O’Brien contrasts the PSA’s current outrage with its far more accommodating tone when Labour was in office and ED performance was worse. - 🎯 Takeaway: the Waikato tragedy is being weaponised by a union whose own numbers show the Coalition has improved, not cut, ED performance. [Read More](https://open.substack.com/pub/aniobrien/p/politicising-a-tragedy-psa-takes-the-gloves-off?utm%5Fsource=share&utm%5Fmedium=android&r=4pmbkd) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/4JM7MX6_Media_14_jfif.webp) ## 3\. Selling Food and Tyres on the News *Peter Allan Williams — Substack* - 📺 New Zealand television news gave uncritical, promotional coverage to the country’s new Michelin-starred restaurants, treating a government-funded industry awards night as major news. - 💰 The government spent **$6 million** to bring Michelin to New Zealand — roughly 100× the cost of Shane Jones’ controversial Toronto trip. - 🍽️ TVNZ’s 1 News and Seven Sharp ran live crosses on awards night, a follow-up story on Tala (first Samoan restaurant to win a star), and another live cross with the chef at Essence (the only two-star winner). - 🛞 Williams reminds readers Michelin stars began in 1900 primarily to sell tyres, with restaurant stars added in 1926. - 🏨 Louise Upston claims the stars will bring an extra 36,000 international visitors a year, but no published cost–benefit analysis has been shown. - 🍷 Williams ate at Essence in Queenstown: two degustation menus and one bottle of wine produced a four-figure bill — “not a lot less than the median weekly wage.” - 👨‍🍳 That night Essence had only two customers, supported by four kitchen staff, a maître’d, a sommelier, and a serving assistant. - 📺 Williams also flags bizarre news judgement: 15 minutes on a Saturday-night 6pm bulletin devoted to the All Whites losing 5–1 to Belgium, while a test-cricket series win in England got only a brief item. - 🗣️ Reader comments agree the coverage is promotional, with one calling it “only another $6 million wasted.” - 🎯 Takeaway: free prime-time publicity for 15 taxpayer-subsidised expensive restaurants, with almost no scrutiny of value for money. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1788933&post%5Fid=204423881&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA0NDIzODgxLCJpYXQiOjE3ODI5MDU4MTMsImV4cCI6MTc4NTQ5NzgxMywiaXNzIjoicHViLTE3ODg5MzMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.G%5F7z0SAidYSrWEr02Q1DIxWTB6THhV7Mtok7vsrBfT0&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/fe74d81f-578c-47bf-a2d7-d3b9ded81030_6000x4000.webp) ## 4\. Public’s Repudiation of Woke Radicalism Drives Democrats’ Socialist Turn *Michael Shellenberger — Public* - 🇺🇸 Socialists who swept recent New York elections and are poised to run the UK campaign on moderate “affordability” issues — cheaper housing, food, transport, childcare, higher minimum wage, peace in Gaza, Medicare for all, and an end to ICE raids. - 🐺 Shellenberger argues their public face hides a much more radical DSA agenda: abolishing police, jails and prisons; subordinating the Supreme Court and Executive Branch to Congress; expropriating capitalist property; socialising energy; allowing trans surgery on minors; open borders; and decriminalising public camping and drug use. - 📉 These radical positions are wildly unpopular: abolishing the police drew only 15% support even at the 2020 BLM peak; 74% approve separation of powers; 81% view free enterprise positively versus 39% for socialism; only 37% support medical transition of minors. - 🎭 The strategy: lead with popular affordability measures and “over time bring people to” the unpopular end goals, as Mamdani told the Young Democratic Socialists in 2021. - 🗞️ Shellenberger says mainstream media help by framing “democratic socialism” as Scandinavian social programmes rather than DSA abolition and expropriation. - 🎓 A second driver is “elite overproduction” — far more college graduates than degree-requiring jobs, producing resentment and progressive radicalism. - 📊 Between 2000 and 2019, 22 million bachelor’s graduates entered the US labour market to compete for 10 million degree-requiring jobs; 41% of recent graduates held non-degree jobs as of 2020. - 📉 The turn toward affordability is itself a tacit admission that the public has repudiated the Left on crime, homelessness, the border, transgenderism, race, and climate. - ⚖️ Shellenberger predicts more radicalism will provoke backlash outside the bluest cities, pointing to low-turnout primaries and declining Democratic favourability. - 🎯 Takeaway: the socialist surge is a tactical retreat from unpopular woke radicalism toward popular affordability framing — not a moderation of ultimate goals. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=279400&post%5Fid=204356414&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA0MzU2NDE0LCJpYXQiOjE3ODI5MTc0NzcsImV4cCI6MTc4NTUwOTQ3NywiaXNzIjoicHViLTI3OTQwMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.pPR2ZUxFtrevJJgaU7DhA-U0K86JoFISugDuXEfbUts&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/38e00b56-443c-4cef-af18-df8781c4ae2a_3162x2076.webp) ## 5\. Controversially, the Supreme Court Rules for Common Sense *Matt Taibbi — Racket News* - ⚖️ The US Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in *West Virginia v. BPJ* and *Little v. Hecox* that states may ban transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports teams based on biological sex. - ✍️ Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote: “May schools determine eligibility for women’s and girls’ sports based on biological sex? The answer is yes.” - 📊 A New York Times / Ipsos poll found 79% of Americans oppose athletes “who were male at birth” participating in women’s sports, including 67% of Democrats. - 📉 71% of Americans believe no one under 18 should have access to puberty blockers, including 54% of Democrats. - 🗣️ Reactions split along predictable lines: NBC called it a “major blow to LGBTQ rights”; Governor Tim Walz tweeted the Court said “schools can be cruel to my trans kids”; Kara Dansky called it “a good decision for women and girls.” - 🏛️ The ACLU opposed the bans; Taibbi notes the ACLU has also broken with former feminist allies by supporting housing biological men in women’s prisons. - 📰 Taibbi argues opposition is broad and bipartisan, and that the policy was implemented ahead of scientific and political consensus by a Biden day-one executive order. - 🧪 He mocks the “far from settled” framing on testosterone advantage, comparing it to baseball’s steroid consensus. - 🗣️ He also argues activists’ language gambits — “sex assigned at birth,” “Latinx” — have failed because people cannot be forced to adopt terminology they find absurd. - 🎯 Takeaway: the Court’s decision is less a conservative revolution than a return to common-sense categories that activists tried to override through linguistic pressure. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1042&post%5Fid=204272834&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA0MjcyODM0LCJpYXQiOjE3ODI5MTcyMTEsImV4cCI6MTc4NTUwOTIxMSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTEwNDIiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.tiB7HVPt0P%5Fy0RxpeDyxHW-w6PQay7IasFTw5iq6%5Fek&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/d1864465-a1f9-4304-9a08-849b175f6f13_1122x1402.webp) ## 6\. RFK Jr Was Right about Genocide *Roger Simon — American Refugees* - 🗣️ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Jesse Watters: “The only genocide in the Middle East is the one being committed against Jews and Christians.” - 📉 In 1948 there were roughly one million Jews in Arab states; today there are fewer than 15,000. - 📈 By contrast, there are \~2 million Muslim Arab citizens of Israel, and Gaza’s population of \~2 million has roughly doubled since Israel withdrew in 2005. - ⛪ Simon highlights Christian persecution across the Muslim Middle East, including Iran reportedly moving to seize Tehran’s oldest Protestant church, St. Peter Evangelical Church. - 🕌 Saudi Arabia and Qatar restrict non-Islamic worship to tightly regulated foreign enclaves; no public churches or synagogues exist. - 🇳🇬 Nigeria is cited as a place where Christians are oppressed “almost always at the hands of Islamic terrorists or their acolytes.” - 🇺🇸 Simon contrasts Western openness — over 300 mosques in Texas, \~2,000 in the UK — with Gulf-state restrictions. - 🤝 He urges a Judeo-Christian alliance, citing George Washington’s 1790 Touro Synagogue letter and warning: “First comes the Jews, then the Christians.” - ⚠️ The article is opinion advocacy; its demographic and historical claims should be independently verified. - 🎯 Takeaway: RFK Jr.’s framing — that Jews and Christians, not Muslims, are the primary victims of genocide in the Middle East — is being promoted as a corrective to dominant media narratives. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=2747685&post%5Fid=204364776&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA0MzY0Nzc2LCJpYXQiOjE3ODI4OTY3MzQsImV4cCI6MTc4NTQ4ODczNCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTI3NDc2ODUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.iSfqCyDzsc7eZzwzURRi6aHaQarE%5F9QeaYRUZKDN8X4&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/e6eec82a-f21d-44d2-9c7c-85c0008883b2_1248x832.webp) ## 7\. What Is Racism? *William McGimpsey — Substack* - 🎭 McGimpsey argues the term *racism* has been stretched, politicised, and weaponised to the point of becoming analytically useless. - 📜 The concept evolved from morally neutral *racialism* (1880s) into heavily condemned *racism* (early 1900s), then expanded after the 1960s to include structural and institutional racism. - ⚔️ Two competing definitions now dominate: the classical-liberal “treating people differently based on race” (procedural fairness) versus the progressive “anything producing racial power imbalance.” - 🏰 McGimpsey applies the motte-and-bailey fallacy: nearly everyone accepts the motte (genocide, systematic rights removal, gratuitous race-based harm are racist), while activists advance the bailey (reparations, affirmative action, race preferences, disagreeing with immigration policy, etc.). - 🗣️ He argues racism is “inherently censorious” because the same word covers both clearly evil acts and ordinary political disagreements, shutting down debate. - 🤔 The core question “who decides what counts as racist?” is sidestepped by those using the term to advance ideological agendas. - 📉 The author proposes reducing racism to a “Platonic form”: race-based evil, stripped of ideological imports from either classical liberalism or progressivism. - ⚖️ He acknowledges biological-differences debates as part of the background conflict, though he does not fully endorse specific claims. - 🗣️ The piece is philosophical taxonomy, not empirical social science; its value is in clarifying definitions rather than proving rates. - 🎯 Takeaway: without a stable definition, *racism* functions as a moral cudgel rather than a tool of analysis. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=2422620&post%5Fid=202363254&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjAyMzYzMjU0LCJpYXQiOjE3ODI5NDI0MzcsImV4cCI6MTc4NTUzNDQzNywiaXNzIjoicHViLTI0MjI2MjAiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.kj-T2DRMi7t1kbHSvqdO%5FM33wc4npxK514XbcNaxN-4&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/1FLecLQZvz95.webp) ## 8\. The Memory Hole Above Beijing *Christina Maas — Reclaim The Net* - ✈️ On 26 June 2026 a small aircraft struck Beijing’s 528-metre CITIC Tower; the pilot was killed and 13 people were injured. - 🕳️ Within hours, searches for “plane crash in Beijing” on Weibo returned “no results found”; videos and photos were deleted, in some cases removed directly from citizens’ phones by police. - 🗞️ State media initially ran nothing; a day later a brief official notice admitted a “single-engine double-seat light sports aircraft collided with a high-rise building in flight.” - 🧱 China runs two censorship systems: the Great Firewall at the border, and platform-level self-censorship that checks every post against blacklists before delivery. - 🖼️ New images of the crash briefly slipped through because they had not yet been fingerprinted; once fingerprinted, every subsequent upload died instantly. - 🆔 Real-name verification means anyone posting is identifiable, allowing police to visit witnesses and pressure them to delete footage themselves. - ⚖️ The Cybersecurity Law, amended in 2026, fines platforms up to 10 million yuan and can punish individual staff for failing to delete forbidden content fast enough. - 🌍 Maas warns the same tools — image fingerprinting, keyword filtering, identity-linked accounts — are appearing in Western democracies under “child safety,” “online safety,” and “age verification” laws. - ⚠️ The architecture does not care whether it is keeping you safe or keeping you quiet; whoever holds the blacklist holds the truth. - 🎯 Takeaway: Beijing’s erased plane crash is a live demonstration of how censorship infrastructure, once built, can delete ordinary reality as easily as dissent. [Read More](https://direct.reclaimthenet.org/l/iPnBooOa763h2v1aFpGNnxSw/KHFa892KLraEigYIYmxQoiiA/Z2UFbEXb763zgDsyEQnak4nw?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/GettyImages-2196090781-1536x864.jpg) ## 9\. Terrorists Who Kill Jews Are Not ‘Journalists’ *Jake Wallis Simons — spiked* - 🇺🇳 Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon held up photos of three Palestinians publicly mourned as civilians, identifying them as combatants: a Hamas sniper, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander, and a Nukhba-force member. - 📰 Ahmed Wishah, described as a journalist, had been mourned by New York mayor Zohran Mamdani; Mohammad Abu Itiwi, described as a UNRWA worker, had been mourned by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. - 🛡️ The Committee to Protect Journalists announced it is reviewing its database of journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza war after Hamas and PIJ published obituaries identifying as combatants people CPJ had listed as journalists. - 📊 A 2024 Henry Jackson Society study found only 5% of surveyed media organisations cited Israeli casualty figures, while 98% used Hamas-controlled health-ministry numbers. - 🎙️ Simons calls this “one of the gravest failures of journalistic scepticism in modern times.” - 📰 He accuses Western correspondents including the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen and Sky News’ Alex Crawford of presenting Gaza as a place where Israel targets journalists while ignoring evidence of militant embedding. - ⚠️ The article argues Palestinian militants have been “masquerading as journalists, medics and aid workers,” and that Western media have amplified the deception. - 🌍 Simons describes the information environment as “the most intense age of propaganda since Soviet times,” made worse because it spreads voluntarily within free societies. - 🎯 Takeaway: a major press-freedom organisation is now quietly scrubbing its Gaza casualty database after militant groups exposed what Israel had been saying for months. [Read More](https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/07/01/terrorists-who-kill-jews-are-not-journalists/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/trump-economy-1200x630.jpg) ## 10\. ‘Experts’ Stumped About How Trump Proved Them Wrong on Oil Prices *Bryan Chai / The Western Journal — The Gateway Pundit* - ⛽ US average pump prices peaked at **$4.56/gallon** during the worst of the Iran conflict but then fell **70 cents in about a month**. - 📉 The drop contradicted predictions of $150/barrel oil, $5/gallon gasoline, and summer recessions. - 📰 A Politico headline admitted: “Energy experts said gas prices would stay high. Why were they wrong?” - 🤔 One oil analyst quoted by Politico said: “It’s the weirdest thing. I’ve never seen a market like this.” - 📣 Chai argues the pattern reflects misaligned incentives: experts want relevance, outlets want urgency, and audiences respond more strongly to crisis than calm. - 📉 Bold forecasts travel widely; quiet corrections get little attention, eroding trust in “expert consensus.” - ⚠️ The piece is commentary, not a market analysis; it relies heavily on Politico’s admission of expert error. - 🗣️ Chai says no conspiracy is needed — incentives and inertia explain the repeated overconfident projections followed by silent walk-backs. - 🎯 Takeaway: another case of dramatic expert forecasts failing quietly while the media that amplified them move on without correction. [Read More](https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/experts-stumped-trump-proved-wrong-oil-prices-weirdest/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ## What our members are saying about Ten@10 **Elizabeth** These articles are compulsory reading for me and the perfect addition to the usual list of Goodoil items! **Lynne** Absolutely brilliant to receive these current and thought provoking articles. **Jonathan** Just wanted to let you know that I’m loving this new 10@10\. Much appreciated from someone who chooses to read/watch almost NO mainstream media. **Murray** Cam, relish your output as the newspaper in Christchurch is so intent on non news. Thankyou **Fred** Thanks for Ten @ Ten, really enjoy reading it.Keep it up. All the best, keep healthy. **Jocko** Wonderful info not otherwise available in NZ. More power to your elbow! Thanks.