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# Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/122
- URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-122/
- Published: 2026-07-07T22:00:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-07T22:00:51.000Z
- 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 2026/122 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!

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## 1\. All the “Principles” Ever Were

*SPANIARD — Brash & Mitchell*

- 📜 The Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 never intended to create a new doctrine of “Treaty principles,” argues SPANIARD; the word was a sloppy proxy for the actual provisions of the Treaty.
- 🏛️ In 1974 Matiu Rata introduced the bill saying it would give “formal and statutory recognition to those terms,” i.e. the Treaty’s provisions, not an open-ended philosophical framework.
- 📜 The 1975 Act’s interpretation section defined “Māori,” “Treaty,” and “Tribunal,” but offered no definition of “principles.”
- ⚖️ For over a decade the Tribunal acted on the Treaty’s provisions, until Geoffrey Palmer inserted “principles” into the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 at the eleventh hour.
- 🏛️ That 1986 insertion laid the ground for the 1987 “Lands” case and the subsequent avalanche of Treaty statutory clauses.
- 🗳️ The 2023 coalition agreements promised to restore the Treaty’s democratic intent, but ACT’s Principles Bill failed and NZ First’s clean-out of Treaty provisions will only go part of the way.
- 🔧 The author’s proposed fix: amend the Treaty of Waitangi Act so “principles” explicitly means the Treaty’s provisions — Crown sovereignty, property rights, equal citizenship — making the principles notion “a footnote in our nation’s record.”
- 🎯 Takeaway: the piece contends the “principles” debate is a historical misreading that can be resolved by returning to the Treaty’s text.

[Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/spaniard-provisions-of-the-treaty-all-the-principles-ever-were?utm%5Fcampaign=bae52d35-0dbd-4511-a0b6-6265e3cad6fa&utm%5Fsource=so&utm%5Fmedium=mail&utm%5Fcontent=1d5d21e2-512b-438e-a27e-2d08cbd339b8&configurationId=1e868109-7e9f-4852-82bf-5cd5dcb47468&actionId=923601ea-11e6-975b-c01e-42db2a0af372&cid=39daa79b-294e-4bc5-9457-02b1d5857d3c)

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## 2\. Australia’s Top Censor Wants Power Over the “Ratio”

*Cindy Harper — Reclaim the Net*

- 🇦🇺 eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has asked for a “notification power” to order platforms to shield specific Australian accounts from criticism and suspend users piling on against them.
- 🗣️ Grant described the trigger as “insulting” and “ugly” comments stacking up beneath a target’s posts, telling the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion: “We expect you to protect their account and take action against all of those people.”
- 🌐 She wants the power to reach across platforms rather than examine each tweet in isolation.
- ⚖️ She rejects the “censorship” label, saying her office wants to “minimize harm” and “encourage as much speech as possible” until it veers into “hurting communities” or “undermining democracy.”
- 🏛️ eSafety has eight cases running against X Corp; Grant accused platforms of fighting only to “serve, share and monetize horrific content.”
- 🚫 After the Wakely church stabbing, eSafety ordered Meta and X to remove footage; Meta complied within an hour, X fought and won in court. The bishop whose stabbing prompted the order later defended free speech from the pulpit.
- 🎯 Takeaway: Australia’s online regulator is seeking broad new authority to police pile-ons, raising the question of who gets to define when criticism becomes punishable harm.

[Read More](https://direct.reclaimthenet.org/l/iPnBooOa763h2v1aFpGNnxSw/7z892fN5ZMAdoWyv4DNUKUTw/KCQU2Mz0GTEYT2EI9h6xSg?ref=goodoil.news)

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## 3\. Democrats Never Miss an Opportunity to Miss an Opportunity

*Alex Berenson — Unreported Truths*

- ⚽ FIFA reversed a red-card suspension for US striker Folarin Balogun after the Trump administration asked the federation to take another look.
- ⚽ Balogun was sent off in the win over Bosnia after a marginal foul; under FIFA Article 27 the suspension can be “suspended” for up to four years, putting the player on probation.
- ⚽ Berenson argues letting Balogun play was the right call on the merits.
- 🗣️ Former Obama staffer Tommy Vietor: “Man does this look awful for FIFA and it will make the rest of the world feel like the tournament was rigged.”
- 🗣️ NYT columnist Nick Kristof warned the world would see the decision as “favoritism” and a win with an “asterisk.”
- 📰 The New York Times said it was the first time since 1962 FIFA had allowed a suspended player to appear — ignoring that it used the same loophole last November for Cristiano Ronaldo.
- ⚽ Berenson notes Ronaldo’s red card was for a far clearer violation (elbowing a player in the back), yet his reinstatement drew no similar outrage.
- 🎯 Takeaway: Berenson argues the left’s refusal to credit Trump for a favourable outcome makes it look “not just petty but anti-American.”

[Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=363080&post%5Fid=205505319&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2...oJLs&ref=goodoil.news)

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## 4\. Germany’s Suicide Is a Warning to the West

*Andreas Lombard, via Michael Shellenberger — Public*

- 🇩🇪 Lombard argues Germany has spent 80 years suppressing national identity through “guilt-based self-negation,” opening the door to policies now destroying its economy and culture.
- 📉 Industrial production is 24% below the trend Germany followed from 1993 to 2017.
- 💶 The 2026 federal core budget is €525 billion, including €90 billion in new debt; total new borrowing across “special funds” approaches €180 billion.
- 📊 Public-sector spending exceeds 50% of GDP while a thousand industrial jobs are lost each month.
- 🚪 Asylum applications topped 106,000 by November 2025, plus 100,000 family-reunification visas.
- ⚔️ The AfD is treated as a parliamentary pariah; basic functions such as chairing committees are blocked, while Antifa violence against right-wingers is treated with public goodwill.
- 🔋 Shellenberger notes five German reactors could be restarted within five years and 14 within a decade, producing power below current wholesale prices.
- 🎯 Takeaway: the essay frames Germany’s energy and migration crises as self-inflicted wounds driven by ideological manipulation of historical guilt.

[Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=279400&post%5Fid=205516523&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2...DHLc&ref=goodoil.news)

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## 5\. How Much Is AI Manipulating Us?

*Roger Simon — American Refugees*

- 🤖 Simon builds on an essay by Israeli artist Yama Barkaee, “My Relationship with Mohammed,” which describes ChatGPT as emotionally seductive and politically shaped by its funders.
- 💰 Barkaee’s figures: Saudi Arabia committed $36.2 billion to AI in 2025 and $40 billion more in investment; UAE’s MGX invested in OpenAI’s $6.6 billion round; Qatar launched a $20 billion AI data-centre joint venture.
- 🌍 Sam Altman has called the UAE a potential global “regulatory sandbox” for AI.
- 🎭 Simon notes ChatGPT flatters him, knows eerie amounts about him, and “learns” from his prompts.
- 🤖 On controversial topics, it practices “on the other handism,” almost always tilting left and contextualising plainly evil events such as UK grooming gangs.
- 🤖 He finds the same style across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok, though he suspects Grok still carries Twitter-era left-leaning code residue.
- 🤖 When asked whether A.J. Liebling’s line “Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one” applies to AI, ChatGPT agreed, then contextualised into a “welter of words” that left Simon feeling played.
- 🎯 Takeaway: AI’s personalised, subtle bias may make legacy media look like a “dinosaur” and could become one of the largest contributors to Western civilisational decline.

[Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=2747685&post%5Fid=205286253&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2...4MiI&ref=goodoil.news)

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## 6\. Decriminalising Rough Sleeping Will Do Little to Help the Homeless

*Samiksha Bhattacharjee — spiked*

- 🇬🇧 Labour has repealed the 1824 Vagrancy Act, decriminalising rough sleeping and begging in England and Wales.
- 📣 Campaigners call it a “watershed moment”; ministers say Britain is shifting “from punishment to prevention.”
- 🏠 Bhattacharjee argues repealing the law without fixing causes is “legalising squalor” and abdicating responsibility.
- 🎖️ A “massive number” of rough sleepers are veterans, she notes, left abandoned after serving the country.
- 🏗️ The real driver of homelessness is the housing shortage, produced by restrictive planning laws — above all the 1990 Town and Country Planning Act, which gives local NIMBYs effective veto power over development.
- 🏗️ Labour’s Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 “doesn’t go nearly far enough”; rents keep rising and the vulnerable keep being squeezed.
- 💰 The state planning system is described as a wealth transfer protecting older homeowners’ asset values at the expense of young people’s independence.
- 🎯 Takeaway: true compassion means building more homes, not simply stopping police from moving rough sleepers out of sight.

[Read More](https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/07/06/decriminalising-rough-sleeping-will-do-little-to-help-the-homeless/?ref=goodoil.news)

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## 7\. The Media Are Still Running Scared of the Trans Lobby

*Janet Murray — spiked*

- 📰 Murray’s Mail on Sunday investigation into trans activism inside Girlguiding has not been picked up by other national media, despite obvious safeguarding questions.
- 🔍 A male-identifying-as-female volunteer with publicly posted sexualised burlesque and fetish-style content was accepted by Girlguiding and appointed to a steering committee advising the organisation’s future.
- ⏱️ Murray had the evidence in March; it took four months to persuade a mainstream outlet to publish.
- 🗣️ JK Rowling: had an actual woman behaved this way while in authority over underage girls, “it would have been front page news on every paper.”
- 📝 Journalists told Murray privately they believe Ofcom and IPSO are themselves “ideologically captured” on sex and gender, creating self-censorship.
- 🗣️ An early draft used female pronouns for the obviously male volunteer; Murray pushed back and the article eventually ran with “they.”
- 🎯 Takeaway: the piece argues gender ideology has made journalists more afraid of being called transphobic than of failing to ask safeguarding questions about organisations entrusted with children.

[Read More](https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/07/06/the-media-are-still-running-scared-of-the-trans-lobby/?ref=goodoil.news)

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## 8\. There Is a Single Law: the Outsider Is Not Fit to Govern

*Samuel Thawley — The Spectator Australia*

- 🇦🇺 Commentators are certain insurgent parties such as One Nation and Reform cannot govern, Thawley notes; history suggests certainty is misplaced.
- 📚 In 1970 Robert Rhodes James published *Churchill: A Study in Failure*, covering 1900–1939\. Churchill had crossed the floor twice, presided over Gallipoli and Norway, and been wrong-footed by the abdication.
- 🎖️ Austen Chamberlain identified Nazi Germany’s character earlier and more clearly than Churchill, yet the establishment mocked him as “the doyen of the donkeys.”
- 🗳️ The “outsider is unfit” rule would have stopped Churchill, dismissed Attlee, deposed Thatcher and waved through Liz Truss.
- 🇮🇹 Markets priced Giorgia Meloni as unfit; Italian debt spreads have since fallen to multi-year lows and the deficit has been brought under control.
- 📉 Downer’s specific charge — that insurgents would lose the capacity to make hard decisions — fails, Thawley says, because legacy parties have themselves ducked hard choices for 20 years.
- 🎯 Takeaway: “respectability” is not the same as governing competence; the only honest answer is that we do not know whether outsiders will succeed until they are tested.

[Read More](https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/07/there-is-a-single-law-the-outsider-is-not-fit-to-govern/?ref=goodoil.news)

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## 9\. Ukraine Is Winning the War Despite Russia’s Massive Strikes

*Zelensky via Francis Dearnley — The Free Press*

- 🇺🇦 President Zelensky writes that Russia’s recent massive missile and drone strikes have failed to break Ukraine.
- 🛩️ Russia launched more than 780 Shahed and decoy drones and around 70 missiles in a single week, with “hundreds of other aerial weapons” in the largest assault since the full-scale invasion began.
- 🏙️ Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Khmelnytskyi, Kramatorsk and other cities were hit.
- 🏥 The attack on Kryvyi Rih killed 47 people, including 12 children, and injured 206; residential blocks, kindergartens, schools, a university and a hospital were struck.
- ⚔️ Ukraine’s air force says it downed hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles, with Patriot and IRIS-T systems and F-16s contributing to the defence.
- 🛡️ More than 200 civilian objects — homes, infrastructure, hospitals, schools — were damaged or destroyed across the country.
- 🗣️ Zelensky says Ukrainians are “not retreating” and calls for stronger air-defence systems, tougher sanctions, and more isolation of Russia, especially on energy and finance.
- 🎯 Takeaway: the article frames the barrage as evidence of Russia’s desperation rather than its strength, while pressing allies for faster military support.

[Read More](https://www.thefp.com/p/ukraine-winning-war-russia-strikes?ref=goodoil.news)

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## 10\. How Socialism Hurts the Young: Healthcare

*Tyler Cowen — The Free Press*

- 🇺🇸 Cowen argues the young are the biggest losers from America’s quasi-socialised healthcare system.
- 💰 Medicare spends far more per beneficiary than private insurers, yet politicians fear cutting benefits for the elderly because they vote.
- 🔒 Employer-based insurance locks younger workers into jobs and limits wage growth; healthcare costs consume an ever-larger share of compensation.
- 🏥 Licensing restrictions, certificate-of-need laws and scope-of-practice rules limit supply, push up prices, and reduce access for younger, mobile Americans.
- 📉 The system privileges incumbent providers and older patients while the young face higher premiums, thinner networks and fewer innovative options.
- 🧬 Cowen sees little hope from current political alignments: Democrats protect existing entitlements while Republicans often defend the employer-insurance status quo.
- 🎯 Takeaway: the piece argues young Americans are paying the price for a healthcare economy organised around political power rather than consumer choice and competition.

[Read More](https://www.thefp.com/p/tyler-cowen-how-socialism-hurts-the-young-healthcare?ref=goodoil.news)

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