This is edition 2026/133 of the Ten@10 newsletter.
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This is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media.
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1. Cementing Corporate Welfare
Bryce Edwards — The Democracy Project
- 💰 Cabinet grants up to $60m to Golden Bay Cement (Fletcher Building) — not a loan, no shares; Willis: “least worst option”; Seymour: “necessary evil.”
- 🏭 Only fully integrated NZ cement maker (~60% supply); without help, import-only from 2030; Marsden Point lesson hangs over “capability lost forever.”
- 📄 Deal: plant at Portland to 2040, ≥$150m invest (still Fletcher board OK), open-book + clawback, ~150 direct jobs — MacNamara: “free money.”
- 🌍 Root: ETS carbon costs vs importers; emissions leakage known since Robertson/Parker CBAM talk 2021 — structural fix skipped for one-company cheque.
- 🎯 Takeaway: real plant risk meets corporate-welfare reflex; general problem, single private answer. (Further sections paywalled.)
2. Move to Māori Names “Madness”
Maurice Williamson — Brash & Mitchell / Eastern Times
- 🚌 Eastern Busway stations: Te Taha Wai, Koata, Pōhatu — on Ti Rākau at Edgewater, Gossamer, Burswood; Howick te reo speakers <1% last census.
- 🛣️ Reeves Road Flyover → Ra Hihi; big “Waka Kōpiko” signs for ferries — two fluent speakers say kōpiko = curved/bent, not ferry.
- 📜 Ex-Pakuranga MP fought Electoral Commission twice to keep electorate name; as Broadcasting Minister set up 23 Māori radio stations + Te Māngai Pāho.
- 🎯 Takeaway: well-known English place names replaced for ideological bilingualism — if bilingual, try Mandarin (35%+ of residents) first.
3. Controlling the Internet: Membership, Legitimacy and InternetNZ
A Halfling’s View (David Harvey)
- 🌐 .nz is critical infrastructure run by charitable society InternetNZ — authority from IANA/RFC 1591 trust, not a NZ statute; MoU with MBIE is soft oversight, not control.
- 📋 12 Jun 2026 board minute: “critical infrastructure obligations” may force review of membership numbers/types for government “assurance” on commitment, stability, skills/diversity — further legal advice before motions.
- ⚠️ Alarm: restrict open $21 membership / bottom-up model that underpinned DNS from the start; changing membership rules still needs existing members’ consent.
- 🧭 Harvey (member, FSU): stick to knitting; recover apolitical credibility lost since Christchurch Call drift; comments note Treaty-partner ideology + $1m/yr grant redistributions from registrant fees.
- 🎯 Takeaway: who controls addressing controls information — membership redesign under cyber-critical framing is the live fight.
4. Swarbrick and Her Unchallenged Claims
Peter Allan Williams
- 🌱 Chloe: Luxon govt “made climate change worse” three years by pulling ag emissions out of GHG accounting after CCC target-miss scare.
- 📊 NDC: cut 2005’s 83.7 Mt to ~39–42 Mt by mid-2030s; 2024 actual 77.98 Mt — path “utterly unrealistic”; CAT: most nations have severe 2035 gaps too.
- 📉 NZ GHGs down ~10% 2019→2024; blaming Gabriel/floods on this Cabinet is “patent nonsense”; Hunga Tonga water-vapour spike a better weather suspect.
- 🌍 NZ = 0.17% global GHGs; Badenoch dumps Net Zero candidates; Modi wants cash or keeps coal — what we do is “utterly irrelevant.”
- 🎯 Takeaway: election-year alarmism unchallenged by soft media makes the country worse off.
5. Why Mamdani Is Targeting Netanyahu
Douglas Murray — The Free Press
- 🗽 NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s desk-and-flags video: case of Mamdani vs Netanyahu / vs the State of Israel — genocide and maiming-of-children charges.
- 📜 Trail: postcolonial / Third Worldist anti-Zionism; campaign promise to arrest Bibi if he set foot in the city.
- 🇺🇳 UNGA every September in NYC was always the showdown stage; mayor of New York does not run US foreign policy from Gracie Mansion.
- 🎯 Takeaway: agitation, certainty, and ignorance as brand — making an enemy of America’s closest ally is the point. (Full essay paywalled after lede.)
6. The Fabian Society: Conquering the Free World
Dr Robert W. Malone — Malone News
- 🐺 Founded London 1884 — gradual capture of schools, civil service, press, parties; tortoise + original wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing crest.
- 🇬🇧 Every Labour PM from Attlee through Starmer to Andy Burnham linked to Fabians — policy incubator for the governing left, not a fringe club.
- 🏛️ Method: experts over electors; admin state; ESG/DEI/sustainability; LSE 1895 as administrator factory; export via UN/UNESCO (Huxley), Progressive Era US, Wilson’s professional public admin.
- 🔄 After economic socialism failed, pivot to identity “social justice” (Lindsay) — rewrite rules, not seize factories.
- 🎯 Takeaway: change institutions and politics follows; the wolf no longer needs the costume.
7. Radicalization of Universities Behind Smithsonian’s Attack on History
Michael Shellenberger — Public
- 🏛️ White House “Saving America’s Story” (162 pp, 4 Jul): Smithsonian “cannot be trusted” to tell America honestly/inspiringly; House oversight hearing 21 Jul.
- 📰 MSM/Dem line: Trump politicising museums to whitewash slavery/genocide; OAH/NCPH: assault on evidence-based history; Yale’s David Blight invokes Goebbels.
- 🎓 Shellenberger frame (title/subtitle): university radicalisation drives museum capture of history and biological reality; if museums won’t reform, Congress should cut funding.
- 🎯 Takeaway: fight is who owns the national story — progressive academy vs executive rewrite. (Full essay paywalled after free open.)
8. Don’t Let Activists or Robots Choose Your Words
Matt Taibbi — Racket News
- 📘 2026 AP Stylebook ~500 pages (10× 1951); libel guide gone → “inclusive storytelling,” race, immigration, AI politics.
- 🚫 Avoid list swallows good words: populist, typical, community, euthanasia; “insane/crazy/demented” mostly out; idioms “turn a blind eye” / “fall on deaf ears” taboo.
- ✍️ Inclusive section: don’t write about diversity (implies a “norm”) — silently prefer stories that “shine a brighter light” on the underrepresented.
- 🤖 Stacked on AI slop that doesn’t disclose “written by no one” (Chris Best interview teaser).
- 🎯 Takeaway: style guides + bots putting words in your mouth — jargon as soft censorship. (Full essay free-claim / paid.)
9. International Criminal Court: Bad from the Start
Roger Simon — American Refugees
- ⚖️ ICC (Rome 1998 / doors 2002): selective prosecution theatre — Jack Smith–scale politics, global.
- 🗽 Mamdani doubles down on ICC-style Netanyahu arrest at UNGA; US never joined; ASPA shields personnel; Trump: Bibi “will not be arrested… while in the United States”; Mamdani later admits no independent legal authority, keeps “war criminal/genocide” line.
- 👨⚖️ Chief prosecutor Karim Khan suspended amid sexual-misconduct claims (one ~2.5 weeks before Israeli warrants); brother Imran Khan (ex-Tory MP) convicted of sexual assault of a minor; ASP meets 28 Jul in NY.
- 🎯 Takeaway: who picks the “miscreants” is the whole game — virtue-signal court with rotten optics.
10. Why Pauline Hanson Is Surging
Nick Cater — spiked
- 📈 One Nation 6% at last election → Newspoll ~30% level with Labor; Coalition wrecked on 19%; Hanson often preferred PM.
- 🔫 Bondi antisemitic/IS-inspired massacre summer pivot: elites on antisemitism, street on immigration/mosque radicalisation.
- 🧱 Fault line now insiders (global tertiary elite) vs outsiders — immigration, Indigenous policy, climate, Covid, gender all one “who decides Australia?” question.
- 🗳️ Preferential voting still makes Hanson-for-PM hard; Labor+Greens prefs favour Albanese 2028 — but switched tribes won’t easily go home; denunciation is oxygen.
- 🇬🇧 Farage parallel; Voice No (60–40) as Australia’s Brexit moment; Coalition dirty hands on Covid, migration loopholes, Net Zero bills, mute on gender.
- 🎯 Takeaway: elites dug their own graves; populism names the betrayal better than it fixes productivity/housing/energy.
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