> ## 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 - 2026/134 - URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-134/ - Published: 2026-07-26T22:00:06.000Z - Updated: 2026-07-26T22:00:05.000Z - 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 2026/134 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/2026/07/90501ff0-f4ce-4d76-b3b9-d4ddf63597c5_1080x1350.webp) ## 1\. The RMA Power Grab *Bryce Edwards — The Democracy Project* - 📜 Select committee report on dual RMA-replacement bills: core question is how much power Parliament hands ministers over land, water and environment. - ⚠️ PCE Simon Upton (ex-National minister who took 1991 RMA through): bills give “complete discretion” to strike any environment/development balance — goals like a Rubik’s cube, “no guardrails.” - 💼 Lobbying magnet: farmers, miners, developers already dominate corporate donations (property >$2.5m since 2021); more ministerial discretion = more special-interest pressure. - 👑 Regs Review Committee: Henry VIII clauses; EDS’s Severinsen: “breathtaking” power; environmental limits “completely gutted” — any activity can breach if minister sees public benefit (Ikea/Bunnings as “infrastructure”?). - 💸 “Regulatory relief”: councils compensating landowners for bush/heritage protections — MartinJenkins $7m–$2bn liability on ratepayers; Waitākeres in the frame. - 🎯 Takeaway: development ideology doubled down; constitutionally and environmentally shaky. (Further sections paywalled.) [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1885783&post%5Fid=208288718&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA4Mjg4NzE4LCJpYXQiOjE3ODQ4Njc3NjksImV4cCI6MTc4NzQ1OTc2OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE4ODU3ODMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.PchREJNZYVMNxiOTCpLgS6CQnfnmLF0cY209DGm8BvA&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/bd44ee0b-1b91-4be4-a05d-524692475b40_1440x959.webp) ## 2\. No to Blasphemy Laws: People Have Rights, Religions Do Not *Ani O’Brien — Thought Crimes* - ⚖️ Law Commission *Hara ngākau kino*: keep hate as sentencing aggravator, not standalone offences; better flags, data, sex as protected ground — hate speech out of scope. - 🕌 FIANZ keeps pushing speech bans that protect beliefs/practices (“denigrates/vilifies”), not just people — Christchurch, Pride, flag-burn, “hate soup” as endless lever. - 🗣️ Blurs Muslims (rights-bearers) with Islam (open to mockery/critique like any creed); 2019 blasphemous-libel repeal was correct. - 🌍 ICCPR GC34 / Rabat: blasphemy laws incompatible with free expression; “awful but lawful” stays the police line. - 🎯 Takeaway: no diversity-labelled blasphemy law — protect people from violence, not ideas from challenge. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=3921014&post%5Fid=208319007&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA4MzE5MDA3LCJpYXQiOjE3ODUwMjUxOTYsImV4cCI6MTc4NzYxNzE5NiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM5MjEwMTQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.MFLRbttuIO4SO18t7ulQGEQYCOMX9vnwP%5FTiGmwCT0s&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/1d715700-c373-4a47-94d1-d4248e5d4892_483x357.webp) ## 3\. Defending New Zealand *Chris Trotter* - 🏛️ Horatius’s pledge to *patria* once schoolroom staple — now read as patriarchy/imperialism/war; that’s the West’s recruitment problem. - 🛡️ Defence Minister Chris Penk back from NATO: money helps, but weapons need people — where do young men and women come from? - 🎯 Takeaway: do we still love the country enough to fight for it? (Full essay paywalled after free open.) [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=4057098&post%5Fid=208501012&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA4NTAxMDEyLCJpYXQiOjE3ODUwMjAxNDAsImV4cCI6MTc4NzYxMjE0MCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQwNTcwOTgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.IIZ7zKDv4uBm3M3qm38iZHD7d%5FawONGCjtJzdYIbeYw&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/us-troops-in-nz.webp) ## 4\. Let Them Build: Electricity and Datacentres *Eric Crampton — Offsetting Behaviour / Newsroom* - ⚡ NZ generators already know how to stick a pipe in the Taupō Volcanic Zone — decades of geothermal, huge untapped potential. - 🖥️ US hyperscalers pay premiums for speed; off-grid gensets beside DCs waiting years for grid connect. - ⏱️ If consent for geothermal + datacentre dropped to weeks/months not years, “tens to hundreds of billions” could land fast — window won’t stay open. - 🎯 Takeaway: Wellington’s choice is welcome the Americans again, or watch capital go elsewhere. [Read More](http://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com/2026/07/let-them-build-electricity-and.html?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/Eagle-Migration-Services-Immigration-New-Zealand-1.jpg) ## 5\. The Revolving Door at the End of the Pacific *Oliver Hartwich — NZ Initiative / Brash & Mitchell* - 🌏 \~3 in 10 NZ residents foreign-born (top tier of 29); 12.8% of NZ-born live overseas — extreme in-and-out combination (Ireland closest peer). - ✅ Pull factors: 4th honesty in govt, 5th rule of law, high life satisfaction vs richer peers, 5th generosity, 6th “someone to count on.” - 📉 Push: productivity 20/29; Aussie wage \~US$10,700 PPP ahead on like-for-like jobs — low wages, unaffordable houses, thin capital. - 🎯 Takeaway: revolving door keeps turning; policy can only give more people reason to stay (investment, competition, housing, trade, skills). [Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/oliver-hartwich-the-revolving-door-at-the-end-of-the-pacific?utm%5Fcampaign=bae52d35-0dbd-4511-a0b6-6265e3cad6fa&utm%5Fsource=so&utm%5Fmedium=mail&utm%5Fcontent=45080e1f-320b-4f37-87ab-90a6d1b2eece&configurationId=1e868109-7e9f-4852-82bf-5cd5dcb47468&actionId=923601ea-11e6-975b-c01e-42db2a0af372&cid=39daa79b-294e-4bc5-9457-02b1d5857d3c) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/media15.jpg.webp) ## 6\. NZME Turns Its Own Radio Stunt into Political News *Centrist* - 📻 Hauraki: ACT candidate Paul Henry plays “shoot, shag, marry” with Hipkins/Peters/Luxon — “You’ve got to shoot Hipkins, haven’t you?” - 📣 Verrall on ZB: “death threat”; Hipkins: leaders are being shot worldwide; Costley: not genuine threat, line-drawing issue; Henry: “plainly humour.” - 🎭 Seymour: Labour knows he didn’t mean harm — nor sex with Peters nor marry Luxon; manufactured outrage. - 🏢 Editor’s note: Hauraki, ZB and Herald are all NZME — same house set the violent premise, then ran condemnation and “scandal.” - 🎯 Takeaway: media invent the game, then clutch pearls at the answer. [Read More](https://centrist.nz/nzme-turns-its-own-radio-stunt-into-political-news/?utm%5Fsource=email&utm%5Fmedium=newsletter&utm%5Fcampaign=25-7-2026&ulk=none&%5Fkx=W7NFwV0tkQ4KD6P5UZNdYTJaSQoRb5d9cb7VzkyWxRQ.VYfxNg) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/865ad23e-2d8a-417f-b966-45240a1aecdd_1536x1024.webp) ## 7\. The World in a Tomato — Greek Salad and Globalisation *Roger Partridge — Plain Thinking* - 🍅 Horiatiki tourists photograph as ancient Aegean is younger than ketchup — tomato into Greek kitchens only in the 19th c.; modern plate is 20th-c. taverna + tourism. - 🌍 Peppercorn rents → Mamluk monopolies → da Gama/Columbus; chilli misnamed “pepper”; tomato from Mesoamerica via Spain, feared as nightshade for two centuries. - 🍝 Naples poor rehabilitate it; Latini 1692 “Spanish-style” sauce; ketchup = Hokkien fish sauce word + American tomato bottle (Heinz). - 📝 Leonard Read’s pencil, again: nobody designed Italian-ness of sauce, American-ness of bottle, Greek-ness of salad — traditions globalisation made. - 🎯 Takeaway: what we defend against trade is often what trade invented. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=4536805&post%5Fid=207934156&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA3OTM0MTU2LCJpYXQiOjE3ODQ5MjU4OTgsImV4cCI6MTc4NzUxNzg5OCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQ1MzY4MDUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.zPK%5FZsQEJehnnKamNgV5UOdYrUD0ryAALm0BDJrZpuc&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/a657a7ab-1cdd-4b0d-b16b-80e807e31c13_670x396.webp) ## 8\. Political Violence: Is It Time to Stop Joking About It? *Grant Duncan — Politics Happens* - 🔫 Henry “shoot Hipkins” divides: Seymour says be real / lighten up; Labour disgusted; X floods Hipkins’s old “kick Seymour” clip. - 🇳🇿 Peace Index #2, but threats up, access down; Rubio frames “left-wing terrorism”; Pew post-Kirk: both parties say violence rising, each blames the other side (\~77%). - 📊 Curia 2025: 80% reject “violence to get country back on track,” but 14% agree (18% men; higher TPM 25% / ACT 20%; youth 18–39 hottest). - 🤖 AI-slop + Fuentes pipelines ≠ Mill’s free speech; Christchurch showed lone actors aren’t alone online. - 🎯 Takeaway: temperature down beats body-count point-scoring. (Further sections paywalled.) [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1343614&post%5Fid=207519114&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA3NTE5MTE0LCJpYXQiOjE3ODQ4Mjk5NjEsImV4cCI6MTc4NzQyMTk2MSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTEzNDM2MTQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.%5FMsQ0AJ-NY0pihBbRVzvEyqYHh3TXoU7B%5FbyuT4oOgc&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/d1ac6c9c-6092-4b0b-8bed-31e3be3ee9a8_601x361.webp) ## 9\. Stanford’s Crusade: Passion, Policy and Social Media *A Halfling’s View (David Harvey)* - 📰 Herald front: Stanford “standing up for kids against insidious tech” — after its own advocacy series; Cabinet path and bill text still foggy; Hipkins waits to see detail. - 🇦🇺 Luxon: physical-world rules for kids should apply online; school phone ban as proof; Aussie under-16 model + fines of interest; poll \~58% for ban. - 🪪 Structural catch (Privacy Commissioner): keep under-16s off means every adult proves age → digital ID/surveillance drift; VPN ban floated then ruled out (China/Russia company). - 🤝 ACT + NZ First won’t back government bill; Stanford courts Labour — opposition becomes privacy/liberty/disability/queer edge coalition. - 🎯 Takeaway: popular child-safety frame becomes everyone-online ID infrastructure — that’s the real fault line. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1581391&post%5Fid=208010684&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA4MDEwNjg0LCJpYXQiOjE3ODQ4MzM0NDUsImV4cCI6MTc4NzQyNTQ0NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE1ODEzOTEiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.lvODVcw3u189NEB4plLYHJRLXwVYWwHPx4n0KKsEBPU&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/07/82c6beff-4fd6-451a-ac53-01f50073dd01_4032x3024.webp) ## 10\. Muddled Multiculturalism *Simon O’Connor — On Point* - 🧱 Multi-ethnic fine; hard multiculturalism (all cultures equal on fundamentals) fails — equal rights vs unequal treatment of women; free speech vs soft blasphemy; one rule of law. - 🧳 Soft: other cultures under one civic/legal roof. Hard: Starmer/Burnham/Ardern/Trudeau-style “no single culture.” - 🎭 **Muddled**: third type — leaders trash own heritage while performing foreign festivals; Union Jack bad, terror flags sometimes fine. - 🇲🇦 Morocco travel notes (girls absent from streets/beaches) as reminder: culture is choosing what’s right, not culinary relativism (Strauss’s cannibalism line). - 🇳🇿 NZ rights inheritance is Judeo-Christian-shaped whether we admit it; Portugal over Morocco for raising a family is a values call, not ethnicity. - 🎯 Takeaway: a city divided falls — coherence needs confidence in the home culture. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=2186958&post%5Fid=208141646&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA4MTQxNjQ2LCJpYXQiOjE3ODQ4Mzc2ODUsImV4cCI6MTc4NzQyOTY4NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTIxODY5NTgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.EewlCmvPyQiTSJnNIeyj0e6-iMPZD8UqlWBOLTNzpdQ&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. 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