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# Your Daily Ten@10 - 2026/137
- URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-137/
- Published: 2026-07-29T22:00:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-29T22:00:40.000Z
- Description: 10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Ten@10, NZ Politics, World Politics, Media Bias, COVID-19

**This is edition 2026/137 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\. Why National Ruled Out the Opportunity Party

*Bryce Edwards — The Democracy Project*

- 🎯 Luxon at post-Cabinet: “We wouldn’t be working with them” — office later confirmed no coalition and no confidence-and-supply with Opportunity.
- 📊 Policies didn’t change — polls did: 4.6–4.7% (Verian/Reid); +0.3pp could tip TOP over and strand Nat–ACT–NZF without a majority.
- 🧭 Talbot Mills: largest TOP bloc is former Nat voters (23% vs 18% Labour); Ensor: “you may not like what you end up buying.”
- 📦 McCulloch’s “dream result”: scare centre-right back, TOP takes left votes but stays under 5% — wasted ballots pad the right’s share.
- 🎯 Takeaway: National is closing half of TOP’s kingmaker market before Parliament. (Further sections paywalled.)

[Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1885783&post%5Fid=208783701&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA4NzgzNzAxLCJpYXQiOjE3ODUyMTE5ODUsImV4cCI6MTc4NzgwMzk4NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE4ODU3ODMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.tWlUaVSS-ue8RBKsI0ox4GqHYXQzKoZe1Hv6xR-RYGY&ref=goodoil.news)

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## 2\. What to Expect if the Left Wins

*Chris Trotter*

- 🏛️ Labour isn’t left: Edmonds keeps “basic economic settings”; no wealth tax for Greens, no land tax for TOP — “meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
- 📉 CTU economist Craig Renny parked at list #51 while Wellington Bays (ex-Rongotai) is Julie-Anne Genter’s turf — Farrar says Green capital stays Green.
- 🏷️ “Jobs, Homes, Health” small-cheap offer vs \~$12bn Pay Equity restore — priorities spoken with a middle-class accent; lanyard unions over bread-and-butter.
- ⚔️ Owners (cut the state) vs administrators (judiciary, unis, public sector, media, arts) — Nat–ACT want to break the tag-team; Labour keeps Māori/Pasifika high for caucus arithmetic and to frighten capital with “angry brown working-class” threat.
- 🎯 Takeaway for everyone else: more power for administrators, less for owners — contracting economy, swelling bureaucracy, tino rangatiratanga, fewer civil/political rights. Business as usual. (First on The Good Oil.)

[Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=4057098&post%5Fid=208894753&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA4ODk0NzUzLCJpYXQiOjE3ODUyNzU2MjksImV4cCI6MTc4Nzg2NzYyOSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQwNTcwOTgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.5Woo8max37bnWte6%5Fr9jWOcSIVmkBhcoX-K5yMC1pMg&ref=goodoil.news)

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## 3\. My Advice for Christopher Luxon: Stand for Something

*Don Brash — Brash & Mitchell*

- 📉 Nat \~29% first-term vs Brash-era \~39% in 2005: too many Kiwis no longer know what Luxon’s National stands for.
- 🗳️ 2023 mandate wasn’t only inflation — it was rejection of ancestry division and co-governance; nearly three years later, constitutional silence.
- 🪑 Māori electorates: ACT and NZF have positions; National has five rehearsed non-answers — Collins broke tradition by running candidates; Luxon runs from the debate.
- 🏫 Te Tai Hauāuru candidate Coral Raukawa defends Māori wards against Nat’s referendum policy; OIA shows Treaty in/out of curriculum design principles four times in under eight weeks.
- 🎯 Takeaway: if you stand for nothing, you get run over — equal citizenship, seats, wards, co-governance, ideology in schools. State it plainly or lose.

[Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/don-brash-my-advice-for-christopher-luxon-stand-for-something?utm%5Fcampaign=bae52d35-0dbd-4511-a0b6-6265e3cad6fa&utm%5Fsource=so&utm%5Fmedium=mail&utm%5Fcontent=5d9068c1-3b7a-4e44-9245-818fb0718ed0&configurationId=1e868109-7e9f-4852-82bf-5cd5dcb47468&actionId=923601ea-11e6-975b-c01e-42db2a0af372&cid=39daa79b-294e-4bc5-9457-02b1d5857d3c)

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## 4\. Douglas Murray: Europe Spins Another Islamist Attack

*Douglas Murray — The Free Press*

- 🚐 Berlin Pride: the “naughty van” formula again — vehicle treated as if it self-drove into the crowd; one dead, dozens injured.
- 🪪 Suspect Abdul Ballout, 21, German-born Lebanese heritage; last year tried to reach Syria for ISIS; three months in Lebanese jail for incitement and related offences — known, slipped through.
- 🎯 Takeaway: leaders minimise radical Islam; the cracks are where the next van drives. (Free portion.)

[Read More](https://substack.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.CkxJ1hkB7bRvcepXanECqwmvDHNO3JCVMl8wI55W2Hc?ref=goodoil.news)

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## 5\. A Peace Plan for the Data Center Wars

*Joe Nocera — The Free Press*

- 🏗️ Almost overnight, data centres are one of America’s most controversial issues — Nocera: they’re inevitable; how they’re built still matters.
- 🏜️ Box Elder County, Utah: O’Leary Digital “Project Stratos” — up to $100bn, 40,000 acres far from towns; closed-loop recycled cooling, own gas not grid, \~$30m annual tax for schools/services.
- 📣 Locals still erupted: drought/wildfire fears + “they tried to keep this quiet” — same lightning-rod pattern as NJ, PA and 300+ bans/moratoriums nationwide.
- 🎯 Takeaway: remote site + closed loop + own fuel isn’t enough if process treats the public as afterthought. (Free portion.)

[Read More](https://substack.com/redirect/56b671c3-38dd-4252-a6dd-97021da1f826?j=eyJ1IjoiZzduMGQifQ.hRs3Wbe%5FUGXeTATNIzBOwrYipdDMx5dwhcJ30RjmW6Q&ref=goodoil.news)

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## 6\. The Diaries of Anthony Fauci

*Jeffrey Tucker — The Epoch Times*

- 📔 Rand Paul’s Reading Room dumps 1,000+ pages of Fauci diary/emails — fame-obsessed notes, little science: “most famous… in the country” (May 2020); Kennedy Center red-carpet ecstasy (Dec 2022).
- 📅 Timeline: Feb 2020 calm “rough flu” consensus flipped to panic without new data; China model + WHO lockstep; only Sweden/Tanzania/Nicaragua resisted full shutdown.
- 🗳️ CDC-pushed mail-in chaos; then vaccine maximalism + segregation + mandates on short trials of a mutating pathogen; Great Barrington authors professionally punished.
- ⚖️ Preemptive “Biden” pardon + expired perjury clock; Paul still subpoenas him — new misleading testimony can still bite.
- 🎯 Takeaway: the wheel of fortune has turned — once “I am the science,” now the scapegoat-in-waiting. Acute amnesia recommended for the hearing.

[Read More](https://lists.theepochtimes.com/archive/RwThUJTTIV/5kdG8QBtO/0L9T5fG50Ho?ref=goodoil.news)

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## 7\. Communism and Socialism Are the New Capitalism

*Roger Simon — American Refugees*

- 🎩 Mamdani/AOC/Bernie as latest avatars of capitalism in pseudo-idealist drag — another crew getting rich while cosplaying tribunes of the poor.
- 📜 Lenin’s 1921 NEP: temporary private trade that wasn’t temporary; Mao’s Leap + Cultural Revolution famine; Deng’s “black or white cat” + “to get rich is glorious” under one-party spy state (Tiananmen orders).
- 🏷️ Xi’s “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” = totalitarian market mashup; need a better name than “Leninist capitalism.”
- 💍 Mamdani’s lavish Uganda wedding + Gracie Mansion; AOC’s $30k gala coat — every socialist gets a Mercedes; Eugene Lyons’s “Penthouse Bolsheviks” still fits.
- 🎯 Takeaway: Nate Silver’s angry $30–60k grad-degree cohort won’t read history — guard still required. *No pasarán.*

[Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=2747685&post%5Fid=208749490&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA4NzQ5NDkwLCJpYXQiOjE3ODUyMzEzMDMsImV4cCI6MTc4NzgyMzMwMywiaXNzIjoicHViLTI3NDc2ODUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.pW9jYuj82Njyhxz3qSeoHy0U%5FZdQyWpa8CWzUiE1xDs&ref=goodoil.news)

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## 8\. Boy George’s Pro-Israel Song Is as Punk as It Gets

*Brendan O’Neill — spiked*

- 🎵 “We Will Dance Again”: “If you’re ever confused, I stand with the Jews” — digital mob: nauseating, depraved, “Zio lover” in the old “Jew lover” cadence.
- 🩸 He names 7 Oct and Nova: “Young girls raped against trees / Murdered brutally / For the crime of dancing” — while festivalgoers wear the flag that was the last thing victims saw.
- ⚔️ Opening line: “You say genocide, I say war” — that alone makes him a “genocide denier” and shekel-buyer in keffiyeh cult theology.
- 🎸 Kneecap/Bob Vylan/Waters = Gaza slop for privileged pricks; Boy George’s middle finger is the real rebellion. Plastic Paddies for Israel: Rotten, Morrissey, O’Dowd.
- 🎯 Takeaway (with a sting): he can see a war as a war — now try seeing a bloke as a bloke on the trans question.

[Read More](https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/07/28/boy-georges-pro-israel-song-is-as-punk-as-it-gets/?ref=goodoil.news)

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## 9\. Why AI Could Add Decades to Your Lifespan, Fix Your Wrinkles, and Regrow Your Hair

*Will Bennett — The Spectator Australia*

- 💊 AI “in silico” drug discovery: biopharma survey — up to 70% cut in preclinical cost/time; AlphaFold (Nobel Chemistry) predicting protein structures at scale.
- 🧪 *Nature Communications*: enzyme designed via AlphaFold cut AGE (advanced glycation end-product) markers on 75-year-old donor skin to \~30-year-old levels — proof-of-concept “one and done” cosmetic reverse.
- 🐶 Aussie man + AI personalised cancer vaccine for his dog; Melbourne AI work on male-pattern baldness; Metformin repurposed toward cancer via ML.
- 🏭 Data-centre “energy vampires” run the GPUs doing this — medical AI supercharges scientists rather than replacing them.
- 🎯 Takeaway: if it fixes the crow’s feet, the backyard data centre looks less evil.

[Read More](https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/07/why-ai-could-add-decades-to-your-lifespan-fix-your-wrinkles-and-regrow-your-hair/?ref=goodoil.news)

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## 10\. Europe Is Suicidally Complacent About the Islamist Threat

*Fraser Myers — spiked*

- 🔪 Paris: three women (one pregnant) fighting for life after Monday knife frenzy; suspect on the ground: “Allah ordered me to do it” — later “Allah sent me to kill women.”
- 🏛️ Interior minister Nuñez: be “cautious,” cite “incoherence” and mental health — not treating as terror despite eyewitnesses saying he exclusively targeted women.
- 📅 Days after Berlin Pride van/stab rampage; weeks after Nice 10th anniversary; Bataclan still the scar — ISIS weaker, ideology not defeated.
- 🎯 Takeaway: if it is Islamist and they won’t name it, complacency isn’t caution — it’s suicidal. How many more before leaders say the word?

[Read More](https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/07/28/europe-is-suicidally-complacent-about-the-islamist-threat/?ref=goodoil.news)

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