> ## 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 - 2026/139 - URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-139/ - Published: 2026-08-02T22:00:51.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-02T22:00:50.000Z - 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 2026/139 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/2026/08/5438b574-5cf6-4702-b6a3-8c90af96db42_1659x948.webp) ## 1\. Democracy Briefing: The 13 Days That Could Decide the Election *Bryce Edwards — The Democracy Project* - 📅 Enrolment now closes midnight Sun 25 Oct — before advance voting starts — tightest deadline in decades; not a return to pre-2020 rules. - 📊 Commission: \~55k party votes may be disallowed; \~73k lose electorate vote at old address. Cooke: 55k ≈ two seats — “the election was stolen” meme waiting to load. - 🗣️ Goldsmith: faster count + “plenty of time”; Stephenson: “lazy… vote to tax other people’s money”; Seymour: “dropkicks”; Woodham: “stay home.” - 🧒 2023: a third of 18–19s enrolled/updated in voting period; 48% of Māori that age — young, renters, Māori/Pasifika/Asian most exposed. - 🎯 Takeaway (Duncan): specials lean left and they know who misses out — “intentional voter suppression.” (Further sections paywalled.) [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1885783&post%5Fid=209197455&isFreemail=true&r=2psd49&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjQyNDYxMjEsInBvc3RfaWQiOjIwOTE5NzQ1NSwiaWF0IjoxNzg1NDYxNTk3LCJleHAiOjE3ODgwNTM1OTcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xODg1NzgzIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.UCccDMnOpMZpEUl4yZNooMF2sTvjFqK6Fy3cJYCSxf4&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/4JP3SN5_Image_29_jfif.webp) ## 2\. Stop the Madness *Peter Allan Williams* - 🦃 Simon Watts’ “Head Start” amalgamation deadline: turkeys don’t vote for Christmas — Taupō, Tararua, Rangitīkei told the minister to get stuffed. - 🏔️ Central Otago wants nothing of Queenstown Lakes: tourism gem ruined by greed; SH6 crawl; $650m debt; Ridgeburn 1,400 + Homestead Bay 2,800 homes without Shotover/Kawarau bridges or sewers that don’t dump into the river. - 💸 Clutha \~$156m debt on 19k people; CODC \~$50m with surpluses — why climb into financial cot cases? - 📜 Fix LGA 2002 first: prescribe duties, water free of iwi grift, regional back-office — smaller/leaner, not shotgun marriages; freeze QT consents until infrastructure exists. - 🎯 Takeaway: biased Central Otago ratepayer? Yes. Improved by QLDC? No. Should have done a Taupō. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1788933&post%5Fid=209247464&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA5MjQ3NDY0LCJpYXQiOjE3ODU1MDIwMDYsImV4cCI6MTc4ODA5NDAwNiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE3ODg5MzMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.z1f8eygtUlFA82NHih08bvw%5FACtVHq1gmpq84bZ2Vz0&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/d302d3e4-1590-46de-a40a-7cb56f5e4dee_4968x3312.webp) ## 3\. Douglas Murray: Europe’s Borderless Dream Becomes a Nightmare *Douglas Murray — The Free Press* - 🌊 60,000+ migrants into tiny Spanish Ceuta from Morocco in 24 hours — most vivid illustration yet of the decade that remade Europe’s face and politics. - 📅 Echo of 2015: Merkel’s “Wir schaffen das,” million-plus via Greece/Italy soft underbelly; Spain then quieter thanks to Morocco deals and eastern routes. - 🗺️ Geography trap remains: Ceuta and Melilla sit in North Africa — short sail + enclaves = permanent vulnerability when agreements crack. - 🎯 Takeaway: will Ceuta jar elites awake, or more denial and failed solutions? (Free portion; full piece paywalled.) [Read More](https://substack.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.FbpKsFnYIIUVHwVXFT8MYeadAr6XSNhsEKMDUM4y9yE?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/9cc163e1-06b1-4689-9033-954b72d924e0_5281x3521.webp) ## 4\. Pre-electoral Coalition Speculation: Who Will Work with Whom? *Grant Duncan — Politics Happens* - 🚫 Luxon rules out TOP: message to centre-right that TOP = Hipkins four-party — hoping to keep them under 5% (Motu model: 56.1% chance over — coin toss). - 🔄 Qiulae Wong still open both ways: “they might need us… their tune might change” — won’t say if land tax/citizen’s income get dropped for National. - 🎲 MMP’s favourite spectator sport since 1996: the dance card of “who will work with whom” — high stakes, few rules, journalists love the squirm. - 🎯 Takeaway: free portion frames the game; full map of deals and traps is paywalled. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1343614&post%5Fid=208658589&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA4NjU4NTg5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODU0MzQ2NDEsImV4cCI6MTc4ODAyNjY0MSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTEzNDM2MTQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.TwmkrBYESgkj5qAN%5Fvmy-qMsUM83VUBZvdZR5vw%5FMmY&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/photo-1564166174574-a9666f590437.jpeg) ## 5\. That’s Not the Point, Prime Minister *Natalia Albert — Less Certain* - ⚖️ Luxon’s TOP rule-out isn’t about tax rates — it’s abandoning MMP’s job: build coalitions across difference before cohesion cracks past repair. - 🪞 Hipkins no better: only “simple targeted CGT… as far as we’re going” — both called the most irresponsible major leaders she’s watched in 15 years. - 📖 Back on Track (2023): Luxon should have backed Manji/Ilam as Key backed Seymour/Epsom — missed centrist bridge; she ran for TOP to disrupt polarisation, not the reverse. - 🔑 Key 2008: didn’t need Māori Party, brought them in anyway — broader = calmer legitimacy. TOP isn’t in yet; honest move is let voters decide, not call the result early. - 🎯 Takeaway: every pre-emptive rule-out hollows the centre and hands the extremes the rope. Fuck that. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1694954&post%5Fid=208896150&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA4ODk2MTUwLCJpYXQiOjE3ODU0MzQ1MjksImV4cCI6MTc4ODAyNjUyOSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE2OTQ5NTQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.UKCZw%5F6x6ccBvjeTp1WDZbvtI6%5F19kpUu7PitpdL6jM&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/paradoxcrop.jpg) ## 6\. Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance *Rodney Hide — Brash & Mitchell* - 📘 Open Society (written in NZ, WWII): unlimited tolerance of the intolerant destroys tolerance — defend the conditions of openness without banning private belief. - ⚖️ Classical Sharia as public legal system rejects sex/belief equality, apostasy freedom, individual rights over religious authority — parallel systems = one-way concession. - 👁️ Full niqab: free dress vs non-negotiable institutional accommodation that signals sex segregation and empties “empowerment” of women’s equal public personhood. - 🇳🇿 Same principle on ancestry: honour Māori heritage; refuse permanent co-governance/race-based power that divides by bloodline and erodes equal citizenship. - 🎯 Takeaway: openness without limit is already marching via pink-haired kindness and humble bigot-callers. Words, while we still can. [Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/rodney-hide-karl-popper-s-paradox-of-tolerance?utm%5Fcampaign=bae52d35-0dbd-4511-a0b6-6265e3cad6fa&utm%5Fsource=so&utm%5Fmedium=mail&utm%5Fcontent=500d731a-9a0e-4656-a934-89d131d85dbf&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/2026/08/d04c8bfa-9e0d-4861-9868-f120c13439b2_6811x4378.webp) ## 7\. Neither Saint Nor Villain *Andrew Sullivan — The Weekly Dish* - 😶 Fauci at hearing: flat, haunted, mute behind pardon — “attacks on me are attacks on science” meets perjury-trap caution. - ⚖️ Blame split: Paul’s spittle demonisation + diary leak is gutter; Democratic/media worship + Tapper tongue-bath hurt him more — diary is AAA-list galas, Julia Roberts flowers, Atlas as “causing problems.” - 🧪 Lab-leak smear-to-certainty in days; GOF champion with Wuhan grant; IFR private 0.2–0.3% vs public 1%; noble lie on masks; Great Barrington “total nonsense” vs Collins’ humility on ignorance. - 🎯 Takeaway: dent the halo, don’t join the Epstein-level lynch mob. Blame shading truth, smearing dissent, champagne as others died alone — and forgive the human in a plague with an unfit president. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=61371&post%5Fid=208785553&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA4Nzg1NTUzLCJpYXQiOjE3ODU1MTYwMTYsImV4cCI6MTc4ODEwODAxNiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTYxMzcxIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.0IkSz9EGNhbxefcC48K-HiSl5-1o%5Fkkp2vlKXVdhYRI&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/57fa3cee-4048-4cfa-b55e-0b84d87c2c0d_563x242.webp) ## 8\. When Fame Comes for the Self-Obsessed *Alex Berenson — Unreported Truths* - 📱 Apr 2020 thread about a doomsaying epi who loves the cameras while hospitals empty and lockdowns wreck jobs — turned out to fit Fauci better than anyone. - 📔 Diary: “most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable… in the world” — not delusion; he earned it by keeping fear high past when he knew risk was modest under-75. - 🧲 Twin drivers by April: unslakable fame + push to bury lab-leak of research he helped fund — fame the stronger thirst; Greek tragedy in a white coat; we paid. - 📰 Even the NYT mocked status/self-regard rising with the death toll — king’s Jake Tappers can’t reassemble the reputation. - 🎯 Takeaway: no prison, but the halo’s gone. He still believes truth matters. Hope he’s right this time. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=363080&post%5Fid=209255080&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA5MjU1MDgwLCJpYXQiOjE3ODU1MTMzMDMsImV4cCI6MTc4ODEwNTMwMywiaXNzIjoicHViLTM2MzA4MCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.7ZZvz2VCVEY3197kRmP-gZFVELz2TR%5F-k61oEGx2k7o&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/698c1698-b305-452e-acc9-284429973614_3356x2322.webp) ## 9\. Viewing Borders as Immoral, Spanish Leader Followed Biden Footsteps *Michael Shellenberger — Public* - 🚢 Ceuta: 50k+ in 24h, 57 dead crushed/drowned; Sánchez blames traffickers + Morocco — days earlier celebrated 1.2m illegal-arrival amnesty applications and NYT “West Needs Migrants.” - 📉 Spain pop +23% since 2000 (3× W Europe avg), all immigration; 29% of 25–49 foreign-born; 10% unemployment = surplus not shortage; foreign productivity −20%; second-gen edu lag; housing = #1 voter worry. - 💸 Amnesty processing €505m; FAMI \~€900m; pension math needs \~24m working-age immigrants/30yrs while foreign unemployment \~20% vs 12% native. - 🧠 Ideology over evidence: borders = oppression, nationalism = fascism; Soros/Open Society global citizenship + socialist anti-nation — can’t learn from Biden without rewriting what “good person” means. - 🎯 Takeaway: France/Italy threaten Schengen checks; 57 bodies are a hard sell as compassion. Spain needs a new PM. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=279400&post%5Fid=209300430&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA5MzAwNDMwLCJpYXQiOjE3ODU1Mjc0NDAsImV4cCI6MTc4ODExOTQ0MCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTI3OTQwMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.lG12bBOOi50mo2AOyJwu3PPqkFziOzoCPrwlXmjv4tg&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/496ab568-7da8-4f1c-8a12-eaa3ddaa7a76_3128x2064.webp) ## 10\. After Fauci Debacle, Our Idiot Press Circles the Wagons *Matt Taibbi — Racket News* - 🤐 Paul: why fund dangerous research in China? Fauci Fifths \~100 times — NYT still: Paul as “Joe McCarthy,” hearing “useless drama.” - 🧬 Bat virus that can’t infect bats + furin cleavage site; Andersen “friggin’ likely”; Redfield: remove FCS, no pandemic. EcoHealth/Wuhan grant under 2014 freeze, then P3CO loophole (wild pathogens “not GoF”). - 📔 Diary: EcoHealth pathogenicity up “still does not… trigger P3CO”; Zheng-Li Shi GOF on spike/ACE2 — “we could not let this go.” - ❤️ Press as anti-Trump church: Fauci votives, “heartthrob,” Pitt on SNL, Baez portrait; WaPo “Republican pile-on” after the Fifths. - 🎯 Takeaway: you can’t hate the news media enough. Blue-state heartthrob in the frame = half the country filibusters a disaster investigation. God help us next time. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1042&post%5Fid=209100194&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA5MTAwMTk0LCJpYXQiOjE3ODU0MzA0ODksImV4cCI6MTc4ODAyMjQ4OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTEwNDIiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.ZzJftOOUjVJ9rZ4n-EiwvDMC7H-8TfDjt5CTDzmJ9Ps&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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