> ## 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 - 2026/146 - URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-146/ - Published: 2026-08-11T22:00:21.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-11T22:00:20.000Z - Description: 10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You - Author: Cam Slater - Tags: Ten@10, NZ Politics, World Politics, Media Bias, National Party **This is edition 2026/146 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/fcc2242f-41f8-49ea-8f9c-d8840292798e_1790x1428.webp) ## 1\. Democracy Briefing: Luxon’s Enemies Are Counting *Bryce Edwards — The Democracy Project* - 📞 Herald/Coughlan: MPs hit phones after MMP talkback captain’s call. Quote: “There’s going to be change in the top job. It’s just a question of who.” Bishop/Stanford named; Bishop won’t deny appetite for change. Online caucus tonight (recess week). - 🐴 Harman/Politik: Penk allegedly “stalking horse” for wider contest (Bishop, Stanford, Willis, maybe Brown). Thatcher 1989 model. O’Brien, J. Williams (coffee-spill meme), Hehir all treat reporting as real. - 📊 April confidence: circulating 27–22 (or 28–21) — three flips reverse it. Narrow margin with no declared challenger = weakness. Post: five MPs on record for Luxon; rest ground. - 👩 Bridge: Stanford the “reluctant hero”; Bishop/Willis baggage. Willis–Stanford windfarm optics = “next leadership team.” Right drafting the indictment: fiscal theatre, “no new taxes on working people,” Grant’s “in office but not in control.” - 🎯 Takeaway: Hehir case against — still competitive; spill becomes the blame forever (Gillard/Rudd; Muller 25.6%). Luxon may survive tonight. He survived April too. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1885783&post%5Fid=210681586&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwNjgxNTg2LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY0MDc3ODMsImV4cCI6MTc4ODk5OTc4MywiaXNzIjoicHViLTE4ODU3ODMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.NeeUU7yend6j-%5FZSvLTlCeccdWpo2C7NftI8XZBXn7M&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/d41b0a9f-d967-47b0-8e1b-f25106876345_491x300.webp) ## 2\. Losing the Room *Chris Trotter* - 🗣 Rotorua Chamber: “adult, adult, adult” / disrupt yourself aggressively / retool-refinance-rehome. Trotter: tell cats to become lions. Corner dairy, husband-wife café — how “radically disrupt” before pandemic or bank freeze? - 🏛 Hands-off state for SME “children” vs fast-track favours for donors — who is parent, who is client? Rome still full of tiny specialists; NZ wiped them 40 years ago. Italy GDP/cap PPP #37; NZ #45 — not for lack of smacking it. - 🧮 MMP concentrates angry 12% parties; FPP feeds extremes into 50% major-party takeovers (see US). Captain’s call on third MMP referendum = political illiteracy. 200k SMEs = property-owning democracy bedrock. - 🎯 Takeaway: small isn’t proof of inadequate ambition. Insult the backbone, expect worse than a National loss. (Interest.co.nz, 10 Aug.) [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=4057098&post%5Fid=210674812&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwNjc0ODEyLCJpYXQiOjE3ODY0MDA0NjAsImV4cCI6MTc4ODk5MjQ2MCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQwNTcwOTgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.wWdRD8XQ16vTgrN0bdVBtSM-sSKUXBL9FkxLmNCFh6A&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/c9a29e7a-0150-4ba1-b3b0-8136f57581b1_1568x1264.webp) ## 3\. Twice Bitten, Twice Hopeful *Liam Hehir — The Blue Review* - 🐺 Phones buzzing again — Coughlan not inventing it; boy-who-cried-wolf lesson is wolves are real, so false alarms matter. April: quotes, frenzy, no challenger, Luxon-staged vote. - 📉 Parties knife PMs when hopeless (Trudeau −20). Nat still likely forms next govt on published numbers. Say it out loud: ahead/close and the plan is roll our own PM over a fortnight and a referendum no one will care about by polling day. - 🇦🇺 Gillard/Rudd 2010: Labor led 52–48; honeymoon gone; hung parliament; spill became the explanation for everything. Successor loses November → forever “we were even and you lost.” No contender popular with public *and* caucus. - 🎯 Takeaway: hold nerve, fight the opposition, three months of fiscal-repair discipline. Or keep feeding the gallery. Your call. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=478996&post%5Fid=210650198&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwNjUwMTk4LCJpYXQiOjE3ODYzOTIxNTIsImV4cCI6MTc4ODk4NDE1MiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQ3ODk5NiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.-KoOWUL8%5FwCj0GUa9RoiMOQk00ApVUARAYMboJHkVbE&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/5ba75900-5ced-4411-b040-52f65443e9d2_1956x1658.webp) ## 4\. The Greens Are Being Remarkably Honest. We Should Listen. *Ani O’Brien — Thought Crimes* - 📗 Not greener management — overhaul: larger state, wealth tax, private→public power, iwi control, Matike Mai constitution, Waitangi Tribunal binding. Tax package \~$5.1–5.7b net — dwarfed by the wish list. - 💸 Wealth tax 2.5% >$10m assumes 28.5% leakage; Scotland 48% top rate lost £22m year one. Free health/dental, income guarantee (\~$12b), universal public housing, Kiwipower, animal-welfare department, climate funds — each doc written as if alone. - 🏛 Te Waonui a Tāne: $2.44b Crown cash into hapū/iwi trust ($2b permanent fund); Crown surrenders control. Davidson: “actual tino rangatiratanga.” Not co-governance — devolution by ancestry. AI data-centre ban: fair conditions vs dystopian freeze. - 🎯 Takeaway: credit for candour. Destination = redistributive, maximalist, ethnonationalist, undercooked. Read the suite, not the slogans. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=3921014&post%5Fid=208553977&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA4NTUzOTc3LCJpYXQiOjE3ODYzODk2NzYsImV4cCI6MTc4ODk4MTY3NiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM5MjEwMTQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.gRhVcM3oQb-L1Dt5FvKXbO5KNTgyu3KBrlM5uqjttuA&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/22bca73e-617e-4744-9431-4f952a39bd4f_1182x699.webp) ## 5\. National Leadership in Crisis / Luxon on the Line Again *Grant Duncan — Politics Happens / The Conversation* - 🔥 Bad week: Rotorua apology, MMP captain’s call, Brent comparisons, spill talk. April self-vote already. No Ardern waiting — Bishop/Stanford better timed carefully; late switch = desperate. - 📉 Labour no windfall: Hipkins preferred-PM as weak as Luxon; Lab <28% in two polls. Culture war = Treaty/co-governance (not just immigration). Both leaders hostage to partners (ACT TPB; Peters’ “go back”; Greens/TPM push). - 🎯 Takeaway: neither major benefits from a late spill. Leadership capital peaked early. Voters priced them in. Febrile fun for gallery; unlikely to move the middle. (Free Conversation piece; Substack pointer paywalled.) [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1343614&post%5Fid=210701767&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwNzAxNzY3LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY0MjEzMzQsImV4cCI6MTc4OTAxMzMzNCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTEzNDM2MTQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.CsA9PGHKrKF0qbSoLMpNb-wgwbu2C8U7GIBX0yPVyKM&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/2a83b2b9-c76f-4108-ad61-90f8acb2d049_3146x1922--1-.webp) ## 6\. Hipkins’s Pathway to Another Defeat *Grant Duncan — Politics Happens* - 🔄 Flip the adage: governments don’t win — oppositions lose. Flip side of Brent-week coverage: could Chippie lose to Luxon *again*? - 🍠 Treaty/co-governance silence at conference = hot kumara. Can’t walk back base; can’t soothe settlement-yes / co-gov-no voters. ACT/NZF will force the debate. CGT forgotten, negligible revenue, already spent on free GP stuff — not a centre winner; Greens’ manifesto fuller. - 🧩 Four-party arithmetic with TOP. Leadership capital still low; Lab now <30% twice. “Dumb and Dumber” déjà vu debates. Right logic: “Luxon’s a dufus, but he’s our dufus — the other lot are worse.” - 🎯 Takeaway: boredom + fear of hangers-on can reinstall David Brent by default. Watch the debates. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1343614&post%5Fid=210398838&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwMzk4ODM4LCJpYXQiOjE3ODYzODQ5OTUsImV4cCI6MTc4ODk3Njk5NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTEzNDM2MTQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.CaSYynk0lrJTpQYbYMT71h7HWIAPJdvolIuZKzGJ9YQ&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/2db15fcf-8a4a-4aa3-9e8d-3e37b8b6b44a_3020x990.webp) ## 7\. Cowardice of Professors and Class Interest of Radicalized Administrators *Michael Shellenberger — Public* - 🎓 Arday/Cambridge fabulism not “smear” — skin-colour + dogma hire. Atlantic cover (Harper/Bates): DEI “crackers,” “lynching” roommate row, near-hire of 50-year-out-of-date biologist for pigment/DEI zeal. Hired “visibly Black first.” - 📊 Faculty conservative: 28% (1969) → single digits (Harvard 9%). Bates: race requirement inside every major incl. physics; 73% faculty yes after private opposition. CRT: racism permanent/invisible → endless auditors. Sommers: radicals only hire radicals. - 💼 Contingent faculty (\~¾) fear non-renewal; elite overproduction (22m grads vs 10m degree jobs 2000–19) fuels status war. Confidence in higher ed 57%→38%. Some DEI retreat; University of Austin alternative. - 🎯 Takeaway: rot deeper than a few frauds. Recover “a man is a man” or get replaced. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=279400&post%5Fid=210676614&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwNjc2NjE0LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY0MDIwODksImV4cCI6MTc4ODk5NDA4OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTI3OTQwMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.7P7AzdlJFHMcz0sCLyO0oJXyY7tV%5F%5FEUvuOf%5F54GRWM&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/c92ba657-f338-4eed-a379-81e7d1a8c1d5_931x580.webp) ## 8\. URGENT: Tony Fauci Appears to Have Misled Congress in 2024 *Alex Berenson — Unreported Truths* - 💬 Slack 4 Jan 2022: Folkers (chief of staff) to Morens — “new assignment from asf that we did not want to put in email” (secret review of Gates book MS). Minutes later Morens on it. - ⚖ 3 Jun 2024 House testimony: Fauci said never did official NIH business with Morens off govt email (science papers exception). Assignment ≠ papers. Biden 20 Jan 2025 pardon covers 2014–pardon day — no perjury risk; explains Fifth ×100+ now. - 📂 Paul tranche: Fauci to Gates calls Morens “trusted colleague” vs “not close / no substantive advice.” Folkers: “use gmail to write back to bill g.” Morens faces 51 years on records charges; Fauci doesn’t. - 🎯 Takeaway: investigators keep finding contradictions he thought deleted. Pardon ≠ public truth. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=363080&post%5Fid=210605334&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwNjA1MzM0LCJpYXQiOjE3ODYzODE4NjUsImV4cCI6MTc4ODk3Mzg2NSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM2MzA4MCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.1toZjBQSWBIW3%5FYVFhRPSS1St4wUOSlBuFHlW7HLozQ&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/980472c9-0864-4f8e-b65e-78374a0a1e17_680x383.webp) ## 9\. A Ray of Light Amid Rampant Censorship *Jenny Ruth — Just the Business* - 💡 LinkedIn removed her post defending sex-based girls’ sport as “hateful”; appeal restored it hours later with apology. Rare review win amid routine gender/Israel censorship. - 🇦🇺 Contrast: Tickle v Grover (Giggle) — appeal court doubled fine to A$20k+costs. Nomes Whitney, women-only pole studio Gold Coast — QCAT claim A$30k; QHRC backs “gender identity” over women’s single-sex safety. Complainant US citizen <1 year in Aus. - 🏛 Kirralie Smith: NSW SC rejects appeal; A$95k for identifying two males on women’s teams from public photos/scoreboards — “vilification.” - 🎯 Takeaway: glad to be in NZ. Across the ditch, stating sex can cost five figures. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1827355&post%5Fid=210581453&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwNTgxNDUzLCJpYXQiOjE3ODYzODUwNzAsImV4cCI6MTc4ODk3NzA3MCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE4MjczNTUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.MBFzTGaLJ4Wm7iyhDdIpHkEY3tuU9X4zHFznbBZ7zDY&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/oLwVgCT1kltc.jpg) ## 10\. Total Coverage, Optional Oversight *Christina Maas — Reclaim The Net* - 📷 Members-only deep dive (Flock / ALPR / Fourth Amendment / FL–CA tags). Open lede only free: - 🎯 *“Surveillance companies do not promise their systems will never be abused. They promise the abuse will be caught, which is a different promise and a much smaller one.”* - 🔗 Full piece for supporters — button below is the source URL. [Read More](https://reclaimthenet.org/total-coverage-optional-oversight?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. All the best, keep healthy. **Jocko** Wonderful info not otherwise available in NZ. More power to your elbow! Thanks.