> ## 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 - 2026/147 - URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-147/ - Published: 2026-08-12T22:00:35.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-12T22:00:34.000Z - 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 2026/147 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/c6cd79a3-30ee-4633-ab9e-b0266732861b_1152x1728.webp) ## 1\. Luxon Remains National Party Leader *Liam Hehir — The Blue Review* - ✅ “Live: Luxon wins confidence vote — again.” Second false alarm in four months. Headlines had him goneburger / three flips / Stanford ticket / whip silent. Dignity damaged; genre of reporting damaged more. - 🧪 Curia public: Nat +0.5, Luxon preferred PM +4\. Next day Post leak of same poll: net fav −19 as if it supersedes. Secret April 27–22: known to president/whips only — caucus “knowing” it is gossip with a motive, not a fact. - 📡 Luxon’s own statement cited “various media reports and conversations” as reason for the meeting — observer effect as active ingredient. Named Penk numbers-running for Bishop/Stanford/self = gossip dressed as fact. - 🎯 Takeaway: central fact of a leadership story is whether the leader falls. Get that wrong twice; caveats that survive any outcome are disclaimers on a placed bet, not caution. [Read More](https://thebluereview.substack.com/p/luxon-remains-national-party-leader?utm%5Fsource=share&utm%5Fmedium=android&r=4pmbkd) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/e0b1bfe5-2eeb-4b76-9814-669910158c52_887x657.webp) ## 2\. Luxon Survives — But Can He Improve? *Grant Duncan — Politics Happens / The Conversation* - 🗳 Second confidence vote in five months. “United… full support… back to work.” TVNZ/Verian preferred PM Luxon 17%. Truly secure leaders don’t vote twice. Saving grace: Hipkins as weak; Lab lags Nat. - 🌏 Westminster scan: Albanese still preferred PM but majority dissatisfied. Starmer wooden → Burnham honeymoon. Standout: Canada’s Mark Carney — focus, trust, reads the room, \~50% leadership polls; demanding but down-to-earth. - 💼 Luxon’s CEO brand + management-speak block connection; gaffes feature not bug. Survival cuts uncertainty a bit; Nov 7 + coalition talks still test will and skill. - 🎯 Takeaway: look to who is doing leadership better. Survival ≠ a sure thing after the election. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1343614&post%5Fid=210849981&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwODQ5OTgxLCJpYXQiOjE3ODY1MDY4MzgsImV4cCI6MTc4OTA5ODgzOCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTEzNDM2MTQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.xKPwhcLFDMRfW-D5i452-xpqg6yqXeFEJBAnGkdkFPM&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/9a6e8e42-4b2b-4388-adbf-b25e6ebe75bd_2200x440.webp) ## 3\. The Overhang 2.7: Putsch Comes to Shove *rustie — The Overhang* - 📊 Pre-speculation: Nat slightly ahead Lab; coalition still favoured (not locked). So… y tho? Scarce list seats + swing-seat nerves + TOP ruled out (still \~2:1 to clear 5%; useful \~30% of formation scenarios). - 🧮 \~38 Nat seats; TOP cuts wastage and Nat by \~2\. Need drop 5 electorates to avoid overhang; 6–7 for Willis/Bishop list room. Brownlee/Goldsmith pray for Christmas (ACT’s James). List set, campaign on — April theory is now payroll. - 📜 Coups with leader above water rare since 1980 (Muldoon plot collapsed). Most new leaders get a honeymoon; medium-term wash 7–7\. Successes (Key/Ardern/Luxon) often consolidated allied vote, not just poached opponents. 87 days left = chase the short bump only. - 🎯 Takeaway: numbers don’t scream putsch. Motivations (ego, factions, policy) for the memoirs — by lunch the analysis is wrapping. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1198497&post%5Fid=210740047&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwNzQwMDQ3LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY0NTQ2MDgsImV4cCI6MTc4OTA0NjYwOCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTExOTg0OTciLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.i3xEK7kRpx523J4tV5VWZ-JEpV8awduY%5Fy1YdO99S28&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/3b959c12-b1a5-4a68-bb67-7f5cb9a07211_1202x656.webp) ## 4\. A Regulator Overreaching on Its Way Out *A Halfling’s View (David Harvey)* - 📻 BSA first (maybe last) online broadcaster decision: WK v The Platform — upheld taste/decency + privacy against Plunket over FENZ/tikanga critique and naming complainant Fanselow. - ⚖ Bill of Rights s5: Authority recites “justified limit” without Hansen proportionality. Core political speech on public-sector “Māorification.” Petros/Te Whata: “mumbo jumbo” vs Catholicism OK; same register vs tikanga = breach via imported “balance” that taste standard doesn’t contain. - ⚖️ Judge in own cause: 15 Oct show attacked BSA jurisdiction as existential threat. Anonymity for complainant who used own name; open justice inverted. No code for online — uncodified standard after the fact. High-end gravity then zero remedy. - 🎯 Takeaway: privacy limb strongest; rest wrong in a free-expression direction — especially on the way out the door. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1581391&post%5Fid=210741104&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwNzQxMTA0LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY0NDkzNDksImV4cCI6MTc4OTA0MTM0OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE1ODEzOTEiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.fP9A0qnonu9MrIWhSppe8hh666AkxeAeOqydaf8W4jQ&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/b4ceb683-ed34-4ae7-880f-3389dc5bdee9_601x328.webp) ## 5\. When the State Breaks Its Own Rules *A Halfling’s View (David Harvey)* - 📰 Ombudsman on MBIE/NBR: 230+ paywalled articles shared across 11 depts (MBIE 149, IR 43, DIA 23, SFO 15) 2021–25\. “Unreasonable… appears contrary to law.” Breach of contract + Copyright Act; Crimes Act s228 argument available. Private firms already paid $200k+ damages — they didn’t settle for “inappropriate.” - 🏛 Courthouse counters: Access to Court Documents Rules give public as-of-right docs; registries demand judge authorisation the rules don’t require — open justice converted to privilege. - 🎯 Takeaway: soft vocabulary (“compliance gap”) is a category error that only runs state’s way. Unlawful is unlawful. No public-sector exemption. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1581391&post%5Fid=208517214&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA4NTE3MjE0LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY0NzQ5MTksImV4cCI6MTc4OTA2NjkxOSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE1ODEzOTEiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.e7QVoZlAJ1XhSYqnv17l7%5FOCyvk0ZY3Cy2uD3NkUbXU&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/192fb60e-c8b6-4342-a9f0-f5aef19c827d_620x415.webp) ## 6\. You Don’t Hate Elite Academia Enough *Alex Berenson — Unreported Truths* - 🎓 Cambridge hired Jason Arday (37) youngest black professor — papers mostly antiracism interviews; claims: mute to 11, illiterate to 18, 30 marathons in 35 days (nine on broken leg), Seven Up before birth, pig’s-head attacks. Plagiarism alarms + memoir crash → resigns. Real villains: admins who needed the hire. - 📘 Mirror: Tyler Harper Atlantic “Token Black Professor” at Bates — “lynching” = roommates threatening police; mandatory racism self-audit; quit greased tenure track over hypocrisy. - 🎯 Takeaway: Arday and Harper inverse sides of same DEI rot. Uprooting has barely begun. (Paid; lead free.) [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=363080&post%5Fid=210765521&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwNzY1NTIxLCJpYXQiOjE3ODY0NzQ2MTYsImV4cCI6MTc4OTA2NjYxNiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM2MzA4MCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.uhbsgswA3QXjTmHLypYlTpkkTOv0YhNV1JK43e6RmAc&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/14dff518-d36e-4bec-92a2-cdf4fd0fda58_1439x720.webp) ## 7\. Fauci and Friends Knew the Miscarriage Risk Was Real *Ada Nestor — My Reflections From The Edge* - 📱 25 Jan 2021 texts: Murthy asks early vs late pregnancy vax. Fauci: dose-2 cytokine storm/fever “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.” Walensky: “definitely a good point.” Murthy: fetal mutation concerns too. - 🎤 Nine days later JAMA: FDA found “no red flags.” ACIP answer = Tylenol. Shimabukuro NEJM study enrolled mostly after first trimester — window Fauci flagged already gone. Bok note: mRNA to placenta known from mice; panel knew. - 🎯 Takeaway: private hypothesis, public “no red flags” = recommendation without informed consent. Not cinematic cover-up — worse: different stories to each other and to mothers. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=4725930&post%5Fid=210745945&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjEwNzQ1OTQ1LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY0NTczODEsImV4cCI6MTc4OTA0OTM4MSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQ3MjU5MzAiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.HNO7VNZp0MaQ9Kda8lzgnRzRKPrUUu3jpu3cZL3sn54&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/GettyImages_2269869914.webp) ## 8\. Benjamin Netanyahu Isn’t Blocking Peace in Gaza *Stephen Pollard — The Spectator Australia* - 🗺 Bibi rejects Board of Peace 15-point “roadmap” until Hamas fully disarmed (heavy + light). Framed as election positioning / blocking peace. Pollard: wrong twice. - 🇮🇱 Eisenkot (polls’ next PM), Bennett, Lieberman same line — not an outlier. No Israel–Hamas deal on table; proposal is Board/US/Hamas; merit is verification not trust (Mladenov). - 🛡 Three pillars: total decommissioning; Board governance; international force incl. US. No IDF pullback until first stage verified; sector-by-sector; tunnels via specialised firms. If Hamas fails, nothing changes; Israel keeps right to respond. - 🎯 Takeaway: question isn’t “will Hamas keep its word?” — only “does it actually disarm?” Trust irrelevant by design. [Read More](https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/08/benjamin-netanyahu-isnt-blocking-peace-in-gaza/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/GettyImages_2217122308_e1786377349474.webp) ## 9\. What Has Happened to Ricky Gervais? *Chas Newkey-Burden — The Spectator Australia* - 📺 Netflix *Alley Cats* #1 despite mauling: Independent 1★ “mirthless”; Telegraph 0★ “worst thing since *Cats*”; Metro “lazy claptrap.” Gervais: millions watched, “best fans,” pet photos for replies — blame “woke.” - 🎬 Echo of *Extras*’ Andy Millman: craves peer respect, settles for catchphrase morons, Bowie “little fat man who sold his soul.” Tube ads + stand-up on trans/Aids/race + reverse-explaining jokes = lucrative “can’t say anything” economy. - 🎯 Takeaway: maybe world changed, not him. Hardcore fans can’t say what they like about *Alley Cats* — only who they hate for disliking it. Is he really that happy? [Read More](https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/08/what-has-happened-to-ricky-gervais/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/d3ec1604-506c-44fc-8abe-b62a3a65ca30_2100x1182.webp) ## 10\. Is China Going to Control Your Medicine? *Bethany McLean — The Free Press* - 💊 Not just cheap copycats. KdT’s Malone JPM 2024 “oh shit”: global deals >$50m with Chinese cos 23% (2022) → 44% (2024). Stifel’s Opler: 2025 almost 70% of pharma deal dollars ($137.7b) with China start-ups. - 📈 Slope without precedent — earmarks of prior industry takeovers. (Full investigation paywalled.) - 🎯 Takeaway: insiders already know the chart. Extrapolate the slope. [Read More](https://www.thefp.com/p/china-biotech-pharmaceutical-development?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.