> ## 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 - 2026/149 - URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-149/ - Published: 2026-08-17T22:00:53.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-17T22:00:52.000Z - Description: 10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You - Author: Cam Slater - Tags: Ten@10, NZ Politics, World Politics, Media Bias, Free Speech **This is edition 2026/149 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/2026/08/0895b3ea-08eb-4077-9cd9-d601887ec973_3543x3543.webp) ## 1\. What Kiri Allan Tells Us About Power and Influence *Bryce Edwards — The Democracy Project* - 📘 Memoir *Go Hard or Go Home*: chemo drip, outgoing CE of her own department lobbies half an hour for post-exit board jobs. “Where power and patronage actually sit… and who feels entitled.” She won’t name him. - 🔄 KLA consultancy: iwi, Māori collectives, central/local govt, private business — climate adaptation, emergency management, hazards. Same files she held as minister. No lobbying register, no stand-down. Herald op-ed on National Iwi Chairs Forum hui omitted her Disaster Recovery ILG adviser role; Tamihere “outright lies” fix still no disclosure. - 🏛 Tour attack: state service “overpaid, bloated and slow”; senior bureaucrats “more political than politicians.” PSA: cheap shot; feeds privatisation narrative while she pushes devolution to communities/iwi/private — her client set. - 🎯 Takeaway: revolving door + unnamed patronage + undisclosed hat when reporting. NZ still has no way to tell lobbyist from “professional hustler.” (Paid after paywall.) [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1885783&post%5Fid=211368545&isFreemail=true&r=2psd49&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjQyNDYxMjEsInBvc3RfaWQiOjIxMTM2ODU0NSwiaWF0IjoxNzg2ODQ0OTI5LCJleHAiOjE3ODk0MzY5MjksImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xODg1NzgzIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.DgR4eCck%5Fd4f3Q1Rf-hYdBRk-sZafc8h5PX6KU3uYig&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/qiulae-wong-KUU5IKQOLVAFBL3LVALY33EQTE.jpg) ## 2\. Q & Q & A: Jack Tame Puts TOP Under the Blowtorch *Liam Hehir — The Blue Review* - 📺 Qiulae Wong on *Q+A*: composure yes; specifics no. “Clean politics” package bans corporate donations while taking one from a board member’s company — held the status-quo line but didn’t flip it. - 📜 Board can overrule caucus in the constitution; she said no, then retreated. Tax trap: citizens’ income costed $69b not \~$80b because residency/citizenship gates — so skilled migrants + returning Kiwis pay harsh land/income taxes without the UBI. Wealth flight? No modelling. - 💼 MSD “repurpose” 2,000 vs plans that assume billions from cutting staff — eventually conceded cuts. Bag of clichés: bigger picture, attractive to invest/come home. - 🎯 Takeaway: not a bloodbath, far from assured. Won’t hurt TOP much — low-info vibes constituency + outsider/technocrat brand can still clear 5%. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=478996&post%5Fid=211389064&utm%5Fsource=post-email-title&utm%5Fcampaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjExMzg5MDY0LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY4NjY5NjEsImV4cCI6MTc4OTQ1ODk2MSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTQ3ODk5NiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.gkRohf-rFItwXmB3pQD-lX%5FGB7xCC2x1LCrfrJs%5F4yM) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/c498c1c1-f709-4308-a8ef-1f53de72175c_1075x600.webp) ## 3\. Rinse, Repeat, Revolt *Simon O’Connor — On Point* - 🔁 April’s *Rinse and Repeat* → August sequel: another challenge, another Luxon “win,” underlying causes untouched. Pause, not ending. Ambition filling vacuum where party principles thinned. - 🧪 Catalysts: personal ambition + Luxon unforced errors (Rotorua, MMP) + list rankings as high-sensitivity period + media eager to amplify. Start with MPs talking; some outlets more interested in Nat wounds than opponents’. - 🐐 Penk as Girard scapegoat: need to show consequences after April’s soft landing; easiest target, not sole plotter. Military/legal/conservative type more likely to say aloud what others whisper. - 🎯 Takeaway: “We’re going back to work” was the right line. Centre-right bloc may hold even if Nat bleeds to ACT/NZF. Winning Nov may be easier than fixing the caucus. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=2186958&post%5Fid=211374558&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjExMzc0NTU4LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY5MDUzODIsImV4cCI6MTc4OTQ5NzM4MiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTIxODY5NTgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.MwzP7G0V73sDKlHsP0GUWZnmrc7Aey-hsUZPuZFSy34&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/4JP3SN5_Image_29_jfif--1-.webp) ## 4\. Bigger Councils Are No Bargain for Business *Nick Clark — Brash & Mitchell / NZ Initiative* - 🏗 Head Start deadline: unitary authorities favoured; no accepted plan → compulsory process after 2028\. Bishop: planning system. Watts: cut duplication. Neither proves bigger = cheaper/faster for firms. - 📊 Infra Commission 2022: no clear link between population and efficiency on roads/consents/overheads (>half opex). Auckland “savings” never got the promised post-merger review; opex rose like peers. - 🔁 Next-door competition (Selwyn/Waimakariri vs Chch) is a rare check — rates, consents, growth. Big merger dulls exit option. Chch lost building-consent accreditation 2013; size no safeguard. - 🎯 Takeaway: GST share of new builds, publish comparable consent times/fees, stronger councillor oversight — work with or without boundary changes. Cabinet in September: public costs before design. [Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/nick-clark-bigger-councils-are-no-bargain-for-business?utm%5Fcampaign=bae52d35-0dbd-4511-a0b6-6265e3cad6fa&utm%5Fsource=so&utm%5Fmedium=mail&utm%5Fcontent=6a834ead-9917-41eb-a718-0138dc530396&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/2026/08/49a4794a-9b42-470d-8234-4758cd3cde97_599x401.webp) ## 5\. Final Verdict on the Exculpation of Judge Aitken *John McLean* - ⚖ Restored to District Court after April 2026 Judicial Conduct Panel (Brown KC, Mallon JA, Mateparae) found Northern Club 22 Nov 2024 conduct short of removal. - 🤥 Key finding McLean calls fiction: she ranted “he’s lying / this is lies / room full of judges” without knowing it was Peters — despite open doorway, known voice, 2m NZ First banner, then boasted “I’ve just called Winston Peters a liar.” - 📜 Compartmentalised to the night; mock findings on “poor understanding” fixable by education and brief “comity” breach “in ignorance.” She recanted unreserved apology; still adamant she did nothing wrong. Northern Club banned her, Galler, Reed KC. - 🎯 Takeaway: if knowing it was Peters would end the career, the panel’s “didn’t know” was the only lifeline. Tenure to Feb 2027; Peters on tikanga primacy was “for practical purposes true.” [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1709690&post%5Fid=211450067&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjExNDUwMDY3LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY5MDU4NDMsImV4cCI6MTc4OTQ5Nzg0MywiaXNzIjoicHViLTE3MDk2OTAiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.hpGZXpvSTLAHOGq-TAbYH8JZxgg4Z7u4X2aY4vIm6Cg&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/1d8338d2-7c54-4fb3-a449-3cf9b77c17f6_2338x1682.webp) ## 6\. Universities and Media Are to Blame for Arday’s Rise — and Maybe His Death *Michael Shellenberger — Public* - 🕯 Jason Arday found dead nine days after resigning Cambridge chair; Met “unexpected, not suspicious”; family: “campaign of misinformation was too much.” Shellenberger: blame those who elevated and shielded, not those who checked. - 📺 BBC 2023 hagiography still online with false claims; Cremin: “best in the world.” THE killed plagiarism story after libel threat; Cambridge called scrutiny “vile”; Good Law denied plagiarism. Pig’s head: Met “categorically” no investigation. Schoolmates: he spoke, cracked jokes. - 📉 Mismatch: Sander bar-pass depression; SAT gaps treated as racist tests. Arday as symbol not colleague — Icarus who flew on wings the Left built. - 🎯 Takeaway: lowering standards isn’t compassion. Kindness was honest marking in 2023, not a chair and a seven-figure memoir. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=279400&post%5Fid=211311794&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjExMzExNzk0LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY4MDczNzYsImV4cCI6MTc4OTM5OTM3NiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTI3OTQwMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.J2PO9289ltLwlsCjXFLRV3H2ySfM%5F27ZsneqLhr2n%5Fw&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/4f895153-81f1-425c-a083-85c273a6cf18_6127x4085.webp) ## 7\. FBI Gave Jim Jordan a Fake “Defensive Briefing” *Michael Shellenberger — Public* - 🎙 Jordan exclusive: same farce briefing Grassley/Johnson got — “they told us not to do what we were doing, looking into Hunter.” Spreadsheet “conduits”: Giuliani #1, Jordan #8. - 📅 Jul 2020 Dem letter + Politico frame Johnson probe as laundering Kremlin ops → Aug 6 briefings → Oct Post laptop → 51 intel officials letter → Biden debate line. FITF/Round River; Floris “shadow government,” routine Wray briefings; later WFO intel chief; Patel forced out May 2025. - 📱 Twitter call: agent blurts laptop real, “CLOSE HOLD,” Dehmlow/OGC cut off. Chan/Baker path to censorship despite Roth seeing no Russian dump. - 🎯 Takeaway: holistic deception — Hill, press, platforms — while Bureau sat on authentic drives since Dec 2019. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=279400&post%5Fid=211076336&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjExMDc2MzM2LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY2NDY4NzQsImV4cCI6MTc4OTIzODg3NCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTI3OTQwMCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.t8c1dPZ15aVoEkA1aUc5xsEQ9F5-cwMoMTxDNCqYYEc&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/6cedeea5-2408-40f4-9d0f-8c66b59a521d_337x312.webp) ## 8\. On the Rot in Higher Education *Alex Berenson — Unreported Truths* - ✉️ Anonymous public-uni professor after Arday piece: AI cheating is diagnostic, not the disease. College as points → credits → job; Claude/ChatGPT = free Chegg. - 📉 Decades of NCLB metrics, no-fail culture, parent-as-customer, retention/evals punishing hard graders. “I’m not afraid to use my trauma.” Michigan freshman no first-semester grades. Non-tenure: don’t renew, don’t fire. - 💰 \~$100k sticker; employers already discount degrees. When credential ≠ mastery finally breaks, only richest brands walk away clean. - 🎯 Takeaway: “When we begin requiring students to learn, we may discover some won’t cut it.” [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=363080&post%5Fid=211034921&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjExMDM0OTIxLCJpYXQiOjE3ODY3MDcxMTIsImV4cCI6MTc4OTI5OTExMiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM2MzA4MCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.4178-CmDKAHAO3pbVXN7gcII6qlH78F20Wc9A2gyRyA&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/13the-tilt-sub-superJumbo--1-.webp) ## 9\. Polling Errors: Michigan and Wisconsin *The New York Times — The Upshot* - 📉 Dem primaries: El-Sayed (prog) \~1-pt win after double-digit poll leads in MI Senate; Francesca Hong lost WI gov primary after \~20-pt averages. Luntz joke: shut Midwest primary polling until we know what’s going on. - 🧮 Cohn/briefing: primaries always hard; open primaries, nonresponse, young-voter overweight, late negative press (Hong). 20-pt miss \~90th percentile historically — unusual because polls overestimated the progressive, usually underestimate leaders. - 🎯 Takeaway: not proof the industry is broken; proof primary turnout models still break. (Full Upshot paywalled/blocked here — contemporaneous Times briefing + results coverage.) [Read More](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/upshot/polling-errors-michigan-wisconsin.html?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/1Mt7zua9sIsk.jpg) ## 10\. France’s Top Court Kills the Under-15 Social Media Ban *Cindy Harper — Reclaim The Net* - 🏛 Conseil constitutionnel 14 Aug: under-15 ban disproportionate hit to free expression; age proof for everyone lacks privacy safeguards. Due 1 Sept; existing accounts four-month close — scrapped. - 📣 Macron export model; von der Leyen EU-wide push; UK vote expected by Christmas; Spain/Greece/Denmark/Australia already or planning. Digital minister: “all of us… will have to prove our age.” - 📝 Only Article 1 dies; school phone ban stands. Macron orders rewrite before 2027 election he can’t contest — must specify how age proof is collected, held, bound. - 🎯 Takeaway: protecting kids ≠ blanket age-gated internet for the whole population. Court: not adapted, necessary, or proportionate. [Read More](https://reclaimthenet.org/frances-top-court-kills-the-under-15-social-media-ban?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.