> ## 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 - 2026/151 - URL: https://goodoil.news/your-daily-ten-10-2026-151/ - Published: 2026-08-19T22:00:27.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-19T22:00:27.000Z - Description: 10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You - Author: Cam Slater - Tags: Ten@10, NZ Politics, World Politics, Media Bias, MMP **This is edition 2026/151 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/2026/08/5261.webp) ## 1\. Don Brash & Te Pāti Māori Agree on a Strategy *Ani O’Brien — Thought Crimes* - 🗳 30 years of MMP, blocs finally gaming both ticks. TPM: electorate votes + party vote Lab/Green (“one plan, two votes”). Brash: electorate Nat (ex Epsom/Tāmaki) + party ACT/NZF → National overhang, minors stack lists. - 📏 How overhang works: keep extra electorates, Parliament expands (already 123). Scenario math: Nat 19.8% party / 43 electorates + ACT/NZF rises → House \~141, right 78\. Nat leadership hates it — dilutes their caucus, kills list (Willis/Brownlee/Bishop risk). - ⚠ TPM easier in theory, messier in practice: internal scars, Lab/Greens not reciprocating electorates. Sacrifice party vote you don’t have; lose electorates = extinction. - 🎯 Takeaway: don’t hate the player — hate the game. Both sides will scream reform when the other side wins the exploit. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=3921014&post%5Fid=211685446&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjExNjg1NDQ2LCJpYXQiOjE3ODcwODA4NjMsImV4cCI6MTc4OTY3Mjg2MywiaXNzIjoicHViLTM5MjEwMTQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.-g3D0Xr0si51td9N641itTL6TM7nOBW%5FT8qGT14p9K8&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/5261-1.webp) ## 2\. Te Pāti Māori Just Made Our Argument for Us *Don Brash — Brash & Mitchell (Hobson’s Pledge)* - 🏛 TPM launch: candidate vote TPM, party vote elsewhere for overhang. Waititi notes Māori Lab/list MPs already enter without Māori seats. - ✅ That admits the point: Māori representation no longer depends on ancestry-defined electorates. Māori win general seats, lists, leaderships (7/12 party leaders Māori). - 🎯 Strategy = use reserved seats to extract influence beyond nationwide party share. Time for a binding referendum — Referendum Now. - 🎯 Takeaway: if the seats still enjoy support, their defenders should welcome a vote. [Read More](https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/don-brash-te-p%C4%81ti-m%C4%81ori-just-made-our-argument-for-us?utm%5Fcampaign=bae52d35-0dbd-4511-a0b6-6265e3cad6fa&utm%5Fsource=so&utm%5Fmedium=mail&utm%5Fcontent=694883c6-4858-4d6d-b282-14a5bca78fa8&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/2026/08/3963c89c-f4db-4e2c-9d6d-c54dbdefbb1f_2842x1822.webp) ## 3\. An Opportunity to Clean Up Lobbying *Bryce Edwards — The Democracy Project* - 🏢 Broken markets (power, banks, groceries…) + strongest Wellington lobbies. OECD: NZ “zero” on lobbying rules — no definition, register, regulator. Donations imperfectly regulated; access free-for-all. - 📋 TOP “Clean Up Politics”: compulsory register, quarterly returns, 1-year stand-down (weaker than TOP 2023’s 18 months / Aus/UK/Canada), ban contingency fees, anti-corruption body. Definition fight (unions? law firms?) sank Holly Walker 2012. - 💰 Hypocrisy attack on big donors: Hehir analogy — pay the tax rate that exists. Wilderland on board + Alajamber donations → transparency bar higher when you run on money-in-politics. - 🎯 Takeaway: Nat/Lab must answer — this package, or defend the void out loud. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1885783&post%5Fid=211644119&isFreemail=false&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjExNjQ0MTE5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODcwMjQ3ODksImV4cCI6MTc4OTYxNjc4OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE4ODU3ODMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.kt-GJDwBAO9ZwimpnVcDknkD7AT5%5Fc-YSw45T4tAVBg&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/715360c3-320c-4fb3-bf91-6e9da2c4dc42_1600x900.webp) ## 4\. The Female Art of War: How Women Fight Different *Ani O’Brien — Women’s Rights & Wrongs* - 🏀 Essay #1 of WNBA/sisterhood series. Women compete hard — more via relational aggression: exclusion, reputation, coalitions, norm police — not less ambition. - 🔬 Björkqvist/Archer/Campbell/Vaillancourt: indirect aggression patterns; nature *and* nurture; Queen Bee + black sheep. Sisterhood slogan is fragile under scarcity. - ⭐ WNBA = lab: physical competition + all-female relational field + scarce status. Caitlin Clark grew the pie; relative status still stings. Next: tall-poppy case study. - 🎯 Takeaway: not “women worse” — women human. Myth of seamless sisterhood obscures the real dynamics. [Read More](https://womensrightsandwrongs.substack.com/p/the-female-art-of-war-how-women-fight-different) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/e0afec32-8e81-456d-9fc8-fade8cd896e9_601x328.webp) ## 5\. The Benefit of Law *A Halfling’s View (David Harvey)* - ⚖ Bolt’s More vs Roper: give even the Devil the law’s benefit — for your own safety when the winds turn. Dicey/Bingham: same law for powerful and despised. - 🪓 Erosion is quiet: legal-aid cuts, delay-as-punishment, emergency powers that linger, “why does he deserve a lawyer?” Roper’s project by increments. - 🎯 Due process isn’t anti-victim — it’s what separates conviction from vengeance that may catch the wrong person. - 🎯 Takeaway: the forest of laws is shelter, not an obstacle course. Keep it standing. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1581391&post%5Fid=208517441&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjA4NTE3NDQxLCJpYXQiOjE3ODcwNzk2ODksImV4cCI6MTc4OTY3MTY4OSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE1ODEzOTEiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.H%5F-xeoxa6QcuBgCcvGppRY9%5FmrUbWFsKHlWpVrZBYVM&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/photo-1584036561566-baf8f5f1b144.jpeg) ## 6\. COVID: Off-Label *Philip Crump — Cranmer’s Substack* - 💉 Medsafe approved Pfizer booster ≥6 months. Programme: 5 → Cabinet 4 → 3\. Medsafe sheet never moved. Henry VIII Immediate Modification Orders, then s34A: DG authorises off-label population-wide + advertising carve-out from s20. - 📄 RIS frank: outside Act’s scheme; trust/customer journey; stocks before expiry. Fourth dose: Pfizer no NZ application — statute filled gap. Mandates for some workers tied to intervals. - 🔍 Royal Commission left off-label/advertising largely out of scope. New Medical Products Bill still designs programme off-label paths. - 🎯 Takeaway: not “was 3 months wrong?” — who may authorise mass use outside Medsafe, and may that become a job condition? [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1090995&post%5Fid=210853898&isFreemail=true&r=4pmbkd&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyODQ4OTY1MjUsInBvc3RfaWQiOjIxMDg1Mzg5OCwiaWF0IjoxNzg3MTA5MDUwLCJleHAiOjE3ODk3MDEwNTAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xMDkwOTk1Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.KatL8RZPa21ZqVRQtLVjw6EGEtWChykPKWWPe0LbiyE&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/GettyImages-2290251597.webp) ## 7\. Reimaging the Political Spectrum *Mark Imisides — The Spectator Australia* - 🟤 Blackshirts vs Antifa: same hall-storming; horseshoe/circle models paper over it. Left/right imply a metric that doesn’t exist when extremes behave alike. - 📐 Proposed axis: degree of government control — anarchists → libertarians → conservatives → managerial centre-right → mainstream socialists → totalitarians (fascist/communist/Islamist) at max control. - 🤝 Explains left soft-pedal on Islam, Queers for Palestine: birds of a feather + Bonhoeffer’s “stupidity” (outsource thinking, wilful ignorance, compliance). Pro-West vs anti-West as plain labels. - 🎯 Takeaway: liberty isn’t at either pole — it’s resistance to overreach in every uniform. [Read More](https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/08/reimaging-the-political-spectrum/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/jason-arday-1536x864.jpg) ## 8\. Nothing Racist about Media Scrutiny of Jason Arday *Brendan O’Neill — spiked* - 🕯 Body barely cold before “he’d still be alive if white.” Sultana/Sarkar/unions: press racism. O’Neill: Cambridge/BBC public figure; fact-check is public interest. - 📚 White fabulists mauled too (Salt Path, Frey, Glass). Best coverage hit institutions that waved diligence for DEI halo. Less paternalist gushing earlier might have spared the end. - 🎯 “Racism” as ruling-class moral weapon to ringfence ideology from free scrutiny. - 🎯 Takeaway: they racialised him first. Don’t let them shut the inquest with a slur. [Read More](https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/08/15/there-was-nothing-racist-about-the-media-scrutiny-of-jason-arday/?ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/8e854c7d-1eaf-4d19-9d0b-6bda9c6c9d61_640x428.webp) ## 9\. Whose KiwiSaver Money Is It Anyway? *Paul McBeth — Jenny Ruth’s Just the Business* - 🏦 Big four lost net $2.71b transfers Mar year; still $66.6b / 1.77m members (45% FUM vs 59% in 2017); $379m fees (+8%). Avg balance \~$42.6k. - 📈 Winners: Milford +$2.01b net; Generate +$772m; Kernel/Sharesies doubling. Fisher −$814m. Paycheques + employers + tax credit still dwarf manager skill narratives. - 🎯 Members vote with feet; pie grows so banks “lose” without really losing. - 🎯 Takeaway: it’s your money — and more of you are acting like it. [Read More](https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication%5Fid=1827355&post%5Fid=211401289&isFreemail=true&r=g7n0d&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzIzMDI2OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjExNDAxMjg5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY5MDM0MTUsImV4cCI6MTc4OTQ5NTQxNSwiaXNzIjoicHViLTE4MjczNTUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.EEvuGb2tFZhNZJCnBHhpFbM1NUe1FkHXqWxwnbbSxPY&ref=goodoil.news) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/2026/08/GettyImages-75279164.jpg) ## 10\. Some U.S. Allies Are Selling Out to China *Daily Wire — Polaris “Stars and Stragglers”* - ⭐ Report grades 20 partners. Stars: Aus (Huawei ban, subs \~$3b, minerals), Japan, India, Israel, Lithuania, Palau, Paraguay, Philippines, Taiwan, Ukraine. - 📉 Stragglers: Brazil (trade + Huawei 5G), Canada (EV tariffs 100%→6%, export goal +50%), South Korea (\~$340b trade; Lee “irreversible”), France (Macron welcome/AI-nuclear), Thailand (BRI rail + joint drills). - 🎯 Polaris: China is the defining challenge; US can’t carry alone — share the burden or leave America solo. - 🎯 Takeaway: alliance is a verb. Check the scorecard. [Read More](https://www.dailywire.com/news/some-u-s-allies-are-selling-out-to-china?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.