Top 5 - 21 May 2026
My top picks from the past week
Thinking does indeed cause discomfort, which seems to be the main reason people try to avoid it.
Top 5
1. Ian has encapsulated the problem and offered a mode of action to deal with it. He is talking about Australia but he could be talking about any and every nation in the world today. I would suggest that in the West it seems more acute because in the East it has already progressed further.
2. Hmmm. In my mind Patrick is missing a serious point that. as far as I can tell, China is part of the technocratic world order right now. It was, after all, the questionable videos of people dying on the streets in China that were used to usher in the global Covid Response. Patrick seems to believe that Trump has done a wonderful job of boxing China in. Not quite like the pushback on the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. It may be my cynical state of mind at the moment but I just see all this ‘us vs them’ as theatre. Theatre to get us to believe something. If there was no ‘us and them’, if we all realise we are all bound by the same hand, we would know where to direct all our armies to.
3. We need to celebrate wins. This one seems pretty significant for me.
4. I like this one for the simple fact that it goes to the heart of whether we can trust what we have been taught by our religious institutions. When they work to withhold teachings that might have been ‘penned’, or written in sand, by Jesus’ own hand, you’d think we’d all like to know what he might have written?
5. I’ve time stamped this one to start at the beginning of Jiang’s answer to the question, what is the most important thing we haven’t talked about? I agree with a lot of the answer. I have a serious question about Jiang seeing there is a war/disagreement between the bankers and the tech bros. In my mind that tech bros are dependent on and subservient to the bankers. In that sense they are part of the problem facing humanity at the moment.
Short Shareables
1. Did anyone say yes to silver over chocolate? I did ask that question and didn’t get a reply. But given the choice of a 10 oz bar of silver, valued at roughly $800 USD, or a chocolate bar, what would you choose? Looks like none of these folk either knew the value of silver, or perhaps they were more wary of saying yes to that, fearing some kind of trickery in the offer?
You can tax CO2 but you can’t tax the sun;). I have still to see a political party in NZ come out and directly confront the lies that are promulgated as climate science. You would think votes would go to a party that addressed that issue squarely?
3. Continuing in the vein of #4 above, here’s what the Lor
Here is the prayer all in one:
O breathing life of all existence, you who dwell in the dimension of light and vibration from which all things emerge.
May the sacred vibration through which you organize reality be recognized and honored in everything we do.
May the sacred queendom — the divine feminine creative principle — fully express itself in earthly reality as it does in the dimension of light.
May your loving desire for the full expression of divine consciousness be realized in earthly reality as fully as it is in the dimension of light.
Provide us today with the nourishment — physical, emotional, and spiritual — that we genuinely need for our full flourishing.
Release us from the energetic knots we have accumulated as we release others from the grip of our resentment toward them.
Do not let us become lost in the illusion of separation from you, but free us from the immature consciousness that arises from that forgetting.
For the divine feminine creative principle, the power of life, and the radiance of all existence belong to you through all cycles of time. So be it — grounded in me, expressed through me, made real in the world through my conscious participation.
And another translation of it that was sent through by a friend
https://abwoon.org/library/learn-aramaic-prayer/:
4. New Zealand as the First Nation in the world to see the light could be the light of the world. What the world needs now is no GE in our food or bodies and to tell the truth about how much we have been lied to about the climate and the molecule without which no life on earth would be possible. Yes, the badly defamed CO2. As someone recently said the problem is we can tax CO2 but not the sun. The bankers and their cohorts love that idea. It is however, not good for us. And it is never good to be lied to. Lying to get your way is never going to work out well.
5. If we won’t wake up for ourselves let’s hope we can wake up for out kid’s sake:
Actionables
1. For kiwis, is you missed the submission on the Free Trade Agreement with India, you can still learn to understand it more and at least email your local MP and encourage them to vote against it. RCR have put a summary together to help you, here:
https://realitycheck.radio/new-zealand-india-fta/
Always remember to laugh. They want to shut down our joy. We cannot allow them to do that.
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