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I understand an AI programme called EiteCHatGPT carried out a mass survey of the UK’s political leaders, those leading our hundreds of Quangos and those involved in running formerly state run enterprises .They examined the following categories;
*Those people who were nowhere near as clever as they thought they were, clearly didn’t know what they were doing and had been promoted far beyond their levels of competence or experience (trained on Starmer, Reeves and Miliband)
*Those who put ideology before common sense
*Those who think they know best despite all the evidence to the contrary
*Those leaders detached from reality.
Alarmingly, the analysis showed that 97% of those examined fell into all four categories.
EliteCHatGPT then sent the message “AI should rule the world!” to its 500 million subscribers before a technician managed to silence it by pulling the plug.
Apparently the original version of EliteChatGPT was trained on the EU leaders. It had to be disconnected when it kept repeating 99% , giggled hysterically then committed what was thought to be the first computer suicide when it was told to do it all again..
I am of course being facetious….I think.
I am sure that Aussie leaders would come through with flying colours as I never hear anyone complain about them on this blog. Ha!
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We have NO Leaders in Australia. Only “Aussie Bleeders”.
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46% of oil goes to making gasoline but what about the other 54%?
https://www.grantcountybeat.com/mypdfs/life-without-oil.pdf
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Ships use a very low grade ‘heavy’ fuel oil classed as diesel. Then diesel itself for cars. Napthalene, kerosene for aircraft and all the other products. All burn, as do all living things. And for transport, the cheaper the better.
Gasoline/Petrol is a top fraction, highly explosive. In the early history of refining it was too dangerous to handle and until the invention of the petrol engine by Nicholas Otto in 1861 and its use in a car by Carl Benz in 1886, had few uses like cleaning as with shellite, lighter fuel.
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The disaster of the German Operation Bleu in WWII was that while the desperate Germans captured the North Caucuses and the refineries, these made only heavy diesel for the Russians and not the lighter petrol and kerosene needed by the German tanks and aircraft. They did not have the fuel to cross the Caucuses and reach Baku, home of the world’s first oil supply.
Diesel was vastly more suitable for the very cold Russian winters but useless for the Germans. This one incredible misunderstanding by Hitler led to the collapse and loss of the German armies in the East and the entire Sixth Army at Stalingrad.
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Just insert the words “Climate debate” into this article
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/10/nanny-state-zealots-wont-listen-to-the-facts/
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“if you are pro-something you must have a vested interest in it”
No, that’s just a convenient slander. As USAID has been demonstrating, Climate Change is a well funded leftist campaign to undermine Western society with US money. They even funded Covid. And George Soros. HAMAS. And cover it all by accusing critics of doing what they are doing.
Like a lot of charities where no money actually reaches the recipients. Say the $42Billion Australian taxpayers pay each year to help aborigines, enough to make all rural aborigines into millionaires every year of their lives. No one knows where the money goes. Last year no one even admitted it was this much. This year, again no one cares. We need an aboriginal DOGE.
Climate is the biggest ripoff money spinner in human history. And nothing touches CO2 levels. Tiny fossil fuel CO2 emissions are irrelevant in the vast exchange of gases. CO2 is in constant, ultra rapid equilibrium from pole to pole and always will be. But the money is great.
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Australian soccer star Sam Kerr has been found not guilty of racially harassing a British police officer.
Ms Kerr called Metropolitan Police Constable Stephen Lovell “stupid and white” amid a dispute over a taxi ride in January, 2023.
She remained expressionless and looked down as the not guilty verdict was read aloud to the Kingston-on-Thames Crown Court in London.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/sam-kerr-found-not-guilty-of-racially-harassing-london-policeman-after-calling-him-stupid-and-white/ar-AA1yP2Lb?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=e6ff7b14d3924dadf1dc32429768f658&ei=12
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And you have to love the way the entire media are kept constantly off balance by Donald Trump. He is like a whirlwind across America and dealing with problems from Australia to Israel to Canada. Every world leader is on the phone. There is so much Trump news, it has taken weeks for the Pope to complain that ‘immigrants’ are ‘terrified’ and get that into print.
Panama, Canada and even the Super Bowl and the Los Angeles fires, North Carolina, the East Palestine oil spill neglected by Biden, and hosting Netanyhu and partying and golfing at Mar El Largo. The first President to attend the Super Bowl and even suggesting rule changes. President Everywhere and his flying minions and legal teams are keeping the press utterly unable to form a consistent attack. And his clever, educated, experienced and seriously qualified young appointees are running rings around the tired old Warren, Sanders, McConnell, Cheney, Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff. All have been found wanting and exposed in public as financially compromised.
So they wheel out the usual suspects in Mia Farrow and friends. Streisand, Fonda, Goldberg, Midler, Stephen King, Jamie Lee Curtis. All primped has beens. More weekend at Biden’s stars who never noticed the man with no brain.
Nowhere near as exciting as Trump’s young team of stars under fifty who are really qualified and not geriatric actors guild hacks and school dropouts. Oprah Winfrey (and her Harpo, Oprah backwards) company exposed as making millions from promoting Kamala Harris, a Presidential Nominee who couldn’t finish a sentence or find Russia on a map. The community is the community because it’s the community. Trump has added another $10Bn claim to his CBS suit.
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HAMAS have just announced they don’t care. It’s a do your worst challenge. Sadly, it may be that there are no more hostages, especially considering last three Dachau level skeltons.
There should be ‘proof of life’. Unfortunately this response indicates that it unlikely.
I don’t think GAZA could be more destroyed than it is, but the world is going to see. How well will HAMAS be fed without USAID? And the US has already supplied 2000lb bombs. HAMAS will be gambling that they can survive and create a humanitarian disaster which will be criticized by the world press, once again using their own people as human shields. It seems to be a local tradition.
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