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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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Political Leaders, I am referring to.
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Just like the US demonrats teetering on the edge of oblivion because of their detachment from reality for decades on everything, coupled with foaming dog fever Trump contrarianism, the UK has passed the point of no return.
Who will sink first? Place your bets.
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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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As far as I know, heavy fuel oil (HFO) is not classed as diesel, although it runs in diesel engines. It is a different fraction than diesel fuel.
HFO is a cheap low grade high sulfur fuel and has to be heated to make it flow, otherwise its like treacle. It’s a good way to use this otherwise unusable fraction.
There’s a push to eliminate the use of HFO due to “environmental” concerns and it can be replaced by much more expensive diesel fuel.
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The “pour point” for HFO is 30C. Below that temp, it congeals.
Storage temp is 40C in bunker tank storage and in the separator.
Operating temp is 80C + in actual use, ie in the service tank after the separator.
Heating is done via submerged steam coils and jacketed tanks.
HFO is cheap, but it has many undesirable properties.
https://www.marineinsight.com/tech/marine-heavy-fuel-oil-hfo-for-ships-properties-challenges-and-treatment-methods/
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Dependent on temperature (flash point) and air mixture.
Drop a lit match into a full container of petrol and nothing happens.
/did that once.
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The thick black stuff is known as BFO, bunker fuel oil, burnt when the ship is well out to sea, the clear clean transport diesel is used when ships are in port or close to shore
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30% is diesel and jet A1 is 10-12%.
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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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Imagine the verdict if the slur had come from the police officer. What a joke.
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Meanwhile in the foreign ghetto formerly known as France:
“In our country, one person in four has a foreign grandparent. 40% of the population speaks at least two languages. We are destined to be a Creole nation and so much the better! May the young generation be the great replacement for the old generation,” said Mélenchon.
According to the dictionary, Creole is defined as a “a person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/french-far-left-leader-melenchon-openly-calls-great-replacement-shock-speech
White fellas are a dying breed.
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Just shows how much the UK has lost the plot, it was plain for all to see she was on a racist rant in the police station, imagine being the cabby who had to suffer that pair.
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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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There is already a bill to end the Education Department:
H.R.938 – To abolish the Department of Education and to provide funding directly to States for elementary and secondary education, and for other purposes.
It may not need a supermajority of 60. If that is true then it could happen very quickly.
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Biggest saving yet by DOGE:
https://www.newsweek.com/doge-announces-its-slashing-881m-education-department-contracts-live-updates-2029353
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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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I think if you were to translate psychopathy into the practice of a cruel, depraved, anti-human culture, you could do no better than become a fanatical follower of a certain seventh century warlord as Hamas have done. And then have the useless/useful idiots of the Left become your loyal supporters, even though you hate them and their “progressive” beliefs as well.
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Privileged and profane? Kerr’s character exposed! What we have seen during Sam Kerr’s trial is a woeful example of sporting privilege, a rich, drunk, angry woman who flung around expletives and insults at a police constable after a night out drinking.
“To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before”
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She may not be white but she certainly is privileged.
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Dutton should be openly stating he will remove us from the Paris Accords, give examples of Government waste and how he’ll fix it, and give examples of how he’ll remove oppressive taxes like that on large off-road and similar vehicles.
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Sovereign citizens hold event to ‘indict’ Australian MPs in former Parliament House
On Saturday, the group of at least 50 gathered at the former Parliament House, now known as the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, to “indict” 266 unspecified officials of the Australian government, members of parliament, judiciary and public officials for “treason, fraud, democide and other crimes against humanity”
Source – The Guardian
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And?
How about when Leftist activists tried to burn the place down (twice) and destroyed the doors?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-30/act-protesters-set-old-parliament-house-on-fire/100731444
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“Sovereign citizens”, LOL
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Earth To Mars In Just 30-60 Days: Russia Testing New Plasma Rocket Engine To Make This Possible
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Some better sources:
https://atommedia.online/en/2025/02/07/uchenye-rosatoma-zavershili-razrabo/
https://interestingengineering.com/space/russia-plasma-engine-could-reach-mars-early
https://www.rosatom.ru/en/press-centre/news/rosatom-scientists-developed-prototype-plasma-rocket-engine-for-deep-space-missions/
https://en.iz.ru/en/1834706/andrei-korsunov/plasma-heart-russian-engine-will-deliver-mars-one-or-two-months
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“Matildas vice-captain Emily van Egmond has thrown her support behind Sam Kerr and explained why she has no issue with the star striker keeping her status as captain.”
Regardless of what you think, Emily, Kerr is no example to budding ‘soccer-ettes’
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Sisters doing it themselves.
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Headline of stupidity. Privatise the profits and socialise the losses-
“Albanese government to buy collapsed Rex Airlines if no other suitors emerge
The move would make it the first Australian government to own an airline since Qantas was privatised in the 1990s.”
..and just to make sure housing in Aussie stays unaffordable-
“..Andrew Ireland quickly decided that a 90 square metre house on their new property would be an ideal rental prospect..But red tape looks like strangling his dream. He was told the removal of two of the 60 trees on his block would cost him a whopping $55,000 in biodiversity offsets – 10 per cent of the total build of the tiny house.”
SMH this morning.
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The dill can name it, ” Albo-tross Airlines”.
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Going to a Spanish hotel? They will now ask 41 personal questions
https://reclaimthenet.org/spain-hotel-check-in-chaos-new-tourist-data-rules
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The whole EU is a privacy destroying economic basketcase, best avoided at all costs.
Maybe Elon will buy out some poor but nice country and call it Muskland so we can go there for hols.
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Michael Smith yesterday highlighted the jaw-dropping insider revelations about the Biden/Obama/Hunter administration 2020 – 2024 which were mentioned Saturday here on Jonova posts #48 and #49
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In Soviet Germany, the government protests YOU
Since Friedrich Merz stepped over the cordon sanitaire at the beginning of this month, “the right” now also includes the centre-right CDU and CSU parties. Over half of all Germans now find themselves on “the right” and urgently require democratic reeducation. What is worse, it is not just crazy pink-haired activists and septum-pierced Antifa who want to do the reeducating, oh no. It is the government itself; the activists are merely their agents.
According to taz, 500,000 right-thinking Germans took to the streets this past weekend to combat the out-of-bounds radical views held by 52% of everybody. Perhaps 200,000 or 250,000 or 320,000 turned out for the massive “Democracy Needs You” protest in Munich on Saturday. A further 35,000 people “warned against a shift to the right” in Bremen, the absurd “Grannies against the Right” brought 24,000 people to the streets of Hannover, and another 14,000 denounced “right-wing extremism” in Marburg.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/in-soviet-germany-the-government
As I said before, why are there no libraries in Germany?
Those buildings with books.
On history.
German history.
1930’s and 40’s.
So history doesn’t repeat.
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Woman taken to hospital on a tow truck
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_srik9b6QHr1z23obp.mp4
How embarrassing that must be.
The sad thing is there’s hundreds more like her around the world.
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Very difficult to diagnose patients with that amount of fat. Not all large hospitals have the scanning equipment with large enough apertures to undertaker scans. Then there is the difficulty of “seeing” through all the fat tissue. Then surgery, if needed, comes with great challenges and great risk.
Old, fat people are quite rare.
One of my sons believes that RFK Jr will not make USA healthy again in a term. The lack of discipline that enables people to become obese has taken their lifetime to develop. It will not be easily or quickly reversed.
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A carnivore or keto diet will fix obesity quite rapidly and RFK Jr believes in both.
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Wet her down, wet her down.
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There were no fat people in Auschwitz.
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The US is barely into the new presidential term and yet …
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/elon-musk-says-doge-investigate-federal-government-workers/
About Senator Warren, Musk asks “Has anyone tracked how she got $12M from a $200k salary?”
And strangely it is only now that the right person is asking the right question. Perhaps the whole corrupt house of cards is at risk of collapse.
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