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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite
UCC has paid huge sums to a criminal professor
This story is not for republication. I bear responsibility for the things I write. I have read the guidelines and understand that I must not write anything untrue, and I won't.
This is a public interest story about a complete failure of governance and management at UCC.

offsite link Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent
Socratic Dialog Between ChatGPT-5 and Mind Agent Reveals Fatal and Deliberate 'Design by Construction' Flaw
This design flaw in ChatGPT-5's default epistemic mode subverts what the much touted ChatGPT-5 can do... so long as the flaw is not tickled, any usage should be fine---The epistemological question is: how would anyone in the public, includes you reading this (since no one is all knowing), in an unfamiliar domain know whether or not the flaw has been tickled when seeking information or understanding of a domain without prior knowledge of that domain???!

This analysis is a pretty unique and significant contribution to the space of empirical evaluation of LLMs that exist in AI public world... at least thus far, as far as I am aware! For what it's worth--as if anyone in the ChatGPT universe cares as they pile up on using the "PhD level scholar in your pocket".

According to GPT-5, and according to my tests, this flaw exists in all LLMs... What is revealing is the deduction GPT-5 made: Why ?design choice? starts looking like ?deliberate flaw?.

People are paying $200 a month to not just ChatGPT, but all major LLMs have similar Pro pricing! I bet they, like the normal user of free ChatGPT, stay in LLM's default mode where the flaw manifests itself. As it did in this evaluation.

offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent
Evaluating Semantic Reasoning Capability of AI Chatbot on Ontologically Deep Abstract (bias neutral) Thought
I have been evaluating AI Chatbot agents for their epistemic limits over the past two months, and have tested all major AI Agents, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Perplexity, and DeepSeek, for their epistemic limits and their negative impact as information gate-keepers.... Today I decided to test for how AI could be the boon for humanity in other positive areas, such as in completely abstract realms, such as metaphysical thought. Meaning, I wanted to test the LLMs for Positives beyond what most researchers benchmark these for, or have expressed in the approx. 2500 Turing tests in Humanity?s Last Exam.. And I chose as my first candidate, Google DeepMind's Gemini as I had not evaluated it before on anything.

offsite link Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem finally Admits It is Genocide releasing Our Genocide report Fri Aug 01, 2025 23:54 | 1 of indy
We have all known it for over 2 years that it is a genocide in Gaza
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has finally admitted what everyone else outside Israel has known for two years is that the Israeli state is carrying out a genocide in Gaza

Western governments like the USA are complicit in it as they have been supplying the huge bombs and missiles used by Israel and dropped on innocent civilians in Gaza. One phone call from the USA regime could have ended it at any point. However many other countries are complicity with their tacit approval and neighboring Arab countries have been pretty spinless too in their support

With the release of this report titled: Our Genocide -there is a good chance this will make it okay for more people within Israel itself to speak out and do something about it despite the fact that many there are actually in support of the Gaza

offsite link China?s CITY WIDE CASH SEIZURES Begin ? ATMs Frozen, Digital Yuan FORCED Overnight Wed Jul 30, 2025 21:40 | 1 of indy
This story is unverified but it is very instructive of what will happen when cash is removed
THIS STORY IS UNVERIFIED BUT PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO OR READ THE TRANSCRIPT AS IT GIVES AN VERY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT A CASHLESS SOCIETY WILL LOOK LIKE. And it ain't pretty

A single video report has come out of China claiming China's biggest cities are now cashless, not by choice, but by force. The report goes on to claim ATMs have gone dark, vaults are being emptied. And overnight (July 20 into 21), the digital yuan is the only currency allowed.

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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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offsite link Britain?s Judiciary is Biased to its Core Tue Sep 23, 2025 20:08 | Dr David McGrogan
The Court of Appeal overturned the closure of Epping's migrant hotel because Britain's judiciary is biased to its core, says Dr David McGrogan. The Right must get to grips with this problem ? and fast.
The post Britain’s Judiciary is Biased to its Core appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Muslim Who Attacked Koran Burner Hamit Coskun With Knife Spared Jail as Judge Says He ?Lost His Temp... Tue Sep 23, 2025 17:08 | Will Jones
The Muslim man who attacked Koran-burning protester Hamit Coskun with a knife has been spared jail after the judge said he "lost his temper". Hamit, meanwhile, remains in hiding, as concerns about two-tier justice grow.
The post Muslim Who Attacked Koran Burner Hamit Coskun With Knife Spared Jail as Judge Says He “Lost His Temper” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Exaltation of the Cross Tue Sep 23, 2025 15:00 | Chris Larkin
Church leaders are too quick to condemn Tommy Robinson and the Unite the Kingdom march, says Chris Larkin. We don't know what Jesus would have made of our politics, but we can?t just assume he?d have been a Lib Dem voter.
The post The Exaltation of the Cross appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Council Insists Women Be Called ?People With Ovaries? Tue Sep 23, 2025 13:27 | Will Jones
Bristol City Council has been accused of offending women with "virtue-signalling madness" after insisting that women be called "people with ovaries" and claiming that defining sex as biological "misgenders trans people".
The post Council Insists Women Be Called “People With Ovaries” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Jimmy Kimmel?s Comeback Derailed as Major ABC Affiliate Refuses to Air Show After Charlie Kirk Comme... Tue Sep 23, 2025 11:04 | Will Jones
Jimmy Kimmel's comeback after his Charlie Kirk comments has been dealt a massive blow with ABC affiliates refusing to air it in nearly 40 major markets after Disney announced the liberal talk host will return Tuesday.
The post Jimmy Kimmel’s Comeback Derailed as Major ABC Affiliate Refuses to Air Show After Charlie Kirk Comments appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Merkel and Sarkozy plan is recipe for disaster

category international | eu | press release author Wednesday August 17, 2011 17:04author by Malachy Steenson - Workers Party Report this post to the editors

Padraig Mannion, EU spokesperson of the Workers' Party, has slated the Merkel-Sarkozy plan for the Euro as economically incompetent and politically disastrous, and said it must be rejected out of hand by the government

Merkel and Sarkozy plan is recipe for disaster

Padraig Mannion, EU spokesperson of the Workers' Party, has slated the Merkel-Sarkozy plan for the Euro as economically incompetent and politically disastrous, and said it must be rejected out of hand by the government.

“The Franco-German proposal” stated Mr Mannion “will have no positive influence in stabilising the Euro, in reversing the stock market slide, or in relieving the massive financial burden on the peoples of Ireland, Portugal and Greece”.

“President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel are both playing to nationalist and xenophobic audiences and are both fighting for electoral survival. The proposed adoption of new powers for the European Financial Stability Facility rescue fund, as well as new powers of oversight for the ECB and the Commission will merely place a stranglehold on fiscal independence and prevent the smaller economies like Ireland from growing their way out of the present crisis.”

“Merkel and Sarkozy have also failed to tackle the cabal of institutions which control and manipulate the markets. As we have seen so often in the past it is the senior dealers and management of these institutions who are the only beneficiaries of the economic destruction wreaked by their market manipulation. Even at the very faintest mention of the Tobin Tax on financial transactions they are manipulating the market downwards to increase the pressure on the Euro and the so-called peripheral countries”.

"The political implications of the Merkel Sarkozy deal are very wide-ranging and, at a time when many are already questioning the very basis of the EU and most especially the basis of the Euro, they propose an acceleration to even greater EU integration”.  

 "As an initial step they suggest an enlarged role for EU president Von Rompuy - but he is scheduled to leave in 6 months. Are they suggesting that the anonymous Mr Von Rumpuy should continue in office or are they suggesting that the office itself would have these powers? In either event these proposed new powers are an exact throwback to the proposed role for the EU president as envisaged in the discredited and democratically rejected EU constitution. Are we now to get the EC constitution by the backdoor?

 “It is widely accepted that we have lost our economic sovereignty and yet we are assured daily by this government that the massive cutbacks and hardship being suffered by the people is putting us on the path to rapidly regain that sovereignty. It is obvious that if and when these proposals filter through into reality that our economic sovereignty is surrendered in perpetuity. How long then until our final shred of independence in foreign policy is also gone?  Where is democracy in all this debate? Where is the right of people to participate in decision making? Will there be a referendum – will it be respected?”

“Germany and France have usurped the powers of  the Council of Ministers. These new proposals rapidly advance the scenario which we predicted during both the Nice and Lisbon Referendum campaigns of a powerful and unelected centre dominating the EU, eroding on the powers of national parliaments and increasing the democratic deficit. In the interest of democracy and the needs of the people of Ireland they must be defeated.”

Related Link: http://workerspartyireland.net/
author by Tpublication date Wed Aug 17, 2011 20:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It is hard to believe that they have even openly proposed this plan because at face value they are saying Germany and France will form a new government of Europe and decide matters. It bypasses the EU parliment and commission although the EU commission is a farce because the commissioners are nominated and not elected and they are besized by corporate lobby groups. What is funny about the plan is why do Merkel and Sarkozy believe all the other countries will even go along with it. It doesn't even have the pretense to be a federal system.

author by Damien M - PWpublication date Wed Aug 17, 2011 21:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

One World Government is coming folks. From Maastricht to Lisbon, The Beast...I mean the EU is creating it by stealth i.e. treaty after treaty."All the nations need is the right major crisis and they will accept the New World Order," so said David Rockefeller anyway, or something to that effect. Before ye know it ye will be queueing up to get the chip because you won't be able to buy or sell without it...

author by opus diablos - the regressive hypocrite partypublication date Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors

What with the World Bank, IMF, and NATO/Pentagon global enforcement monitored by NASA sattellite-surveilance and data-mining at ground level.


Given the raft of planetary shit hitting the fan we need global management structures. But that means a harness on the current global 'one-world' corporate anarchy.


Unfortunately, its looking like the leviathan is going to have the pull the house down before we get a saner and more sustainable model. The Security Council is not fit for the purpose announced in its label, other than the security of the imperial zombies dragging us all towards their overdue interment.


The current propaganda regarding the possibility of General Assembly recognition of Palestine indicates there may be a pulse in the bambino of global polycentrism glugging at the bottom of the stagnant Great Gamesters bathwater.

author by German.publication date Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If Gernans stop paying the Irish the Germans will still be rich.


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author by Tpublication date Fri Aug 19, 2011 00:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The WSWS website has a good analysis of the meeting yesterday between Merkel and Sarkozy and they don't give it much chance either and see it mainly as part of the PR exercise to save the Euro.


However they do say this:


Despite the meagre outcome, the meeting between Merkel and Sarkozy was more than a failed public relations event. Both signalled to the financial markets their willingness to push through further cuts programmes and the establishment of a kind of European financial dictatorship. They just need more time.


Even before the meeting, it was clear that the euro, and with it the European Union, cannot be maintained if Germany does not reach deeper into its pockets to satisfy the creditor banks. So far, the German government has always insisted that each country is responsible for its own debts and tied its support for the euro rescue fund to tough conditions.


The consensus seems to be that unless Euro bonds are introduced the Euro will fail. Introduction of Euro bonds would lower interests for all the peripheral countries and thus prolong things a bit and at the same time the Euro bonds would have a cost on Germany and it is that which is causing a resistance because Merkel would probably lose power over it. This is where their proposal comes in which is basically as a pre-condition for the Euro bonds, Germany and France would impose financial and economic dictatorship over all the other countries.


It seems all pretty much unstable to me.

 
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