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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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offsite link News Round-Up Tue Sep 23, 2025 01:12 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Hamas Executes ?Israeli Collaborators? in Streets of Gaza Mon Sep 22, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Hamas?has executed three Palestinians accused of "collaborating" with Israel on the streets of Gaza, just hours after the UK, Australia and Canada announced their?recognition of a Palestinian state.
The post Hamas Executes “Israeli Collaborators” in Streets of Gaza appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong Mon Sep 22, 2025 17:35 | Dr David Bell
The Covid response was not an error, and it was not the result of rushing to counter an unknown pathogen. It was a lot of people, mostly professionals, systematically doing what they knew was wrong, says Dr David Bell.
The post The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link School Accused of ?Brainwashing? Children After 14 Year-Olds Told to Read Book ?Blaming Them for The... Mon Sep 22, 2025 15:11 | Will Jones
A parent has accused a secondary school of "brainwashing" after?he learned that 14 year-old pupils were told to read a book that "blames them for their white skin" ? and his daughter was forced to read it out loud.
The post School Accused of “Brainwashing” Children After 14 Year-Olds Told to Read Book “Blaming Them for Their White Skin” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link No Benefits for Foreigners Under Reform, Says Nigel Farage: Stricter Visa Tests and Deportation for ... Mon Sep 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Nigel Farage?today vowed to block foreign nationals from getting benefits, slashing the welfare bill "by ?234bn", and to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants with 'settled status' by bringing in stricter visa tests.
The post No Benefits for Foreigners Under Reform, Says Nigel Farage: Stricter Visa Tests and Deportation for Those Who Fail Under Crackdown on ‘Settled Status’ Migrants appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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Miscarriage of Justice Hearing Refused

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Thursday April 25, 2013 17:39author by I. Greene Report this post to the editors

Latest update in relation to Michael McKevitt and the ongoing miscarriage of justice.

In 2003 Mr McKevitt was convicted of membership and directing the activities of an unlawful organisation namely the IRA. McKevitt pleaded not guilty to the offences and has contested the conviction at every opportunity over many years. The only evidence used to convict Mr McKevitt came from David Rupert a self-confessed fraudster and M15/FBI paid informant. Now it appears that Mr McKevitt's constitutional rights were breached in 2001 as a result of a flawed warrant which has since been declared unconstitutional.

On Tuesday 16t.h October 2012, the lawyers for Mr. McKevitt applied to the Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) for a hearing to have his conviction.quashed under 52(1) of the Criminal Procedures Act, 1993. In the application McKevitt claimed that as a result of the "Supreme Court ruling" in the Damache v DPP (2012) the search of his home, his arrest, detention, trial and subsequent conviction was tainted by a constitutional breach which resulted in "a miscarriage of justice" against him.

In the application Mr McKevitt\'s lawyers outlined a serious "procedural deficiency" which amounted to a newly discovered fact that wasn\'t known to Mr McKevitt\'s defence lawyers in 2003 during his trial. The Supreme Court decision (Damache v DPP [2012] IESC 12, s29(1)) of the said Act was declared to be repugnant to the constitution. The Supreme Court also stated that all previous searches carried out under the power had therefore been unlawful and all entries onto dwellings by Gardai on foot of the said power had been trespass. Subsequently, the State objected to McKevitts appeal hearing and countered the application by stating that the appeal was nothing more than an abuse of process.

On 22nd February 2013 a preliminary hearing took place at,the Court of Criminal Appeal in Dublin. The hearing was to decide if Mr McKevitt was entitled to a full hearing even though there was a clear procedural deficiency in the States case against him. The media reporting on the preliminary hearing was almost non-existent even though Mr McKevitt was in attendance.

In April 2013 the Court of Criminal Appeal court found that Mr McKevitt had no argument and his application for a full hearing was rejected. Relatively vague in content the grounds for rejection by the Court leaves many questions unanswered.

The most peculiar aspect of the Courts findings is that although McKevitt\\\'s constitutional rights have clearly been breached the time span penalises him from receiving a full hearing. The findings of the Court was far from convincing. Evidently there are numerous counter arguments to the Courts findings. One of the most significant being, upon a judge taking the oath of office he/she swears to uphold the constitutional rights of all citizens, there is nothing to suggest that time span can be an issue. On that issue alone, the judges in McKevitt\\\'s appeal may have erred. One wonders if this case had been taken by anyone other than Mr McKevitt would the result have been the same? PvP The Supreme Court Unreported p.st July 2001... Constitutional considerations: "it would be in the most exceptional circumstances that the Supreme Court would consider whether a final judgment or order should be rescinded or varied. Such ajurisdiction is dictated by the necessity of justice. A case will only be reopened where through no fault of the party he or she has been subject to a constitutional breach\'.

According to Mr McKevitt\\\'s lawyers there is very strong evidence that the section 29 warrant used in his case falls within the category of being unconstitutional. However, the Court of Appeal say that the time span impeded the applicant from pursuing the matter further. The lawyers say that time span should not be an obstacle in constitutional law. After the Court returned with its finding in April 2013, the negative media reporting swung into action. Immediately the negative Court response became worthy of both national and international comment to the point where US based Fox news and ABC news giants felt obliged to comment on the outcome of the Appeal Court decision.

There can be little doubt that any Irish citizen subjected to an alleged constitutional breach is entitled to a hearing to clearly establish whether there has been a constitutional breach or not and in this particular case there appears to have been one. Few would disagree that time should not be an impediment in this or any other constitutional case regardless of who it may be. It should be remembered that if the warrant in Mr McKevitts is defective it means that he has been convicted on the word of a paid informed with the use of a defective warrant, certainly not a good for Irish law.

There is every likelihood that Mr McKevitt will appeal to the Supreme Court where he could very well succeed with an appeal, he may eventually show that his constitutional rights were breached and his conviction was in fact "a miscarriage of justice" but he will have spent a long time imprisoned. End.

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