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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 RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

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

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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offsite link Down The Tylenol Rabbitol Tue Sep 30, 2025 09:00 | James Alexander
President Trump says Tylenol in pregnancy may cause autism. Wes Streeting says don't listen to Trump, he's a politician. But what does the science say? Professor James Alexander goes down the Tylenol rabbitol.
The post Down The Tylenol Rabbitol appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link I Smell a Rat in the BBC?s Claims of Climate Change ?Ratmageddon? Tue Sep 30, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Rodent populations in the US and Britain have exploded, and the BBC inevitably blames climate change. But Ben Pile smells a rat. After all, there are much more likely explanations than slightly milder weather.
The post I Smell a Rat in the BBC’s Claims of Climate Change ‘Ratmageddon’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Tue Sep 30, 2025 00:41 | 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 Could Lithium Batteries Be Programmed to Explode? Mon Sep 29, 2025 19:05 | Dr R P
Israel's pager attack on Hezbollah highlights a frightening possibility: that lithium batteries could be programmed to explode. Yet another reason to avoid Chinese EVs, says the Daily Sceptic's robotics expert.
The post Could Lithium Batteries Be Programmed to Explode? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sadiq Khan?s Plan to Spend ?66 Million on Wokery in Crime-Plagued London Mon Sep 29, 2025 17:10 | Will Jones
Crime is soaring in London, but Mayor Sadiq Khan is planning to spend ?66m on woke projects over three years ? and has just awarded himself a pay rise to ?170,282, making him the highest paid politician in the land.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Plan to Spend ?66 Million on Wokery in Crime-Plagued London appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Did Al Gaddafi Mismanage Libya's Oil Wealth?

category international | anti-capitalism | opinion/analysis author Tuesday June 04, 2013 14:08author by An Draigneán Donn Report this post to the editors

Answering the claim, by a certain Liberal, that Muammar al-Gaddafi wasted Libya's oil wealth.
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Did Al Gaddafi mismanage Libya's oil wealth?

In relation to your question, we have to consider the criteria by which these commentators are judging mismanagement. These commentators are Neo-Liberals. As far as they are concerned, profits from oil should be used to push up share prices in multi-national corporations. To spend oil profits on feeding hungry children, or giving them free housing or free food is gross mismanagement. Such dastardly behaviour pushed down property prices, and makes it very difficult for property speculators to make a quick buck.

Another case of gross mismanagement was when Al-Gaddafi decided to spend 40 billion of oil revenues on building the Great Man Made River. Sure, it gives Africa as much water as the Nile flowing for 200 years. Sure its, by far, the biggest engineering project of all time. Sure, it's, by far, the greatest humanitarian project of all time. But, where is the profit for private investors??? Al-Gaddafi was giving the water to poor farmers at discount prices. No profit at all. He was giving the water to people to drink for free. The damned scoundrel. And the worst part of it all - he built the entire project without borrowing one single penny from the international banksters. How can you build anything without giving the banksters their cut??? This man was a dangerous terrorist. He had to be stopped.

And, as if that wasn't enough insanity, Al-Gaddafi stock piled 140 tons of gold in Tripoli to be the basis of an African Central Bank, with a pan-African currency, the Gold Dinar. No longer would the USA be able to buy African oil and mineral resources with Monopoly Money - that is simply printed at will. Africa would have to be paid with real value. The IMF and World Bank vultures would be kicked out, and the 25,000 children, who die every single day from drinking dirty water, would have clean, fresh water to drink, and food to eat. Can you imagine more obscene mismanagement of Libya's oil money?

It's on a much smaller scale of mismanagement, but, Al-Gaddafi also used Libyan oil money to support freedom struggles in places like Ireland, the Basque Country, and Palestine. Al-Gaddafi, the fool that he was, didn't understand that freedom only means the freedom of the rich to profit. He had silly ideas about nations having dignity and honour and sovereignty.

Not only that, but, instead of putting the oil money into the hands of a tiny Libyan elite, along with Anglo-Saxon oil companies, as King Idris had done, Al-Gaddafi built roads and hospitals and mosques in many African countries. This was money that rightfully belonged to the Libyan business and landowner class.

We see that Ireland is an excellent example of good management. When times are good, the rich become incredibly rich. When the greed of the rich destroys the whole economy, the poor pay for the crimes of the rich. That's what these commentators consider to be good management, and that's what their "revolution" has now brought to Libya.

author by serfpublication date Tue Jun 04, 2013 15:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Hear hear to that.

author by W. Finnertypublication date Wed Jun 05, 2013 09:10author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"All the tragic and haunting episodes of his life (Colonel Gaddafi's) point to only one truth: That Gaddafi was a hunted man. And because he was a hunted man, Gaddafi never had the time or the leisure to do anything but run. His parting shots were true essence of his compassion and generosity - a gift of a soccer stadium to Pakistan, a plan to gift thousands of computers to schoolchildren in neighbouring African countries, and dollops of oil aid to poor Arab countries."

The above excerpt is from the following www location:
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/28-11-2012/...fi-0/

Related Link:
"Who was responsible for the fall of Colonel Gaddafi? ..."
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author by An Draigneán Donnpublication date Wed Jun 05, 2013 15:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"All the tragic and haunting episodes of his life (Colonel Gaddafi's) point to only one truth: That Gaddafi was a hunted man. And because he was a hunted man, Gaddafi never had the time or the leisure to do anything but run. His parting shots were true essence of his compassion and generosity - a gift of a soccer stadium to Pakistan, a plan to gift thousands of computers to schoolchildren in neighbouring African countries, and dollops of oil aid to poor Arab countries."

I can see that the above was written with a good heart, but it is simply untrue. Yes, Al Gaddafi lived his life in the cross hairs of assassins like Reagan and Obama, but lets consider some of his achievements. While those Western Leftists who criticize him have spent the last four decades attending tiny meetings with their cult followers, and back stabbing other Leftists, Al Gaddafi has been busy DOING Socialism, and changing the lives of millions of people:

1/ In 1969 Libya had the lowest standard of living in Africa. By 2010, it had the highest in Africa, and was higher than Saudi Arabia and Russia.

2/ In 1969 Libya had one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world, within a decade of Al Gaddafi coming to power, it had one of the lowest in the world, and the lowest in Africa.

3/ In 1969 about 90% of Libya's population was illiterate. Now literacy is about 90%.

4/ In 1969 the vast majority of Libya's population lived in tents. Within a decade of Al Gaddafi coming to power, every family had been given a brand new brick home - free for most families.

5/ Al Gaddafi built the greatest engineering project of all time - The Great Man Made River, which now supplies Libya with as much fresh water as the Nile flowing for 200 years. He intended to share this miracle with all of North Africa, revolutionizing the peoples ability to feed themselves.

6/ African countries had been paying 500 million dollars a year to European satellite companies for its communications. For a single cost of 400 million, Al Gaddafi launched an African satellite, which has already saved Africa billions of dollars.

7/ Al Gaddafi founded the African Union in Sirte, in 1999. To make the AU could be a real force for the protection and development of Africa, he founded the African Investment Bank and the African Monetary Fund, to drive the genocidal World Bank and IMF out of Africa.

8/ The Jamahiriya had stockpiled 140 tons of gold in Tripoli to be the basis of an African Central Bank, which would have given Africa a real possibility of financial independence. In September 2011, Al Gaddafi had planned to launch the Gold Dinar, to replace the Petrodollar in Africa. Africa's use of US Monopoly Money - simply printed at will - costs hundreds of thousands of African lives every year - mostly childrens lives. Al Gaddafi intended to put an end to this Holocaust.

9/ According to bourgeois economists, in 2010, Libyan Workers were the best protected in the world. Every family, whether working or not, received a social salary from the oil money. It was not dole, it was a salary from the people's own oil. According to bourgeois economists, Libyan Workers have a job-for-life mentality, and are not bothered by competition. You will have noted that these "rebels" were always seen driving new 4x4s and wearing designer clothes. In the Jamahiriya, if you wanted to buy a new car, the state paid 50% of the cost. Petrol was 13 cents a gallon. Is it any wonder that over a million people filled Green Square to support Al Gaddafi - even under the threat of NATO bombing?

I could go on, there are many more great achievements, the least of which would be beyond the wildest dreams of the Western Left. I could also mention how Al Gaddafi funded the training of tens of thousands of moderate Muslim clerics, all over Africa and Asia, who have done outstanding work in trying to resist the sectarian madness of the Salafist \ Wahhabi clerics being funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Muammar al-Gaddafi, like Kwame Nkrumah before him, dreamed of an Africa united and strong, able to protect its own borders and provide a decent living to all its people. To this end, Al Gaddafi had challenged the neo-liberal dogma of private property, by showing Africans that massive state enterprise could achieve far more, and in far less time, than private enterprise ever could. All over the African continent, the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya invested public funds in everything from roads to hospitals to schools to agriculture to hotels to communications. These brilliantly successful state enterprises exposed the neo-liberal dogma for the scam it is, and let it be known to the world that there is a better way to live.

So what was the reaction of most of the Western Left to this life of incredible Socialist achievement? Of course, it was jealously and spite. So much so, that when the Libyan socialist state was under attack from racist lynch mobs and sectarian grave robbers, most of the Western Left gladly supported the racist lynch mobs and grave robbers. Is it any wonder that most people regard the Western Left with absolute contempt?

 
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