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Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite
UCC has paid huge sums to a criminal professor
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This is a public interest story about a complete failure of governance and management at UCC.
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.
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.
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
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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Teaching Assistant Sacked for ?Manhandling? Pupil to Stop Him Running into Road Thu Oct 02, 2025 17:27 | Will Jones
A teaching assistant was fired after grabbing a special needs pupil to stop him from running out of school and into a busy road.
The post Teaching Assistant Sacked for “Manhandling” Pupil to Stop Him Running into Road appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The True Hidden Purpose of ?Sex Education? Thu Oct 02, 2025 15:00 | Steven Tucker
A quarter of parents believe their child has been taught something inappropriate in sex education. Like choking and rimming. Why? It all goes back to the neo-Marxists of the Frankfurt School, says Steven Tucker.
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Manchester Synagogue Terror Attack: Two Dead After Yom Kippur Rampage Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:43 | Will Jones
Two people have been killed and three are in a serious condition after a suspected terror attack at a synagogue in Manchester, where car was driven into a crowd on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
The post Manchester Synagogue Terror Attack: Two Dead After Yom Kippur Rampage appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Badenoch Vows to Scrap Climate Change Act Thu Oct 02, 2025 11:03 | Will Jones
Kemi Badenoch will promise today to scrap the "failed" Climate Change Act ? which enshrines the Net Zero target in law ? if the Conservatives regain power.
The post Badenoch Vows to Scrap Climate Change Act appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Debanking Hasn?t Gone Away Thu Oct 02, 2025 09:00 | James Graham
Last year half a million people and businesses were debanked. Many, like Nigel Farage and Revd Richard Fothergill, for ideological reasons ? for being conservative. It's time to do something about it, says James Graham.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17Tony Cartalucci suggests that there is more to all this than meets the eye.
Is it justification for an invasion of Syria? Or the next move on Iran by the backdoor?
It's really stretching the imagination that the US did not see this coming. And a well organised military in lines of nice new toyota trucks doesn't just materialise out of the sand does it?
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.ie/2014/06/americas-cover....html
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.ie/2014/06/natos-terror-h....html
ISIS are now very rich and armed to the teeth. They liberated nearly half a billion dollars in Mosul
http://www.ibtimes.com/mosul-bank-robbery-isnt-only-thi...01124
They also "liberated" quite a lot of US ordinance and hi tech weaponry which would be pretty hard for the US to just hand over to these nutjobs by normal channels. No doubt much of this will now be directed at Assad in Syria thus helping the current US agenda there
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/mosul-isis...tates
Their victory comes with no mercy. Up to 1700 captured soldiers may thus far have been ruthlessly executed by ISIS:
http://rt.com/news/166092-iraq-militants-mass-executions/
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/06/15/islamic-terrori...iers/
More and more this looks like it will greatly serve the US agenda in Syria. Also it scares up oil prices quite nicely. They are currently at a high making bumper profits for the oil corporations. In the absence of middle east and Ukranian turmoil, there is currently quite a lot of oil available on the market and it should otherwise be below $100 a barrel according to analysts
http://qz.com/220082/oil-prices-arent-coming-down-any-t...ason/
Malaki and his government were not particularly co-operative with US interests so no big loss there. Also, currently ISIS actions dovetail nicely with the US "agenda" in Syria, arming the opposition with heavy weaponry and as a bonus, scaring up oil prices, but I expect if the ISIS rebels dare to try to attack and take over the actual oilfields themselves in the south of Iraq, they will find the US a lot less indecisive in their response and they know it. And they know it because their former US paymasters in Syria have probably told them so directly!.
This Islamic Emirate in Iraq and the Levant group yet another joint operation to save the rebels in Syria and to try and reduce Iran's influence in Iraq. It may also be designed to help accelerate the splitting up of Iraq into three regions dominated by different tribes, Kurds to the North, Sunni and then Shia.
According to Thierry Meyssan:
Already we see moves by the USA to try to impose a no fly zone and this would be used as cover to protect their terrorists which are almost defeated in Syria.
The question that has to be asked is how does such a large band of terrorists make such sweeping advances and come out of nowhere when we know the entire Middle East is under continuous electronic and satellite surveillance. If the US was really interested in helping the Iraqi government, they would have already provided intelligence on the movement of these Jihadists. When looked at critically, it doesn't seem to make any sense. At this stage the 'ISIS' are apparently within 60 miles of Baghdad.
In a piece titled: The Engineered Destruction and Political Fragmentation of Iraq. Towards the Creation of a US Sponsored Islamist Caliphate at http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-destruction-and-politi...86998 Michel Chossudovsky says:
See the full text at the link above.
This is like a micro version of the Iran - Iraq war from 1980 to 1988 where well over 1 million died. The war was pushed by the same usual Western government suspects who supplied arms to both sides and encouraged each to attack each other. The geopolitical objective was to bog down both sides in a futile war which would drain their resources so that neither would become strong regional powers. So today we see the exact same strategy.
Michel Chossudovsky interviewed on the Guns and Butter show clearly outlines the ISIS is a tool of the Western governments.
In the show he states the obvious:
Everything indicates this capture of a city of more than 1 million people was staged because it is impossible for a force of 1000 rebels to come in and take over a city of 1 million when it has a standing army of 30,000. It was a very well equipped army and would have decimated those 1000 rebels in no time, with US advanced technology, helicopters and so on.
The commander general of those forces left the city -was either told to leave or co-opted in some way.
You can download the audio at: http://archives.kpfa.org/data/20140618-Wed1300.mp3
http://archives.kpfa.org/data/20140618-Wed1300.mp3
Guns & Butter: ISIS: An Instrument of the Western Military Alliance with Michel Chossudovsky.
The US has recently said that there will be no intervention until Maliki steps down.
The Shia Maliki government is sympathetic to Iran.
The Maliki government, whilst corrupt and sectarian, has also greatly resisted US wishes in Iraq, especially in his refusal to sign the "status of forces" immunity agreement.
This effectively allows any US troops stationed in Iraq to rape and torture or go on a drunken killing spree without ever being held to account
So perhaps the US view is, "why not just get rid of the Maliki government using our jihadist proxies, while scaring up oil prices for the major oil corporations?"
And as I post, ISIS has just taken over the largest oil refinery in Iraq at Baiji
And now ISIS are armed with US heavy weapons and loaded with US dollars, there's now a wonderful excuse to attack parts of Syria. Why, to stop terrorism of course!
win win win
And an article from Pepe Escobar:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-01-200614.html
It really seems to be some quagmire
If we first repatriated all muslims back to their country of origin,and relied on green energy,as oposed to oil,this ''problem'' this ''crisis'' this ''humanitarian'' ''crisis'' wouldn't be our problem anymore.
The traitorous politicians that have gone before and the one's that are there currently have endangered many western countries with these homophobic muslim knuckledragger terrorists..
By having an open door situation,and aggressively enforcing multiculturalism from mainly arab lands on to our shores,we have ended up in this precarious situation,whereby more terrorist incidents could occur..Thank you traitors and red scum..
There have been shia and sunni clashes on british streets,muslim peadophile groomers etc,coming soon to a town near you....
actually with the US and Saudis arming and funding radical Islam all over the middle east and Africa and Saudi money being used to corrupt our western politicians, this issue will not "go away".
For example, Enda Kenny was recently over in Saudi Arabia with dodgy overpaid rehab head, Angela Kerins, negotiating what I don't know, but whatever the motivation, it is probably bad news for the Irish people. I wonder how much FG would need as a backhander to facilitate the planting of the seeds for a long game Irish Calliphate under sharia law?
However if there is a real problem with our borders, currently it is because of the EU open border policy not allowing us to regulate our borders proportionately to our available resources and population. Their policy of dilution as outlined by "sinister suds" in this article below should be troubling to anyone who puts value on their unique Irish culture and roots:
EU should 'undermine national homogeneity' says UN migration chief Peter Sutherland
I have no problem with a proportionate quota number of unfortunate and deserving Asylum seekers coming to live here, muslim or not, as long as they are properly screened for transmissable diseases like mers / sars / ebola, are properly integrated and not allowed to form ghettos as in other countries. But in the longer term, we need to keep religions out of our schools and our legislation, be it Islam or catholicism or any other. We've had quite enough of that. A common solid secular base education for all and religion in your own time is the recipe to solve many of our social ills over time.
However I think there would be a lot less Asylum seekers in need if the US stopped kicking hornets nests all over the middle east and west Africa. That is at the root of a lot of this problem. We should not be blaming the victims all the time, just deal with them in a fair logical and proportionate manner, while addressing the root causes diplomatically at state level, instead of kissing up to the culprits whose cynical violent and self serving geopolitical agendas are causing many / most of these social catastrophes around the globe.
But Asylum is really not the problem we should be fixated on. It is mostly just a distraction. A scape goat for the masses to get angry over over. Some patsies to blame for the austerity and lack of jobs scenario engineered by the politicial classes and their bankster pals.
Clearly the people we really need to eject from our country to improve things are the political gombeens and white collar criminals in banks scheming against the Irish people for personal gain on a huge scale, not a few unfortunate Asylum seekers just trying to survive.
ISIS/ISIL has momentum, money and power behind it for sure, the speed at which this plan has been rolled out in scary. Michel Chossudovsky has a good insight as usual. In relation to Peter Sutherland and his nefarious activities, diversity is healthy up to a point although expecting people from disparate cultures to create some kind of multicultural soup is crazy. Either people want to have children with people outside of their race or culture or they don't, they've had plenty of opportunity in the past decade but it still appears to be the exception. There's also an ugly practice of peddling self hating journalism in the more middle class newspapers and magazines, the Irish are fat, ugly, stupid etc etc. We need to figure out who we actually are and what we really want, if this force breaks through to Europe/Uk we could have a fight on our hands.
For days now, since their dramatic June 10 taking of Mosul, Western mainstream media have been filled with horror stories of the military conquests in Iraq of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, with the curious acronym ISIS.
ISIS, as in the ancient Egyptian cult of the goddess of fertility and magic. The media picture being presented adds up less and less.
Details leaking out suggest that ISIS and the major military ‘surge’ in Iraq - and less so in neighboring Syria - is being shaped and controlled out of Langley, Virginia, and other CIA and Pentagon outposts as the next stage in spreading chaos in the world’s second-largest oil state, Iraq, as well as weakening the recent Syrian stabilization efforts.
Strange facts
The very details of the ISIS military success in the key Iraqi oil center, Mosul, are suspect. According to well-informed Iraqi journalists, ISIS overran the strategic Mosul region, site of some of the world’s most prolific oilfields, with barely a shot fired in resistance. According to one report, residents of Tikrit reported remarkable displays of “soldiers handing over their weapons and uniforms peacefully to militants who ordinarily would have been expected to kill government soldiers on the spot.”
We are told that ISIS masked psychopaths captured “arms and ammunition from the fleeing security forces” - arms and ammunition supplied by the American government. The offensive coincides with a successful campaign by ISIS in eastern Syria. According to Iraqi journalists, Sunni tribal chiefs in the region had been convinced to side with ISIS against the Shiite Al-Maliki government in Baghdad. They were promised a better deal under ISIS Sunni Sharia than with Baghdad anti-Sunni rule. - ---
William Engdahl is an award-winning geopolitical analyst and strategic risk consultant whose internationally best-selling books have been translated into thirteen foreign languages.
Here is a documentary from Vice News, who sent a team to dicover ISIS. Excellent work and very disturbing.
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rather than re-invent the wheel, here's an excellent post by harvard Researcher Garikai Chengu
more informative links with info you won't get on RTE
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/26/syria-the-latest...sade/
obama-rewrites-history-at-the-un
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/26/obama-rewrites-h...e-un/
how-the-pentagon-exploits-isis-to-kill-surveillance-reform-and-re-occupy-iraq
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/26/how-the-pentagon...iraq/
US plans massive military escalation in Syria and Iraq
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/09/29/syri-s29.html
Article from George Monbiot:
http://www.monbiot.com/2014/09/30/bomb-everyone/
And the ever good Pepe Escobar:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-01-240914.html
Photo 1: John McCain meeting illegally in a rebel safe house with the heads of the “Free Syrian Army” in Idlib, Syria in April, 2013. In the left foreground, top al Qaeda terrorist leader Ibrahim al-Badri (aka Al-Baghdadi of ISIS, aka Caliph Ibrahim of the recently founded Islamic Empire) with whom the Senator is talking. Behind Badri is visible Brigadier General Salim Idris (with glasses), the former military chief of the FSA, who has since fled to the Gulf states after the collapse of any semblance of the FSA. (Courtesy VoltaireNet.org)
Photo 2: U.S. Senator John McCain meeting illegally in 2013 with chiefs of the Free Syrian Army (i.e. ISIS)
Photo 1: McCain meets top al Qaeda terrorist leader
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There's a good article in the Irish Times that doesn't actually follow the Washington script. It is upfront about Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States sponsoring the terrorists and even goes as far as suggesting the White House and State Dept want to continue the killing.
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Profiteering and dirty deals prolong conflict in Syria
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/profit...66580
An Israeli think tank called GLORIA is the source for credible reports that ISIS attacked the Kurds in and around Kobane back in July with chemical weapons -namely mustard gas and was helped by Turkey and others. Turkey has been using the ISIS situation to attack the Kurds.
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ISIS Butchers Attacked Kurds Around Kobane with Poison Gas in July-Mustard Gas Seen as Likely Agent