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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 Mon Sep 29, 2025 01:10 | 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.
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offsite link Farage?s Mass Deportation Plan Is Racist, Says Starmer Sun Sep 28, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Sir Keir Starmer has slammed Reform UK's mass deportation plan as "racist", warning that Nigel Farage's idea of kicking out hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants would "tear Britain apart".
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offsite link Fury After Woke NHS Supports First-Cousin Marriages Despite Risk of Birth Defects ? and Oppression A... Sun Sep 28, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
The NHS is under fire for defending cousin marriage as a cultural "benefit" despite the serious health risks, claiming it brings "stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages".
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offsite link Is the Tech Giant Who Gave Blair ?257 Million in Line for Huge ID Card Contract? Sun Sep 28, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
A cronyism row has hit the Government after it emerged Tony Blair secretly lobbied for his tech billionaire backer, who gave him ?257 million and could rake in millions from Labour's digital ID cards.
The post Is the Tech Giant Who Gave Blair ?257 Million in Line for Huge ID Card Contract? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sir Keir Starmer Under Pressure to Scrap Angela Rayner?s Plan to Roll Out Official Definition of Isl... Sun Sep 28, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Steve Reed, the Communities Secretary, has made it clear he?s unsympathetic to his predecessor's plan to roll out an official definition of Islamophobia, telling newspapers he'll block it if it stifles free speech.
The post Sir Keir Starmer Under Pressure to Scrap Angela Rayner?s Plan to Roll Out Official Definition of Islamophobia 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

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Netherlands systematically violating rights of children

category international | racism & migration related issues | news report author Monday May 02, 2016 00:07author by Dhjana - No Child to the Side Report this post to the editors

Weekly police raids, harsh living conditions, constant threaths of violence, arrest and detention by authorities, these are just some of the things that more than a thousand children in the Netherlands have to deal with. As part of refugee families whose asylum application has been turned down by the Dutch state, these children live in family camps spread over the country. Even though in the last years different organizations have campaigned against these human right violations and studies have pointed out the intense emotional harm these children face, the Dutch state has done nothing but building a new prison for refugee families who are about to be deported. At this point several families have formed a collective with political activists. Next to local demonstrations at the family camps, they call out for international support to pressure the Dutch state to end the violations of the children’s rights and those of their families.

Throughout the past nine years the Netherlands have been heavily criticized for violations of human rights by different UN Committees. Within these years it happened on at least twenty different occasions that concerns were expressed in several reports. They touched upon various topics such as the extension of maximum pre-trial detention from ninety days to two years, the increase of ethnic profiling and preventive body searching by police and the rise of intolerant tendencies such as racism, anti-semitism and specifically Muslim-hate. Almost half of the UN reports concerned the treatment of asylum seekers. In the Netherlands immigration detention continues to be used excessively, even in case of little or no prospect of actual deportation, undocumented refugees are denied access to basic needs such as food and shelter. Furthermore, stateless asylum seekers are confronted with infeasable demands for their procedures. Even though the Netherlands in 1995 signed the Convention of the Rights of the Child, recent criticisms show how these rights are being violated by the state in case of many refugee children.

It might seem unreal, but more than a thousand children in the Netherlands have to deal with unexpected police raids on a weekly base. These children live with their parents in so-called “family locations” that are spread over the country. The camps are designed for refugee families whose initial asylum application has been turned down by the Dutch state and are in await of their forced return to their countries of origin. The conditions in the camps are harsh, especially compared to Dutch living standards. The families are housed in single rooms without any privacy, weekly allowances are below minimum, parents are submitted to daily in-house registration, there is a lack of proper physical healthcare and an absence of mental healthcare, while the stay in these camps often is for several years.

However, what is ultimately disruptive to the well-being and development of the children at these camps, is the constant threat of arrest and detention. Once or twice a week a team of migration police officers raids a family location. Just before dawn up to ten officers will barge into a room to arrest one of the refugee families. While neighbouring families are kept at a distance by force or intimidation, the arrested family is granted just five minutes to pack their belongings. What is not packed, has to be left behind.
Statements of witnesses reveal that these arrests are reportedly executed with the use of violence, even if young children are amongst the arrested refugees. There are testimonies of pushing, pulling and hitting, but also of the deployment of police dogs and stun guns.
Once arrested, the children and their parents are transferred to the family prison. It occurs that teens are handcuffed or that children are separated from their parents during the transport.

According to international migration laws detention is only to be used as a last resort and many EU countries succesfully search for more humane alternatives. Yet in the Netherlands the use of immigration detention is still default with no exception for children. The family prison at Camp Zeist is one of the three detention centers in the Netherlands. The cells have been replaced by wooden cabins at the newly constructed family prison, but testimonies from children make clear that the experience is that of a prison nevertheless. From Camp Zeist the families are deported, even though the children have spend the majority of their lifes in the Netherlands and have virtually no connection to the countries their parents once fled from.

Studies clearly show that the stay at the family locations as well as the constant threat of raids, detention and deportation have a harmful impact on the well-being and development of children and teens. As prof. M.E. Kalverboer, professor of Child, Pedagogy and Migration Law and current Child Ombudsman states in an extensive research on rootedness in refugee children: “Almost all children that were involved in the study experience severe emotional problems. These children are very scared, withdraw with their worries and are depressed. They do not sleep well and often have nightmares. They experience an extreme amount of stress. They grow up in very difficult circumstances and this is a serious threat to their development”.

NGO's as Defence for Children and UNICEF have campaigned for the past years against the violations of the Rights of Children at the family locations, urging the Dutch authorities to close down the camps completely.
But with the newly constructed family prison and the firm intention of the IND, the Dutch Home Office, to increase the number of forced returns, it is obvious these practices are not about to stop.

Refugees from the family locations have now formed a collective together with political activists to protest against the raids, detention and deportation of children and their parents. They urge the international community to take notice of the inhumane treatment of these children and the damage that is inflicted upon their lifes. They invite the community to investigate and denounce the violations of the Convention of the Rights of the Child that are committed under the auspices of the Ministry of Safety and Justice, responsable for migration policies.

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