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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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Public Inquiry
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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Human Rights in Ireland
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 Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:40 | Mark

offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan

offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 21:31 | imc

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offsite link Freedom of Speech in the UK is Under Threat, US Ambassador Warns Audience Including Deputy PM David ... Sun Nov 23, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
David Lammy had a stark warning delivered by US ambassador Warren Stephens, who said free speech in the UK is seriously under threat from heavy-handed government rules and rising violence.
The post Freedom of Speech in the UK is Under Threat, US Ambassador Warns Audience Including Deputy PM David Lammy appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Britain?s Public Inquiries ? Unaffordable and Unscientific Sun Nov 23, 2025 13:00 | Dr David Livermore
Britain's public inquiries are a money pit, chasing stories that suit them while ignoring the facts. David Livermore calls out the Covid Inquiry for spinning dodgy stats and brushing aside the huge harm lockdowns did.
The post Britain?s Public Inquiries ? Unaffordable and Unscientific appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Thousands of Pakistanis Using Visa Loopholes for Asylum Claims Sun Nov 23, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
There are growing claims the UK's visa system is being openly gamed, with record numbers of Pakistani nationals arriving on student, work and visitor visas and then switching to asylum.
The post Thousands of Pakistanis Using Visa Loopholes for Asylum Claims appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link 30 Left-Wing MPs Call on Ofcom to Censor X Under the Online Safety Act. Of Course They Do Sun Nov 23, 2025 09:00 | Laurie Wastell
Thirty Left-wing MPs have written to Ofcom to press it to censor X under the Online Safety Act. The evidence of 'hate' on the platform is threadbare, but it's obvious why they want to clip its wings, says Laurie Wastell.
The post 30 Left-Wing MPs Call on Ofcom to Censor X Under the Online Safety Act. Of Course They Do appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Exposed: How Green ?Philanthropy? Writes Scripts for Ulez ?Clean Air? Activists Sun Nov 23, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ben Pile highlights the work of Charlotte Gill exposing how green 'philanthropy' gives scripts to activists pushing 'clean air' schemes like Ulez as blatant proxies for the climate agenda.
The post Exposed: How Green ‘Philanthropy’ Writes Scripts for Ulez ‘Clean Air’ Activists appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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European Leaders Set to Repeat THE BIG MISTAKE

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Monday April 15, 2002 03:07author by Luap Namlot - Media Integrity Unlimitedauthor address Cork, Ireland Report this post to the editors

Can IT Happen Again? Can History be Rewritten? Can the Truth be Destroyed One More Time?

It is one thing for an evil individual to appear in every generation, and there is no question that Arafat is evil. Whilst sacrificing the Children of his own people is probably his most unforgivable crime, sacrificing Truth through his treacherous propaganda war is his most dangerous crime. But for the political and media leaders of Europe, who are fast becoming accomplices to his Murder of the Truth, the crime becomes much harder to forgive. It is precisely this crime, that of BUYING THE LIES committed by ordinary people during the second world war, that created that fertile ground for Adolph Hitler to build his propaganda machine to brainwash an entire continent and come within an inch of destroying modern civilisation. Today Chirac of France is leading the European pack. But the rest of the EU leaders are right behind him.

The following letter to The French Nation contains an early warning message that is fast becoming relevant to all the other Nations of Europe, including Ireland.

When, after the Second World War, the people of Europe were asked: "How could you allow such a monstrous man-made catastrophe to happen?" The vast majority of people answered: "I had no idea that these things were going on."

Why? How was this possible? Because people didn't want to know the truth. It was easier and more convenient NOT to know the truth.

It all began with the leadership - the politicians and the media, who failed to fulfill their responsibilities to seek out and speak the truth.

Unbelievably, it seems that none of the lessons weren’t learnt. This is all happening again right now. The Arab and Palestinian propaganda machine is so crude, so evil and so ridiculous, that there can only be three possible reasons why any self respecting political leader or media professional could swallow and regurgitate Arafat's lies:

1. They are totally unaware of the basic, proven facts of history, or
2. They are too lazy to do their research, or
3. They are anti-Semites.

This is how that other poor underdog from Austria got away with his treachery for so long. The leaders and journalists of Europe at the time allowed him to. They swallowed his propaganda, hook line and sinker. They even joined him in blaming the Jews for all the economic and social troubles of Germany and the rest of Europe.

He too started with seemingly harmless newspaper articles containing small falsehoods and lies. But soon they spread and grew until fiction and fact became confused. Ordinary people on the streets actually believed what they heard and read, just like the ordinary people of Europe today actually believe Arafat's inventions.

Newspaper articles became poster campaigns. Poster campaigns became small meetings. Small meetings became small marches, demonstrations, mass meetings, rallies, torchings of synagogues, pogroms, a holocaust. Sound familiar?

Today, France seems to be leading the European pack. Tomorrow - Spain, England, Germany, Ireland ... The European Union is becoming a union faster than we expected.

Here then is that letter to the French Nation. I re-address it to every nation in Europe:


Dear French Nation!

Shalom!

As a Jew, I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I would like to thank your President Jacques Chirac for saying that Israel needs to be convinced that peace is better than war. Never mind that peace (shalom in Hebrew) is the most common word in Jewish prayers. That it is endlessly repeated in synagogues, when greeting or taking leave, when getting up or going to bed. Never mind that shalom (peace) is mentioned 77 times in the Torah, and 275 times in the Jewish Bible (The Old Testament of Christians.)

Never mind that of all the world's literature the United Nations chose to inscribe the words of Israeli Prophet Isaiah on the wall across from its building in New York. Here are these words, "and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."

Never mind that these words are said in every synagogue at nearly every assembly, and that peace is called "God's greatest gift." Therefore, the President of the Nation that still venerates general Napoleon would do better teaching cows how to make milk, or teaching grass how to grow quietly than teaching Jews (Israelis) that peace is better than war.

Thank you, Jacques Chirac, for informing me about the encyclopaedic extent of your ignorance. I would like also to thank the unnamed cinema near the Paris Opera for canceling a screening of the "Harry Potter" film for Jewish kids. But I am even more grateful to the police of Paris, which has failed to provide protection for these kids. Apparently Jews of any age are no longer guaranteed complete equality with the rest of the population.

France was the first country in Europe to offer Jews this guarantee, and now it is apparently also the first to revoke it.

I congratulate your great Nation for keeping up at the foreskin of progress, no matter in which direction progress turns. And how can I not mention the doctorate degree in history, which was offered to Mustafa Talas (who just happens to be Syria's Foreign Minister) by Sorbonne? The Honorable Doctor Talas has written a book on the Damascus
Blood Libel of 1840, in which he claims that Jews kill Christians to obtain their blood for Passover. A true genius of historical science is Mustafa Talas, and certainly worthy of Sorbonne. I am infinitely glad that good old blood libels (perhaps the most imaginative product of European civilization), nearly forgotten in the last 50 years, are being revived in French academic circles.

You French are just wonderful: not only do you keep at the foreskin of progress, but also revive ancient traditions. (The Damascus Blood Libel started with disappearance of Father Thomas, a Franciscan superior. The French consul accused a group of rabbis and other Jews of ritual murder and extracted a "confession" by torture in which one of the victims died. Pogroms followed throughout the Middle East. The consul then requested permission from Mahemet Ali to kill the rest of his suspects. Others, including sixty children, were arrested and starved to convince their parents to confess. The charges were dropped when Sir Moses Montefiore, Adolphe Cremieux and Salomon Munk intervened on behalf of the Jews.)

I also cannot forget the events of October, 2000, with synagogues firebombed and burned, Jewish worshipers attacked and stoned. I know that President Chiraq spoke out against all this, saying that this is not what he meant when he criticized Israel. Well, as English playwright Shakespeare said, "Methinks the Lady doth protest too much." The President's criticisms of Israel had been (and remain) so extensive, so common and so unforgiving, that I cannot possibly believe him. The events of October, 2000 is exactly what he meant.

And if there is any doubt about it, your ambassador to the United Kingdom Daniel Bernard has cleared it up. Not only did he call Israel "that shitty little country," (quite a polite and diplomatic fellow is Daniel Bernard, is he not?) but he also ante-factum (before the fact) blamed the Jewish people for starting World War Three. My greatest gift of gratitude, therefore, goes to him. He has discovered in me (after all, I belong to "those people") a horrifying quality of causing world wars, a terrible character flaw about which I hitherto had been completely unaware. He has also forewarned us of our pre-assigned guilt.

I would like to inform you that I have decided to join the campaign against France. I will not visit or fly through France and its colonies of Guadeloupe, Martinique, and St. Pierre. That I will also boycott all products made in France, including perfume and cosmetics industry, designer fashion labels, French wines, chocolates, etc. That I will use my money to buy Israeli products, and travel to Israel and other countries who still think that Jews are human and should not live at the mercy of Palestinian terrorists.

I will also contact all people I know and try to get them to do the same. Let it be a humble manifestation of my gratitude.

Sincerely, David Tsal Shalom!

author by Zacharypublication date Mon Apr 15, 2002 04:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

author by Seanpublication date Mon Apr 15, 2002 10:45author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Failing to recognize massacres when they are inflicted on groups you do not like, as in Sabra, Shatila and very recently Jenin, completely invalidates anything one has to say about those that happened to people you do like, ie. the Jewish holocaust in this case. The only thing you don't like about the holocaust is not the murder of millions of innocents, but the fact that it happened to Jews. If it had happened to Arabs of blacks or anyone else, you would be silent. Therefore, you lose any moral highground and your whining about something (admittedly, horrific on an apocalyptic scale) that happened 60 years ago lacks any moral authority.
You cannot expect the world to eternally feel guilty about something most people were not even born for.

author by yossela - libertarian jewspublication date Mon Apr 15, 2002 10:59author address author phone Report this post to the editors

arafat is evil? what is he a demon, Arafat is a moderate palestinian bloke, whose people for some strange reason yous Nationalist Jews are subjegating and persecuting, you cannot legitimise the horrendous massacres, and bulldozing of palestinian ghettoes, just because you can do it cos your so called Jews. Palestinian blood just like Jewish blood is not water. But by choosing to adopt the degrading babaric practices and policies of our former concentration camp Nazi oppressors with regard to the persecution and degradation of the palestinian peoples, is not acceptable for us as Jews to copy, just becos it worked for the nazis.

Related Link: http://www.NETUREIKARTA.ORG
author by yossela - libertarian jewspublication date Mon Apr 15, 2002 10:59author address author phone Report this post to the editors

arafat is evil? what is he a demon, Arafat is a moderate palestinian bloke, whose people for some strange reason yous Nationalist Jews are subjegating and persecuting, you cannot legitimise the horrendous massacres, and bulldozing of palestinian ghettoes, just because you can do it cos your so called Jews. Palestinian blood just like Jewish blood is not water. But by choosing to adopt the degrading babaric practices and policies of our former concentration camp Nazi oppressors with regard to the persecution and degradation of the palestinian peoples, is not acceptable for us as Jews to copy, just becos it worked for the nazis.

Related Link: http://www.NETUREIKARTA.ORG
author by Phuq Heddpublication date Mon Apr 15, 2002 17:18author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It's funny that the original post starts off talking about how the problem is of everyone believing the lie: the lie is that Israel's action is justified. The lie is that murdering Palestinians is justified. The lie is that Israeli "settlers" are stealing land and livelihood from Palestinians.

The lie is that State murder, whether Israeli or Palestinian can ever produce justice and peace.

There's another wonderful lie in this whole dog's dinner of Zionist fascism: the lie that Arafat is doing nothing to control the "Islamic extremists". Why do I say this is a lie? Because if you look at the reports of Amnesty International, or the Israeli human-rights organization B'Tselem or the Palestinian human-rights organization Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group then you'll see that Arafat has been busy executing, torturing and imprisoning his opponents from the PFLP and Hamas. Arafat is sitting on top of a powder keg of popular discontent. He is managing it in an authoritarian, statist, repressive manner. The lie being spread that he is "not doing anything" is ridiculous.

For the record (for all the kneejerk Zionists) I am against the bombing of civilians. But remember: Palestinians are being murdered by tanks and helicopters so that Israeli fascists can steal their land and I'm against that too.

Israel out of the Occupied Territories!

Reparations for Palestine to Fight Terror!

Land for Palestinians for Israeli Security!

author by ConfusedByHypocricypublication date Mon Apr 15, 2002 18:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I guess Palestinians really hate themselves-Semitic people being anti-Semitic, as this article claims.

author by the burning buddhapublication date Mon Apr 15, 2002 22:36author email burningbuddhaart at eircom dot netauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

who lets these people out?

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