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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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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 Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 20:31 | imc

offsite link Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite

offsite link Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent

offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent

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

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Miliband Refused to Discuss North Sea With Me, Says Ratcliffe Sat Oct 11, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Ed Miliband is refusing to discuss Net Zero and the North Sea with industry bosses, Sir Jim Ratcliffe has said, as he warns that Labour's policies are driving the deindustrialisation of Britain.
The post Miliband Refused to Discuss North Sea With Me, Says Ratcliffe appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Taliban Sells ?40 Fake Death Threats for Asylum Seekers to UK Sat Oct 11, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Fake death threat letters produced by the Taliban are being used to dupe the Home Office in asylum applications for Afghan migrants.
The post Taliban Sells ?40 Fake Death Threats for Asylum Seekers to UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sadiq Khan Called ?Disgrace? for Claiming ?From River to Sea? Chant is Not Antisemitic Sat Oct 11, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sir Sadiq Khan has been called a "disgrace" by a former Labour minister after he suggested that protesters who chant 'From the river to the sea' are not antisemitic, despite it calling for Israel to be wiped off the map.
The post Sadiq Khan Called “Disgrace” for Claiming ‘From River to Sea’ Chant is Not Antisemitic appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How Many Gulags Will We Need to Rid Us of the Progressive Blob? Sat Oct 11, 2025 09:00 | Graham Cunningham
Across the West, the Right is in the ascendancy, but an Establishment Blob of millions of progressive Lefties remains implacably opposed. Graham Cunningham ponders how many gulags will be needed to resolve this situation.
The post How Many Gulags Will We Need to Rid Us of the Progressive Blob? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Left-Wing Bias of World Mental Health Day is Enough to Drive You Insane Sat Oct 11, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Alan Partridge is back to promote World Mental Health Day. At least, that's how it appeared to Steven Tucker when he saw the 'Printable Affirmation Cards' produced by the Mental Health Foundation.
The post The Left-Wing Bias of World Mental Health Day is Enough to Drive You Insane appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Ireland and Haiti

category international | anti-war / imperialism | press release author Tuesday March 01, 2005 11:02author by For LASC Report this post to the editors

Haiti is the poorest country on the Western Hemisphere
and its all history is one of foreign intervention and
looting, from colonial times until its republican
period. Last year Haiti celebrated the 200th
anniversary of its existence; not a minor celebration,
as Haiti was the first Latin American country to gain
its independence and represented the first step to the
abolition of slavery. But Haiti had to pay a very high
price for the freedom of its offsprings

Today, the country is ruled by a tiny elite, that has brutalised
the population for more than a century, that has
strong links with imperialist powers harboured in both
France and the USA. This elite came to power once
again after the coup d'etat of February 29th 2004,
carried by a number of thugs and ex-Duvalierists, and
this coup has been sanctified by the presence of the
"international community"; the USA, France, and Latin
American countries like Chile, Brasil (which is
leading the military coalition in Haiti) and
Argentina, none of which can boast of a too clean
Human Right record... and they're troops had been
given by the UN the mission of "protecting Haitian
people"!

No wonder many Human Right abuses have been
reported and the number of dead people keeps piling.
But the world remain indifferent to the suffering of
the Haitian people and it seems that whatever atrocity
occurs in the island is part of the natural state of
the world. We, in the Latin American Solidarity
Centre, reject this "natural" order of things and we
call all the social organisations and progressive
people, to demonstrate on March 5th at 13:00 o'clock,
outside of the Brasilian embassy in Dublin (41
Harcourt Street, Dublin 2). We call international
organisations to hold pickets of solidarity that day
as well, to show that Haitian people are not alone,
that we keep an eye on the events and that we join the
demands of the Haitian people:

- Disarmament of the putschist thugs lead by Chamblain
and Phillipe.
- Respect of the Sovereignity of Haitian people, as
expressed in the last elections and rejection of the
regime of Latortue.
- Freedom to all political prisoners.
- Respect to the freedom of association.
- Payment back of the indemnification payed by Haiti
to France after its liberation.
- That the UN take real measure to protect civilians
in Haiti against the systematic attacks and the reign
of terror of former agents of the Duvaliers'
autocracy.

The demonstration will take place in front of the
Brasilian embassy, Saturday 5th March at 13:00
o'clock. You are all welcome.

author by redjadepublication date Wed Mar 09, 2005 22:27author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Disguised Coup, Hidden Abuses
The Haitian People Won't Give Up
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=7358

February 28, 2005, marked one year since the U.S. removed at gun point the democratically-elected President of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide.

[....]

Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, who had just returned from Haiti where he witnessed police intimidation of his host at a Catholic guest house, joined the other demonstrators to risk arrest by holding the protest along the fence in a space where demonstrators are usually arrested.

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Aftermath of a Coup
The Other Disaster in Haiti
http://www.counterpunch.org/quigley10132004.html
By Bishop THOMAS GUMBLETON and BILL QUIGLEY

In addition to the death and destruction caused by the recent hurricane and floods, there is another disaster going on in Haiti right now. It is a human rights disaster.

We just returned from Haiti with a human rights delegation for Pax Christi USA, the Catholic peace movement. Our media has made us aware of the human toll from the flooding. What we are not so aware of is that there has been a coup in Haiti that continues to take a substantial human toll as well.

The forced exile of President Aristide earlier this year was effectively a coup that eliminated the constitutionally elected government of the people of Haiti. The elected government was replaced with an illegally appointed government of the minority with economic and military power, supported by the U.S., France and Canada.

As a result, human rights conditions are now worse in Haiti now then they have been in years.

[....]

We believe that if all the people of the world saw what we saw, they would insist that justice be done for Haiti. We ask the world to look at the people of Haiti as our sisters and brothers. Recognizing that our sisters and brothers are in serious trouble, we must all work together to help them bring justice to their country.

Bishop Gumbleton in Dublin, in front of the GPO
Bishop Gumbleton in Dublin, in front of the GPO

author by Barrypublication date Wed Mar 09, 2005 13:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

He was lurking about outside the 32csm agm in Dublin 2001.

A number of shade wearing FBI agents were monitoring the Easter Commemoration that year as well in the company of the branch. Birds of a feather etc.

author by kintamapublication date Wed Mar 09, 2005 02:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Devil Dog with his fetish for big guns is not the type of chap you would want following you around. Given the propensity of his mates in the US Marines for blowing the shit out of retreating Iraqis it would not be advisable to let him get behind you.
Talking of cheap dates did the US not have some form of love affair with the oldTon Ton ? Could explain why this Haitian feels free to wander round foreign cities terrorising its citizens

author by Devil Dogpublication date Tue Mar 08, 2005 22:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Even though you sound like you're a cheap date, I'm not interested.

author by barrypublication date Tue Mar 08, 2005 22:13author address author phone Report this post to the editors

but i wouldnt put it past that other boyo now you mention it.

author by jack whitepublication date Tue Mar 08, 2005 21:15author address author phone Report this post to the editors

are you saying that Devil dog beat up kids and followed you around, or are you saying that this haitian cop did it?
i presume the latter but you should make it clearer

author by barrypublication date Tue Mar 08, 2005 20:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

How is calling someone a bad bastard racist ?

Wise up you plonker. Coloured people are as good and bad as everyone else.

As for Devil Dog, Im referring to his beating the crap out of young kids a few years back. And he followed me in and out of the chip shop and around the city centre one day, so ive a dislike of the fecker for those reasons.

author by peter kpublication date Tue Mar 08, 2005 19:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

[Apparently as he is a black man they reckon no-one will spot him as a guard. Hes a bad bastard too.]

Is that meant to be a sly attempt at posting a racist comment? what you on about?

author by Devil Dogpublication date Tue Mar 08, 2005 16:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

implies he's actually good at his job, Bazza, presumably monitoring your pals in the Dublin RIRA.

author by Barrypublication date Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The special branch in Dublin currently employ a former Haitian policeman for surveillance duties. Apparently as he is a black man they reckon no-one will spot him as a guard. Hes a bad bastard too.

author by LASC - LASCpublication date Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:49author email info at lasc dot ieauthor address author phone 01 6760435Report this post to the editors

Photo: March 6 Haiti protest at Brazilian embassy

Photo: March 6 Haiti protest at Brazilian embassy
Photo: March 6 Haiti protest at Brazilian embassy

Related Link: http://www.lasc.ie/activities/protest-haiti.html
author by Joepublication date Tue Mar 01, 2005 17:32author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Eyewitness account: Haitian cops open fire on nonviolent demonstrators calling for return of Aristide.
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050228225304964

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