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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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Eurostar has unveiled its first gender-neutral uniform, introducing a collection featuring skirts, trousers and Dr Martens boots designed to be "interchangeable and made to fit all genders".
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offsite link Fact-Checking Starmer?s Claim That Brexit Created the Small Boats Crisis Wed Oct 01, 2025 17:30 | Will Jones
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offsite link Why is ?Pandemic Preparedness? a Major Theme of the New US Global Health Strategy? Wed Oct 01, 2025 15:43 | Dr David Bell
Why is 'pandemic preparedness' a major theme of the US Government's new 'America First' Global Health Strategy, asks Dr David Bell. There are some sound public health principles in there, but the 'pandemic' con lives on.
The post Why is ‘Pandemic Preparedness’ a Major Theme of the New US Global Health Strategy? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Ed Miliband Pledges Legislation to Ban Fracking ?Forever? Wed Oct 01, 2025 13:22 | Will Jones
With energy bills heading skywards and renewable energy investment on the ropes, Ed Miliband's conference crowd-pleaser was to pledge a law to ban fracking 'forever' ? and sabotage a future Reform administration.
The post Ed Miliband Pledges Legislation to Ban Fracking ‘Forever’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Lammy Backtracks on Claim Farage ?Once Flirted With Hitler Youth? Wed Oct 01, 2025 11:21 | Will Jones
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has been forced to row back on his bizarre claim that Nigel Farage "once flirted with the Hitler Youth", which Farage has denied.
The post Lammy Backtracks on Claim Farage “Once Flirted With Hitler Youth” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Leading Terrorist Groups Plan to kill Chavez again and all hope with him.

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Wednesday November 21, 2007 11:30author by Terence Report this post to the editors

Coup d'Etat to kill hope gets high priority

In an article published today titled: Coup D'Etat Rumblings in Venezuela , it has been revealed that one of the world's most feared, well funded and deadly terrorists groups, the CIA and their sponsors in the White House and Wall Street, are planing yet another assassination attempt on Chavez.

As it has often been said of terrorists, their victims need to be lucky everytime, but the terrorists need to be only lucky once. Back in 2004, the same group working with a range of front organisations such as the mis-named National Endowment of Democracy (NED), and US Agency for International Development (USAID) were heavily involved in the 2 day coup d'etat against Chavez, which by some great fortune was reversed.

Since that time, something has happened in Latin America that has not happened for a long time and that is hope, hope of a better world, has entered the lives of millions of people. And this hope has spread further afield to many tens and hundreds of millions of others.

For those in power and in control of much of the world's wealth, this is extremely worrying because everyday that Chavez continues and distributes the wealth of Venezuela's oil resources more equally than any other nation amongst its people, the greater example it shows to the rest of the world that another way is possible. Not only that there are significant oil reserves in Venezuela that these evil people would like to get their hands on, and with the dramatic decline of reduction of oil in Mexico's giant oil field, Cantarell (thought to be the 2nd largest oil field in the world), this issue is becoming a pressing concern for these people and those in the other branches of the terror regime. It appears that high ranking leaders controlling the main global terrorist organisation, the CIA, have been meeting secretly to discuss and plot illegal activities against Chavez and the hope that he represents.

The extent and seriousness of this latest terrorists threat can be seen from some of the findings of this report:


Hugo Chavez International-Foundation for Peace, Friendship & Solidarity (HCI-FPFS) sources revealed the plot's code name - "Operation Cleanse Venezuela" that now may be unfolding ahead of the December 2 referendum on constitutional reforms. According to Sankoh, the scheme sounds familiar - CIA and other foreign secret service operatives (including anti-Castro terrorists) aiming to destabilize the Chavez government by using "at least three concrete subversive plans" to destroy the country's social democracy and kill Chavez.

It involves infiltrating subversive elements into the country, inciting opposition within the military, ordering region-based US forces to shoot down any aircraft used by Chavez, employing trained snipers with shoot to kill orders, and having the dominant US and Venezuelan media act as supportive attack dogs. Chavez is targeted because he represents the greatest of all threats to US hegemony in the region - a good example that's spreading. Venezuela also has Latin America's largest proved oil reserves at a time supplies are tight and prices are at all-time highs.


And further parts of the article report:


More information on a possible coup plot also came from a November 13 Party for Socialism and Liberation article headlined "New US plots against the Venezuelan Revolution." It states Tribuna Popular (the Communist Party of Venezuela) and Prensa Latina (the Latin American News Agency) reported: "Between Oct. 7 and Oct 9, high-ranking US officials met in Prague, Czech Republic, with parts of the Venezuelan opposition (where they were) urged to convene social uprisings, sabotage the economy and infrastructure, destroy the food transportation chain and plan a military coup." It said Paul Wolfowitz and Madeleine Albright attended along with Humberto Celli, "a well-known coup-plotter from the Venezuelan party Accion Democratica."

People will remember that it was Madeleine Albright who said of the Iraqi sanctions that led to the death of more than 1 millions Iraqis in the 1990s, that it was worth it.


The article further reported Tibisay Lucena, The National Electoral Council chairman, said the Venezuelan corporate media was "stoking a mood of violence amongst right-wing students" through a campaign of agitprop, and Hermann Escarra from the "pro-coup" Comando Nacional de la Resistencia openly incited "rebellion" last August and then called for constitutional changes to be stopped "through all means possible."


But for some reading this article, they will wonder what it is all about and find it incredible. What is incredible is the level of democratic reform being introduced unlike anything anywhere at the moment, where civil liberties have been rapidly rolled back since 9/11. The hope Chavez has ignited is represent by these proposed changes:


The National Assembly (AN) completed its work on November 2 adding 25 additional articles to Chavez's proposal plus another 11 changes for a total of 69 articles that amend one-fifth of the nation's Constitution. The most important ones include:

-- extending existing constitutional law that guarantees human rights and recognizes the country's social and cultural diversity;

-- building a "social economy" to replace the failed neoliberal Washington Consensus model;

-- officially prohibiting monopolies and unjust consolidation of economic resources;

-- extending presidential terms from six to seven years;

-- allowing unlimited presidential reelections so that option is "the sovereign decision of the constituent people of Venezuela" and is a similar to the political process in countries like England, France, Germany and Australia;

-- strengthening grassroots communal councils, increasing their funding, and promoting more of them;

-- lowering the eligible voting age from 18 to 16;

-- guaranteeing free university education to the highest level;

-- prohibiting foreign funding of elections and political activity;

-- reducing the work week to 36 hours to promote more employment;

-- ending the autonomy of Venezuela's Central Bank to reclaim the country's financial sovereignty the way it should be everywhere; today nearly all central banks are controlled by private for-profit banking cartels; Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul wants to end that status in the US and correctly explains the Federal Reserve Bank is neither federal nor does it have reserves; it's owned and run by Wall Street and the major banks;

-- adding new forms of collective property under five categories: public for the state, social for citizens, collective for people or social groups, mixed for public and private, and private for individuals or private entities;

-- territorial redefinition to distribute resources more equitably to communities instead of being used largely by economic and political elites;

-- prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination and enacting gender parity rights for political candidates;

-- redefining the military as an "anti-imperialist popular entity;"

-- in cases where property is appropriated for the public good, fair and timely compensation to be paid for it;

-- protecting the loss of one's home in cases of bankruptcy; and

-- enacting social security protection for the self-employed.

The National Assembly also approved 15 important transitional dispositions. They relate to how constitutional changes will be implemented if approved until laws are passed to regulate them. One provision is for the legislature to pass 15 so-called "organic laws" that include the following ones:

-- a law on "popular power" to govern grassroots communal councils (that may number 50,000 by year end) that Chavez called "one of the central ideas....to open, at the constitutional level, the roads to accelerate the transfer of power to the people (in an) Explosion of Communal (or popular) Power;" five percent of state revenues will be set aside to fund it;

-- another promoting a socialist economy for the 21st century that Chavez champions even though he remains friendly to business; and

-- one relating to the country's territorial organization; plus others on education, a shorter workweek and more democratic changes.


Full article can be found at:

Related Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18755.htm
author by gurgle ribbid iosafpublication date Wed Nov 21, 2007 21:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Hugo (the man) joked to SuperSarko (the enemy) just before he left Paris by air home to Venezuela that he would be flying over the Zarzuela palace (of mr King of Spanish state & succesor to generalissimo [caudillo too] Francisco Paco Franco) «Espero que no me disparen cuando sobrevuele la Zarzuela» = I hope they don't shoot at me when I fly over the Zarzuela. This is of course coz Mr Bourbon used the familiar "tu" form to ask Chavez to shut up since when he's talked in the "we" form.
Though it didn't start there, it's been a few weeks now of putting the We into politics. You can have a chief of state "we" like the one we gave Chirac for being deadly & unyankee and altogether reliable in which he never registered more than four facial expressions. You can have the campesino witness to the frontline "we" like the indiginous type who's been dragged out of indiginous Veneuzela indiginous-land to play such a memorable part in the article above, which you probably only read for the V in Veneuzela. you could be youtube "we" in a sort of bogus seriously doubtful & jaded hipster not so fresh on the block internet-culture-way-googleware... mon...

you're not interested in all this. You're in it for the game. OK. Look over the shoulders. Whoever has the Ingrid Betancourt card is on to a very very good thing.., y porque tu no te callas.., coz the "we" is actually clinton.

author by Aragonpublication date Wed Nov 21, 2007 22:10author address author phone Report this post to the editors

What are you trying to tell us, man!

'Clinto is the we' - Hilary Clinton if elected will do the deed, what????

author by PCpublication date Thu Nov 22, 2007 02:15author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Give 'em hell Hugo!

We can only hope it spreads to Mayo, no more income tax and live off the proceeds of our natural resources. Also kick out the eu.

author by Jesus Moralespublication date Fri Nov 23, 2007 18:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Hugo Chavez is a Criminal. Period! His crimes are as despicable as those committed by his predecessors. He is neither populist nor a plain "adeco or copeyano" crook. True to South American tradition, he epitomizes a caudillo. His Mean, deceitful, irreverent, vindictive, cruel, fiend are some of his attributes, certainly benefactor is not one of them.Ask his real nation! Let his see his maker earlier!
Happy Holidays

author by ribbidpublication date Fri Nov 23, 2007 22:54author address author phone Report this post to the editors

As expected the French government fully endorsed Hugo Chavez' role in negotiating hostage release issues (including Ingrid Betancourt) with FARC after his rather surprising (yet typical) loquacious comments this week. Alas what seemed good news in France & to Chav fans didn't go down well in Colombia (well would it?) who after much talking (& one imagines gleeful joking of "you know he doesn't shut up & plays into others' hands for it") Colombia has today said it will not allow Chavez to continue with his negotiations, army sources claiming he has played the honest broker

Jayzhus.

It would take a very long time for me to explain Colombia, the FARC, Hugo's interests, Uribe & what France wants (apart from the obvious release of Ingrid Betancourt). & I'd imagine I'd get such a small readership on it, it would a waste of my typing when I've got more serious closer to hand & Tara's symbolism & South American-migrant-communities-in-Europe- matters to consider. (meaning a piece I want to publish on how & why we need to come together to stop nazi organisation in Europe especially former "catholic" Europe).

So...........
per això
learn español & read the Venezuelan newspaper on how Uribe is now more unpopular than the really unpopular he was before for not allowing "the man" to continue his game on the frontier of a narcostate (Colombia) which shouldn't exist but does so cause that's how the Spanish drew the map & stays that way coz the Spanish sell each side an equal amount of mobile credit & guns yet always apparantly keeping the Yankee though there @ arm's length.........................does it occur to anyone that Hugo does it on purpose?
http://www.eluniversal.com/2007/11/23/chcol_ava_uribe-i...shtml

To link this comment to my previous one above (thus claiming perhaps they are updates):: I hold very important cards - and I look over shoulders - but I really sincerely don't know who has the Ingrid Betancourt card.........do you?

author by Terencepublication date Sat Nov 24, 2007 00:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The commentator above says:
>Hugo Chavez is a Criminal
We are supposed to believe this on his word with no evidence to back it up. It's always amusing how when somebody like Chavez who is now using the oil wealth to further the health, education and general welfare of the people get accused of vague accusations, with populism often one thrown in whatever that means. Yet there is no mention of the crimes of all the previous dictators of that country that stole the wealth and left huge poverty and misery in their wake.

The above commentator is sort of right in one sense, in the sense of the supporters of those who plunder the resources of countries, murder at will and so forth. In their eyes, he is a criminal to have dared to act different than this because he is a danger to them by virtue of the fact that he is rekindling hope in people and the real possibility that the tiny few with all the wealth and resources of the state at their disposal could lose their power. That's the real crime referred to above.

author by paul o toolepublication date Sat Nov 24, 2007 00:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Dont forget that the whitehouse 'dove' Colin Powell said to congress .. 'Mr Chavez is not acting in Americas best interest' before the failed Coup in 2003.

author by iodonnetpublication date Sun Dec 02, 2007 21:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Who the fuck wrote this? It's so bullshit... Chavez is a fucking threat, those changes are just to end up democracy. Open your eyes you blind folded fool...

author by hmmmmmmmmmmmmpublication date Tue Dec 04, 2007 09:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors

There are many motormouths on all political fronts. The types who would put you right off Irish republicanism or Socialist internationalism. But the simple advice "get yourself a missus" stands, as could & would she. Did wonders for Argentina.

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