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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 Watch: Boris Defends the Boriswave Thu Sep 25, 2025 14:10 | Will Jones
To add to Kemi Badenoch's woes, Boris Johnson has popped up to defend his massive 'Boriswave' of immigration, asking "Who do you want to kick out?" It's not helping, Boris.
The post Watch: Boris Defends the Boriswave appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Richard Dawkins: ?Trans Women Are Women? Slogan is Scientifically False Thu Sep 25, 2025 11:17 | Will Jones
The slogan 'trans women are women' is scientifically false and harms the rights of women,?Richard Dawkins?has said in a new book warning that scientific truth must prevail over "personal feelings".
The post Richard Dawkins: ‘Trans Women Are Women’ Slogan is Scientifically False appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link A New Definition of Freedom of Speech: An Unsackable Late Night Host Thu Sep 25, 2025 09:00 | James Alexander
From liberal America, the people who brought you Covid and climate censorship and the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we have a new definition of free speech: the unsackable late night host, says Prof James Alexander.
The post A New Definition of Freedom of Speech: An Unsackable Late Night Host appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How Quakers Are Funding Open Borders Thu Sep 25, 2025 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
Quaker foundations pour millions into organisations promoting open borders, interfering in our democracy and undermining voters' clear wish for security. Charlotte Gill investigates.
The post How Quakers Are Funding Open Borders appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu Sep 25, 2025 00:46 | 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.
The post News Round-Up 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

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

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Join us in Challenging Maternity Bill which breeches women's rights!

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | press release author Friday January 14, 2011 12:58author by AIMS IRELAND - The Association for Improvements in Maternity Services Ireland (AIMS Ireland)author email chair at aimsireland dot com Report this post to the editors

14 Reasons to Amend sections 24 and 40 of the Nurses and Midwives Bill

Please join AIMS Ireland, The Home Birth Association of Ireland, The Community Midwives Association, Trinity Birth Group, INMO Midwives Section, National Birth Alliance, Clare Birth Choice, The Doula Association of Ireland, and some near 4000 signatories to a petition in challenging the proposed Nurses and Midwives Bill which is set to go before the Dáil on Tuesday January 18th.

The above organisations have put forward amendments to sections 24 and 40 in order to make the Bill more inclusive of the professional autonomy of midwives and the right of women to make informed decisions in their maternity care.

Please join us in writing your local TDs, Senators, and Health spokespersons and representatives in order to push these amendments through!

Here are 14 reasons to Amend sections 24 and 40 of the Nurses and Midwives Bill:

1. The Bill fails to reflect modern midwifery legislation. Ireland lags 20 years behind in recognising and funding services provided within a midwifery model of care. New Zealand midwives secured self-regulation and state recognition as independent providers of maternity care in 1990, for example. Canadian legislation giving midwives prescribing powers, rights to order blood tests and ultrasound scans, access to specialist medical opinion and hospital privileges also recognises the midwifery model of care.

2. If Section 24 is passed as drafted, then midwives will be the only health care professionals in Ireland without the ability to govern themselves. The Bill ignores the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005, which gave twelve professions the power to rule themselves.

3. Midwives must be given the power to regulate their own profession, if it is to survive. Midwifery is in crisis: the shortage of midwives in the main Dublin maternity hospitals is running at around 30 per cent.

4. The Midwives Committee must be self-governing. The Bill empowers the Board to regulate indemnity, the single biggest barrier to providing midwifery services in the community. Appropriate indemnity arrangements are required to enable midwives to exercise their scope of practice to the full.

5. Strengthening the profession of midwifery would help retain midwives. The current haemorrhaging of midwives threatens the health and welfare of mothers and babies. The risk of serious adverse events in hospitals has increased significantly.

6. Developing midwifery as a profession would improve the quality of maternity care and contribute to the sustainability of the health system as a whole.

7. In making insurance compulsory for midwives but not for medical practitioners (or nurses) and copperfastening an indemnity scheme that is in itself discriminatory, the Section discriminates against all midwives, both employed and self-employed. In so doing, it appears to breach of Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects against discrimination, as does Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

8. Underpinning Section 40 lies an invisible undercarriage of coercion aimed at controlling independent practice in the community. The Section is (invisibly) tied to a state indemnity scheme that is embedded in a restrictive state contract that significantly limits the range of services that can be provided independently by midwives in the community, regardless of their employment status. In making it unlawful to practice without indemnity in circumstances where the only insurance available derives from an oppressive state scheme, Section 40 undermines the economic rights of all midwives, by effectively stifling autonomous practice.

9. Section 40 criminalises midwives who practice outside the state’s onerous terms and conditions by setting lengthy terms of imprisonment and/or heavy fines for those who break the rules of indemnity. Self-employed midwives who feel ethically bound to continue to assist a home birth mother whose labour does not conform to insurance rules, for example, now face jail. This is an unjust, unprecedented and unwarranted level of coercive interference by the state in the exercise of an independent profession.

10. In making it unlawful for a midwife to practice without indemnity, Section 40, as drafted, makes private practice unlawful, in effect. Indemnity for independent practice is tied to a state home birth scheme. This is a serious infringement of the economic rights of all midwives, regardless of their employment status. Section 40 appears to contravene EU Directive 2005/36/EC, which guarantees the right of establishment. The right to offer services independently is a right afforded to all other health care professionals in the state.

11. In restricting the practice of self-employed midwives, Section 40, in effect, violates women’s human rights. The terms under which midwives are legally required to work are also the conditions under which women are obliged to give birth. In effectively denying large numbers of women the freedom to give birth at home, Section 40 denies them their right to respect for private life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

12. Section 40, in effect, conflicts with the right to self-determination in relation to medical treatment, including the right to decline certain medical interventions during labour. The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the notion of personal autonomy is fundamental to the interpretation of Article 8 of the Convention. The section may also conflict, in effect, with the right to bodily integrity, the right not to have one's health endangered by the state.

13. Section 40 also appears to breach the right to respect for privacy by copperfastening the mandatory handover of midwifery notes to the state. In policing the rules of its home birth scheme, HSE contractually requires self-employed midwives to surrender their records, including to bureaucrats.

14. Finally, Section 40 makes private midwifery practice unlawful, in effect. In doing this, it denies tens of thousands of women the freedom to choose the midwifery model of care during pregnancy, birth and postnatally. Such a model is associated with community midwifery services, which are uncommon. The Section also denies prospective parents the choice of private midwifery services, in effect.

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