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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 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".
The post Farage?s Mass Deportation Plan Is Racist, Says Starmer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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".
The post Fury After Woke NHS Supports First-Cousin Marriages Despite Risk of Birth Defects ? and Oppression Against Women appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

offsite link Questions for Keir Starmer Over Avoiding Inheritance Tax Sun Sep 28, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Keir Starmer put a ?295,000 Surrey field in a trust for his parents, so it wasn't part of their estate ? even though he has said "those in charge of taxation can't also be seeking to avoid it."
The post Questions for Keir Starmer Over Avoiding Inheritance Tax 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

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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Health Demo, Patrick's Bridge, Cork 18.10.08
cork / anti-capitalism / news report Saturday October 18, 2008 16:38 by John Jefferies   text 6 comments (last - tuesday october 21, 2008 12:38)   image 13 images
Several thousand people took part in a protest on St. Patrick's Bridge in Cork this afternoon to demonstrate against the Fianna Fáil / Green / PD parties budget decision to axe automatic entitlement to medical cards for over 70 year olds. read full story / add a comment
waterford / animal rights / press release Saturday October 18, 2008 12:43 by Bernie Wright
LATEST NEWS from the Irish Coursing Club.(ICC website)

Message
Waterford Coursing Club would like to sincerely thank Lord Waterford, their loyal sponsors, landowners, greyhound owners and working members for their help and support over the years.
Regrettably their 2008 coursing meeting has to be cancelled but they look forward to being back in action in 2009. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Saturday October 18, 2008 12:35 by Michael Gallagher
IVAW gives a voice to active duty service people and veterans under pressure to remain silent. Hear what they have to say to Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole.

Abbey Theatre
Upper Abbey Street
Dublin 1

Tuesday 18 November
6.15-7pm

Booking info: 01 8787222

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national / animal rights / press release Saturday October 18, 2008 10:54 by Bernie Wright   text 6 comments (last - friday october 24, 2008 03:37)   image 2 images
13 million for Greyhound Industry while the old suffer more hardship
The IGB is and has been in receipt of Irish taxpayers funds through the Department of Finance's exchequer since 2001.
Horse and Greyhound racing has been awarded these funds through the Horse & Greyhound fund which totalled 75million last year, of which the Greyhound sector received 13 million in this budget.( Of course BIFFO has been a regular visitor to the tracks)
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<small>The bygone days</small>
international / history and heritage / feature Friday October 17, 2008 19:54 by George Stapleton   text 7 comments (last - friday november 07, 2008 12:35)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
This is the second of a series of articles covering the financial and money markets from a critical perspective. In 'Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction', Paul Bowman examined the derivatives market and promised that the succeeding article would cover the 'story of the historical development of successive regimes of global financial orders' and would explain the role of the Eurodollars market 'in undermining the Keynesian Bretton Woods system'.

In the interests of space and relevance, I will only tell the story of the historical development of the regime of global financial order under US hegemony. I will begin by examining how the centre of capital accumulation shifted from Europe to the US in the first half of the twentieth century, and how following World War II the global financial order became centred around the US through the Bretton Woods system.

I will then look at how the Bretton Woods System was undermined, concentrating as much on the role of workers’ militancy as on the role of the Eurodollars market. After considering the response to the crisis of Bretton Woods, I'll look at the Clinton boom bringing us up to the current situation of the US’s current heavy dependence on foreign borrowing.

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Minister Noel Dempsey
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday October 17, 2008 17:55 by Carmel Ni Dhuibheanaigh   text 15 comments (last - tuesday april 21, 2009 10:05)   image 3 images
Last night about 12 members of the Vigil and Direct Action joined forces against the appearance of Noel Dempsey at Navan Library for the Book Launch of "Where Toll roads Meet" by Anthony Holten.

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mayo / environment / news report Friday October 17, 2008 14:51 by A   text 4 comments (last - thursday october 23, 2008 17:34)   image 5 images
The word is – Shell are pulling out of Glengad and suspending work till early Spring. Shell ‘consultants’ are informing local residents that the beach is being ‘reinstated’ and the work will take a number of weeks.

The Solitaire has moved on and is ‘off hire’ to Shell.

No press release has issued from Shell and they are behind in their weekly ‘progress’ reports to the PAD (Petroleum Affairs Divison) of Minister Eamon Ryan’s Department of Communication, Energy and Natural Resources, which can normally be read here: http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Natural/Petroleum+Affairs+Divis...D.htm
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international / crime and justice / other press Friday October 17, 2008 12:00 by Raul
Riot police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo have clashed with other police officers who are on strike.

The confrontation happened when the striking officers tried to force their way past barriers to reach a building used by state governor Jose Serra. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Friday October 17, 2008 11:50 by BATU striker   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 18, 2008 11:32)   1 attached file
Please come along to our Rally to support the BATU strikers. We will have speakers from the construction industry and the wider trade union movement. We want to build support for our dispute but we also want to draw the lessons of the last six months. This rally will call for Paddy O'Shaughnessy to be removed from the executive of ICTU and BATU to be suspended. NO TO STRIKEBREAKERS IN THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday October 17, 2008 11:39 by Burma Action Ireland   text 1 comment (last - friday october 24, 2008 21:00)   image 3 images
Aung San Suu Kyi-13 yearsstill in Detention in Burma read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / press release Friday October 17, 2008 10:02 by Dorothy Gale
Stop the Attacks on Women's Rights Leaders in Nicaragua

URGENT ACTION ALERT - For Immediate Release

As an organization that shapes and advances sexual and reproductive
ethics that are based on justice and respect for the capacity of women
to make moral decisions about their lives, Catholics for Choice (CFC)
calls on all SRHR and HR related international organizations abroad to
act in solidarity with the Nicaraguan women's rights defenders who are
being harassed by the Sandinista government.
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national / gender and sexuality / press release Friday October 17, 2008 09:51 by Dorothy Gale   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 29, 2008 16:13)
Marie Stopes International (MSI) has become the first reproductive
health agency to offer Irish women abortion consultation and
counselling services by telephone. The charity has also reduced its
fees by the average cost of a discount air fare from Ireland to
England, to alleviate the financial hardship faced by many Irish women
who have to travel overseas to obtain abortion services.
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donegal / history and heritage / event notice Thursday October 16, 2008 17:39 by Tí Chonaill08   text 5 comments (last - monday october 27, 2008 20:15)   image 5 images
A talk entitled ' Personal Reflections of the 1980/81 Hunger strikes' will be taking place

DATE: SAT 25th October

VENUE: Ionad Teampaill Chróine ,Dungloe

TIME: 6pm

PANEL: Tommy McKearney (Former Hunger striker)
Laurence McKeown (Former Hunger striker)
Richard O'Rawe (Former POW )

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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday October 16, 2008 17:28 by Swedish network Ofog   text 10 comments (last - tuesday october 12, 2010 11:27)
Weapons used in the American led war on Iraq were successfully disarmed by a group of activists. Early this morning members of the Swedish peace network, Ofog, broke into Europe's leading weapon manufacturer BAE Systems and disarmed 20 grenade launchers of the type used in Iraq. Anna Andersson and Martin Smedjeback used hammers and bolt cutters to begin this disarmament. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday October 16, 2008 16:41 by Susan
27 October to 2 November 2008 is the Global Week of Action to Ban Cluster Bombs. The Global Week of Action takes place one month before the Oslo Signing Conference on 3 December 2008, where more than 100 governments are expected to sign the new Convention on Cluster Munitions that bans the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster bombs.

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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday October 16, 2008 12:51 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - monday october 20, 2008 12:11)
Debate on the Middle-East – what is the answer to the crisis?

Speakers:

Moshe Machover, Israeli socialist & anti-Zionist

Raymond Deane, Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Yassamine Mather, Iranian political activist & founding member of HOPI

Thursday 13 November, 7.30pm. Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square Dublin1 read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Thursday October 16, 2008 11:03 by Comhlámh
Bloom is a movement of people in Ireland taking action together for global justice. We believe there is a need to address and challenge the root causes of global inequality. Join us and help to build a global justice movement in Ireland! read full story / add a comment
The Lobotomies
derry / anti-capitalism / press release Wednesday October 15, 2008 22:57 by MAOR Derry   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 18, 2008 00:52)   image 1 image
On behalf of Derry MAOR, we would like to take this opportunity to thank the management and staff of Sandino’s Café Bar for their kind and exceptional help and assistance in making possible the recent Punk benefit night to highlight the ongoing Shell to Sea campaign in North West Mayo. read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday October 15, 2008 18:07 by Paula Geraghty   image 5 images
A press conference held this morning by a panel of leading trade unionists outlined the reasons behind their opposition to the proposed national pay deal. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 15, 2008 17:15 by john throne   text 2 comments (last - saturday october 18, 2008 18:49)   image 2 images   video 1 video file
Now the Bush regime has taken a stake in the top nine US banks. It does so to save the system which the Wall Street Journal says was on the edge of a precipice. This is a major defeat for the US model of capitalism. And for the Bush regime. Bush came to power promising to reverse the gains of the 1930's and the 1960's. Now he will leave power having gone back to again increasing the role of the state in the economy. Not to mention the military defeats abroad. read full story / add a comment
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