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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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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours Fri Sep 19, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Labour has sunk to its lowest ever poll rating as Andy Burnham fuels rumours he is preparing to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership by refusing to commit to serving a full term as Greater Manchester Mayor.
The post Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of ?Misguided Attempts at ... Fri Sep 19, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Oxford and Cambridge universities have?failed to get into the top three in the Times's prestigious annual university ranking for the first time, with experts blaming "misguided attempts at equality".
The post Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of “Misguided Attempts at Equality” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Jeremy Corbyn?s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She?s Been ?Frozen Out... Fri Sep 19, 2025 13:16 | Will Jones
Jeremy Corbyn's new hard Left party has been plunged into chaos as his co-founder Zarah Sultana claimed she had been "frozen out" from the "sexist boys' club" and Corbyn threatened her with legal action.
The post Jeremy Corbyn’s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She’s Been “Frozen Out” of “Sexist Boys’ Club” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sadiq Khan?s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don?t Cut Car Use Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan?s officials suppressed taxpayer-funded research that showed low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) do not reduce car use after the London Mayor spent five years baselessly claiming LTNs are good for the planet.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don’t Cut Car Use appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
The post Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Bertie is a saint.!

category national | politics / elections | opinion/analysis author Sunday April 24, 2005 01:01author by John McDermott - removefiannafailauthor address Spain Report this post to the editors

It,s official

Beverley Flynn could be the next Taoiseach.
Troubled times
Troubled times

The new Pope announces the beatification of "An Taoiseach",while Beverley Flynn throws her garter into the political arena.
Dissension from within the ranks of the various Fianna Fail factions around the country is a dangerous weakness. Class Act Beverley Flynn , is currently rallying her ‘cowboys’ in Mayo, after vigorously resisting moves to expel her from the ranks of the ‘Soldiers of Destiny’.
"I ain’t leavin either ‘she said in a press conference on the porch of the Flynn Ranch last year’-you ain’t pushin me out Bertie,just try it…make my day!
I’ll blow you all the way home to Hell."
This prophecy has now been partly accomplished. The Mayo "soldiers" have defected en mass and been expelled from the ranks.! Fianna Fail are reeling in disarray due to the rebellious Barons there, whose sworn allegiance is to the " First Lady" of offshore bank bonds.!

Many of the rustics,and gossipmongers around Mayo say the cursed banks were the real troublemakers.They put too much temptation in good folks way…offerin to hide farmers and businessmens money from the Revenue hunters. Besides, taxes were too high on ordinary folk,- the government was takin too much from Dublin,s P.A.Y.E. Jackeens,and salaried folk.
‘Beverley was only doing her job’.Some say. This argument claims that Beverley was blameless and scapegoated to save the "Destiny Soldiers", asses!
Sure, the banks were culpable too. Even now as they lick their light wounds from the non-resident account scandals etc, they are busy lending too much money to our young people ,and making their contribution to the endless housing price spiral,-all in the name of the god of Mammon.!
Who complains about that.? Not this government. Not the builders and speculators party, " Fianna Fail".! Not even the muffled civil servants in the Central Bank,-nobody.!
Other townsfolk in Strokestown( county Mayo) say Beverley’s argument is spurious.She was a ‘ hired gun’ who got caught salting away her old mans ill gotten loot, and tries to blame the banks, pleading innocent because her bosses(the crooked bankers) made her do it!.
She was only doing her job sure –but she was breakin’ the law and ought to have known better.Some believe she deserves to be strung up,and her old man alongside her. "Don,t do the crime if you cant do the time," the ordinary decent criminals are saying. This applies to high salaried Euro-comissioners also.
The fact that she and her family were elected to represent the decent citizens of this Island,in Europe and in the Dail,( as well as the all- too- numerous ,off-shore bank account holders,in Mayo and elsewhere,) appears to be an irrelevent issue.
So, she is likely to top the poll in Mayo come election time, same way as Michael Lowry did when he was caught fiddling the books down in Tipperary.
Is there an honest citizen-or politician-or voter- in the length and breath of holy Ireland, folks wonder ? Is there no respect for law and order.?
If the rest of the rebel Soldiers of Destiny countrywide, ditch Bertie ,and make Lady Beverley the new ‘Boss of Bosses’ (Capo de tutti Capi) in Leinster House, we will have some honest clarification of the present in-fighting among the Fianna Fail gangs in the badlands of Mayo and elswhere’
I therefore propose Beverley be elected the the first fearless, female "Taoiseach" .A woman,s time has come.We had a President-why not a feisty firebrand for Taoiseach. Who better to inherit the mantle of the legendary Charles J. Haughey- and in his own lifetime!
Beverley has my number one anytime.
Sure love to see ‘Wanted for Taoiseach’ posters of her, on all the lampposts up and down the State, Calamity Jane style.Buckskins,stetson hat, and packing a pistol under each garter.
What a gal.! Calamity Beverley strikes again! The deadwood stagecoach is a-comin over the hills towards Leinster House.What spirit. She never comes out with her hands up, only- in true Flynn tradition - with both guns blazin’. She learned all those tricks from her ould fella.!
Mighty Mayo. Such women are dangerous.
The next Taoiseach aside, let all citizens and bin tax campaigners in Dublin ,Cork, and elsewhere,be happy that the Soldiers of Destiny are returning to the election fray already,with great gusto.

THE POPE INTERVIENES;
The new Pope has appealed to the Irish people to repent,and declared our beloved Taoiseach-long recognized as possess the odour of sanctity about his person- is to be called " Blessed Bertie." The first step in his almost certain canonizatio has taken place.The next 12 months will see many miracles from the newly beatified "Blessed Bertie".
It is a time for great rejoicing . Prodigal sons and daughters everywhere(except Mayo) are greeting him with open arms.
Closed Hospital wards may suddenly re-open. Not one occupied trolley will be found anywhere across the land. Employment and poor relief schemes formerly abandoned will re-surface. Privatization plans will be shelved.(Dublin Airport terminal ,Aer Lingus etc,)
Tax bands may even be adjusted a pinch as a few crumbs fall from the table,to be greatfully received by the poorest of the poor,( left out of the 12% Great Civil Service Wage Bonanza).
The great generosity and goodness of the Disciples of Destiny will be manifest across the land,heralding a new golden age in which the people will be tantalized briefly, with sight of their own money...before it disappears into the "Black Hole" which is the long dark night of Fianna Fail.

Even the wheelie bins will not be molested in the coming election year…if at all possible,by the "Soldiers".
‘Yes, believe my friends, this will be the only good Party in town for many months to come’!
In short no lobby group,union, club,or social grouping which represents a few thousand votes,or more, will be offended or disappointed.
Lottery and exchequer funds will be prized open and disbursed to the clamoring masses,in a short frenetic feeding frenzy.
.Even the Vincent De Paul Society may find some crumbs under Lazarus’s table.

As a shoal of sharks smell blood from a weakened victim, so will the populace; trade unions, beggars and rich farmers alike, sense Fianna Fail,s weakness at this delicate time of great opportunity, and demand to be sated ,before the Bertie Boat battens down the hatch and disappears across the Lake of Galilee,and over the clouded horizon,as the tax typhoon builds,and prepares to batter the country for another five, long years.
(until the Second Coming?)
Pretenders to the True Faith among rival upstart political factions will be mocked and scorned in The Leinster House Temple daily.
Character assassination will replace debate.The fragmented and fractious opposition will be scattered, in great disarray. The ambitious Rabbite sect will discover(indeed already know) that their camp followers have crossed over in the night, to the enemy lines, having been bought with their own money!
All this will come to pass, before the next election.

Blessed Bertie addressed the multitudes while on pilgrimage, from Croagh Patrick mountain in Mayo, yet many of them were rebellious of spirit, despite their great wealth,and the proliferation of new golfcourses, across the land:
The Beatitudes according to Saint Bertie.
Bertie led his followers ,wealthy farmers,despised tax collectors, building speculators,civil servants,and rich merchants-up a high mountain,where they paused to rest. He addressed them in these words;
‘Look around you ,my disciples…all this, I give to those of you who worship me.
Verily I say to you;-
Blessed are the young people , who have been priced out of the home ownership market,by corruption,nepotism,stroke politics, and well connected builders and land speculators.
Blessed are those salaried laborers who pay 70% of the price of motor fuel in government tax; who suffer the highest vehicle purchase taxes in Europe;the highest alcoholic drink taxes;the highest V.A.T.taxes; stealth taxes of every kind; new rubbish taxes;water taxes(pending);new road toll taxes;private V.H.I.taxes;credit card taxes,…and before all this, - 42% of their reward ,is first deducted at source.!
Blessed are those who walk in the countryside for recreation,and are hindered and persecuted;blocked by the barbed wire fences of landowners and farmers, who take vast sums of the common people’s taxes , throughout the E.U. Empire,-and give nothing back in return.
Blessed are the Anglers who wait all day by the lakeside –and catch nothing!
Their stocks are destroyed, their labors wasted. Patiently they endure agricultural pollution,nitrate poisoning,and legalized drift net fishing by rich men in the coastal estuaries.
Blessed are those who endure lawlessness, greed, and anarchy,all around them. .
-those who are the victims of crime; scourged by illegal dumping; illegal quarrying,and illegal development;smuggling,and racketeering of every sort. Blessed are those in the working class communities –abandoned to joy riders and drug purveyors.
Blessed are those communities where ribbon road development, one off housing,and section 140 motions are commonplace in the councils.Where houses are quickly sold off, in the speculative frenzy of the times.
But cursed be the civil servants who are passed over for promotion,because of their refusal to obey my edicts .I shall scatter them ,and their families,and their descendents,across the new dual carriageways of Erin, to occupy the new houses and offices prepared for them by my Elect;- Martin ‘Cu’Cullen, and Dick Roche.
Blessed are those who shun our local councilors .Watch how they act,these councilors,- always full of their own importance; occupying a prominent pew in their synagogues; purporting to represent the common people while in reality rezoning lands for one another’s advantage; doing deals in dark corridors where money changes hands; profiting themselves at every opportunity; taking bribes; grasping and greedy like swine;travelling to foreign places and living in luxury hotels;ever feeding from the public trough and on the public purse, while devising new ways to tax the poor.
Blessed are those who suffer the injustice of elected leaders who have abused the trust placed upon them by the people
Blessed are those who must evermore witness the spectacle of arrogant and wealthy men-full of bluff and bluster-strutting defiantly before the Tribunals,and justifying themselves daily to the wealthy Sanhedrin,in the Four Goldmines annexe,Dublin Castle.
Blessed are the victims of penalty points for minor infringements,and ludicrously low speed limits;speed cameras on safe and open roads-while drunken drivers nightly traverse our highways and fill the car parks of public drinking places with impunity.
Cursed are those who have covertly sent their wealth to foreign lands ,or falsely colluded with rich bankers to avoid the tax collectors-for they shall wish they had never been born.! Their wealth will be forfeit.! (A little of it anyway...)
Happy are those who have no connection with;and who have never voted for; and who have never profited by;- the corruption,the wasteful spending,or the pre- election largesse of the Soldiers of Destiny-their reward will be great-but only in heaven.!
Blessed are those who cherish our ancestral burial grounds,and all traces of our rich history,and heritage;-though it shall be laid waste,in my generation.
Another Cuchulainn has arisen, in the South,and his army of mechanized chariots will desolate the land and destroy all before it.All this must come to pass.
But I tell you truly,you need not despair. Now is your hour of darkness.Now is your time of suffering.The Soldiers Of Destiny will sift you like wheat,with your own money.
Royal Tara itself will be destroyed.All this you will suffer for my sake
.
But in the end it may be Labour and Finn Gael that betray you...
(If ,they have to pick up the tab,next time around)

But your reward will be great in Heaven.’
This is the Word of Bertie. Praise be to The Soldiers of Destiny.
Amen.

Related Link: http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org

Thank you, big (spender )fella ...!
Thank you, big (spender )fella ...!

author by gentleman playerpublication date Sun Apr 24, 2005 14:27author address author phone Report this post to the editors

" In the week in which essential services in hospitals and aviation reached a new crisis point, it has been revealed that the Government is spending well over €5m a year on advisers and spin doctors."
...
" But the extraordinarily high expenditure - almost €1.5m in the Taoiseach's department - is failing abysmally in its stated aims, it has been claimed."
...
"according to the figures, the highest earner is special adviser to the Taoiseach, Gerry Hickey who makes €192,784 as salary."
...
" Four special advisers to the Taoiseach earn well in excess of €100,000 each. In addition to Mr Hickey, Gerry Howlin earns €109,244, former RTE political journalist Una Claffey €114,064 and Joe Lennon gets €114,064.

"High-profile Government press secretary Mandy Johnston pulls in €109,244 a year while deputy press officer and former radio reporter Iarla Mongey gets over €96,000. "

read it all-
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1383674&issue_id=12384

author by John McDermott - removefiannafailpublication date Mon Apr 25, 2005 13:10author email jmcd444 at yahoo dot comauthor address Spainauthor phone Report this post to the editors

Avian viral flu rampant in the Dail
Fianna Fail to be quarantined to protect the public....
The entire Fianna Fail Cabinet was rushed to Blackrock private clinic,from Leinster House today, by a fleet of ambulances.The symptoms indicated an outbreak of deadly Avian viral flu better known as "chicken flu".
"The infected patient withdraws into a state of complete paralysis of the body politic,after a short incubation period,and it is fatal in 99% of cases.
"They certainly contracted it in Bangkok or some other such exotic place,while on government business" said Doctors, Rabbite and Kenny,two specialists in tropical medicine.Monica Leech is safe and well,in Waterford.
An epidemia is not feared,as the fact that the road traffic infrastructure,extra public transport availibility,and Dublin Airport terminal privitisation are all at a standstill means that it cannot spread rapidly throughout the city.
A limited form of deregulation/competition of drinking laws has been announced to protect the pockets of wealthy publicans where people congregate here in close proximity.
The Indigent Taxidrivers Association,declared this to be a form of deregulation discrimination.
Their spokesperson mr Yasser deregulatedstillmonopolyfarestructure declared that "Bertie will not be getting my no 1 in Drumcondra"
Many of Dublins cabbies live in Mr Ahearns own constituency, and it is believed they will not be ferrying his voters free to the polling booths next election, as in previous years,due to this "alleged" form of favouritism for publicans and airport staff.

The chicken flu outbreak in Dublin is thought to be a mutant hybrid form of the S.I.P.T.U. and I.C.T.U. strain and highly infectious.
T.D.s who partake in suct activities as stroke politics,are particularly vulnerable,and there is particular concern for the lives of Mr Ahern, and Martin Cullen.
The media have also been warned against scaremongering which could trigger panic.

One flew over the cuckoos nest
One flew over the cuckoos nest

author by righteous pragmatistpublication date Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

That's a COCK you idiot!

author by saint precariopublication date Thu Apr 28, 2005 09:46author address author phone Report this post to the editors

who in the name of Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiist taught you how to drive?
have you perhaps sat through lengthy simulator emergency driving classes on urban and rural escape?
did you perchance receive training in safely carrying a 60ton load of people and volatile munitions through a dense forest in darkness without a map on three blown out tires?
No you effin didn't.
You just got a MBA, and went to the right parties of avarice. BERTIE!
judger this man-.

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1385324&issue_id=12392

author by john mcdermottpublication date Fri Apr 29, 2005 00:56author email jmcd444 at yahoo dot comauthor address Spainauthor phone Report this post to the editors

A new releas from the Soldiers Studios
You could not make it up
Its one way of ensuring you will be re elected by the local yobos in Donegal-on a massive sympathy vote.!

It gets better each passing week.
It gets better each passing week.

Related Link: http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org
 
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