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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 Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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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.
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Hariri's Game part 10 The Judicial Process

category international | crime and justice | other press author Wednesday May 30, 2007 23:33author by knowing i did my best to tell you about the blue white flash Report this post to the editors

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Lebanon might have caught readers attention again in the last ten days. An awful lot has happened since the Valentine Weekend 2005 murder of "Mr Lebanon" Rafik Hariri, an event of such importance that it prompted a series of 9 new stories with constant ongoing analysis of one of the pivotal states as preparation for any geopolitical strategic understanding.

Lebanon returned to our telly screens as a long standing refugee enclave of Palestinians was targetted by the Lebanese army amidst calls to "take out the terrorists" who apparantly use Lebanon to attack Western interests. Tonight the UN security council has voted to bring the murder (or magnicide if you will) of Hariri to the International tribunal in The Hague.

There are some who wonder would it not be better to offer the residents of the refugee enclaves statehood, water, jobs, education, pensions and so on - little things which for the moment only terrorist related islamist political groups seem to worry about in their cyncial exploitation of a generational problem.

The results of the Israeli "shin beth" led inquiry into the Israeli state war on Lebanon which had resulted from the time of article 9 of this series
did not merit of itself a seperate article or thread. The Israelis for what it's worth (not much) laid the blame for the war *which brought death to thousands, *refugee status to over a million, * uncompensated damage to Lebanese infrastructure at twice Hariri's estimated personal wealth at time of death (approx 9 billion euros) *near extinction to the green turtle, *an oil slick of over 400km and destruction of fishing *illegal use of weapons *final UN peacekeeper deployment on the border quite clearly at the door of their own prime minister.

But that didn't merit an article. The news that France under its new president Sarkozy has voted with the UK and USA and a narrow majority of the UN security council but with the abstention of Russia and China for a Hague tribunal on the case does. This represents Sarkozy's first foray into the affairs of a former French imperial possession and the Levant (Middle East) at a time of particular sensitivity. I'm just too tempted to remind readers of Sarkozy's tenous links to the "other Lebanese billionaire" Mouna Ayoub.
http://indymedia.ie/article/82415?&condense_comments=fa...93346

Let's get something straight before you read all these other press links - if you want to start out analysing the middle east and bleating for justice - you're not starting with any Valentine's Day murder which spawned a ten part series on indymedia ireland. You start with food, water,land, jobs, education,opportunity and plurality.

I really hope we are not about to see a new phase of perversion of international judicial standards and the Hague tribunal to the service of murky capitalist politics. This is no way a positive step to ending injustice in the Middle East, the Israeli state / Arab conflict or emergent "Al Q" network terrorism.

here's the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6703587.stm
here's a report in The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6671770....html
here's a report in the French Le Monde
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/depeches/0,14-0,39-31090731@7-37,0.html

here is the background :-

Hariri's Game (part 8) "it was Syria who killed him to get their troops out and sanctions!"
http://indymedia.ie/article/72571

Hariri's Game (part 7) Hezbolah are in government
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70985

Hariri's game (part 6) a weakened france (&EU)withdraws and the USA increases pressure on the Levant
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70034

Hariri's Game (part 5) all sides move to peace.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69572

Hariri's Game (part 4) all sides look for their allies.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68964

Hariri's Game (part 3) Hezbollah mobilise dwarfing previous pacifist gig.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68901

Hariri's Game (part 2) The Lebanese Government Quit.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68813

Hariri's Game (part 1) Mr Lebanon is dead.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68645

author by virgilpublication date Wed Oct 31, 2007 00:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors


Saad Hariri who is one of the heirs of the Hariri whose death did more for Middle East intrigue than either the funeral of Yasser Arafat or the coma of Ariel Sharon has today said he has evidence of a new plot by Syria to assassinate him.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7069994.stm

That follows Lebanese attention on the news that he family of slain former Lebanese Communist Party leader Georges Hawi are going to sue Mossad.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&ca...86237

Now whilst we all read the material, we might wonder why people bother with assassination anymore. It's such a pointed business. We've brutal gorey carnage, outright masacre, convenient mishaps & so & so forth yet it seems that in one small little country with only enough legal wealth in either real estate or telecommunications to support only two billionaires & their families (or clans as you call them for wealth is a powerful & awesome aid to fecundity & familiar bonding) they're still playing the assassination game. & to be quite frank there's not much in the Lebanese smack, drug, sex or illegal arms trade either. Nope. If you wanted to carve a new billionaire clan niche over there you'd have to get an opening on antiquities. Great little black market which has never been so bouyant. Many people might remember when the bubble burst on the high art scene thanks to corporate purchases of van goghs & fake modigliani. (The directors of those type of offices want to see something in the foyer they recognise). But then came the Iraqi war. Bingo. I find it hard enough to shift one million [approx] spores, but give me an akkadian tablet on a Friday & I've a buyer by Sunday. & it's a terrible temptation I assure ye. For in truth I don't truck with those sort of shipment heads. Nor do your gardaí for that matter, so I might rethink it all & go crooked. Anyway - digressing am I - There is a billionaire (one of the many taxed up named ones who qualify for the non-job title) up the page. As in he's named up the page not just alluded to. I still haven't found the right place to introduce him properly & looking forward to something better than a dead smack dealer type wikipedia biography stub. I was hoping to bring him into the possibly forgotten & overlooked
who wants to be a trillionaire? thread. But then my star witness Sarko just generates family breakdown divorce news. Oh it will all work out in the end.

author by readerpublication date Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:40author address author phone Report this post to the editors

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8024463.stm

Geraldine Kennedy's newspaper makes no mention of the Hariri releases but links to France 24 on
a related topic.

http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20090430/ZNYT03/904...eased

 
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