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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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Royal Bank Of Scotland -owners of Ulster Bank - Engaged In The Systematic Theft Of Business Customers’ Assets

category international | crime and justice | other press author Monday November 25, 2013 23:55author by T Report this post to the editors

Max Keiser on the “financial terrorism” of Royal Bank of Scotland

The headlines have recently reported that the Royal Bank of Scotland owners of Ulster Bank in Ireland carried out widespread fraud and engaged in forcing customers who were repaying their debt and otherwise healthy, into going out of business and this allowed the bank to pick up their assets namely their properties at a fraction of the true costs. They carried out this financial terrorism mostly against small firms who were too small to defend themselves.

In a blog by journalist Ian Fraser linked from the report that Max Keiser carries on this on his website, Ian writes:


Max Keiser is clearly over-the-top but he reflects the outrage that many feel today at the behaviour of the taxpayer-rescued bank RBS — which has today been confirmed to have been engaged in the systematic theft of business customers’ assets and other forms of outrageous skulduggery. The malpractice, which remains endemic inside the bank’s commercial and corporate lending, global restructuring group and West Register property arm (I have been covering this charlatanism since December 2010) is gaining wider exposure thanks to the efforts of the Leeds-based entrepreneur and overall IoD ‘director of the year 2012′ Lawrence Tomlinson.

In a report published today for the business secretary Vince Cable, Tomlinson makes clear that RBS routinely “distresses” otherwise profitable, stable and creditworthy businesses by “manufacturing defaults” in order to tip them into its recovery and restructuring division, GRG, and then to allow its West Register property arm to effectively steal their commercial property assets. In a policy statement in May 2009 the bank said GRG/West Register had an “appetite” for particular categories of property assets including “offices, retail and industrial premises, pubs, hotels, nursing homes, car dealerships and hospitals”.


What we have here is the financial giants instead of helping the base of the economy, are cannibalizing it. Surely the whole purpose of a bank is to help small businesses. And we can be sure if one bank is doing this, then it is likely a lot of the other banks are too.

It seems that this fraud went undetected because many of the people running these small business firstly didn't have the resources to find the bank, nor did they have the power, contacts and might to force the government, media or regulators to take any notice. A functioning system of checks and balances would have stopped this very early on, but it is clear the checks and balance system has long been made ineffective through corporate takeover.

http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/11/a-brazen-act-of-financ...land/

http://www.ianfraser.org/max-keiser-on-the-financial-te...land/

Related Link: http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/11/a-brazen-act-of-financial-terrorism-by-uks-royal-bank-of-scotland/
author by fredpublication date Thu Nov 28, 2013 13:47author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Banks can create money out of nothing to give out in loans. The fractional reserve system allows them to do this. Ratios of up to 100:1 between loans:deposits were common up until recently. But clearly they can't just make up a load of money for themselves then buy property with it. So they give out this "funny money" that they just conjured up in loans then repossess the real hard assets the borrower bought with the loans when the borrower becomes distressed. This sort of behaviour is often referred to as "leveraged buyout" when done by one corporation taking over the assets of another.

They score when the loans are given out through front loaded bankster bonuses. Then they score again when they get to repossess the hard assets, which they can sell off cheap to insiders, speculate on, or rent out into the rentier economy and parasite off the labours of the working class who actually do productive work.

So, they make up the money you borrow, then end up with your actual house, and all without doing any actual productive work. Nice business model!

If I wanted to design a scheme whereby I eventually could own all the assets in an economy without doing any actual productive work, it would be along these lines.

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws"
— Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild

 
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