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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 Electricity Bills Will Carry On Rising Due to Net Zero, Warn Energy Bosses Thu Oct 16, 2025 15:15 | Paul Homewood
Household energy bills are on course to rise by hundreds of pounds this decade because of ballooning green levies, the country?s biggest energy suppliers have warned ? but Ed Miliband dismisses it as "speculation".
The post Electricity Bills Will Carry On Rising Due to Net Zero, Warn Energy Bosses appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Church of England Halts Plans for Gay ?Weddings? Thu Oct 16, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
The Church of England has halted its plans to introduce gay 'wedding' services after the bishops finally accepted that it is not possible to do so without the approval of two-thirds of General Synod.
The post Church of England Halts Plans for Gay ‘Weddings’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link BBC Programmes Should Be ?Less Diverse?, Say Viewers Thu Oct 16, 2025 11:41 | Will Jones
BBC viewers have said that programming should be "less diverse" in a nationwide audience survey billed as the corporation's "biggest ever listening exercise".
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offsite link 100,000 Amazon Trees Chopped Down to Build Road for COP30 Climate Conference Thu Oct 16, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
100,000 Amazon rainforest trees have been chopped down to build a road for COP30. But all is not lost, says Chris Morrison, as CO2 is making the trees bigger! Not that you'll hear about this in the mainstream media.
The post 100,000 Amazon Trees Chopped Down to Build Road for COP30 Climate Conference appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Youth Democracy Charity My Life My Say Claims to be ?Non-Partisan? But it?s Blatantly Left-Wing Thu Oct 16, 2025 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
Youth charity My Life My Say claims to be a "youth-led, non-partisan movement on a mission to encourage young people to participate in democracy". But it's not hard to see it's blatantly Left-wing, says Charlotte Gill.
The post Youth Democracy Charity My Life My Say Claims to be “Non-Partisan” But it’s Blatantly Left-Wing appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Support Political Asylum for Malachy McAllister and his Children

category international | racism & migration related issues | other press author Wednesday June 22, 2005 13:33author by Irish Northern Aid Report this post to the editors

Support Political Asylum for Malachy McAllister and his Children
Malachy McAllister
Malachy McAllister

Tell Elected Officials: Support Political Asylum for Malachy McAllister and his Children

It is down to the wire for the McAllister family. A judgment from the Court of Appeals on their asylum request is expected any day. However, there is a sincere effort by Congressional representatives to have Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security, intervene in this case and grant the family asylum.

Malachy McAllister and his children, Nicola and Sean, are Irish Catholics from Northern Ireland seeking asylum in the United States based upon their fear of returning home. The McAllisters' request for political asylum has been denied, and they have appealed this decision to the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Should their appeal fail, they are in danger of being deported to Northern Ireland. There was an informational briefing regarding the political asylum case of Malachy McAllister of Wallington, New Jersey on June 8th. The briefing provided Congressional representatives and members of their staffs an update on the facts of the case.

http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/irishnorthernaidcommittee/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=828


The McAllister family (Malachy, his wife Bernadette, and their children Gary, Jamie, Nicola and Sean) fled Belfast in 1988 in the wake of an assassination attack on their home by a Loyalist death squad. The loyalists, armed with automatic weapons, nearly succeeded in claiming the lives of the McAllisters' young children.

Bernadette McAllister and her children were initially granted political asylum by Immigration Court in New Jersey; the Federal Judge having found that they had suffered "severe past persecution" because of their political beliefs and because they were Malachy McAllister's family. Malachy's request for asylum was denied as a result of his convictions in Belfast for his part in what he, and his beleaguered community, believed to be a struggle for national liberation.

Unfortunately, Bernadette and her children were stripped of asylum in a controversial decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). The BIA, flying in the face of the facts and expert testimony as exhaustively outlined in the Immigration Judge's decision, ruled not only that the McAllisters had failed to demonstrate that they had suffered "severe past persecution" but that they had suffered no persecution at all. It is incomprehensible to any objective observer that a gun attack on the McAllister children, orchestrated by a Loyalist death squad which the British government was found to be "unwilling or unable to control," is anything less than clear evidence of persecution.

http://www.mcallistercampaign.com/home.htm

Related Link: http://www.inac.org/
author by Friends of Israel and Irelandpublication date Fri Jun 24, 2005 09:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The desire of Malachy McAllister to continue living with his family would not be so problematic if he had not once been an Irish terrorist.

Why don't you call a spade a spade and stop supporting the terrorist murderers of people in my country? McAllister is a terrorist..

Frankly, we, the Irish people - and not you, plastic paddies of NORAID - don't want people like him, or you. How ironic that many immigrants who deserve to be allowed into Ireland are being stopped at the airports and habours because they are black, and here's this white guy with blood on his hands being sent to Ireland by George W Bush.

Dubya, if you're listening, please put McAllister in an orange jumpsuit on July 12 and send him to the prison in Gitmo. He'll be in good company.

IRA/PLO/Al-Qaeda Are ONE
IRA/PLO/Al-Qaeda Are ONE

Another widow and fatherless children thanks to McAllister 's comrades
Another widow and fatherless children thanks to McAllister 's comrades

author by Duinepublication date Fri Jun 24, 2005 16:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Más foras tearmainn géarleanúint, níl sé ceart go maolfadh cosaint i gcoinne na géarleanúna seo an foras.
Molaim dó achomhairc a dhéanamh.

author by Eamon MacThaidghpublication date Sat Jun 25, 2005 06:01author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Sure Malachy McAllister is a terrorist, and should be viewed like other terrorists, such as: Nelson Mandela and his followers; or the Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ŻOB, Polish for the Jewish Fighting Organization) - a World War II resistance movement, which supposedly was instrumental in engineering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; or the ZZW fighters from second Jewish resistance organisation which also claims responsibility for the attacks on those poor Nazis; or one of the top terrorist leaders of all time- George Washington, who ordered attacks on those poor British soldiers in “the colonies”, not to mention attacks on civilian targets, such as the British merchant ships which were attacked by the American terrorist “privateers”, on the high seas; or Charles DeGaulle and the terrorists of the French Resistance, and many more, who were so evil as to use violence in their persuit of such trivial goals as justice and freedom from occupation and oppression. Send them all to Guantanamo! Even if you have to dig them up from their graves. After all, Afrikanas, Nazis, Brits, Israelis, and the like, must be kept safe from the terrorists.

 
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