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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The Saker >>
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
Waiting for SIPO Anthony
Public Inquiry >>
Parse failure for http://humanrights.ie/feed/.
Last Retry Thursday October 09, 2025 12:28
Are Advertisers Finally Realising They Need to Stop Over-Representing Black People? Thu Oct 09, 2025 09:00 | Lee Taylor
Black people make up 4% of the UK but appear in over half of adverts, according to a new Channel 4 report. Is the industry finally realising that such fake over-representation is off-putting, asks Lee Taylor.
The post Are Advertisers Finally Realising They Need to Stop Over-Representing Black People? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Cutting CO2 Emissions Remains Conservative Party Policy, Says Environment Network Head Thu Oct 09, 2025 07:00 | Paul Homewood
The head of the Conservative Environment Network has just confirmed that cutting CO2 emissions remains Conservative Party policy. So it's Net Zero by the back door, says Paul Homewood.
The post Cutting CO2 Emissions Remains Conservative Party Policy, Says Environment Network Head appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Thu Oct 09, 2025 01:07 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Two-Tier Justice on Full Display as Epping Protesters Get Longer Sentences Than Sex Attacker Whose C... Wed Oct 08, 2025 19:36 | Will Jones
Two-tier justice was on full display as three Epping protesters received longer prison sentences than the asylum seeker whose sex attack on a child they were protesting about, says Laurie Wastell.
The post Two-Tier Justice on Full Display as Epping Protesters Get Longer Sentences Than Sex Attacker Whose Crime They Were Protesting appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
British Steel Industry Faces ?Existential Threat? as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer?s ?EU R... Wed Oct 08, 2025 17:23 | Will Jones
Britain?s Net Zero-ravaged steel industry is facing an "existential threat" as the EU threatens the UK with tariffs of up to 50% despite Keir Starmer's recent 'EU reset' giveaway on fishing rights and youth mobility.
The post British Steel Industry Faces “Existential Threat” as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer’s ‘EU Reset’ Giveaway appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Lockdown Skeptics >>
international |
history and heritage |
other press
Monday September 21, 2009 19:02
by Never Again
printable version
Digg this
del.icio.us
Furl
Reddit
Technorati
Facebook
Gab
Twitter
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (6 of 6)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6I will await a better translation of what President Ahmadinejad had to say before I make any judgement. We must remember that the BBC translation of his last 'Holocaust Denial' has been called in question. The BBC is very much echoing the message of the British Intelligence Services and the Zionists by taking a certain line on Iran. I would refer you to this article regarding the lack of objectivity exhibited by the BBC regarding Iran.
http://govinfo.bnet-newmedia.co.uk/facts_Articles.php?I...al=24
Its not just the BBC who have reported this. Media across the world have covered the story. There has been no denial or clarification from Ahmadinejad. Here is a representative selection of the coverage.
Ahmadinejad, who is due to address the UN general assembly in New York next week as focus on Iran's nuclear ambitions intensifies, risked further western hostility by repeating his beliefs about the Nazi extermination of 6 million Jews.
"They [western powers] launched the myth of the Holocaust," he told a crowd at Tehran university. "They lied, they put on a show and then they support the Jews," he said to chants of "Death to Israel"
from supporters. "The pretext for establishing the Zionist regime is a lie … a lie which relies on an unreliable claim, a mythical claim, and the occupation of Palestine has nothing to do with the Holocaust."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/18/opposition-...s-day
"They (Western powers) launched the myth of the Holocaust. They lied, they put on a show and then they support the Jews.
"If as you claim the Holocaust is true, why can a
study not be allowed?" the Iranian president said to chants of "Death to Israel" from the crowd gathered for the annual display of solidarity with the Palestinians.
"The pretext for establishing the Zionist
regime is a lie... a lie which relies on an unreliable claim, a mythical claim, and the occupation of Palestine has nothing to do with the Holocaust," he added.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News/restofasia/Ahmadinej....aspx
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told
worshippers at Friday prayers at Tehran University the state of Israel was founded on "a false and mythical claim" and expressed doubts over whether the Nazi murder of around six million Jews during the Second World War was "a real event".
Speaking on Iran's national Quds Day - staged to show sympathy for the Palestinians and named after the Arabic word for Jerusalem - Mr Ahmadinejad asked: "If the Holocaust was a real event, why don't they allow research on it to clear up facts?"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ahmadinej....html
"The very existence of this regime is an insult to the dignity of the people," the hardline Ahmadinejad said of Iran's arch-foe Israel.
"They (the Western powers) launched the myth of the Holocaust. They lied, they put on a show and then they support the Jews.
"If as you claim the Holocaust is true, why can a study not be
allowed?" he said to chants
of "Death to Israel" from the crowd gathered for the annual display of solidarity with the Palestinians.
"The pretext for establishing the Zionist regime is a lie... a lie which relies on an unreliable claim, a mythical claim, and
the occupation of Palestine has nothing to do with the Holocaust," he added.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/09/19/85462.html
Now that Ahmadinejad has repeated his lying disbelief of the Holocaust in a parallelistic fashion on an international public platform perhaps those who have tried to make excuses for him in the past might also recognise the other lie that Israel was given to Israel to compensate for the Holocaust.
Israel bought its land and invested in it, and when the UN put out a two state solution to the communal problems within British Palestine the Arabs tried to physically rubbish UN policy with great violence not only in 1948 but since and so deserved to lose what they lost to Israel in Israel's defensive War of Independence - as happened to Germany, Japan and Italy in 1945 and since losing lands to Russia & Jugoslavia who had been wantonly and treacherously attacked by Germany & Italy.
Israel exists in spite of the Holocaust and all those who bleat on about humiliation and loss would do well to remember that on the discovery of the Holocaust the Jews were justifiably furious with humiliation and determined that in spite of the objections of the World they must have a state so that when political madmen and "kick the cat politics" made it rough for Jews they would have a homeland to take them in - and indeed since the creation of Israel we have not lost a Jewish community to massacre.
You all know that there is as much research on the Holocaust as scholars willing to study it because the Germans in their mindset left piles of their own office paper and too much evidence to destroy. If Ahmadinejad denies the research it is because he, a priori does not wish to test his own cloud cuckoo land.
Perhaps Ahmadinejad protests too much. Evidence has now emerged which suggests that Ahmadinejads family were Jewish and that he was born a Jew.
A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots. A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver. The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his birth.
The Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Mr Ahmadinejad's birthplace, and the name derives from "weaver of the Sabour", the name for the Jewish Tallit shawl in Persia. The name is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran's Ministry of the Interior.
Mehdi Khazali, an internet blogger, who called for an investigation of Mr Ahmadinejad's roots was arrested this summer.
"Israel bought it's land...."
eh?...REALLY? please elaborate mister "private citizen" . And perhaps you can tell me who is israel currently paying for all the land it has been systematically taking and building settlements on since 1967 (apart from the US weapons salesmen!)
I saw an animation on al-jazeera of the gradual changes in land ownership in palestine and the systematic erosion of palestinian lands. It was eye opening and spelt out for me what is really going on over time behind all the bullshit coming from israeli sources.
One mistake your kind make frank, is to try to mix up all jews and israeli jews. There are many jews worldwide who are disgusted by the activities of the israelis and believe that they give a bad name to jews worldwide. I agree. The jewish people are an intelligent and resourceful people worldwide and should not be pigeonholed with the militaristic behaviour of one grouping in a kleptocratic right wing militarised state. It is an insult to jews worldwide to do so. There are many deniers of all kinds in the world. deniers of use of white phosphorous on children, holocaust deniers, "we have no nuclear weapons" deniers, "we didn't start this" deniers. "we didn't steal your land" deniers. Deniers are not a nice breed. Ahmadinejad is not very nice either (although I await the proper translation. once bitten.....).
What Is worst about Deniers in my opinion is how they seek to deliberately cover up what they know are actual bad actions of themselves and their cronies. However if you consider Ahmadinejhad's "denial" (assuming it's true for now...) versus the israeli denials about gaza, which ones are actually covering up their own current atrocities?
Ahmadinejhad is just talking shite about proven historical events that happened long ago. But meanwhile his planes are not bombing israeli children to pieces, and any rockets made with Iranian parts, fired from the west bank are no different from israeli weapons produced in the USA and fired in Gaza except for the fact that they usually don't hurt anybody and generally fall harmlessly in the desert unlike Israeli munitions. And nobody is saying the US are the ones killing children in Gaza.
So whilst such a direct denial by Ahmadinejhad (if indeed true) is tasteless in the extreme, it is , in my book just empty political bullshit, wheras, denying they used white phosphorous or bombed schools or killed children whilst the twisted evidence scrolls across our screens by the israelis is much more comparable to the germans denying the holocaust while they were still doing it in 1944.
Ahmadinejhad denying the holocaust is like me saying the titanic was never built. It's just silly denial of a historically proveable event disconnected from me well in the past. It's Not the same as me trying to mask an ongoing atrocity being committed by myself. Not even comparable.
Big deal, an asshole politician tried to win popularity by telling people what they wanted to hear, a distorted description of a historical event. Standard operating procedure for scumbag politicians. Meanwhile Israel blows the shit out of Gaza and kills thousands of women and children whilst denying it is doing so. Thats a real atrocity followed by knowing denial by the ones committing the atrocity. Much worse.
Talk vs Action.
Action is far more serious in my book