Upcoming Events

Galway | Anti-War / Imperialism

no events match your query!

New Events

Galway

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

Anti-Empire

offsite link North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link ?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty

Anti-Empire >>

The Saker

Indymedia ireland

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.

The Saker >>

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

Public Inquiry >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

Blair , the Evidence and the Convenient Fiction

category galway | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis author Monday February 01, 2010 15:14author by donkylemore Report this post to the editors

Tony Benn says he didnt believe a word

As Tony Blair's evidence to the Iraq invasion inquiry , Old Labour ' statesman said yesterday he didnt believe a word of his rambling fiction. Did he really get away with this with his lying by increments, his obscenely flawed rhetoric. His false claims re Saadam and WMD.. the notion of a rogue state ..- the real rogue stat in the region.
And do the Brits reall give a dam anyway, as integrity has only an inconvenience and only had £ shop currency.
The whole inchoate gibberish. - from the man who felt the hand of history on his shoulder.
Yo ! Blair- as GW Bush would have said.


Mr Tony Benn addressed Blair’s performance yesterday on the RTE Sunday ! Pm news.
Mr Benn came quickly to the point , indeed several points.
Blair fictionalised massive traunches in his evidence.
Having been denied a mandate by the UN he went to Crawford and spoke to Bush , and have him an assurance that the Brits would support the illegal invasion.
Blair in the course if his evidence made an absurd connection between Saadam and WMD .
He said he was convinced after 9/11 it was the way to go.
There was and still is no evidence to connect Bin Laden to Iraq other than they are both Sunni Muslins.
El Quaieda caused the twin towers to collapse or so it seems . It is not plausible that a 3rd tower would also collapse conveniently into its own ‘foot print’- this 3rd towere was formerly occupied by the CIA and there is a suggestion now that nanno explosives could have been used to collapse all 3 towers . They might have with stood the impact of a plane , but unlikely that they could have collapsed in such a forensic manner.
But Mr Blair has given his outrageous fiction to the investigation; he was pompous , overly confident , and used a subtle form of logic to sell his story by increment; which were unrelated . He was questioned about WMD , which were never found- well he replied - Saadam had the capacity to build them or nearly had , and when he did have it would be unthinkable what a despot could do with these.
One flawed hypothesis after another .
Saadam didn’t have them. He used chemical weapons against the Kurds . - and the British
used smallpox infected blankets against the American Native Indian Population.
What is the criterium for ‘’ rogue states’’
Is it at the subjective whim of a British Premier who wanted not only the hand of history upon him , but also the crown of history
But the real rogue state in the region is Israel. They have this week confessed to using white phosphorus in Gaza- an illegal weapon against a civilian population , so why not nuke Iran ; they haven’t hesitated for moral reasons , but more for reasons of keeping the US on side.But they are prepared to ‘admonish ‘ senior officers for using an illegal weapon against civilians in a UN compound.
None of these officers will be tried , let alone be demoted.
Which makes one wonder if the Israelis didn’t just sent a ccomponent of their Army to Haiti for the optics , given the Goldsmith report. They have also paid a prophylactic sum of some million dollars for possible collateral damage in Gaza- and worse - the UN accepted it.
The Israelis have in contravention of UN resolution 242 since 1967.and they continue to knock Arabs houses in Jerusalem as part of their extended land grab policy .
But to return to Mr Benn and Blair . When asked if he believed the evidence Blair had given the inquiry he said be didn’t believe a word of it.
This coming from such a formidable ‘Old Labour ‘ gentleman is the worst indictment Blair could get .
Cameron voted for invasion , he’s soiled goods.
But from one of the giants of Wilson’s government , Blair is a blatant liar.
But do the great moronic masses care ?
Not one whit I would imagine .

author by Stuartpublication date Mon Feb 01, 2010 21:23author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"Some people use the internet to spread hate and violent extremism. They chat with their supporters, share their beliefs and hope to gain new followers online. Find out what is illegal in the UK, and how you can report it." So says a new British government website designed to identify and eliminate online extremism, including "glorifying (praising) terrorism". (http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/CrimeJusticeandtheLaw/Count...83993).

You can help by reporting various sites glorifying (praising) illegal invasion, civilian bombing, cultural theft, etc, etc, such as:

http://www.tonyblairoffice.org/
http://www.tonyblairfaithfoundation.org
http://keeptonyblairforpm.wordpress.com/

Related Link: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/CrimeJusticeandtheLaw/CounterTerrorism/DG_183993
 
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy