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CeFi

CeFi or centralized finance refers to a structured service for controlling all orders through one central exchange without any competing parties. CeFi basically aims at ensuring fair trades, improving buying and selling processes alongside boosting additional transactions. READ MORE

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CEPI

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is a global partnership launched in 2017 to develop vaccines to stop future epidemics.

CEPI was founded in Davos by the governments of Norway and India, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome (UK), and the World Economic Forum. To date, CEPI has secured financial support from Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Canada, Denmark, the European Commission, Ethiopia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Switzerland, The Republic of Korea, United Kingdom, USAID, and Wellcome. Additionally, CEPI has also received support from private sector entities as well as public contributions through the UN Foundation COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

  • CEPI Platform Technologies
  • The Urgency of Now: CEPI’s $3.5 billion plan to turn the tide against epidemic and pandemic infectious disease
  • CEPI: New vaccines for a safer world
  • CEPI’s $3.5 billion plan to End Pandemics
  • Vaccine production efforts across key regions mapped in first-of-its-kind study to prepare for future pandemics (27-Oct-2021)
  • CEPI 2021 Vaccine Manufacturing Landscape of Africa, Latin America-Caribbean, South East Asia- Western Pacific, and the Middle East

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    Submitted by: global health
    Coin
    Coin in terms of blockchain is basically a representation of digital asset value generated through personal, independent blockchain.
    Corda

    Corda is basically an open-source blockchain project tailored for business functions. It helps in developing interoperable blockchain networks with formidable indications for conducting transactions in complete privacy. Corda features smart contract technology for enabling businesses to complete direct transactions with better value. READ MORE

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    CeDeFi

    Interpreted as the combination of CeFi and DeFi, CeDeFi is a hybrid centralized decentralized system. It is basically a new approach that aims to use the best of DeFi and CeFi for modernizing conventional financial management. The world’s leading crypto exchange platform, Binance, has started the DeCeFi movement with their Binance Smart Chain. READ MORE

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    Client
    Client in the world of blockchain refers to software with the capabilities for accessing a blockchain through a local computer. A client would generally feature a cryptocurrency software wallet and support in processing transactions.
    chicano
    Chicano (as an identity) came to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s as Mexican Americans asserted their own ethnic, political, and cultural identity while rejecting and resisting assimilation into systematic racism and stereotypes, colonialism, and the American plutocracy-state imperialism. Chicano identity was organized around seven objectives: unity, economy, education, institutions, self-defence, culture, and political liberation, in an effort to bridge regional and class divisions among people of Mexican (and latterly Latin American) descent
    Submitted by: ethnocultural group
    Currency
    In most specific terms, money in any form, when used in circulation as a medium of exchange is known as currency. Every country has its own currency, like the US dollar is the currency of the USA.
    cassandra

    The term originates in Greek mythology. Struck by the beauty of Cassandra, daughter of Priam, Apollo provided her with the gift of prophecy, but when Cassandra refused Apollo's romantic advances, he placed a curse ensuring that nobody would believe her warnings. Cassandra was left with the knowledge of future events, but could neither alter these events nor convince others of the validity of her predictions. In psychology the Cassandra metaphor applies to to individuals who experience physical and emotional suffering as a result of distressing personal perceptions, and who are disbelieved when they attempt to share the cause of their suffering with others.

    Submitted by: metaphor
    Confucius
    Confucius (551 to 479 BCE) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period who was traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. Widely considered one of the most important and influential individuals in Chinese history, Confucius's teachings and philosophy formed the basis of much of East Asian culture and society, and continue to remain influential across China and East Asia today. His philosophical teachings, called Confucianism, emphasised personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice, kindness, and sincerity.

    Confucius Wikipedia

    Submitted by: 551BCE-479BCE
    Consensus

    Consensus is an important process in the blockchain industry that is essential for helping different sections of a network in determining a single source of truth. Blockchain networks depend on consensus algorithms for reaching an agreement in terms of the blogs eligible for addition to the chain and the validity of nodes. READ MORE

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    C S Lewis (1)
    A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
    Submitted by: English Writer
    C S Lewis (2)
    We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.
    Submitted by: English Writer
    C Wright Mills
    People with advantages are loathe to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.
    Caitlin Johnstone
    If you want revolution, be it.
    Capitalism Underbelly Articles
    Submitted by: Off-Guardian | Daily Poster | Scheerpost
    Capitalism Has Evolved Into Technofeudalism
    Submitted by: Yanis Varoufakis
    Captain G M Gilbert
    Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.
    Capture: Big Energy
    Capture: Big Science Big Pharma
    Capture: Corporate Media
    Capture: Prison Industrial Complex
    Capture: Social Media Platforms
    Capture: Stockmarkets

    Articles from seekingalpha.com by Gary Gordon, retired stock-broker and prolific serial investment bullshit artist:

    Carey v. Population Services Int'l, 431 U. S. 678, 701 [1977]
    [W]here obscenity is not involved, we have consistently held that the determinations of: "what appeals to the 'prurient interest' or is 'patently offensive' ... are essentially questions of fact, and our Nation is simply too big and too diverse for this Court to reasonably expect that such standards could be articulated for all 50 States in a single formulation, even assuming the prerequisite consensus exists."

    Submitted by: US Supreme Court 1977
    Carl Jung (1)
    The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomisation, for the psychic isolation of the individual.
    Submitted by: Swiss Psychiatrist (1875-1961)
    Carl Jung (2)
    I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.
    Submitted by: Swiss Psychiatrist (1875-1961)
    Carl Jung (3)
    Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
    Submitted by: Swiss Psychiatrist (1875-1961)
    Carl P G von Clausewitz
    The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
    Submitted by: German Military Reformer (1780-1831)
    Carl P G von Clausewitz
    War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
    Submitted by: German Military Reformer (1780-1831)
    Carl Sagan
    Carl Sagan
    Submitted by: Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
    Carl Sagan
    The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilisation, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand suns are born; where life is sparked by sunlight and lightning in the airs and waters of youthful planets; where the raw material for biological evolution is sometimes made by the explosion of a star halfway across the Milky Way; where a thing as beautiful as a galaxy is formed a hundred billion times - a Cosmos of quasars and quarks, snowflakes and fireflies, where there may be black holes and other universe and extraterrestrial civilisations whose radio messages are at this moment reaching the Earth. How pallid by comparison are the pretensions of superstition and pseudoscience; how important it is for us to pursue and understand science, that characteristically human endeavour.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1986)
    Carl Sagan
    One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1986)
    Carl Sagan
    An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinising what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books - might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1986)
    Carl Sagan
    A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1986)
    Carl Sagan
    If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1986)
    Carl Sagan
    It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1986)
    Carl Sagan
    All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1986)
    Carl Sagan
    Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1986)
    Carl Sagan
    In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is 'a peculiar evil.' If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the 'opportunity of exchanging error for truth'; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in its 'collision with error'. If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that: it becomes stale, soon learned by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1986)
    Carl Sagan
    Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1986)
    Carl Sagan
    Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1986)
    Carl Sagan
    I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars.... And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun was a star but really close. The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light.... The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. It was a kind of religious experience. There was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1986)
    Carl Sagan
    Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1986)
    Carl Sagan
    What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. ... Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1986)
    Carl Sagan
    Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1986)
    Carl Sagan
    Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1934-1986)
    Carl Sagan
    The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.
    Submitted by: American Astronomer (1935-1996)
    Carl Sagan
    Carl Edward Sagan (9-Nov-1934 to 20-Dec-1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space, the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the hypothesis, accepted since, that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to and calculated using the greenhouse effect.
    Submitted by: 1934-1996
    Carroll Quigley
    The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.
    Submitted by: American Historian (1910-1977)
    CAS Finder + CAS Source Index

    CAS Finder and CAS Source Index search engine.

    "CAS SciFinderⁿ speeds the process of finding relevant, actionable insights. Featuring the renowned CAS Content Collection, CAS SciFinderⁿ produces better research in less time."

    Submitted by: Biochemistry
    Center for Global Development (Credential Capital)

    CGDEV.ORG with NYC/London crossover capital funds, neoliberal professional spin-capitalists and deal-with-the-devil patrician public servants.

    CGD was founded in November 2001 by Edward Scott Jr (technology entrepreneur, philanthropist, and former US government official), C. Fred Bergsten (director emeritus of the Peterson Institute for International Economics), and Nancy Birdsall (former head of the World Bank research department and executive vice president of the Inter-American Development Bank). Credentials a-plenty.

    Submitted by: cgdev.org
    Center for Applied Rationality (Berkeley CA)

    2036 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

    Artificial intelligence and neuropsychology research in close proximity to Uni Berkeley. Mission Statement from the rationality.org website.

    Submitted by: rationality.org
    Center for Effective Altruism (Oxford UK)

    Millennial non-profit in the UK with global outreach and SF, CA mailbox @ centreforeffectivealtruism.org website. Community of students and professionals acting on EA principles, by creating and sustaining high-quality discussion spaces. Running EA Global conferences and supporting community-organized EAGx conferences.

    Submitted by: centreforeffectivealtruism.org
    Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

    CBDC refers to the proposals that involve digital currency, issued by a central bank. Although the term is not well-defined, it represents a new form of central bank money. READ MORE

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    Submitted by: 101blockchains.com 
    Certificate Authority (CA)
    Certificate Authority or CA refers to a centralised authority that helps in correlating identities with a public-private key pair in private key infrastructures.
    Chalmers Johnson
    Four sorrows are certain to be visited on the United States. First, there will be a state of perpetual war. Second is a loss of democracy and Constitutional rights as the presidency eclipses Congress and is itself transformed from a co-equal 'executive branch' of government into a military junta. Third is the replacement of truth by propaganda, disinformation, and the glorification of war, power, and the military legions. Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.
    Submitted by: American Writer
    Charles Darwin (1)
    Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
    Submitted by: English Naturalist (1809-1882)
    Charles Darwin (2)
    It is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, whilst the brain is impressible, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.
    Submitted by: English Naturalist (1809-1882)
    Charles de Gaulle
    Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
    Submitted by: French President
    Charles Eliot Norton
    The voice of protest...is never more needed than when the clamour of fife and drum...is bidding all men...obey in silence the tyrannous word of command.
    Submitted by: American Writer (1827-1908)
    Charles Eliot Norton
    The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamour of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.
    Charles Mackay
    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
    Submitted by: American Writer (1907-1988)
    Charles Péguy
    He who does not shout the truth when he knows it makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
    Charles-Louis de Secondat
    What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
    Charlotte Brontë
    Charlotte Bronte
    If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
    Submitted by: English Writer
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    Any idea pushed into the popular mind with considerable force will keep on going until some opposing force -or the slow resistance of friction -stops it at last.
    ChemRxiv/ACS: Developing Molnupiravir from Cytidine
    Submitted by: chemrxiv.org | acs.org
    Chris Dodd
    I will begin by stating the sadly obvious: Our electoral system is a mess. Powerful financial interests, free to throw money about with little transparency, have corrupted the basic principles underlying our representative democracy.
    Submitted by: American Senator
    Chris Hedges | Assange | Daniel Hale | Marianne Williamson | Ryan Grim | Chelsea Manning
    Chris Hedges | Reading on Plutocracy
    Submitted by: Hedges | Plutocracy
    Chris Hedges
    Failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
    Submitted by: American Journalist
    Chris Hedges
    The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colourless human beings. They are the careerists. The bureaucrats. The cynics. They do the little chores that make vast, complicated systems of exploitation and death a reality... And they do not ask questions.
    Submitted by: American Journalist
    Chris Hedges (1)
    Corporations are, theologically speaking, institutions of death. They commodify everything – the natural world, human beings – that they exploit until exhaustion or collapse. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.
    Submitted by: American Journalist
    Chris Hedges (2)
    Social media lets the public feel like a participant in the public conversation; while devices collect behavioural data on behalf of the platforms, to better hone the power of institutional influence.
    Submitted by: American Journalist
    Chris Hedges (3)
    Cult leaders [demagogues] arise from decayed communities and societies in which people have been shorn of political, social and economic power. The disempowered, infantilized by a world they cannot control, gravitate to cult leaders who appear omnipotent and promise a return to a mythical golden age. The cult leaders vow to crush the forces, embodied in demonized groups and individuals, that are blamed for their misery. The more outrageous the cult leaders become, the more they flout law and social conventions, the more they gain in popularity. Cult leaders are immune to the norms of established society. This is their appeal. Cult leaders demand a God-like power. Those who follow them grant them this power in the hope that the cult leaders will save them.
    Chris Hedges
    Our Class - Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison (2020)
    Submitted by: Polemic Journalist
    Christian Parenti
    "The flaws of the left’s current pathologies were all there at the beginning. The scale of the intervention is fundamentally individual and psychological. Change hinges on a stereotypically middle-class concern with manners and etiquette; the diversity, equity, and inclusion training industry would call it 'interpersonal interaction' and would invert the norms. Instead of children being seen and not heard they are taught to claim their space and find their voice. Yet in other ways the diversity training industry teaches lessons not much different from knowing which fork is for salad."
    Submitted by: American academic and journalist (1969-)
    Christoph Nabzdyk (late 1970s)
    Submitted by: German Medical Clinician and Researcher
    Christopher Marlowe
    Christopher Isherwood
    Christopher Hitchens (1)
    That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
    Submitted by: English Intellectual (1949-2011)
    Christopher Hitchens (2)
    But even in the much-publicised rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often still intact: the standards of behaviour are still those of kind and quantity, the security sought is still the security of numbers, and the chief motive is still the consumer’s anxiety that he is missing out on what is 'in'. In this state of total consumerism – which is to say a state of helpless dependence.
    Submitted by: English Intellectual (1949-2011)
    Christopher Hitchens
    God is not Great (2007)Mortality (2012)Why Orwell Matters (2002)
    Submitted by: Polemics
    Chuck Palahniuk
    Citizens United (2010) on Corporate Finance in Politics Protected by 1st Amendment

    Citizens United v Federal Election Commission argued: 24-Mar-2009 decided 21-Jan-2010. Opening the floodgates for corporate money in politics (including lobbying, campaign finance, etc) by 5-4 judgment equating corporate spend with First Amendment (free speech) for the first time.

    Submitted by: Plutocracy Lock-In
    Clarence Darrow
    True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
    Submitted by: American Judge
    Class Struggle
  • Frederick Dutton: Changing Sources of Power (1971)
  • Manifesto by lobbyist and Democratic strategist Frederick Dutton, one of the guiding forces on the McGovern Commission. The "balance of political power, from the economic to the psychological to a certain extent—from the stomach and pocketbook to the psyche, and perhaps sooner or later even to the soul."
  • Chris Hedges: The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism (9-Aug-2016)
  • Rather Than Pay Fairer Wages, Business Looks To Prisons To Fill Labour Shortage (7-Aug-2021)
    • Submitted by: Class
    Climate Change | Fossil Fuel Industry
    Submitted by: Big Oil | Big Coal | Big Gas
    Clint Eastwood
    When you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.
    Submitted by: American Filmmaker
    Closed Source
    The closed source software points out proprietary software featuring source code that is not accessible to the public. Users can access the compiled binaries in the form of an executable program. However, the binaries are not human-readable, and users other than the original software developer cannot access them for modifications.
    Coinbase (Company)
    Coinbase is a US-based cryptocurrency brokerage platform, which is the largest exchange in terms of transaction volume and customer base. In comparison to other exchanges, Coinbase features a small count of cryptocurrency offerings. It provides only a specific few dozen tradable cryptocurrencies out of all the available options in the ecosystem.
    Coinbase (Mining)
    Coinbase, in the context of mining, is associated directly with a block. The coinbase of a block points out to the address where block rewards are delivered.
    Cold Wallet
    The cold wallet or cold storage in blockchain points out to an offline wallet that is not connected to the internet ever. The cold wallets are helpful in safeguarding cryptocurrencies from online hacking attacks.
    Command-Line Interface (CLI)
    CLI or Command-Line Interface is a text-based user interface that can offer the core functionalities alongside access to system resources in a better way than GUIs. However, CLI generally lacks the benefits of usability. Therefore, CLI is more suitable for developers in comparison to the average users.
    CompSci: Bellingcat Crowdsources Spycraft
    Bellingcat Crowdsources Spycraft, Scales Up Sleuthing @ LINK.
    Submitted by: CompSci
    CompSci: Decentralised Internet
    Infrastructure for a Decentralised Internet @ LINK.
    Submitted by: CompSci
    CompSci: Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3)
    Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) @ LINK.
    Submitted by: CompSci
    CompSci: GPT-3 Max Woolf Blog
    Fun and Dystopia With AI-Based Code Generation Using GPT-J-6B @ LINK.
    Submitted by: CompSci
    Compsci: Merkel Trees
    Submitted by: CompSci
    CompSci: prq.se
    Submitted by: CompSci
    CompSci: Stochastic Parrots
    Submitted by: CompSci
    CompSci: Trade and Invest Smarter — The Reinforcement Learning Way
    Trade and Invest Smarter — The Reinforcement Learning Way @ LINK deep dive into TensorTrade — the Python framework for trading and investing using deep reinforcement learning
    Submitted by: CompSci
    CompSci: Trust Assertions for Certification Keys
    Submitted by: CompSci
    CompSci: Visualizing Brain Waves In Python
    Submitted by: CompSci
    Confirmation
    Confirmation in the world of blockchain refers to the process of determining the extent of the immutability of the information in a blockchain. In some cases, confirmations refer to the number of nodes accepted in a transaction, the number of transactions referencing the confirmation, or the number of blocks prior to it. A general transaction in Bitcoin features five confirmations upon producing five blocks after the block containing a specific transaction.
    Consent: Manufactured Consent and Ignorance
    Conservatives | Boomers

    Consortium

    Consortium refers to the private blockchain network operated by a company or a group of agencies. Consortium chains generally management information that is not fit for public release albeit needs to be communicated immutably between two concerned parties. READ MORE

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    Submitted by: 101blockchains.com
    Cornel West
    I don't want to run the empire - I want to bring it down!
    Submitted by: American Philosopher (1953-)
    Coronavirus: Whistleblower Charges of Cronyism Behind Potential COVID-19 Drug (13-May-2020)
    Submitted by: Coronavirus
    Coronavirus: Merck Ivermectin Nobel Prize
    Ivermectin has been used in humans for 35 years and over 4 billion doses have been administered. Merck, the original patent holder, donated 3.7 billion doses to developing countries. 2015 the two individuals who developed Ivermectin were awarded a Nobel Prize for medicine.
    Submitted by: Coronavirus
    Coronavirus: Antivax versus Vaccinated Breaking Point
    Submitted by: Coronavirus
    Coronavirus: Large-scale Genome Risk Analysis
    Submitted by: Coronavirus
    Coronavirus: Lymphnode Activity Covid-19 Vaccines
    COVID-19 vaccination, lymph nodes, and mammography guidelines (3-Mar-2021) @ LINK.
    Submitted by: Coronavirus
    Coronavirus: Moderna mRNA Flu Shot
    Moderna Starts Human Trials of An mRNA-Based Flu Shot.ARTICLE @ LINK for further details.
    Submitted by: Coronavirus
    Coronavirus: Pulmonary Fibrosis Covid-19 Vaccines
    COVID-19 and pulmonary fibrosis: therapeutics in clinical trials, repurposing, and potential development (18-May-2021) @ LINK.
    Submitted by: Coronavirus
    Coronavirus: Repurposed Drugs For Covid-19
    Repurposed drugs present new strategy for treating COVID-19 @ LINK.
    Submitted by: Coronavirus
    Coronavirus: Vaccinated America Has Had Enough
    David Frum - Vaccinated America Has Had Enough in The Atlantic @

    LINK

    In the United States, this pandemic could be almost over by now. The reasons it’s still going are pretty clear.

    Submitted by: Coronavirus
    Coronavirus Grift
    Submitted by: Pandemic
    Coronavirus: Clinical Trials, Pre-Publication Studies, Variant Research
    Submitted by: medrxiv.org | clinicaltrials.gov
    Corporate
    It’s shocking to see so many leftwingers lured to the far right by conspiracy theories (22-Sept-2021) by George Monbiot in The Guardian   vs  George Monbiot’s Far-Right Projection (7-Oct-2021) by Ian Jenkins on off-guardian.org website

    Submitted by: #atomization
    Corporate Crime
    Submitted by: Corporate Crime
    Corporate Greed in Medical Interventions: Sackler Oxycontin
    Where were the FDA, YouTube, Facebook and all of our overlords as the the opiate crisis has swept the country? Silent. But a simple drug that the Sacklers and other greedy pharmaceutical companies can't make a fortune on?! Attacked, vilified and censored.
    Corporate Profit from Public Funding Vaccine Tech. Upward wealth transfer?

    Why are these big corporations Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca given vast public funding to develop their vaccine tech, but then no taxpayer share in the astronomical profits and no free access to the medical innovation they've funded? Why are these corporations private profit, public funding, immune from ALL legal consequences of the vaccines AFTER full approval i.e. they're no longer experimental? (see questions on Rabble coronavirus).

    Submitted by: Socioeconomics
    Cory Doctorow: pluralistic.net

    PLURALISTIC.NET website blog for Cory Doctorow, source of useful polemics about Surveillance Capitalism and tech monopoly's existential threat present and future.

    Submitted by: Technocracy
    Cory Doctorow
    COVID-19 Antibody Responses: Natural Infection Versus Ad-Vector/mRNA Vaccination
  • Natural infection versus vaccination: Differences in COVID antibody responses emerge (24-Aug-2021)
  • The Race to Understand Post–COVID-19 Conditions (31-Aug-2021)
  • A Novel Chimpanzee Adenovirus Vector with Low Human Seroprevalence: Improved Systems for Vector Derivation and Comparative Immunogenicity (13-Jul-2012)
  • Ad26 vector-based COVID-19 vaccine encoding a prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 Spike Immunogen: induces potent humoral and cellular immune responses (28-Sept-2020)
  • Adenoviral vectors are the new COVID-19 vaccine front-runners: Can they overcome their checkered past? (12-May-2020)
  • Chimpanzee adenoviral vectors as vaccines for outbreak pathogens (30-Oct-2017)
  • Vaccines based on replication incompetent Ad26 viral vectors: Standardized template with key considerations for a risk/benefit assessment (18-Sept-2020)
  • Winton Centre Summary (Cambridge) - Communicating the potential benefits and harms of the Astra-Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine (7-Apr-2021)
  • BMJ: Review of COVID-19 vaccine subtypes, efficacy and geographical distributions (8-May-2021)
    • Submitted by: rockefeller.edu | bmj.com | cam.ac.uk | sciencedirect.com | nih.gov | acs.org | nature.com | plos.org | acpjournals.org
    COVID-19 Lockdown in the United Kingdom: 1000s of Lives Lost
    Submitted by: euronews.com
    COVID-19 Virus: Scientist Meta-Analysis June 2020
    Submitted by: verywellhealth.com
    Covid-19: Selection of Documents Exposing Dark Underbelly
    Submitted by: nih.gov | umn.edu | thehill.com | slashdot.org | commondreams.org | degraw.substack.com
    Crispin Glover
    The United States has its own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realise that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way.
    Submitted by: American Actor (1964-)
    Criss Jami
    Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
    Submitted by: American Writer (1987-)
    Cross-Section of Introductions in German 2019-2020

    Beliebte Beiträge im Thema: Der Willkommens-Thread für neue Mitglieder on blasted.de (German language: Popular Posts in the Topic: the welcome thread for new members) website.

    Submitted by: blasted.de
    Crypto: Athena Bitcoin ATM
    Submitted by: Cryptosphere
    Crypto: Bitfinex'd
    Exposed Bitfinex and Tether as one of the largest financial frauds in history. Covered by The New York Times, Bloomberg, WSJ, CNBC & New York Attorney General @ Amy Castor Blog.

    Submitted by: Cryptosphere
    Crypto: Namecoin
    Submitted by: Cryptosphere
    Crypto: Save The Kids Token
    It's been obvious from the start the world of influencers and gamers and sucker fanbases is a dirty, degraded Parliament of Fowls. Even without the long list of scams (like the Save The Kids token) it's an infantilism that stunts the brains of almost everyone involved. Combine the survivor-bias kay fabe glamour of elevating gaming to e-sports, gamers to heroes, with the most degraded monetization of mass media exploiting audience psychology - conditioning children into retarded adults to best prepare them for a life among the suckers - and the sham intimacy of personal direct to fans delivery systems. End result: a mainstream adjacent Ponzi world that's so populated and so structured to exploit, it's conditioning millions of adults dominated by path of least resistance fantasy into the world. This can't end well.

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    Submitted by: Cryptosphere
    Crypto: Wallet of Satoshi
    Wallet of Satoshi Lightning Network @ LINK.
    Submitted by: Cryptosphere
    Crypto: Warren Buffet Crypto Bank
    Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Invests in Bitcoin-Friendly Digital Bank @ LINK.
    Submitted by: Cryptosphere
    Cryptocurrency

    Cryptocurrency refers to currencies that are digitally distributed and traded with establishing proof of ownership through cryptographic methods. For instance, it is not possible to transfer Ether from an account without any control over the private key related to the concerned account. READ MORE

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    Submitted by: 101blockchains.com
    Cryptocurrency
    Submitted by: Technofascism
    Cryptography
    Cryptography is the technique of combining mathematical and logical problem-solving skills for encryption or decryption of encoded messages. Computer cryptography depends considerably on mathematical proofs alongside the difficulty of computation for certain mathematical problems.
    Culture: Comic Books / Literature
    "Comic book movies are very popular. And small wonder. They are accessible and enticing. Like literary McDonalds. Culturally KFC."
    Submitted by: Culture
    Curios: Cleopatra Island
    North of Rhodes. Part of Turkey. Marmara Sea. SEDIR ISLAND Wikipedia.Luis de Garrido - Architect - Eye of Horus Eco-House Designsailsecrets.com Cleopatra Island.GOOGLE MAPS.Viral Story about Cleopatra's Island bought by Russian billionaire for model Naomi Campbell, with apparent satellite image of island with Eye of Horus house. But does it exist in reality?
    Submitted by: Curios
    Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug)

    American blogger and neo-reactionary technofascist.

    Submitted by: blogger and neoreactionary technofascist
    Curtis Yarvin (Mencius Moldbug)
    An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives (2008)
    Submitted by: Political Screed
    Cybertech: Surveillance Capitalism
    libertycenterone.com: Van Eck Phreaking description and smart downplaying by Liberty Center One, a top-tier-flibble data-flurble.



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