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Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told of the list of forbidden words at a meeting Thursday with senior CDC officials who oversee the budget, according to an analyst who took part in the 90-minute briefing. The forbidden words are "vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based" and "science-based."
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @10:58AM
To be specific, the Roman Empire fell.
It's happened to every empire that has existed.
The reason Rome had an empire was that they let their republic slip away from them.
Mitch Jeserich has a "Letters and Politics" program on Pacifica Radio that is often excellent on historical matters.
A while back, he had this guy on.
The Beginning Of The End Of The Roman Republic - Mike Duncan [kpfa.org]
A couple of weeks before that, he had this guy on.
The Birth Of American Empire - Stephen Kinzer [kpfa.org]
He talks about USA.gov's invasion and occupation of Hawaii in 1896 and especially about the trumped-up Spanish-American War in 1898.
There's a direct line between that stuff and over half of USA's current budget going to militarism.
Over a century ago, USA also lost its republic.
N.B. Those are ~22MB MP3s, available infinitely.
The presentations start at about 07:00, after an intro and the day's newsbreak, and they go for about 50 minutes at normal playback speed.
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