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> UNESCO works to advance divisive social and cultural causes

I wish I could remember where I heard it, but someone once pointed out that the only difference between special interests and public interests was who said it. This feels like that.



I’m sure the British would have described the American revolution in similar ways.


We described it as tax avoidance and treasonous collaboration with the enemy we really cared about — the French.


Tax avoidance is using a loophole. Tax evasion is refusing to pay what is determined to be owed.

The modern difference is one comes with prison time.




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