Moon Alert

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http://www.cultnews.com/archives/000677.html

Rev. Moon uses media holdings to tout his latest ambition

Rev. Moon founder of the Unification Church, which is often called a "cult," is certainly getting quite a bang for his buck these days at United Press International.

The self-proclaimed proclaimed "messiah" may not garner much attention at Associated Press, but he can always count on UPI.

And why not? After all he owns it.

"Moon to Peace Council: Remove boundaries," dutifully announces one UPI correspondent.

"Religious council pushing for UN presence," reports another.

Not to be left out the Washington Times, also controlled by Moon, chimed in "Clerics rally for peace at the UN."

And so early this month Moon presided over a gathering at the New Yorker Hotel, another one of his acquisitions.

This included "a dozen former heads of state" at a ballroom bash.

Moon historically has paid huge honorariums for big names to show up at staged events, such as former President George H. Bush.

Besides indulging Moon's penchant for speaking endlessly, one speech he gave lasted 16 hours; the "cult leader" announced that he wants a religious organization he controls to have full United Nations status.

Moon has his very own UN NGO (non-government organization) called the "Interreligious International Foundation for World Peace" (IIFWP), that he started with his wife in 1999.

But that's apparently not enough for the would-be "messiah." He now wants it recognized as an "official organ of the United Nations."

Moon says his organization's agenda is about achieving world peace by erasing national boundaries.
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"a dozen former heads of state" ???? Who where they?

why oh why does Moon want to be part of the UN? Take-over? Ruination?

don't say 'because he is nuts' as Moon and the bushgang are chained together.

Moon is chaseing Murdoch in gobbling up world media and Moon also gobbles up real estate.

[VOX]

1. Sorry, I thought someone was dropping their trousers.

As for the Rev. Moon, he has always had deep pockets for the right wing.

And yes, he has been snapping up media outlets lika a cockroach goes for crumbs.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. He's a very shrwed businessman to be buying....

up Real Estate and Land! It's more valuable than diamonds and gold as for as I am concerned! Let's be honest here, there is only "X" amount of land available and unlike diamonds, we need land to live on and for farming too!!!

Land is the most valuable comodity in my view!

[blm]

3. More info on Moon's moves

from mw:

While reading about Bolivia's current problems, keep in mind, in the 2002 Bolivian elections the party backed by Moon placed in a statistical dead heat for second. Moon is driving the bus. He even feeds the Bolivians the same BS he fed us, saying Bolivian has been chosen to defeat communism. He seems to forget to say the part about him thinking democracy is bad as communism and he is fighting BOTH. Moon's party in Bolivia? The New Republican Force(NRP)
 
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jul2002/boli-j18.shtml
 
The top two candidates in the June 26 election were Gonzalo Sanchez Lozada of the right-wing MNR (National Revolutionary Movement) with 22.4 percent of the vote, and Evo Morales, a leader of the coca farmers’ protests, whose MAS (Movement towards Socialism) won 20.9 percent.
In an indication of the sharply polarized political environment, another new party, the NFR, or New Republican Force, placed third. According to published reports, this party has received significant funding from sources linked to the anticommunist Unification Church of Reverend Moon, which has previously forged ties to right-wing army generals in Bolivia. The NFR received 20.9 percent of the ballots cast, just a few hundred votes less than the MAS.

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back up info, Moon and Bolivia

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon6.html

Among the first well-wishers arriving in La Paz to congratulate the new government was Moon's top lieutenant, Bo Hi Pak. The Moon organization published a photo of Pak meeting with Gen. Garcia Meza. After the visit to the mountainous capital, Pak declared, "I have erected a throne for Father Moon in the world's highest city."

According to later Bolivian government and newspaper reports, a Moon representative invested about $4 million in preparations for the coup. Bolivia's WACL representatives also played key roles, and CAUSA, one of Moon's anti-communist organizations, listed as members nearly all the leading Bolivian coup-makers.

After the coup, Arce-Gomez went into partnership with big narco-traffickers, including Trafficante's Cuban-American smugglers. Klaus Barbie and his neo-fascists got a new assignment: protecting Bolivia's major cocaine barons and transporting drugs to the border.

According to Levine, Arce-Gomez boasted to one top trafficker: "We will flood America's borders with cocaine." It was boast that the coup-makers backed up.

"Bolivia soon became the principal supplier of cocaine base to the then fledgling Colombian cartels, making themselves the main suppliers of cocaine to the United States," Levine said. "And it could not have been done without the tacit help of DEA and the active, covert help of the CIA."

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/1990s/consor16.html

Tucked between Brazil and Argentina, tiny Uruguay has modeled itself as a South American Switzerland, granting tight secrecy to its banking institutions. With its banks and free trade zones, Uruguay hopes to become the financial capital of Mercosur, South America's free trade agreement. Even critics, such as Zabalza, note that Moon's investments have produced needed employment.

Moon first put down roots in Uruguay during the 12-year reign of right-wing military dictators who seized power in 1973. During the 1970s, the anti-communist South Korean religious figure also cultivated close relations with military dictators in Argentina, Paraguay and Chile. Moon reportedly ingratiated himself to the juntas by assisting the military regimes arrange arms purchases and by funnelling money to allied right-wing organizations.

Even in those early years, government investigators recognized that one key to Moon's success was the surreptitious use of his followers to smuggle money across borders. A 1978 U.S. congressional investigative report found that Moon's followers had transported large sums of cash into the United States in violation of U.S. currency statutes.

Then, in 1980, Moon expanded his South American influence into the landlocked nation of Bolivia. There, ultra-conservative army officers -- backed by drug lords, Argentine intelligence agents and former Nazi commander Klaus Barbie -- staged a bloody putsch which turned Bolivia into the continent's first modern narco-state. The putsch became known as the Cocaine Coup.

Soon after the Bolivian generals took power, Moon dispatched some of his top lieutenants, including his right-hand man Bo Hi Pak, to coordinate with the new rulers in La Paz. Moon's church was so proud of its new contacts that it published a photo of Pak meeting with Gen. Garcia Meza, a coup leader.

After the visit to the mountainous capital, Pak declared, "I have erected a throne for Father Moon in the world's highest city." Moon's political arm, CAUSA, began joint political-military operations with the Bolivian junta.

A month after the coup, Garcia Meza participated in the Fourth Congress of the Confederacion Anticomunista Latinoamericano , an arm of the World Anti-Communist League, which Moon and other Asian anti-communists founded in the 1960s. Attending that Fourth Congress was WACL president Woo Jae Sung, a leading Moon disciple.

During its violent two-year run, Bolivia's Cocaine Coup government protected cocaine production inside Bolivia and allowed cocaine shipments to processing centers in Colombia. The emerging Medellin cartel thus gained a secure source of cocaine while introducing modern corporate organization to the industry and transporting vast quantities of cocaine to the United States.

But the Bolivian junta suffered from widespread corruption and incompetence -- as well as international condemnation -- leading to its collapse in 1982. After their ouster, some coup leaders were charged with narcotics trafficking in the United States, while Klaus Barbie was extradited to France to stand trial on war-crime charges for his work in Adolf Hitler's Gestapo.

Later Bolivian investigations would assert that a Moon representative had invested $4 million in preparations for the Cocaine Coup.

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http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0001a/fortunateson.html

On November 22nd 1996, the elder Bush spoke at a reception in Buenos Aires, inaugurating Tiempos del Mundo, a Moonie-backed daily newspaper. With Moon sitting just a few chairs away, Bush praised the cult leader. "I want to salute Rev. Moon, who is the founder of the Washington Times and also Tiempo del Mundo. A lot of my friends in South America don't know about the Washington Times, but it is an independent voice. Editors of the Washington Times tell me that never once has the man with the vision interfered with the running of the paper. A paper that, in my view, brings sanity to Washington."13

The South American press hammered away at Moon's history and showed his connections to some of the continent's worst right-wing military dictatorships. They also examined Moon's connections to the drug cartels that, in cooperation with former Nazi Klaus Barbie, helped stage a coup d'etat in Bolivia in 1980.14 Moon and his friends had been the money men, and worked closely with the Nazi/drug cartel coup leaders. But thanks to Bush, "Once again heaven turned a disappointment into a victory." declared the Unification Times, which was very pleased with Bush's comments about Moon's latest endeavors.15

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http://www.columbusalive.com/2000/20000224/bob.html

The Bush-Moonie connection caused considerable controversy in September 1995, when the former president announced he would be spending nearly a week in Japan on behalf of a Moonie front organization, the Women's Federation for World Peace, founded and led by Moon's wife. Then-President Bush downplayed accusations of brain-washing and coercion against the Moonies. The New York Times noted that Bush's presence "is seen by some as lending the group (Moonies) legitimacy."

Longtime Moonie member S.P. Simonds wrote an editorial for the Portland Press Herald noting the Bushes "didn't need the reported million dollars paid by Moon and were well aware of the Church's history."

Bush shared the podium with Moon's wife and addressed a crowd of 50,000 in the Tokyo dome. Bush told the true believers, "Reverend and Mrs. Moon are engaged in the most important activities going on the world today."

The following year Moon bankrolled a series of "family values" conferences from Oakland to Washington, D.C. The San Francisco Chronicle reported, "In Washington, Moon opened his checkbook to such Republican Party mainstays as former Presidents Gerald Ford and George Bush, GOP presidential candidate Jack Kemp and Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed."

Purdue University Professor of Sociology Anson Shupe, a longtime Moon watcher, said, "The man accused of being the biggest brainwasher in America has moved into mainstream Republican Americana."

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4. I though this was about THE Moon...

I was having visions of Asteroids and Aliens... carry on.