A timely oldie: How Rev. Moon’s ‘Snakes’ Infested US

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from Consortium News:


How Rev. Moon’s ‘Snakes’ Infested US
September 2, 2012

From the Archive: The death of Rev. Sun Myung Moon at 92 ends the long personal saga of a Korean theocrat whose life intertwined his bizarre religion with threads into organized crime and right-wing politics. Moon also showed how a fortune spent on media could change Washington’s political dynamic, as Robert Parry wrote in 2010.

By Robert Parry (Published on May 1, 2010)


As an investigative journalist, I’m not much for catchy political metaphors, but the revelation that snakes and rodents are infesting the Washington Times building as the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s newspaper sinks into a financial swamp does have some poetic justice about it.

After all, for several decades, the right-wing Washington Times has sent disinformation slithering through the U.S. political system while creating a nest for propagandists who have befouled American democracy with irrationality and dirty tricks. Indeed, one could say that Moon’s newspaper pioneered the modern style of deceptive “journalism” that is the daily fare on Fox News, angry talk radio and right-wing blogs.

The immediate cause of the Washington Times’ financial plight was the bitter succession fight among children of the aging Unification Church founder who was no longer capable of maintaining personal control over his global religious-political-business empire.

That empire had split into competing factions, with one of Moon’s children, Justin Moon, who was in charge of the Asian operations, deciding to slash the church’s massive subsidy to the Washington Times headed by another son, Preston Moon. Staffers who have survived a series of draconian layoffs reported that snakes and mice had slipped into the newspaper’s building because the owners couldn’t afford exterminators to combat the infestations. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2012/09/02/how-rev-moons-snakes-infested-us/

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2. Republicans across the Fruited Plains mourn death of their beloved Second Coming MoneyBags Messiah

And yet -- miraculously it seems -- the Republicans are manifesting fabulously lucrative support
from a new generation of MoneyBag MojoMen who are likewise -- to the everlasting distress
of decent, honest, loyal, tax-paying American citizens -- infested with demonstrably degenerate
Republican "Family Values."

Please send your sympathy notes & condolences to the Republican Party.

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3. I haven't had time to read the entire piece, but certainly will do so.

Probably not the best time for Moon to disappear when the Republicans want the WH so badly. My, my. All the publicity that SHOULD be forthcoming. It will be interesting to see who does or doesn't report on the background/reputation of Rev. Moon.

Didn't George W. buy property next to Moon down south?

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4. Paraguay

Seems there's a huge Aquifer under their lands.

Soybeans are a big export crop there.

[Frustratedlady]

5. Thanks. I've only had one cuppa, so couldn't bring that name to the surface. eom

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6. R#7 & K for, his kids are named "Just in MOON" and "Pressed on MOON"?!1 n/t