(March 1978): The Unification Church was founded in 1961 by Kim Chong Pil, director of the Korean CIA, as an influence operation targeting US Congress and American officials and senior officials of the Nixon administration knew about it. nytimes.com/1978/03/16/arc…
(Nov 1977) "Internal Unification Church documents provide new details on how the followers of South Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon organized their elaborate campaign in late 1973 to defend President Nixon from impeachment." washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…
(Sept 1977) 73 Record Tells of Plan by Sun Myung Moon Aides for Drive Against Nixon Impeachment nytimes.com/1977/09/19/arc…
It's pretty wild how the new incarnation of the Moonies has managed to attract speakers like Joey Gibson, Steve Bannon and Dana Loesch to bumblefuck Pennsylvania for several years (video from 2020) facebook.com/RodOfIronMinis…
I recall a flurry of articles about “Putin’s Long Game” and I wonder how menacing would that headline feel if it was “South Korea’s Long Game” … not so much?
Also SK was involved in social media shenanigans long before 2016 theguardian.com/world/2017/aug… (so was Mexico but I digress)
“Execs of Unification-related entities have acknowledged that money from Japan & Korea fuel US operations, but the magnitude & mechanism of those payments, as well as their exact sources, have eluded investigators on 3 continents over the past 3 decades.” washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nationa…
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He seems delightful. He does not believe in women in the military but something something Joan of Arc. I guess Father Nix is making an exception for the evangelical psyops captain who participated in Jan 6.
Anti-mask, anti-vax, disrupting school board meetings etc etc
Here’s the original interaction that caused this guy Jim Stewartson and his pseudonymous Twitter sidekick to pop up in my TL tonight. Someone pinged @abbieasr to ask her about the black flag thing and welp.
There are currently 32 files uploaded to the private Facebook group Unmask Pennsylvania Students (60K+ members) various kinds of mask exemption forms, school board contact lists, a list of "vaccine attorneys" and a list of "Sheriff Duties" (from Sheriff Mack at CSPOA)
All sorts of handy resources for parents "taking a stand" against mask mandates in PA schools. Over 10,000 posts since the group was created on August 31.
Isn't it great how Facebook brings people with common causes together like this?
People are using these forms and reporting back if they work. I downloaded all the files today in case they get lost somewhere in the Facebook data abyss.
Imagine you fought in an unwinnable war that killed thousands of fellow soldiers. Imagine everyone knew it was unwinnable, but lied about it for 20 years. And imagine once that unwinnable war finally ended, the media barely mentioned the “Lessons Learned” theguardian.com/world/2019/dec…
445,000 people talking about “medical freedom” on Facebook tonight. It’s popular! 😐
Doing an experiment for science. Here are results from 4 Facebook friends in USA.
“Medical tyranny” is also popular, so that’s great. And Medical Medium appears to be wildly popular although I’ve heard of him before tonight.
The result from a friend in Southeast Asia seems to be the least politicized so far, although Medical Medium is once again recommended and my SEA friend never heard of him either.