by robertdreed » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:58 am
A partial list:<br><br>"...There are also commercial activities belonging to the Unification Church in which Unificationists work but are in the minority. Before going bankrupt in the 1998 Far East financial crisis, the best known of such activities were the machine industry Tong Ii in Korea and the society for producing dietary supplements II Wha, the largest world distributor of Korean ginseng..." <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.signaturebooks.com/excerpts/unification.htm">www.signaturebooks.com/ex...cation.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>The Tong-Ii (also written Tong-Il) machine industry turned out, among other products, "air rifles" that were copies of the AR15 (M16) automatic rifle, lacking only the firing mechanism. <br><br>Coincidentally, according to Terry Reed (with John Cummings) in his book <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Compromised: Clinton, Bush, and the CIA</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, one of the products of the Arkansas company Park-On-Meter was firing mechanisms for that very same model of rifle, the AR15. Unstamped, without serial numbers...<br><br>And yes, you did read right, at one time Moon had pretty much the monopoly on the Korean ginseng trade. <br><br>And, oh yeah, he owns Samsung.<br><br>More Moon financial funny biz:<br><br>"...In the 1980s, during the time of the military dictatorship in Uruguay, the Moon organization took control of that country’s third-largest bank, Banco de Credito, benefiting from generous government subsidies. In 1996, bank workers reported that Moon staff and followers deposited at least $50 million in cash in the bank, leading to suspicions of money laundering. (66) Two years later, after the Moon deposits had been withdrawn, Moon officers are accused of having stripped the bank of its assets through unsecured loans totaling at least $125 million to Moon companies. The Central Bank stepped in on September 18, 1998. (67) In spite of this scandal, the Moon organization continues to own the bank and other large properties in Uruguay, including the Victoria Plaza, a five-star hotel and casino located on the capital’s main square, opposite the presidential palace, (6<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START 8) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/glasses.gif ALT="8)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> and it is said to be building another casino in a tourist resort near the Argentine border. Its large Uruguayan holdings also include the Corporation Rioplatense de Hoteles and Hotel Horacio Quiroga, as well as a newspaper and a shipyard. (69)..." <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/analysis/1101moon.htm">www.globalpolicy.org/ngos...01moon.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>The Consortium News data dump on Moon: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon.html">www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>If there isn't a Moon data dump yet over in the archive, I'll start one soon...<br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
