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World Leaders at UPF Conference this Past Weekend Memorialized both Shinzo Abe and Sun Myung Moon; FFWPU Worldwide Memorializes Moon
Last Friday at UPF’s “Summit 2022 and Leadership Conference,” a five-day international summit at the Jamsil Lotte Hotel in Seoul, Shinzo Abe was commemorated, which included a video message from Donald Trump, who claimed that Abe was a good friend of his and a great person, and expressed his gratitude for Hak Ja Han.
▲ Mike Pompeo speaking in-person
▲ Trump’s video message in memory of Shinzo Abe
▲ Participants were invited to put flowers on the stage
A picture of Abe was shown on a screen with his quote, "Peace is not given by someone. It should be won."
Speakers and presenters at the conference included Mike Pence, former Vice-President of the United States (2017-2021); Stephen Harper, Canadian Prime Minister (2006-2015); Newt Gingrich, US House Speaker (1995-1999); Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State (2018-2021); Dan Burton, US Congressman (1983-2013); and Brigi Rafini, Executive General, Community of Sahel-Saharan States and Prime Minister (2011-2021), Niger, Walter Sharp, Commander of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and US Forces Korea (2008-2011); Harry Harris, US Ambassador to Korea (2018-2021); and Joseph DeTrani, Special Envoy, Six-Party Talks with DPRK (2003-2006), Imboni Prophet Radebe, founder of The Revelation Spiritual Home in South Africa, Pastor Paula White-Cain, Senior Pastor, City of Destiny Church in the US; Jan Figel, European Union Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion (2016-2019); and Massimo Introvigne, Managing Director, Center for Studies on New Religions, Italy, Sheikh Mansour Diouf, Head of the Murid Brotherhood, Senegal; Ibrahim Natatou, Minister of Education, Niger; Hamza Said Hamza, Minister of Youth and Sports, Somalia; Adi Koila Nailitikau, First Lady (2009-2015), Fiji; Mwaba Tony, Minister of Higher Education, DR Congo; Neziha Labidi, Minister of Women, Family and Children (2016-2020), Tunisia; Dr. Sok Siphana, Chairman, Asian Vision Institute, Cambodia; Jim Rogers, Chairman of Beeland Interests, Inc.; Bishop Don Meares, Senior Pastor, Evangel Cathedral, USA; Callista Mutharika, First Lady (2010-2012), Malawi; Dr. Song Yong-cheon, Chair, Sunhak Foundation; Dr. Hwang Sun-jo, President, Sun Moon University; and Dr. Yun Young Ho, Director General, FFWPU International.
As part of the Summit, on Sunday, August 14, participants went to the HJ Global Arts Center in Seorak, outside of Seoul, for a memorial program hosted by Hak Ja Han honoring her late husband Sun Myung Moon.
Leaders from all over the world sent messages, including Kim Jong Un, the Supreme Leader of the DPRK (North Korea): "Rev. Moon worked for the sake of world peace… and his achievements and legacy will be remembered for eons... We would like to wish prosperity and success to the International Family Federation and UPF." Kim sent flowers to the event.
Mike Pompeo, former CIA Director and US State Secretary, spoke in-person for ten minutes, hailing Moon and his accomplishments. Earlier that week, Pompeo spoke at the UPF event on religious liberty, likely due to the events in Japan.
“Rev. Moon and his peace work impacted millions,” said Cambodian Assemblyman Suos Yara, who delivered a message from Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Royal Kingdom of Cambodia.
Moon’s 10 year death (”ascension”) anniversary was observed this past weekend all over the world.
▲ Unification Church gathering in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
▲ Unification Church gathering Brazil
▲ Unification Church gathering in Thailand
▲ Unification Church in Malaysia
▲ Unification Church in Tanzania
Ten years since Moon has been dead, and the organizations he left behind, and the sects that have since formed, are continuing on his legacy of exploiting and abusing people for the sake of building personal wealth for a few elite church families as well as for the promotion of imperialist interests.
Hak Ja Han, Founder of Universal Peace Federation (UPF) declared she is “Female Jesus”
FFWPU President of IAPP Prosecuted for Money Laundering and Drug Smuggling in US Court; may be connected to UC / FFWPU Leadership
Leni Robredo is a progressive Moonie-supporter?
Abe’s “ties” with the Unification Church were politically motivated
The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe
#unification church#ffwpu#family federation for world peace and unification#moonies#unification church in africa#unification church in malaysia#unification church in tanzania#unification church in thailand#unification church in brazil#unification church in the democratic republic of the congo#upf#universal peace federation#donald trump#mike pompeo#mike pence#shinzo abe#sun myung moon#kim jong un#north korea#DPRK
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Holidays 2.10
Holidays
All the News That's Fit To Print Day
Anniversary of Oruro
Arabian Leopard Day (Saudi Arabia)
Ausonia Asteroid Day
Children’s Hospice Day (Germany)
Cliff Burton Day (Alameda County, California)
Deep Blue Day
Fenkil Day (Eritrea)
Gold Record Day
Half-Baked Day (Halfway to 4/20)
International Cribbage Day
International Day of the Arabian Leopard
International Drive Your Triumph Day
International Ski Patrol Day
International Weather Festival
Kurdish Authors Union Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Lt. Col. Vindman Day
Military Industrial Complex Day
National Deworming Day (India)
National Flannel Day
National Home Warranty Day
National Julio Day
National Louis Day
National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe (Italy)
National TV Safety Day
NEET Day (Japan)
Plimsoll Day
Rose Daphne Day (French Republic)
Royal Hobart Regatta Day (Tasmania)
Singing Telegram Day (New York Postal Telegraph Co.)
TBL1XR1 Related Disorder Day
Teddy Day
Tom and Jerry Day
Umbrella Day
Valentismas
Voltammentry Day
Volunteer Defense Day (Thailand)
Welsh Language Music Day (UK)
World Pulses Day
YMCA Day
Ziggy Stardust Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Cream Cheese Brownie Day
National “Have a Brownie” Day
Try to Invent a New Jell-O Flavor Day
2nd Saturday in February
Global Movie Day [2nd Saturday]
International Purple Hijab Day [2nd Saturday]
International Snowmobile Ride Day [2nd Saturday]
Independence & Related Days
Anniversary of Oruro (Bolivia)
Empire of North Africa (Declared; 2006) [unrecognized]
New Jersey Concessions & Agreements Day (New Jersey) [1st U.S. state constitution; 1665)
Phokland (Declared; 2007) [unrecognized]
Rosston (Declared; 2007) [unrecognized]
Unification of Upper and Lower Canada (1841)
New Year’s Days
Kebbawa New Year & Beginning of Fishing Season (Kebbawa People of Nigeria)
New Year's Day [Lunar Calendar] (a.k.a. …
Bituun (Mongolia)
Chinese New Year [2024: Year of the Dragon]
Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Yin Black Water Rabbit
Fete du Printemps (Mauritius)
Losar/Loshar (India, Nepal)
Lunar New Year’s Day (Hong Kong)
Novo Ano Lunar (Macau)
Seol-Nal (South Korea)
Sonam Lhosar (Tamang New Year)
Sonam Lochhar (Sikkam, India)
Spring Festival (China)
Tahun Baru Imlek (Indonesia)
Tamang New Year (Nepal)
Tet Nguyen Dan (Vietnam)
Tsagaan Sar (Mongolia) [2023: Year of the Rabbit]
Tet Holiday begins (Vietnam) [thru 26th]
Festivals Beginning February 10, 2024
Carnaval de Barranquilla (Barranquilla, Colombia) [4 Days before Ash Wednesday; thru 2.13]
Carnival of Aalst (Aalst, Belgium) [thru 2.13]
Carnival of Binche (Binche, Belgium) [thru 2.13]
Carnival of Maastricht (Maastricht, Netherlands) [thru 2.13]
Death by Chocolate (Appleton, Wisconsin)
Fastelavn (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Mumbo Jumbo Gumbo Cook-Off (Manitou Springs, Colorado)
Palm Beach Marine Flea Market & Seafood Festival (West Palm Beach, Florida) [thru 2.11]
Paris Carnival (Paris, France)
Sábado de Carnaval (Argentina; Brazil) [thru 2.13]
Wine Love Trail (Sonoma County, California)
Feast Days
Anabita’s Day (Pagan)
Apelles (Positivist; Saint)
Apple Wish Spell Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Ary Scheffer (Artology)
Austrebertha (Christian; Saint)
Bertolt Brecht (Writerism)
Bisexual Anxiety Day (Church of the SubGenius)
Boris Pasternak (Writerism)
Charalambos (Christian; Saint)
Day of Anaitis (Persian Goddess of the Moon and the Seas)
E.L. Konigsburg (Writerism)
Erlulph of Scotland (Christian; Saint)
Faeries Creation Day (Celtic Book of Days)
Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (Malta)
Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (Artology)
José Sánchez del Río (Christian; Saint)
Marilyn Monroe Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Mr. Holiday (Muppetism)
Nicolas Taunay (Artology)
Paradoxically Non-Paradoxical Day (a.k.a. Paradox Day; Pastafarian)
Scholastica (Christian; Saint)
Soteris (Christian; Martyr)
Tales of Kelp-Koli (Shamanism)
Trumwin (Christian; Saint)
William of Maleval (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Prime Number Day: 41 [13 of 72]
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Tycho Brahe Lucky Day (Scandinavia) [3 of 4]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [10 of 60]
Premieres
Alice at the Carnival (Disney Cartoon; 1927)
Bad Day at Cat Rock (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1965)
Belle de Jour, by Joseph Kessel (Novel; 1928)
The Best of Everything, by Rona Jaffe (Novel; 1958)
Big Game Haunt (WB MM Cartoon; 1968))
Billy Madison (Film; 1995)
Butch (MGM Cartoon; 1951)
Chico & Rita (Animated Film; 2012)
The College Dropout, by Kanye West (Album; 2004)
Daffy’s Rhapsody (WB LT Cartoon; 2012)
Das Boot (Film; 1982)
Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller (Play; 1949)
The Four-Legged Zoo [#4] (Multiplication Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)
The Glenn Miller Story (Film; 1954)
The Grasshopper and the Ants (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1934)
Icebound, by Owen Davis (Play; 1923)
The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury (Novel; 1951)
I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You), by Aretha Franklin (Song; 1967)
Inside Outer Space (Disney Animated TV Special; 1963)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (Film; 2017)
Kimi (Film; 2022)
The Lego Batman Movie (Animated Film; 2013)
Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League (WB Animated Film; 2015)
The Littles, by John Lawrence Peterson (Novel; 1967)
Long Tall Sally, recorded by Little Richard (Song; 1956)
The Loved One, by Evelyn Waugh (Novel; 1948)
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Animated TV Series; 2023)
The Pink Panther (Film; 2006)
Pluto and the Gopher (Disney Cartoon; 1950)
Puss Gets the Boot (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1940) [#1]
Rabbit Every Monday (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)
Rio Rita, by Red Fin Rito and His Orchestra (Song; 1942)
Safe house (Film; 2012)
Shallow Grave (Film; 1995)
A Sheep in the Deep (WB MM Cartoon; 1962)
Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (Film; 2012)
Sultans of Swing, by Dire Straits (Song; 1979)
Tales of Hoffmann, by Jacques Offenbach (Opera; 1881)
Tapestry, by Carole King (Album; 1971)
The Three Bears (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)
Tom & Jerry (MGM Cartoon; 1940)
Van Halen, by Van Halen (Album; 1978)
Today’s Name Days
Scholastika, Siegmar (Austria)
Haralampi, Valentin, Valentina (Bulgaria)
Alojzije, Vilim, Vjekoslav (Croatia)
Mojmír (Czech Republic)
Scholastica (Denmark)
Ella, Elle, Ellen, Elli, Ellu (Estonia)
Elina, Ella, Elle, Ellen, Elna (Finland)
Arnaud (France)
Bruno, Scholastika, Siegmar (Germany)
Chara, Charalambos, Chariklia, Haralambia, Haralambos, Hariklia, Harilaos (Greece)
Elvira (Hungary)
Arnaldo, Guglielmo, Scolastica, Wilma (Italy)
Paula, Paulīna, Paulīne (Latvia)
Ada, Elvyra, Gabrielius, Girvydas, Vydgailė (Lithuania)
Ingfrid, Ingrid (Norway)
Elwira, Gabriel, Jacek, Jacenty, Scholastyka, Tomisława (Poland)
Haralambie (Romania)
Gabriela (Slovakia)
Escolástica (Spain)
Eugenia, Iris (Sweden)
Austria, Amber, Amelinda, Colt, Colten, Colton, Duran, Durand, Durante, Kolton, Meredith (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 41 of 2024; 325 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 6 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 21 of 28]
Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 1 (Jia-Chen)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)
Hebrew: 1 Adair I 5784
Islamic: 30 Rajab 1445
J Cal: 11 Grey; Foursday [11 of 30]
Julian: 28 January 2024
Moon: 2%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 13 Homer (2nd Month) [Apelles)
Runic Half Month: Sigel (Sun) [Day 2 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 52 of 89)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 20 of 28)
Calendar Changes
Adar I (only in leap years) [אֲדָר א׳] (Hebrew Calendar) [Month 12 of 12]
陬月 [Zōuyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 1 of 12] (Square of Pegasus Month; Corner Month) [Earthly Branch: Tiger Month] (First Month)
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Holidays 2.10
Holidays
All the News That's Fit To Print Day
Anniversary of Oruro
Arabian Leopard Day (Saudi Arabia)
Ausonia Asteroid Day
Children’s Hospice Day (Germany)
Cliff Burton Day (Alameda County, California)
Deep Blue Day
Fenkil Day (Eritrea)
Gold Record Day
Half-Baked Day (Halfway to 4/20)
International Cribbage Day
International Day of the Arabian Leopard
International Drive Your Triumph Day
International Ski Patrol Day
International Weather Festival
Kurdish Authors Union Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Lt. Col. Vindman Day
Military Industrial Complex Day
National Deworming Day (India)
National Flannel Day
National Home Warranty Day
National Julio Day
National Louis Day
National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe (Italy)
National TV Safety Day
NEET Day (Japan)
Plimsoll Day
Rose Daphne Day (French Republic)
Royal Hobart Regatta Day (Tasmania)
Singing Telegram Day (New York Postal Telegraph Co.)
TBL1XR1 Related Disorder Day
Teddy Day
Tom and Jerry Day
Umbrella Day
Valentismas
Voltammentry Day
Volunteer Defense Day (Thailand)
Welsh Language Music Day (UK)
World Pulses Day
YMCA Day
Ziggy Stardust Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Cream Cheese Brownie Day
National “Have a Brownie” Day
Try to Invent a New Jell-O Flavor Day
2nd Saturday in February
Global Movie Day [2nd Saturday]
International Purple Hijab Day [2nd Saturday]
International Snowmobile Ride Day [2nd Saturday]
Independence & Related Days
Anniversary of Oruro (Bolivia)
Empire of North Africa (Declared; 2006) [unrecognized]
New Jersey Concessions & Agreements Day (New Jersey) [1st U.S. state constitution; 1665)
Phokland (Declared; 2007) [unrecognized]
Rosston (Declared; 2007) [unrecognized]
Unification of Upper and Lower Canada (1841)
New Year’s Days
Kebbawa New Year & Beginning of Fishing Season (Kebbawa People of Nigeria)
New Year's Day [Lunar Calendar] (a.k.a. …
Bituun (Mongolia)
Chinese New Year [2024: Year of the Dragon]
Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Yin Black Water Rabbit
Fete du Printemps (Mauritius)
Losar/Loshar (India, Nepal)
Lunar New Year’s Day (Hong Kong)
Novo Ano Lunar (Macau)
Seol-Nal (South Korea)
Sonam Lhosar (Tamang New Year)
Sonam Lochhar (Sikkam, India)
Spring Festival (China)
Tahun Baru Imlek (Indonesia)
Tamang New Year (Nepal)
Tet Nguyen Dan (Vietnam)
Tsagaan Sar (Mongolia) [2023: Year of the Rabbit]
Tet Holiday begins (Vietnam) [thru 26th]
Festivals Beginning February 10, 2024
Carnaval de Barranquilla (Barranquilla, Colombia) [4 Days before Ash Wednesday; thru 2.13]
Carnival of Aalst (Aalst, Belgium) [thru 2.13]
Carnival of Binche (Binche, Belgium) [thru 2.13]
Carnival of Maastricht (Maastricht, Netherlands) [thru 2.13]
Death by Chocolate (Appleton, Wisconsin)
Fastelavn (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Mumbo Jumbo Gumbo Cook-Off (Manitou Springs, Colorado)
Palm Beach Marine Flea Market & Seafood Festival (West Palm Beach, Florida) [thru 2.11]
Paris Carnival (Paris, France)
Sábado de Carnaval (Argentina; Brazil) [thru 2.13]
Wine Love Trail (Sonoma County, California)
Feast Days
Anabita’s Day (Pagan)
Apelles (Positivist; Saint)
Apple Wish Spell Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Ary Scheffer (Artology)
Austrebertha (Christian; Saint)
Bertolt Brecht (Writerism)
Bisexual Anxiety Day (Church of the SubGenius)
Boris Pasternak (Writerism)
Charalambos (Christian; Saint)
Day of Anaitis (Persian Goddess of the Moon and the Seas)
E.L. Konigsburg (Writerism)
Erlulph of Scotland (Christian; Saint)
Faeries Creation Day (Celtic Book of Days)
Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (Malta)
Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (Artology)
José Sánchez del Río (Christian; Saint)
Marilyn Monroe Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Mr. Holiday (Muppetism)
Nicolas Taunay (Artology)
Paradoxically Non-Paradoxical Day (a.k.a. Paradox Day; Pastafarian)
Scholastica (Christian; Saint)
Soteris (Christian; Martyr)
Tales of Kelp-Koli (Shamanism)
Trumwin (Christian; Saint)
William of Maleval (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Prime Number Day: 41 [13 of 72]
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Tycho Brahe Lucky Day (Scandinavia) [3 of 4]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [10 of 60]
Premieres
Alice at the Carnival (Disney Cartoon; 1927)
Bad Day at Cat Rock (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1965)
Belle de Jour, by Joseph Kessel (Novel; 1928)
The Best of Everything, by Rona Jaffe (Novel; 1958)
Big Game Haunt (WB MM Cartoon; 1968))
Billy Madison (Film; 1995)
Butch (MGM Cartoon; 1951)
Chico & Rita (Animated Film; 2012)
The College Dropout, by Kanye West (Album; 2004)
Daffy’s Rhapsody (WB LT Cartoon; 2012)
Das Boot (Film; 1982)
Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller (Play; 1949)
The Four-Legged Zoo [#4] (Multiplication Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1973)
The Glenn Miller Story (Film; 1954)
The Grasshopper and the Ants (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1934)
Icebound, by Owen Davis (Play; 1923)
The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury (Novel; 1951)
I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You), by Aretha Franklin (Song; 1967)
Inside Outer Space (Disney Animated TV Special; 1963)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (Film; 2017)
Kimi (Film; 2022)
The Lego Batman Movie (Animated Film; 2013)
Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League (WB Animated Film; 2015)
The Littles, by John Lawrence Peterson (Novel; 1967)
Long Tall Sally, recorded by Little Richard (Song; 1956)
The Loved One, by Evelyn Waugh (Novel; 1948)
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Animated TV Series; 2023)
The Pink Panther (Film; 2006)
Pluto and the Gopher (Disney Cartoon; 1950)
Puss Gets the Boot (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1940) [#1]
Rabbit Every Monday (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)
Rio Rita, by Red Fin Rito and His Orchestra (Song; 1942)
Safe house (Film; 2012)
Shallow Grave (Film; 1995)
A Sheep in the Deep (WB MM Cartoon; 1962)
Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (Film; 2012)
Sultans of Swing, by Dire Straits (Song; 1979)
Tales of Hoffmann, by Jacques Offenbach (Opera; 1881)
Tapestry, by Carole King (Album; 1971)
The Three Bears (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)
Tom & Jerry (MGM Cartoon; 1940)
Van Halen, by Van Halen (Album; 1978)
Today’s Name Days
Scholastika, Siegmar (Austria)
Haralampi, Valentin, Valentina (Bulgaria)
Alojzije, Vilim, Vjekoslav (Croatia)
Mojmír (Czech Republic)
Scholastica (Denmark)
Ella, Elle, Ellen, Elli, Ellu (Estonia)
Elina, Ella, Elle, Ellen, Elna (Finland)
Arnaud (France)
Bruno, Scholastika, Siegmar (Germany)
Chara, Charalambos, Chariklia, Haralambia, Haralambos, Hariklia, Harilaos (Greece)
Elvira (Hungary)
Arnaldo, Guglielmo, Scolastica, Wilma (Italy)
Paula, Paulīna, Paulīne (Latvia)
Ada, Elvyra, Gabrielius, Girvydas, Vydgailė (Lithuania)
Ingfrid, Ingrid (Norway)
Elwira, Gabriel, Jacek, Jacenty, Scholastyka, Tomisława (Poland)
Haralambie (Romania)
Gabriela (Slovakia)
Escolástica (Spain)
Eugenia, Iris (Sweden)
Austria, Amber, Amelinda, Colt, Colten, Colton, Duran, Durand, Durante, Kolton, Meredith (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 41 of 2024; 325 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 6 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 21 of 28]
Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 1 (Jia-Chen)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)
Hebrew: 1 Adair I 5784
Islamic: 30 Rajab 1445
J Cal: 11 Grey; Foursday [11 of 30]
Julian: 28 January 2024
Moon: 2%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 13 Homer (2nd Month) [Apelles)
Runic Half Month: Sigel (Sun) [Day 2 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 52 of 89)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 20 of 28)
Calendar Changes
Adar I (only in leap years) [אֲדָר א׳] (Hebrew Calendar) [Month 12 of 12]
陬月 [Zōuyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 1 of 12] (Square of Pegasus Month; Corner Month) [Earthly Branch: Tiger Month] (First Month)
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DR. KING PROPOSES A BOYCOTT OF WAR
Douglas Robinson, The New York Times, 5 April 1967
The Rev. Dr, Martin Luther King Jr. called yesterday on Negroes and "all white people of goodwill" to boycott the Vietnam war by becoming conscientious objectors to military service. The civil rights leader, in making his strongest recommendations so far, said at a news conference that "Negroes and poor people generally are bearing the heaviest burden of this war."
Later, in a speech to an overflow crowd of more than 3,000 people at Riverside Church, Dr. King described the American Government as the "greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." His address was enthusiastically greeted by the throng, which gave him a standing ovation at the beginning and end of his talk.
Offers Five-Point Plan
He also laid out a five-point program designed to "begin the long and difficult process of extricating ourselves from this nightmarish conflict." In his address, which was sponsored by the Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, Dr. King likened the use of new American weapons on the peasants of Vietnam to the Germans' testing of "new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe."
If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam," Dr. King said. Dr. King first made the recommendation for a program of conscientious objection at an early morning news conference at the Overseas Press Club, after noting that Negroes were "dying in disproportionate numbers in Vietnam."
"Twice as many Negroes as whites are in combat," he said, adding that this was a "reflection of the Negro's position in America." In recommending avoidance of military service by those who are against the war, he said he would encourage all clergymen of draft age to give up their in exemptions and seek status as conscientious objectors. Dr. King also urged a campaign of teach-ins and preach-ins to "awaken the conscience of the nation" to what he termed the evils of the Vietnam conflict.
Later, in his speech at Riverside Church, Dr. King said he recommended conscientious objection "to all who find the American course in Vietnam a dishonorable and unjust one."
Urges U. S. Atonement
In suggesting his program, Dr. King said that "in order to atone for our sins and errors in Vietnam, we should take the initiative in bringing a halt to this tragic war." His program was as follows:
The end of all bombing in North and South Vietnam.
The declaration of a unilateral cease-tire in the hope that such action would create an atmosphere for negotiation.
The taking of immediate steps to prevent other wars from developing in Southeast Asia by curtailing the military build-up in Thailand and interference in Laos.
The recognition that the National Liberation Front has substantial support in South Vietnam and must therefore play a role in any meaningful negotiations and In any future Vietnam Government.
The establishment of a date on which the United States will remove all foreign troops from Vietnam in accordance with the Geneva Agreement of 1954. The agreement, which ended the French Indochina war, created a demarcation line across Vietnam at the 17th parallel and provided for the eventual unification of the nation through elections, which were never held.
Urges Offer of Asylum
Dr, King said that "part of our ongoing commitment might well express itself in an offer to grant asylum to any Vietnamese who fears for his life under a new regime which included the Liberation Front."
In tracing the course of American involvement in Vietnam, the civil rights leader suggested that this country was on the wrong side of a world revolution and urged that United States leaders admit "that we have been wrong from the beginning of our adventure in Vietnam.”
Dr. King bitterly assailed American military policy from the standpoint of the Vietnamese peasants who "watch as we poison their water as we kill a million acres of their crops."
'They must weep as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to destroy the precious trees," he said. "They wander into the hospitals, with at least 20 casualties from American firepower for one Vietcong-inflicted injury."
"So far, we may have killed a million of them—mostly children," he went on. "They wander into the towns and see thousands of the children, homeless, without clothes, running In packs on the streets like animals. They see the children degraded by our soldiers as they beg for food. They see the children selling their sisters to our soldiers, soliciting for their mothers."
In summing up, Dr. King said that "a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
Sharing the platform with Dr. King was Dr. Henry Steele Commager, the historian, who described the Vietnam war as the "product of a body of political and historical miscalculation and of moral and psychological obsessions."
"It is the product of an obsession with Communism—we call it a conspiracy just as the Communists used to talk about capitalist conspiracies—some-thing that is, therefore, not nearly a rival political or economic system, but an irradicable moral evil," Dr. Commager said.
Outside the church. at 122d Street and Riverside Drive, some 35 pickets marched and chanted in protest against Dr. King's stand. Some of the protesters were black nationalists. Others belonged to a group called the National Economic Growth and Reconstruction Organization (N.E.G.RO.). The leader of the organization. Dr. Herbert I. Matthew, who is director of the Interfaith Hospital in Queens, said he did not want to picket Dr. King but that "bigots were looking for issues to harm the civil rights movement."
"The patriotism of Negroes should never be questioned," Dr. Mathew said. "Dr. King is not speaking for all Negroes."
The Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, the sponsoring organization, was formed in 1966 and says it has 5,000 to 6,000 members throughout the nation. The biracial interfaith group has urged the United States Government to cease bombing North Vietnam and to reduce the fighting for South Vietnam to create a climate for peace talks to end the Vietnam war as quickly as possible.
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China coronavirus outbreak: All the latest updates
The number of deaths from China’s coronavirus outbreak has risen to 722 on Saturday, surpassing the death toll from the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak on the mainland and Hong Kong almost two decades ago.
The total number of infections across China has now reached 34,546.
More:
Coronavirus: All you need to know about the symptoms and risks
Dispelling the myths around the new coronavirus outbreak
Coronavirus: Which countries have confirmed new cases?
The virus has also killed two people outside mainland China, one in Hong Kong and another in the Philippines, and at least 25 countries have confirmed cases.
On Friday, the death of 34-year-old Wuhan doctor, Li Wenliang, who sounded the alarm about the virus in December only to be punished, sparked an outpouring of grief and anger over the government’s handling of the crisis.
The virus has prompted several governments to ban arrivals from China and urge their citizens to avoid travelling to the country. Some have recommended that their citizens leave China.
Major airlines have suspended flights to and from China.
Here are the latest updates:
Saturday, February 8
Thailand reports 7 new coronavirus cases – health ministry
Thailand’s public health ministry reported seven new cases of the coronavirus, including three Thais and four Chinese.
The new cases brought the total reported in the country to 32, among the world’s highest number of infections outside of China.
“The seven new cases are all in hospital,” said Suwannachai Wattanayingcharoenchai, director-general of the Disease Control Department.
One of the Thai cases was part of the group of 138 evacuated from China’s coronavirus epicentre of Wuhan on Tuesday, Suwannachai told reporters.
Two more cases of coronavirus detected in UAE, total rises to 7
Two new cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in the United Arab Emirates, bringing the total number of people diagnosed with the disease to seven, the country’s health ministry said on Twitter.
The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention, MoHAP, announced today two new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to seven in the country.#mohap_uae #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/y8C7MC16xA
— وزارة الصحة ووقاية المجتمع الإماراتية – MOHAP UAE (@mohapuae) February 8, 2020
Panic buying in Singapore after virus alert raised
Anxious Singapore shoppers formed long lines at grocery stores and cleared the shelves of essential items, after the city-state raised its alert level over China’s coronavirus outbreak.
Singapore, which has reported 33 cases, raised its alert level Friday to “orange”, the same as during the deadly 2003 SARS outbreak. The alert level indicates that the virus is severe and passes easily between people.
The announcement triggered panic in the city-state of 5.7 million starting late Friday, with shoppers – many wearing masks – rushing to stock up on items including rice, noodles and toilet paper.
American dies of coronavirus in Wuhan; Japanese fatality also suspected of being infected
A US citizen has died from the new coronavirus at the epicentre of the epidemic in China, the US embassy said Saturday, in what appears to be the first confirmed foreign death from the outbreak.
“We can confirm that a 60-year-old US citizen diagnosed with coronavirus died at a hospital in Wuhan, China, on February 6,” an embassy spokesman told AFP.
Meanwhile, the Japanese Foreign Ministry reported that a Japanese man “suspected of being infected” with the virus has also died in Wuhan, Kyodo News reported.
The man, in his 60s, had been hospitalised with severe pneumonia. He would be the first Japanese victim of the coronavirus outbreak if his infection is confirmed.
Three more coronavirus cases reported on the Diamond Princess cruise ship
Passengers on the cruise ship docked in Japan are facing more woes as government officials reported three more cases of coronavirus infection.
That brings to 64 the total number of infections on the Diamond Princess vessel, which was carrying 3,700 people.
China adds health expert to provincial committee of Communist Party in Hubei
China has appointed Wang Hesheng as a member of the provincial committee of the Communist Party in Hubei province, state television reported on Saturday.
Wang has served in the public health system for years, making him well-placed to help in the country’s fight against the coronavirus outbreak.
More planes with quarantined China passengers arrive in US
Hundreds more people evacuated from the Wuhan region of China began arriving on Friday at military bases across the US to begin a two-week quarantine.
There were no signs of illness among those who flew into Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, said Dr Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control’s Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology. She said fewer than 100 people, including babies, will stay at Lackland but did not provide an exact number.
The plane then left Texas and transported people to Omaha, Nebraska, where it landed Friday night. The passengers will be quarantined at a nearby Nebraska National Guard training base.
A military base in San Diego earlier Friday received 65 people, who will be quarantined.
Doctor who warned about coronavirus dies
Latest coronavirus study implicates faecal transmission
The digestive tract may be a secondary path of transmission for the novel coronavirus, scientists said following the publication of the latest study reporting patients with abdominal symptoms and loose stool.
The primary path is believed to be virus-laden droplets from an infected person’s cough or sneeze, though researchers in early cases have said they focused heavily on patients with respiratory symptoms and may have overlooked those linked to the digestive tract.
A total of 14 out of 138 patients (10 percent) in a Wuhan hospital who were studied in the new paper by Chinese authors in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) initially presented with diarrhoea and nausea one or two days before developing fever and laboured breathing.
Royal Caribbean bans China, HK, Macau passport holders from ships
Royal Caribbean Cruises said on Friday it would ban guests holding China, Hong Kong or Macau passports from boarding its ships.
Guests or crew members who have travelled to, from or through mainland China, Hong Kong or Macau, or been in contact with someone who has, less than 15 days before sailing will not be allowed to board the company’s ships under the new rules.
The company would also screen guests with flu-like symptoms and those who are unsure if they had been in contact with individuals who had visited any of the three locations in the past 15 days.
US offers $100m to China, others to fight coronavirus
The US will offer up to $100m to China and other impacted countries to combat the fast-spreading coronavirus, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.
“This commitment – along with the hundreds of millions generously donated by the American private sector – demonstrates strong US leadership in response to the outbreak,” Pompeo said in a statement.
.@USAID has committed up to $100 million to combat the deadly #coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/MemYdZEqLh
— Department of State (@StateDept) February 7, 2020
Has the coronavirus cracked China’s Great Firewall?
Al Jazeera’s Inside Story programme discusses how Chinese censors are struggling to contain online outrage over the government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
Read more here and watch the full episode below.
China doing ‘very professional job’ against coronavirus: Trump
US President Donald Trump has said China is doing a “very professional job” in combating the coronavirus.
Trump said he had discussed the crisis with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a “very good” phone call late on Thursday and added that the US and China were “working together” on the issue.
WHO warns against hoarding of protective gear
Demand for masks, gowns, gloves and other protective gear has risen by up to 100 times and prices have soared due to the coronavirus, producing a “severe” disruption in supply, the WHO’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
“This situation is exacerbated by widespread use of personal protective equipment outside patient care,” he told reporters in Geneva, adding that he had spoken to manufacturers and distributors to ensure supplies for those who need them.
He also said he could see practices such as hoarding in order to ensure higher prices and called for solidarity from the public and the private sector.
Singapore lifts virus alert to SARS level
Singapore has raised its coronavirus alert level to orange – a level reached during the 2003 SARS outbreak and the 2009 H1N1 influenza – which indicates the virus is severe and passes easily between people.
Singapore has reported 33 cases of patients infected with the new coronavirus.
Unfazed by virus, S Korea couples take part in mass wedding
South Korea’s Unification Church held a mass wedding amid the outbreak.
About 6,000 couples took part in the ceremony at the Cheongshim World Peace Centre in Gapyeong, about 60 kilometres (40 miles) northeast of the capital, Seoul.
The couples said they were unfazed by the new coronavirus and the organiser said the venue had been thoroughly sterilised and that a thermal surveillance camera had been put in place.
Find out more here.
The Unification Church regularly holds mass weddings for its followers [Heo Ran/Reuters]
Italy contradicts China over possible air traffic restart
Italy has contradicted China’s assertions over a possible resumption of flights between the two countries.
Rome’s decision on January 31 to block flights to and from China was greeted with dismay by Beijing, which has been lobbying in the past few days to have the ban lifted.
“The block on flights is a measure take to immediately deal with any emergency and we will keep it in place as long as health authorities and therefore the scientific community tell us we should,” Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told a news conference in Madrid.
First Canadians repatriated from Wuhan land in Canada
A plane bringing home the first Canadians from Wuhan has landed at a military base in Canada, where the returnees will be quarantined.
The government-chartered jetliner landed at Trenton air force base east of Toronto, shortly after 6:30 am local time (11:30 GMT), after a stopover in Vancouver, Canadian TV showed.
The plane carried 176 passengers.
Hong Kong unveils quarantine plans, up to six months in jail for dodgers
Hong Kong will deploy an army of volunteers to bolster plans to forcibly quarantine all arrivals from mainland China, warning that anyone caught breaching the new rules faces up to six months prison.
In a major escalation of its battle against the new coronavirus, the international finance hub has said anyone arriving from the mainland from Saturday will have to undergo 14 days compulsory quarantine.
Read the full story here.
Read updates from Friday, February 7 here.
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UC mass wedding of 1,000 couples probed for recruiting prostitutes, nannies
Philippine Daily Inquirer MANILA
by Bobby Timonera
1996
Wedding bells set off the alarm.
Did the grooms offer to have and to hold their brides or did they offer them jobs?
This is what the Bureau of Immigration is trying to find out after the “mass wedding” held last January 23 between mostly South Korean men and nearly 1,000 Filipino women.
The exchange of “I dos,” the bureau suspects, may be an operation to illegally recruit domestic helpers and prostitutes.
Immigration Commissioner Leandro I. Verceles Sr. said his office will observe with “extreme caution” in approving the departure of the Filipino brides. He also ordered investigations into the suspicious weddings.
“This could be a case of mail-order-bride-in-reverse operation which is illegal under our laws,” the commissioner said.
The mass wedding of 984 couples at the Philippine International Convention Center was supposed to be only a religious rite and thus has no legal effect, Verceles pointed out.
Moonies
It was under the auspices of the Seoul-based Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity whose members are also known as the “Moonies.”
They are named after the controversial Rev. Sun Myung Moon of South Korea, leader of the church.
The Rev. Chung-hwan Kwak, representing Moon, blessed the couples, which included people from the United States, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, but mostly South Korea.
Verceles said the Koreans probably came over for the wedding ceremony when immigration agents at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) prevented 300 Filipino women from departing last month. They claimed to be members of the same church as the “Moonies”.
Verceles dispatched immigration agents to the wedding site to gather the names of the couples.
At the same time, he also alerted immigration personnel at the NAIA to prevent the brides from leaving while investigations are being conducted.
Citing an intelligence report from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Verceles said that the “Moonies” had previously sponsored the recruitment of a large number of Filipino women to work in Korea.
The same report said that late last year, 184 Filipinas were brought to Korea aboard a chartered plane. They were reportedly brought to a training center where they were housed for three days before being deployed as domestic helpers and prostitutes.
The Unification church said it had no immediate comment.
Not first time
It was the second mass wedding conducted in Manila by the said church. Last year, 1995, about 3,000 Filipinos were married in a basketball gym in Manila as part of a mass wedding performed by Moon via satellite from Seoul. They were among 360,000 couples married worldwide in that ceremony.
“Originally, the blessing was available only to adherents of the Unification Church,” a statement from the group said. “Now, however, anyone wanting to (can) participate, regardless of religion, race or nationality.”
Prison term
… Moon, a South Korea native, served 13 months in a U.S. federal prison on charges of tax evasion [and document forgery] before being released in 1985. …
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Moonies demanded $2,000 from Koreans who wanted to have Filipinas as “housemaids and sex partners.”
Philippine Daily Inquirer MANILA
by Bobby Timonera
1995
Farmers’ daughters are Moonie targets
The Moonies are combing the Philippine countryside in search of farmers’ daughters to lure into their trap.
One such innocent, Carlita, who is in her 20s, was lucky to get away. Carlita, her face covered with a towel, occasionally lapsed into tears and silence as she told reporters of her ordeal. This is her story.
Sometime in November, the sect’s recruiters arrived at Carlita’s village in Nueva Ecija and asked the women if they would be interested in marrying Koreans. Photographs of Korean men were passed around.
“OK, we’ll see if we get to like them,” the women said.
They were told to attend a seminar at the sect’s church in Cabanatuan City. It was supposedly about the “ideal family.”
Later, they were asked to wear nice clothing, were made up, and photographed. Then they were told that should authorities ask them about their marriage plans, they should answer that they have been writing to and talking with the Korean men over the phone for some time.
Of the four women recruited, only three were matched with Koreans. One was apparently dropped.
One day the women were invited to go to the church’s office in Manila in the company of Korean men. Along the way, the Koreans embraced them.
Suddenly afraid, Carlita and another woman alighted from the vehicle near the Nepa Q-Mart market along Edsa in Quezon City. Carlita being a daughter of one of the peasant leaders of the Demokratikong Kilusang Magbu-bukid ng Pilipinas (DKMP), the other woman rushed to the DKMP office to report the incident.
But their friend who was left behind was brought to the Unification Church’s headquarters at 32 Samar Avenue in Quezon City.
It was this woman who told peasant leader Jaime Tadeo of the DKMP that a Caucasian, whose nationality she did not know, asked the Koreans to pay him $2,000.
It was not known if the amount was payment for the recruitment job. But it jibed with a report from the Philippine Embassy in Seoul that the Moonies usually demand $2,000 from Koreans who wanted to have “housemaids and sex partners.”
The transaction appears to be part of the sect’s fund-raising campaign.
Tadeo, along with Carlita, went to the Bureau of Immigration office in Intramuros to seek its help in closing the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in Cabanatuan City.
“We believe they are just using their church as a front for illegal recruitment,” Tadeo said.
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Korean UC leaders made lots of money from “selling” hundreds of pure, faithful, Filipino sisters
Morpheus:
“I was on a staff that helped organize picture matchmaking in the late 1990s. Rev. Moon would come in and match all these young Filipino sisters to older Korean men who were not even members. I’m not sure Rev. Moon was aware of the wheeling and dealing that would go on behind the scenes. Many of these farmers and land owners would mortgage their farm to be admitted to these picture matchings. The Philippine Government complained. Discovered later that Korean leaders made lots of money this way.” (April 22, 2015)
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Dionizy, Eustachiusz, Eustachy, Fausta, Faustyna, Filipina, Irena, Oleg, Ostap, Sozant (Poland)
Ľuboslav, Ľuboslava (Slovakia)
Genaro, Jenaro (Spain)
Agda, Elise, Lisa (Sweden)
Oleh (Ukraine)
Eustace, Eustacia, Hailee, Hailey, Haleigh, Haley, Halie, Halle, Hallie, Haylee, Hayley (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 263 of 2024; 102 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of week 38 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 16 of 28]
Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 6 (Xin-Si)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 5 Tishri 5784
Islamic: 5 Rabi I 1445
J Cal: 23 Aki; Twosday [23 of 30]
Julian: 7 September 2023
Moon: 28%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 11 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Voltaire]
Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 9 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 91 of 94)
Zodiac: Virgo (Day 30 of 32)
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Holidays
Battle of the Sexes Day
Celebration of Convictions (French Republic)
Constitution Day (Nepal)
Day of Circassians
Eleven Days of Global Unity, Day 10: Disarmament
Farroupilha Revolution (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Gibberish Day
International Akathisia Awareness Day
International Children’s Growth Awareness Day
International Day of Peace
International Day of University Sport
International Magic Mushroom Day
International NFT Day
International Penile Cancer Awareness Day
Jour de Dessalines (Haiti)
Jump the Shark Day
Liberation Day (East Timor)
Mac Miller Day (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
National Addiction Professionals Day
National Bus Day (Japan)
National Care for Kids Day
National Crime and Intelligence Analyst Appreciation Day
National Equipment Manager Appreciation Day
National Farm Safety Day
National Farting Sound Day
National Fitness Day (UK)
National Gibberish Day
National LGBTQ Veteran’s Day
National Rehabilitation Day
National Science Reading Day
National Silk Day (India)
National Youth Day (Thailand)
Nuakhai (Odisha, India)
Oil Workers’ Day (Azerbaijan)
Purple Bra Day (Australia)
Ragamuffin War (Brazil)
Sambidhaan Diwas (Constitution Day; Nepal)
Unification Day (Firefly)
World Children’s Day (Thüringen, Germany)
World Day for the Freedom of Expression of Thought
World Gynecological Oncology Awareness Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Make Your Own Junk Food At Home Day
National Fried Rice Day
National Hard Seltzer Day
National Pepperoni Pizza Day
National Punch Day
National Queso Day
National Rum Punch Day
National Sour Beer Day
National String Cheese Day
Rum Punch Day
World Paella Day
3rd Wednesday in September
Banned Websites Awareness Day [3rd Wednesday]
Ember Day (Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches) [Wednesday after 9.14]
Mouth Cancer Awareness Day (Ireland) [3rd Wednesday]
National Attention Deficit Disorder Awareness Day [3rd Wednesday]
National Rehabilitation Day [3rd Wednesday]
National School Backpack Awareness Day [3rd Wednesday]
Quarter Tense (Ireland) [Wednesday after 9.14]
Independence Days
Agber (f.k.a. Kolios; Declared; 1995) [unrecognized]
Austenasia (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]
Azzurrai (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]
Marxist Empire (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]
Mekniy and Lurk (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]
South Ossetia (from Georgia, 1990) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Agapitus (Christian; Saint)
Andrew Kim Taegon, Laurent-Marie-Joseph Imbert, and companions (Christian; Korean Martyrs)
Birthday of the Sun (Inca)
Carista (Day of Peace in the Family; Pagan)
Coleridge Patteson (Anglican Communion)
Confucius Day (Confucianism)
Dale Chihuly (Artology)
Eustace (Christian; Saint)
Eustachius and companions (Christian; Martyrs)
Evilasius (Christian; Saint)
Fausta of Cyzicus (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Korean Martyrs (Christian; Martyrs)
Feast of Orlog (Deity of Destiny; Scandinavia)
Feast of Zywie (Goddess of Longevity; Poland)
Genesia (Festival to Honor the Dead, esp. those who died in wars; Ancient Greece)
Glycerius of Milan (Christian; Saint)
Jean-Charles Cornay (Christian; One of Vietnamese Martyrs)
John Coleridge Patteson (commemoration, Anglicanism) (Christian; Saint)
José Maria de Yermo y Parres (Christian; Saint)
Señor Canica (Muppetism)
Sophia Loren Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)
Telesterion begins (7th day of the Eleusinian Mysteries; Ancient Greece)
Théodore Chassériau (Artology)
Theodore, Philippa and companions (Christian; Saint)
Vincent Madelgarius (a..k.a. Maelceadar; Christian; Saint)
Voltaire (Positivist; Saint)
Yummy Kippers Day (Church of the SubGenius)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [51 of 71]
Prime Number Day: 263 [56 of 72]
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Premieres
Alice’s Monkey Business (Disney Cartoon; 1926)
Alice’s Restaurant, by Arlo Guthrie (Album; 1967)
Anasazi Boys, by Neil Gaiman (Novel; 2005)
And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie (Play; 1943)
Call Me Maybe, by Carla Rae Jepsen (Song; 2011)
The Cosby Show (TV Series; 1984)
Descent into Hell, by Charles Williams (Novel; 1937)
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, by AC/DC (Album; 1976)
Downtown Abbey (Film; 2019)
The Fisher King (Film; 1991)
Fore, by Huey Lewis & The News (Album; 1986)
Firefly (TV Series; 2002)
Here Comes the Groom (Film; 1951)
Injun Trouble (WB MM Cartoon; 1969)
Lighthouse Keeping (Disney Cartoon; 1946)
Merlin (TV Series; 2008)
Mike & Molly (TV Series; 2010)
Miss Saigon (Musical Play; 1989)
MTV Cribs (TV Series; 2000)
My Friend Flicka, by Mary O'Hara (Novel; 1941)
My Name is Earl (TV Series; 2005)
New Girl (TV Series; 2011)
Rabbit Seasoning (WB MM Cartoon; 1952)
Ringo the 4th, by Ringo Starr (Album; 1977)
Secretary (Film; 2002)
Spirited Away (Studio Ghibli Anime Film; 2002)
This Is Us (TV Series; 2016)
Travels with Charley: In Search of America, by John Steinbeck (Travelogue; 1961)
Whip-Smart, by Liz Phair (Album; 1994)
Who’s the Boss? (TV Series; 1984)
Window Cleaners (Disney Cartoon; 1940)
Today’s Name Days
Candida, Fausta, Susanne (Austria)
Andrija, Andrijana, Pavao (Croatia)
Oleg (Czech Republic)
Tobias (Denmark)
Kaubi, Kaupo (Estonia)
Varpu, Vaula (Finland)
Davy (France)
Candida, Eustach, Hertha, Susanna (Germany)
Evstathios, Stathis, Theopisti (Greece)
Friderika (Hungary)
Candida, Eustachiusz, Matteo (Italy)
Guntra, Marianna (Latvia)
Eustachijus, Fausta, Tautgirdė, Vainoras (Lithuania)
Tage, Tobias (Norway)
Dionizy, Eustachiusz, Eustachy, Fausta, Faustyna, Filipina, Irena, Oleg, Ostap, Sozant (Poland)
Ľuboslav, Ľuboslava (Slovakia)
Genaro, Jenaro (Spain)
Agda, Elise, Lisa (Sweden)
Oleh (Ukraine)
Eustace, Eustacia, Hailee, Hailey, Haleigh, Haley, Halie, Halle, Hallie, Haylee, Hayley (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 263 of 2024; 102 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of week 38 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 16 of 28]
Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 6 (Xin-Si)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 5 Tishri 5784
Islamic: 5 Rabi I 1445
J Cal: 23 Aki; Twosday [23 of 30]
Julian: 7 September 2023
Moon: 28%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 11 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Voltaire]
Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 9 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 91 of 94)
Zodiac: Virgo (Day 30 of 32)
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Holidays
All or Nothing Day
Americans with Disabilities Day
Armed Forces Unification Day
Aunts and Uncles Day
Carousel Day
Create a Signature Day
Day of Iansa (Brazil)
Day of National Significance (Barbados)
Day of the National Rebellion (Cuba)
Disability Independence Day
Esperanto Day
FBI Day
Hillary Clinton Day
Holistic Therapy Day
International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem
Kargil Vijay Diwas (a.k.a. Kargil Victory Day; India)
Moncada Day (Cuba)
Movie Theater Day
National Disability Day
National Dog Photography Day (UK)
National I Got U Day
National Boop Your Pet Day
National Ranboo Day
National Saint Day
One Voice Day
Otaru Tide Festival (Japan)
Post Office Day
Racial Desegregation Day (US Army)
Ranggeln (Germany)
Revolution Day (Cuba)
Safflower Day (French Republic)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Bagelfest Day
Curacao Day
Groovy Chicken Day
National Coffee Milkshake Day
National S’Mores Day
Roquefort Cheese Day
Wonderful Drinks Day
World Tofu Day
4th & Last Wednesday in July
Oregon Brewers Festival begins [Last full weekend; Wednesday thru Saturday]
Independence Days
Imperial Federation of the Dharug Nation (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
Liberia (from the American Colonization Society, 1847)
Maldives (from UK, 1965)
New York Statehood Day (#11; 1788)
Feast Days
Andrew of Phú Yên (Christian; Blessed)
Anne (Western Christianity)
Asarnha Bucha Day (Thailand)
Bartolomea Capitanio (Christian; Saint)
Bert (Muppetism)
Festival of Hathor (Egyptian God of Drunkenness)
Festival of Sleipnir (Norse)
Gernnanus, Bishop of Auxerre (Christian; Saint)
George Grosz (Artology)
Green Corn Ceremony Day (Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico)
Joachim (Western Christianity)
Maria Pierina (Christian; Blessed)
Paraskevi of Rome (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Poussin (Positivist; Saint)
Solstitium XIII (Pagan)
Stanley Kubrick Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Venera (Christian; Saint)
White Wine Day (Pastafarian)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [42 of 71]
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Alice in Wonderland (UK Animated Disney Film; 1951)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (Film; 2002)
The Boys (TV Series; 2019)
Bugged by a Bee (WB LT Cartoon; 1969)
Captain America: Brave New World (Film; 2024)
Chain Gang, by Sam Cooke (Song; 1960)
Curly Top (Film; 1935)
Dog Tales (WB LT Cartoon; 1958)
Equus, by Peter Shaffer (Play; 1973)
For Me and My Gal, recorded by Judy Garland and Gene Kelly (Song; 1942)
Green Lantern: Beware My Power (WB Animated Film; 2022)
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1602)
Harper Valley P.T.A., recorded by Jeannie C. Riley (Song; 1968)
Head Over Heels (Broadway Musical; 2018)
Kingpin (Film; 1996)
Little Miss Sunshine (Film; 2006)
Lord of the Dance, by Michael Flatley (Musical Performance; 1996)
National Lampoon’s European Vacation (Film; 1985)
Oily Hare (WB MM Cartoon; 19522)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Film; 2019)
Parsifal, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1882)
Point Counter Point, by Aldous Huxley (Book; 1928)
A Rainy Day in New York (Film; 2019)
Rock Bottom, by Robert Wyatt (Album; 1974)
Searching for Sugar Man (Documentary Film; 2012)
Thomas and the Magic Railroad (Film; 2000)
The To Do List (Film; 2013)
Unidentified Flying Oddball (Film; 1979)
What Happened to Mary (Serial Film; 1912)
The Wolverine (Film; 2013)
Today’s Name Days
Anna, Gloria, Joachim (Austria)
Paraskeva (Bulgaria)
Ana, Bara, Barica, Joakim (Croatia)
Anna (Czech Republic)
Anna (Denmark)
Anete, Anita, Ann, Anna, Anne, Anneli, Anni, Annika, Anu (Estonia)
Martta (Finland)
Anne, Hannah, Joachin (France)
Anna, Joachim (Germany)
Erse, Ersi, Paraskeve, Paraskevi (Greece)
Anikó, Anna (Hungary)
Anna, Benigno, Caro, Giacomo (Italy)
Ance, Aneta, Anna, Annija (Latvia)
Daugintas, Eigirdė, Ona (Lithuania)
Ane, Anna, Anne (Norway)
Anna, Bartolomea, Grażyna, Mirosława (Poland)
Anna, Hana (Slovakia)
Ana, Joaquín (Spain)
Jesper (Sweden)
Sara, Sarah (Ukraine)
Ana, Anissa, Anita, Anika, Aniya, Aniyah, Ann, Anna, Anne, Annette, Annie, Annika, Annis, Annmarie, Anson, Anya, Blake, Hanna, Hannah, Nancy, Nanette, Nina (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 207 of 2024; 158 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of week 30 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 17 of 28]
Chinese: Month 6 (Ji-Wei), Day 9 (Yi-You)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 8 Av 5783
Islamic: 8 Muharram 1445
J Cal: 27 Lux; Sixday [27 of 30]
Julian: 13 July 2023
Moon: 58%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 11 Dante (8th Month) [Poussin]
Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 13 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 36 of 94)
Zodiac: Leo (Day 5 of 31)
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Holidays 7.26
Holidays
All or Nothing Day
Americans with Disabilities Day
Armed Forces Unification Day
Aunts and Uncles Day
Carousel Day
Create a Signature Day
Day of Iansa (Brazil)
Day of National Significance (Barbados)
Day of the National Rebellion (Cuba)
Disability Independence Day
Esperanto Day
FBI Day
Hillary Clinton Day
Holistic Therapy Day
International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem
Kargil Vijay Diwas (a.k.a. Kargil Victory Day; India)
Moncada Day (Cuba)
Movie Theater Day
National Disability Day
National Dog Photography Day (UK)
National I Got U Day
National Boop Your Pet Day
National Ranboo Day
National Saint Day
One Voice Day
Otaru Tide Festival (Japan)
Post Office Day
Racial Desegregation Day (US Army)
Ranggeln (Germany)
Revolution Day (Cuba)
Safflower Day (French Republic)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Bagelfest Day
Curacao Day
Groovy Chicken Day
National Coffee Milkshake Day
National S’Mores Day
Roquefort Cheese Day
Wonderful Drinks Day
World Tofu Day
4th & Last Wednesday in July
Oregon Brewers Festival begins [Last full weekend; Wednesday thru Saturday]
Independence Days
Imperial Federation of the Dharug Nation (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
Liberia (from the American Colonization Society, 1847)
Maldives (from UK, 1965)
New York Statehood Day (#11; 1788)
Feast Days
Andrew of Phú Yên (Christian; Blessed)
Anne (Western Christianity)
Asarnha Bucha Day (Thailand)
Bartolomea Capitanio (Christian; Saint)
Bert (Muppetism)
Festival of Hathor (Egyptian God of Drunkenness)
Festival of Sleipnir (Norse)
Gernnanus, Bishop of Auxerre (Christian; Saint)
George Grosz (Artology)
Green Corn Ceremony Day (Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico)
Joachim (Western Christianity)
Maria Pierina (Christian; Blessed)
Paraskevi of Rome (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Poussin (Positivist; Saint)
Solstitium XIII (Pagan)
Stanley Kubrick Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Venera (Christian; Saint)
White Wine Day (Pastafarian)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [42 of 71]
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Alice in Wonderland (UK Animated Disney Film; 1951)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (Film; 2002)
The Boys (TV Series; 2019)
Bugged by a Bee (WB LT Cartoon; 1969)
Captain America: Brave New World (Film; 2024)
Chain Gang, by Sam Cooke (Song; 1960)
Curly Top (Film; 1935)
Dog Tales (WB LT Cartoon; 1958)
Equus, by Peter Shaffer (Play; 1973)
For Me and My Gal, recorded by Judy Garland and Gene Kelly (Song; 1942)
Green Lantern: Beware My Power (WB Animated Film; 2022)
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1602)
Harper Valley P.T.A., recorded by Jeannie C. Riley (Song; 1968)
Head Over Heels (Broadway Musical; 2018)
Kingpin (Film; 1996)
Little Miss Sunshine (Film; 2006)
Lord of the Dance, by Michael Flatley (Musical Performance; 1996)
National Lampoon’s European Vacation (Film; 1985)
Oily Hare (WB MM Cartoon; 19522)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Film; 2019)
Parsifal, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1882)
Point Counter Point, by Aldous Huxley (Book; 1928)
A Rainy Day in New York (Film; 2019)
Rock Bottom, by Robert Wyatt (Album; 1974)
Searching for Sugar Man (Documentary Film; 2012)
Thomas and the Magic Railroad (Film; 2000)
The To Do List (Film; 2013)
Unidentified Flying Oddball (Film; 1979)
What Happened to Mary (Serial Film; 1912)
The Wolverine (Film; 2013)
Today’s Name Days
Anna, Gloria, Joachim (Austria)
Paraskeva (Bulgaria)
Ana, Bara, Barica, Joakim (Croatia)
Anna (Czech Republic)
Anna (Denmark)
Anete, Anita, Ann, Anna, Anne, Anneli, Anni, Annika, Anu (Estonia)
Martta (Finland)
Anne, Hannah, Joachin (France)
Anna, Joachim (Germany)
Erse, Ersi, Paraskeve, Paraskevi (Greece)
Anikó, Anna (Hungary)
Anna, Benigno, Caro, Giacomo (Italy)
Ance, Aneta, Anna, Annija (Latvia)
Daugintas, Eigirdė, Ona (Lithuania)
Ane, Anna, Anne (Norway)
Anna, Bartolomea, Grażyna, Mirosława (Poland)
Anna, Hana (Slovakia)
Ana, Joaquín (Spain)
Jesper (Sweden)
Sara, Sarah (Ukraine)
Ana, Anissa, Anita, Anika, Aniya, Aniyah, Ann, Anna, Anne, Annette, Annie, Annika, Annis, Annmarie, Anson, Anya, Blake, Hanna, Hannah, Nancy, Nanette, Nina (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 207 of 2024; 158 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of week 30 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 17 of 28]
Chinese: Month 6 (Ji-Wei), Day 9 (Yi-You)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 8 Av 5783
Islamic: 8 Muharram 1445
J Cal: 27 Lux; Sixday [27 of 30]
Julian: 13 July 2023
Moon: 58%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 11 Dante (8th Month) [Poussin]
Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 13 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 36 of 94)
Zodiac: Leo (Day 5 of 31)
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“Absolutely insane” the UC allowed this. Hyung Jin Moon describes violent attacks on wives "blessed” to Korean men.
▲ The Unification Church can be held responsible for the many cases of abuse of imported wives by non-member Korean husbands. The above poster promotes Japanese women available for marriage. It was affixed in a South Korean farming village. Marriages were then officiated by Sun Myung Moon in a mass marriage held in Seoul.
Translation of the poster (Korean on the left and Japanese on the right):
True Marriage to a Japanese Woman
Nonprofit community service organization: Registration No. 1300
♥ Junior college or higher educational background
♥ Healthy body and mind
♥ For a young man who has stable employment (around 30 years old)
(Previously married men and women, now single, must be aged 60 or less)
Ideal spouse with a chaste sense of values.
We will match you up.
True Family Practice in conjunction with ◯◯ Committee
Consultation phone
Counselor / Consultation Staff
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Hyung Jin Moon Town Hall meeting in San Francisco on October 7, 2012
https://vimeo.com/51465215
3:21:36
Hyung Jin Moon: “The first question was about the Blessing. “Can the Blessing be broken?” was the key question.”
“There are cases in Korea, for example, we had one sister who was physically assaulted. She was hit in the head with a hammer by her husband and her eye literally popped out of the socket – and she pregnant at the time. So we had situations, and of course this was due to the zero standards we had in Korea for the Blessing. Our sisters were given to men who had zero standards. And of course the excuse was Father was forcing us to do big numbers. Well, Father forced me to do big numbers for the Blessing, but we made standards. We had to make standards in terms of the Blessing candidates, specially for people coming in from outside [Korea] for international blessings, in particular for Japanese sisters, Filipina sisters and sisters from Thailand. Before those standards were made we had these kind of situations with severe types of domestic violence. I remember one sister who came to the Cheongpadong Church. She had been assaulted with a knife at her throat. Her husband threatened to kill her.
It is absolutely insane that we would let such fools marry our daughters, honestly speaking. So that is why we had to make clear standards. So of course some of the standards were that you have to be a Unificationist; you have to share the same faith; you have to have a steady job for the last two years, if you are about to get married you have to be employed; you have to tithe to the community so you are owning the faith and you are supporting the community, etc. But also you understand that your wife is a missionary. She is a missionary of the Unification Church, she is not just a mail order bride, is what they would call a bride from a mail order bride church. So this absolutely needed to be done, so we worked with our particular family department, with Mrs Chang who was the head for a couple of years, to make those standards. That was very important. In the case of serious, serious domestic violence and things like that – you probably know Erikawa-san, who the Japanese sisters will know, an incredible leader, who was in charge of the international blessed families group – she also made a shelter for people to leave if their husband had tried to murder them, or something like that, so they were able to find shelter somewhere else. So such realities as that exist.
In those cases of serious, serious threat, of course some sisters were even continually wanting to believe in their husbands even though they were in prison, or whatever, [they] had to make the decision to cut and break their blessing. So there are circumstances in certain people’s situations which really prevent them from operating in their blessing, in their marriage. However, as a church of course we always want to uphold the meaning of the blessing. There are situations where, many times, couples may feel that their blessing has totally collapsed and maybe feel they have no more energy to do it, but maybe have a try, have counseling with a pastor, or counseling with a support group in the church, or things like that to try to start up on a new foot. There are times when that cannot happen; it just doesn’t work. In terms of those cases in Korea that I mentioned, the sisters had to break their blessings; they were simply under threat for their lives. So in those cases the church tried to help them make the transition, to help them find some shelter. Also if there was real domestic violence that was super serious of course it was important to try to put that guy in prison. …”
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NOTE: Hyung Jin Moon does not mention children. Some wives escaped with their children, some only with their youngest child, some had no choice but to leave their children behind. Often the husbands held their wife’s passport and took other measures to make it difficult for them to leave. Usually the husbands had paid $thousands for a matching and the Unification Church mass wedding and did not want to lose their investment.
The Roman Catholic Church in Seoul (Philippine branch) took care of many beaten and distressed victims of Unification Church mass marriages. The scale of the abuse became a national scandal.
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Why did a Japanese Moon church member kill her Korean husband?
Japanese woman recruited by the Unification Church and sold to an older Korean farmer
Japanese member, Ms. U, married to a Korean man who beat her
6,500 Japanese women missing from Sun Myung Moon mass weddings
Japanese member, Ms. K, was forced to marry Korean man she did not like
“Apology marriages” made by Japanese UC members to Korean men
#Hyung Jin Moon#domestic violence#mass marriages#Japanese wives#abuse#Unification Church#Sun Myung Moon#Hak Ja Han#FFWPU
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Why it is not wrong to say Tetsuya is a hero, and why we must be clear about this
Who has done more to expose the Unification Church than Tetsuya Yamagami? That is something we need to ponder and consider. Individualistic violence will not solve the problems of this world. And yet this violent act is exposing this abusive organization to all of Japanese society, and the world. His actions have unveiled so much about the UC’s twisted history and its current dynamics. Many can see now, that at its very core, the UC is evil.
This will undoubtedly play a role in the UC losing its membership and influence in society. Many have their faith unraveling as we speak, and the second and third and fourth generation coming into this world, where the facts of the UC are so plain, is making it impossible for the UC to go on much longer.
The tragic truth is that they will need to further exploit their members in Thailand, the Philippines, Mongolia, Central Asia, Nepal, and elsewhere, in order to sustain and push forward what is left of this destructive organization. This is why we need to be clear about Tetsuya, about the pain he and his family suffered, and the reasons why this suffering was produced. We cannot lose our firmness as this moment passes. The whole world needs to understand that there is nothing redeemable about UC institutions, and that this organization’s work is that of Satan’s, for “steals, kills, and destroys” (John 10:10).
Tetsuya made a desperate choice that is changing so many people’s lives, and has drastically shifted the narrative and understanding of the UC among the Japanese public. This will change the course of the UC. His desperate choice was not evil. It was individualistic, in some ways it can be seen as short-sighted... but it seems like in most ways, it was not short-sighted. He had a goal and it is coming to pass. Nothing can undo how his action has changed people’s consciousness. He has brought too much to light. May this light reach the whole world.
We do not need violence to continue to make his message clear, but we must stop dismissing this action as somehow insane, evil, or unforgivable. He did what he did out of legitimate suffering and rage, and he made it clear that it was also for all of us.
NO DEATH PENALTY FOR TETSUYA YAMAGAMI
FREE TETSUYA YAMAGAMI
END UNIFICATION CHURCH ABUSE AND EXPLOITATION, ALL OVER THE WORLD
#tetsuya yamagami#unification church#moonies#jacob children#jacob child#second generation#unification church in japan#death penalty#law#legal
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Moonies Against Gay Marriage, a Global Fight
Picture from a Taipei rally of 300,000, largely organized by the Universal Peace Federation
I really appreciated this essay that got posted on WIOTM recently, which was incredibly enlightening on what Moonie political power in Japan looks like, and what Moonie theology in practice looks like. I sent my reflections elsewhere but thought I'd shed some light here on a snippet of the anti-LGBTQ work of the Unification Church on a global level.
As we know, Uganda's infamous "kill the gays" bill was largely stoked and funded by foreign powers, namely Evangelicals, such as those affiliated with The Call/The International House of Prayer in Kansas City (IHOPKC)/etc. The Unification Church and UPF, too, had some role in contributing to this rhetoric, pushing for those during this time to support "traditional marriage." A number of those who lobbied on behalf of this bill had previously attended UPF-affiliated events.
Anti-LGBTQ legislation and propaganda is part of an effort by the UC group worldwide.
From 2016 in Kenya: "The President of the Family Federation for World Peace Unification (FFWPU), George Ogurie, has called on the world leaders, who had ratified into law, same sex marriage in their countries, to rescind their decision for the sake of humanity."
In 2016, Dr. Raphel Oko, Secretary General of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) Nigeria, claimed that homosexuality was rooted in selfishness, like all of his country's problems, adding that Nigeria could only be good "if we live for the sake of others."
UPF significantly contributed to and supported a November 30, 2013 rally of 300,000 people in Taipei to support traditional two-parent families and oppose gay marriage.
In Texas, Moonies aired Richard Cohen's Gay to Straight video on TV in several Texas cities the right before the vote in 2005 against gay marriage.
The Moonie interreligious conferences at the UN often include sessions on preserving the traditional families. Such as the "Contribution of Families to Peace, Human Development & Prosperity" at the UN HQ in Geneva, July 5-6, 2012
UPF has been running marriage/family workshops all over the world, stressing the fight against gay marriage. These meetings have happened in Sierra Leone, Argentina, Australia, France, Nigeria, Thailand, Albania, the Philippines, & countless other countries in the past decade.
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Excerpts from Korean comfort woman Mun Ok-chu’s memoir
The following are excerpts from Korean comfort woman Mun Ok-chu’s memoir. It shows what it was like to be a comfort woman in Burma. (Translated)
버마전선 일본군 위안부 문옥주 문옥주 할머니 일대기
역사의 증언 두번째 이야기
모리카와 마치코 지음
김정성 옮김
2005년 08월 08일 출간
▲ Mun Ok-chu
“Myself as a comfort woman for Tate Division deployed in Burma”
by Mun Oku-chu
(published August 2005)
(In Mandalay, Burma)
page 63
The soldiers and we had the same thoughts, that is, we must work hard for our emperor. The soldiers gave up their wives, children and their own lives. Knowing how they felt, I did my best to solace them by having conversation with them.
page 68
I prayed for safety of Ichiro Yamada. After two or three of months, the troop unit to which Yamada belonged returned from the front. Yamada returned in good health. He immediately came to the comfort station. He said “I, private first class soldier Yamada, have just come back from the front.” Yamada gave a salute to me. We hugged in full of joy. Such a day was so special that the comfort station owner Matsumoto (a Korean from Daegu) closed business for the day. The comfort station was full of excitement, and we, comfort women, contributed 1 yen per woman to hold a big party for them.
page 75
I saved a considerable amount of money from tips. So I asked a clerical staff whether or not I could have a saving account and put the money in the account. His reply was positive. I knew that all the soldiers put their earnings in the saving accounts in the field post office, so I decided to put my money in the saving account. I asked a soldier to make a personal seal and put 500 yen in the account. I got my savings passbook and found 500 yen written on the passbook. I became the owner of the savings passbook for the first time in my life. I worked in Daegu as a nanny and a street seller from the childhood but I remained poor no matter how hard I worked. I could not believe that I could have so much money in my saving account. A house in Daegu cost 1,000 yen at the time. I could let my mother have an easy life. I felt very happy and proud. The savings passbook became my treasure.
page 98
Ichiro Yamada came to see me once a week and I was in a great mood on that day from the morning. But if he did not show up on his once a week holiday, I became so worried wondering if he was killed by the enemy that I could not work properly. He made me worry so much.
(In Rangoon, Burma)
pages 106~107
I was able to have more freedom in Rangoon than before. Of course, not completely free but I could go out once a week or twice a month with permission from the Korean owner. It was fun to go shopping by rickshaw. I can’t forget the experience of shopping in a market in Rangoon. There were lots of jewelry shops because many jewels were produced in Burma, and ruby and jade were not expensive. One of my friends collected many jewels. I thought I should have a jewel myself, so I went and bought a diamond.
page 107
I often went to see Japanese movies and Kabuki plays in which players came from the mainland Japan. I enjoyed watching players change costumes many times and male players portray women’s roles. I became a popular woman in Rangoon. There were a lot more officers in Rangoon than near the frontlines, so I was invited to many parties. I sang songs at parties and received lots of tips.
(In Saigon, Vietnam)
pages 115~118
It was finally time to return home. I went to Saigon via Thailand. The ship was to depart from Saigon. Then Tsubame said “I had a nightmare in the morning about my mother vomiting blood. I am afraid that something unlucky will happen, so I will not return to Korea.” Hiroko, Kifa and Hifumi agreed with Tsubame saying “We will not go back to Korea, either.”
page 120
When I went to a cabaret where Japanese military men hung out, navy pilots were there. Some of them asked me “Why are you still here?” I replied “I am still here because I don’t want to go home. I want to go back to Rangoon.”
page 121
I put on a pair of high heels, a green coat and carried an alligator leather handbag. I swaggered about in a fashionable dress. No one could guess that I was a comfort woman. I felt so happy and proud.
(Back In Rangoon)
page 123
A military man came on a bicycle and asked me “Hi Yoshiko, can you ride a bicycle?” I replied “No, I can’t.” He asked “Would you like to learn how to ride?” I learned with pleasure. I rode it smoothly through the town of Rangoon. I didn’t see any other women on bicycles. People on the street looked back at me. It was fun for me to go to the town of Rangoon. I talked with people in Burmese, Japanese and Korean. I had no difficulty communicating when I shopped.
page 126
I killed a non-commissioned officer who was drunk and held the sword against me. I won acquittal as legitimate self-defense, and many military men were pleased with that court decision.
page 137
I withdrew 5,000 yen from my saving account and sent it to my mother.
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Mun Ok-ju worked in Burma during the period of two years and three months between June 1943 and September 1945. She accumulated total savings of 26,145 yen in deposits at the military post office (Japan’s post office has banking functions). With interest, she earned 50,000 yen from her business. In the 1940s, 5000 yen would have been enough to purchase a house in Tokyo.
http://scholarsinenglish.blogspot.jp/2014/10/former-korean-comfort-woman-mun-oku.html
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Psychological Terrorism by The Unification Church at Cheongpyeong
Understanding Sun Myung Moon’s attitude to sex by taking a look at Korean history
Almost all these Comfort Station managers / owners were Korean
Koreans who experienced the Japanese annexation of Korea explain some facts
The Comfort Women controversy
Contents of the webpage:
1. Meet Miki Dezaki, Director of the film, Shusenjo: The Main Battleground Of The Comfort Women Issue.
2. Thousands of Korean men and women tricked, kidnapped or forcibly abducted Korean girls to be ‘comfort women’. Statistical Yearbook of the Governor-General of Korea, from 1931-1943.
3. U.S. military documents featuring Korean POW testimony discovered at U.S. National Archives
4. Korean testimony documents highlight ethnic and gender discrimination under Japanese colonial rule
5. “The Comfort Women” (2008) book by Professor C. Sarah Soh (352pp)
6. “Comfort Women of the Empire” the battle over colonial rule and memory (2014) 帝国の慰安婦 植民地支配と記憶の闘い by Professor Park Yu-ha, 박유하, 朴裕河 (336pp)
7. Mun Ok-chu’s memoir
8. Chart of Comfort Station managers, revealing they were Korean
9. The Korean “Comfort Station Manager’s Diary”
10. Comfort Women Urgently Wanted – Ads in Korean newspapers
11. Comfort Women rescued by Japanese military police
12. Kim Tŏk-chin was recruited by Koreans at 17 to be a ‘comfort woman’
Various historical documents and oral histories
13. In 1965 Japan gave $800 million as reparations for Korean occupation
14. Military commentator Ji Man-won raised “fake comfort women” question
Footnotes
1. Interview with Professor C. Sarah Soh
2. Extract from a presentation by Professor Soh
3. Behind the Comfort Women Controversy: How Lies Became Truth by Professor Nishioka Tsutomu
4. No Organized or Forced Recruitment: Misconceptions About Comfort Women and the Japanese Military by Hata Ikuhiko Professor Emeritus, Nihon University
5. GSOMIA lives, but what’s next for Japan and South Korea ties?
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Japan gave $800 million in 1965 as reparations for Korean occupation
The Japanese government supported Korea with $800million in 1965, $400m in 1983 and over $10 billion in 1997.
The Japanese Role in Korea’s Economic Development
“About 100 Korean women were abducted by Korean prostitution brokers but were rescued by the Japanese military police.”
Japanese woman recruited by the Unification Church and sold to an older Korean farmer
6,500 Japanese women missing from Sun Myung Moon mass weddings
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FFWPU demanded $2,000 from Koreans who wanted to have Filipinas as “housemaids and sex partners.”
Philippine Daily Inquirer MANILA
by Bobby Timonera
1995
Farmers’ daughters are Moonie targets
The Moonies are combing the Philippine countryside in search of farmers’ daughters to lure into their trap.
One such innocent, Carlita, who is in her 20s, was lucky to get away. Carlita, her face covered with a towel, occasionally lapsed into tears and silence as she told reporters of her ordeal. This is her story.
Sometime in November, the sect’s recruiters arrived at Carlita’s village in Nueva Ecija and asked the women if they would be interested in marrying Koreans. Photographs of Korean men were passed around.
“OK, we’ll see if we get to like them,” the women said.
They were told to attend a seminar at the sect’s church in Cabanatuan City. It was supposedly about the “ideal family.”
Later, they were asked to wear nice clothing, were made up, and photographed. Then they were told that should authorities ask them about their marriage plans, they should answer that they have been writing to and talking with the Korean men over the phone for some time.
Of the four women recruited, only three were matched with Koreans. One was apparently dropped.
One day the women were invited to go to the church’s office in Manila in the company of Korean men. Along the way, the Koreans embraced them.
Suddenly afraid, Carlita and another woman alighted from the vehicle near the Nepa Q-Mart market along Edsa in Quezon City. Carlita being a daughter of one of the peasant leaders of the Demokratikong Kilusang Magbu-bukid ng Pilipinas (DKMP), the other woman rushed to the DKMP office to report the incident.
But their friend who was left behind was brought to the Unification Church’s headquarters at 32 Samar Avenue in Quezon City.
It was this woman who told peasant leader Jaime Tadeo of the DKMP that a Caucasian, whose nationality she did not know, asked the Koreans to pay him $2,000.
It was not known if the amount was payment for the recruitment job. But it jibed with a report from the Philippine Embassy in Seoul that the Moonies usually demand $2,000 from Koreans who wanted to have “housemaids and sex partners.”
The transaction appears to be part of the sect’s fund-raising campaign.
Tadeo, along with Carlita, went to the Bureau of Immigration office in Intramuros to seek its help in closing the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in Cabanatuan City.
“We believe they are just using their church as a front for illegal recruitment,” Tadeo said.
UC mass wedding of 1,000 couples probed for recruiting prostitutes, nannies
The mention of prostitutes in the newspaper article below is confirmed by:
Republic of the Philippines – Office of the President
Philippine Center on Transnational Crime
“Korean sect …. Moonies … Documented cases include women eventually sold into prostitution upon arrival in Korea.”
Philippine Daily Inquirer MANILA
by Bobby Timonera
1996
Wedding bells set off the alarm.
Did the grooms offer to have and to hold their brides or did they offer them jobs?
This is what the Bureau of Immigration is trying to find out after the “mass wedding” held last January 23 between mostly South Korean men and nearly 1,000 Filipino women.
The exchange of “I dos,” the bureau suspects, may be an operation to illegally recruit domestic helpers and prostitutes.
Immigration Commissioner Leandro I. Verceles Sr. said his office will observe with “extreme caution” in approving the departure of the Filipino brides. He also ordered investigations into the suspicious weddings.
“This could be a case of mail-order-bride-in-reverse operation which is illegal under our laws,” the commissioner said.
The mass wedding of 984 couples at the Philippine International Convention Center was supposed to be only a religious rite and thus has no legal effect, Verceles pointed out.
Moonies
It was under the auspices of the Seoul-based Family Federation for World Peace and Unification / Unification Church / Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity whose members are also known as the “Moonies.”
They are named after the controversial Rev. Sun Myung Moon of South Korea, leader of the church.
The Rev. Chung-hwan Kwak, representing Moon, blessed the couples, which included people from the United States, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, but mostly South Korea.
Verceles said the Koreans probably came over for the wedding ceremony when immigration agents at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) prevented 300 Filipino women from departing last month. They claimed to be members of the same church as the “Moonies”.
Verceles dispatched immigration agents to the wedding site to gather the names of the couples.
At the same time, he also alerted immigration personnel at the NAIA to prevent the brides from leaving while investigations are being conducted.
Citing an intelligence report from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Verceles said that the “Moonies” had previously sponsored the recruitment of a large number of Filipino women to work in Korea.
The same report said that late last year, 184 Filipinas were brought to Korea aboard a chartered plane. They were reportedly brought to a training center where they were housed for three days before being deployed as domestic helpers and prostitutes.
The Unification church said it had no immediate comment.
Not first time
It was the second mass wedding conducted in Manila by the said church. Last year, 1995, about 3,000 Filipinos were married in a basketball gym in Manila as part of a mass wedding performed by Moon via satellite from Seoul. They were among 360,000 couples married worldwide in that ceremony.
“Originally, the blessing was available only to adherents of the Unification Church,” a statement from the group said. “Now, however, anyone wanting to (can) participate, regardless of religion, race or nationality.”
Prison term
… Moon, a South Korea native, served 13 months in a U.S. federal prison on charges of tax evasion before being released in 1985. …
Catholic Church helps Filipinas running from violent FFWPU marriages in Korea
In November 2009, Philippine Ambassador to South Korea Luis Cruz warned Filipina women against marrying Korean men. He said in recent months that the Philippine Embassy in Seoul has received complaints from Filipino wives of abuses committed by their Korean husbands that caused separation, divorce and abandonment. As language and cultural differences become an issue, the Filipina women are regarded as commodities bought for a price.
Korean FFWPU leaders made lots of money from “selling” hundreds of pure, faithful, Filipino sisters
Morpheus (former FFWPU / UC member):
“I was on a staff that helped organize picture matchmaking in the late 1990s. Rev. Moon would come in and match all these young Filipino sisters to older Korean men who were not even members. I’m not sure Rev. Moon was aware of the wheeling and dealing that would go on behind the scenes. Many of these farmers and land owners would mortgage their farm to be admitted to these picture matchings. The Philippine Government complained. Discovered later that Korean leaders made lots of money this way.” (22nd April 2015)
“Filipino people hate the Unification Church for selling off Filipina women to Korean men.”
“I recently met several Filipino people, and when I told them I was raised in the Unification Church, they were concerned. Their knowledge of the Unification Church is of young people in the Philippines on the street, selling rosaries and Catholic paraphernalia, hiding their Unificationist identity. Apparently Moonies over there are known for being young and being controlled by church leaders. This is a well-accepted fact in their country. Moonies are also known for their fasting, rejecting food till they reach their fundraising quota. Also, all these Filipino people, none who ever belonged to the church, told me that Filipino people hate the church for selling off Filipina women to Korean men.”
An extradition treaty meant Moon could have been charged with illegal recruitment and incarcerated in the Philippines. The UC then smashed the windows of the Philippine embassy in Seoul.
Violence by the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification / Unification Church – Republic of the Philippines Files Diplomatic Protest with Seoul
MANILA – The government has filed a diplomatic protest with South Korea after the Philippine Embassy in Seoul was damaged in a rally staged by members of the Unification Church, whose members are known as Moonies.
The Embassy filed the formal protest with the Korean foreign ministry on orders of Foreign Affairs Secretary Domingo Siazon. The embassy also asked for tighter police protection for its staff.
Based on the report from Seoul, demonstrations were held in front of the embassy by Korean members of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (HSA-UWC) on Feb. 13 and 14.
The demonstrators were able to cross police lines and smashed the windows of the embassy building.
The embassy said Korean policemen assigned to keep the demonstrations peaceful did not do anything to prevent the protest action from getting out of hand.
The demonstrations were spurred by the filing of charges with the Department of Justice by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) against the HSA-UWC leaders for alleged violations of the mail-order bride law.
The NBI said the sect leaders were involved in illegal recruitment of Filipino women under the guise of “marriage” with the Korean nationals.
Immigration Commissioner Lenadro Verceles earlier banned the members of the sect who participated in the “mass wedding” from re-entering the country.
He also placed in the immigration’s hold departure list close to 1,000 Filipino “brides” of the “Moonies” to prevent them from leaving for South Korea.
Verceles said that the “mass wedding” performed by the sect was merely a ploy to bring Filipino women to South Korea to work as domestic helpers or prostitutes.
Verceles also described the mass wedding as illegal and unauthorized, saying that the celebrants did not have the authority to perform the ceremony as required by Philippine law.
CFC/PS/smm
… A 31 October 1996 GMA-7 Radio-Television Arts Network report states that an extradition treaty was signed between the Philippine and South Korean governments; members of the Unification Church, including its leader, Reverend Sun Myong Moon, could then be charged with illegal recruitment and incarcerated in the Philippines.
source: Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Further information about the illegal activities of the FFWPU in the Philippines
Israel Houghton, Yolanda Adams, Hezekiah Walker, Noel Jones and A. Curtis Farrow are supporting the FFWPU which sold girls into slavery
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