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Sun Myung Moon – Emperor of the Universe video and transcript

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The link above is to a 47 minute version of the original 60 minute documentary.

“REPUTATIONS Sun Myung Moon: Emperor of the Universe”

A BBC / A&E Network co-production 2000.

It may also have been known as “Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Emperor of the Universe”. It was broadcast as a 60 minute documentary by the BBC.In the US and Asia a shortened version was broadcast.

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Sun Myung Moon died in 2012. These words were written on his coffin:

天一國眞聖德皇帝億兆蒼生 (천일국 진성덕황제 억조창생)

 萬勝君皇太平聖代萬事亨通 (만승군황 태평성대 만사형통)

“True Emperor of Cheon Il Guk with Holiness and Virtue

 Emperor of Absolute Victory over the whole”

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Contributors

Allen Tate Wood (ex senior member) Antonio Betancourt (Unification Church) Bo Hi Pak (special assistant to Moon) Chung Hwan Kwak (senior leader, Unification Church) Cathryn Mazer (ex follower) Cesar Zaduski (Unification Church, Brazil) Donna Collins (ex member, second gen.) Sir Edward Heath (former British Prime Minister) George Bush (former President of the US) Herb Rosedale (anti-cult lawyer and founding member of ICSA) Jorge Guldenzoph (Unification Church, Uruguay) Juan Ramos (Bank Worker’s Association of Uruguay) General John Singlaub (former Chairman of World Anti-Communist League) Michael Hershman (US Congressional Investigator) Nansook Hong (Moon’s ex daughter-in-law) Neil Salonen (former President of the Unification Church in the US) Robin Marsh (Unification Church, UK) Ron Paquette (former executive in Moon organization) Ronald Reagan (former President of the US) William Cheshire (former Editor, Washington Times)

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Transcript updated October 23, 2021.

A transcript of the full 60 minute production follows. Note that about a dozen images have been added to the transcript. These are indicated by ❖. Some are just better or alternative versions of images that are in the documentary. A few comments have been added.

November 28, 1999 Reno, Nevada

Narrator: “Yesterday the body of a 21-year-old Korean male was found on a casino skywalk after apparently falling 17 floors. A hotel guest spotted the body shortly after dawn. He had checked in the previous day around 8am. It sure looks like suicide.”

Narrator: “In the press the young man’s death stirred barely a ripple of interest – until it emerged who he was. He lived on a palatial estate. His father was famous – a modern day messiah.”

Seoul, South Korea

Bo Hi Pak (special assistant to Moon): “He is a great teacher. He is a great prophet, and the messiah.”

Antonio Betancourt (Unification Church): “We see him as the lord of the universe, the first person coming as God’s representative.”

Narrator: “A convicted felon, he controls wealth beyond imagination.”

Allen Tate Wood (ex senior member): “At the heart of Moon’s psyche is the drive, the need for power.”

1:00 Narrator: “He thinks he can literally buy countries?”

Herb Rosedale (lawyer, ICSA): “Absolutely”

Narrator: “He leads a church or a cult?”

Allen Tate Wood: “He [Moon] is quoted as saying this, ‘We want absolute control of the mind,’ and to me that means brainwashing”

Narrator: “He marries off total strangers.”

Bo Hi Pak: “Rev Moon is, sort of, [the] world’s finest matchmaker.”

Rev Moon: “Mansei!”

Allen Tate Wood: “They are given a kendo stick, and the woman has to bend over and the man hits her three times as hard as he can with the kendo stick.”

Narrator: “He crusaded against communism.”

Bo Hi Pak: “Who did liberate communism? To me, [it is] very clear. It’s the Rev. Moon.”

Narrator: “His stated aim is world domination.”

Donna Collins (ex follower): “You have to be prepared to die for him, and he says that.”

Cheering crowd: “Mansei!”

2:00 Narrator: “He is Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Moonies”

Cheering crowd: “Mansei!”

Allen Tate Wood: “He’d clap his hands and he’d say: ‘Where I am going is to the Kingdom of Heaven, and I want you to come with me, all of those of you who want to come with me, come ahead. The rest of you, out of my way.’”

Allen Tate Wood: “One of the things they say in their prayers is ‘Crush Satan, Out Satan, Crush Satan, Out Satan.’ Oh, it was tremendously exciting. These were the end times. These were the ‘Last Days’ and we had the great blessing to be on the side of the son of God. I loved him, I adored him.”

Antonio Betancourt: “It is an awesome feeling when you are near him. You feel in the presence of an enormous power.”

Allen Tate Wood: “This is a man who is going towards his destiny regardless of what anybody else thinks, says or does.”

3:02 Narrator: “Moon says that from soon after his birth in 1920, in a village in North Korea, he was clairvoyant and could see the future. His legend is strange and fascinating. At age 15, his followers believe, he walked up into the mountains one Easter morning to pray. There were clouds tipped with gold. Jesus stepped out of the clouds.”

Bo Hi Pak: “Put his hands on his head, and the voice was very clear: ‘Now you are to take over my undone mission. I will be walking every step of the day with you.”

Narrator: “Moon protested he was unworthy, but Jesus insisted.” LINK

4:00 Bo Hi Pak: “To me, Rev Moon coming to this world is the second coming of Christ.”

Antonio Betancourt: “Well his power is greater than Jesus’ because Jesus is working with him, so two is better than one. And many people have seen this spiritually, when Rev Moon is speaking they see Jesus next to him.”

Narrator: “Then, his followers believe, other prophets appeared.”

Bo Hi Pak: “He met with Buddha, met with Mohammed, met with Confucius. He had many, many incredible spiritual encounters.”

Narrator: “So Jesus and the Rev Moon are working together?”

Antonio Betancourt: “Absolutely, absolutely. But not only. Jesus is working with Rev Moon in America. In the Islam, it is Mohammed. In Asia it is Buddha.”

4:55 Narrator: “He came down from the mountain transformed. In his village Moon was supposed to have wisdom beyond his years. He was seen to wrestle trees on the hillside in a state of trance. Before World War II, Korea was under Japanese occupation. Koreans were ordered to follow the Japanese Shinto faith. Now nearly 20, Moon says his struggle was ‘not with the Japanese, it was with the devil.’”

5:40 Bo Hi Pak: “I have never seen any man so dedicated to God.”

Narrator: “Legend has it that at his home in Seoul, overwhelmed by the suffering of God, he would cry for days on end. Once his tears leaked into the room below. As Japan made ready for World War II, Moon went to Tokyo to study engineering.” [In that way he could avoid being drafted into the Japanese military.]

6:05 Chung-hwan Kwak (senior leader, Unification Church): “I asked him, why you don’t go to missionary school, seminary school, why you go to engineering course. He’s laughing, smiling and he explained, he’s not necessary [to go] to theological seminary…”

Narrator: “Because God had told him that he was the messiah?”

Chung-hwan Kwak: “Absolutely, of course.”

Narrator: “As Moon saw it, evil began in the Garden of Eden. Eve tasted the forbidden fruit. She had sex with Lucifer, the archangel. Then she had sex with Adam.”

Cesar Zaduski (Unification Church): “But for Rev Moon, it is quite clear there was a sex relationship. Why so? That is very simple, because what is the part of Adam and Eve they hide after that? If they had eaten some apple they would hide the mouth, but they hide the sexual parts.”

7:15 Narrator: “Her original sin was transmitted to future generations. Hence the ‘Fall of Man.’ There was famine and pestilence. As Moon told his followers, he was the third Adam, here to restore the perfect world that God had designed.”

▲ Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han’s 1960 wedding

7:55 Bo Hi Pak: “You have no way to know if Rev Moon is the messiah just [by] looking at him. He was praying more than 17 hours every day. He is a man of prayer. Through him I feel elevated and closer to God.”

Narrator: “Ironically, Moon’s church was born out of suffering. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese surrendered and pulled their troops out of Korea.”

Douglas MacArthur: “I now invite the representatives of the Emperor of Japan to sign the instrument of surrender.”

Narrator: “Now there was religious freedom in Korea. Back in Seoul, Moon got married. According to legend he told his wife he was going out to buy rice for their new baby. He never came back. God told him to go to North Korea – to preach.”

9:20 Bo Hi Pak: “His way of teaching, it was just simply fascinating. All the conventional questions [were] resolved automatically, like the snow melting.”

Narrator: “His belief that Korea had spawned a new messiah outraged many Christians.”

Bo Hi Pak: “Rev. Moon was accused as heretic.”

Narrator: “Worse still, Soviet troops were swarming into North Korea, stifling freedom of worship almost as soon as it began. Today Moon’s followers are told that he was framed by the new communist regime of Kim Il-sung – punished for speaking the word of God.”

Bo Hi Pak: “He was absolutely incredibly tortured by the communist police. Incredible. He was just virtually beaten to death.”

Narrator: “He was sent to North Korea’s Heungnam Death Camp.”

Narrator: “According to a later FBI report, the charge was bigamy.”

Bo Hi Pak: “None of the prisoners survived in that prison more that 18 months.”

10:15 Narrator: “In his book, Divine Principle, which lays out his theology, Moon says he endured suffering unimagined by anyone in history. He suffered so much he atoned for the sins of mankind and became perfect.”

Bo Hi Pak: “Rev Moon was sentenced to that death camp for five years imprisonment.”

Narrator: “In 1950 North Korea invaded the South. The cold war had begun, a long confrontation between the Soviets and the West. Perversely, the Korean War saved Moon’s life. UN bombers pounded the city where he was held. In the chaos Moon was freed.”

11:14 Bo Hi Pak: “The day before they were systematically killing all the prisoners, knowing that UN forces [were] coming up. Before [it was] Rev Moon’s turn, luckily the UN forces rushed the gate.” [Only the political prisoners were being executed. Moon was in jail for bigamy and was not due to be executed. The guards fled the camp, and that is how Moon became free.]

11:40 Narrator: “He joined thousands of refugees fleeing south to escape the communists. His followers speak with awe of how he carried an injured man across Korea.”

Bo Hi Pak: “Roughly 200 miles walking and walking in the mountains he carry him on [his] back. [An] 80kg man on [his] back, all the way to the south. To me, that alone shows him [to be] the messiah to me.” [Pak Chung-hwa, the man concerned, explained that he was only carried twice by Moon. Each time was for about 200-300 yards, and it was never through water – once it was up a mountain pass. Pak was pushed on a bicycle for the first part of the journey, and was able to walk the last third. ref Michael Breen’s book, Sun Myung Moon, the early years, for details.]

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Narrator: “For years the Moon organization used this photo [above] as evidence, before quietly conceding it was of someone else. In a tiny shack made of US army ration boxes Moon founded his Unification Church. He and his followers often went hungry.”

Chung-hwan Kwak (Church elder): “Our tiny group, very poor, under that circumstances, he trained us [to] overcome temptations of food.”

Singing: “Hallelujah, Hallelujah.”

▲ Sun Myung Moon was given a private jet by the Japanese Unification Church members on his 80th birthday.

Narrator: “In the decades that followed Moon would become rich and powerful. His anthem, inevitably, Handel’s ‘Messiah.’ He would be accused of breaking laws and seeking influence. He’d make friends in high places.”

Allen Tate Wood: “To me that is the heart of Moon’s psyche, it is the drive, the need for power. He is not interested in people developing and finding themselves. He is interested in people finding him and kneeling to him, and bowing to him and then giving him all their strength, all their energy, all their power.”

Narrator: “His church would be accused of brainwashing teenagers and taking their assets.”

Allen Tate Wood: “All of your money, somebody else’s money, their land, their property, any kind of real or material goods they have. Your job is to get a hold of that and bring it into the organization, because outside of the organization it has no meaning. It has no value. It is property owned by satan.”

Narrator: “Moon would talk openly of controlling the earth. [Moon’s words:] “The whole world is in my hands and I will conquer and subjugate the world.”

14:05 Herb Rosedale: “Just as he claims to be a man of love, and yet if you look at any of his speeches, his speeches will exude hatred towards those who disagree with him.”

Narrator: “From the beginning Moon believed that rival churches, the media, even the Korean government, were out to get him.”

Bo Hi Pak: “Just like Jesus Christ came 2000 years ago, he encountered incredible opposition [in] those days [from] the existing religions.”

Narrator: “In Seoul in the 1950s there were stories that Moon was having sex with female converts, to purify them.”

Antonio Betancourt (Unification Church): “There were women coming to lectures, who – they’d rather be at lecture than being with their husbands or with their families – so the husbands could not understand what was going on. So for them they must be having some kind of sexual relationship. There must be something wrong. There must be something wrong that is going on in that place.”

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▲ These Ewha Womans University students were all expelled because of their involvement with Sun Myung Moon. One of them had a son with Moon.

15:00 Narrator: “However, a later FBI report claimed ‘that women students had been expelled from university in Seoul because of sexual initiation rites with Moon and some others.’”

Nansook Hong (Moon’s ex daughter-in-law): “Moon claimed, since he was the perfect man, a perfect Adam, by sleeping with women he would purify women. And he did tell me that he did those things – it was God’s work.”

15:55 Narrator: “Divorcing his first wife, he married a woman 20 years younger than himself, Hak Ja Han. He and his new wife would be the ‘True Parents of all mankind.’ He told his followers: ‘Love True Parents more than your own self, spouse or children.’”

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▲ Sun Myung Moon married the teenage Hak Ja Han in 1960.

Donna Collins (ex follower): “He said, you know, ‘You must know that I am your only parent, and your father is bad for you. You must forget about him. We are the True Parents. I am the True Parent.’”

Narrator: “In the early days, Moon lived above his church. His speeches would go on for half the night.”

Chung-hwan Kwak (Unification Church): “He never slept. Never. He continued usually until 1:00am, 2:00am. Never slept. His sleep time is always less than three hours. Only two or three hours.”

Narrator: “The Korean War had ended in a bizarre face-off between North and South – surreal, yet deadly. It was a microcosm of what was happening all over the world. Moon was made by the new Cold War.”

Bo Hi Pak: “Rev Moon frequently said ‘The communist goal is to kick off God from the planet.’ The communistic ideology, if it takes over the entire world, then there is no room for God. We cannot allow God going out of this planet. We need God. Rev Moon from day one is truly an anti-communist.”

Narrator: “To Moon, communist North Korea was satanic, and its Stalinist leader, Kim Il-sung, the devil.”

Bo Hi Pak: “If communists win in the Cold War, and if the entire world is communized, then [there is] no room for free men to stand.”

18:00 Narrator: “In Seoul, nobody laughed at Moon anymore. The word now was that he had powerful new friends, including Kim Jong-pil founder of Korea’s ferocious new intelligence agency, the KCIA. It crushed dissent. In Washington, the Americans heard that Kim Jong-pil was using Moon’s church as a political tool. America was where Moon would make his future.”

Bo Hi Pak: “He looked at America as the chosen nation, so in the most crucial role [that] must get played by America.”

Narrator: “Rather fortunately for Moon, he arrived in America at a time of great anguish. The Vietnam war had divided the generations. American cities were full of teenagers looking for answers. Few knew why Americans were dying in Vietnam, or raining death on a country they had barely heard of. Moon built his church on their self doubt.”

Allen Tate Wood: “Here was a guy that just seemed to be just totally sure. There was just this tremendous energy, tremendous force which he communicated. It was as though his whole body was going to one place, to one point.

Rev Moon speaks in Korean

Bo Hi Pak: “We are not just ordinary Christians.”

Narrator: “Teenagers would be intercepted on the street by Moonies. Often they would be invited to some innocuous seminar.”

Cathryn Mazer (ex follower): “These individuals were just unusually open and honest and friendly and caring and playful and sweet.”

Narrator: “Cathryn Mazer was taken to a house on Long Island.”

Cathryn Mazer: “The name ‘Rev Moon’ never came up. I actually asked when I was first going with them to the site, if they were the Unification Church, and I was told ‘no.’”

20:25 Narrator: “An FBI analyst wrote: ‘Moon’s success depends on very subtle … deceptive tactics.’ Finally Cathryn Mazer was told about Moon. He was her ‘True Parent.’ It would be dangerous to contact her real parents…”

Cathryn Mazer: “… because they could be used by Satan to take away the amazing gift of having met the messiah. That Satan uses the ones you love to influence you away from the remarkable and unsurpassable gift you have been given.”

Narrator: “She says the Moonies encouraged her to lie to her mother on the phone, not telling her where she really was.

Cathryn Mazer: “But it was just important, whatever I told her, that I did not tell her that I was involved with the Unification Church.

Narrator: “And they were perfectly happy for you to lie?”

Cathryn Mazer: “Oh, I was encouraged to lie. I was asked to lie.”

Narrator: “Cathryn’s worried family traced her to the house on Long Island.”

Cathryn Mazer’s mother: “I want to see my daughter. I need to see somebody.”

Moonie: “I am sorry, she is not here.”

Lawyer: “But you are not prepared to let Cathryn’s mother go in and see for herself.”

Narrator: “They were too late.”

Mazer family: “Well if you can’t prove to us that she is not here, then why should we leave under the assumption that she is not here?”

Narrator: “She had been moved, but the Moonies wouldn’t say where.”

Cathryn’s mother: “Oh my…”

Lawyer: “Just calm down.”

Cathryn’s mother: “Right, you talk with them.”

Narrator: “So you actually thought that your mother projected Satan.”

Cathryn Mazer: “Yeah, I thought she was being, you know, for all intents and purposes, possessed.”

Narrator: “In trying to find you.”

Cathryn Mazer nods in agreement.

Narrator: “From the early seventies, Moon would be accused of brainwashing, mind control. Neil Salonen, once president of the church in America, says the messiah never brainwashed his followers, or cut them off from their parents.”

Neil Salonen (Unification Church): “Because we are family based, in many cases members, for the first time, begin experiencing a deeper and closer relationship with their parents.”

Group at mansion guardhouse: “They’re worried about their daughter.” “OK, sir...”

Narrator: “But when Cathryn Mazer’s parents arrived at Moon’s mansion outside New York, guards called the police.”

Group at mansion guardhouse: “We thought we…”

Allen Tate Wood: “He is quoted as saying this, that we want absolute control of the mind, and to me that means brainwashing.”

Narrator: “And this brainwashing comes directly from Moon?”

Allen Tate Wood: “Absolutely, Yeah.”

Group at mansion guardhouse: “So we should show up there…”

Narrator: “Ex-Moonie Ron Paquette says he spoke to Moon’s son about brainwashing.”

23:00 Ron Paquette (former executive Moon organization): “And I said in many ways it reminds me sometimes of the communist camps, and at that point he said: ‘Yeah I know,’ he said, ‘Father learned that when he was in prison camp,’ and I kept trying to make the point that no, no, the way we bring in people, and the way we control people is kind of like the way this goes on in North Korean prison camps, and he kept saying ‘I know’.”

Narrator: “Belvedere was the first of Moon’s magnificent estates in America. Once it was owned by America’s wealthiest families. In some cases recruits would make over everything they owned to Moon, then they would go out selling trinkets at inflated prices.”

Cathryn Mazer: “I was sent out on the streets, sometimes for 14 or 16 hours at a time. Sometimes in very dangerous neighborhoods.”

Narrator: “Wandering big cities, Cathryn Mazer lives on hamburgers and donuts.”

Cathryn Mazer: “There were many, many times we were just on the side of basically a highway alone with hundreds of dollars of cash on our persons.”

24:10 Narrator: “In the end she decided to leave the Moonies.”

Cathryn Mazer: “I was told stories about other people who had betrayed the messiah, or who had walked away. Something really, really bad could happen to me, whether it be illness or a random act of violence. I mean I was scared. I was terrified.”

Narrator: “Cathryn went back to her mother. Others stayed, giving Moon their all.”

Ron Paquette: “They like to talk in the church about the blood, sweat and tears of Moon. Well I think, you know, by and large he’s living off the blood, sweat and tears of a lot of members.”

Antonio Betancourt: “He receives the treatment of a messiah, and therefore we have the rituals of the court. And in this court it is as pompous, it is as beautiful as being in the presence of an earthly king, or queen, for example the Queen Elizabeth. It is not Hollywood. It is real. That is the court of the messiah, but after this is finished, he becomes a very, very ordinary man. He goes and digs his hands in the dirt. He examines pebbles. He goes into the mud. He goes and eats in McDonalds.”

Moon praying: “With this Blessing Ceremony, I thank you that we build the superhighway to you.”

25:40 Narrator: “The greatest honor for a Moonie, is to be married by Moon.”

Allen Tate Wood: “It is like a pyramid marketing scheme, and it is embedded in the theology. You, in fact, cannot be married by Moon, which is the ultimate blessing according to their theology, until you have brought three people into the church who are ready to die in your place. Once you have brought three people in, then you have the right to be married, you have the right to be blessed by Moon.”

Narrator: “He would even find you a partner, a total stranger.”

Rev Moon praying: “Today I am blessing this … and declare the true … of God…”

Bo Hi Pak: “Rev Moon see the family background and the future. So Rev Moon is, sort of, [the] world’s finest matchmaker.”

Rev Moon: “Amen”

Narrator: “Sometimes Moon would choose marriage partners from their photos.”

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▲ Rev Moon matching couples by photograph.

Rev Moon: “Amen”

26:30 Nansook Hong: “Sometimes there is a picture matching, and sometimes the people [are in] rows of men and women [sitting] together, and he just picks you, you – you, you – and you are supposed to be husband and wife. And a lot of times it doesn’t work.”

Rev Moon: “Mansei!”

Bo Hi Pak: “That marriage is far more durable, and lasting longer. Of course there are some breakages, but not like the 50 percent in the western world.”

M.C.: “Welcome to Blessing ’97. World Peace through ideal families.”

Narrator: “The church claims that millions of couples have been blessed by Moon in ceremonies from Seoul to Washington, even at the 2000 room New Yorker Hotel, bought by Moon for a few million dollars.”

Robin Marsh (Unification Church): “He looked down into my eyes, and I felt that he knew everything about me. And then he guided me to where my wife was already standing. And he looked at us, and he just beckoned to us to go. We went to another room and discussed whether we would like to continue with this match. And I really felt that this was God’s choice. And I felt a lot of God’s happiness and joy at that time.”

Narrator: “Sometimes the matchings took a bizarre turn.”

Allen Tate Wood: “If they accept it and they come back in the room, the first thing that they do in their relationship is they are given a kendo stick. And the woman has to bend over and the man hits her three times as hard as he can with the kendo stick. And the audience then judges that. If they didn’t hit hard enough, the man has to hit her again, until the audience accepts the strength of the beating. Then the woman turns around and she beats the man. It is the same thing. So this is how these marriages made in heaven begin.”

Narrator: “Moon seems convinced of his own divinity.”

Donna Collins: “But he was kind of innocent in some way. I mean he was very like a child amid all these big important people.”

Narrator: “Donna Collins’ parents led the church in Britain.”

Donna Collins: “You know he seemed sweet at times.”

Voice: “Dream technology, yes”

Narrator: “Moon seemed anything but sweet to church leader Allen Tate Wood, summoned to his home is South Korea. A man lay prostrate on the floor in front of the messiah.”

29:00 Allen Tate Wood: “And from that position he made some kind of greeting to Mr. Moon. And Mr. Moon then barked something back, and they had a conversation. This man never raised his head off the ground. He was looking into the rug. And when this was going on, I began to understand that this is how I am to relate to Mr. Moon, and through me they are teaching all Americans how we are to relate to Mr. Moon.”

Narrator: “By the 1970s Moon was beginning to enjoy fame and fabulous wealth. In Asia he was building an industrial empire, processing titanium and ginseng, making machinery and guns. Over the years church income would grow phenomenally.”

Neil Salonen: “I do think that we are talking hundreds of millions of dollars. I don’t know how specific beyond that I could be.”

Narrator: “In the United States the Moons would spend a fortune buying hotels newspapers, fishing fleets and property. In a bleak Massachusetts town they even made machine guns.”

Narrator: “Meanwhile Moon had found friends in high places. He sprang to the aid of Richard Nixon, accused of ordering the Watergate coverup.”

Richard Nixon: “Tonight let me explain to you what I did about Watergate after the break-in occurred, so that you can better understand the fact that I also had no knowledge of…” [August 15, 1973]

Bo Hi Pak: “Rev Moon made a crusade for the rescue of President Nixon.

Narrator: “As Washington bayed for his resignation, Moonies demonstrated for the President. [January 31, 1974]

Allen Tate Wood: “Meanwhile you have ABC, NBC and CBS covering this as though this were some sort of spontaneous demonstration of Americans supporting Nixon, when in fact every single person in the park was a Moonie who had been ordered to be there.”

Narrator: “by Moon?” Allen Tate Wood: “by Moon.”

31:00 Narrator: “Meeting Nixon at the White House, Moon advised him to burn the Watergate tapes.”

Bo Hi Pak: “And there Rev Moon saying, Mr. President what you have to do [is to] ask for the forgiveness of the people.”

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▲ Sun Myung Moon’s Little Angels with President Nixon.

Narrator: “At congressional hearings, Moon was accused of conspiring with Korean intelligence to buy influence in Washington.”

Donald Fraser: “I’ll tell you what, Colonel, let’s split the difference. How’s ten minutes?”

Michael Hershman (Congressional Investigator): “Never before or since had we seen such a blatant attempt to influence our political, social, cultural institutions.”

Bo Hi Pak: “Could you kindly give me five more minutes. I said 15 minutes.”

Narrator: “So there was no doubt to you that the KCIA and Moon were hand in hand?”

Michael Hershman (Congressional Investigator): “There was no doubt.”

Narrator: “The South Koreans were terrified the Americans would abandon them, just as they had abandoned South Vietnam.”

Bo Hi Pak: “Korea would be a second Vietnam. If Korea becomes a second Vietnam, Korea collapses, then there is no way, no way the free world can survive.”

Narrator: “The South Koreans believed that Moon had the power to influence events in Washington. And according to a CIA source, were willing to pay for his help. The source claimed the money had been channeled through a company in South Korea. Congressional investigators found that the head of Korean intelligence once held a meeting with Moon’s American leaders at a hotel in San Francisco.”

Bo Hi Pak: “The public and the media misunderstood him, and they thought Rev Moon is act upon Korean government front or Korean CIA front. He must be funded.”

Narrator: “By the mid seventies, Moon was at the pinnacle of his power, holding enormous rallies in American cities. The church claimed 300,000 people attended this rally in Washington.”

Rev Moon speaking in Korean on September 18, 1976

Bo Hi Pak translated: “Today America is plagued with problems: racism, juvenile delinquency and immorality. Christianity is declining. Communism is rising. The menace of communism is everywhere. Of all these problems….”

Narrator: “Privately, investigators believed, Moon was part of a KCIA plan to win over the Washington establishment. He told Allen Tate Wood to find friends in the military and intelligence community.”

Allen Tate Wood: “His key strategy was, we will find some powerful man or some powerful organization, and we will find out what their agenda is, and we will attend them and serve them, and eventually they will come to recognize in us their greatest ally, and at that point we then begin to be able to dictate to them.”

Rev Moon speaking in Korean.

Bo Hi Pak translated: “We shall never let him down. Never, never, never. Thank you.”

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Subcommittee on International Organizations. April 20, 1978

Bo Hi Pak: “The Lord is my shepherd, even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for thou art with me. Thank you Mr. Chairman.”

Narrator: “Bo Hi Pak denied allegations that his master was controlled by the KCIA.”

Bo Hi Pak: “They were trying to crush our movement through the Congressional Hearing.”

Narrator: “Incredibly, Pak accused the committee chairman of being a Soviet spy. The committee in turn accused Moon of violating US tax, immigration and banking law.”

Michael Hershman (Congressional Investigator): “If you were against him, if you were threatening his objectives, you were the devil.”

Narrator: “As the committee saw it, no-one realised how dangerous Moon was, because they didn’t bother to listen to his speeches.”

The words of Rev Moon: “There will come a time when my words almost become law. If I want a certain thing it will be done.”

Narrator: “On the Korean border Moon seemed to expect a bloody apocalypse, out of which he would emerge leader of a united Korea, and then of the world.”

Allen Tate Wood: “And he said in this final battle, the only way for the forces of good to win maybe to force the world to wake up. He said the way we will do that is we will send thousands and thousands of Unification Church members and place them on the border, on the Demilitarized Zone inbetween North and South Korea. And he said if the North Koreans attack then the Unification Church members will be the first people to be killed. If we can have a lot of young people killed who are from England, France, Germany, the United States that will force those nations to come in on the side of South Korea. He would talk to us for hours and hours and hours about how God is searching for a nation. He wants to get Korea, but if he can’t get Korea, then he will try to get the United States. If he can get the United States then he will get Japan. If he can get the United States and Japan and then England, if he can get those three nations that he will quickly grab seven. And once he has got seven, then he will swallow the whole world.”

Rev Moon speaking in Korean.

36:15 Donna Collins: “Loyalty at the end of the day is to him. You have to be prepared to die for him, and he says that.”

Narrator: “In 1982 a young Korean girl arrived at Moon’s estate outside New York.”

Nansook Hong: “It was absolutey beautiful – big mansions, big rooms. The room that I stayed [in] it was like a princess’s room.”

Narrator: “Moon had chosen her to marry one of his sons. She was barely 15.”

Nansook Hong: “Every time we saw him we had to [do] full bows. He was God. He was really God for everybody.”

Narrator: “Inside the estate a fortress mentality prevailed.”

Nansook Hong: “There is [the] inside world and [the] outside world. There were outside people and there was us. We were the chosen people and [the] outside people are satanic people.”

Narrator: “She saw church leaders arriving from Asia with bags of cash for the Moons.”

Nansook Hong: “I saw sometimes a million dollars, sometimes two million dollars, sometimes $200,000 but for them it is really not a lot of money. It is for their own personal use.”

Narrator: “Publicly Moon railed against gambling, but Nansook says he took her and the rest of his entourage to Las Vegas. An assistant would place bets for him. Did you say to him, ‘Father, I thought we were supposed not to gamble.’”

Nansook Hong: “No, of course not. Haha. If I wanted to die, maybe. No. No, we never raised any questions or doubts. We just had to be there accepting.”

Narrator: “If Moon thought he was safe from earthly law, he was to be disillusioned. He was accused of tax evasion.”

Ron Paquette (former executive Moon organization): “Not paying your taxes, withholding payroll taxes, paying people under the table cash so that we didn’t have to pay the government money, that saved Father money, so therefore it was OK. It was doing God’s will beause anything that supported Moon, or supported the agenda, was doing God’s will.”

Narrator: “He asked God for deliverance.”

Nansook Hong: “We prayed on the holy rock every morning and so did a lot of us. We were there all night praying for Moon, but it seems like nothing worked.”

Narrator: “In 1984 Moon was sent to jail.”

38:44 Lawyer: “The trial judge himself said quite openly that of course were his religion less controversial the government would have had less interest in pursuing the matter.”

Singing: “Justice will be done. Justice will be done.”

Narrator: “To the Moonies, their master was a victim of his beliefs. Martyred by a bigoted and racist Justice Department.”

Nansook Hong: “But we all knew that yes, it was tax evasion.”

[And the serious crime of document forgery] LINK

Narrator: “Released 13 months later, Moon celebrated in his own particular way.”

39:20 Nansook Hong: “Moon crowned himself as the Emperor of the Universe. It was quite odd. Pictures were forbidden. Nobody could take pictures, because it had to be an absolute secret. At that point he became God, in his eyes.”

Narrator: “The chastened Moon realised that he needed more than hotels and fishing fleets to achieve power in America. He needed his own voice in Washington. He founded the Washington Times.”

39:40 Nansook Hong: “And now he has one way to control this country, that was through the newspaper. That’s how he saw it.”

Narrator: “It would counter the liberal Washington Post. The Times would become the voice of the Republican right.”

Ronald Reagan: “The American people know the truth, and you, my friends at The Washington Times, have told it to them.”

Bo Hi Pak: “Rev Moon never side with the political party, only side with God.”

William Cheshire (former Editor, Washington Times): “It was like the messiah had ridden into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, and Moon would say ‘Rah, rah, rah,’ and Pak would say, ‘Reverend Moon say, all men are brothers.’”

Narrator: “...except for Bill Clinton. The Times worried that he might have had KGB connections, then that he was an asset of the CIA. It raised $100,000 for the Contras fighting the left in Nicaragua.”

Michael Hershman (Congressional Investigator): “I believe they lose tens of millions of dollars a year, perhaps as high as 40 million dollars a year.”

CAUSA presentation: “One man has seen the true…”

41:00 Narrator: “Moon spent millions more funding right wing foundations and pressure groups.”

CAUSA presentation: “He has tasted the bitter evils of communism in North Korea…”

William Cheshire: “I mean the amount of money Moon has invested in The Washington Times alone, it just staggers the imagination.”

Narrator: “What you're saying is that nobody else has ever spent as much money lobbying in Washington as Moon.”

William Cheshire: “No one I am aware of.”

Narrator: “The paper declined to let us film its operations.”

Narrator: “Has The Washington Times always been independent?”

Neil Salonen (Unification Church): “I do think so. In fact every editor, that I have known, and I have known them all, has made the point at different times, that they receive much less pressure from the owner, than the owners of any other newspaper might.”

Narrator: “But in 1987, editor Bill Cheshire resigned, accusing the paper of augmenting news agency copy, in Moon’s favor.”

William Cheshire: “I said this has never been an acceptable or ethical performance anywhere I have ever worked. It is totally irregular, totally improper and totally dishonest, and reprehensible. Well didn’t do any good…”

President George Bush: “And the editors of The Washington Times have told me that never once has the man with the vision interfered in the editorial policies of The Washington Times. Rev Moon never tried to tell them what to say, who to endorse.”

Narrator: “Moon invited George Bush to celebrate the birth of another new paper in Latin America.” [The Tiempos del Mundo was launched in Buenos Aires.]

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President George Bush speaking at the launch in November 1996: “You know, a lot of my friends in South America don’t know about The Washington Times, but it is an independent voice.”

William Cheshire: “I doubt very seriously if George Bush has any real understanding of the Rev Moon and the Unification Church, and what they represent in terms of crazy theology and all the other things that are part of the Moon story.”

42:50 Narrator: “Some of Moon’s contacts were far to the right of The Washington Times. In Japan, after the war, he had met Ryoichi Sasakawa, a rich and powerful fascist. He had been imprisoned by the Americans as a war criminal.”

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▲ Left to right: Won-pok Choi (a ‘second wife’ of Moon), Hak Ja Han, Sun Myung Moon, Ryoichi Sasakawa, unknown, Hyo-won Eu (who wrote the 1957 Divine Principle and was the main lecturer and organizer of the UC in Korea in the late 1950s and 1960s) and Osami Kuboki (leader of the UC of Japan) at Gimpo airport, Seoul.

Allen Tate Wood: “I heard him say to us, referring to himself, he said ‘I am Mr. Moon’s dog.’ This is the most powerful man in Japan who is essentially saying he is under Mr. Moon. He is serving Mr. Moon’s purposes.”

Rev Moon speaking in Korean

Narrator: “Another of Moon’s Japanese contacts was Yoshio Kodama, an extreme right-winger with ties to the Japanese underworld.”

▲ Yoshio Kodama

Allen Tate Wood: “Kodama is reported as saying that, ‘the people say Mr. Moon is the messiah, well that’s fine but Mr. Moon can’t be the messiah without me, because I am the man who supplies him with money.’”

Narrator: “Moon and the Japanese poured cash into the World Anti-Communist League (WACL), which included neo-Nazis, fascists and even death squad members form South America.”

44:00 General John Singlaub (former Chairman of World Anti-Communist League): “His organization, from my point of view, was more of a political effort, that is to save the world from the ‘evil empire’ than it was to save individuals from the devil.”

Rev Moon speaking in Korean

Narrator: “Moon preached love, but aligned himself with murderous Latin regimes that tortured or killed their left wing opponents. Latin America, he believed, would be the graveyard of communism. He was deeply disillusioned with the United States. ‘Satan created this hell on earth,’ he said.”

Inauguration: “I, Ronald Reagan, do solemnly swear that I will…”

Narrator: “Moon had spent many millions supporting Republican causes.”

President Ronald Reagan: “that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, so help me God.”

Narrator: “But the Reagan administration declined to pardon him for his tax offense.

Michael Hershman (Congressional Investigator): “He was extremely bitter, and decided that he could better grow his organization, better grow his influence, outside our shores.”

Narrator: “In poor Uruguay the army had won a wasting war with Tupamaros guerrillas. The capital, Montevideo, was an off-shore banking center were rich foreigners could hide their cash. For Moon it held other attractions too.”

45:30 Michael Hershman: “A friendly legal environment. That is laws and regulations that were not as well developed as here in the United States. A fairly uneducated and poor population, who was ready to accept a message of anyone who made promises for a better life.”

Narrator: “Moon called Uruguay his oasis. Today he owns newspapers and sponsors radio programmes that preach family values. As Moon sees it, if only the world would listen, all its problems from AIDS to racial hatred would simply vanish.”

Chung-hwan Kwak (senior leader, Unification Church): “If all peoples follow our vision, why not be solved?”

Narrator: “War?”

Chung-hwan Kwak: “War also. This is messiah’s law.”

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▲ 4,000 Japanese Moonies arrived in Montevideo bringing cash for Moon.

Narrator: “Moon built Uruguay’s first luxury hotel. He also bought a bank. On one occasion bank employees claimed that 4,000 Japanese Moonies had suddenly showed up, depositing millions of dollars in cash.”

Juan Ramos (Bank Worker’s Association): “The money still had the U.S. Federal Reserve band around it. More than $80 million was deposited over the course of a week.”

Narrator: “More than once the authorities accused the bank of breaching banking rules. A local journalist asked embarrassing questions. Some time later, as he told the judge, he was grabbed by two men in a car who stuck a gun in his mouth. They said they had no connection with Moon, but warned him off. Even in his new haven, Moon was under fire.”

Jorge Guldenzoph: “I remember Rev. Moon’s wife saying ‘How long are they going to think we’re bad?’ I felt humbled because there was no trace of resentment or bitterness in him. No part of him was asking why he had to suffer. It was like Jesus on the cross.”

Narrator: “One of Moon’s key men in Uruguay is Jorge Guldenzoph, a veteran of the dirty war with the left. A former communist, he joined the secret police.”

Jorge Guldenzoph: “The Rev Moon is my savior. My life was literally saved by him. It’s as simple as that, Rev. Moon is my savior.”

▲ Moon’s home in Montevideo.

48:08 Narrator: “By the late 1980s Moon owned so much property in Montevideo that locals wryly renamed it ‘Moontevideo.’ Moonies say that this palatial building was going to be his home, his Latin American sanctuary.

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▲ Moon speaking at his Punta del Este resort by the ocean in Uruguay.

Instead he chose a lush resort on the ocean, and a ranch by a river where he could fish. Here he hoped to find peace.”

Antonio Betancourt (Unification Church): “He fishes for the physical fish, but this is symbolic of many things. He fishes, one fish could be a great leader who listens to him.”

Narrator: “He said he would like his own fleet of submarines to free him from national boundaries. In 1989 one of Moon’s greatest dreams came true, the fall of the Berlin Wall. To him it seemed as though he had won his lifelong struggle against communism.”

Bo Hi Pak (Unification Church): “Who did liberate communism? To me, [it is] very clear. it's Rev. Moon, as the messiah.”

Narrator: “In Latin America Moon would spend millions. He said he ‘gave the bait to Uruguay, then the bigger fish of Argentina and Brazil kept their mouths open’.”

Narrator: “He thinks he can literally buy countries?”

Herb Rosedale (anti-cult lawyer): “Absolutely”

Narrator: “Several countries did take the bait, including Brazil. In 1994 Moon bought a swath of its Pantanal region, a vast area known for its extraordinary beauty. Here would be the new Garden of Eden, where Moon would have absolute dominion.”

Cesar Zaduski (Unification Church farm manager in Brazil): “Rev Moon named it because he wants this place to be as pristine and as natural as it was in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve were created by Heavenly Father. And Rev Moon said that this area could be in the same shape like in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve were created.”

Narrator: “According to the church it would have an airport big enough for wide body jets and millions of acres of fertile land.”

Bo Hi Pak: “This is why he is engaged in millions and millions of acres in Brazil to cultivate those wasted lands into beautiful fertile farmland, producing millions of tons of tons of food.”

Narrator: “It would teach the Brazilians new farming methods, educate the area’s mainly Catholic population and unite religions. People on the farm hope that Moon, now in his 80s, will spend his last years in Brazil. From here he can communicate with his other 200 projects around the world.”

▲ Communications mast in Brazil

Antonio Betancourt: “I have been with him there, in the Pantanal, which he considers one of the gates, one of the earthly gates of the Kingdom of Heaven. Going at three o’clock in the morning, with no reason except a compelling spiritual reason to go into places that nobody will go because they are not tame yet. He could get lost and nobody would find him in ten years.”

Narrator: “To be near their messiah, Korean and Japanese Moonies are bused in after a gruelling flight from Asia.”

Cesar Zaduski: “And these families, living with the nature, they can learn the original aspects of God, that was lost after the Fall of Man.”

Narrator: “His followers fish like Father Moon, work on the land, pray and procreate in small air-conditioned rooms.”

Cesar Zaduski: “And for Rev Moon especially, this place is the place where the families should do what they were supposed to do in the Garden of Eden, and was done wrong – so we should do it right.”

Narrator: “Moon has other great dreams, like a road from London to Tokyo, but it is just a dream. At New Hope there is no airport for wide body jets. Its manager says it rains erratically so it is hard to grow crops. Despite Moon’s talk of uniting religions, local Catholics dismiss his creed as junk theology.”

Cesar Zaduski: “But it is quite clear that in the history of mankind, always someone who came with a big idea, or a new understanding was stoned, and after his death they made a big statue and proclaimed him as a saint. That always happens.”

Narrator: “Sealed inside his many fine houses, gazing out over tropical gardens or great oceans, Moon has had many sorrows. In 1989 a teenage son, Heung-jin, was killed in a car crash.”

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▲ Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han with the body of Heung Jin Moon

Nansook Hong: “This Moon’s child went to heaven and became the ruler of heaven. Even Jesus came and bowed down to this child.”

Narrator: “Moon’s followers said they had seen visions of his son taking the place of Jesus.”

Nansook Hong: “Because he was Moon’s child, he can have this kind of position in the spiritual world, in the heaven.”

Narrator: “A higher position than Jesus?”

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▲ Sun Myung Moon wrote this calligraphy for his son: “Absolute Victory of Moon Heung Jin 文興進 as Commander-in-Chief of Heaven.”

53:40 Nansook Hong: “A higher position than Jesus, and he was going to hold that position until his Dad comes.”

Narrator: “As Moon saw it, to achieve his proper place in Heaven his dead son needed a wife.”

William Cheshire (former Editor, Washington Times): “And so they took his body, I suppose in a coffin and went ahead with the marriage ceremony. The corpse was married to Bo Hi Pak’s daughter.”

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▲ The 1994 marriage of Julia Pak to a photograph of the deceased Heung Jin Moon. Nansook Hong is standing at the back on the right.

Narrator: “Julia Moon, the daughter of Moon’s right hand man, leads his international ballet company.”

Nansook Hong: “And so she married with his picture in her arms. And it was strange, but we simply accepted the fact that was the case.”

Narrator: “A baby was found and given to Julia Moon to bring up with her dead husband.”

Nansook Hong: “We had the wedding ceremony. We had entertainment.”

Narrator: “So it was an ordinary wedding except the bridegroom wasn’t there.”

Nansook Hong: “Yes, exactly”

Narrator: “Much of Moon’s wealth flowed to his children. Nansook says her husband, Hyo-jin, spent it on cocaine in Harlem. High on drugs, he would threaten her.’”

55:00 Nansook Hong: “There were a lot of times he kept saying he was going to kill me, he was going to kill me. There was a point that I knew he was going to kill me. I knew when he was drunk enough, he was high enough, he was capable of doing anything.”

Narrator: “Physically abused, she fled the Moon compound with her children.”

Singing: “Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you.”

Narrator: “At the beginning of the year 2000, Moon celebrated his 80th birthday, and some saw him as a prophet out of step with time.”

Donna Collins (ex follower): “In one speech he said that it would be better for men to cut off, their privates, penises, and he said penis, than to engage in a homosexual act. Over time he became more embittered, more angry with the western world for not accepting him, for not realizing and bowing down to his messianic role.”

Dan Quayle: “May God bless you.”

Narrator: “The world’s statesmen who speak at his conferences are a dwindling band. They include Dan Quayle, Kenneth Kaunda and Sir Edward Heath. They applaud his work for peace, but Sir Edward can’t say what he’s actually achieved.”

Sir Edward Heath: “I can’t name anything, no. But what I have done is to address their conference. I think this is the third occasion. No, I have no connection with Dr. Moon.”

Narrator: “But Moon can lay claim to one crowning achievement, a reconciliation with his old enemy, Kim Il-sung, the leader of North Korea. Moon agreed to invest millions in a country he once thought satanic.”

Bo Hi Pak (special assistant to Moon): “Rev Moon, in his own lifetime, has done more than any individual I have ever known in history.”

57:00 Narrator: “Why Moon’s son, Young-jin, fell to his death from the seventeenth floor of a hotel in Reno remains unexplained. So finally is the drive and true nature of his father. Some say their assets and lives were stolen by a megalomaniac.”

Ron Paquette: “You know sometimes when I think about the loss of time and the violation is so great that…sigh.”

Narrator: “Others say Moon has enthused their lives with meaning, and for that, by some, he is revered.”

Bo Hi Pak: “Rev Moon will be known, far more, far greater in next hundred years, next thousand years. And he will be known as the man who truly brought the truth and changed the world. Not by the bullet and fire, but by the spirit of God and the truth of God. He brought more change here on earth than anybody else.”

Subtitle: Moon says that after his death, he will lead his Church from the spirit world.

END

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Nansook Hong In The Shadow Of The Moons: My Life In The Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s Family Little, Brown & Co. Boston, New York, Toronto & London, 1998

pages 148-150

“Reverend Moon was freed [from jail] on August 20, 1985. …

At East Garden it was as though Father had returned from a world speaking tour and not from a prison term. The old rhythms returned. The meetings around his breakfast table resumed. But something was different. There was a perceptible shift in the Reverend Moon’s Sunday-morning sermons at Belvedere after his release from the penitentiary. He talked less and less about God and more and more about himself. He seemed obsessed with his vision of himself as some kind of historical figure, not merely as an emissary of God. Where once I had listened intently to his sermons in search of spiritual insight, I now found myself more uneasy and less engaged.

The Reverend Moon’s hubris culminated later that year in a secret ceremony in which he actually crowned himself and Hak Ja Han Moon as Emperor and Empress of the Universe. Preparations for the lavish, clandestine event at Belvedere took months and hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Church women were assigned to research the regal robes of the five-hundred-year Yi dynasty that ended in the nineteenth century. Others were ordered to design solid-gold-and-jade crowns modeled on the ones worn by tribal kings. My mother was in charge of buying yards and yards of silk and satin and brocade material and finding seamstresses in Korea to turn these expensive raw materials into the costumes of a royal court. All twelve of Sun Myung Moon’s children, all of his in-laws, all of his grandchildren, were to be outfitted as princes and princesses.

In the end Sun Myung Moon’s crowning ceremony looked less like a historical reconstruction than like a popular Korean television soap opera set during the Yi dynasty. I felt silly, as though I were dressed for a period comedy rather than a sacred religious service. The Reverend Moon was aware enough of how an act of such monumental egotism would be received by the world that he banned photographs from being taken at the actual ceremony. Invited guests, all high-level church officials, who arrived with cameras had them confiscated by security guards, who blocked the entrances to gate-crashers.

In his gold crown and elaborate robes, Sun Myung Moon looked to me for all the world like a modern-day Charlemagne. The difference was that this emperor bowed to no pope. Since there was no authority higher than the Reverend Moon, the Messiah had to crown himself Emperor of the Universe.

The coronation was a turning point for me and my parents. For the first time we voiced our doubts to one another about Sun Myung Moon. It was not an easy thing to do. Much has been written about the coercion and brainwashing that takes place in the Uniﬁcation Church. What I experienced was conditioning. You are isolated among like-minded people. You are bombarded with messages elevating obedience above critical thinking. Your belief system is reinforced at every turn. You become invested in those beliefs the longer you are associated with the church. After ten years, after twenty years, who would want to admit, even to herself, that her beliefs were built on sand?

I didn’t, surely. I was part of the inner circle. I had seen enough kindness in the Reverend Moon to excuse his blatant lapses — his toleration of his son’s behavior, his hitting his children, his verbal abuse of me. Not to excuse him was to open my whole life up to question. Not just my life. My parents had spent thirty years pushing aside their own doubts. My father tolerated the arbitrary way in which Sun Myung Moon ran his businesses, inserting unqualified friends and relatives into positions of authority, promoting those who curried favor and firing those who displayed any independence. My father survived at the top of Il Hwa pharmaceuticals by accepting the Reverend Moon’s frequent public humiliations. For his part, the Reverend Moon left my father in place because Il Hwa continued to make money for him.

If the deification of Heung Jin and the crowning ceremony tested my faith, the emergence of the Black Heung Jin nearly destroyed it. …”

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Part of Emperor of the Universe is available with Spanish subtitles:

La secta Moon

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Nansook Hong, transcripts of three interviews, including ‘60 Minutes’

Nansook Hong In The Shadow Of The Moons, part 1

New Republic – The Fall of the House of Moon

Mother Jones – Sun Myung Moon’s secret love child

Moon’s theology for his pikareum sex rituals with all the 36 wives

Sun Myung Moon and the United Nations

FBI and other reports on Sun Myung Moon

United States Congressional investigation of Moon’s organization

The Resurrection of Rev Moon

FFWPU human trafficking is despicable

#Sun Myung Moon #Edward Heath #Allen Tate Wood #FFWPU #Unification Church #Bo Hi Pak #Ron Paquette #Young Jin Moon #Nansook Hong #Emperor of the Universe

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They Still Don’t Care About Us: Michael Jackson’s Song and How It Has United the Black Community

This is an essay I wrote in 2017 for my Heavy Music university class:

An artist’s goal in creating music is often to express themselves by producing music that they like and that they think people will enjoy; nobody did this as well as Michael Jackson, whose fun and catchy music remains timeless. Michael J. Jackson was born in 1958 to African-American working-class parents. At a young age, as a member of Jackson 5, Michael stunned audiences with his “ability to convey complex emotions”, and would continue to do so with his solo career that would propel him to unimaginable fame (“Michael Jackson Biography.”). He garnered many awards, and much praise for his work in the late 70s and early 80s; but he became a target for a new kind of attention in the late 1980s when controversy surfaced about his strange behaviour, his experimentation with plastic surgery due to burns he had suffered while filming a commercial, and whether or not he was deliberately lightening his skin (“Michael Jackson Biography.”). The decline of Jackson’s career began in the 90s, when more controversy surfaced, this time concerning child sexual harassment allegations, more eccentric behaviour, loss of finances, etc. Michael’s life was then cut short in 2009, when he suffered a heart-attack, brought on by a lethal combination of drugs, something that would later be ruled a homicide.

Although the 90s were not a good time for Michael, he continued to remain active in the music industry, releasing Dangerous and HIStory: Past, Present and Future Book I (“Michael Jackson Biography.”). Both these albums saw Jackson become more vocal about social and political issues through his lyrics and music videos, but the latter album more so. He became a voice for an array of issues, from the environment, to war and AIDS; but he also acted on things he believed in, such as giving aid to his country after 9/11 through charity and concerts, and helping Sarajevo during times of war by doing the same (Anderson). He also became a voice for race relations, and was important to African-Americans. He broke down racial barriers, becoming one of the first African-American global icons (Alban). Even amid the controversy of his skin becoming lighter (which turns out to have been the result of the skin condition vitiligo) - a sign for many that he was trying to erase his blackness or heritage- he still remained extremely important to African-Americans, because “his work was always in conversation with black culture both in the United States and more globally” (Alban), which served as a voice for the black community around the world. A song in particular that displayed such passion and awareness from Michael, is the song “They Don’t Care About Us”, off of his HIStory: Past, Present and Future Book I 1995 album. The song speaks about the injustice and violence that African-Americans face(d) at the hands of law enforcement, the American government and judicial system. Although one would usually not think of Michael’s music as “heavy”, this song is different from Michael’s usual upbeat dance songs or beautiful ballads. Its powerful beat and angry vocal delivery, make it sound “heavy”, and more importantly, if “heavy” is defined as being important or serious in nature, the lyrics can also be seen as such, since they deal with the delicate issues of racial violence and mass incarceration. These issues are still present in society today, and are in fact on the rise since the 1990s (Kyriacou) (N. Smith). This is not just the case for the United States, but also other countries, like Brazil (Alves 231). The recent and growing violence and murder of black men has therefore led to the formation of the group Black Lives Matter (“About the Black Lives Matter Network.”), who has used “They Don’t Care About Us” at protests in different countries (Caulderwood) (Kyriacou). Groups like Black Lives Matter feel frustration, anger and passion because of what is happening, and so did Michael when he wrote and sang the song. Part of the reason why this song remains timeless, and why groups like Black Lives Matter might feel it’s useful, is because both Michael’s use of heavy lyrics and sound to convey shared and potent emotions, along with ambiguous lyrics, contribute to the feeling of unification and strengthening of the protesters, and anyone else active in anti-black racism movements.

There are three different versions to the song, the original recorded version, the Brazil music video version, and the prison music video version; they are all quite similar, except for the length and some added or omitted sounds. In the Brazil version, the song starts off with collective chants and claps from girls saying “all I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us”. This is proceeded by sounds that can be described as stretched out and distorted, which lead the listener into the meat of the song: a pattern of orderly beats that continue throughout the whole song, where emphasis is placed on the middle beat. These beats that mimic clapping provide the structure to the way Michael choppily and coarsely sings some of the lyrics, as if each middle word is a punch, perhaps indicating or mimicking the violence of which the song speaks about. For example, in the opening lyrics (which get repeated), “skin head, dead head/everybody gone bad”, emphasis is placed on “dead” and “gone”. These two words are of course significant, both synonyms for each other, meaning something no longer exists, which would be the worst-case scenario for a violent situation between a citizen and member of law enforcement. Although there is only emphasis on some words, which give off that punchy feeling, the whole tone of the song is angry and Michael sounds aggravated, almost spitting and growling the lyrics, even yelling at some points. At the 0:31 mark, a police scanner can be heard in the background; and at the 1:08 and 1:11 mark, a distorted sound breaks through. Starting at the 0:52 mark, when Michael sings “all I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us”, melancholic music is heard in the background, and this becomes the case each time these lines are sung. This music becomes more prominent starting at the 1:24 mark, and at the 2:09 mark it plays for the remainder of the song. Both at the 1:33 and 2:04 marks Michael screams, and at 2:57 sonic chaos ensues: a blast of sound is heard, along with screaming, distorted guitar playing, and rapid keyboard playing. At the 3:43 mark, there is collective singing and clapping. At 4:19 more guitar playing is heard; and at 4:37, Michael screams one last time to finish off the song. While most of the lyrics contain the word “me”, they also contain the word “us”; and although “me” would refer to Michael since he wrote the song, “me” can actually refer to anyone since anyone can sing the song. Perhaps Michael intended to personalize the lyrics for everyone who felt like they could relate. Using both singular and plural forms, allows a single person to feel like they are part of a collective, and not the only one feeling a particular way. Essentially, since the lyrics remain ambiguous, almost anyone who feels like they’re a victim can sing the song and feel connected to anyone else who feels victimized.

Michael felt growing racial tension in 90s, both because of what was going on around him and his own experience. Michael was a victim throughout much of his life for many different reasons, one of them being the controversy surrounding his lightened skin. And so he too was attacked, in some form or other, because of the colour of his skin, much like Rodney King was in 1991. Four white Los Angeles police officers severely beat Rodney- a black man, striking him about 50 times, nearly killing him, and used racial slurs in the process. The acquittal of the police officers by an all-white jury, and the violence itself, caused many riots in Los Angeles; eventually, two of the police officers were found guilty and sentenced (“Rodney King dead at 47.”). This event is believed to have inspired Michael Jackson to write “They Don’t Care About Us” (Anderson), since it was released four years after the incident, and part of the footage of the beating is featured in the song’s prison version music video. The prison video came out after the original video, which was filmed by Spike Lee in a favela (meaning “slum” in Portuguese [“Favela- definition.”]) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (“Michael Jackson’s 20 Greatest Videos: The Stories Behind the Vision.”). But much like everything else in Jackson’s later life, it generated its own controversy. Many Brazilians, politicians, representatives, etc., said that having the video filmed there would “damage the city’s image”, because it would be “show[ing] the bad side [of Rio]” (Schemo). But it would end up having a much more positive effect. The filming of the video brought excitement to the lives of the residents, and some much needed publicity (Schemo). After the filming, the conditions of the favela started to improve, the “[drug dealers disappeared and] a massive social project [began]”, and this is mostly credited to the publicity that Michael Jackson provided (“Michael Jackson’s 20 Greatest Videos: The Stories Behind the Vision.”). The song’s tie to Brazil is much more important than a music video though. Some residents were right in saying that what the government really didn’t want was for people to see the conditions in which favela residents lived in, one resident saying that “they really don’t care about us” (Schemo). Therefore the residents of the favela were able to relate to the song then, and black residents in particular, are now able to do so even more. Brazil, like the United States, has always had a problem with black men and women being targets for police brutality and mass incarceration (Alves 230-231) (Chaney 481). But in recent years, it has gotten worse. The black prison population in Brazil, as of 2012, stood at 53 percent, and 60.48 percent of women placed behind bars are black (Alves 231-232). Brazil’s Black Movement, which perhaps can be seen as Brazil’s own kind of Black Lives Matter, has said that “police violence is one of the primary threats facing the black Brazilian community today” (C. Smith), and according to a study, Brazilian “men of African descent with the darkest skin, are 2.4 times more likely to be victims of police abuse than any other subset of the population across the country” (C. Smith). As can be seen, the statistics stack up to prove how disproportionate the numbers are, meaning blacks in Brazil must be racially profiled. Brazilian “black activists have identified permanent violence against blacks as an essential dimension of Brazil’s regime of exclusionary citizenship” (Alves 231). This brings to mind the situation in the United States whereby wrongfully imprisoning blacks allows for them to be criminalized, and therefore stripped of their rights and treated as second-class citizens (Alexander 12-13). Michelle Alexander states that “one in three African-American men will serve time in prison if current trends continue” (Alexander 9), a staggering amount which shows how urgent and important this issue is. Alexander argues that since the judicial and legal system allow for people to be denied their rights once they are convicted, and since blacks are more likely to serve time, and/or are wrongfully imprisoned, this system serves as “the New Jim Crow” (Alexander 12-13). And mass incarceration is not the only thing that elicits Jim Crow era times; police violence towards blacks is also reminiscent of the era (N. Smith). Where public lynching, beatings and general violence towards blacks was frequent during the 1960s, young black men killed by American police has climbed to its highest rate in 2015 (Kyriacou). Again, the beating of Rodney King in 1991, was largely what inspired Michael to write “They Don’t Care About Us”; but that was just one instance of violence between blacks and white law enforcement officers, as the War on Drugs in the 80s and 90s put a lot of police officers on high alert for black offenders. The War on Drugs saw drug-related arrests and convictions rise, most importantly in the black community, and it was the War on Drugs that made prison inmate numbers drastically increase (Alexander 6), implying that the mass incarceration of blacks is largely due to the War on Drugs. Many theorists and activists liken this War on Drugs, and the violence that accompanies it, to genocide. They do so because they believe it is a government plan to get rid of the black community (Alexander 5-6). For example, crack-cocaine was the drug that ran rampant in inner-city black neighborhoods during these times, and in 1998, the CIA admitted to allowing illegal drugs to be smuggled into the United States (Alexander 6). So if the government was allowing drugs that they knew were making their way, largely into black communities, who is to say it was not on purpose so that blacks could be arrested and prosecuted? The police violence itself towards the black community today, and the poverty- that a long history of racial discrimination and segregation has created- that plagues the black community, have also been compared to genocide (“About the Black Lives Matter Network.”). In fact, the Brazilian Black Movement also calls police violence towards blacks, a form of genocide as well (C. Smith). Perhaps this is why Michael Jackson uses the controversial lyrics “Jew me/kike me” in his song: to liken the experience of racial discrimination the Jews faced upon immigrating to the United States (Pearson), to that of blacks. And he could have been likening the experience of Jews who have experienced genocide, to the genocidal conditions that blacks experienced when they were (and still are) killed and imprisoned based on the colour of their skin. While extreme, the derogatory term elicits the slurs that are used to refer to blacks, thus bringing to attention what is going on in the black community. As has been shown, the experiences that the American black community faces are not solely unique to them; the Brazilian black community deals with very similar issues. By having filmed the music video in Brazil, particularly in a favela, a place where the residents feel like they’re not cared about, Michael unites the Brazilian black community with the American one, at the same time bringing to light these issues that both communities face. And once again, the ambiguous lyrics that do not specify place, time or anything else of the matter, allow both Brazilians and Americans to make themselves the subject of the song, thus uniting themselves. The expressing of this shared experience is facilitated through the use of heavy lyrics and sound. It doesn’t need to sound like a typical pop song to be liked, because its purpose is to be heard, and to transmit a message, which it does perfectly, or else it would not be listened to, much less used for political and civil rights reasons. When the song plays at Black Lives Matter protests, they can be sure that they will be heard, with the songs heavy drum beat that also helps to rile up the protesters. Although there have been no known instances of black Brazilians using the song, they are still connected to it through the music video, a connection that will remain eternal, in the hearts of the Brazilians who were there for the filming, and through the preservation of the music video. The song thus comes to represent a connection between targeted black communities, and the fight that will not stop until justice is served and these issues no longer exist. The song itself through its sounds and lyrics also represents and portrays the violence the black community has to, and has endured. The sounds heard are not soothing, and can be said to “assault” the ears; perhaps reflecting the literal assault that occurs when a blow or gun shot is delivered to the body of a black person. This feature makes people who hear the song pay attention to it, hopefully getting them to listen to the lyrics, which include several words that denote violence, such as “dead”, “shot”, “beat”, “kill”, “kick”, “hit”, etc., along with Jackson’s use of the onomatopoeia “bang bang” to mimic a gun shot. All this is used to paint a graphic picture, one that is very real to the black community of Brazil and America, who through this song can unite, fight and come out stronger than if they were not united.

Ultimately, through the display of growing violence and injustices that the black community faces in places like Brazil and the United States, the title of Michael Jackson’s song is confirmed. It seems that if they did care, the problems that Michael Jackson sang about in the 1990s would no longer be a problem today in the 21st century, or at the very least, there would be a stronger effort from the government and law enforcement to aid in the curtailment of them, instead of contributing to the worsening of them. For now, Michael’s song will have to serve as a reminder, and as a tool to keep fighting.

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10 mispronounced country names | Atlas & Boots

From Kiribati to Kyrgyzstan, we list the most commonly mispronounced country names.

When Donald Trump mispronounced Namibia as ‘Nambia’ in 2017, he became the subject of widespread ridicule. Journalists wondered if he meant Zambia or Gambia while social media users mocked up memes and one enterprising tweeter took the opportunity to pitch a new title to Lonely Planet.

We at Atlas & Boots took pity on Trump for we have mispronounced a country or two in our time as travellers.

In our most recent video, Peter mispronounces the Gasherbrum Range as Gasherbrown despite being well aware of what it’s actually called (he spends enough time reading and dreaming about mountains, believe me). This led us to examine some of the most commonly mispronounced country names – listed below to stop you making a faux pas should you, like Trump, find yourself lunching with the country’s president.

1. Kiribati

Wrong: kiribati Right: kiribass (link)

Dreamstime Kiribati is one of the most commonly mispronounced country names

When we set off across the South Pacific as part of our trip around the world, we tried to engineer a way to get to Kiribati. Sadly, it was just too difficult logistically and so we shelved it for a later date. Its remote location may explain why Kiribati is one of the least visited countries in the world (and why no one knows how to say its name).

Comprising 33 islands, the country has a total land area of 800km2 but is spread over 3.5 million km2 of ocean. This means that Kiribati is the only country in the world to fall into all four hemispheres, straddling the equator and extending into the eastern and western hemispheres.

2. Qatar

Wrong: cut-taar Right: cut-ta (link)

No8/Shutterstock Qatar is pronounced more like ‘cutter’

In 2017, Peter and I met an American academic on our trip to Djibouti (pronounced jibooti). He told us about his time in ‘cutter’ and it took us a moment to realise that he meant Qatar. We assumed he had mispronounced the name.

We were chastened then to find out recently that it was not he but we that had been mispronouncing Qatar. The second syllable is slightly elongated, but not as much as we thought, making the name more ‘cutter’ than ‘cut-TAAR’.

3. Lesotho

Wrong: leh-soh-toh Right: leh-soo-too (link)

Lukas Bischoff/Shutterstock The hairpinned Sani Pass in Lesotho

We visited Lesotho in 2018 and I was surprised to learn that it was pronounced leh-soo-too and not leh-soh-toh. It’s not the only thing that surprised me about the country. I knew little of Lesotho before our visit and I’ll admit that I expected a dusty bowl of a country caught like a fly in South Africa’s fist. What I found was lush folds of velvet green and dramatic scenery that could have been plucked from Lord of the Rings.

I was also surprised to learn that Lesotho is the ‘world’s highest country’… sort of. It has the ‘highest lowest point’ of any other country: 1,400m (4,593ft), hence its nickname ‘Kingdom of the Sky’.

4. Kyrgyzstan

Wrong: ker-jis-tan Right: ker-gis-tan (link)

LightField Studios/Shutterstock Kyrgyzstan has been dubbed the Switzerland of Central Asia

Kyrgyzstan is one of only two countries that lie on average above 2,000m (6,561ft), the other being Lesotho. The mountainous Tian Shan region covers 80% of the country, earning it the moniker ‘Switzerland of Central Asia’.

Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country (one of 45 in the world), but does benefit from Issyk-Kul, the world’s second largest high-altitude lake (behind Lake Titicaca in South America).

5. Niger

Wrong: nye-gah Right: nee-zher (link)

Catay/Shutterstock Niger takes its name from the Niger River

Like Kyrgyzstan, Niger is a landlocked country. The country takes its name from the Niger River, which flows through the southwestern part of its territory. The name Niger comes from the phrase gher n-gheren, meaning ‘river among rivers’ in the Tamashek language.

Niger is rated by the UN as one of the world’s least-developed nations. It is the fourth poorest country in the world. Moreover, basic rights issues such as slavery – which was only banned in 2003 – are an enduring problem.

6. Colombia

Wrong: col-um-bia Right: col-om-bia (link)

Mark Pitt/Shutterstock Colombia is one of the most commonly mispronounced country names

Colombia is the only American nation that is named after Christopher Columbus, the ‘discoverer’ of the New World. It is a country of remarkable diversity in terms of flora and fauna and is classified as one of only 17 ‘megadiverse’ countries. In fact, it’s the world’s second most biodiverse country, after Brazil which is 10 times its size.

7. Laos

Wrong: laow or laow-oss Right: louse (link, US pronunciation)

Nathapon Triratanachat/Shutterstock Laos is one of the world’s few remaining communist states

Landlocked Laos is one of the world’s few remaining communist states, the others being China, Cuba and Vietnam.

Agriculture is the mainstay of the country’s economy but expansion has been curbed by the vast quantities of unexploded bombs that litter arable land – dropped mostly by the US military during the Vietnam War. As such, only a small portion of the country’s farmable land has been cultivated.

8. Liechtenstein

Wrong: lich-ten-stine Right: lick-ten-stine (link)

Stifos/Shutterstock Liechtenstein is pronounced with a hard ‘c’

Liechtenstein is a tiny doubly-landlocked country that lies between Switzerland and Austria, both of which are themselves landlocked. Liechtenstein is considered one of the safest countries in the world; its prison population currently stands at a total of 12 (although those serving longer than two years do so in Austria or Switzerland).

Liechtenstein is known as a tax haven, but has in recent years taken steps to rebrand itself as a legitimate financial hub.

9. St Kitts & Nevis

Wrong: nev-iss Right: nee-viss (link)

Sean Pavone/Shutterstock Nevis Peak on Nevis Island (pronounced nee-viss)

The Caribbean islands of St Kitts and Nevis gained independence from Britain in 1983. There was some ensuing discontent, but a 1998 referendum in Nevis failed to secure the two-thirds majority needed to break away and so the islands remain together.

Today, they offer a tropical paradise far from the madding crowd. We visited Nevis in 2013 and found an island of pretty beaches and dramatic views, not least of Nevis Peak, a stratovolcano that rises to a height of 985m (3,232ft).

10. Nepal

Wrong: neh-paal Right: ni-paul (link)

Atlas & Boots The summit of Mount Everest seen from base camp

Bordered by China and India, Nepal is home to eight of the world’s highest mountains including Mount Everest (which may explain why it’s officially Peter’s favourite country). He visited earlier this year and was enchanted by the Himalayan scenery.

Sadly, despite its income from tourism, Nepal remains one of the poorest countries in Asia. In April 2015, a devastating earthquake killed thousands of people and destroyed numerous heritage sites and villages. Billions of dollars have been pledged, but political infighting has delayed much of the reconstruction.

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Odebrecht: The company that created the world's biggest bribery ring

by Patrick Gillespie and Marilia Brocchetto @CNNMoney April 5, 2017: 10:49 AM ET

It’s the largest global corruption scandal in modern history.

Its web of bribes spread over four continents, implicated presidents and involved 12 countries. It also prompted the biggest fine ever levied by the U.S. Justice Department — $3.5 billion.

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At the center of this scandal is a company that few in the United States recognize: Odebrecht.

Based in Brazil, Odebrecht is Latin America’s largest construction firm. It doled out nearly $800 million in bribes to individuals between 2001 and 2016. Some bribes filtered through the United States.

Investigators are determining whether the bribes extended to construction contracts for the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics and 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Some former Latin American presidents face potential jail time for allegedly being involved in the bribes and one has gone missing.

Related: Brazil dives deeper into its worst recession in history

This month, a U.S. judge will rule whether Odebrecht must pay the record-setting fine announced in December. The fine could go as high as $4.5 billion.

Odebrecht, which pled guilty, says it can’t pay either amount.

Most of its bribes were paid to get contracts from governments to build roads, bridges, dams and highways.

Odebrecht officials shipped cash across the globe — from one shell bank account to the next — en route to politicians’ pockets in a dozen countries, including Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Peru and Mozambique.

Bribes sometimes went through as many as four shell bank accounts before arriving at the final destination, according to the firm’s plea agreement with U.S. officials.

The fine — coordinated by the U.S., Brazil and Switzerland — only marks the start of Odebrecht’s financial pain. Several Latin American countries are opening up their own cases and could issue more fines.

Related: Brazilian firm hit with record high $3.5 billion fine

“This case is the most important and momentous investigation into corruption crimes in the history of the region,” Sergio Rodriguez, Argentina’s federal prosecutor investigating Odebrecht, told CNNMoney.

The first signs of bribery popped up three years ago in a Brazilian investigation dubbed “Operation Car Wash” which led to the arrest of an executive at Petrobras, Brazil’s government-run oil company. Petrobras also played a leading role in the bribery ring.

The corruption probe across Petrobras and Odebrecht has imprisoned Brazil’s most prominent politicians and business owners. The scandal is a central reason why Brazil is in its worst recession in history.

The Petrobras executive later named names in a plea agreement. Investigators later found that Odebrecht replicated its bribery model across most of Latin America and Africa.

Related: One-time powerful Brazilian lawmaker sentenced to 15 years in jail

The case continues to reverberate globally.

In March, Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos admitted his re-election campaign in 2014 accepted a donation from Odebrecht. Santos said he had no knowledge of its origin and called for an investigation. Odebrecht received public works contracts from the Colombian government.

In February, police in Peru raided the home of former president Alejandro Toledo for allegedly accepting a Odebrecht bribe. Toledo denied the charges via Twitter but has gone missing, is thought to be in the U.S., and could face jail time.

Related: Brazil’s ex-president hit with corruption charges

Brazil’s former president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, faces potential prison time for allegedly accepting Odebrecht’s paying for his family’s vacation home.

His successor, former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, was impeached last year for separate charges, though the massive corruption scandal loomed over her ousting.

Last week, Brazil’s former House Speaker, Eduardo Cunha, got 15 years in prison for, among three charges, money laundering bribes involving Petrobras, Odebrecht and politicians.

Brazil’s current president, Michel Temer, has lost five of his cabinet officials since taking office in May. Many of them resigned after bribery allegations involving Odebrecht surfaced.

The company’s former chief executive, Marcelo Odebrecht, was sentenced to 19 years in prison a year ago.

In Argentina, Rodriguez, the federal prosecutor, is starting to investigate $35 million in Odebrecht bribes to middle men that allegedly gave the money to Argentine government leaders. He says he doesn’t know how many people are involved or how long the case will take.

More charges are likely in the pipeline across Latin America.

Related: Brazil’s spoiled meat scandal widens

To get shorter prison terms, Odebrecht officials struck plea deals with investigators, naming names and giving details about the breadth of the scheme during closed door testimonies.

Much of their testimonies is still sealed up but leaks have revealed hints at what’s to come.

The music could stop for many more government leaders across the continent once the full testimony is public later this year.

“The tentacles potentially go sea deep in the Brazilian government,” says Kathleen Hamann, a lawyer at the firm Pierce Atwood and former U.S. Justice Department official who specializes in foreign corrupt practices in Latin America. “The domestic impact is potentially very grave.”

No leader appears to be immune from the investigation in Latin America, which has long had a high tolerance for corruption.

Related: Brazil’s Olympic legacy? An abandoned Maracana stadium

The difference this time around is two things: 1) the unprecedented size and scope of the case and 2) a key law passed in a few Latin American nations called “corporate liability.”

Corporate liability means it’s easier for investigators to find a company guilty instead of its individual employees. That increases a firm’s willingness to cooperate and play by the rules because the company’s shareholders want to make sure they don’t lose their money.

Still, prosecutors face a tricky problem: They could risk jobs for thousands of workers if Odebrecht goes into bankruptcy due to a flood of fines, experts say.

Related: Brazil judge overseeing corruption probe dies in plane crash

It’s not just its own employees. The company does business with many other firms across Latin America that depend on Odebrecht’s business.

With many countries’ economies struggling to grow, especially Brazil with record-high unemployment, prosecutors’ desire to protect workers could allow Odebrecht to survive.

“No one wants Odebretch to go into bankruptcy…the government wants to preserve jobs,” says Alexandre Garcia, associate director of Fitch Ratings in Brazil. “Does it survive? Well yes, it does. But survival doesn’t mean that it won’t come out of this smaller.”

CNNMoney (Buenos Aires ) First published April 5, 2017: 10:49 AM ET

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10 mispronounced country names | Atlas & Boots

From Kiribati to Kyrgyzstan, we list the most commonly mispronounced country names.

We at Atlas & Boots took pity on Trump for we have mispronounced a country or two in our time as travellers.

1. Kiribati

Wrong: kiribati Right: kiribass (link)

Dreamstime Kiribati is one of the most commonly mispronounced country names

2. Qatar

Wrong: cut-taar Right: cut-ta (link)

No8/Shutterstock Qatar is pronounced more like ‘cutter’

3. Lesotho

Wrong: leh-soh-toh Right: leh-soo-too (link)

Lukas Bischoff/Shutterstock The hairpinned Sani Pass in Lesotho

4. Kyrgyzstan

Wrong: ker-jis-tan Right: ker-gis-tan (link)

LightField Studios/Shutterstock Kyrgyzstan has been dubbed the Switzerland of Central Asia

Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country (one of 45 in the world), but does benefit from Issyk-Kul, the world’s second largest high-altitude lake (behind Lake Titicaca in South America).

5. Niger

Wrong: nye-gah Right: nee-zher (link)

Catay/Shutterstock Niger takes its name from the Niger River

6. Colombia

Wrong: col-um-bia Right: col-om-bia (link)

Mark Pitt/Shutterstock Colombia is one of the most commonly mispronounced country names

7. Laos

Wrong: laow or laow-oss Right: louse (link, US pronunciation)

Nathapon Triratanachat/Shutterstock Laos is one of the world’s few remaining communist states

Landlocked Laos is one of the world’s few remaining communist states, the others being China, Cuba and Vietnam.

8. Liechtenstein

Wrong: lich-ten-stine Right: lick-ten-stine (link)

Stifos/Shutterstock Liechtenstein is pronounced with a hard ‘c’

Liechtenstein is known as a tax haven, but has in recent years taken steps to rebrand itself as a legitimate financial hub.

9. St Kitts & Nevis

Wrong: nev-iss Right: nee-viss (link)

Sean Pavone/Shutterstock Nevis Peak on Nevis Island (pronounced nee-viss)

10. Nepal

Wrong: neh-paal Right: ni-paul (link)

Atlas & Boots The summit of Mount Everest seen from base camp

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10 mispronounced country names | Atlas & Boots

From Kiribati to Kyrgyzstan, we list the most commonly mispronounced country names.

We at Atlas & Boots took pity on Trump for we have mispronounced a country or two in our time as travellers.

1. Kiribati

Wrong: kiribati Right: kiribass (link)

Dreamstime Kiribati is one of the most commonly mispronounced country names

2. Qatar

Wrong: cut-taar Right: cut-ta (link)

No8/Shutterstock Qatar is pronounced more like ‘cutter’

3. Lesotho

Wrong: leh-soh-toh Right: leh-soo-too (link)

Lukas Bischoff/Shutterstock The hairpinned Sani Pass in Lesotho

4. Kyrgyzstan

Wrong: ker-jis-tan Right: ker-gis-tan (link)

LightField Studios/Shutterstock Kyrgyzstan has been dubbed the Switzerland of Central Asia

Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country (one of 45 in the world), but does benefit from Issyk-Kul, the world’s second largest high-altitude lake (behind Lake Titicaca in South America).

5. Niger

Wrong: nye-gah Right: nee-zher (link)

Catay/Shutterstock Niger takes its name from the Niger River

6. Colombia

Wrong: col-um-bia Right: col-om-bia (link)

Mark Pitt/Shutterstock Colombia is one of the most commonly mispronounced country names

7. Laos

Wrong: laow or laow-oss Right: louse (link, US pronunciation)

Nathapon Triratanachat/Shutterstock Laos is one of the world’s few remaining communist states

Landlocked Laos is one of the world’s few remaining communist states, the others being China, Cuba and Vietnam.

8. Liechtenstein

Wrong: lich-ten-stine Right: lick-ten-stine (link)

Stifos/Shutterstock Liechtenstein is pronounced with a hard ‘c’

Liechtenstein is known as a tax haven, but has in recent years taken steps to rebrand itself as a legitimate financial hub.

9. St Kitts & Nevis

Wrong: nev-iss Right: nee-viss (link)

Sean Pavone/Shutterstock Nevis Peak on Nevis Island (pronounced nee-viss)

10. Nepal

Wrong: neh-paal Right: ni-paul (link)

Atlas & Boots The summit of Mount Everest seen from base camp

Lead image: SantiPhotoSS/Shutterstock

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GAY MUSIC CHART – 2017 week 52

Welcome to the Gay Music Chart, the LGBTQA related music videos TOP 50 actuality and most request.

Vote for your favourite LGBTQA related music videos by leaving a comment for this post on :

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Here is the recap for this week :

OUT : Não Recomendados - Não Recomendado (Remix Deep Lick) (LW: 18 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 18)

OUT : Kevin Chomat - Un homme à terre (LW: 27 / WO: 45 / PEAK: 01 (x3))

OUT : Oscar and the Wolf - Breathing (LW: 32 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 10)

OUT : Banda Uó - Tô na Rua (LW: 34 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 34)

OUT : Oscar and the Wolf - Runaway (LW: 37 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 19)

OUT : Jvel - Los morbos, los vicios y todos los servicios (LW: 38 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 38)

OUT : Brandi Carlile - The Joke (Live from Studio A) (LW: 39 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 39)

OUT : Living Without Prejudice - Stronger Together (LW: 41 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 41)

OUT : Bilal Hassani - House Down (LW: 42 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 25)

OUT : 10cm - Help (LW: 43 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 24)

OUT : SOPHIE - Ponyboy (LW: 44 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 44)

OUT : La Pelopony - Icónica (LW: 46 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 46)

OUT : So Brown - United States of Deprivation (LW: 47 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 47)

OUT : Parson James - Only You (Lyric Video) (LW: 48 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 47)

OUT : Sam Vance-Law - I Think We Should Take It Fast (LW: 50 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 23)

01 (=) : Alfie Arcuri - If They Only Knew (LW: 01 / WO: 25 / PEAK: 01 (x7))

This is the new music video of the winner of The Voice Australia 2016. What must do a gay man when he's in love with his best male friend, who's dating his best female friend?

02 (=) : PJ Brennan - Tease (LW: 02 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 02)

PJ Brennan is well known for his role as Doug Carter in the British television soap opera Hollyoaks.

03 (+ 14) : Kevin Chomat - Issue de secours (LW: 17 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 03)

04 (+ 1) : Calum Scott - You Are The Reason (Lyric Video) (LW: 05 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 04)

05 (+ 21) : Eli Lieb - Next To You (LW: 26 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 05)

06 (+ 2) : Huntington - Love Is Love (LW: 08 / WO: 13 / PEAK: 02)

Three years after "Secret", this is their new original song. It was released specially for the Australian debate about marriage equality. Every cent made from this song went go to the Yes campaign. Now that the debate is over, finaly, LGBT can now get marry : congratulations Australia !

07 (+ 24) : Trevor Moran - Sinner (LW: 31 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 07)

08 (+ 11) : Jakub & Dawid - Pokochaj nas w święta (LW: 19 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 08)

This time, the Polish couple sings for this Christmas song, always to change mentalities in their country !

09 (- 6) : Larva - For Ruy (censored version) (LW: 03 / WO: 9 / PEAK: 02)

Larva is a Mexican openly gay heavy metal band. The uncensored version, only for adults because of its raw sex content, is now also available on YouTube.

10 (- 6) : Leon Else - What I Won't Do (Lyric Video) (LW: 04 / WO: 28 / PEAK: 02)

The British singer has came out on Facebook last May.

11 (- 5) : Wrabel - The Village (LW: 06 / WO: 21 / PEAK: 01 (x1))

This engaging song was written the day after US President Trump removed new federal protections for trans students in public schools last February. Trans actor August Aiden plays the role of a young transgender who tries to be himself despite the hostility of his father in the music video.

12 (=) : La Prohibida - Baloncesto (LW: 12 / WO: 22 / PEAK: 03)

13 (=) : Conchita Wurst & Ina Regen - Heast as Net (Hubert Von Goisern Cover) (LW: 13 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 13)

The power of yodeling, but in a classy way.

14 (- 3) : G&D (Geez & DIK) - Freelove (LW: 11 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 07)

There are several straight, gay, lesbian and bi couples making love in this music video.

15 (+ 1) : HEIDRIK - Monster (LW: 16 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 15)

16 (- 6) : Michele Bravi - Diamanti (LW: 10 / WO: 14 / PEAK: 04)

This is the third single from the Italian singer taken from the album “Anime Di Carta”.

17 (- 8) : Greyson Chance - Low (Official Lyric Video) (LW: 09 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 09)

18 (NEW) : Erik Altemus - Love Crimes (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 18)

19 (- 12) : P!nk - Beautiful Trauma (LW: 07 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 06)

In her new music video, P!ink supports her husband Channing Tatum who loves wearing her dresses.

20 (+ 4) : Alfie Arcuri - Love is Love (LW: 24 / WO: 10 / PEAK: 12)

The Australian singer took position with this song for the YES in the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey. 61,6% of the 12,7 millions people who voted said YES to mariage equality. Now that the debate is over, finaly, LGBT can now get marry : congratulations Australia !

21 (NEW) : Reigen - Rollin (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 21)

22 (- 8) : Kevin Chomat - Sens Interdit (LW: 14 / WO: 16 / PEAK: 01 (x2))

This new single of the French singer reached the top 10 YouTube trending in France.

23 (- 8) : SAKIMA - Daddy (LW: 15 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 15)

24 (NEW) : Anye Elite - White Boy (Like A Kite) (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 24)

The track is #1 in the Top 40 LGBT Urban Chart.

25 (- 4) : Bobby Newberry - Up (LW: 21 / WO: 9 / PEAK: 08)

26 (NEW) : Tom Goss - Gay Christmas (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 26)

This song is dedicated for those who can't spend their Christmas holidays with their family, which are the moment in the year when LGBT are most exposed to homophobia in family.

27 (+ 6) : Tokio Hotel - Boy Don't Cry (LW: 33 / WO: 8 / PEAK: 11)

The lead singer Bill Kaulitz becomes a beautiful drag queen in the new music video of the German band.

28 (+ 1) : Namuel - Joven de Corazón (LW: 29 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 11)

In his new music video, the chilean singer is a teen at school who has a crush on his bully.

29 (+ 1) : Michele Bravi - Tanto Per Cominciare (LW: 30 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 14)

30 (- 5) : Sam Smith - One Last Song (LW: 25 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 25)

31 (NEW) : Blondie - Doom or Destiny (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 31)

32 (NEW) : Linn Da Quebrada feat. As Bahias e A Cozinha Mineira - Absolutas (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 32)

The video discusses the prejudices, diversity and representativeness of the LGBT community in Brazil.

33 (NEW) : Tokio Hotel - Easy (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 33)

34 (- 12) : Léo Áquilla - Princesinha da Favela (LW: 22 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 22)

35 (NEW) : Brockhampton - Quiver (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 35)

The song is the chapter 3 of a short movie called "Billy Star", which included several songs.

36 (- 1) : K Anderson - Cluttered (LW: 35 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 25)

37 (NEW) : Smashby - Ringleader (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 37)

38 (NEW) : Blake McGrath - Before You Go (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 38)

A song dedicated to his father.

39 (NEW) : Out of the Blue - Merry Xmas Everybody (Charity Single) (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 39)

40 (NEW) : Wham! - Last Christmas (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 40)

Fans tried to make this classic Christmas song tops the UK singles chart for Christmas, to honore George Michael, but it only came third.

41 (RE-ENTRY) : P!nk - What About Us (LW: - / WO: 16 / PEAK: 01 (x3))

The music video includes audio contents from the tragic events in Charlottesville for denouncing the hate speeches from the supremacist movements, and shows several people dancing under the intimidating eye of the authorities, including two men together.

42 (+ 3) : Hunter - So Gay (LW: 45 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 42)

The Tanzanian singer dares to proclaims his homosexuality in music in a country where homosexuality is criminalized and punished by prison. He has perhaps created a new anthem for LGBT rights in Africa.

43 (- 20) : Hayley Kiyoko - Feelings (LW: 23 / WO: 9 / PEAK: 04)

The singer flirts with another woman while she’s dancing in her new music video.

44 (NEW) : Willam Belli - Ho Ho Ho Ho (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 44)

45 (- 9) : ILY - Your Love (LW: 36 / WO: 11 / PEAK: 05)

Two new brides are kissing in this Swedish music video.

46 (NEW) : The Presets - Do What You Want (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 46)

47 (- 7) : Virgin Suicide - Evil Eyes (LW: 40 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 30)

This Danish music video is like a short movie, telling the struggles of a closeted gay teen taken by his father to a fathers-sons's camp.

48 (- 20) : Javiera Mena - Dentro de ti (LW: 28 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 28)

49 (=) : Sufjan Stevens - Mystery of Love ("Call Me By Your Name" OST) (LW: 49 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 11)

The movie Is actually nominated for 3 Golden Globes for Best Movie, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.

50 (- 30) : Steve Grand - Walking (LW: 20 / WO: 10 / PEAK: 05)

The song has now a music video shot in New Orleans!

ALSO NEW THIS WEEK

Katy Perry - Hey Hey Hey

Katy Perry plays Marie-Antoinette who dreams to be Joan of Arc.

Björk - Arisen my Senses

Arca is featuring in her new music video.

Måneskin - Chosen

Candy Ken - White Man Privilege

Macy Rodman - SFUB

Picco feat. Lunascope - Broke

Alok & Mathieu Koss - Big Jet Plane

Bobby Newberry - Holiday

Bonnie McKee - Have Yourself a Merry Fucking Christmas

Sam Sparro - Christmas in Your Heart

Davis Mallory - Christmas Giving

Nicki French - Very Christmas (Matt Pop Glitter & Sparkle Mix)

NU3L - All I Want For Christmas Is You (cover of Mariah Carey)

Chris Weaver and Stephanie’s Child - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (live @ The Voice 2017 - Finale)

Even if the drag artist has been eliminated in episode 15 last November, he came back to make an amazing performance in the final, but some conservative viewers didn't appreciated it.

Hansol 한솔 Sexy Dance (IU - "Jam Jam" choreography cover)

The South Korean singer, member of the boyband Topp Dogg, has came out as asexual last summer.

Dez Mona - Skai Blue ("Skai Blue" OST)

This is the original soundtrack for short film SKAI BLUE by Guido Verelst, about a gay Cameroonian refugee.

TURN IT AROUND - trailer (short movie by Niels Bourgonje)

The Netherlands, 2017

The trailer is only available on Vimeo. When the fifteen year old Bram meets Florian at a house party, he immediately falls for him. There’s only one problem: nobody knows Bram is gay.

GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE - Y.M.C.A.

It's funny to see how an iconic gay anthem is covered by this famous Japanese boy band, even if it loses all its gayness.

SECRET GUYZ -『悩めるヒーロー』Nayameru Hiro / The Troubling Hero

This is the new single of the Japanese transgender band.

風男塾 (Fudanjuku) / 新たなる幕開けのための幕開けによる狂詩曲～キミがいればオレたちも笑顔 / Rhapsodism by the opening for a new beginning - If we are there we are smiling

氷川きよし Hikawa Kiyoshi - きよしのねずみ小僧 / Kiyoshi no nezumi kozo

The latest single of the prince of enka.

【TDC】Tomioka Dance Club 登美丘高校ダンス部 feat Shinsuke (from Beat Buddy Boi) - Baby Dance バブリーダンス

The original video from a Japanese high school dance club in Osaka made the buzz in Japan last September, so a lot of dance cover have raised on YouTube, like this one with a man dressed as a woman (the only one without heels). An occasion to hear again this old JPOP track from the eighties "Dancing Hero (Eat You Up)" from 荻野目洋子 Oginome Yoko.

東京ゲゲゲイ Tokyo Gegegei -「世界中からサヨウナラ」"Sayonara From All Over The World"

A dance cover by Japanese choreographer Mikey.

See you next week and don’t forget to vote for your best LGBTQA music videos ! Here are the rules :

1 ) You can vote for many videos as you want under the videos on YouTube in the comment section. It could be recent or past music videos, which must provide at least one among the following conditions:

- the music video has LGBTQA related content, in the lyrics or the music video

- the artist is LGBTQA, an LGBTQA icon or eventually ally

- LGBTQA medias talked about it.

2 ) You can’t vote more than 3 songs of a same artist per week.

3 ) In case of an artist who receive votes mostly by a fan base, we will count only one song, in a limited time of 10 weeks of presence in the top.

4 ) You can vote with only one account.

5 ) If you make 5 votes or less, your first vote will represent 5 points, your second vote 4 points, etc… until your last vote and following 1 point. If you make 6 to 10 votes, your first vote will represent 10 points, your second vote 9 points, etc… If you make more than 10 votes, your first vote will represent 20 points, your second vote 19 points, etc…

6 ) People who make 1 to 5 votes form the amateur ranking, those who make 6 to 10 votes form the fan ranking, those who make more than 10 votes form the expert ranking. We form the jury ranking. And we count now the ranking of minutes of views of our weekly playlist of the previous week. The Gay Music Chart is the addition of the five charts. In case of equality, the number of votes and the dates of votes will count.

7 ) The votes will close on Thursday, 8 PM, European time.

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