#front organizations

[unwelcome-ozian]

Intelligence agencies use front organizations to provide "cover", plausible occupations and means of income, for their covert agents. These may include legitimate organizations, such as charity, religious or journalism organizations; or "brass plate firms" which exist solely to provide a plausible background story, occupation, and means of income.

[whatisonthemoon]

MAY 8, 2023

Ninety percent of prefectural assembly members with ties to the Unification Church were re-elected in the unified local elections in April, but their popularity showed signs of waning, an Asahi Shimbun survey showed.

The unified elections were the first collective nationwide vote held since the Unification Church came under fire again for its fund-collection methods following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July last year, apparently over his ties to the religious group.

According to an Asahi Shimbun survey conducted in August and September last year, 292 of the 2,314 responding prefectural assembly members acknowledged their connections with the church, now formally called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.

The ties included attendance at Unification Church-related meetings or events, and receiving support from the group in election campaigns.

The terms for 251 church-connected assembly members expired in spring. Of them, 228 sought re-election in the April 9 elections held in 41 of Japan’s 47 prefectures, while 23 members did not run due to age or other reasons.

Of these candidates, 206, or 90.4 percent, were re-elected. Twenty-two members, or 9.6 percent, lost their seats.

Among those re-elected, 47, or around 23 percent, ran uncontested.

More than 80 percent of the church-tied prefectural assembly members were from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

Among all 1,111 LDP incumbents who ran in the local assembly elections, 98 members, or 8.8 percent, were defeated.

Of all 228 candidates who confirmed their ties to the church, 118 gained fewer votes than in the previous election, while 42 garnered more ballots.

It is not clear if the church ties affected vote counts for 68 of the candidates because they ran uncontested in either of the two latest elections, or won in a by-election held within the past four years.

However, some candidates lost several thousand to 10,000 votes compared to their tallies in the previous election after their connections with the church became known.

Setsuko Sakuraba, 65, an LDP candidate, sought a second term in the Niigata prefectural assembly from the electoral district of Joetsu city.

But she was defeated in the election after gaining 9,536 votes. That was 2,459 votes fewer than her total in the previous election, when she placed fourth and gained one of the five assembly seats for the city.

Sakuraba had attended Unification Church-related events and received support in her campaign from people connected to the group.

These ties were reported in local newspapers and The Asahi Shimbun.

After her election loss, Sakuraba said about her church ties, “It’s hard to say how much, but there must have been a significant impact (on the election results.)”

She said someone had placed stickers with words “Unification Church endorsed candidate” on her campaign posters in Joetsu city.

About 50 to 60 of these stickers were found, she said.

In the Tochigi prefectural assembly election, 82-year-old Kazuyoshi Itabashi of the LDP was elected for a national record 14th straight time.

Itabashi gained 10,411 votes in the election four years ago, but this time he received 7,674 ballots, down by 2,737.

He also received the fewest votes among the five elected candidates representing the Oyama city and Nogi town electoral district.

“I think there was a slight decrease in votes,” he said after the election.

In September last year, reports surfaced that Itabashi was serving as head of the prefectural association of a church-related organization called the Federation for World Peace.

He resigned from the position.

Before the election, a Buddhist organization that had supported Itabashi told him that it would withhold its support because of his connection to the Federation for World Peace.

The Unification Church’s public relations department told The Asahi Shimbun, “Our organization has never had involvement with specific candidates or political parties.”

[lastofthe20thcenturygirls]

the cold male lead (first time in three years of his marriage): this is my wife

me:

[monkesupreme]

Maybe i SHOULD draft out my ‘Clark is a SuperPlant’ propaganda post

[susie-dreemurr]

Só painful to see Cassidy be talking about Eva setting up the game tournament with her Like “Eva really helped me out, maybe she’s doing that now because she doesnt need to pretend any more yayayaya ^-^” when Eva was using that for murder this entire time.

Eva really screwed over every single person that defended her even slightly huh 😭

[lunarin64art]

That feeling when he can't stand to see you that way, no matter what you do, no matter what you say😩😭💔

[lastoneout]

I watched that video where that guy was just trying to find businesses with 0 reviews to review them and stumbled upon an illegal casino and the funniest thing about it is that he thinks he only found ONE illegal front/shell business but he probably found at LEAST three and it's a miracle he didn't get in trouble with an actual organized crime group.

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

So if this is actually about Hamas, why are they bombing Lebanon right now?

You mean why is Hezbollah bombing Israel and displacing 80,000 Israelis from their homes?

[thesimquarter]

some 81x33 GIFs I made a while ago

[void-authority]

I got ghosted by my boss so now I'm jobless. We desperately need money for stuff.

Please please please, if you can afford it we'd appreciate it if you help us, and if not please share this around. paypal.me/elisabetenogueira0

[whatisonthemoon]

CAUSA and Colonia Dignidad and more

UC researcher Alisa Mahjoub recently posted the following on Twitter with excerpts/screenshots from Rogue Agents: The Cercle and the 6I in the Private Cold War 1951-1991 (alternatively subtitled Habsburg, Pinay and the Private Cold War 1951-1991) by David Teacher.

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CAUSA (Moonie) /Colonia Dignidad connection

WACL/CAUSA congress hosted by Stroessner and Pinochet

More on the Colonia Dignidad connection

There is so fucking much in this book jeez

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Secret Antenna episode Inside the Moonies with Alisa Mahjoub

[ikjun]

some poetic tragedy in junho seeing inho as this heroic figure in his life, not only modelling his life after inho's but also inho literally having saved his life when he gave him his kidney, only for inho to run an illegal organ trafficking ring during his tenure as the front man of the games. inho, who found a way to save his brother from kidney failure, undeniable being seen as even more accomplished and awe-inspiring by junho for that. junho, forever in a debt to inho he'd never refuse and inho would never ask him to pay. inho, who could offer a direct solution to what must have been a severe condition junho was dealing with, but who couldn't do the same for his wife and unborn child. inho, ruthless and playing games to cause gihun to suffer and fail over and over again, while still peeling back a layer to his past that made him become this ruthless while he played and won the games himself. inho, who thinks gihun can't save anything. inho, who couldn't save anyone he needed to save besides junho, who he shot and almost doomed to die under his hands too. inho, who has all the money and power, but only managed to play god once when he didn't have any of it, only had himself to offer.

[marauderingpaige]

Why have I never thought about the fact that Aziraphale has seen Crowley come down the aisle for him before now?

[xxplastic-cubexx]

BURNT NUGGIES

SIX PIECE NUGGET SPECIAL !!!!!!!

[multiversal-pudding]

Enough fics of Sebastian’s lover/spouse going down and infiltrating/storming the facility to find him well actually not bc I love that s$&!

Do you know what I wanna see

I wanna see a fic where Sebastian’s MOTHER goes and raises hell looking for her long-dead son-

[love-3-crimes]

Day 1: SINGLE

RAHH COWBOY JASH ‼