#uc moon

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Moon, the hero of the Moon: Takes place before A Link to the Past, and post Ocarina of Time

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Welcome to the blog where I'm currently realigning everything from my LOZ sideblog, to this one!

Unchained

So I've made a small slideshow to help people get better acquainted with my Linkverse! So, here are my silly, silly boys.

[rw-repurposed]

420 MOMENT!!!

Haha, that's the funny number.

Thank you all for the follows lol.

Upright Carnage is by @toxictoxicities

[c0rpsedemon]

the thing about the queer media tournament that really gets me is that last i checked there wasn't a single mxtx work on it. like not even the untamed made it in and don't get me wrong the og mo dao zu shi books are huge but cql is def more popular among tumblr circles. idk it just really rubs me the wrong way how every single piece of western media that ppl have ever gotten a lil bit aggressive abt shipping with is there and then for east asian media there's utena and madoka magica and the handmaiden and last i checked that was pretty much it. and then for the rest of the world there's next to/nothing but idk enough to really make judgements there.

[jadenoryuu]

Day 2: Backpack

Here's next DannyMay (delayed) instalment!

(Credit to @tourettesdog for the fabulous Little baby Man!)

Tucker had a blast designing this backpack to carry around the little menace, because what screams Ultracreature more than a creachure from the Infinite Realms? (Even if he's your transformed best friend?)

Thus the UC Ball Backpack was born! ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

(Inspiration for the backpack itself under the cut.)

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated in July 2022. Inset: Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han Moon, in 1984.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

On the last morning of his life, Shinzo Abe arrived in the Japanese city of Nara, famous for its ancient pagodas and sacred deer. His destination was more prosaic: a broad urban intersection across from the city’s main train station, where he would be giving a speech to endorse a lawmaker running for reelection to the National Diet, Japan’s parliament. Abe had retired two years earlier, but because he was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, his name carried enormous weight. The date was July 8, 2022.

In photos taken from the crowd, Abe—instantly recognizable by his wavy, swept-back hair; charcoal eyebrows; and folksy grin—can be seen stepping onto a makeshift podium at about 11:30 a.m., one hand clutching a microphone. A claque of supporters surrounds him. No one in the photos seems to notice the youngish-looking man about 20 feet behind Abe, dressed in a gray polo shirt and cargo pants, a black strap across his shoulder. Unlike everyone else, the man is not clapping.

Abe started to speak. Moments later, his remarks were interrupted by two loud reports, followed by a burst of white smoke. He collapsed to the ground. His security guards ran toward the man in the gray polo shirt, who held a homemade gun—two 16-inch metal pipes strapped together with black duct tape. The man made no effort to flee. The guards tackled him, sending his gun skittering across the pavement. Abe, shot in the neck, would be dead within hours.

At a Nara police station, the suspect—a 41-year-old named Tetsuya Yamagami—admitted to the shooting barely 30 minutes after pulling the trigger. He then offered a motive that sounded too outlandish to be true: He saw Abe as an ally of the Unification Church, a group better known as the Moonies—the cult founded in the 1950s by the Korean evangelist Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Yamagami said his life had been ruined when his mother gave the church all of the family’s money, leaving him and his siblings so poor that they often didn’t have enough to eat. His brother had committed suicide, and he himself had tried to.

“My prime target was the Unification Church’s top official, Hak Ja Han, not Abe,” he told the police, according to an account published in January in a newspaper called The Asahi Shimbun. He could not get to Han—Moon’s widow—so he shot Abe, who was “deeply connected” to the church, Yamagami said, just as Abe’s grandfather, also a prime minister and renowned political figure in Japan, had been.

Investigators looked into Yamagami’s wild-sounding claims and found, to their alarm, that they were true. After a quick huddle, the police appear to have decided that the Moonie connection was too sensitive to reveal, at least for the moment. It might even affect the outcome of the elections for the Upper House of the Diet, set to take place on July 10. At a press conference on the night of the assassination, a police official would say only that Yamagami had carried out the attack because he “harbored a grudge against a specific group and he assumed that Abe was linked to it.” When reporters clamored for details, the official said nothing.

After the election, the Unification Church confirmed press reports that Yamagami’s mother was a member, and the story quickly took off. The Moonies, it emerged, maintained a volunteer army of campaign workers who had long been a secret weapon not just for Abe but for many other politicians in his conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which remains in power under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Later that month, the Japanese tabloid Nikkan Gendai published a list of 111 members of parliament who had connections to the church. In early September 2022, the LDP announced that almost half of its 379 Diet members had admitted to some kind of contact with the Unification Church, whether that meant accepting campaign assistance or paying membership fees or attending church events. According to a survey by The Asahi Shimbun, 290 members of prefectural assemblies, as well as seven prefectural governors, also said they had church ties. The rising numbers exposed a scandal hiding in plain sight: A right-wing Korean cult had a near-umbilical connection to the political party that had governed Japan for most of the past 70 years.

The Japanese were outraged not just by the appearance of influence-peddling but by a galling hypocrisy. Abe was a fervent nationalist, eager to rebuild Japan’s global standing and proudly unapologetic for its imperial past. Now he and his party had been caught in a secretive electoral alliance with a cult that—it soon emerged—had been accused of preying on Japanese war guilt to squeeze billions of dollars from credulous followers.

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[starburr]

Fly me in the Moon (Gundam) to kick Zeon’s ass, and show ‘em what I learned in Zeon Kung Fu class.

[athis3]

Conch-Shell Trumpet

Artist Unknown

Date 300-550

Medium Hematite (mineral) incised on conch shell

Dimensions 9 × 4 3/4 × 3 3/4 in. (22.9 × 12.1 × 9.5 cm)

Classifications Latin American

Credit Line Gift of Edwin Pearlman and Museum purchase

Object number 86.457

Terms

Deities

Peten

Collections

Ancient American Art

Description

This Early Classic period conch-shell trumpet has four drilled holes so that a scale can be played. When the spire is at the bottom, the piece forms the head and headdress of a god.

Label Text

Conch-Shell Trumpet Maya (Tikal Area, Petén, Guatemala), Early Classic Period, 300–550 C.E. Hematite (mineral) incised on conch shell Gift of Edwin Pearlman and Museum purchase 86.457 One of the most spectacular objects made by the Maya, this decorated shell was played like a trumpet in ceremonies. With its mouthpiece down, the conch’s spiraling form depicts the crowned head of Uc Zip, God of the Trumpet. (One of Uc Zip’s eyes is incised on the shell; the other is a drilled hole.) When played, the horn personified the actual god, the sound of his own voice communicating with other gods and ancestors. With its mouthpiece up (see illustrations), the conch reveals two other figures: the Moon Goddess and Juun Ajaw, a mythic hero who defeated the underworld gods. The accompanying hieroglyphs identify those figures and describe the trumpet’s owner as a k’ayoom, or singer.

Vía Balamkame

#balamkame

[digiknow]

[the-music-keeper]

Wait, it's the first day of summer?

Where did the time go!?

Classical History

1. Rice reading. (Reinforced some things I already knew and taught me some new things!)

2. Weiss and Taruskin reading. (On the lives and careers of the members of the first Viennese school.)

Final Paper

3. Search the finding aids for helpful collections. (I've been looking through the Library of Congress list of Thomas Jefferson's music books.)

4. Find five more sources. (I really need to find some Williamsburg-specific sources.)

5. Email my contact in Williamsburg. (I need to nail down the source material I want to look at so I can let him know what I need to see.)

Doctoral Applications

This week I'm getting the info for The Ohio State University.

6. Look at potential advisors' recent research from the last five years. (There's an open access textbook and not much else in the realm of pedagogy. I have a feeling her study is more practical than theoretical.)

7. Look at dissertations potential advisors have supervised within the last five to ten years. (None on Spanish music or pedagogy, though her advisees get a TON of travel grants.)

8. Find curriculum information. (The Ohio State University actually has some specifics in their musicology course listing but there's plenty of wiggle room.)

9. Get contact info. (Info acquired!)

Article Project

10. Look at the Schumann articles I've found. (I compiled a list but I never crossed off the to-do list entry because I didn't read them!)

11. Consider the problem my analysis solves. (That's the thing about this paper -- it was a self-contained analysis. So my next step is going to be finding other articles on this specific piece to see what problems they try to solve and how my analysis fills in the gaps.)

Thesis Planning

12. Find more papers or dissertations on tango in film. (I actually made some progress on this this week!)

13. Acquire more books. (More progress!)

Adulting

14. Do laundry. (I like having clean clothes very much!)

15. Get groceries. (My pantry is stocked!)

16. Keep looking for a job. (I have two interviews scheduled for this week, so that's good!)

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Dreamer's Blade (Page 1)

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Rev. Moon, the Bushes & Donald Rumsfeld

Rev. Moon, the Bushes & Donald Rumsfeld January 3,  2001 By Robert Parry

George W. Bush’s choice of Donald Rumsfeld to be U.S. defense secretary could put an unintended spotlight on the role of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon – a Bush family benefactor – in funneling millions of dollars to communist North Korea in the 1990s as it was developing a missile and nuclear weapons program.

In 1998, Rumsfeld headed a special commission, appointed by the Republican-controlled Congress, that warned that North Korea had made substantial progress during the decade in building missiles that could pose a potential nuclear threat to Japan and parts of the United States.

"The extraordinary level of resources North Korea and Iran are now devoting to developing their own ballistic missile capabilities poses a substantial and immediate danger to the U.S., its vital interests and its allies," said the report by Rumsfeld's Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States. "North Korea maintains an active WMD [weapons of mass destruction] program, including a nuclear weapon program. It is known that North Korea diverted material in the late 1980s for at least one or possibly two weapons," the report said.

Rumsfeld’s alarming assessment of North Korea’s war-making capabilities now is being cited by Republicans as a justification for investing billions of taxpayer dollars in an anti-missile defense system favored by Bush and Rumsfeld.

Yet, during the early-to-mid 1990s, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency was monitoring a series of clandestine payments from Sun Myung Moon's organization to the North Korean communist leaders who were overseeing the country's military strategies.

According to DIA documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Moon’s payments to North Korean leaders included a $3 million “birthday present” to current communist leader Kim Jong Il and offshore payments amounting to “several tens of million dollars” to the previous communist dictator, Kim Il Sung.

The alleged payments – and broader Moon-North Korean business deals reported by the DIA – came at a time of a strict U.S. government ban on financial transactions between North Korea and any U.S. person or entity, to keep hard currency out of North Korea's hands.

Legal experts say that ban would have applied to Moon given his status as a permanent U.S. resident, even though he maintains South Korean citizenship.

Bush Speeches

While negotiating those business deals with North Korea in the 1990s, Moon’s organization also hired former President George H.W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush to give speeches at Moon-sponsored events.

During one speech inaugurating a new Moon-sponsored newspaper in Argentina in November 1996, former President Bush declared, “I want to salute Reverend Moon,” whom Bush praised as “the man with the vision.”

The father of the incoming U.S. president has refused to divulge how much Moon’s organization paid for these speeches which were delivered in the United States, Asia and South America.

Some press estimates have put the fees in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, though one former leader of Moon’s Unification Church told me that the organization had earmarked $10 million for the former president. [For more on the Bush-Moon relationship, see the story in our Archives, "Hooking George Bush."]  

Ex-President Bush’s pro-Moon speeches came at a time, too, when Moon – now 80 – was expressing intensely anti-American views. In the mid-1990s, Moon denounced the United States as “Satan’s harvest” and condemned American women as having descended from a “line of prostitutes.”

In a speech to his followers on Aug. 4, 1996, Moon vowed to liquidate American individuality, declaring that his movement would “swallow entire America.” Moon said Americans who insisted on “their privacy and extreme individualism … will be digested.”

Beyond these anti-Americanism diatribes, other questions have arisen about how Moon finances his religious-business-political empire. Evidence has existed back to the 1970s indicating that Moon’s organization has engaged in money-laundering operations and has associated with right-wing organized-crime figures in Asia and Latin America.

One of Moon's key early backers was Ryoichi Sasakawa, a leader of Japan's Yakuza organized crime family, according to the authoritative book, Yakuza, by David E. Kaplan & Alec Dubro. [For more on Moon and his history, see our Archives for "Dark Side of Rev. Moon."]

In 1998, Moon’s ex-daughter-in-law, Nansook Hong, added first-hand testimony about one of Moon's money-laundering methods when she described how cash was smuggled illegally through U.S. Customs. Moon “demonstrated contempt for U.S. law every time he accepted a paper bag full of untraceable, undeclared cash” carried into the United States from overseas, she wrote in her book, In the Shadows of the Moons.

Checkered Past

To many Americans, Moon is perhaps best known as a 1970s cult leader who allegedly brainwashed young recruits into joining his Unification Church and then paired up his followers in mass marriages where Moon would preside wearing lavish costumes and crowns.

But Moon also understood the importance of political clout. In 1978, a congressional investigation identified Moon as a part of a covert influence-buying scheme aimed at American institutions and run by the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency, a charge that Moon denied.

In 1982, Moon was convicted of tax fraud and served an 18-month sentence in federal prison. Nevertheless, his political influence grew when he launched The Washington Times, also in 1982.

In the years that followed, Moon developed a reputation for financing all-expense-paid international conferences for conservative politicians, prominent journalists and influential academics.

Moon’s conservative newspaper grew in importance in Washington through the 1980s and early 1990s, as it staunchly supported Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

In 1991, President Bush expressed his gratitude to Moon’s newspaper by inviting its editor, Wesley Pruden, to a private White House lunch “just to tell you how valuable the Times has become in Washington, where we read it every day.” [Washington Times, May 17, 1992]

Moving North

At about the same time as that lunch, Moon was beginning another initiative – establishing a business foothold in North Korea. The DIA, the Pentagon agency responsible for monitoring possible military threats to the United States, started keeping tabs on these developments.

Though historically an ardent anticommunist, Moon negotiated a sweeping business deal with Kim Il Sung, the longtime communist leader, the DIA documents said. The two men met face-to-face in North Korea from Nov. 30 to Dec. 8, 1991.

“These talks took place secretly, without the knowledge of the South Korean government,” the DIA wrote on Feb. 2, 1994. “In the original deal with Kim [Il Sung], Moon paid several tens of million dollars as a down-payment into an overseas account,” the DIA said in another cable dated Aug. 14, 1994.

The DIA said Moon's organization also delivered money to Kim Il Sung's son and successor, Kim Jong Il.

“In 1993, the Unification Church sold a piece of property located in Pennsylvania,” the DIA reported on Sept. 9, 1994. “The profit on the sale, approximately $3 million was sent through a bank in China to the Hong Kong branch of the KS [South Korean] company ‘Samsung Group.’ The money was later presented to Kim Jung Il [Kim Jong Il] as a birthday present.”

After Kim Il Sung's death in 1994 and his succession by his son, Kim Jong Il, Moon dispatched his longtime aide, Bo Hi Pak, to ensure that the business deals were still on track with Kim Jong Il “and his coterie,” the DIA reported.

“If necessary, Moon authorized Pak to deposit a second payment for Kim Jong Il,” the DIA wrote.

As described by the DIA, Moon's deal with North Korea called for construction of a hotel complex in Pyongyang as well as a new Holy Land at the site of Moon��s birth in North Korea.

“There was an agreement regarding economic cooperation for the reconstruction of KN's [North Korea's] economy which included establishment of a joint venture to develop tourism at Kimkangsan, KN [North Korea]; investment in the Tumangang River Development; and investment to construct the light industry base at Wonsan, KN. It is believed that during their meeting Mun [Moon] donated 450 billion yen to KN,” one DIA report said.

In late 1991, the Japanese yen traded at about 130 yen to the U.S. dollar, meaning Moon's investment would have been about $3.5 billion, if the DIA information is correct.

Source: https://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/010301a.html

Related links and notes below

The Moon and Bush Joint Businesses

George Bush, head of CIA, protected Moon

On Released Documents Regarding Moon Meeting Kim Il Sung

2006: Paraguay in a spin about Bush’s alleged 100,000 acre hideaway

Bush Addresses Group Tied to Rev. Moon (1995)

Washington Post: Moon Group Paying Bush for Speeches (1995)

A Short Summary on the Moons and the Bushes (and the Reagans)

Sun Myung Moon: 

“I have some control over the news in Russia and India and I am inviting other newspapers to join our team. The CIA know of my value to America. American youth need to follow me. I like George Bush Jr. He looks like a smart young man. George Bush did a good job to support True Mother in Japan, and created a very positive impression of True Parents in Asia.”

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UC: No one is going to hurt Wind. RFP: We don't intend to! We're literally on the same side! UI: Honest!

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Upright Carnage is by @toxictoxicities

Yeah, Pebbles and UI are a bit scared of what Carnage can do. Especially when it comes to Wind.

[foxstens]

fuck it i give up

[crxptidx]

literally does anyone else’s skin feel like its bruised all over when they’re on prednisone or is it just me. It feels like I’m some dog’s chew toy. I am in so much pain,,,

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Mrs. Moon demanded that all UC paid staff resign by October 1st.

News about the Unification Church of Japan Hak Ja Han doesn’t want to pay her staff, but instead use that money to fund her newest temple.

For the past two years donations have been almost zero in Japan. In the midst of a serious financial crisis with no donations from Japan, Mrs Moon is still pouring everything into the Cheonwon Palace at Cheongpyeong. She sold real estate and borrowed from financial institutions.

All church money is being pulled into her temple.

It’s being said that every time Mrs Moon tours the temple to check on the building progress she finds more ways to spend money either in furniture, more elaborate decorations or upgrading tech.

Then there is this Japanese leader who is receiving revelations from Sun Myung Moon in the spiritual world. With passionate yelling he tells members that Moon is a hundred percent supporting Mrs. Moon, and the light from the new temple will transform the evil. This leader is known in Japan for creating a team and a teaching that would help members file for bankruptcy, believing that bankruptcy was a divine law.

In the end Mrs. Moon is running out of money and probably losing membership because of her own greed.

Also her closest two aides, one of which is Mrs. Won Ju McDevitt, are under investigation by the police for tax evasion and embezzlement.

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Unification Church President Hak Ja Han issued an emergency directive, “Submit resignation letters en masse!”

통일교 한학자 총재 긴급 지시, “일괄 사직서 내라!”

統一教会の韓鶴子総裁緊急指示「一括辞表を出せ！」

Hak-Ja Han kicked out three of her sons and became the sinless object of worship in the movement founded by Sun Myung Moon

$42million of Donations Gambled Away by Hak Ja Han and Unification Church Leaders in Las Vegas