Episode 153: Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church by Grubstakers published on 2020-04-01T04:58:51Z On this episode we discuss founder of the Unification Church, the Washington Times, North Korea’s Pyonghwa Motors, and Humanity’s Savior/first parent/successor of Christ Himself Sun Myung Moon. We delve into his teenage experience of being visited by Jesus, his time in a North Korean prison camp, building a fortune investing his followers’ candle sales, and his work spreading love through mass marriages as well as spreading hate through the Washington Times. To help anyone who needs their Grubstakers fix we have chosen to make all the episodes on our paywall free for a month. It's not a April Fools joke, but it is 4/20 all month. Genre Business Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder Having "nonaligned subsidaries" is right out of the Mob playbook. Breaking up the organization into a series of shell corporations was the thing done by Scientology to dodge the IRS, with the funny thing being that even after Scientology beat the IRS, the shell companies still exist. 2020-04-14T21:30:56Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder The "Exile" did a piece in 2010 on what a nuthouse the "Washington Times" is: https://exiledonline.com/the-sordid-rise-fall-of-the-washington-times-how-ex-nazis-cocaine-smugglers-moonie-cultists-created-right-wing-republican-propaganda-organ-and-brought-it-crashing-down/ 2020-04-14T21:10:54Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder The time control is something you also see in Scientology's (not legally existing) Sea Organization, where the SO members are "priests"/handymen/landscapers/crew of the "Freewinds" auditing ship. If you have a wife you can't see her, same with any children. And they make you sign a document that you will reincarnate after death (!) to rejoin the Sea Org. (Most people do not know how heavily Scientology leans on reincarnation as a spiritual mechanism.) 2020-04-14T21:02:47Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder The deal with Northern Korea is it was the rural, religious part of the country while the South was urban and full of Leftists. The split after WWII switched the sides and people mass-migrated from either side before the Korean War started in 1950. Life under Japanese rule was harsh, but the aftermath as a split nation was an utter disaster for Korean society. 2020-04-14T20:49:16Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder "Deprogramming" was a last-ditch method by parents to get college-aged children out of the cult. It was pretty extreme (because they were holding people against their will doing forced rundowns of different types to "break" cult beliefs) and is no longer being done thanks to legal pressure. I know that Rick Ross (the cult expert, not the Def Jam beardo) was a deprogrammer in the 1980s, maybe Steve Hassan (the "BITE" model) was involved. 2020-04-14T20:44:20Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder Because it's New York City, anything that drives the landlords to commit suicide is fine by me. 2020-04-14T20:27:50Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder Get to the Mooon! GET TO THE MOOON! 2020-04-14T20:24:52Z