I take it you think that is a bad thing.  I must confess ignorance on the
subject; I am totally unfamiliar with the Unification Church and the Oregon
Institute of Science and Medicine.  I just cruise the Internet and find
interesting snippets, which I pass along.  Recently, I even posted some from
The New York Post and The New Republic, which I don't think are associated
with the church you mentioned.

The Washtimes is only one source of information I consult, but I do like
some of their writers.  Bill Gertz in particular is one who writes
extensively about defense matters.  This guy is connected like you would not
believe.  He reports on things and knows details such that I, along with
many others, am just surprised that he would even know.  He has published at
least two bestsellers so far: "Betrayal", details some of the goings-on in
the 1990s.  One of the items he talks about is the case where a Canadian
pilot and an America federal agent where blinded by a laser beam coming from
a Russian ship they were circling.  Nobody else talked about it.  This was
back in the early 1990s.  Come to find out last week that case is finally
coming to court.

Gertz's current book is "Breakdown", covering the intelligence failures and
their causes, leading up to 9-11.  I have not started reading it yet, it is
next on my pile and I will get to it as soon as I finish the book I am
reading now.  I will let you know about it.

As for the Washtimes, I understand Sun Moon dictates every single article.
Quite impressive, and most unlikely :) .  But I tell you what, if ever I
find the Washtimes doing things like the NYT has done as recently as two
weeks ago, that is conduct a push pool, report on it as if it were important
or even real news and then write a self-serving editorial about it, I will
let you know.  I just think the quality of reporting is much higher and much
more dispassionate at the Washtimes than at the NYT.  They report the story
factually; they don't make it up to serve an agenda.  The reporting in the
Washtimes is what the NYT would like to be when it grows up.

I also understand that the same church you mentioned also purchased UPI a
while back.

As for Sun Moon, I think I bought something from his company maybe a decade
back.  It was a CD-ROM controller and the company was then called Sun Moon
Stars.  I had a heck of a time finding Windows 95 drivers for that
controller, but the Internet rules and I finally was able to obtain them and
the system has been running ever since.  It is the only Windows 95 system we
have left here and it just drives an old HP LaserJet.


Denys...

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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Wirt Atmar
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 4:18 PM
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Subject: Re: OT: Finding the money behind a PAC

Denys writes:

> Well, it's very simple.  First you ignore the New Yuck Times.  Next you
get
>  real news without the liberal interpretation:
>
>  http://www.washtimes.com/business/20021018-71352476.htm

Although I rarely agree with Denys about anything, I do agree very much that
understanding the motivation behind the authorship of documents and the
publication's agenda is paramount to understanding their text. In every
document, there exists text, subtext and context. It's the subtext that is
often the most important to discern.

The Greeks had it right when they said that the three most important things
in life are to know what is true, to delight in what is beautiful and to
strive to live a virtuous life.

While Denys rejects virtually everything that is considered authoritative by
people in the know, he does constantly quote "authorities" that all have a
common root, the Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, to the point
that
you must wonder if Denys is a member of the Church. The Washington Times
newspaper that Denys quotes often is nothing more than a propaganda piece
for
Rev. Moon and his Unification Church, owned and wholly controlled by the
Church.

Denys also has a propensity to quote Fred Singer, founder of SEPP (Science
and Environmental Policy Project), an outspoken critic of global warming,
ozone depletion and general environmental policy. As such, Singer is wildly
out of touch with mainstream scientific thought, but he is wholly inline
with
the Rev. Moon's thoughts o this subject. His institute is funded by the
Reverend Moon and the Unification Church and Singer maintains a board
position at the Church.

Another of Denys' favorite organizations to quote is the "Oregon Institute
of
Science and Medicine," an institute that argues that the effects of all-out
nuclear war are vastly overblown. As you might guess, this institute is also
funded by the Rev. Moon's Unification Church.

The only "Institute" of Rev. Moon's that I cannot remember Denys quoting is
the "Discovery Institute", founded by Jonathan Wells, a disciple of Rev.
Moon's who is one of the primary advocates of the intelligent design notion.
Taken directly from his web page, "Dr. Wells is currently working on a book
criticizing the over-emphasis on genes in biology and medicine."

Before Denys "Moons" you again, you should understand the nature of his
sources and their general credibility. The Unification Church is insinuating
itself into far right-wing of the Republican Party, adocating a very
right-wing, conservative Christian, anti-environmental, anti-evolution,
anti-intellectual, hawkish set of positions, primarily through stealth and
misrepresentation. As good an example of one of the newspaper's
misrepresentative "crusades" that you might find is this one small example:

     http://www.fair.org/extra/0205/lynxgate.html

Unfortunately, most of the material published in the Washington Times is of
equal quality and representative of their general agenda.

Wirt Atmar

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