$250 million/year.
That's how much your sushi habit adds to the coffers of Conservative ally and Cult Leader Sun Myung Moon.
I'm frantic at work today so I can't expand this, but I've just searched and I could not find a diary on the Tribune's excellent article today in the Chicago Tribune outlining how the American Sushi distribution business is now in the hands of right wing nutcase Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church.
You should definitely read the Trib articles on Rev. Sun Myung Moon's control of the sushi distribution business in the U.S. It's great reporting on the Trib's part (something I'm not usually keen to concede).
I do wonder if the Trib would have been so aggressive with the report if they hadn't recently acquired the Baltimore Sun, which competes with Moon's Washington Times in the same market (a market I think is going to be increasingly up for grabs now that the Washington Post has apparently decided to abandon its roots and move politically right). Whatever the motivation, I'm glad the Trib put this story front and center today.
From the second story linked below:
In an unusual ceremony held in March 2004 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.) donned white gloves and placed a gleaming crown atop Moon's head. Moon informed the group that Hitler and Stalin had, from beyond the grave, proclaimed him "humanity's savior, messiah, returning lord and true parent."
Davis says he was tricked, but that's not he point. Stalin? Hitler? Come on!
Read and think about how nearly every sushi dollar you sepnd in the U.S. flows upstream to spawn at the Washington Times and in this megalomaniac's cult.
Sorry I can't give this a more detailed writeup, but I'm already late for a conference call!
Links to stories and pics:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/...
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