UN to Appoint Former Moonie as Head of World Food Programme

[Octafish]

Seem to remember Moon was biggest fish wholesaler on the planet.

UN to Appoint Former Moonie as Head of World Food Programme

· Candidate was Unification Church figure for 20 years

· Bush administration is backing application

by John Hooper and Ed Pilkington

Kofi Annan will this week put a former leading "Moonie" in charge of the UN's biggest humanitarian aid agency after vigorous lobbying by the Bush administration.

Josette Sheeran is to be appointed executive director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), according to diplomatic and UN sources.

Ms Sheeran, also known by her married name Shiner, was a member of the Rev Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church for more than 20 years. She became one of its most influential figures as managing editor of the Washington Times newspaper, which was founded by Mr Moon.

A US state department spokesman said last week that Ms Sheeran, the under-secretary of state for economic, business and agricultural affairs, was "our candidate". He acknowledged that a pamphlet circulated in support of her application had been funded by US taxpayers and said Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, had "made phone calls in support of Josette's candidacy".

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However, in Rome, where WFP has its headquarters, some officials privately expressed concern. "She has never distanced herself from the views of this group which, given its extreme nature, you would think was appropriate," said one. He referred to Mr Moon's claims that the Holocaust was a result of the death of Jesus. "It's sufficiently bizarre to warrant an explanation - that, and the duration of her involvement."

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1107-07.htm

Guess Moon's planning for when we run out of fish.

[lapfog_1]

1. Please make it STOP. n/t

[Octafish]

4. Rev. Sun Myung Moon OWNS Poppy Bush. Why not the UN, too?

Know your BFEE: Rev. Sun Myung Moon OWNS Poppy Bush.

Wish I could make it stop,lapfog_1. If we should get the chance, I volunteer to help write up the indictments.

[God Almighty]

2. The Moonies and Scientologists are Bush's biggest religious backers

[Octafish]

5. Jeb Bush praises Scientologists

Thank you for the heads-up, GA. Didn't know about the Scientology angle, until you mentioned it.

Jeb Bush praises Scientologists

By Jeannette Walls
MSNBC
Updated: 2:38 a.m. ET April 5, 2005

While the religion of Tom Cruise and John Travolta has been getting some tough press in recent days, it’s also been lauded by President Bush’s brother.

Florida Governor Jeb Bush raised eyebrows among the critics of the sometimes controversial religion recently when he honored Scientology volunteers who helped victims of hurricanes in his state.

Members of the group — which was put in the spotlight this week by the New York Daily News for its alleged anti-homosexual philosophy — were given a “Points of Light Award” as Hurricane Heroes. Scientology volunteers have been high profile at disaster scenes recently, distributing food and water, as well as delivering controversial “touch assist” healings that supposedly help victims through the laying on of hands.

“The Bush brothers have both been good to some groups that have been called cults,” says Rick Ross of CultNews.com. “Governor Bush has recognized Scientology while his brother in the White House has actually appointed a follower of Reverend Moon to dole out tax payer money through the so-called faith-based initiative. Seems to me like the fox guarding the henhouse.”

SOURCE: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7384923/

So many connections between the planet's biggest scammers.

[phoebe]

3. more on Josette Sheeran Shiner

http://www.rickross.com/reference/unif/unif286.html

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While there has reportedly been some dissention within the Bush administration regarding the nomination, open-source research finds that Josette Sheeran (Shiner) was an active member of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church from 1975 through at least 1996. After that date, it is reported that she went "into the world," including into William Bennett's Empower America organization and then the U.S. State Department, in order to spread the Unification Church's message and position. Beyond controversial views on abstinence, mass-marriage and other matters, including the UN, these include business ties with and praise of North Korea.

The internal U.S. State Department memo obtained by Inner City Press states that "For the past several weeks, we have been working with the White House to search for a highly qualified candidate to succeed Jim Morris as Executive Director of the World Food Programme. We now have an excellent candidate in Ambassador Josette Sheeran (Shiner)... Through the course of a distinguished career in government, business and journalism, Ambassador Sheeran has excelled as a diplomat, humanitarian, business leader and development policy leader."

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Josette Sheeran's first appearance in the media was in Time magazine of November 10, 1975, in an article entitled "Mad About Moon"

"One typical worried parent is New Jersey's state insurance commissioner James Sheeran, three of whose daughters—Vicki, 25, Jaime, 24, and Josette, 21—are Moon converts. He wants laws to protect people from 'cruel and exotic entrapment of their minds, souls and bodies.' Late one night last August, Sheeran decided to act when Josette, normally compassionate, showed little interest upon learning that her grandmother was in the hospital. He, his wife and a son drove to Moon's school to seek Josette. Fifteen Moon men materialized, a scuffle ensued, and state police arrived amid mutual charges of assault."

This should be sending up huge red flags throughout the world community.

[Octafish]

6. Moon movement VIP under consideration for top U.S. trade job

Thanks, phoebe. Had no idea this woman was up for such a big job. What a cult! Keeping a scary woman from seeing her sick grandmom.

Moon movement VIP under consideration for top U.S. trade job

1/7/2005
John @ IApproveThisMessiah.com

The Washington Post reports today that Josette Shiner is among five potential picks to replace her boss, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, who has himself been tapped to be Condi Rice's #2 man.

Once described as the most "enigmatic" of the Moon operatives in the Washington Times newsroom, Shiner was appointed by George W. Bush to a lesser U.S. trade ambassador post earlier in his administration, raising eyebrows in D.C., MSNBC reported at the time.

Shiner joined Moon's organization early on, as a college student in 1975, when Moon was much more frank about calling for his followers to take power in the U.S. government, and forge an "automatic theocracy to rule the world."

"If we can manipulate seven nations at least," Moon was quoted as saying in a speech reported by the House subcommitee investigators, "then we can get hold of the whole world: the United States, England, France, Germany, Soviet Russia, and maybe Korea and Japan."
-- -- Washington Post

Josette (then Sheeran), who would become the editor of the Washington Times, was one of several young journalists in Moon's movement who were groomed, like investigative reporter Bill Gertz, for great things. In a 1992 piece that was to have run in Vanity Fair (but was canceled for fear of controversy), Ann Louise Bardach wrote:

Directly under Pruden is deputy managing editor, Josette Shiner, perhaps the most enigmatic member of the True Family. Shiner, an attractive woman of thirty seven, is frequently described as the "number one moonie" at the paper. Some, in fact, regard her as the 'defacto power,' and one recently departed staffers says that "Josette runs the paper more than Wes."
-- As reprinted in the recent anthology Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print

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http://www.iapprovethismessiah.com/2005/01/moon-movement-vip-under-consideration.html

What a country! Members of mind-control cults can be selected for positions of authority.

Question for DU: Who's scarier, Kim Il Jong or George W Bush? Or would it be their boss, Sun Myung Moon?

[Judi Lynn]

7. Right on the heels of the news the Bushes are buying land, just like Moon,

in Paraguay.

Of course you've read Moon owns a HUGE amount of Paraguayan land, right above the world's largest aquifer.

Suddenly _{George Bush} turned his ulcerous eyes in Paraguay's direction. Ugly, ugly, ugly.

Maybe a Democratic government will be able to arrange a strong extradition treaty with that country.

[Anakin Skywalker]

8. Damn Mofos!

[leesa]

9. Oh this puts a big knot in the pit of my stomach. What are these evil people

up to? The Bushes and the Moonies...world resource control.

[DemBones DemBones]

10. Moon seems to slip under the radar. I'll wager that

the vast majority of Americans have NO idea that Moon claims to be Jesus Christ or that the Bushes are big buddies with the Loon Moon.

Speaking of Jeb Bush and the Scientologists in Florida. . . The Scientology oganization took over Clearwater, Florida, about twenty years ago. Clearwater used to be a nice little Gulf Coast beach town but the Scientologists pretty much bought the town. A woman died mysteriously in a Scientology-owned property (a hotel, I think) and, if I recall correctly, the Scientologists were not cooperative with the police. I read about it in the St. Pete Times (an excellent newspaper) while visiting relatives.

[tanyev]

11. Isn't the new UN Sec Gen rumored to be a Moonie, too?

:tinfoilhat: