So the Bush Family along with all their other corrupt friends like the Saudi Family and Pakistans Musharref are also in cohoots with the Moonies, another corrupt group. How many other corrupt people and religions is the Bush Family involved with. Religious corruption and political corruption go hand in hand via the Bush Family and along with all the corruption in the republican party. Whoda thunk it, but we should have known and we should wonder and be ever suspicious about what the rest of the republican Bush Family religio-political mess is under the tip of the iceberg and what they have planned for us and for our country in the next two years.

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Is there a connection between Moon's fishing empire and these stories?

Some Asian fish species decimated, study finds
Tuna stocks close to exhaustion, says WWF
No more fish to eat in 40 years
Ocean Life on the Brink of No Return
Overfishing Could Take Seafood Off the Menu by 2048
Scientists warn of fish stocks collapse

And in located those, I located this Alternet PEEK from last year: Are the Moonies and Japan headed for a new Clash of Civilizations?

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It's a shame the staple food of Paraguay is beef and not Shark Fin soup. But hey, they've got the cash and the stash, so they may as well dash.

Better pick up Jenna and Barbara on the way down.

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The blogger 'exclusives' in October 2006 linking Moon and Bush land purchases in Paraguay rely on an elusive single story from Cuba's Prensa Latina now either removed or behind an NSA-monitored registration wall.

Jenna Bush was in the Argentina headlines losing her phone, wallet, personal integrity, etc. Prensa Latina could easily conjure something to capitalize on Argentinian anti-American feelings and spin anti-Bush attitudes in multiple countries.

But it's still fun to ponder.

Where in South America is Sun Myung Moon? (David Keating)

Dark Armies, Secret Bases, and Rummy, Oh My! (Conn Hallinan)

Jenna Bush joins UNICEF program in Paraguay (AP)

Bush Paraguay Land Grab Incites Unease (Prensa Latina)

We Hate To Bring Up the Nazis, But They Fled To South America Too (Wonkette)

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Sushi and Rev. Moon

Adhering to a plan Moon spelled out more than three decades ago in a series of sermons, members of his movement managed to integrate virtually every facet of the highly competitive seafood industry. The Moon followers' seafood operation is driven by a commercial powerhouse, known as True World Group. It builds fleets of boats, runs dozens of distribution centers and, each day, supplies most of the nation's estimated 9,000 sushi restaurants.

Moon predicted in 1974 that the fishing business would "lay a foundation for the future economy of the Unification Church." In fact, while Moon and businesses affiliated with him reportedly have poured millions of dollars into money-losing ventures including The Washington Times newspaper, the seafood ventures have created a profit-making infrastructure that could last-and help support the church-long after the 86-year-old Moon is gone.

Saying they had been "hindered, intimidated and threatened," the FDA inspectors took the unusual step of securing a court order compelling True World to let them inspect the facility. Yashiro, chief executive of True World Foods, said in a written statement that the "isolated instance ..... arose from a miscommunication." The plant is now closed; Yashiro said its operations were consolidated into the Elk Grove Village plant in January, adding: "We maintain the highest standards of food safety."

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Your coverage of the Leopard Shark story is quite inappropriate. For one, it is entirely legal for other countries to operate - WHICH ACTUALLY SELL THIS SHARK TO THE US AQUARIUM - but we condemn our own people.

Secondly, while you would condemn this collection of local species, you have no words to say about exotic species. Ironically it is EXOTIC species that are the far greater threat because people let them go in our local environments where they reek all kind of damange on our native ecology. So while you condemn a practice that is acutally that actually assures a gene pool of local species by ensuring a genetic supply protected in aquaria, you turn a blind eye to the whole industy of imported exotics.

I am an ecologist, and this is the most assinine type of reporting I have EVER seen.

This shark species is neither threatened or endangered. It exists in many waters all across the earth. And if you would have even took the time to look it up on wikipedia you would saved your reputation of being so assinine and biased. Your assinine pet peeve bambi sydrome anti-church/christian attitude is quite evident of your bias.

That you actually support the Bush Administration where a governmeent agency harasses its own people. Simply because of your biases.

You kind of reporting makes me puke. It is just the kind of reporting that demonstrates our poor journalism in America. It would have been so easy for you to do but a few minutes of research before you started flapping your lips on this issue and joining that lynch mob. I am going to contact your advertisers and make God damn sure they understand the issues here.

You folks have demonstrated a complete lack of research effort. You have demonstrated a complete lack of intellect and common sense and you just toss this 'news' out there to satiate your socail biases.

That puts you in the same group as those with bias against women, blacks, and other minorities. You simply used this shark issue as an opportunity to attack a class of people who belong to Churche.

I could care less about the Moonies. What I care about is the integrity of our journalism and the unethical biases in this country by 'news' agencies like yours.

Unless you save face by apologizing, I will speak out widely about your organization hampering our ecological efforts all across this country. And this pet peeve bambi issue verses the true ecological concerns mentioned above will be laid bare and opened wide for all to see. And I will make sure you are put on the line for being so assinine as to give precedence to your bias over the true needs of our ecology.

ISPCowboy

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THe Moonies/fishing article seems more interested in tossing out loose thoughts than using requisite coherence or facts.
In otherwords, someone mentions Rev Moon and the wackos pounce on any small thought stream they can invent.

Rev Moon's founding of the Washington Times has more to do with the uneven and biased output of the Post and NY Times than being an attack dog for conservatives.
Witness the varied points of view from all sorts of the WT's management and journalists. (call it in-house squabbling if you will)

The article about illegal fishing in Caifornia has nothing to do with the Times, sushi (actually sashimi), Rev Moon's vision for world peace, ranch land in S America or any thing else stabbed at.

If Fish and Wildlife follow almost any fishing boat bait fishing they will discover most pesky sharks are knocked about or killed so the bait won't get stolen. Since any 5 year old with a micky mouse reel can catch small leopard sharks in the bays of California the real question is why NOAA/Fish and Wildlife is so interested in this activity over drag-net fishing, huge pump intakes killing striped bass and salmon in the delta, the low herring runs and overfishing of dungeness crab by transient commercial boats from the northwest.
Were was Fish and Game when friends of our democratic govenor Grey Davis cut off water to a trout stream near Mt Shasta by filling it in with a tractor? Or when the flow of cold water for the Klamath river was held back for hay farmers and the warmer water caused disease in thousands of salmon and steelhead that died along that river.

The so-called shark ring was a way to supplement income by those involved, not full time activity and if you go back to the east bay times article last year it figures out to maybe 3000 dollars a year for each of the fishermen, a very small amount of profit.

No, the poaching case was really about federal prosecutors looking for a "Moon angle" to get a feather in their caps and scarves.
The same as
the bloggers who hate the unificationists will use any opening for their rants.

DM

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