John Gorenfeld has a post up about Neil Bush joining the conservative's Messiah Sun Myung Moon on his world tour -- this stop Manila.
Moon is promoting his planet gigging unit, The Universal Peace Federation. The UPF is designed by Moon to cajole United Nations into adding a theocratic body to work within the UN structure or, should that fail, the UPF will act as Moon's own "God centered" UN. There are others who have proposed a bigger role for the religious within the UN but they have settled for operating like an NGO, working from outside the UN in an advisory capacity. In Moon's vision, the theocratic body would be a separate body and be above the current secular one, with the leader of the UN coming from this religious and "cultural" body. The UN is supposed to have laughed at the idea, yet they passed a resolution for dialogue on the subject a year ago.
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