Financial Scandal Destroys Secret Eden

By Charlie Peel, The Courier-Mail | 23rd Jul 2017

Tweed Daily News:

A SECRETIVE colony for people who wanted to live off the grid in "earthships" has collapsed, leaving a community divided.

Some out-of-pocket investors have been critical of the community's founders but others remain supportive, threatening The Sunday Mail with a class action should the paper publish an article, the Courier Mail reports. 

The Sunday Mail can reveal what was meant to be a dream Utopia in the forested foothills just over the Queensland-NSW border has turned into a nightmare. 

Villagers paid up to $160,000 each to be part of Bhula Bhula but have now split into squabbling factions as they try to protect or recover their investment.

https://www.tweeddailynews.com.au/news/financial-scandal-destroys-alternative-community/3203729/

Health Celeb Tyler Tolman Spruiks Mount Warning Ecovillage Scam

By Gi Linda.

American celebrity Don Tolman’s son, Tyler Tolman, describes himself as the "money man" behind Mt Warning Ecovillage.   

Tyler Tolman invites all who “resonate” with the dream of a healthy, happy alternate lifestyle on 3,500 acres of pristine paradise, to check out this “fantastic community” — Mt Warning Ecovillage. In his video appeal the Bali-based  health coach doesn't warn potential investors that since 2014, the "developers" of this prospective “community” have been running an ever-expanding land-share scam. 

Tyler Tolman  Spruiks Mount Warning Ecovillage Scam

 

Tyler Tolman knows that the kingpins behind the dystopic "Village Community", (who he does not name), have, since 2014, left a long trail of angry, disenfranchised investors, who have been deceived and defrauded in this scam. Despite warnings, Tyler continues to promote their false narrative.

The notorious “creator” of the Mt Warning Ecovillage Scam is Mark Darwin, with his colorful pseudonym “Dummass Boofhead”. He shows no empathy and never any remorse for the hurt and harm he has caused to those he has defrauded. In bullying emails he boasts that when it comes to playing dirty pool, he and the "Bully-Bully Boyz" are the best of the best: “All legal, of course, Bah-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!”

Since :MARK DARWIN: has declared himself a “sovereign citizen”, he does not recognize the rule of law or the authority of Australia’s courts over his “Straw Man”. So, in Darwin’s sovereignty cult, dishonorable conduct that trustworthy people habitually avoid, such as deception, fraud, larceny, even perjury and subornation of perjury, are just well-refined tools of trade in a large quiver of tricks intended to advance private commercial interests.

With decades of experience in launching failed projects using other people's money, Mark Darwin is a smooth, slick salesman with blue eyes spinning sweet honey lies, and long digits fingering the wallets of too many trusting people. Skilled in  arts of intimidation, Boofhead stalks and silences any who might expose or oppose him, as he underscores vicious ad hominem attacks with malicious acts of harassment by sycophant followers at his bidding.

Adrian Brennock with Tyler Tolman

Darwin is founder and marketing manager of the land-share scams at Mt Burrell, northern NSW, Australia. His diminutive partner, Adrian Brennock / Andrew Brennan, also maintains anonymity, flying under the radar as “Mr X” or “AB”, a "former plumber". Marketing assistant Kelly McSween and puppet directors of shell companies Steven McSween and “Richy-Rich”, Richard Moate, were set up to carry the can should the scam hit the fan.

Those who have recently discovered their trust was betrayed join the growing number of defrauded investors clamoring to recover money that disappeared on a one-way trip down the scamsters' greedy gullets.

In a rare appearance on camera, an ecstatic Adrain Brennock shows Tyler Tolman celebrating on property owned by Peter van Lieshout, the intended site of “Mt Warning Eco Village.

Tyler Tolman invites his followers: “If you want to be part of the community - the dream — come along. It’s worth it!”
 

Get in quick!

There is a big discount for all who bite the cherry and buy a share in the utopian Ecovillage knowing there is no development approval by Tweed Shire Council for the advertised idyllic home-sites beside lagoons and waterfalls that are protected as water catchment for a proposed future dam to provide drinking water to the Gold Coast.

Tolman boasts that the projected Mt Warning Eco Village will cover 6,000 acres: “The size of a small country... that’s what’s required for things to work.”

No, Tyler Tolman! A land scam the size of a small country with a dash of celebrity and a dose of perjury can land the dishonorable in jail. What’s required for the dream to work is not big land and lying lips, but integrity and authenticity.

Selling shares in a village without development approval is like building the proverbial house on sand. It will not succeed. Many defrauded investors in Darwin/Brennock's last fraudulent fiasco, the "Bhula Bhula Village Community" have painfully discovered this truth.

Heal thyself, Tyler Tolman: corrupt roots don't produce good fruits.

Truth on Trial — Part 1: Mark Darwin SLAPPs the Law

By Gi Linda

Justice is a powerful lightening-rod touching the domain of the Divine. 

Imagine being attacked by a powerful Goliath that spits, roars and boasts of invincibility while sharpening teeth and reddened claws! I am inspired by the young Hebrew shepherd, who, with only three small stones, a slingshot and reverence for God, felled that scoffing, iron-clad warrior, and with a single shot hit the giant smack between the eyes, then decapitated the fallen brute with its own massive sword.

The Truth About Truthology

The truth about Truthology was first told in my exposé of the fraudulent community venture in which I mistakenly invested $120,000. “Bhula Bhula Village Community” at Mt Burrell, NSW, is operated by Mark Darwin, Adrian Brennock and cohorts who are selling home-lots located on environmentally protected land where no habitation is permitted, without informing investors of land-use restrictions.

“The Truth about Bhula Bhula”, published in the Nimbin GoodTimes, October 2016, reveals how Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock entrapped potential investors in their land-share fraud by combining social networking with misleading marketing through progressive fronts “Truthology” and “Freedom Summits”. At that time, eleven disenfranchised investors were ready to launch class action to recover combined losses over $1.5 million.  

The trial to determine the truth about Truthology began at Sydney Supreme Court on June 9, 2017, with defamation charges brought against myself, author of the news feature exposing the land-share scam, and the Nimbin GoodTimes as  publisher.
  

Mt Warning Eco Village proposed on environmentally protected land

After their deceptive front, Truthology, was exposed in my article "The Truth About Bhula Bhula", Darwin and Brennock scrubbed their tracks off the internet. However, with Tweed Shire Council initiating litigation to drive the unapproved community off protected land, strong opposition from neighbors and reports of Tweed Shire Council's litigation against Darwin and Brennock in several local newspapers, prudent potential investors doing due diligence could see the fraud more clearly than the first flock of sheeple who were sheared.  

Darwin & Co  were no longer able to sell fake shares in the failed community, so they moved to a neighboring property, "Nightcap Forest", owned by Peter van Lieshout that has the same environmental protection constraints to development. They popped up new fronts, "Rainmaker Eco Investments" and "Mt Warning Eco Village", and continued selling home sites on land where habitation is not allowed.

Litigants Darwin and Brennock complain that publication of these truths and honest opinions about the falseology of Truthology have damaged their reputations and cause them loss of sales and commissions. At stake is a demand for payment currently soaring over $4 million, a total blow-out of maximum legislated damages of $381,000. With a cool $1 million requested by each of four plaintiffs, this is by far the biggest defamation claim in Australian history. 

SLAPPs -- Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation

Darwin and Brennock's defamation claim against the Nimbin GoodTimes and myself is an abuse of legal process known as a “SLAPP”. In SLAPP suits, where legitimate dissent obstructs a litigant’s lust for profit, plaintiffs improperly use the courts to bulldoze private interests over public concerns by intimidation.

In 1984, George W. Pring and Penelope Canan studied "SLAPPs", “Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation” at the University of Denver. They found that SLAPPs undermine the right to free speech by setting up an unfair Goliath v David battle between private and public interests, in which an overwhelming threat of litigation is used maliciously to silence critics and prevent free speech on issues of public concern.

Political activists and environmental defenders, civic and social organizations and public interest groups are often “slapped” with malice to prevent them effectively exposing vested economic interests that trample pubic concerns. One Judge described SLAPPs as, “suits without substantial merit, brought by private interests to stop citizens exercising political rights or punish them for having done so.”

2009 political comment on Peter van Lieshout's proposed "Nightcap Village"

The protection of free speech in Australia is embodied in the Commonwealth Constitution, which, for the legitimate functioning of representative government, presumes that all citizens have the ability to freely communicate their views.

Defamation law retains the basic principles of common law, which defines defamation as publication of FALSE imputation by which a person’s reputation or profession is likely to be injured, or which may cause a person to be shunned, ridiculed or despised by others.

Therefore everyone has a legal right to publish TRUTH, and to provide accurate information and discuss honest opinions in the public interest. Even so, the exercise of free speech to expose and oppose fraud demands some courage if the result is likely to be malicious prosecution and intimidation by the more powerful perpetrators. Obviously, fraudsters tend to be angered by the potentially adverse impact on their pockets resulting from publication of truth about their dishonest ventures.

Around the soft edges of defamation law, screen-media is often used as a platform to exercise freedom of speech as a last resort in a quest for justice by those who have suffered abuse. But the same screen media is also used by the wealthy to protect their private privilege against public concern and outrage.

In a review of the book, SLAPPs: Getting Sued for Speaking Out, Brian Martin says:

“George W. Pring is a law professor and Penelope Canan a sociology professor at the University of Denver. In the early 1980s they realised that there was an epidemic of legal actions whose purpose was to intimidate citizens. These suits had little chance of success and indeed few of them succeeded in court. But they still worked for the filers, since even when they lost their cases, they scared their opponents and achieved their goals.”

The SLAPPs study shows that those filing malicious defamation claims presumed the courts would favour the private economic interests of the prosperous over the public concerns of the impecunious: 

"The idea is that because a business has money at stake, business should receive priority over civic, communal opposition.”

Research by the Political Litigation Project at the University of Denver reveals how SLAPPs are used as an effective bludgeon to traumatize and silence opponents by causing an intimidating fear of crippling costs, damages and loss of reputation. Fear alone is usually enough to force acquiescence to the litigant’s agenda of injustice. In most cases power and profit defeat truth and justice, without ever going to trial.  

When SLAPPs litigants are opposed with a full hearing to examine the veracity of their claims, only 10% successfully win their case. It doesn’t matter. Litigants protecting private greed against public interest drag out costly quarrels in the courts for many years, not motivated by the unlikely prospect of winning and claiming damages, but simply to SLAPP their opponents with punishment until they capitulate.

"SLAPPs -- Expensive Free speech"

Besides using defamation laws to hobble opponents, SLAPPs litigants have also used the Trade Practices Act. In March 1991 Greenpeace tried to protect the breeding and calving grounds of the Southern Right Whale in Victorian waters that were targeted with seismic testing by BHP Petroleum. To stop the activists, BHP slapped Greenpeace with damages amounting to millions, but after successfully intimidating their opponents, BHP withdrew charges.

SLAPPs are common in America, where anti-SLAPP legislation has been enacted in some states, but they’re infrequent in Australia and are mostly “LULUs”, a type of litigation dealing with "locally unwanted land uses” in which defamation charges are brought with malicious intent to silence effective environmental defenders.

The targets of SLAPP litigation are generally not professional activists or radical environmentalists. They are mostly organisers of small groups, or individuals who are seen as trouble makers because they advocate protection of their local community from private greed. A precedent was set in Helensburg in 1986, when Protection Society activists were slapped for opposing a property developer’s environmentally damaging rural rezoning plan. Donohoe and Tapsell were charged with destroying the developers’ commercial interests.

In another case, property developers used a SLAPP against activists who opposed them on environmental protection issues at Hinchinbrook.  Over 100 people protested extensive mangrove clearing by the developers, but only one woman aged 67 was slapped, causing her great trauma and expense. As a result the activists stopped their campaign, then the developers withdrew their charges.

With a similar flourish of characteristic malice, I am targeted with costly, traumatizing litigation threatening damages of millions, as Darwin and Brennock flaunt the presumed supremacy of their self-endowed right to private profiteering and expect the courts, of course, to favour profits over people. This abuse of legal process is clearly intended to intimidate and also to discourage similar attempts by others to expose the land-share fraud.

Adding to the intimidation of his SLAPP, Mark Darwin and collaborators have also been maliciously defaming me since February 2016, by widely spreading lies that are sworn as truth in legal affidavits and published online as proven fact. Evidence submitted in Darwin’s SLAPP prominently features photos of strangled goats along with defamatory claims.  Darwin also posted his malicious narrative on a website dedicated to defamation of me, with profoundly demeaning, scoffing insults. The irony is that the defamer then charges the defamed with defamation of the defamer!
Nimbin GoodTimes SLAPPED

In a gloating but false account of my legal demise, Darwin announced his success by posting online a copy of private correspondence between his legal representative, Stone Group Lawyers and Nimbin GoodTimes.

In this case, Darwin & Co’s SLAPP against the Nimbin GoodTimes was very successful. The newspaper’s editor, Bob Dooley, quickly capitulated, removed the article from their archive and accepted Darwin’s offer to discontinue litigation against the newspaper in exchange for throwing me under the bus by issuing a dishonest retraction denying the veracity of my article, dissing my professional reputation and publishing twelve full-page promotions of Darwin’s fraudulent venture during the next year. 

Even before the deal was fully sealed, the triumph was so hilarious to Darwin that he couldn’t resist taunting me by publicly posting privileged details of the proposed deal and inviting fans to have a good laugh and kiss his costly pyrrhic victory. 

Michael Bachelard in the Sydney Morning Herald, “Free Speech the Loser in Australia's Defamation Bonanza”:

“Australia's punishing defamation laws have made Sydney the libel capital of the world, and people posting on Facebook and in blogs are the latest target for expensive legal action and threats. 

Defending a court action for defamation costs between $100,000 and $1.1 million. Damages can also be substantial. A WA court last year awarded the largest ever Australian payout in a defamation case brought by three people against a blogger of $700,000. 

Defamation lawyer Matt Collins, QC, said Australia's laws were now "a Frankenstein's monster" of rules and exclusions, and prevented good journalism from investigative reporters. "There are important, high-profile stories that don't get told because of the chilling effect of defamation law, and the high cost of actions”.


“Richard Ackland of the Gazette of Law and Journalism, described it as ‘a racket’.”

In their book, SLAPPs: Getting Sued for Speaking Out, Pring and Canan describe how environmental defenders and social justice activists can win a SLAPP suit by a process of "SLAPP-back". They explain that litigants typically respond to pubic outrage by:

- Reinterpreting litigation as defense of their reputation, not suppression of free speech.
- Devaluation and denigration of the target.
- Misuse of the law as a means of attack. 
- Intimidation and bribery.
- Cover-ups and gag clauses.

By flipping these techniques used by SLAPPs plaintiffs to inhibit public outrage, five effective steps can be taken to counter injustice:
- Interpret the action correctly as a violation of free speech.
- Validate the worth of the target.
- Disavow abuse of process in the courts as a means of imposing injustice.
- Refuse to be intimidated or bribed.
- Publicize the action.  

In cases where defendants have countered intimidating litigation this way, it’s the reputation of the plaintiff that suffers most, as with the SLAPP-back by Channel Seven against John Marsden’s defamation SLAPP-suit, that damaged his personal reputation even more than before.

Supreme Court Urgent Injunction Application

The defamation charges brought by  Darwin and Brennock against myself and the Nimbin GoodTimes were heard on June 9 at a directions hearing at the Sydney Supreme Court before Justice McCallum. The plaintiffs’ barrister, Ms Barnett, also wanted to submit an additional SLAPP on two blogs that I publish for the “Association of Investors Defrauded by Darwin” (AIDD), because of her clients' complaint that the blogs are causing them loss of commercial opportunity. 

On kind advice of Ms Barnett, Justice McCallum made a referral to the Bar Association Pro Bono scheme requesting the assistance of a barrister to advise me,  noting that I am self-representing and identify the case as a SLAPP; a malicious prosecution abusing the law as a means of intimidation to protect the commercial interests of the plaintiffs, Darwin and Brennock, against demands for restitution by their defrauded victims.

Leave was granted by Justice McCallum to the plaintiffs permitting them to file an application to have the blogs removed by court order, with another directions hearing listed for Friday June 16 at Sydney Supreme Court.

At the June 16 hearing of Darwin and Brennock's application to the NSW Supreme Court for an urgent injunction to remove this blog, a decision by Justice McCallum was deferred until June 21, pending provision of evidence of development approvals, or not.

SLAPPed with injustice

In Australia, defamation law is widely seen as hostile to free speech, but the law correctly respected actually does protect truthful free speech. The real problem is not the law, but legal bloodsuckers who do not know the difference between truth and lies and don’t care, because for a fat buck they'll swear by any false narrative to profit the powerful over the poor. If abuse of process to protect profits over people became normalized, the legal justice system would become the problem not the solution; a cause of injustice rather than a relief from injustice. 

"Speak Out -- And When You're Sued Just Bite Back”. This is the inspiring title of Brian Martin’s review of the book, “SLAPPs: Getting Sued for Speaking Out”. Published in The Republican, August 1997, the review concludes:

“The frightening reality is that SLAPPs work in scaring most targets, who become less active than before… A SLAPP essentially takes a political or social issue in which the focus is on the behaviour of a company or individual and transforms it into a private legal issue in which the focus is on the behaviour of the person who spoke out. By labelling such a suit as a SLAPP, the political dimension is highlighted.” 

Goliath Corp defeated with by truth and a slingshot

The book by Pring and Canan has good advice on cross-claiming against the SLAPPer with the so-called "SLAPP-back" charge of malicious prosecution. SLAPP-back empowers those who are being slapped to overcome fear by standing firm in their right to self-defense by truthful free speech and honest opinion, and the right to expose and oppose scurrilous profiteering in the public interest. 

The famous McLibel case illustrates how corporate SLAPP suits can fail when they’re seen to oppressively violate popular interests. Litigation by McDonalds against a persistent public advocacy campaigner backfired when he used all five bite-back counter-measures to generate massive support. As a result, his website, mcspotlight.org, was accessed more than 184 million times during the litigation. 

"I refuse to be muzzled!"

The best known SLAPP suit was the "mad-cow case" brought by the US National Cattlemen's Beef Association against television talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, her production company and her guest, a Humane Society official, for defaming beef during an April 1996 Oprah show discussing the dangers of mad cow disease. Oprah was accused of violating "veggie-libel laws" that give foods legal rights against defamation. After the broadcast, cattle ranchers blamed Oprah for sending the beef market into a spin, claiming more than $12 million in damages. Oprah won the suit  saying, "Free speech is not only alive, it rocks...I refuse to be muzzled!"

Truth 0n Trial

The "Truth 0n Trial" SLAPP against free speech by Darwin and Brennock will determine the truth of “The Truth about Truthology”. The gigantic power of Goliath wielded by Mark Darwin and his mates is their assumed right to profit from sale of home-sites located on land where no habitation is permitted, and then use the power of the courts to intimidate defrauded investors who were disenfranchised without restitution.

In reply to Darwin and Brennock's defamation charges, I am defending my article on grounds of justification; the defense of truth. The content of my article is more than substantially true, inferences and comments reflect honest opinions. The article is based on facts substantiated by the well-documented affidavits of other defrauded investors and independent witnesses, and is supported by archived screen-media exhibits revealing fraud and fiduciary misconduct by Darwin/Brennock in relation to the “Bhula Bhula Village Community” since 2014.
 
Having brutally SLAPPed their targets in an unjust slugfest, Darwin & Co would be unwise to prematurely celebrate a pyrrhic victory over those they have scammed; even stone-slinging shepherd boys and defrauded investors have a right to speak truth, and the ability to bite-back with justice. 

mountwarningecovillagescam.blogspot.com.au

thetruthabouttruthology.blogspot.com.au

Note:
 “The Truth About Truthology”, was based on a chapter of a book I am writing about my experience as one of the victims of fraud by Darwin and Brennock. The exposé was retitled by the editor of Nimbin’s colourful monthly newspaper as “TheTruth About Bhula Bhula”. It is copied with additional visual commentary at:
thetruthabouttruthology.blogspot.com.au/2016/12/the-truth-about-bhula-bhula.html

Reference

-  Sharon Beder, 'SLAPPs: Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation', Current Affairs Bulletin, Vol. 72, No. 3, 1995
-  George Pring and Penelope Canan, 'SLAPPs: Getting Sued for Speaking Out' (1996)
-  Brian Martin, ‘Speak Out -- And When You're Sued Just Bite Back’, The Republican, August 1997
-  Sue Curry Jansen and Brian Martin, 'Making Censorship Backfire' (2003)
- Sue Curry Jansen and Brian Martin, 'Exposing and Opposing Censorship: Backfire -  Dynamics in Freedom-of-speech Struggles' (2004)
-  Fiona J L Donson, ‘Legal Intimidation: A SLAPP in the Face of Democracy’ (2000)
- Seth Goodchild, 'Media Counteractions: Restoring the Balance to Modern Libel Law’ Georgetown Law Journal 315 (1986)  
- SMH, Michael Bachelard, ‘Free Speech the Loser in Australia's Defamation Bonanza’ May 12, 2017 
http://www.smh.com.au/national/investigations/free-speech-the-loser-in-australias-defamation-bonanza-20170511-gw2cnc.html
- The McLibel Trial Story McSpotlight (2004); mcspotlight.org/case/trial/story.html  

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Truth on Trial — Part 2: The Truth About Truthology

By Gi Linda

I am one of four defrauded creditors who questioned the unaccountable fiduciary misconduct of Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock during 2015-2016. As a result we were menaced, defamed and rejected as “unit holders” on false pretexts, while our invested moneys, being personal life-savings, superannuation and inheritances, total about $720,000, were dishonestly retained by Darwin and Brennock, who by deception and fraud obtained land and enjoyed personal financial advantage while causing loss and disadvantage to others.

Defrauded investors had responded to misleading marketing materials used by Darwin and Brennock to facilitate the sale of home-sites in a proposed multiple occupancy “Village Community” at Mt Burrell without appropriate disclosure of known land-use restrictions.

Victims of the fraud include “unit holders” and “rejected unit holders”, who invested in the failed venture between 2015-2016, only to discover that the “home-sites” in the “Village Community” are located on land where no habitation is permitted.

Ten defrauded investors are preparing civil class action to recover losses. I have taken independent legal action. After first applying for protection orders, I served Court Appearance Notices on Mark Darwin, Adrian Brennock, Steven McSween and Richard Moate to initiate a private prosecution bringing criminal charges of fraud and larceny at Murwillumbah Local Court regarding the “Bhula Bhula Village Community”.

The defendants, Mark Darwin, Adrian Brennock, Steven McSween and Richard Moate were represented at a directions hearing on May 23 by lawyer Ian McKay, who did not attempt to dismiss my claims. A full evidence hearing is listed for October 24, 2017 at Murwillumbah Local Court.

In addition to Court Appearance Notices I have filed a statutory demand on Wollumbin Horizons Pty Ltd, the company dishonourably controlled by Darwin and Brennock that owns the shared land. I am seeking restitution of the acknowledged debt to me of $120,000.  Darwin and Brennock filed an application to set aside my demand.

At the first hearing of their application in Brisbane Federal Court on April 21, it was evident that company director Richard Moate had filed a perjured affidavit presenting a false offsetting claim of $120,000. He later retracted the claim, admitting it was false, and resigned as puppet director of the company that is used by Darwin and Brennock to defraud trusting investors in their “village community”.

With their evidence of a supposed offsetting claim admittedly perjured, Darwin and Brennock requested the court to stay proceedings for a month. Their request was granted. That gave them time to continue attempts to liquidate the company to their benefit, harass me further and cookup other false claims.

On May 26, at the second hearing before Registrar Belcher at Brisbane Federal Court of Darwin/Brennock’s application to set aside my statutory demand, their barrister spent seventy minutes presenting over 200 pages of obfuscating mendacity, that gives new meaning to the “weight of evidence”. They flaunted page after legal page of company bills incurred by Darwin/Brennock and charged to me. They even charged me the cost of the skip they used to steal my belongings after they smashed my Garden in December 2016.

Perjured affidavits in the suit are graphically illustrated with Darwin’s pictures of strangled goats linked to his familiar malicious defamatory claims.  Darwin’s false narrative focuses on my supposed “conduct” to justify his “rejection” of me as a “unit holder” in the “village community”, while retaining my $120,000 investment. Fabricated offsetting claims of over $224,000, dishonestly make it appear I am indebted to them.

Towards the end this 90 minute hearing, I was left with fully seven minutes to present my defense. Registrar Belcher commented that he failed to understand why the company refused to make restitution, since the debt is due and payable, the company is solvent and there does not appear to be a valid offsetting claim. Stone Group’s barrister, instructed by Darwin and Brennock, replied that her clients refused to return my $120,000 investment because of blogs exposing their fraud that I publish for the “Association of Investors Defrauded by Darwin” (AIDD):
thetruthabouttruthology.blogspot.com.au
mountwarningecovillagescam.blogspot.com.au

I offered to request authority from AIDD to remove these blogs if my investment of $120,000 would first be returned or held by the court pending compliance. To date no restitution has been made or offered.

I also advised Stone Group Lawyers that I would correct any errors in anything I’ve published, if Darwin and Brennock would supply a list of everything they consider to be factually wrong. No list has been provided.

Besides filing a statutory demand to recover my investment, and initiating a private prosecution to bring Darwin and Brennock’s fraud to justice, I have also applied for protection orders because of theft, stalking, threats, harassment, intimidation and malicious defamation that has continued since publication of my exposé of the fraud in October 2016, until the present.
 
After Tweed Shire Council filed charges against Darwin & Co in the Land and Environment Court for attempting, without development approval, to build a "Village Community" on environmentally protected land where no habitation is permitted, Darwin & Co went tropical. When exposure of their fraud in several local newspapers caused people to stop buying units in their failed venture, they slapped defamation charges on the Nimbin GoodTimes and myself for an article I authored that was published by the Nimbin GoodTimes in October 2016, p4: “The Truth About Bhula Bhula”.  

With Darwin & Co claiming damages around $4 million in lost sales and commissions, allegedly as an unhappy consequence of our exposure of their fraud, this is by far the biggest defamation case in Australian history.

In response to Darwin & Co’s offer of discontinuance of defamation claims against Nimbin GoodTimes, editor Bob Dooley deleted the offending article from the newspaper's online archive, prepared a draft retraction and offered free full page ads to Darwin and Brennock for the next year. Hopefully they get colour.



The article in contention, “The Truth About Bhula Bhula” is copied online at:

thetruthabouttruthology.blogspot.com.au
and
mountwarningecovillagescam.blogspot.com.au

Medical Cannabis Scam Alert: Nimbin University Cannabis Community at Mt Burrell

“Nimbin University” - a community cannabis research and medical treatment campus at Mt Burrell was launched at Nimbin Bush Theater at a Medican Workshop on Saturday, 15th April. Charmaster Dolph Cooke appeared on stage spruiking the ambitious new project and offering miracle cannabis cures to 10,000 proposed members of Nimbin University's Cannabis Community.

It costs only $1 to bite the little hook.
Buyer be warned! Scam alert!

Dolph Cooke - Founder of "Nimbin University"

Warm endorsement by Nimbin Hemp Embassy, the Medican workshop and a glowing feature in the Nimbin GoodTimes lend a thin veneer of authenticity to "Nimbin University Cannabis Community", accessing a big network with a $1 hook.
 

Dolph is confident that changes in drug laws are imminent. He boasts that his "uni" will soon be flying high on windfalls of cash expected from a market boom in medical cannabis. “It’s not legal yet.” Dolph admits, “But we don’t care, we’re doing it anyway!”
 

Mark Darwin and Cas Coman

Buyer Beware! The sick and vulnerable who are eager to receive forbidden weed for only $1 should note that the contact address for "Nimbin University" is 3222 Kyogle Rd, Mt Burrell, NSW — notorious home of the Bhula-Bhula land scam. The ongoing land-share fraud is headed by Mark Darwin, who, flaunting the motto, “do no harm”, is currently confronted by legal action by angry, defrauded investors.

 

Nimbin University - The Hidden Agenda
What Dolph did not say in his launch of "Nimbin University" is that pulling strings in the background are the unseen scam-masters of chameleon disguise; "sovereign citizens", followers of marketeer Mark Darwin who uses the pseudonym "Dummass Boofhead" and loan shark Adrian Brennock, known as "AB". Co-creators of the Bhula-Bhula fiasco, they're always found luring financiers with a “worthy” ideology linked to a pioneering business with a profitable data-base.
 

You’ve got to give credit where it’s due, masters of misleading marketing, Mark Darwin and the Boyz certainly have audacity and imagination! No longer satisfied with acquiring million-dollar properties by selling residential lots on land without development approval, the Boyz have now expanded their Mt Burrell scam to include mass-marketing medicinal cannabis to sick and vulnerable people. The illicit medicinal herb is falsely advertised as licensed industrial hemp, and with sleight of hand Dolph's "Cannabis Community" links directly to the land fraud.Dolph Cooke

The new pop-up-frontman for the fraud, Dolph Cooke, is a local producer of biochar who grows a small hemp crop on the property neighboring Bhula-Bhula. Handing out flyers and signing up subscribers, Dolph began his presentation at Nimbin Bush Theatre by stressing his opinion, “There is no good and evil; no right and wrong”.
 

Dolph hopped in the cot with the bad boyz and says the land-scam’s “all good”, as he happily profits from it. Referring to time he spent institutionalized, he said, “I don’t have feelings like the rest of you.” He has no empathy for those defrauded by his new patrons.

Dolph is calling for 10,000 people to join Nimbin University. It costs only $1 to bite the little hook, and the vision is ever expanding. Dolph says :
 

"Included in all this activity should, obviously, be a teaching facility where aspiring healers can come to learn their trade, and go back into their communities doing the remarkable work knowledge of this plant’s powerful healing actions allows. Thus a spin off from all the fibre being produced from hemp could be a hemp paper mill and clothing factory, with several more people required to have that aspect running smoothly. And if we have our own paper being made, and resident practitioners and intellectuals, we might as well establish our own on-topic newspaper. And if we’re going to do a paper, we might as well have a media studio. And if we’re going to have a media studio, we might as well run some form of radio/tv station."
 

Nimbin University websites nimbinuniversity.com and nimbinuniversity.org point to organicmedicalcannabisaustralia.org, where Dolph has awarded himself a certificate from the "Cannabis Community University" for "life membership to the Cannabis Private Community With all member privileges awarded for his contribution level".


Bhula-Bhula Community Scam

Mark Darwin, Stephanie Humble

In 2014, when the Boyz started draining other people's wallets to build an "intentional community" without development approval, the first attractive facade that occulted the fraud was “harmonious, happy families”, promoted by beautiful Stephanie, mothering four of Darwin’s cute kids (he has eight children). Steph was running “Create A Foundation”, providing aid to sex slaves overseas. The Mt Burrell land-scam was also obscured by an alternative reality of falsehoods in the name of “Truthology” and “Freedom Summits” with conferences and presentations in major cities.

In less than a year the Boyz had scammed investors in the Bhula-Bhula Community of over $1.5 million and the fraud was exposed in local newspapers. Tweed Council was suing the Boyz to remove illegal dwellings from protected land, repair damage and recoup unpaid rates; defrauded investors were litigating and a federal police fraud investigation was underway. So in response the Boyz went cruising in Bali and when they returned they bought the “Township of Mt Burrell”.

Mt Warning Eco Village Scam
 

After Mark Darwin's land scam was exposed, the "Truthology" marketing mirage disappeared with a “poooff”, and an entirely new front appeared. Unseen behind the curtain, the bully Boyz quietly acquired another big fat database to bleed dry, as they warned opponents they would be “washed like flies from the windows of their lives”.

The 2016 pop-up-front for the Mt Burrell land-scam was “Mt Warning Eco Village”, marketing Darwin's vision for "harmonious community" and offering renewed sale of lots for dream-homes with mountain views through Rainmaker Eco Investments.

The new pretty-face to rattle the cash-can was celebrity health coach Tyler Tolman, promoting a vision for an exotic health-spa on Nightcap Forest, a 3,000-acre property neighboring Bhula-Bhula owned by Peter Von Lieshaupt.
 

Mt Warning Eco Village Website - mountwarningecovillage.com.au

A "Cannabis Community" at Mt Burrell
 

Launching their new scam, "Nimbin University" at the Medican Workshop at Nimbin Bush Theater, Charmaster Dolph presented testimonies of people amazingly healed of terminal cancer using just two little bottles of cannabis oil and balm, made from his own crop.

His audience is told that during Stage 1 we can get access to the miracle cure and the forbidden weed for an (initial) membership in the “Community Cannabis University” of only $1. Dolph says 80 people are already signed up. In Stage 2, the new venture at Mt Burrell gets even better... stay tuned!

It costs only $1 to bite the little hook...

Pitching for funds at organicmedicalcannabisaustralia.org, Dolph says:

"...the database will provide a good start to crowd source the funding for many of the goals for the project. By crowd funding we can offer different packages to different levels of financial support. For instance a ten dollar donation to the foundation/co-op might further entitle a member to a copy of the annual magazine or a subscription to a podcast and some bumper stickers.

"But a ten thousand dollar donation would be right to expect a rather larger appreciation package in return. From a donation perspective much money could be reinvested into ongoing research, infrastructure and providing compassionate healing for those in dire need."
 

The hidden capos behind "Nimbin University" and it's miracle-cure "Cannabis Community" did not attend the grand launch at the Nimbin Medican Workshop, as Charmaster Dolph promoted their ambitious scam to an applauding audience.

The Mt Burrell Boyz, rich in imaginative irony, say they are "sovereign citizens" who reject the rule of law and operate with assumed legal impunity "in private not public commerce". In reality they fly by bluster, bullying and the Law of the Brute, and being seriously dummass, they're often seen trying to get out of a hole by digging a bigger one.

3222 Kyogle Rd, Mt Burrell, NSW

Catch the glorious vision! Heal the masses, join a Cannabis Community with a pioneering academic campus growing weed on 3,200 acres, but be warned: "Nimbin University", to be developed lawlessly at a “secret location”, is using the street address of Mark Darwin's infamous property scam - 3222 Kyogle Rd, Mt Burrell.
 

At first, Charmaster Dolph denied his ties with Mark Darwin. He said the "uni" was his own initiative and the Bully-Bully-Boyz were trying to "take over his land and hemp crop". He now says they they gave him a shop at Mt Burrell, and promised to pay him $500 a week to set up the "Cannabis Community University". But after one payment he got no more money from them.

10,000 people are now offered a unique opportunity to join Dolph and heal the sick, just by registering personal details in the growing data-base of "Nimbin University Cannabis Community".

It only costs $1 to bite the apple...




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