The Truth about Truthology

Nimbin GoodTimes removed the article, "The Truth about Bhula Bhula" from their online archive, promised a retraction and offered free full-page ads for a year after legal action was initiated by Mark Darwin, claiming over $3 million damages.

Litigation by Darwin is ongoing in Sydney Supreme Court on the Defamation list - "Darwin v Norman". With additional plaintiffs Adrian Brennock (Mr X / AB), Phillip 
Dixon and Steven McSween, Darwin filed a Notice of Motion for an urgent interlocutory injunction demanding that the blogs of the "Association of Investors Defrauded by Darwin" be taken down by court order.

Darwin and Brennock withdrew their request on June 21, recognizing that their evidence was deficient.

Darwin & co  then filed another Notice of Motion to have our blogs taken down as an "injurious falsehood" claim, also linking Mount Warning Eco village Pty Ltd with a complaint that these blogs are causing them to fail to secure loans that would enable them to purchase the property where they are fraudulently advertising home lots for sale on on environmentally protected land without development approval.

Litigation by Darwin & co, is accompanied by threats and attempted intimidation of the author of the article, as well as threats to other blog authors and administrators. 

Judgement by Justice Lucy McCallum is deferred pending compliance by Mt Warning Eco Village Pty Ltd with requests for more information regarding the claims of potential loss to their commercial interests as a supposed consequence of our blogs. 



The contested article,"The Truth about Bhula Bhula", is archived below:

The Truth about Bhula Bhula 
By Gi Linda -- Nimbin GoodTimes  --  October 2016, p.4

"Buyer beware, before your investment takes a one-way trip into the back pocket of a stranger’s snakeskin pants!" 

Legal action is in process by disillusioned investors in a community at Mt Burrell, near Nimbin. The community was founded by Mark Darwin through his organisation, ‘Truthology’. Investors warn that ‘Truthology’ presents a matrix of lies, using misleading marketing to facilitate acquisition of multi-million-dollar properties. Litigating investors attempting to recover losses and damages totaling more than $1.5 million also filed a police fraud report, sought protection against harassment and are pressing charges of defamation.

 Investors paid up to $120,000 for fake shares in the 640 acre property and some also transferred their superannuation, falsely assured by Mark Darwin that development applications were in process. Tweed Council’s warnings that no community would be permitted on the property were kept hidden. Only an inner circle knew that the advertised lots were protected for water catchment to a proposed dam at Byrrill Creek. An independent town planning report advising that multiple occupancy would not be allowed was hidden from investors, who began building dream-homes with exotic mountain views.

When Mark Darwin contemptuously called Mt Burrell ‘Hicksville’ boasting he would build the ‘village’ in defiance of council regulations, locals began investigating his past activities. Finding a long trail of murky footprints, they opposed him with a ‘Hicksville Party’ and activated a ‘Committee to Stop Mark Darwin’ that complained to Tweed Council about the emerging shanty-town in an environmentally protected area.

Bhula-Bhula Community

The community ‘Bhula-Bhula’ was advertised as an opportunity for ‘living in harmony,’ but soon after it began, the harmony was shattered by conflict. Those who sniffed a scam and called for accountability were menaced and driven out of the community. 

When an accidental fire in a camper almost set the forest ablaze, Tweed Council ordered everyone to leave. Investors were driven off the property without return of their funds and without share titles. Loans were not repaid. Despite calls for transparency, all books were hidden. The cattle were sold and abandoned paddocks overgrown with weeds.  A sign bolted to the broken front gate warned ‘ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!’

With Tweed Council and departing investors initiating litigation, Mark Darwin gifted free shares in the property to Aboriginal Sovereignty activist Gunham / Mark McMurtry, who moved his family into the abandoned homestead. Scorning ethics and government regulation as irrelevant, Mark Darwin’s clique continued marketing fake shares in property where no habitation is permitted. They cleared more forest, built new access roads and expanded their hot offer to include sale of unapproved lots with cabins on 3,000 acres of adjoining property in Nightcap Forest.

“Is the bubble about to burst?” The Truthology website provokes fears of immanent financial collapse as the community ‘village’ is promoted as an “ethical investment opportunity” at public meetings and ‘Freedom Summits’ in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne Perth, the Gold Coast and Byron Bay.

“What drives us is the opportunity to offer everyday Australians the option of investing their hard earned digits into ethical, eco-friendly, community driven projects. Many of our clients are also inspired by being able to vote with their superannuation by directing it into ethical, tangible and socially responsible areas.” 

Mark Darwin's Land-share Fraud

Mark Darwin, with four abandoned families, self-promotes as an expensive anti-establishment Sovereignty mentor.  Dark-circled eyes and sharp incisors give him a slightly vampiric look, as he hides under the skirts of an ever-changing clique of sycophants. He is mentor to Adrian Brennock who for a year, controlled the Mt Burrell property holding a single share of value $1 in Wollumbin Horizons Pty Ltd. This shell links to a web of other companies managed by Rainmaker Eco Investments.

In contrast to the losses of investors, the directors of Rainmaker Eco, did quite well last year. Living in beachfront luxury with holidays in Bali, Mark Darwin, Adrian Brennock and Philip Dixon bid on various million-dollar properties and successfully acquired the commercial precinct at Mt Burrell, including Sphinx Rock Cafe, shops, service station and caravan park.

Ignoring the debris of financial carnage, conflict and grief, Rainmaker Eco, with marketing manager Kelly McSween, brazenly continues advertising opportunities to invest in Mt Burrell ‘village,’ as Mark Darwin boldly calls for new cashed-up believers to finance his expanding dystopia: “This is a unique opportunity to buy into an entire village!!” 

Buyer beware, before your investment takes a one-way trip into the back pocket of a stranger’s snakeskin pants!

http://nimbingoodtimes.com/archive/pages2016/oct/NGT-1016-2-7.pdf See page 3 of pdf