1. I made the blog post about Heleen Mees private. I think my thesis is not wrong…..but there were things I’d like to research more before putting then out in public. Or maybe not.
It might be a conspiracy too far…
2. I want to note some things that have happened to me this year.
Not all the things that have happened, but a few of them. I have to write about them in a somewhat veiled way, so I don’t give away too much, but at the same time, I want a public record.
Someone has been trying to send things my way, either to identify my exact physical location or to set me up in some way. I don’t think I am being paranoid.
A couple of “customers” who came my way gave me a bad feeling almost instantly. They turned out to have backgrounds in the military or government, related to telecommunications. One had a connection to intelligence. They were working in private business though. Both were too insistent to do business. One made many peculiar statements, as if he wanted to entice me to agree with him. He had a cell phone with him. You can record with those things, you know. I said nothing much of anything.
Someone masqueraded as being from the government.
Another person trespassed on my property, with a plausible excuse at the time. Later, I had second thoughts about him. After that, I found certain settings on my computer had been changed, whether accidentally, or by this person, I can’t say.
Certain comments on my blog make me suspect that some people are still keeping an eye on me via phone and computer.
That is another reason I made the Heleen Mees post private. Maybe I crossed the line there a bit.
Remember this guy? Mark Lombardi.
He connected dots…literally. He chronicled BCCI, the Bush-Bin Laden connection in 1999. The next year he was dead, apparently a “suicide.” The FBI photographed his work after his death….
Uri Dowbenko on Mark Lombardi:
Artist Mark Lombardi (1951-2000), whose business card ironically read “Death Defying Acts of Art and Conspiracy,” was found dead in his studio, officially declared a suicide in the police report. Or as government whistleblower Al Martin, author of “The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran Contra Insider” (http://www.almartinraw.com) says, “The guy put together one chart too many.”
Martin was retained by attorney Frank Rubino, defense counsel for Panamanian strongman Antonio Noriega, to produce a chart for the courtroom, which would explain the complex relationships between individuals and offshore companies, etc. The 5’ x 9’ chart was topped off by a color photo of former president George Herbert Walker Bush and Antonio Noriega embracing one another, both giving a victory sign to the camera. It should be noted that US troops under George Bush invaded Panama, then hijacked Noriega to Florida, where he was convicted of drug charges. Noriega is still in prison to this day.
“When they set up this chart in the courtroom, the judge said, what’s that? We had Bush connected to this drug operation,” recalls Martin.
Martin says that later CIA operative Frank Snepp joined the defense team (Rubino himself was a former CIA agent) and gave daily reports to George Bush Sr. on how the trial against Noriega was proceeding. Martin says he overheard him on the phone talking to Bush in Rubino’s office.
“I was real naive,” says Martin about his participation in the Noriega trial. “I made the assumption that this is what they wanted” — to have a flow chart of personnel, covert operations, as well as banks and other front companies and how the schemes actually worked. Martin notes that they didn’t really expect him to use the real names of people and front companies
“Investigative reporter Dave Lyons from the Miami Herald told me this is what people can understand,” Martin continues. “Graphs and charts help the average person understand complex conspiracies
Martin jokingly concludes, “Charts and graphs — bad. Shredders – good.”
MAKING POLITICALLY INCORRECT ART
In a video of the artist shown at the exhibition, Andy Mann asked Lombard in February 1997, “Do you fear for your life?”
Lombardi didn’t answer the question. Instead he said, “This is a way I can map the political and social terrain in which I live.”
According to his friends, Lombardi told them that he was being followed — just before his death.
Lombardi also described his work as “visualized fields of information [which] started out as corporate diagrams.”
In the end, Mark Lombardi’s contribution to culture is his relentless search for the truth. He was a pioneer in the cartography of realpolitik, mapping international networks of crime which include high-level government officials and shady so-called “business” men.
Lombardi’s legacy is his depiction of geo-political realities, the essence of global criminal conspiracies. No theory, just conspiracy –- conspiracies that continue to haunt the planet into the 21st century. ”
Lila:
I hope I’m not being melodramatic..or self-aggrandizing.. here. Usually I don’t worry. But then, something happens and for a few days I’m jumpy. This is one of those days.
Just keeping a paper trail going. I’ve always thought I could get away with more by not climbing up too high on the food-chain, but there are pros and cons to that argument….
Anyway, “ammo” is always useful, whether you’re a little guy or a big one. I keep some “ammo” around (intellectual ammo, to spell that out for any morons looking for trouble-makers here).
If you are contacting whistleblowers and digging up raw scoops on really powerful people, you might have cause to be worried. If you are only talking about what some one else already published, you are okay.
At least, that’s what “they” always say, and I’d like to believe “they” know what they’re talking about.
Presumably, Lombardi was safe as long as he was just charting stuff already published in the Post or the Times … but you know, he was getting new info too. Whenever you start putting stuff out there, people come out of the woodwork and send you more new info than you know what to do with.
Way back when, I managed to publish some stories in college publications about Iran-Contra, focusing on the Mena/Clinton angle (it was 1994). I used mainly secondary or tertiary sources – people who were actually on the ground doing the investigating, or who were parties to lawsuits and such. When I talked to one of these guys, he warned me at the end of our conversation, “better watch the back of your head. People who get into this stuff too deep tend to have ‘suicides’ and ‘accidents’.”
I never really worried about it because, again, I was just talking to the people who had already published or put things on the public record in some way.
The guy I interviewed? He was a real investigator. His name was John Hillyer, and within a few weeks, he was dead … of “natural causes,” of course.
I want to say something, but then I think, “Nah, don’t say that.” for various reasons.
After doing that four times I think I’ll just wish you luck and hit the Submit Comment button.
No. I don’t think that’s the case.
A lot of things are out in the public realm but not put together to give people that “aha” moment and see things.
Lombardi put it together so you could see the relationships, (so I’ve heard – I haven’t been able to see his stuff directly).
It seems to me that’s more important than “digging” up individual things….unless you are actually compiling something that will put people in jail.
It’s putting the picture together that’s more important.
Expose journalism is perfectly harmless so long as the state gets to fit it into its own narrative.
Read Gary Webb on that. He won awards as an investigator and then realized that he got the awards because fundamentally he wasn’t upsetting the status quo.
Probably Bollyn and Lyndon La Rouche have caused more trouble for the empire than any number of Pulitzer Prize winners….even when they were putting out some disinfo occasionally.
There’s a reason they are outside the realm of linkable material in the mainstream
“Digging up raw scoops on really powerful people”
“unless you are actually compiling something that will put people in jail.”
That goes for people other than journalist and bloggers, too… I know someone like that.
I sometimes think that person was poisoned. After reading that, even more-so now.
“… put together to give people that “aha” moment and see things.”
The person I know did that as well. And refused to back off when instructed to.
… Oh boy.
Heck, I’ve gotten death threats for compiling and posting “aha” moment-like stuff online, and I’m a nobody. They were serious threats too.
When a slightly bizarre real world encounter (or two or three) happens after that, well… it makes you wonder.
Hm, perhaps I’m more dangerous and in more danger than I thought. And I’m a nobody.
I can see why you’re jumpy.
For myself though, I’m beginning not to care.
At the same time, I’m not as full throttle as before. Could be it’s just from pain. Or both.
PSALM 64
Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint;
preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,
from the throng of evildoers,
who whet their tongues like swords,
who aim bitter words like arrows,
shooting from ambush at the blameless,
shooting at him suddenly and without fear.
They hold fast to their evil purpose;
they talk of laying snares secretly,
thinking, “Who can see them?”
They search out injustice,
saying, “We have accomplished a diligent search.”
For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep.
But God shoots His arrow at them;
they are wounded suddenly.
They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them;
all who see them will wag their heads.
Then all mankind fears;
they tell what God has brought about
and ponder what He has done.
Let the righteous one rejoice in the Lord
and take refuge in Him!
Let all the upright in heart exult!
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From the English Standard Version translation. Whatever your own religious faith or spiritual practice, a borrowed prayer posted here, with best wishes & thoughts from a reader of some time. And thanks as well. Peace
Thank you Arthur, whoever you are.
Very much appreciated.
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Alleged child molestor Robert Blackman of Restobics inc was cited as inviting an unnamed 12 year
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involving animals and food product. The victem alledges Blackman would take his school books for certain
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