Artist Mark Lombardi (1951-2000):'Suicided' for Mapping the Conspiracy

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Michael K.

The one that got him done:


George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens c.1979-90



Image source for full scale reading--  http://alt-f4.org/img/George_W_Bush_Har ... ephens.jpg



The map explicitly puts BCCI in the center of a web of liaisons which lead up to the time when George W. Bush dumped Harken Energy at a profit in a Bahraini oil deal with Sheik Khalifah, a mere two weeks before the US invasion of Kuwait.


http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/2/lombardi.php

QuoteThe Recent Drawings: An Overview

Mark Lombardi

In 1994 I began a series of drawings I refer to as "narrative structures." Most were executed in graphite or pen and ink on paper. Some are quite large, measuring up to 5x12 feet.

I call them "narrative structures" because each consists of a network of lines and notations that are meant to convey a story, typically a recent event of interest to me, like the collapse of a large international bank, trading company, or investment house. One of my goals is to explore the interaction of political, social, and economic forces in contemporary affairs. Thus far I have exhibited drawings on BCCI, Lincoln Savings, World Finance of Miami, the Vatican Bank, Silverado Savings, Castle Bank and Trust of the Bahamas, Nugan Hand Limited of Sydney, Australia, and many more.

Working from syndicated news items and other published accounts, I begin each drawing by compiling large amounts of information about a specific bank, financial group, or set of individuals. After a careful review of the literature I then condense the essential points into an assortment of notations and other brief statements of fact, out of which an image begins to emerge.

My purpose throughout is to interpret the material by juxtaposing and assembling the notations into a unified, coherent whole. In some cases I use a set of stacked, parallel lines to establish a time frame. Hierarchical relationships, the flow of money, and other key details are then indicated by a system of radiating arrows, broken lines, and so forth. Some of the drawings consist of two different layers of information—one denoted in black, the other in red. Black represents the essential elements of the story while major lawsuits, criminal indictments, or other legal actions taken against the parties are illustrated with red. Every statement of fact and connection depicted in the work is true and based on information culled entirely from the public record.


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1487185

QuoteThe 'Conspiracy' Art of Mark Lombardi
Late Artist's Swirling Diagrams Chart Scandalous Relationships


November 1, 2003

A few weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, an FBI agent called the Whitney Museum of American Art and asked to see a drawing on exhibit there. The piece was by Mark Lombardi, an artist who had committed suicide the year before. Using just a pencil and a huge sheet of paper, Lombardi had created an intricate pattern of curves and arcs to illustrate the links between global finance and international terrorism.

In other drawings, Lombardi explored subjects ranging from the collapse of the Vatican bank to the Iran-Contra scandal. The results are not only detailed slices of history, but also works of art — some looking like constellations of stars on a dark night, others swirling clouds of abstract lines and points.


http://www.flashpointmag.com/cplombard.htm

QuoteMark Lombardi: Global Networks by Robert Hobbs,
Independent Curators International, NY, 2003,128pgs.

Review by Carlo Parcelli

When I first saw a Mark Lombardi pencil on paper piece and discerned its contents, I said, "So that's what a RICO looks like." It took me a while to associate the elegant pencil drawing with its sweeping arcs and intersections with the kind of organically beautiful forms one associates with the tracks left in a cloud chamber by subatomic collisions. That effect was mesmerizing...

In a prosecutor's office, conspiracies are allowed to unfold. On the one hand this allows the prosecutors to 'turn' suspects into informants through plea bargains, etc. On the other, it allows prosecutors to step back and inform the CIA or ONI or DEA or Justice Department or any other government tool of the oligarchy or corporate powerhouse when they're about to be named as co-conspirators. At this point an investigation can be terminated and the prosecutor and his staff can look forward to enhanced careers just for keeping their mouths shut. The information is sealed and conspiracy theorists are made to look like just that – theorists left to blindly fill in the gaps in the narrative. Then it becomes the job of the mainstream media to discredit any assertion by the conspiracy 'nut' that can be refuted or seemingly refuted in the public record, or just repeat the naked assertion that "our oligarchy would never act like that," all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding...

...As rich and detailed as they are, Lombardi's pieces rely primarily on newspaper accounts.

No better illustration of this can be found than in Lombardi's piece "Inner Sanctum: The Pope and His Bankers Michele Sindona and Robert Calvi, ca. 1959-1982 (5th Version), 1998." [Note:  Not available on internet. MK] Even given the relative candor of the European press, generally what transpires in the Vatican stays in the Vatican, from bank swindles to the mysterious and sudden death of a Pope. Yet, Lombardi draws a swirling, stinking behemoth slouching across an enormous expanse of paper. Much of the detail that Lombardi includes can be found in Penny Lernoux's In Banks We Trust: Bankers and Their Close Associates: The CIA, the Mafia, Drug Traders, Dictators, Politicians, and the Vatican and Scott and Jon Lee Anderson's Inside the League, which a is a study of the World Anti-Communist League or WACL (pronounced wack-el), now called the World League for Freedom and Democracy. There are numerous other books and articles dealing with this set of conspiracies.

The Vatican is not only a modern corporation but a secret society, so its activities are extremely difficult to penetrate and extremely dangerous to navigate. As in many of the scandals and swindles that Lomdardi illustrates, sudden and bizarre deaths are not uncommon. Like Frank Nugan of the Nugan Hand Bank, officials in the Vatican bank scandals were found dead supposedly by their own hand, mysterious illnesses, or unknown assassins. Roberto Calvi, chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, was found hung under a bridge in London. Pope John Paul I died a month after taking office and initiating an investigation into Vatican banking scandals, and was embalmed less that 24 hours after his death to avoid an autopsy and meddlesome toxicology reports. If they give elaborate physicals to NFL running banks before they sign a deal, think how closely the health of a prospective Pope is scrutinized before the College of Cardinals considers him for office. The bulk and fleshiness of Lombardi's piece communicates the fetid, rank, stale quality one associates with 'The Inner Sanctum.' It's a brilliant piece...

In the catalogue, Lombardi's "BCCI-ICIC & FAB, 1972-91 (4th version)" stands out for its scope and detail. No description can do any of Lombardi's pieces justice, both in their factual detail and their aesthetic beauty. But BCCI-ICIC is a marvel. Whereas the "Bill Clinton, the Lippo Group and China Ocean Shipping Co. a.k.a. COSCO, Little Rock-Jakarta-HongKong, ca. 1990s" pieces resemble a bloated beetle ambling along on stunted legs, a comic image reminiscent of the corpulent, sleaze-bag Clinton himself, the 'BCCI-ICIC...' image is in cinemascope. As a way of confirming one of my initial impressions of Lombardi's work, Greg Stone writes in "Toward a Diagram of Mark Lombardi" assembled by Frances Richard at the end of the monograph: "Think about it. Goya gives you topical, political commentary in the simplest graphic terms, demotic terms, with captions you don't have to read, but that transform the work if you read them...[and] Pollock was mapping the internal, the psychological; Mark was doing the same thing with the existing economic structure. The world he rendered already existed and we were it. The same kind of layered, deliberate, but chance-determined structure that you would see in a Pollock, Mark was making his webs of connections, and the effect is similarly revelatory. We didn't know what we were looking at when we read about it – it had to be articulated visually."    


http://www.steamshovelpress.com/altmedia18.html


QuoteMark Lombardi: Global (Conspiracy) Networks

by Uri Dowbenko

     Mapping criminal corporate-government connections is a dangerous occupation. Exposing the players and their front companies is even more hazardous. These are the subjects of Mark Lombardi's art -- the hidden global realities of money and power. His artwork, literally as well as figuratively, connects the dots of international high-level white-collar crime networks.

      Lombardi's drawings are mandalas of conspiracy, flow charts of shady deals and shaky agents, and org charts of world-class con men, revealing the genealogy of wickedness in the highest places of corporate and government power.

      "Mark Lombardi: Global Networks" is a traveling exhibition of 25 drawings, some as large as 4' x 12,' organized by New York-based Independent Curators International (ICI) and curated by Robert Hobbs of Virginia Commonwealth University. In graphic terms, the drawings document the major financial and political frauds of the late 20th century. They are flow charts of illicit money and power, solid and dotted lines and curves as well as broken arrows denoting the flows of illicit financial operations and covert revenues.

DECONSTRUCTING CRIMINAL CONNECTIONS

      One of the drawings called "George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens, ca 1979-90" (1999) shows the connections of James Bath, a former CIA spook and business broker, front man for Saudi money who connected the Bush Family and Bin Laden Family (of the Osama bin Laden/ 9-11 legend) in shady deals in Texas and around the world.

      Other drawings document the Savings and Loan (S&L) Frauds, IraqGate Fraud (illicit sales of nuclear and biological weapons to Iraqi kingpin Saddam Hussein with a $5 billion US Government-guaranteed phony "agricultural loan" through the Banca Nazionale de Lavoro), Iran Contra Fraud, and the Clinton/ Jackson Stephens Frauds.

      Lombardi was an artist and an archivist, not an investigative reporter; he simply used available material from books and newspaper articles (from the public record) for the information "content" of his work.

      Viewing his art (mostly un-inked pencil drawings) requires the ability to 1/ see the graphics, 2/ read the names of people and corporate fronts, and then 3/ integrate this content of networks into an epiphany about How the Real World Works.

      Historically, of course, the Harken Stock Fraud made George W. Bush his first serious chunk of money. It should be also noted that Bath, a former cokehead pal of George Jr., was also connected with the notorious Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Fraud.

      Lombardi's web-like drawings show the decentralized nature of the networks of crime and flows of global capital. The key is a multitude of front companies, which add layers of complexity to the conspiracies themselves.

      Allegedly diagnosed with bipolar disorder (manic depression), Lombardi supposedly died from suicide (or was suicided) in 1999 -- after two successful solo shows and just as his career was about to go to the next level.

      It should also be noted that Jim Hatfield, author of "Fortunate Son," (Soft Skull Press), a biography of George W. Bush, which alleged that George Bush Jr. was convicted in Texas on cocaine charges, until his record disappeared from the court system, was also found dead by suicide in an Oklahoma motel.

ADDING A REAL WORLD CONTEXT TO ART

      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.


Michael K.

The one that got him done ?:


George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens c.1979-90



Image source for full scale reading--  http://alt-f4.org/img/George_W_Bush_Har ... ephens.jpg



The map explicitly puts BCCI in the center of a web of liaisons which lead up to the time when George W. Bush dumped Harken Energy at a profit in a Bahraini oil deal with Sheik Khalifah, a mere two weeks before the US invasion of Kuwait.


http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/2/lombardi.php

QuoteThe Recent Drawings: An Overview

Mark Lombardi

In 1994 I began a series of drawings I refer to as "narrative structures." Most were executed in graphite or pen and ink on paper. Some are quite large, measuring up to 5x12 feet.

I call them "narrative structures" because each consists of a network of lines and notations that are meant to convey a story, typically a recent event of interest to me, like the collapse of a large international bank, trading company, or investment house. One of my goals is to explore the interaction of political, social, and economic forces in contemporary affairs. Thus far I have exhibited drawings on BCCI, Lincoln Savings, World Finance of Miami, the Vatican Bank, Silverado Savings, Castle Bank and Trust of the Bahamas, Nugan Hand Limited of Sydney, Australia, and many more.

Working from syndicated news items and other published accounts, I begin each drawing by compiling large amounts of information about a specific bank, financial group, or set of individuals. After a careful review of the literature I then condense the essential points into an assortment of notations and other brief statements of fact, out of which an image begins to emerge.

My purpose throughout is to interpret the material by juxtaposing and assembling the notations into a unified, coherent whole. In some cases I use a set of stacked, parallel lines to establish a time frame. Hierarchical relationships, the flow of money, and other key details are then indicated by a system of radiating arrows, broken lines, and so forth. Some of the drawings consist of two different layers of information—one denoted in black, the other in red. Black represents the essential elements of the story while major lawsuits, criminal indictments, or other legal actions taken against the parties are illustrated with red. Every statement of fact and connection depicted in the work is true and based on information culled entirely from the public record.


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1487185

QuoteThe 'Conspiracy' Art of Mark Lombardi
Late Artist's Swirling Diagrams Chart Scandalous Relationships


November 1, 2003

A few weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, an FBI agent called the Whitney Museum of American Art and asked to see a drawing on exhibit there. The piece was by Mark Lombardi, an artist who had committed suicide the year before. Using just a pencil and a huge sheet of paper, Lombardi had created an intricate pattern of curves and arcs to illustrate the links between global finance and international terrorism.

In other drawings, Lombardi explored subjects ranging from the collapse of the Vatican bank to the Iran-Contra scandal. The results are not only detailed slices of history, but also works of art — some looking like constellations of stars on a dark night, others swirling clouds of abstract lines and points.


http://www.flashpointmag.com/cplombard.htm

QuoteMark Lombardi: Global Networks by Robert Hobbs,
Independent Curators International, NY, 2003,128pgs.

Review by Carlo Parcelli

When I first saw a Mark Lombardi pencil on paper piece and discerned its contents, I said, "So that's what a RICO looks like." It took me a while to associate the elegant pencil drawing with its sweeping arcs and intersections with the kind of organically beautiful forms one associates with the tracks left in a cloud chamber by subatomic collisions. That effect was mesmerizing...

In a prosecutor's office, conspiracies are allowed to unfold. On the one hand this allows the prosecutors to 'turn' suspects into informants through plea bargains, etc. On the other, it allows prosecutors to step back and inform the CIA or ONI or DEA or Justice Department or any other government tool of the oligarchy or corporate powerhouse when they're about to be named as co-conspirators. At this point an investigation can be terminated and the prosecutor and his staff can look forward to enhanced careers just for keeping their mouths shut. The information is sealed and conspiracy theorists are made to look like just that – theorists left to blindly fill in the gaps in the narrative. Then it becomes the job of the mainstream media to discredit any assertion by the conspiracy 'nut' that can be refuted or seemingly refuted in the public record, or just repeat the naked assertion that "our oligarchy would never act like that," all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding...

...As rich and detailed as they are, Lombardi's pieces rely primarily on newspaper accounts.

No better illustration of this can be found than in Lombardi's piece "Inner Sanctum: The Pope and His Bankers Michele Sindona and Robert Calvi, ca. 1959-1982 (5th Version), 1998." [Note:  Not available on internet. MK] Even given the relative candor of the European press, generally what transpires in the Vatican stays in the Vatican, from bank swindles to the mysterious and sudden death of a Pope. Yet, Lombardi draws a swirling, stinking behemoth slouching across an enormous expanse of paper. Much of the detail that Lombardi includes can be found in Penny Lernoux's In Banks We Trust: Bankers and Their Close Associates: The CIA, the Mafia, Drug Traders, Dictators, Politicians, and the Vatican and Scott and Jon Lee Anderson's Inside the League, which a is a study of the World Anti-Communist League or WACL (pronounced wack-el), now called the World League for Freedom and Democracy. There are numerous other books and articles dealing with this set of conspiracies.

The Vatican is not only a modern corporation but a secret society, so its activities are extremely difficult to penetrate and extremely dangerous to navigate. As in many of the scandals and swindles that Lomdardi illustrates, sudden and bizarre deaths are not uncommon. Like Frank Nugan of the Nugan Hand Bank, officials in the Vatican bank scandals were found dead supposedly by their own hand, mysterious illnesses, or unknown assassins. Roberto Calvi, chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, was found hung under a bridge in London. Pope John Paul I died a month after taking office and initiating an investigation into Vatican banking scandals, and was embalmed less that 24 hours after his death to avoid an autopsy and meddlesome toxicology reports. If they give elaborate physicals to NFL running banks before they sign a deal, think how closely the health of a prospective Pope is scrutinized before the College of Cardinals considers him for office. The bulk and fleshiness of Lombardi's piece communicates the fetid, rank, stale quality one associates with 'The Inner Sanctum.' It's a brilliant piece...

In the catalogue, Lombardi's "BCCI-ICIC & FAB, 1972-91 (4th version)" stands out for its scope and detail. No description can do any of Lombardi's pieces justice, both in their factual detail and their aesthetic beauty. But BCCI-ICIC is a marvel. Whereas the "Bill Clinton, the Lippo Group and China Ocean Shipping Co. a.k.a. COSCO, Little Rock-Jakarta-HongKong, ca. 1990s" pieces resemble a bloated beetle ambling along on stunted legs, a comic image reminiscent of the corpulent, sleaze-bag Clinton himself, the 'BCCI-ICIC...' image is in cinemascope. As a way of confirming one of my initial impressions of Lombardi's work, Greg Stone writes in "Toward a Diagram of Mark Lombardi" assembled by Frances Richard at the end of the monograph: "Think about it. Goya gives you topical, political commentary in the simplest graphic terms, demotic terms, with captions you don't have to read, but that transform the work if you read them...[and] Pollock was mapping the internal, the psychological; Mark was doing the same thing with the existing economic structure. The world he rendered already existed and we were it. The same kind of layered, deliberate, but chance-determined structure that you would see in a Pollock, Mark was making his webs of connections, and the effect is similarly revelatory. We didn't know what we were looking at when we read about it – it had to be articulated visually."    


http://www.steamshovelpress.com/altmedia18.html


QuoteMark Lombardi: Global (Conspiracy) Networks

by Uri Dowbenko

     Mapping criminal corporate-government connections is a dangerous occupation. Exposing the players and their front companies is even more hazardous. These are the subjects of Mark Lombardi's art -- the hidden global realities of money and power. His artwork, literally as well as figuratively, connects the dots of international high-level white-collar crime networks.

      Lombardi's drawings are mandalas of conspiracy, flow charts of shady deals and shaky agents, and org charts of world-class con men, revealing the genealogy of wickedness in the highest places of corporate and government power.

      "Mark Lombardi: Global Networks" is a traveling exhibition of 25 drawings, some as large as 4' x 12,' organized by New York-based Independent Curators International (ICI) and curated by Robert Hobbs of Virginia Commonwealth University. In graphic terms, the drawings document the major financial and political frauds of the late 20th century. They are flow charts of illicit money and power, solid and dotted lines and curves as well as broken arrows denoting the flows of illicit financial operations and covert revenues.

DECONSTRUCTING CRIMINAL CONNECTIONS

      One of the drawings called "George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens, ca 1979-90" (1999) shows the connections of James Bath, a former CIA spook and business broker, front man for Saudi money who connected the Bush Family and Bin Laden Family (of the Osama bin Laden/ 9-11 legend) in shady deals in Texas and around the world.

      Other drawings document the Savings and Loan (S&L) Frauds, IraqGate Fraud (illicit sales of nuclear and biological weapons to Iraqi kingpin Saddam Hussein with a $5 billion US Government-guaranteed phony "agricultural loan" through the Banca Nazionale de Lavoro), Iran Contra Fraud, and the Clinton/ Jackson Stephens Frauds.

      Lombardi was an artist and an archivist, not an investigative reporter; he simply used available material from books and newspaper articles (from the public record) for the information "content" of his work.

      Viewing his art (mostly un-inked pencil drawings) requires the ability to 1/ see the graphics, 2/ read the names of people and corporate fronts, and then 3/ integrate this content of networks into an epiphany about How the Real World Works.

      Historically, of course, the Harken Stock Fraud made George W. Bush his first serious chunk of money. It should be also noted that Bath, a former cokehead pal of George Jr., was also connected with the notorious Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Fraud.

      Lombardi's web-like drawings show the decentralized nature of the networks of crime and flows of global capital. The key is a multitude of front companies, which add layers of complexity to the conspiracies themselves.

      Allegedly diagnosed with bipolar disorder (manic depression), Lombardi supposedly died from suicide (or was suicided) in 1999 -- after two successful solo shows and just as his career was about to go to the next level.

      It should also be noted that Jim Hatfield, author of "Fortunate Son," (Soft Skull Press), a biography of George W. Bush, which alleged that George Bush Jr. was convicted in Texas on cocaine charges, until his record disappeared from the court system, was also found dead by suicide in an Oklahoma motel.

ADDING A REAL WORLD CONTEXT TO ART

      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.


-Pas-

Good post, thanks MK.
He probably made a jew chart.

CrackSmokeRepublican

Why didn't he make a couple of power points and just blanket email them to more people?
After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan