newswars--2020-03-01--The DOJ’s “Torture Chamber” In Indiana—Part 4 of the CMU Series

PLEASE NOTE : The authors have made this series available at FreeMartyG.com and FreeSchaeffer.com under the latest Creative Commons by-attribution commercial-use-permitted share-alike no-derivatives license .
This is part 4 .
Click here to read Inside the Black Sites Where Obama , Clinton , and Holder Buried Their Secrets—Part 1 of the CMU Series or click here to read An ISIS-Inspired Murder and DOJ Coverup in the CMU—Part 3 of the CMU Series .
“ We have our own SHU here… ” Evelyn Keller customarily warned new inmates at the FCI Terre Haute CMU .
“ And it ’ s not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” SHU ( pronounced like “ shoe ” ) stands for special housing unit , which is itself a euphemism for what is more commonly called , simply , “ the hole.
” Nearly all U.S. prisons have such punishment zones , which are ( in ) famous thanks to films like The Shawshank Redemption and Murder In the First .
But Keller knows about the FCI Terre Haute CMU special housing unit ( SHU ) almost as well as the inmates .
She was the intelligence research officer ( IRO ) for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Colorado , on April 5th , 2019 .
And as the former IRO , Keller was “ responsible for all investigations conducted within the unit , as well as , all Unit Team matters in the absence of the Case Manager , ” according to the FCC-Terre Haute , Indiana Communications Management Unit HANDBOOK [ sic ] , ” which is provided to incoming inmates upon arrival here .
It ’ s telling , perhaps , that “ the hole ” within the FCI Terre Haute CMU isn ’ t the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ units elsewhere in the facility .
And it didn ’ t seem lost on Keller that it ’ s different than other SHUs in the Federal Bureau of Prisons ( FBOP ) .
Indeed , political prisoners like Cox , Reynolds , and Johnson face barbaric degradation that is unique across the nationwide federal prison system and almost certainly qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment , not to mention as torture under U.S.-ratified international human-rights conventions the U.S. uses to criticize other nations for similar or lesser conduct .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of SHU time at a lot of places , and nothing ’ s like ‘ the burrito cooker ’ here , ” assures Cox , referring to the SHU in the FCI Terre Haute CMU .
“ I spent about a month there recently , after I told my lawyer about the murder [ of Robert David Neal ] and he started asking questions.
” Cox isn ’ t alone either .
Multiple other survivors credibly and uniformly detail inhumane conditions during their extended stays in the FCI Terre Haute CMU ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ extreme heat , lack of ventilation , insect infestation , sleep deprivation due to constant loud noise , and contaminated drinking water that is known to cause convulsive vomiting and dangerously-dehydrating diarrhea .
Without a single exception , these survivors all describe being deprived of their legal work , writing implements , paper , and postage stamps , thus leaving them unable to reach the courts despite sometimes facing imminent filing deadlines .
They feel this is ordered by the off-site staff who monitor nearly all correspondence between the inmates and the outside—including @ @ @ @ @ @ @ survivors inside the FCI Terre Haute CMU are adamant their suffering was ordered by these outside monitors for political and litigation-related reasons .
In some cases , line staff have conceded such to be the case .
Other times , CMU inmates have strong circumstantial evidence supporting their claims , evidence that ’ s likely far sturdier than that used to secure many criminal convictions in federal courts .
In contrast to the off-site monitors , these same concerned line staff , who work inside the FCI Terre Haute CMU , are in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the first to warn new inmates about some of the deplorable conditions in the unit ’ s SHU .
The concerns they ’ ve expressed appear genuine and compassionate to these reporters , who each received such warnings as new inmates at this CMU .
“ The SHU here is built directly over a steam pipe , so it gets really hot and loud in there , ” a correctional officer ( CO ) warned on at least one such occasion .
“ They put people in there for nothing , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ warned another CO on a different day .
But those facts alone seem to fall far short of adequately describing the horrors of “ the hole ” at the FCI Terre Haute CMU .
“ We ’ ve cooked burritos [ using only the heat ] on the floor in the room next to that SHU , ” Cox augments .
“ It gets too hot to even stand on the floor in there .
You could fry an egg on it if you wanted.
” Other inmates also tell the burrito-cooking story @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fry using just the heat from the concrete floor .
Further , while inmates elsewhere in the FBOP system would rarely , if ever , be thrown in “ the hole ” for discussing their cases or the conditions of their confinement , political prisoners in the FCI Terre Haute CMU routinely spend weeks , months , or more than a year in “ the burrito cooker ” over speech that seems to qualify for First-Amendment protection , even behind bars , like Cox ’ s messages following the death of Robert David @ @ @ @ @ @ @ possibly , this series of articles too .
But the Constitution and its protections can seem very far away in a CMU , where—as each of these reporters both witnessed and experienced—mail sent to U.S. courts ( especially mail that the FBOP might find inconvenient ) often arrives late , altered , incomplete , empty , or not at all , similar to how Reynolds ’ letter to Representative Cummings ’ s office went missing .
Adding to this , the off-site staff , who monitor communications to and from the CMUs , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and punish political prisoners for alleged violations of rules that were long ago struck down by federal courts as unconstitutional .
The CMUs are thus effectively Due-Process dead-zones .
Those in the CMUs , moreover , can not confidentially contact the Office of the Inspector General ( OIG ) .
The OIG is the internal watchdog for the DOJ , so the inability of CMU inmates to send reports to the OIG without the FBOP pre-screening them presents serious issues and conflicts of interest .
Indeed , federal inmates elsewhere can send private @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but not those in the CMUs .
This lack of nearly all accountability seems responsible for enabling particularly cruel and unusual extrajudicial punishments .
Multiple witnesses report , for one example , that Clint Swift , the former case manager for the FCI Terre Haute CMU , told an inmate his mother had died only to reveal about 4 days later that she hadn ’ t really passed away .
Cox met Swift shortly after he was transferred from the CMU in Marion to the FCI Terre Haute CMU in May , 2018 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a lawsuit he filed in Marion that was still pending when he arrived in Terre Haute .
“ I noticed that you ’ re suing over our mail policy .
Our SHU here is not some place you want to be , ” Cox recounts Swift emphasizing to him ominously .
“ It is extremely hot because of the steam pipes that run under there to the [ nearby prison ] camp .
So , keep that in mind if you ’ re thinking about trying to fight the system , because the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the way we do things.
” “ I ’ m just saying , do what you want .
But you ’ ll drop those lawsuits if you know what ’ s good for you , ” Cox recalls Swift coercing him .
“ You ’ re gon na [ sic ] learn that if you make people look bad , your life will become unbearably difficult.
” Remembering similar experiences at the USP Marion GMU , Cox dropped his suit rather than risk “ the burrito cooker.
” “ You ’ re gon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you make people look bad , your life will become unbearably difficult.
” —Former FCI Terre Haute CMU Case Manager Clint Swift Yet , perhaps no one has spent more time in the special housing units at both the DOJ ’ s black-site CMUs than Scott Lewis Rendelman .
Before his time in prison , Rendelman was a concert-quality pianist , a whiz at chess , and—by nearly all accounts—a fastidious accountant .
Some call him a savant .
And given his readily-apparent difficulty maintaining eye contact during conversations and other tendencies , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to indicate OCD , it ’ s distinctly possible that Rendelman is on the autism spectrum .
In any event , Rendelman was sent to federal prison in the 1980s , following a dispute over some money he invested for a client in Maryland .
He maintained his innocence and refused to take a plea deal that likely would ’ ve allowed him to avoid prison altogether .
He asserted that he hadn ’ t done anything wrong or illegal , and the client in question later reportedly forgave him , attributing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about a small amount of money .
People who know Rendelman agree he is pure-hearted , honest , and kind .
Rendelman ’ s prison experience , in contrast , has been such a nightmare that many details have to be omitted in print for a general audience .
Suffice to say though , he was brutally and repeatedly raped by prison gangs and suffered a nervous breakdown .
As one might expect from decades of such abuse , he was traumatized severely enough that he ’ s apparently never recovered .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adds solemnly .
“ He never even punched back while they were raping him.
” In the 1980s , decades before the passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act , or PREA , guards simply looked the other way as vulnerable inmates like Rendelman were victimized .
It seems that partly due to his mental condition and as a way to escape the sexual violence he experienced in general population , Rendelman took to writing vulgar—but oddly-childish—letters to U.S. presidents and other high-ranking officials , threatening them with absurd-yet-highly-detailed sexual violence as apparent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he “ got raped instead of rehabilitated.
” One such letter involved then—President-Obama ’ s rectum , a Snickers® bar , a waterboard , and “ buckets of prison [ expletive deleted ] [ ejaculate ] .
” Rendelman threatened to “ pee in the attorney general ’ s tropical fish tank and kill all the fish , ” in another .
While likely laughable coming from a 5-foot-2-inch 150-pound man whose acquaintances say he sounds like Piglet from Winnie the Pooh , the DOJ and the federal courts still considered Rendelman ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never left federal prison in the mail .
Rendelman ’ s letters had real-world effects though , which appeared two-fold .
First , the FBOP put him in solitary confinement under nearly-perpetual investigation .
And , second , the DOJ stacked a seemingly-ever-increasing pile of federal felony charges against Rendelman , resulting in more prison time .
Rendelman could stay in the SHU where he didn ’ t get raped , however , so long as he kept writing so-called “ nastygrams ” to the president and others .
But his original sentence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ months into over 40 years—an apparent result of the FBOP ’ s indifference to the ongoing institutionalized sexual violence he endured and the knee-jerk fixation of the DOJ and federal courts to the letters Rendelman composed as a result .
A thorough search for Rendelman ’ s name in the federal case law from both his home state of Maryland and the locations of the CMUs using the FBOP ’ s subscription to LexisNexis® yields many results describing his letters and the court-ordered mental health evaluations that deemed him “ competent ” to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not a single mention of the word “ rape ” in any of those judicial decisions .
The odds of such consistent omissions being unintentional seem low .
Then , in 2003 , nearly 20 years into Rendelman ’ s incarceration , Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act ( PREA ) , mentioned earlier .
A string of high-profile lawsuits followed , holding the FBOP legally responsible for its systemic inaction in cases like Rendelman ’ s .
Rather than help Rendelman , however , the FBOP ’ s top brass quickly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ multi-million-dollar legal liability and a public-relations nightmare .
The FBOP then buried Rendelman in the CMUs , and more specifically , it held him for years at a time in the SHUs therein .
The bureau likely assumed that the press , attorneys , and advocacy groups like Autism Speaks would never uncover him there .
But starting now , any such assumption by the FBOP would be wrong .
Given the past , however , it still might be very difficult for advocates to help Scott Rendelman .
“ I once tried @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Scott Rendelman , ” says Cox .
“ I thought maybe we could find him a lawyer .
But I didn ’ t get two words into the call before the outside monitor cut the phone line and three COs rushed me .
They pressed me up against the wall and told me that I ’ d strayed from the ‘ approved topic ’ of conversation.
” Scott Rendelman ’ s life may have become a nightmare , consisting of nearly 30 years of sexual violence and bureaucratic indifference followed by institutionalized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cox says that when he dreams , “ He dreams of going home.
” Click here to read How the DOJ Protected Pedophiles and Got Away with Election Meddling In Alaska—Part 5 of the CMU .

Martin Gottesfeld and Francis Schaeffer Cox

PLEASE NOTE: The authors have made this series available at FreeMartyG.com and FreeSchaeffer.com under the latest Creative Commons by-attribution commercial-use-permitted share-alike no-derivatives license.
This is part 4. Click here to read Inside the Black Sites Where Obama, Clinton, and Holder Buried Their Secrets—Part 1 of the CMU Series or click here to read An ISIS-Inspired Murder and DOJ Coverup in the CMU—Part 3 of the CMU Series.
“We have our own SHU here…” Evelyn Keller customarily warned new inmates at the FCI Terre Haute CMU. “And it’s not a place where you want to go.”
SHU (pronounced like “shoe”) stands for special housing unit, which is itself a euphemism for what is more commonly called, simply, “the hole.” Nearly all U.S. prisons have such punishment zones, which are (in)famous thanks to films like The Shawshank Redemption and Murder In the First.
But Keller knows about the FCI Terre Haute CMU special housing unit (SHU) almost as well as the inmates. She was the intelligence research officer (IRO) for that CMU until she transferred to Florence, Colorado, on April 5th, 2019. And as the former IRO, Keller was “responsible for all investigations conducted within the unit, as well as, all Unit Team matters in the absence of the Case Manager,” according to the FCC-Terre Haute, Indiana Communications Management Unit HANDBOOK [sic],” which is provided to incoming inmates upon arrival here.
It’s telling, perhaps, that “the hole” within the FCI Terre Haute CMU isn’t the same place the institution torments other inmates from units elsewhere in the facility. And it didn’t seem lost on Keller that it’s different than other SHUs in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP).
Indeed, political prisoners like Cox, Reynolds, and Johnson face barbaric degradation that is unique across the nationwide federal prison system and almost certainly qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment, not to mention as torture under U.S.-ratified international human-rights conventions the U.S. uses to criticize other nations for similar or lesser conduct.
“I’ve done a lot of SHU time at a lot of places, and nothing’s like ‘the burrito cooker’ here,” assures Cox, referring to the SHU in the FCI Terre Haute CMU. “I spent about a month there recently, after I told my lawyer about the murder [of Robert David Neal] and he started asking questions.”
Cox isn’t alone either. Multiple other survivors credibly and uniformly detail inhumane conditions during their extended stays in the FCI Terre Haute CMU’s “special housing unit,” including extreme heat, lack of ventilation, insect infestation, sleep deprivation due to constant loud noise, and contaminated drinking water that is known to cause convulsive vomiting and dangerously-dehydrating diarrhea.
Without a single exception, these survivors all describe being deprived of their legal work, writing implements, paper, and postage stamps, thus leaving them unable to reach the courts despite sometimes facing imminent filing deadlines. They feel this is ordered by the off-site staff who monitor nearly all correspondence between the inmates and the outside—including to and from the courts.
These survivors inside the FCI Terre Haute CMU are adamant their suffering was ordered by these outside monitors for political and litigation-related reasons. In some cases, line staff have conceded such to be the case. Other times, CMU inmates have strong circumstantial evidence supporting their claims, evidence that’s likely far sturdier than that used to secure many criminal convictions in federal courts.
In contrast to the off-site monitors, these same concerned line staff, who work inside the FCI Terre Haute CMU, are in many, if not most, instances, the first to warn new inmates about some of the deplorable conditions in the unit’s SHU. The concerns they’ve expressed appear genuine and compassionate to these reporters, who each received such warnings as new inmates at this CMU.
“The SHU here is built directly over a steam pipe, so it gets really hot and loud in there,” a correctional officer (CO) warned on at least one such occasion.
“They put people in there for nothing,” meaning for little or no reason, warned another CO on a different day.
But those facts alone seem to fall far short of adequately describing the horrors of “the hole” at the FCI Terre Haute CMU.
“We’ve cooked burritos [using only the heat] on the floor in the room next to that SHU,” Cox augments. “It gets too hot to even stand on the floor in there. You could fry an egg on it if you wanted.”
Other inmates also tell the burrito-cooking story and spontaneously interject that an egg would fry using just the heat from the concrete floor.
Further, while inmates elsewhere in the FBOP system would rarely, if ever, be thrown in “the hole” for discussing their cases or the conditions of their confinement, political prisoners in the FCI Terre Haute CMU routinely spend weeks, months, or more than a year in “the burrito cooker” over speech that seems to qualify for First-Amendment protection, even behind bars, like Cox’s messages following the death of Robert David Neal, as well as, very possibly, this series of articles too.
But the Constitution and its protections can seem very far away in a CMU, where—as each of these reporters both witnessed and experienced—mail sent to U.S. courts (especially mail that the FBOP might find inconvenient) often arrives late, altered, incomplete, empty, or not at all, similar to how Reynolds’ letter to Representative Cummings’s office went missing. Adding to this, the off-site staff, who monitor communications to and from the CMUs, often enforce unwritten rules ex post facto and punish political prisoners for alleged violations of rules that were long ago struck down by federal courts as unconstitutional. The CMUs are thus effectively Due-Process dead-zones.
Those in the CMUs, moreover, cannot confidentially contact the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). The OIG is the internal watchdog for the DOJ, so the inability of CMU inmates to send reports to the OIG without the FBOP pre-screening them presents serious issues and conflicts of interest. Indeed, federal inmates elsewhere can send private electronic messages to the OIG instantaneously, but not those in the CMUs.
This lack of nearly all accountability seems responsible for enabling particularly cruel and unusual extrajudicial punishments. Multiple witnesses report, for one example, that Clint Swift, the former case manager for the FCI Terre Haute CMU, told an inmate his mother had died only to reveal about 4 days later that she hadn’t really passed away.
Cox met Swift shortly after he was transferred from the CMU in Marion to the FCI Terre Haute CMU in May, 2018. He remembers Swift confronting him over a lawsuit he filed in Marion that was still pending when he arrived in Terre Haute.
“I noticed that you’re suing over our mail policy. Our SHU here is not some place you want to be,” Cox recounts Swift emphasizing to him ominously. “It is extremely hot because of the steam pipes that run under there to the [nearby prison] camp. So, keep that in mind if you’re thinking about trying to fight the system, because the CMU is not the place to challenge the way we do things.”
“I’m just saying, do what you want. But you’ll drop those lawsuits if you know what’s good for you,” Cox recalls Swift coercing him. “You’re gonna [sic] learn that if you make people look bad, your life will become unbearably difficult.”
Remembering similar experiences at the USP Marion GMU, Cox dropped his suit rather than risk “the burrito cooker.”
“You’re gonna [sic] learn that if you make people look bad, your life will become unbearably difficult.” —Former FCI Terre Haute CMU Case Manager Clint Swift
Yet, perhaps no one has spent more time in the special housing units at both the DOJ’s black-site CMUs than Scott Lewis Rendelman.
Before his time in prison, Rendelman was a concert-quality pianist, a whiz at chess, and—by nearly all accounts—a fastidious accountant. Some call him a savant. And given his readily-apparent difficulty maintaining eye contact during conversations and other tendencies, which, alone, could be taken to indicate OCD, it’s distinctly possible that Rendelman is on the autism spectrum.
In any event, Rendelman was sent to federal prison in the 1980s, following a dispute over some money he invested for a client in Maryland. He maintained his innocence and refused to take a plea deal that likely would’ve allowed him to avoid prison altogether. He asserted that he hadn’t done anything wrong or illegal, and the client in question later reportedly forgave him, attributing the criminal case against Rendelman to an overreaction about a small amount of money.
People who know Rendelman agree he is pure-hearted, honest, and kind.
Rendelman’s prison experience, in contrast, has been such a nightmare that many details have to be omitted in print for a general audience. Suffice to say though, he was brutally and repeatedly raped by prison gangs and suffered a nervous breakdown. As one might expect from decades of such abuse, he was traumatized severely enough that he’s apparently never recovered.
“He was totally non-violent,” Cox adds solemnly. “He never even punched back while they were raping him.”
In the 1980s, decades before the passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, or PREA, guards simply looked the other way as vulnerable inmates like Rendelman were victimized.
It seems that partly due to his mental condition and as a way to escape the sexual violence he experienced in general population, Rendelman took to writing vulgar—but oddly-childish—letters to U.S. presidents and other high-ranking officials, threatening them with absurd-yet-highly-detailed sexual violence as apparent payback for sending him to prison where he “got raped instead of rehabilitated.” One such letter involved then—President-Obama’s rectum, a Snickers® bar, a waterboard, and “buckets of prison [expletive deleted] [ejaculate].” Rendelman threatened to “pee in the attorney general’s tropical fish tank and kill all the fish,” in another.
While likely laughable coming from a 5-foot-2-inch 150-pound man whose acquaintances say he sounds like Piglet from Winnie the Pooh, the DOJ and the federal courts still considered Rendelman’s messages threats—even though most of them never left federal prison in the mail.
Rendelman’s letters had real-world effects though, which appeared two-fold. First, the FBOP put him in solitary confinement under nearly-perpetual investigation. And, second, the DOJ stacked a seemingly-ever-increasing pile of federal felony charges against Rendelman, resulting in more prison time.
Rendelman could stay in the SHU where he didn’t get raped, however, so long as he kept writing so-called “nastygrams” to the president and others. But his original sentence ballooned, little by little, from months into over 40 years—an apparent result of the FBOP’s indifference to the ongoing institutionalized sexual violence he endured and the knee-jerk fixation of the DOJ and federal courts to the letters Rendelman composed as a result.
A thorough search for Rendelman’s name in the federal case law from both his home state of Maryland and the locations of the CMUs using the FBOP’s subscription to LexisNexis® yields many results describing his letters and the court-ordered mental health evaluations that deemed him “competent” to stand trial. But curiously there is not a single mention of the word “rape” in any of those judicial decisions. The odds of such consistent omissions being unintentional seem low.
Then, in 2003, nearly 20 years into Rendelman’s incarceration, Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), mentioned earlier. A string of high-profile lawsuits followed, holding the FBOP legally responsible for its systemic inaction in cases like Rendelman’s. Rather than help Rendelman, however, the FBOP’s top brass quickly appears to have identified him as a multi-million-dollar legal liability and a public-relations nightmare.
The FBOP then buried Rendelman in the CMUs, and more specifically, it held him for years at a time in the SHUs therein. The bureau likely assumed that the press, attorneys, and advocacy groups like Autism Speaks would never uncover him there. But starting now, any such assumption by the FBOP would be wrong.
Given the past, however, it still might be very difficult for advocates to help Scott Rendelman.
“I once tried to tell my mother about what happened to Scott Rendelman,” says Cox. “I thought maybe we could find him a lawyer. But I didn’t get two words into the call before the outside monitor cut the phone line and three COs rushed me. They pressed me up against the wall and told me that I’d strayed from the ‘approved topic’ of conversation.”
Scott Rendelman’s life may have become a nightmare, consisting of nearly 30 years of sexual violence and bureaucratic indifference followed by institutionalized malevolence and untreated nervous breakdowns, but Cox says that when he dreams, “He dreams of going home.”
Click here to read How the DOJ Protected Pedophiles and Got Away with Election Meddling In Alaska—Part 5 of the CMU.


newswars--2020-03-01--Sunday Live: Democrats In Overdrive To Blame Trump For Coronavirus Following First Death in U.S.

Alex Jones breaks down the latest coronavirus developments , including the National Institute of Health confirming community outbreaks in the U.S. , prompting panic-buying in some areas of the country .
Also tune in at infowars.com/show Check out the following Zero Hedge article to see the shocking coronavirus panic videos : At Stores Across The Country , The Panic Coronavirus Hoarding Begins Update ( March 1 ) : Increasing fear of a Covid-19 outbreak has forced many Americans out of their homes and millennials from their parents ’ basements to panic buy food at Costco stores across the country this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ priorities ahead of a possible pandemic .
As one person loaded up on “ condoms and a big jar of coconut oil.
” The same long lines that we ’ ve seen in China , Japan , South Korea , and across the world as people panic buy food and health supplies have started in the US .
On Saturday , the US Surgeon General urged people to “ stop buying masks , ” saying on Twitter that they ’ re not effective in preventing the general public from catching coronavirus .
Despite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , alleged video of long lines pouring out of a Costco store in Brooklyn , New York , surfaced on YouTube Saturday afternoon .
This angle shows hundreds of people lined up outside of the Brooklyn Costco today in the freezing cold for a chance to load up on supplies amid virus fears .
This comes days after we reported Hawaiians raced to Sam ’ s Club and Costco to panic buy food and health supplies as virus fears surge .
And as we noted earlier today : “ The great panic of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now stocking up on supplies as a pandemic could be imminent .

Alex Jones breaks down the latest coronavirus developments, including the National Institute of Health confirming community outbreaks in the U.S., prompting panic-buying in some areas of the country.
Also tune in at infowars.com/show
Check out the following Zero Hedge article to see the shocking coronavirus panic videos:
Update (March 1): Increasing fear of a Covid-19 outbreak has forced many Americans out of their homes and millennials from their parents’ basements to panic buy food at Costco stores across the country this weekend:
Mass fear of the corona virus cause people to panic and stock up on water, toilet paper and Clorox wipes at all the Costco stores. Crazy pic.twitter.com/AyDMgIzDiy — kwolfgramm (@Pasifikisland3r) March 1, 2020
Costco in Adelaide today (not my photos). All checkouts open with 40 minute wait (normally 5), lineup half the length of the building, with pallets of toilet paper flying out the door. There are only 3 confirmed cases of #coronavirus, with 2 recovered, in South Australia. pic.twitter.com/3kHPnMS1af — Joseph Skewes (@josephskewes) March 1, 2020
Costco stores are flooded with customers buying health care items in bulk as fears of the coronavirus outbreak spread across the U.S. pic.twitter.com/3bcihAZAfL — NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 1, 2020
Really should have done my regular Costco run last week. I’ve never seen it like this. This is a few miles north of Seattle. pic.twitter.com/QPPXOsBFGW — Karen Weise (@KYWeise) February 29, 2020
9am at Costco in San Jose.
Workers were baffled by the lines and said it’s only like this at Christmas.
Water is now gone, as is Theraflu and other basic necessities. All I wanted to get was dog food. 🤷♀ #coronavirus #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/7SdTRKTqbB — theRzaSays…VOTE! (@theRza2u) February 29, 2020
Panic! At the Costco pic.twitter.com/PZucTHjB4A — smallpox man (@wuhan_tictli) February 29, 2020
I live in the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Washington State. My advice for those elsewhere – go to Costco now. Thousands of people at local stores yesterday – not where you want to be if there is a virus spreading. Glad I went a week ago. — Brian K (@briankSEA) March 1, 2020
Honey, let’s go down to Costco before it gets busy with corona virus shoppers…What the….? #Coronavirustruth #coronavirusus #SundayThoughts PLS don’t fall for the 24/7 news panic. pic.twitter.com/gMo2om2MYk — Bob WWG1WGA MAGAveteran (@pink_slips) March 1, 2020
And apparently everyone has different priorities ahead of a possible pandemic. As one person loaded up on “condoms and a big jar of coconut oil.”
I was sent to a Costco to see if people are stocking up (even though health officials say it’s not necessary) in case COVID-19 gets more serious here. This guy came out of the store with 16 boxes of condoms and a big jar of coconut oil. We all have priorities. pic.twitter.com/C3edUsgZzH — Jill Bennett (@jillreports) February 29, 2020
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The same long lines that we’ve seen in China, Japan, South Korea, and across the world as people panic buy food and health supplies have started in the US.
On Saturday, the US Surgeon General urged people to “stop buying masks,” saying on Twitter that they’re not effective in preventing the general public from catching coronavirus.
Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!
https://t.co/UxZRwxxKL9 — U.S. Surgeon General (@Surgeon_General) February 29, 2020
Despite the CDC telling everyone to calm down, alleged video of long lines pouring out of a Costco store in Brooklyn, New York, surfaced on YouTube Saturday afternoon.
This angle shows hundreds of people lined up outside of the Brooklyn Costco today in the freezing cold for a chance to load up on supplies amid virus fears.
@WFANTrades
Costco.
In Brooklyn.
8:58 this morning.
It opens at 9.
As if the damn apocalypse will be upon us by this afternoon.
😵😵 pic.twitter.com/ut9Nblv8eV — Sitesh Shah (@SSWfan) February 29, 2020
This comes days after we reported Hawaiians raced to Sam’s Club and Costco to panic buy food and health supplies as virus fears surge.
And as we noted earlier today: “The great panic of 2020 is underway” as Americans are now stocking up on supplies as a pandemic could be imminent.


newswars--2020-03-01--An ISIS-Inspired Murder and DOJ Coverup in the CMU—Part 3 of the CMU Series

PLEASE NOTE : The authors have made this series available at FreeMartyG.com and FreeSchaeffer.com under the latest Creative Commons by-attribution commercial-use-permitted share-alike no-derivatives license .
This is part 3 .
Click here to read Inside the Black Sites Where Obama , Clinton , and Holder Buried Their Secrets—Part 1 of the CMU Series or click here to read How the IRS and DOJ Set Up Donald Reynolds Using Dubious Firearms Charges—Part 2 of the CMU Series .
Robert David Neal was dead and partially wrapped in a sheet on the floor before anyone got medical attention .
The 68-year-old insurance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ former U.S.-Army soldier named Rodney Hamrick after Hamrick converted to radical Islam inside of the FCI Terre Haute communications management unit ( CMU ) .
To some here in the FCI Terre Haute CMU , Neal and his friend , Richard Warren , were casualties of a religious dispute over alleged noise during a time of Muslim prayer—a noise dispute that started in a heavily-trafficked communal area of the unit and that seems to have quickly turned into a violent Jihad right inside the CMU itself .
For long-time political prisoner Francis Schaeffer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ latest development in his now-8-year odyssey through what he calls the DOJ ’ s “ radicalize-and-release program ” for Jihadi fighters .
This past March , Cox wrote : Less than a year ago , the Muslims over at [ the DOJ ’ s other CMU in ] Marion [ , Illinois , ] tried to kill me for “ evangelizing.
” I narrowly escaped , and was transferred over here [ , to the CMU at FCI Terre Haute , Indiana ] .
Then in November , the Muslims over here put @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the unit .
My good friend [ Robert David Neal ] was taken hostage , his hands were tied behind his back , he was stabbed in the heart , then his head was sawed off with a wire [ garrote ] while he was still alive .
Getting his head all the way off was harder than expected , so once he was dead , the job was left unfinished and the next victim [ , Richard Warren , ] was attacked .
He got stabbed 12 times before another Christian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could get to him and block the Jihadi .
If we hadn ’ t circled the wagons and stopped the killing like we did , I ’ d have been next , along with two other friends of mine .
Why all this bloodshed ?
Because we sang some hymns .
Because we wouldn ’ t convert to Islam .
Because we were Christians .
The chaplain wears body armor when he comes down here [ to the CMU ] .
And I ’ m walking around in a T-shirt .
This isn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ camp , or Facebook .
Not everyone comes home from this .
Do you know how many people I ’ ve seen convert to Islam in this [ CMU ] ?
Most of them !
And it doesn ’ t matter if they are Christians , Jews , Catholics , secular , Odinist , or whatever .
Almost everyone converts to Islam shortly after arriving here .
Why ?
Because they don ’ t want to face the persecution .
I ’ ve been here 7 years .
I ’ m one of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cox originally omitted the names of those involved from his message above , for fear of brutal retaliation by the DOJ and its subdivision , the Federal Bureau of Prisons ( FBOP ) , which oversees the CMUs .
There is an unwritten and unpublished rule that bars CMU inmates like Cox from using the names of their fellow inmates in their correspondence with the outside world .
In the end , the message above got out , but Cox appears to have paid dearly for it—far more than Hamrick did for murdering @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Many here feel that Hamrick , as a recent convert , carried out his attacks on Neal and Warren in order to prove himself to his new cohorts .
“ If you don ’ t follow their beliefs to a T , then they ’ ll shun you , ” said a Moorish-American CMU inmate who was accustomed to a more tolerant Islam .
“ They take the Hadiths literally , and out of context , ” he added , referring to the collection of sayings and customs of Muhammad and his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be scholars without any formal religious education , which will lead to more violence.
” Others feel that Hamrick did what he did in order to get transferred out of the CMU .
He was moved after the incident and now resides Colorado supermax prison , USP Florence ADMAX .
Additionally , there are those here in the FCI Terre Haute CMU who believe Neal and Warren weren ’ t originally Hamrick ’ s intended targets .
Rather , they say a correctional officer ( CO ) named Weber was marked for death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he unexpectedly took the day off after Hamrick had already performed his pre-attack religious rituals .
Weber , who isn ’ t known to hide his Christianity , is regarded as a “ by-the-book ” CO , which can , at times , engender hostility .
Weber also isn ’ t known to be unfair or sadistic , however , and he has a reputation of applying his “ bythe-book ” standards evenly and to the benefit of inmates when policy dictates .
Kurt Johnson was recognized by the FBOP for his part @ @ @ @ @ @ @ January 4th , 2019 , his inmate account was credited the sum of $ 51.20 by the Bureau as a reward for his selfless heroism .
“ Now I know what a life is worth around here [ in the CMU ] , I guess , ” Johnson recently remarked .
When asked about what happened on that fateful November day , Johnson , who is a helpful man of few words ( and a 6-foot-5-inch 220-pound former—semi-pro boxer ) , answered , “ I heard Rich [ Warren ] yell , ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ came in [ the cell ] , it looked like Rodney [ Hamrick ] was hitting him .
I said , ‘ That ’ s enough !
’ ” “ He stopped and went to go ditch the knife , I think .
I didn ’ t know that Neal was already dead .
Things might have been different if I had.
” When asked if he was scared to go up against a former U.S.-Army soldier like Hamrick , Johnson replied , “ That didn ’ t concern me .
Rich was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ glad I saved his life.
” Richard Warren also ran the $ 100-million-per-transaction TAB , or The Associated Bond Market , based in Germany .
There are different TABs , according to Johnson , and each handles a different dollar value of transaction .
Someone turned over control of the $ 100-millionper-transaction such market to Warren , he says .
“ Everything about the TAB is for humanitarian purposes , ” Johnson added .
“ They compete with the [ International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) ] .
Rich is trying to help @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the IMF , that ’ s another story.
” “ Rich is a total boy scout , ” agrees Cox , who was himself a long-time boy scout .
The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , for the unfamiliar , is theoretically a multi-national development aid organization that provides financing to developing countries in exchange for agreements from them to reform economic and other aspects of their governments .
It has become a lightning rod , however , for critics who question both its motives and its effects .
Many feel the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ principal sponsors , including the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States .
They accuse the IMF of predatory lending practices meant to subjugate whole nations while delivering up their natural resources , almost as if they were annexed by force .
According to Reynolds and others who knew Warren before he was transferred in the wake of Hamrick ’ s rampage , he alleged he was targeted by the DOJ after the CIA tried to use his bond market for an illicit transaction involving a Southeast Asian dictatorship .
If so , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ person with a case involving the CIA to end up in one of the DOJs black-site communications management units .
But perhaps those are other stories ( like this one ) .
Johnson , for his part , reports that he and his business partner , Dale Heineman , founded the Dorean Group in 2004 to help people secure their homes from predatory lenders .
He says they helped about 2,000 people do exactly that in the years before the 2008 global financial crisis .
Things went wrong for him , he says @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a group of other banks on behalf of clients who were in imminent danger of losing their homes .
Somehow all 15 cases were assigned to U.S. District Court Judge William H. Alsup—even though federal cases are usually assigned randomly .
Alsup worked for a firm called Morrison & Foester before he was a judge , and it further turns out Morrison & Foester often represented Wells Fargo and other big banks , like J.P. Morgan Chase , in cases against their consumer clients in the Northern District of California ( part of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only did Alsup dismiss the lawsuits that Johnson and Heineman filed against predatory lenders on behalf of everyday Americans in 2004 , but he fined the attorney who represented the borrowers in federal court and referred Johnson and his partner to the DOJ for criminal prosecution .
Ironically , perhaps , years before the 2008 crisis , Alsup accused Johnson and Heineman of peddling the bogus theory that the loans were issued using what Alsup dubbed “ vapor money.
” Obviously though , if anybody was peddling “ vapor money ” in 2004 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ institutions .
“ They didn ’ t really issue loans with ‘ vapor money , ’ ” clarified Johnson , however , who steadfastly rebuts the “ vapor money ” theory .
“ There is no such thing as ‘ vapor money.
’ What they did was issue loans using vapor assets.
” In any event , Alsup wasn ’ t done .
Somehow , he got assigned to the criminal case the DOJ initiated against Johnson based on his own referral—even though , according–to Johnson , another judge was first randomly assigned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effort to have Alsup removed from the case due to his role in its genesis was unsuccessful .
Johnson claims that during his trial , Alsup was clearly a political rather than a judicial figure , and that he wanted to silence the Dorean Group , which had exposed the banking industry ’ s fraud .
Johnson feels that was partly because government-sponsored entities ( GSEs ) , namely Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , were responsible for initiating the industry ’ s mortgage-fraud practices .
As one might expect , Johnson was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ almost never ruled in favor of borrowers before 2008 .
They were pretty much there to protect the banks , ” says Johnson , who is now 14 years into his sentence .
“ If I had gone to trial a year later , things might have been different.
” Things also might have been different in November , 2018 , if Neal ’ s warnings were heeded .
He unsuccessfully tried to alert the DOJ that religious tension was brewing in the FCI Terre Haute CMU .
But he was apparently ignored @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the night of Neal ’ s death , as COs removed his lifeless corpse from his cell and called out for medical personnel on the radio , Hamrick bragged from behind his cell door that it was too late for his first victim .
Neal ’ s body was left lying on the ground less than 10 feet away from Cox ’ s cell , where Cox could see him .
Cox says Neal was only wrapped in a bed sheet later , to make it easier to move his body downstairs .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Terre Haute CMU was locked down for weeks .
Inmates rarely , if ever , left their cells during that time .
The FBI eventually arrived to investigate .
The FBOP , however , largely obstructed that effort , fearful of what the outside investigators might find .
And in a place where almost all conversations are recorded in high fidelity by an overlapping mesh of conspicuous microphones , there had likely been ample warning that an attack was being planned .
Yet the FBI apparently wasn ’ t able to review the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said to have told the FBI that the video footage from that day was too dark to be useful , despite the array of expensive high-tech cameras canvassing the unit around the clock .
Cox and many others find this claim doubtful based on their own experiences in the FCI Terre Haute CMU .
It also seems decidedly convenient for those who may have wanted to end the FBI ’ s inquiry quickly and quietly .
The FBOP employs expensive high-tech cameras at many of its facilities , similar to these outside the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ytscm_1b on Flicker , CC BY-SA 2.0 ) The FBI , moreover , didn ’ t speak to many of the inmates here .
And most of those interviewed were leery of speaking with agents for too long , because the FBOP was easily able to monitor the duration of each on-site interview as its staff marshaled the inmates to and from those meetings .
In fact , some of the inmates report that they asked the FBI for rainchecks , citing exactly such concerns .
Later , the FBOP didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ FBI directly .
The FBOP instead told them to relay information to the FBI through the FBOP ’ s staff on the CMU unit team .
These instructions didn ’ t match what the agents said in person , and the CMU inmates found this to be very suspicious because it obviously meant the FBOP ’ s personnel would hear everything before the FBI .
So , the FBOP would know who tried to say what , and also be able to exercise veto power over anything it didn ’ t want to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Powerless to contact the FBI on their own—especially from inside a CMU—the inmates were without options .
To many of them , it felt like the FBI ’ s investigation never got off the ground .
Now , 8 months after Hamrick ’ s spree , the apparent de-facto Jihadi leader is still here in the FCI Terre Haute CMU .
The chaplain mentioned by Cox is no longer wearing body armor to perform his small Christian services in the CMU .
But in addition to his Bible , he now sports a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ OC , ” strapped to his hip like a sidearm .
Richard Warren is no longer in the FCI Terre Haute CMU .
He is both missed and fondly remembered by his friends here .
Cox and the other surviving Christians are still singing hymns—in their T-shirts—and without Neal ’ s guitar accompaniment .
They are not loud—and they likely never were .
Johnson points out that under the relatively newly-passed First Step Act , Neal would soon be eligible for release if he were still alive .
Hamrick doesn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He was already serving a life sentence and it appears very unlikely federal prosecutors , who work for the DOJ , will seek the death penalty against anyone for murdering a CMU inmate .
Plus , for the DOJ , such a high-profile prosecution would almost certainly bring unwanted attention to the CMUs .
Any resulting testimony would provide the public with insights into the realities of daily life here that the DOJ would likely find undesirable .
So , even though President Trump would no doubt be happy to continue locking up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ FCI Terre Haute CMU inmate—without a real investigation , there is no way to know if he was involved in a conspiracy to commit murder .
Meanwhile , Obama-DOJ—holdover Hugh Hurwitz , seemed free to cover up for his subordinates at the CMUs .
Political prisoners like Reynolds , Cox , and Johnson , meanwhile , face consequences inside the CMUs that would likely shock the conscience of reasonable outside observers .
At times , they appear to disturb some of the unit ’ s own line staff and administrators too .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to relay news or instructions to their attorneys or other outside advocates in the hope they will , in turn , go to the courts , the media , or elected representatives for help or oversight .
Click here to read The DOJ ’ s “ Torture Chamber ” In Indiana—Part 4 of the CMU series .

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This is part 3. Click here to read Inside the Black Sites Where Obama, Clinton, and Holder Buried Their Secrets—Part 1 of the CMU Series or click here to read How the IRS and DOJ Set Up Donald Reynolds Using Dubious Firearms Charges—Part 2 of the CMU Series.
Robert David Neal was dead and partially wrapped in a sheet on the floor before anyone got medical attention. The 68-year-old insurance expert was killed by a much younger former U.S.-Army soldier named Rodney Hamrick after Hamrick converted to radical Islam inside of the FCI Terre Haute communications management unit (CMU).
To some here in the FCI Terre Haute CMU, Neal and his friend, Richard Warren, were casualties of a religious dispute over alleged noise during a time of Muslim prayer—a noise dispute that started in a heavily-trafficked communal area of the unit and that seems to have quickly turned into a violent Jihad right inside the CMU itself.
For long-time political prisoner Francis Schaeffer Cox though, it was just the latest development in his now-8-year odyssey through what he calls the DOJ’s “radicalize-and-release program” for Jihadi fighters. This past March, Cox wrote:
Less than a year ago, the Muslims over at [the DOJ’s other CMU in] Marion [, Illinois,] tried to kill me for “evangelizing.” I narrowly escaped, and was transferred over here [,to the CMU at FCI Terre Haute, Indiana]. Then in November, the Muslims over here put a hit out on all the Christians in the unit. My good friend [Robert David Neal] was taken hostage, his hands were tied behind his back, he was stabbed in the heart, then his head was sawed off with a wire [garrote] while he was still alive. Getting his head all the way off was harder than expected, so once he was dead, the job was left unfinished and the next victim [,Richard Warren,] was attacked. He got stabbed 12 times before another Christian man [,Kurt Johnson,] could get to him and block the Jihadi. If we hadn’t circled the wagons and stopped the killing like we did, I’d have been next, along with two other friends of mine.
Why all this bloodshed? Because we sang some hymns. Because we wouldn’t convert to Islam. Because we were Christians. The chaplain wears body armor when he comes down here [to the CMU]. And I’m walking around in a T-shirt. This isn’t flag football, or summer camp, or Facebook. Not everyone comes home from this.
Do you know how many people I’ve seen convert to Islam in this [CMU]? Most of them! And it doesn’t matter if they are Christians, Jews, Catholics, secular, Odinist, or whatever. Almost everyone converts to Islam shortly after arriving here. Why? Because they don’t want to face the persecution. I’ve been here 7 years. I’m one of the few who has held fast.
Cox originally omitted the names of those involved from his message above, for fear of brutal retaliation by the DOJ and its subdivision, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP), which oversees the CMUs. There is an unwritten and unpublished rule that bars CMU inmates like Cox from using the names of their fellow inmates in their correspondence with the outside world.
In the end, the message above got out, but Cox appears to have paid dearly for it—far more than Hamrick did for murdering one person and attempting to murder another.
Many here feel that Hamrick, as a recent convert, carried out his attacks on Neal and Warren in order to prove himself to his new cohorts.
“If you don’t follow their beliefs to a T, then they’ll shun you,” said a Moorish-American CMU inmate who was accustomed to a more tolerant Islam.
“They take the Hadiths literally, and out of context,” he added, referring to the collection of sayings and customs of Muhammad and his companions. “They claim themselves to be scholars without any formal religious education, which will lead to more violence.”
Others feel that Hamrick did what he did in order to get transferred out of the CMU. He was moved after the incident and now resides Colorado supermax prison, USP Florence ADMAX.
Additionally, there are those here in the FCI Terre Haute CMU who believe Neal and Warren weren’t originally Hamrick’s intended targets. Rather, they say a correctional officer (CO) named Weber was marked for death as a higher priority, but that he unexpectedly took the day off after Hamrick had already performed his pre-attack religious rituals.
Weber, who isn’t known to hide his Christianity, is regarded as a “by-the-book” CO, which can, at times, engender hostility. Weber also isn’t known to be unfair or sadistic, however, and he has a reputation of applying his “bythe-book” standards evenly and to the benefit of inmates when policy dictates.
Kurt Johnson was recognized by the FBOP for his part saving Warren’s life. On January 4th, 2019, his inmate account was credited the sum of $51.20 by the Bureau as a reward for his selfless heroism.
“Now I know what a life is worth around here [in the CMU], I guess,” Johnson recently remarked.
When asked about what happened on that fateful November day, Johnson, who is a helpful man of few words (and a 6-foot-5-inch 220-pound former—semi-pro boxer), answered, “I heard Rich [Warren] yell, ‘help!’”
“When I came in [the cell], it looked like Rodney [Hamrick] was hitting him. I said, ‘That’s enough!’”
“He stopped and went to go ditch the knife, I think. I didn’t know that Neal was already dead. Things might have been different if I had.”
When asked if he was scared to go up against a former U.S.-Army soldier like Hamrick, Johnson replied, “That didn’t concern me. Rich was a good guy. I’m glad I saved his life.”
Richard Warren also ran the $100-million-per-transaction TAB, or The Associated Bond Market, based in Germany.
There are different TABs, according to Johnson, and each handles a different dollar value of transaction. Someone turned over control of the $100-millionper-transaction such market to Warren, he says.
“Everything about the TAB is for humanitarian purposes,” Johnson added. “They compete with the [International Monetary Fund (IMF)]. Rich is trying to help these [developing] countries, while the IMF, that’s another story.”
“Rich is a total boy scout,” agrees Cox, who was himself a long-time boy scout.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), for the unfamiliar, is theoretically a multi-national development aid organization that provides financing to developing countries in exchange for agreements from them to reform economic and other aspects of their governments. It has become a lightning rod, however, for critics who question both its motives and its effects. Many feel the IMF really pursues the goals of its principal sponsors, including the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States. They accuse the IMF of predatory lending practices meant to subjugate whole nations while delivering up their natural resources, almost as if they were annexed by force.
According to Reynolds and others who knew Warren before he was transferred in the wake of Hamrick’s rampage, he alleged he was targeted by the DOJ after the CIA tried to use his bond market for an illicit transaction involving a Southeast Asian dictatorship. If so, he wouldn’t be the first person with a case involving the CIA to end up in one of the DOJs black-site communications management units. But perhaps those are other stories (like this one ).
Johnson, for his part, reports that he and his business partner, Dale Heineman, founded the Dorean Group in 2004 to help people secure their homes from predatory lenders. He says they helped about 2,000 people do exactly that in the years before the 2008 global financial crisis.
Things went wrong for him, he says, when he sued Wells Fargo and a group of other banks on behalf of clients who were in imminent danger of losing their homes. Somehow all 15 cases were assigned to U.S. District Court Judge William H. Alsup—even though federal cases are usually assigned randomly.
Alsup worked for a firm called Morrison & Foester before he was a judge, and it further turns out Morrison & Foester often represented Wells Fargo and other big banks, like J.P. Morgan Chase, in cases against their consumer clients in the Northern District of California (part of the federal Ninth Circuit).
Not only did Alsup dismiss the lawsuits that Johnson and Heineman filed against predatory lenders on behalf of everyday Americans in 2004, but he fined the attorney who represented the borrowers in federal court and referred Johnson and his partner to the DOJ for criminal prosecution. Ironically, perhaps, years before the 2008 crisis, Alsup accused Johnson and Heineman of peddling the bogus theory that the loans were issued using what Alsup dubbed “vapor money.”
Obviously though, if anybody was peddling “vapor money” in 2004, it seemed to be large financial institutions.
“They didn’t really issue loans with ‘vapor money,’” clarified Johnson, however, who steadfastly rebuts the “vapor money” theory. “There is no such thing as ‘vapor money.’ What they did was issue loans using vapor assets.”
In any event, Alsup wasn’t done.
Somehow, he got assigned to the criminal case the DOJ initiated against Johnson based on his own referral—even though, according–to Johnson, another judge was first randomly assigned to it. Johnson’s subsequent effort to have Alsup removed from the case due to his role in its genesis was unsuccessful.
Johnson claims that during his trial, Alsup was clearly a political rather than a judicial figure, and that he wanted to silence the Dorean Group, which had exposed the banking industry’s fraud. Johnson feels that was partly because government-sponsored entities (GSEs), namely Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, were responsible for initiating the industry’s mortgage-fraud practices.
As one might expect, Johnson was found guilty.
Alsup sentenced him to 25 years.
“The federal courts almost never ruled in favor of borrowers before 2008. They were pretty much there to protect the banks,” says Johnson, who is now 14 years into his sentence. “If I had gone to trial a year later, things might have been different.”
Things also might have been different in November, 2018, if Neal’s warnings were heeded. He unsuccessfully tried to alert the DOJ that religious tension was brewing in the FCI Terre Haute CMU. But he was apparently ignored until his predictions came true.
On the night of Neal’s death, as COs removed his lifeless corpse from his cell and called out for medical personnel on the radio, Hamrick bragged from behind his cell door that it was too late for his first victim.
Neal’s body was left lying on the ground less than 10 feet away from Cox’s cell, where Cox could see him. Cox says Neal was only wrapped in a bed sheet later, to make it easier to move his body downstairs.
Immediately following the incident, the FCI Terre Haute CMU was locked down for weeks. Inmates rarely, if ever, left their cells during that time.
The FBI eventually arrived to investigate. The FBOP, however, largely obstructed that effort, fearful of what the outside investigators might find. And in a place where almost all conversations are recorded in high fidelity by an overlapping mesh of conspicuous microphones, there had likely been ample warning that an attack was being planned.
Yet the FBI apparently wasn’t able to review the relevant audio.
The FBOP is further said to have told the FBI that the video footage from that day was too dark to be useful, despite the array of expensive high-tech cameras canvassing the unit around the clock. Cox and many others find this claim doubtful based on their own experiences in the FCI Terre Haute CMU. It also seems decidedly convenient for those who may have wanted to end the FBI’s inquiry quickly and quietly.
The FBOP employs expensive high-tech cameras at many of its facilities, similar to these outside the Wal-Mart in Loveland, Colorado. (Ytscm_1b on Flicker, CC BY-SA 2.0)
The FBI, moreover, didn’t speak to many of the inmates here. And most of those interviewed were leery of speaking with agents for too long, because the FBOP was easily able to monitor the duration of each on-site interview as its staff marshaled the inmates to and from those meetings. In fact, some of the inmates report that they asked the FBI for rainchecks, citing exactly such concerns.
Later, the FBOP didn’t allow the CMU inmates to contact the FBI directly. The FBOP instead told them to relay information to the FBI through the FBOP’s staff on the CMU unit team. These instructions didn’t match what the agents said in person, and the CMU inmates found this to be very suspicious because it obviously meant the FBOP’s personnel would hear everything before the FBI. So, the FBOP would know who tried to say what, and also be able to exercise veto power over anything it didn’t want to reach the FBI’s investigators.
Powerless to contact the FBI on their own—especially from inside a CMU—the inmates were without options. To many of them, it felt like the FBI’s investigation never got off the ground.
Now, 8 months after Hamrick’s spree, the apparent de-facto Jihadi leader is still here in the FCI Terre Haute CMU.
The chaplain mentioned by Cox is no longer wearing body armor to perform his small Christian services in the CMU. But in addition to his Bible, he now sports a can of concentrated pepper spray, or “OC,” strapped to his hip like a sidearm.
Richard Warren is no longer in the FCI Terre Haute CMU. He is both missed and fondly remembered by his friends here.
Cox and the other surviving Christians are still singing hymns—in their T-shirts—and without Neal’s guitar accompaniment. They are not loud—and they likely never were.
Johnson points out that under the relatively newly-passed First Step Act, Neal would soon be eligible for release if he were still alive.
Hamrick doesn’t appear to have faced many consequences. He was already serving a life sentence and it appears very unlikely federal prosecutors, who work for the DOJ, will seek the death penalty against anyone for murdering a CMU inmate.
Plus, for the DOJ, such a high-profile prosecution would almost certainly bring unwanted attention to the CMUs. Any resulting testimony would provide the public with insights into the realities of daily life here that the DOJ would likely find undesirable. So, even though President Trump would no doubt be happy to continue locking up John Walker Lindh, the recently-released former FCI Terre Haute CMU inmate—without a real investigation, there is no way to know if he was involved in a conspiracy to commit murder. Meanwhile, Obama-DOJ—holdover Hugh Hurwitz, seemed free to cover up for his subordinates at the CMUs.
Political prisoners like Reynolds, Cox, and Johnson, meanwhile, face consequences inside the CMUs that would likely shock the conscience of reasonable outside observers. At times, they appear to disturb some of the unit’s own line staff and administrators too. This is especially true when CMU inmates try to relay news or instructions to their attorneys or other outside advocates in the hope they will, in turn, go to the courts, the media, or elected representatives for help or oversight.
Click here to read The DOJ’s “Torture Chamber” In Indiana—Part 4 of the CMU series.


newswars--2020-03-01--‘SNL’ Host Jokes About Julius Caesar Assassination: ‘Would Be An Interesting Thing If We Brought Tha

‘SNL’ Host Jokes About Julius Caesar Assassination: ‘Would Be An Interesting Thing If We Brought That Back Now’

Comedian John Mulaney alluded to stabbing President Trump to death in a joke about Julius Caesar ’ s assassination during his monologue on “ Saturday Night Live.
” “ It is a leap year , as I said .
Leap year began in 45 B.C .
under Julius Caesar .
This is true , he started the leap year in order to correct the calendar and we still do it to this day , ” Mulaney , a former “ SNL ” writer , told the audience .
“ Another thing that happened under Julius Caesar , he was such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grabbed knives and they stabbed him to death .
That would be an interesting thing if we brought that back now , ” he said to applause and laughter .
“ I asked my lawyer if I could make that joke and he said let me call another lawyer and that lawyer said yes , ” he added , seemingly aware that joking about killing a sitting U.S. president may be in poor taste .
As we reported , the left has already suggested that Trump be killed in a manner similar to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ senators .
CNN sponsored the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar in 2017 , which ended with a group of politicians stabbing a Trump-like character to death .
A new survey of more than 8,000 people has found that those who identify with left-wing political beliefs are more likely to have been diagnosed with a mental illness .

Comedian John Mulaney alluded to stabbing President Trump to death in a joke about Julius Caesar’s assassination during his monologue on “Saturday Night Live.”
“It is a leap year, as I said. Leap year began in 45 B.C. under Julius Caesar. This is true, he started the leap year in order to correct the calendar and we still do it to this day,” Mulaney, a former “SNL” writer, told the audience.
“Another thing that happened under Julius Caesar, he was such a powerful maniac that all the senators grabbed knives and they stabbed him to death. That would be an interesting thing if we brought that back now,” he said to applause and laughter.
“I asked my lawyer if I could make that joke and he said let me call another lawyer and that lawyer said yes,” he added, seemingly aware that joking about killing a sitting U.S. president may be in poor taste.
As we reported, the left has already suggested that Trump be killed in a manner similar to Caesar’s brutal assassination by Roman senators.
CNN sponsored the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar in 2017, which ended with a group of politicians stabbing a Trump-like character to death.
A new survey of more than 8,000 people has found that those who identify with left-wing political beliefs are more likely to have been diagnosed with a mental illness.


newswars--2020-03-01--Prison Officials Fear Harvey Weinstein May End Up Like Epstein

Prison officials in New York are worried that convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein could end up like Jeffrey Epstein during his stay at Riker ’ s Island , according to TMZ , which reports that “ high-ranking officials at NYC ’ s Department of Corrections : say there ’ s “ anxiety running through the ranks about another ‘ Epstein incident ’ on their watch.
” For starters , we ’ re told one possibility is that Weinstein will be housed in a private section of Rikers Island ’ s North Infirmary Command , which is for high-profile inmates or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ both .
He could land in the “ ANNEX , ” with the other dudes falling apart .
Once he ’ s there and all checked in , our sources say HW will probably get his own cell with round-the-clock surveillance cameras watching his every move .
And , when he ’ s out walking around , we ’ re told he ’ ll have DOC officials escorting him .
There ’ s a reason for that .
–TMZ After a series of suspicious failures – including guards who allegedly fell asleep and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ found dead in his Manhattan jail cell .
It was ruled a suicide .
TMZ reports that Weinstein is ‘ milking his stay at the Bellevue Hospital ’ after complaining of chest pains .
He apparently has his own room there in conditions ‘ much nicer than what ’ s waiting for him at Rikers.
’ Weinstein faces at least five years in prison after Monday ’ s conviction .
Alex Jones comments on Harvey Weinstein ’ s official perp walk for his crimes , his posting of a 1 million dollar cash @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Clinton crime family .

Prison officials in New York are worried that convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein could end up like Jeffrey Epstein during his stay at Riker’s Island, according to TMZ, which reports that “high-ranking officials at NYC’s Department of Corrections: say there’s “anxiety running through the ranks about another ‘Epstein incident’ on their watch.”
For starters, we’re told one possibility is that Weinstein will be housed in a private section of Rikers Island’s North Infirmary Command, which is for high-profile inmates or guys with health issues — Harvey fits both. He could land in the “ANNEX,” with the other dudes falling apart.
Once he’s there and all checked in, our sources say HW will probably get his own cell with round-the-clock surveillance cameras watching his every move. And, when he’s out walking around, we’re told he’ll have DOC officials escorting him. There’s a reason for that. –TMZ
After a series of suspicious failures – including guards who allegedly fell asleep and mysteriously broken cameras – Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell. It was ruled a suicide.
TMZ reports that Weinstein is ‘milking his stay at the Bellevue Hospital’ after complaining of chest pains. He apparently has his own room there in conditions ‘much nicer than what’s waiting for him at Rikers.’
Weinstein faces at least five years in prison after Monday’s conviction.
Alex Jones comments on Harvey Weinstein’s official perp walk for his crimes, his posting of a 1 million dollar cash bail, and his connection to the Clinton crime family.


newswars--2020-03-01--Cubans Rally For Trump & Against Communism at Miami Rally

Videos out of Miami , Florida , show Cuban Americans holding a massive protest in support of President Trump and against communism on Saturday .
Footage shows dozens of cars waving Trump and Cuba flags as excited Cuban Americans cheering for the president .
This comes after Democrat socialist candidate Bernie Sanders reiterated his praise for the Fidel Castro regime in comments made during CBS ’ “ 60 Minutes ” last week .
“ We ’ re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but you know , it ’ s unfair to simply say everything is bad .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ When Fidel Castro came into office , you know what he did ?
He had a massive literacy program .
Is that a bad thing ?
Even though Fidel Castro did it ?
” The “ literacy program ” he ’ s referring to was really a communist propaganda indoctrination effort by Castro ’ s government , and Cuba ’ s schools currently have trouble keeping the lights on .
How America ( and the CIA ) used to love Fidel , how Bernie likely attended his event in Central Park at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fanatic , and why do they have the best collection of cars from the 1950s ?
Nationalizing infrastructure , confiscating private property were the first things Fidel did — not education & healthcare ( neither made progress compared to rest of Latin America ) — but even Castro ran from the labels “ communist ” and “ socialist ” , unlike Bernie .

Videos out of Miami, Florida, show Cuban Americans holding a massive protest in support of President Trump and against communism on Saturday.
Footage shows dozens of cars waving Trump and Cuba flags as excited Cuban Americans cheering for the president.
Miami calle 8 rally for Cuba and Trump pic.twitter.com/wIsnCRYEc6 — JUAN C HERNANDEZ (@JUANCARLOS6928) February 29, 2020
Cubans for Trump in South Miami. pic.twitter.com/KpmUsMoVsw — NR (@NelsonReinhard) February 29, 2020
This comes after Democrat socialist candidate Bernie Sanders reiterated his praise for the Fidel Castro regime in comments made during CBS’ “60 Minutes” last week.
“We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but you know, it’s unfair to simply say everything is bad. You know?” Sanders said. “When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?”
The “literacy program” he’s referring to was really a communist propaganda indoctrination effort by Castro’s government, and Cuba’s schools currently have trouble keeping the lights on.
How America (and the CIA) used to love Fidel, how Bernie likely attended his event in Central Park at age of 18 and became a lifelong fanatic, and why do they have the best collection of cars from the 1950s? Nationalizing infrastructure, confiscating private property were the first things Fidel did — not education & healthcare (neither made progress compared to rest of Latin America) — but even Castro ran from the labels “communist” and “socialist”, unlike Bernie.


newswars--2020-03-01--Video: L.A. Man Claims City Preventing Him From Removing Homeless Camped On His Property

A disturbing video out of Los Angeles shows an exasperated man claim that the local government is refusing to let him remove a homeless encampment from his private property .
“ We ’ re here at my house in West Hollywood , okay ?
” the man says as he walks to his back yard .
“ This is a tent from two homeless guys .
I came home the other day and I ’ m like ‘ hey guys you got ta go.
’ Inside my fucking gate .
They jumped my wall.
” “ They got their shit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The cops get here and they say , ‘ Hey , if you touch their shit , we ’ re going to take you to jail for fucking up their property.
’ And I ’ m like , ‘ Dude , it ’ s on MY property !
’ And they ’ re like , ‘ Doesn ’ t matter.
’ ” Though the validity of the video has not been confirmed , it nevertheless highlights the Democrats ’ agenda for American landowners .
In Ohio , for example , in a bid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the First District Court of Appeals ruled in 2019 that governments can not ban homeless camps from private property .
And in Portland , Oregon , the city ’ s Planning and Sustainability Commission approved a motion requiring business owners to make their buildings “ provide opportunities to rest and be welcome ” for the homeless .
“ What does it mean to rest ?
Am I providing a place to sleep ?
” asked Commission Chair Katherine Schultz .
This is just the next step in the left ’ s communist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the state .
Turning Point USA ’ s Charlie Kirk pointed out Saturday on Fox News that socialist Democrat candidate Bernie Sanders ’ rise would mean eventually addressing the issue of private property , because communists don ’ t believe in that concept .
“ If the left had their way , what would they allow in terms of private property ?
Because they would take our guns away .
They would take our speech away .
They would take our right to privacy away in the Fourth Amendment , ” Kirk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the fundamental disagreement right now , where if any journalist had an ounce of integrity , they would look Senator Sanders in the eye and they ’ d say , ‘ Do you believe private property is a right ?
’ ” “ And he ’ d probably try to dance away from it , but eventually he would say no , ” Kirk said .
“ And that ’ s the core debate that ’ s happening right now.
” How America ( and the CIA ) used to love Fidel , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Central Park at age of 18 and became a lifelong fanatic and why do they have the best collection of cars from the 1950s ?
Nationalizing infrastructure , confiscating private property were the first things Fidel did — not education & healthcare ( neither made progress compared to rest of Latin America ) — but even Castro ran from the labels “ communist ” and “ socialist ” , unlike Bernie .

A disturbing video out of Los Angeles shows an exasperated man claim that the local government is refusing to let him remove a homeless encampment from his private property.
“We’re here at my house in West Hollywood, okay?” the man says as he walks to his back yard. “This is a tent from two homeless guys. I came home the other day and I’m like ‘hey guys you gotta go.’ Inside my fucking gate. They jumped my wall.”
EXPLICIT WARNING ⚠: Look at the homeless epidemic in Los Angeles due to failed liberal policies, high taxes, and high crime. Police are now demanding citizens allow homeless people to camp on their private property, threatening this man with arrest if he moves them. pic.twitter.com/2uBHBCZVuj — Michael Coudrey (@MichaelCoudrey) March 1, 2020
“They got their shit everywhere. I call the cops. The cops get here and they say, ‘Hey, if you touch their shit, we’re going to take you to jail for fucking up their property.’ And I’m like, ‘Dude, it’s on MY property!’ And they’re like, ‘Doesn’t matter.’”
Though the validity of the video has not been confirmed, it nevertheless highlights the Democrats’ agenda for American landowners.
In Ohio, for example, in a bid to keep the homeless off the streets, the First District Court of Appeals ruled in 2019 that governments cannot ban homeless camps from private property.
And in Portland, Oregon, the city’s Planning and Sustainability Commission approved a motion requiring business owners to make their buildings “provide opportunities to rest and be welcome” for the homeless.
“What does it mean to rest? Am I providing a place to sleep?” asked Commission Chair Katherine Schultz.
This is just the next step in the left’s communist vision of abolishing private property in favor of the state.
Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk pointed out Saturday on Fox News that socialist Democrat candidate Bernie Sanders’ rise would mean eventually addressing the issue of private property, because communists don’t believe in that concept.
“If the left had their way, what would they allow in terms of private property? Because they would take our guns away. They would take our speech away. They would take our right to privacy away in the Fourth Amendment,” Kirk said.
“And so this is the fundamental disagreement right now, where if any journalist had an ounce of integrity, they would look Senator Sanders in the eye and they’d say, ‘Do you believe private property is a right?’”
“And he’d probably try to dance away from it, but eventually he would say no,” Kirk said. “And that’s the core debate that’s happening right now.”
How America (and the CIA) used to love Fidel, how Bernie likely attended his event in Central Park at age of 18 and became a lifelong fanatic and why do they have the best collection of cars from the 1950s? Nationalizing infrastructure, confiscating private property were the first things Fidel did — not education & healthcare (neither made progress compared to rest of Latin America) — but even Castro ran from the labels “communist” and “socialist”, unlike Bernie.


newswars--2020-03-02--OECD Sounds The Alarm, Warns Global Growth Could Shrink “By Half” Thanks To Coronavirus

As the coronavirus spread across the world over the last six weeks , the IMF and WHO have in many ways played down the fallout from the outbreak .
In the beginning , the WHO memorably hesitated to declare the outbreak a “ Public Health Emergency of International Concern ( PHEIC ) ” .
More recently , Director-General Dr. Tedros has urged government officials to avoid using the “ p-word ” for fear of a default in the two tranches of “ pandemic bonds ” that the organization issued a few years ago , a move that could wipe out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a time when the organization is trying to expand in scope .
Mike Adams joins Alex Jones live via Skype to confirm that the coronavirus is a bioweapon released by the Chinese Communist government to destroy the United States ’ economy .
Despite reports that the IMF and World Bank are consider holding their annual spring meetings , typically held in Washington DC in April via teleconference , the IMF ’ s has said it expects the outbreak will shave only 0.1 percentage point off global GDP growth .
Taking things a step @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spreading rumors about “ coordinated central bank easing ” to try and convince their clients that the Fed will make everything okay and that this is just another dip to “ BUYBUYBUY ” .
But on Monday , the OECD became the first major NGO to sound the alarm over the outbreak ( thoug , claiming that the global economy is “ at risk ” and that the organization fears global growth could contract “ by half ” from its prior forecast , the FT reports .
According to the OECD , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ percentage points off this year ’ s global rate of growth .
Here ’ s more from the FT : The OECD became the first international organisation to sound the alarm about coronavirus on Monday , saying the world economy was “ at risk ” and warning of the possibility that global growth will halve this year from its previous forecast .
Just the effect of the widespread closure of factories and businesses in China was likely to cut 0.5 percentage points from the global growth forecast in 2020 , the Paris-based international @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an already weak 2.9 per cent to 2.4 per cent .
That puts the global economy on the verge of a recession , which is traditionally defined as growth below 2.5 per cent .
If there was a “ longer lasting and more intensive coronavirus outbreak , spreading widely throughout the Asia-Pacific region , Europe and North America ” , prospects would dim further and global growth “ could drop to 1.5 per cent in 2020 , half the rate projected prior to the virus outbreak , ” the OECD added .
Calling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forcefully ” on health and economic effects , it called for supportive monetary and fiscal policies to restore confidence even though it recognised that economic policies can not offset the immediate effects of shutdowns in business activity designed to slow the spread of the virus .
If Germany doesn ’ t open up that pocket book , the global economy could really be in trouble .

As the coronavirus spread across the world over the last six weeks, the IMF and WHO have in many ways played down the fallout from the outbreak.
In the beginning, the WHO memorably hesitated to declare the outbreak a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)”.
More recently, Director-General Dr. Tedros has urged government officials to avoid using the “p-word” for fear of a default in the two tranches of “pandemic bonds” that the organization issued a few years ago, a move that could wipe out the nascent market for WHO debt at a time when the organization is trying to expand in scope.
Mike Adams joins Alex Jones live via Skype to confirm that the coronavirus is a bioweapon released by the Chinese Communist government to destroy the United States’ economy.
Despite reports that the IMF and World Bank are consider holding their annual spring meetings, typically held in Washington DC in April via teleconference, the IMF’s has said it expects the outbreak will shave only 0.1 percentage point off global GDP growth. Taking things a step further, American investment banks have been spreading rumors about “coordinated central bank easing” to try and convince their clients that the Fed will make everything okay and that this is just another dip to “BUYBUYBUY”.
But on Monday, the OECD became the first major NGO to sound the alarm over the outbreak (thoug, claiming that the global economy is “at risk” and that the organization fears global growth could contract “by half” from its prior forecast, the FT reports.
According to the OECD, the fallout in China alone could shave 0.5 percentage points off this year’s global rate of growth.
Here’s more from the FT:
The OECD became the first international organisation to sound the alarm about coronavirus on Monday, saying the world economy was “at risk” and warning of the possibility that global growth will halve this year from its previous forecast. Just the effect of the widespread closure of factories and businesses in China was likely to cut 0.5 percentage points from the global growth forecast in 2020, the Paris-based international organisation said, lowering its forecast from an already weak 2.9 per cent to 2.4 per cent. That puts the global economy on the verge of a recession, which is traditionally defined as growth below 2.5 per cent. If there was a “longer lasting and more intensive coronavirus outbreak, spreading widely throughout the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and North America”, prospects would dim further and global growth “could drop to 1.5 per cent in 2020, half the rate projected prior to the virus outbreak,” the OECD added. Calling on governments to act “swiftly and forcefully” on health and economic effects, it called for supportive monetary and fiscal policies to restore confidence even though it recognised that economic policies cannot offset the immediate effects of shutdowns in business activity designed to slow the spread of the virus.
If Germany doesn’t open up that pocket book, the global economy could really be in trouble.


newswars--2020-03-02--Coronavirus: Panic Buying Clears Shelves At Costco

Videos went viral on social media over the weekend showing panic buying at Costco warehouses throughout the United States .
@ @ @ @ @ , Washington , Hawaii and Minnesota : Alex Jones breaks down why and how America @ @ @ @ @ be put to the ultimate test by the panic created by the worldwide coronavirus outbreak @ @ @ @ @ is predicting that supply chain disruptions from China are likely to come into full force @ @ @ @ @ predict that the peak of the impact of Covid-19 on global supply chains will occur @ @ @ @ @ of companies to throttle down or temporarily shut assembly and manufacturing plants in the U.S. @ @ @ @ @ reported .
“ The most vulnerable companies are those which rely heavily or solely on @ @ @ @ @ and materials .
The activity of Chinese manufacturing plants has fallen in the past month @ @ @ @ @ depressed for months .
”

Videos went viral on social media over the weekend showing panic buying at Costco warehouses throughout the United States.
Stores were packed in California, Washington, Hawaii and Minnesota:
Even the Costco in Hawaii is bonkers! Employees just yelled out “OUT OF TOILET PAPER 🧻!” https://t.co/ZFD7s3ipg9 #Coronovirius #CoronaVirusUpdates pic.twitter.com/ISknP616LR — Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) March 1, 2020
Minnesotans Depleted Costco, Target Supplies In Coronavirus Preparation https://t.co/I5rCeaOJkf pic.twitter.com/lelRJC3phI — WCCO – CBS Minnesota (@WCCO) March 2, 2020
A viewer sent me this photo of the medicine shelves at Target in NE Mpls. pic.twitter.com/x3xr8ua4It — Kate Raddatz (@KateRaddatz) March 2, 2020
I have never in my life seen Seattle Costco lines like this – 40 carts deep with over one-hour wait times. Plus, lots of Instacart orders for cases of water. #stateofemergency #costco #Covid19usa #panicbuying pic.twitter.com/XWXtmEQi7L — Kristina Moy (@KristinaMMoy) February 29, 2020
Alex Jones breaks down why and how America’s economic infrastructure will be put to the ultimate test by the panic created by the worldwide coronavirus outbreak.
Panic Clorox wipes buying at costco in San Francisco today. This pallet was 4 feet tall just two minutes ago b4 I got the video out. Cray cray #clorox #SanFrancisco #costco pic.twitter.com/maF2coYkco — AHiTH filmfest 2020 (@AHITHFF) February 29, 2020
People are seriously freaking out about the Corona virus. I’ve never seen Costco so busy. Even on black Friday or Christmas season. They’re out of Kirkland cases of waters, toilet paper, meat in general and other things…. pic.twitter.com/5gVJTJ7Jjj — Jonathan 49er Faithful (@Jpuma55) February 29, 2020
Panic buying has gripped Santa Clara County in #California after a third case of #Covid19 was reported Friday. Filipino Lally De Jesus of San Jose, CA, shares these photos taken at a Costco Wholesale store near El Camino Hospital where the third patient is being treated. pic.twitter.com/TWg0MSBwSr — Daily Tribune (@tribunephl) February 29, 2020
My advice not to panic went unheeded. I had planned a trip to #Costco this morning b/c going out of town next week and all of #PaloAlto was there. This was the line at to check out @KindrachukJason @angie_rasmussen @GeopoliticalJD @Crof @AneeshMehtaMD pic.twitter.com/GuZ0elyBwG — Dr. Krutika Kuppalli (@KrutikaKuppalli) February 29, 2020
These ppl are NOT fucking around in #Costco here in Puyallup, Washington! This Coronavirus got ppl with Masks, gloves, & stocking up on everything In here! My husband is not messing around either! We in here buying up all kinds of stuff because of him. Smh #CostcoPanicBuying pic.twitter.com/qsrI4BXMLN — Honey Redd (@HoneyRedd) March 1, 2020
Not just Sanitizer, you could not find Isopropyl….only thing left was a few bottles of hydrogen peroxide….yeah this was just a “normal saturday”. This is Target, I will also be posting costco, fred meyer, bartells, and cvs. outside the city is still stocked I hear, but here.. pic.twitter.com/EKgyQDI8YS — MARFOOGLE NEWS (OFFICIAL) (@Marfoogle) March 1, 2020
I was sent to a Costco to see if people are stocking up (even though health officials say it’s not necessary) in case COVID-19 gets more serious here. This guy came out of the store with 16 boxes of condoms and a big jar of coconut oil. We all have priorities. pic.twitter.com/C3edUsgZzH — Jill Bennett (@jillreports) February 29, 2020
The Harvard Business Review is predicting that supply chain disruptions from China are likely to come into full force in mid-March.
“We predict that the peak of the impact of Covid-19 on global supply chains will occur in mid-March, forcing thousands of companies to throttle down or temporarily shut assembly and manufacturing plants in the U.S. and Europe,” HBR reported. “The most vulnerable companies are those which rely heavily or solely on factories in China for parts and materials. The activity of Chinese manufacturing plants has fallen in the past month and is expected to remain depressed for months.”


newswars--2020-03-02--WATCH: Iranian pilgrims taunt coronavirus with ‘communal licking’ of religious shrines despite outbr

WATCH: Iranian pilgrims taunt coronavirus with ‘communal licking’ of religious shrines despite outbreak

Pilgrims to religious shrines in Iran have reportedly attempted to defy fears about the novel coronavirus by licking religious shrines @ @ @ @ @ not get sick .
A video posted to twitter shows three people , including one @ @ @ @ @ child , licking the glass coverings and metal grilles at religious shrines in Qom and @ @ @ @ @ is a prominent centre of religious pilgrimage for Shia Muslims , is also the epicentre @ @ @ @ @ .
“ Stop playing with people ’ s beliefs , coronavirus is nothing in the @ @ @ @ @ man is recorded saying at the Fatima Masumeh shrine in Qom , in response to @ @ @ @ @ pilgrimage sites amid the outbreak .
Alex Jones presents video clips from Bill Maher ’ @ @ @ @ @ calls for the collapse of the U.S. economy to stop Trump ’ s presidency and @ @ @ @ @ help his hopes reach full fruition .

Pilgrims to religious shrines in Iran have reportedly attempted to defy fears about the novel coronavirus by licking religious shrines to prove that they will not get sick.
While the city of Qom is the epicentre of #CoronaVirus in Iran, authorities refuse to close down religious shrines there. These pro-regime people are licking the shrines & encouraging people to visit them. Iran’s authorities are endangering lives of Iranians & the world pic.twitter.com/s9o6zYhzNQ — Masih Alinejad 🏳 (@AlinejadMasih) February 29, 2020
A video posted to twitter shows three people, including one who appears to be a child, licking the glass coverings and metal grilles at religious shrines in Qom and Mashhad.
Qom, which is a prominent centre of religious pilgrimage for Shia Muslims, is also the epicentre of the virus in Iran.
“Stop playing with people’s beliefs, coronavirus is nothing in the Shia shrines,” one man is recorded saying at the Fatima Masumeh shrine in Qom, in response to calls for authorities to close pilgrimage sites amid the outbreak.
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Alex Jones presents video clips from Bill Maher’s HBO show where he calls for the collapse of the U.S. economy to stop Trump’s presidency and suggests that the coronavirus may help his hopes reach full fruition.