'Crazy' masked intruder storms into Massachusetts GOP office and threatens staffers

A masked intruder stormed into the Massachusetts Republican Party headquarters in Woburn, Massachusetts, Wednesday and began calling staffers and volunteers "fascists," terrifying those present with violent threats.

Police are investigating after the man, identified by MassGOP as defense attorney and Democratic Party donor Hugh Samson, allegedly threatened to "come back with a weapon" after he was asked to leave.

No arrests have been made as of Wednesday night, according to the Boston Herald, but police reportedly said they are looking into the man's "mental health."

“It’s nuts,” MassGOP Chairman Jim Lyons said. “If this was a Republican breaking into a Democratic headquarters, this story wouldn’t stop. It would be going on all day long.”

Lyons was not present when the incident occurred, but he told the Herald that the communications director, a volunteer, and a handful of other staffers were at the office when a man wearing a pink mask burst in around 1 p.m. and pointed a camera at staffers.

MassGOP said in a statement that Samson entered their offices and demanded to take staffers photos. When he was asked to leave, he then allegedly demanded to know why staffers weren't wearing masks inside their offices, calling it "a violation of the state mandate."

Wendy Wakeman, one of the individuals present, told the "Howie Carr Show" Wednesday the whole thing was "crazy."

“I asked, ‘What are you doing?’ He was all dressed up with a pink mask on … I told him, ‘You just barged into my office.'"

She said he told her he wanted to talk about the Jan. 6 "insurrection" in Washington D.C.

“We were like a human wall trying to push him out, and he starts dropping the F-bomb and yelling at us that we were ‘fascists,'” she said. “It was crazy … A woman from another office came out and was shaken. She saw him walk in.”

“It is scary to be sitting in your office and having a normal day and have a lunatic walk in,” she added.

MassGOP said that police responded immediately when called to the office. Lyons thanked the Woburn Police Department for quickly sending an officer to the scene.

He also said the timing of the incident was curious, noting that just hours before the man showed up Gov. Charlie Baker (R) announced that the statewide mask mandate for Massachusetts public schools would expire at the end of the month.

“People are done with the government overreach,” Lyons said. “They want to be able to live their lives normally again, and people like this individual who threatened my staff today are obviously distraught over the likelihood of that happening.”

“Republicans are for giving people their lives back and somehow that’s what prompts left-wingers like our unannounced visitor to call us ‘fascists,'” he added.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/crazy-masked-intruder-storms-into-massachusetts-gop-office-and-threatens-staffers

Doctors Can Prescribe Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine to Treat COVID-19: Oklahoma Attorney General

Oklahoma’s attorney general has told doctors across the state that they can prescribe ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine for the purpose of treating COVID-19 and will not face disciplinary procedures for doing so.

In a statement published on Tuesday, Attorney General John O’Connor said he has found “no legal basis” for a state medical licensure board to discipline a licensed physician for “exercising sound judgment” and “safely prescribing” the drugs.

Neither ivermectin nor hydroxychloroquine has been approved for use in treating COVID-19 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) but O’Connor made clear that doctors would not face penalties if they prescribed either drug for the off-label purpose of treating a patient with COVID-19.

“I stand behind doctors who believe it is in their patients’ best interests to receive ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine,” said O’Connor. “Our healthcare professionals should have every tool available to combat COVID-19. Public safety demands this. Physicians who prescribe medications and follow the law should not fear disciplinary action for prescribing such drugs.”

The attorney general’s office added that it “maintains that proper healthcare decisions are to be made between a patient and his or her physician, and the government should not interfere with their relationship.”

Both ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine have been highly controversial and dividing drugs throughout the pandemic.

Ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug, has been used by the World Health Organization for over 30 years to treat certain infections as well as head lice and skin conditions. The FDA has not approved it for use in the treatment of COVID-19 and warns that current data does not show it is effective against the virus.

Taking large doses of ivermectin can be dangerous.

However, clinical trials assessing the drug for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19 in people are ongoing, the FDA says.

Despite the warning from U.S. health authorities, all or part of 22 countries across the globe have approved the use of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19, based on multiple studies.

Japan has not yet approved it for the treatment of COVID-19 but a Japanese conglomerate last month found, based on lab-based research, that ivermectin had an antiviral effect on the Omicron variant of the virus in vitro studies.

The pharma firm is also currently carrying out a Phase 3 clinical trial of the drug to see if it is effective in treating COVID-19 patients.

The company said that ivermectin has the “same antiviral effect” on all “mutant strains,” including Alpha, Delta, and Omicron, and worked by suppressing the invasion of the virus and inhibiting its replication.

“[Ivermectin] is expected to be applied as a therapeutic drug (tablet) for all new coronavirus infectious diseases,” the report said.

Earlier this month, lawmakers in Iowa’s state Legislature advanced a measure that would allow ivermectin to be used to treat critically sick COVID-19 patients who are on ventilators.

The FDA also cautions people against using the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment outside of a hospital setting due to the risks of increased heart rhythm problems and other safety issues.

Hydroxychloroquine gained prominence but has also been heavily scrutinized after former President Donald Trump said he was taking it as a prophylactic.

A study published in the American Journal of Medicine on Jan. 1 found that hydroxychloroquine helped lower mortality in the early treatment of COVID-19.

However, both the FDA and World Health Organization (WHO) have advised against the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19.

https://www.ntd.com/doctors-can-prescribe-ivermectin-hydroxychloroquine-to-treat-covid-19-oklahoma-attorney-general_738441.html

Decorated ‘Hero’ Cop, Featured on TV — Busted Trying to Have Sex with 12yo, Trafficking Child Porn

Sioux Falls, SD — Sioux Falls police officer Luke John Schauer was a decorated cop who has been the subject of television interviews and has received multiple awards during his tenure in law enforcement in South Dakota. All of that is meaningless now, however, as his desires of pedophilia have risen to the surface and he is facing down decades in prison.

Schauer was arrested on Tuesday and hit with a slew of charges ranging from the production of child porn to sending lewd images to a child under the age of 16. According to police, Schauer, 28, thought he was communicating with a 12-year-old girl online using the KiK messenging app.

Luckily, however, it was not a child but rather uncover FBI agents involved in a sting. Beginning on Jan. 18 and ending on Feb. 4, when the search warrant was issued for Schauer’s house, this hometown “hero” was having sexually explicit conversations with a person he thought was just 12 years old.

According to the affidavit filed in the case, Schauer sent multiple explicit messages and images to the undercover officer, including images of his genitals. He also encouraged the child to make her own child porn and send it to him.

Police also said Schauer was caught sending lewd materials to another child under the age of 16. Though all the local news stories are referring to Schauer as a “former cop,” he wasn’t fired from the department until his arrest.

Following his arrest, on Wednesday, the mayor released the following statement:

Upon learning of the allegations surrounding Officer Schauer’s arrest, he did not work another shift for the Sioux Falls Police Department and is no longer a member of our Police department. In order to protect the integrity of the ongoing criminal proceedings and the rights of all involved, no further details will be provided at this time.

According to investigators, they were able to determine Schauer had been sending the lewd photos of himself to children online from his own bedroom. TFTP found Schauer’s social media profile and it appears that he is married with a child, adding to the disgusting nature of his crimes.

When a search warrant was executed at Schauer’s home, investigators found blankets and portions of a bedroom that matched the backgrounds in the photos Schauer sent.

Though he pleaded not guilty after his arrest, according to court documents, two FBI agents reported that Schauer admitted to using his social media account to send lewd messages and graphic images to someone he believed was a 12-year-old girl, and to requesting photos from the girl.

The exchange of messages Schauer had with the undercover agent — who he thought was a 12-year-old girl — are shocking, to say the least. The things he said to a child and encouraged her to do were utterly sickening especially considering that he has a daughter of his own.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/decorated-hero-cop-featured-on-tv-busted-trying-to-have-sex-with-12yo-trafficking-child-porn/

Colombian military seizes submarine with $145M worth of cocaine

A submarine filled with a staggering 4 tons of cocaine was intercepted by the Colombian military earlier this week en route to Central America.

The huge shipment, estimated to be worth $145 million, was seized on Sunday as the submarine entered Colombian waters, the Armed Forces of Colombia said.

Four men on board the vessel — including three Colombians and an Ecuadorian — were arrested and hit with a string of charges, including drug trafficking.

The Ecuadorian national has a US warrant for drug trafficking charges, authorities said.

Authorities found about 4,000 packages filled with cocaine when they broke open the hatch on the top of the submarine.

Footage taken by the military showed the drugs — stashed in black bags or wrapped in brown paper — crammed into the vessel.

The shipment belonged to a Colombian guerrilla group known as the Alfonso Cano Western Bloc, according to the Armed Forces of Colombia.

It is the largest narcotics bust the military has uncovered in the last two years, the military said.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/10/colombian-military-seizes-submarine-with-145m-of-cocaine/

Prince Charles tests positive for COVID for the second time

Prince Charles, the 73-year-old heir to the British throne, has tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time, after a bout with the bug at the start of the pandemic, his office announced Thursday.

“This morning The Prince of Wales has tested positive for COVID-19 and is now self-isolating,” a message on the royal’s official Twitter page said.

“HRH [His Royal Highness] is deeply disappointed not to be able to attend today’s events in Winchester and will look to reschedule his visit as soon as possible,” it added.

The prince had been scheduled to unveil a statue in the southern city later Thursday.

Meanwhile, his 95-year-old mother, Queen Elizabeth II, is being monitored after she met him two days ago at Windsor Castle – but she is not displaying any symptoms, a royal source told People magazine.

She confirmed last year that she had received her first COVID-19 vaccine, encouraging others to also get the jab, but the palace has declined to say whether she has received subsequent shots.

Meanwhile, the prince and his wife, Camilla, 74, the Duchess of Cornwall, have both received their booster shots.

Charles first contracted the illness in March 2020, when he was isolated at his home, Burnham, on the Balmoral Estate in Scotland. His wife, Camilla, had tested negative.

“I was lucky in my case … but I’ve had it, and I can so understand what other people have gone through,” he told Sky News at the time. “I feel particularly for those who have lost their loved ones and have been unable to be with them at the time. That, to me, is the most ghastly thing.”

https://nypost.com/2022/02/10/prince-charles-tests-positive-for-covid-19-for-second-time/

https://nypost.com/2022/02/10/prince-charles-tests-positive-for-covid-19-for-second-time/

Wuhan Lab Also Sought Influenza Strain For ‘Human Infection.’

The Wuhan Institute of Virology, which manipulated bat coronaviruses resembling COVID-19 to become deadlier to humans, appears to have carried out similar research on influenza, The National Pulse can reveal.

An article posted to the Chinese-language website of the military-linked lab, which many public health and intelligence officials believed to be the source of COVID-19, details how researchers sought various avian influenza viruses (AIV) that had “zoonotic potential with human infections.”

The post, titled “Scientist in WIV achieves a progress in study on reassortment of influenza viruses,” details how Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers hunted these viruses in the wild.

“In this study, by collaboration with Prof. Qiyun Zhu in Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Prof. Hualan Chen in Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Prof. Jie Cui in WIV, carried out surveillance of AIVs in ducks, geese and the environment of a community in Hunan province, China, from 2014–2015,” explains the summary.

Using these samples, collected in a similar method to the lab’s bat coronavirus studies, Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers also “isolated multiple co-circulated AIVs including H3N2, H3N8, and H5N6, and, most importantly, a novel reassortant: H3N6.”

“Phylogenetic analyses suggest that H3N6 is highly likely derived from H5N6, which has recently been shown to have zoonotic potential with human infections. Studies with mammalian cell lines and a mouse model indicate that four selected AIVs of duck or goose origin can infect MDCK and A549 cells but have low pathogenicity in mice,” adds the lab.

“They propose that a potential co-circulation of multiple subtypes including H5N6 in local area may result in the production of novel subtypes such as H3N6 by gene reassortment.”

The Wuhan Institute of Virology’s unearthed influenza research follows the lab manipulating “killer” bat coronaviruses as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s lab’s efforts to find strains capable of “direct human infection.”

These studies, which have seen most of their findings hidden by the Chinese Communist Party, were funded by taxpayer dollars directed to the lab by National Institutes of Health agency leader Anthony Fauci.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/02/09/wuhan-lab-manipulated-influenza-with-human-transmission/

Former “Cheer” star Jerry Harris is expected to plead guilty in Chicago on Thursday in a federal sex crimes case alleging he solicited sex from teen boys at cheerleading competitions, court records show.

A change of plea hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. before US District Judge Manish Shah, according to the court records.

It wasn’t immediately clear what charges the 22-year-old would plead guilty to, or if he had reached a deal with prosecutors.

Harris, of Naperville, Illinois, has been held without bond at Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center ever since his September 2020 arrest on a child pornography charge.

Federal prosecutors later filed additional charges alleging Harris coerced minors into sending him explicit photos, tried to persuade a minor to engage in oral sex at cheerleading events and solicited another for sex.

Harris admitted in an interview with FBI agents to having five to 10 victims, according to a criminal complaint.

The case against Harris stemmed from a February 2020 complaint from the mother of twin brothers who claimed they were “groomed” for sex by the star cheerleader.

The siblings, who are competitive cheerleaders from Texas, said the alleged abuse began when they were around 13 and Harris was 19 — and that it lasted for more than a year.

Prosecutors allege that Harris started soliciting photos from one of the boys in late 2018.

He then allegedly followed the victim into a bathroom at a cheerleading event two years later and sexually assaulted him, according to the complaint.

Harris rose to fame as the breakout star of Netflix’s “Cheer” docuseries, which follows the cheer squad from Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas.

His shocking arrest was recently addressed when Season 2 of the docuseries premiered on Jan. 12.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/10/cheer-star-jerry-harris-expected-to-plead-guilty-court-records/

Elon Musk’s Neuralink allegedly subjected monkeys to ‘extreme suffering’

Elon Musk’s brain-chip company Neuralink is facing a legal challenge from an animal rights group that has accused the company of subjecting monkeys to “extreme suffering” during years of gruesome experiments.

Neuralink’s brain chips — which Musk claims will one day make humans hyper-intelligent and let paralyzed people walk again — were implanted in monkeys’ brains during a series of tests at the University of California, Davis from 2017 to 2020, according to a compliant from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine filed with the the US Department of Agriculture on Thursday.

In one horrifying example, a monkey was allegedly found missing some of its fingers and toes “possibly from self-mutilation or some other unspecified trauma.” The monkey was later killed during a “terminal procedure,” the group said in a copy of the complaint shared with The Post.

In another ghastly case, a monkey had holes drilled in its skull and electrodes implanted into its brain, then allegedly developed a bloody skin infection and had to be euthanized, according to the complaint.

In a third instance, a female macaque monkey had electrodes implanted into its brain, then was overcome with vomiting, retching and gasping. Days later, researchers wrote that the animal “appeared to collapse from exhaustion/fatigue” and was subsequently euthanized. An autopsy then showed the monkey had suffered from a brain hemorrhage, according to the report.

The experiments involved 23 monkeys in all. At least 15 of them died or were euthanized by 2020, according to the group, which based the report on records released through California’s open records law.

“Pretty much every single monkey that had had implants put in their head suffered from pretty debilitating health effects,” Jeremy Beckham, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine’s research advocacy director, told The Post. “They were, frankly, maiming and killing the animals.”

The macabre report comes as Neuralink plans to begin its first human tests. Musk said in December that he wants to start human trials for the devices in 2022 and the company posted a job listing for a clinical trial director this January.

The group behind the report, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, advocates for veganism and alternatives to animal testing — positions that have sometimes put the group at odds with the American Medical Association. It has also previously received funding from controversial animal rights group PETA, The Guardian reported.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/10/elon-musks-neuralink-allegedly-subjected-monkeys-to-extreme-suffering/

Justin Trudeau Under Fire: Faces Second Day of Insults, Heckles in Canadian Parliament

Leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau endured a second day of intense heckling, insults, and accusations of prioritizing his political power over the health of citizens on Wednesday in a heated session of Parliament.

Trudeau is currently under fire from both the left and right for his handling of the ongoing “Freedom Convoy” protests, which have made their biggest impact in the national capital, Ottawa, but have surfaced in multiple major cities and American border crossings. As of Thursday, truckers are blocking the largest crossing between the two countries – Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario – and have blocked a border crossing in Manitoba. Prior protests had already hampered traffic between Alberta and Montana.

Conservatives have condemned Trudeau for dismissing the protesters – who are calling for an end to all coronavirus-related civil rights restrictions – as “racist” and “misogynist,” as well as comparing them to Nazis. Leftists have condemned Trudeau for not doing much to stop the protests other than insulting the protesters, demanding a plan for resolving the crisis that Trudeau has yet to offer.

The prime minister made his return to Parliament on Monday after disappearing to an “undisclosed location” at the beginning of the protests, announcing that he had tested positive for Chinese coronavirus. He has yet to enjoy a Parliament session this week that has not erupted in outbursts of disdain towards him – both from conservatives demanding he apologize for his insults towards the protesters and from leftists demanding more federal intervention to end the protests. During one such exchange on Tuesday, an unidentified lawmaker urged the hecklers to stay quiet: “let him answer, he’s not good at it!”

While Parliament discussion much of the past week centered around the protests, interim Conservative Party leader Candice Bergen began the question and answer session on Wednesday asking about Trudeau’s most recent call to elections in September, which she branded as “unnecessary” and costly. Canadians had gone to the national polls in 2019, and lawmakers recalled that Trudeau had promised not to call elections as the Chinese coronavirus pandemic continued raging.

“As British Columbia was burning, Afghanistan was falling, and we were in the fourth wave of the pandemic, the prime minister called an unnecessary, 600 million [Canadian dollars, $474.3 million] election to capitalize on this crisis,” Bergen assailed. “According to a senior liberal MP [member of Parliament], a decision was made to wedge, to divide, and to stigmatize … why would he [Trudeau] do this to a country that is already suffering and deeply damaged by so many of his policies?”

Another Conservative lawmaker, Stephen Ellis, accused Trudeau of forcing Canadians out to an election – causing mass gatherings that social distancing enthusiasts condemn – in the name of his personal power.

“Last year, an all-party parliament committee urged the prime minister to promise that he wouldn’t call an election,” Ellis recalled. “In fact, at that time, the prime minister himself said he had no interest in calling an election during a pandemic.”

“Canadians were misled. Instead of prioritizing the health and safety of Canadians, he forced an election,” Ellis asserted. “This begs the question – why did the prime minister jeopardize the health of Canadians to save his own job?”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/10/watch-justin-trudeau-under-fire-faces-second-day-of-insults-heckles-in-canadian-parliament/

Freedom Convoy Spreads Through Europe to France

Canadian-inspired freedom convoys have spread through Europe and now into France, where citizens are planning to stage their own vehicle led protest movement against coronavirus restrictions in Paris on Saturday.

A French group called “The Liberty Convoy” on Facebook is supporting the move and has already attracted over 300,000 members on the social media platform, although there is presently no indication from organisers or law enforcement how many may actually be physically involved in the convoy.

Some vehicles have already set off on Wednesday — many clad in the French Tricolor — and plan to drive through key French cities to rally support before arriving in Paris on the weekend of the 12th-13th for a large rally.

Unlike their Canadian counterparts — where this style of protest against restrictions originated — the organisers of this rally have not called for a blockade, likely because the French police are known to be more aggressive towards protestors, often using tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets to break up groups.

The French liberty convoy organisers hope their protest will allow them to regain the “freedom” and “fundamental rights”, that they believe to have lost under French coronavirus restrictions, Euronews reports.

France, like many European nations, has had very strict coronavirus legislation and passed a self-described “vaccine pass” law in January which makes it mandatory for most individuals over the age of 15 to be fully vaccinated to access bars, restaurants, cultural venues, and interregional public transport.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/02/10/freedom-convoy-spreads-through-europe-to-france/

Paris Police Bar Entry of French Freedom Convoy to Capital

Protesters forming a Freedom Convoy to converge on Paris and rally against national coronavirus restrictions will be blocked from entry, the French capital’s police authority said on Thursday.

Paris and Brussels have been targeted by those demanding an end to social restrictions, inspired by demonstrators who have taken to the streets of the Canadian capital Ottawa and elsewhere.

The Paris prefecture said the protesters would be prohibited from entering the capital from Feb. 11-14.

Citing “risks of trouble to public order,” the capital’s police department banned protests aimed at “blocking the capital” from Friday through Monday.

Police will put measures in place to protect roads and detain violators.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/02/10/paris-police-bar-entry-of-french-freedom-convoy-to-capital/