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"I FIGURED [THE SURGEON] WAS MESSING WITH ME, BUT HE HAD TO STOP BECAUSE EVERYTHING WAS SHAKING." Ball Drop When a small earthquake rattled the New York City area and surrounding states on Friday morning, Pennsylvania resident Justin Allen was lying down on an operating table getting a vasectomy. As The Guardian reports, the geological rumbling alarmed his surgeon enough to momentarily pause the procedure. "I thought maybe a train was passing by or it was just something that happens at that office, even when the doctor was like 'I think this is an earthquake,'" Allen told the news outlet....

The state party announced the passage of its censure resolution on Saturday in a statement, with Chairman Drew McKissick sharing the party's "disappointment" with Rice's vote. "Trying to impeach a president, with a week left in his term, is never legitimate and is nothing more than a political kick on the way out the door," said McKissick. "Congressman Rice's vote unfortunately played right into the Democrats' game, and the people in his district, and ultimately our State Executive Committee, wanted him to know they wholeheartedly disagree with his decision." The pro-Trump resentment has extended to officials beyond Congress. The Arizona...

Australia started out as a prison colony and there's plenty of evidence to suggest that in Melbourne and the rest of Victoria state the country is returning to its "roots". The lockdown triggering a call for protest and the government's vow to prevent it with arrests of people organizing the protest in their homes in recent days. Americans are supposed to be angry about dictatorships in other countries and the US Marines are sent to defend this formerly free country that looks like the "Peoples Democratic Republic of Australia" to me. The protesters in Melbourne today were pounced on at...

Germany under intense pressure to scuttle the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to bring natural gas from Russia underwater to Germany. That's the assessment of Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. The United States behind that pressure. On Friday a White House official told the media that nine thousand US troops were going to be withdrawn from Germany..... A Russian disc jockey arrested in Berlin at the request of the United States...... A Florida judge who has refused to release grand jury records related to the late Jeffrey Epstein has close ties to politicians involved in the investigation of Epstein 15...