USS Dwight D Eisenhower Aircraft Carrier arrives in Halifax

June 28, 2017 Markozen.com Geography, Geopolitics

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HALIFAX — The FA-18 Super Hornet revs its engines to maximum thrust, and the jet fighter’s nose wheel is locked into a steam-powered catapult on the aircraft carrier’s flight deck.

The thunderous noise reaches an overwhelming, bone-jarring intensity, and in less than three seconds, the jet is gone — hurled over the bow of the ship at 200 kilometres per hour.

That was the scene aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower on Tuesday as the U.S. navy played host to a select group of Canadian journalists, politicians and military officials in advance of the ship’s week-long visit to the port city, which started Wednesday.

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The ‘IKE’ approacing Georges Island in Halifax harbor.

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Trump Unleashes “Shock and Awe”

June 28, 2017June 28, 2017 Markozen.com Fake News, Politics

Using the term the U.S. military coined during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Donald Trump tweeted that “we are going to take out the mortal enemy with a ‘Shock and Awe’ campaign.” Trump then did his usual double tweet. “Bad people, fantastic, Great!”

Sean Spicer then held an impromptu press briefing to try to explain what Trump meant.

Spicer’s face was beat red as he stepped to the podium, word was that he had eaten 30 sticks of gum before the briefing and was having a negative reaction. Heads up: Spicer has admitted that he eats dozens of sticks of gum before noon everyday. Fact check it.

Spicer started off by saying. “Today is a great day for this administration and all Trump supporters. Military action has been taken against the blood enemy of Donald Trump. An underhanded adversary that is cunning and uses every trick in the devil’s toolbox to defame and criticize the president. An enemy that has no morals when it comes to telling the truth. A despicable force within this great country that is the ultimate enemy of the American people. An enemy that had to be eliminated. An enemy that will be wiped off the face of the earth. An enemy that will burn in the depths of hell for all eternity.”

“Today at 11 am eastern daylight time. The U.S. air force was ordered to take out this enemy. Fighter bombers from east coast bases conducted missions against the headquarters of CNN, The Washington Post and the New York Times. No questions you bastards. God Bless Donald Trump and the Trump administration. End of press briefing.”

Fox News distributed the photos below

Bombing run against the Washington Post

CNN headquarters seconds before being blown to hell

And finally, the final seconds before the NY Times building collapsed into a heap of rubble as it was hit by six 500 pound laser guided bombs.

There was reports that the pilots were ready to revolt and mutiny. But a memo was handed to each pilot written by Trump himself that read: “if you disobey these orders and do not carry these missions, your immediate family and extended families will all be Fired!!”

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As reporters kept flinging questions at Spicer today after he abruptly ended the press briefing, he suddenly started to shutter, everyone in the room gasped as he began to direct some energy ray that emanated from his eyes at CNN reporter Jim Acosta.

Acosta is in stable condition at a Washington area hospital.

The Mountain Ranges

June 28, 2017 Markozen.com Geography

Western United States and Mexico

Western Europe

Eastern Europe

Northern Europe

New Zealand

Alaska

South America

Japan, Korea & China

Australia

Full Metal Firepower

June 28, 2017 Markozen.com Science Fiction

Why do soccer players always play with their eyes closed?

June 28, 2017 Markozen.com Sports

No wonder the scores are so low.

A Horribly Haunted Hoarder House

June 28, 2017 Markozen.com Paranormal

Dab smack in the middle of the eastern Canadian prairie is a tiny town called Somerset, Manitoba.

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Somerset is sleepy little place where nothing much eventful ever happens. Farmers, mechanics and a few office workers going about their business. The main recreation in the place is gossiping about neighbors and talking about the latest casualty of old age. The towns population is overflowing with senior citizens. The only growth industry in town is the funeral home.

Eventually the gossip began to speculate that there was a hoarder in town. Now this was interesting, the story really revved up the usually mundane restaurant chatter. As with all gossip, the facts are usually exaggerated and embellished. The chit chatters usually don’t care if the facts are unknown, they just like the story. But this time it was different.

The hoarder himself admitted that he was one. Constantijn Vanderrassle admitted to the local bartender that he had in fact been hoarding since the early 1990’s. It started after he retired from the railroad. He loved the things he bought from thrift stores, auctions and the picks he went on. And for the life of him he just couldn’t get rid of any of the stuff.

Constantijn’s house

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A big structure with over a dozen rooms

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After repeated requests Constantijn allowed the bartender Cletus LaFlesche to take a look. Cletus brought along his super dependable cannon XZ-500 digital camera and promptly snapped a picture of the living room.

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Ignore the date in the bottom right corner, Cletus never did figure out how to set the clock on his camera. Since Constantijn was 92 years old Cletus wondered what in the hell he was doing with a little red wagon. Top left.

A few weeks after the visit something was bugging Constantijn that was causing him to drink more heavily than usual. He finally confided to Cletus that the damn house was haunted. He was seeing all kinds of weird entities. These phantoms, demons or whatever the hell they were, would throw the clustered hoarded things around in the middle of the night. Constantijn just couldn’t get any sleep.

One night, after the two buddies had drank many sambuca shooters and draft beers, they would go head first into the evil cauldron and Cletus would snap some pictures. The things in the pictures made the hair on Cletus’s neck stand on end. It was something out of a horror movie nightmare. Entities from hell!!

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Bloody demon clowns!

Hoarded living room, Essex.

WTF!!

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Jesus Fricken Murphy!! The rancid breath that thing must exude.

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Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to go for a leak and stumbling into this monstrosity. A guy could shit his pants!

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From which hell pit did this quad eyed hideous mutation crawl up from? God help us all!!

And Constantijn did just that, he hired a servant of God to rid the house of the demon trolls.

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Constantijn promised Cletus that if the Exorcist is successful, he will bring in the A&E hoarder psychiatrists and movers and get rid of all his stuff once and for all.

A Totally Dangerous and Bizarre Line of Work

June 27, 2017 Markozen.com Energy

In electrical engineering, live-line working is the maintenance of electrical equipment, often operating at high voltage, while the equipment is energized. In the 1960s, methods were developed in the laboratory to enable field workers to come into direct contact with high voltage lines. Such methods can be applied to enable safe work at the highest transmission voltages.

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A lineman wearing a Faraday suit can work on live, high-power lines by being transported to the lines in a helicopter. Wearing the suit, they can crawl down the wires. The strong electric field surrounding charged equipment is enough to drive a current of approximately 15 μA for each kV·m⁻¹ through a human body. To prevent this, hot-hand workers are usually required to wear a Faraday suit. This is a set of overalls made from or woven throughout with conducting fibers. The suit is in effect a wearable Faraday cage, which equalizes the potential over the body, and ensures there is no through-tissue current. Conducting gloves, even conducting socks, are also necessary, leaving only the face uncovered.