Did Missing Flight 370 Pilot Hijack Plane to Protest His Government’s Anti-Gay Laws?

good morning loves!

Good morning Sandra!

Congratulations Donte! Did you soak in a tub full of ice yet? One other thing you could do is take a bath in epsom salt with Eucalyptus and mint. Relaxes every damn thing.

Iheart-if you’re asking if it burns, it doesn’t (on the outside) but it just relaxes all your muscles. I wouldn’t “draw it in” though. IDK what would happen if you did that.

@iheart ikr? dude just needs to sit on his hands sometimes. matta fack… lemmie tie em up… put some duct tape round his mouth.

FuturedocDonte says:

Congrats to you @Donte! Hope you feel better. #Over30Problems
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Sad thing is I’m only 26!

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choked on my damn milk

I’ve never felt it tingle, although I would be more concentrated on trying not to fall asleep in the tub.

U.S. Navy SEALs have taken control of a commercial tanker that had been seized by three armed Libyans this month.

No one was hurt in the Sunday night operation, the Pentagon said.

The tanker, Morning Glory, is carrying oil owned by Libya’s National Oil Company.

The ship was returning to Libya, according to a written statement from the interim prime minister, which said Tripoli asked for help from countries in the area.

The statement thanked the United States and Cyprus.

The Morning Glory sailed last week from the rebel-held port of As-Sidra in eastern Libya

Libyan forces fired on the vessel but were called off by the U.S. Navy, fearing an environmental disaster. The SEALs boarded the ship in international waters southeast of Cyprus, the Pentagon said.

The situation remains unsettled in the North African nation, which the government is struggling to control more than two years after the ouster of longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Meet the militiaman holding Libya’s oil In this case, the issue centers around the oil-rich eastern part of the country and one man in particular, Ibrahim Jadran. The militia leader was entrusted by the government to safeguard crucial oil ports. But in July, Jadran and his men seized them, blocking oil exports, and demanded more autonomy and shared revenues for his eastern region.

He said he acted because the government is corrupt.

The conflict over oil wealth is stoking fears that Libya may slide deeper into chaos as the fragile government fails to rein in the armed brigades that helped oust Gadhafi in 2011 but now do as they please.
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Folks don’t play!

Hey Chan

Ahn Myong-Chol saw many nightmarish atrocities during his years as a prison guard – including one horrific incident in which ferocious dogs attacked and killed innocent school kids, according to a shocking new report.

“There were three dogs and they killed five children,” the 45-year-old Ahn told the French news agency AFP.

“They killed three of the children right away. The two other children were barely breathing and the guards buried them alive,” said Ahn, who worked in one of the communist country’s brutal prison camps for eight years before fleeing in 1994.

A day later, guards rewarded the murderous mutts with a special meal, “as some kind of award,” Ahn said.

Modal TriggerSatellite images of suspected North Korean political prison camps released by Amnesty International December, 2013.
Photo: EPA
“People in the camps are not treated as human beings. They are like flies that can be crushed,” said Ahn, speaking at a conference for human rights activists was under way in Geneva.

He was one of many North Koreans who had fled the hellish country and testified for a United Nations investigation that led to a stomach-churning 400-page report on rampant human rights abuses in North Korea.

Ahn first worked as a banker in South Korea after fleeing the North, but has since dedicated his life to exposing systematic atrocities perpetrated by the North Korean regime against its own people.

“It’s my life’s mission to spread awareness about what is happening in the camps,” said Ahn, who now heads up the human rights group Free NK Gulag.

The UN estimates there are as many as 120,000 political prisoners in North Korea.

Now married with two daughters, a guilt-wracked Ahn can’t shake his memories of the horrors he witnessed – telling AFP that guards are brainwashed so that they see all prisoners as subhuman and evil.

Guards were told to practice their martial arts skills on prisoners – and ordered to shoot to kill if anyone tried to bust out.

“We were allowed to kill them, and if we brought back their body, they would award us by letting us go study at college,” he said.

Ahn said he had beaten and abused many prisoners but claimed he never killed anyone.

He became disillusioned when he was assigned as a driver and travelled from camp to camp, which gave him a chance to talk to a number of prisoners.

“More than 90 percent” had no clue why they had been imprisoned, he said.

He learned first-hand that many prisoners were sent to the camps solely because a member of their family had committed a real or imagined offense.

While on leave the same year he fled, he found out his father had killed himself after he got drunk and criticized the government.

Ahn’s mother, sister and brother were taken away, never to be seen again.

He returned to his assignment at the camp, but grew fearful his own days were numbered.

So he drove his truck to the the Du Man River and swam to China, eventually making his way to South Korea, the news agency reported.

Ahn said the shocking UN report was vitally important because it opened the world’s eyes to the ongoing atrocities.

“The difference is that in North Korea we are still talking in the present tense. These horrors are still happening,” he said.
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@Chan catching up on “current events” How are you feeling these days?

Oh yeah, y’all are supposed to be getting a storm pretty soon huh? stay safe and warm!