Posted on 05/02/2020 10:58:22 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...The problems began before COVID-19 restrictions took effect. Although donors had pledged or provided most of the $153 million requested by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to help governments fight the outbreak, supplies purchased by the agency did not start to arrive until mid-March, when a second generation of the ravenous insects was beginning to hatch.
Coronavirus-related travel restrictions have since reduced the number of cargo flights, causing delays in the supply of pesticides and helicopters. Kenya was just four days away from running out of the chemicals altogether earlier this month, while Somalia has been in short supply too.
Though most goods have now arrived, the millions-strong swarms forming and maturing in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia are roughly 20 times the size of the first batch,...
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But at least China is not benefiting from Africans starving. Right?
This locust swarm is biblical. I have been reading about it and watching some videos and it is truly shocking.
China would like nothing more than to depopulate Africa.
but o nthe plus side- it’s free food-
civilization requires the people work raising food, shipping goods, and building products. The clowns and thugs ruling us have forgotten that because they have sponged of working people for generations.
James Earl Jones dressed as a locust priest for "The Exorcist II", where African locusts and the locust god Pazusu play a major part.
I have seen exactly the same in Yemen.
The swarms came from Somalia across the Red Sea. All that the locust were after were the Qat plantations. The next day they were for sale as food in the local souq, roasted in big heaps. Yemeni kids were having a ball.
and America.
And then forgets to flush.
I'll see your snake priest and raise you one Verizon. James in a more jovial role in his later years.
Eating roasted locusts which had just gorged on Qat?
Secondary high, right?
Ever been to Kenya?
No. I’ve never been to hell either. But I’ve read the travel brochures.
Cute.
Having lived a number of years in Kenya, having a blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter who was born in Kenya and having been accused (and later exonerated) by the government of Kenya of being part of a $100 million KKK plot to overthrow Kenya and 6 other African countries, I have a different evaluation of the people of Kenya, the land of Kenya and even the government of Kenya.
'Taint quite as bad as you proclaim.
Anyway, I'm rooting for the locusts.
As much as I love the USA, we are responsible for inflicting BHO on the world. It is our MSM, Democrat Party and liberal white guilt that put him in the most powerful office in the world.
Twice.
If he'd remained in Kenya, he'd ended up a petty politican and "an abusive husband, a drunk, and a bitter, broken man who raged against the course of post-colonial Kenya and his own thwarted career in the nation’s hierarchy" like his father did.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/was-president-obamas-father-murdered
Or a goatherd.
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