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Mon Apr 13, 2020, 04:37 PM Apr 2020

Fumes From THe Fires Near Chernoble Blowing Towards Europe, Locusts Return To Africa

a pandemic all over the world...if I want to be biblical about all of this, and I do, I lay the root cause of all this as Donald J. Trump.

:” Forest fires that have been burning for several days in northern Ukraine are now no more than a few kilometres from the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant, reports say.

Tour operator Yaroslav Emelianenko said one had reached the abandoned town of Pripyat, which used to serve the plant.
He said it was now just 2km (1.24 miles) from where the most dangerous waste from the plant was stored.

Greenpeace said the fires were much bigger than the authorities realised."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52274242


“KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Weeks before the coronavirus spread through much of the world, parts of Africa were already threatened by another kind of plague, the biggest locust outbreak some countries had seen in 70 years.

Now the second wave of the voracious insects, some 20 times the size of the first, is arriving. Billions of the young desert locusts are winging in from breeding grounds in Somalia in search of fresh vegetation springing up with seasonal rains.

Millions of already vulnerable people are at risk. And as they gather to try to combat the locusts, often in vain, they risk spreading the virus — a topic that comes a distant second for many in rural areas.

It is the locusts that “everyone is talking about,” said Yoweri Aboket, a farmer in Uganda. “Once they land in your garden they do total destruction. Some people will even tell you that the locusts are more destructive than the coronavirus. There are even some who don’t believe that the virus will reach here.”

https://apnews.com/517bb5588fc94403f797a2045095dcac

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Fumes From THe Fires Near Chernoble Blowing Towards Europe, Locusts Return To Africa (Original Post) Me. Apr 2020 OP
Its overwhelming. Trump is responsible, but he has so many friends just like him. BeckyDem Apr 2020 #1
... Me. Apr 2020 #2
Keep the faith with me this November. I do believe we can get rid of a lot of Republicans. BeckyDem Apr 2020 #3

BeckyDem

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3. Keep the faith with me this November. I do believe we can get rid of a lot of Republicans.
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 04:52 PM
Apr 2020
Especially, Trump.

How awesome is this?

Rep. Joe Neguse
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