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Locusts About to Fly and Devour Crops
Arutz Sheva ^ | 19/5/13

Posted on 05/19/2013 5:53:21 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

Keith Cressman of the locust-fighting unit of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said, Sunday, that the locusts crawling around Israel's southern border will start flying in two weeks and be most destructive as they prepare for the trip to the breeding grounds in northern Sudan. Following a tour out in the field, Cressman said he was impressed by the manner and pace of the Agriculture Ministry's determined war on the pests.

The ministry is using ground spraying against every swarm that enters from Egypt, with air spraying as needed, around the clock. It noted that there were fewer swarms than last week, and that they were more focused and less spread out. The ministry said the damage to date was minor but that could change with new swarms coming in, but it was impossible to tell just when the locusts will start flying.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agriculture; locusts; negev; pests; un
When will they be calling for negotiations with the locusts? If they do wipe out an Islamic country's crops, it'll be Israel's fault; we trained them to swarm. If they are stopped, it's because the IAF poisoned the poor Palestinians in Ghaza.
1 posted on 05/19/2013 5:53:21 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5
we trained them to swarm.

Don't be rediculous, they are all being mind controlled from some game arcade in Langley Va.


2 posted on 05/19/2013 6:01:09 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Gotta get ya sum DDT!!!


3 posted on 05/19/2013 6:02:57 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: Eleutheria5

I thought the UN would think this was good, weren’t they just telling us they were what we should be eating?


4 posted on 05/19/2013 6:08:40 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Eleutheria5

Get those grasshopper recipes out


5 posted on 05/19/2013 6:17:51 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Carry_Okie

Shemitta ping


6 posted on 05/19/2013 6:27:19 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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7 posted on 05/19/2013 6:29:45 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: Eleutheria5

Call in the seagulls.


8 posted on 05/19/2013 6:32:07 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: tet68

You mean, I spent all that time training locusts, and they wuz Company assets!!! No wonder they couldn’t fetch or play dead worth a damn.


9 posted on 05/20/2013 5:04:10 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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