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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/06/14/876002404/locusts-are-a-plague-of-biblical-scope-in-2020-why-and-what-are-they-exactly
"What makes a locust a locust? According to Overson, it comes down to a superpower possessed by locusts that enables them to go through a remarkable switch in development. Most of the time, locusts exist in their "grasshopper phase" — they lead solitary lives, they're green and pretty unremarkable. "Nobody really notices them," Overson says. The timing of this varies, and the shifts are pretty irregular, but for years, locusts can live like this – alone, biding their time. But when environmental conditions are right — usually when there's a lot of rainfall and moisture — something dramatic happens: "They increase in numbers, and as they do so, they sense one another around them," says Overson. This is what biologists call the "gregarious phase" of the locust."
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Fires, earthquakes, plague, floods and locusts. Am I missing anything? Maybe war.
Modified by eDrek at Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 13:50:12
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Yeah, but the US has started more than China, India and N Korea out together. My money's on America!
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The virus again? The one that faded away in April?
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Well, actually America re-opened on Easter like Mr. Donald Trump said it would.
I'm talking about America is Number 1 in terms of your response suggesting that America will be the cause of the apocalypse.
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13, in America we alone have FREEDOM!
Freedom to go to bars and gyms and packed political rallies. And we have the freedom NOT to wear those pesky C02 blocking masks that will hurt the user more than the virus itself.
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Freedom to drive down Black Lives Matter any time you want? Just off Barack Obama avenue.... You spend millions and millions and millions on elections and your politics descends all the way to painting street at where it will be most annoying. Yay democracy. Yay freedom of speech. Yay America!
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13,
Since I was just a young little kid, American Freedom has been drummed into my head until I fully believed it.
And now you're pulling it out from under me like a little raggy throw rug.
I'm really hurting here.
Come on, didn't we help you guys with those nasty Nazis? And you helped us in Afghanistan and Iraq and Viet Nam. All winners.
Fuck it, just bring your boats and shovels and scoop us up and take us back to the real homeland - The UK. We're horribly lost and can't find our way home.
Modified by eDrek at Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 17:53:35
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What’s in a name? For Asheville, signs point to history of racism
So I have lived in the Asheville NC area since 1984. It is a Southern "progressive" artsy Bohemian city. I always read about the history of Asheville was that because it was in the Mountains there were no large plantations, therefore very few slaves. The neighboring county, Madison County, voted against sucession. This article puts truth to the lie of "very few slaves." Every town, every major road, etc was named after slave owners!.
"Vance, Patton, Woodfin, Henderson, Weaver, Chunn, Baird — their names are familiar to anyone living in Asheville and Buncombe County today. All were wealthy and influential civic leaders honored by having their names bestowed on statues, monuments, streets, schools, parks, neighborhoods and local communities. They were also major slaveholders or slave traders and white supremacists who amassed their wealth and influence in part through the exploitation of human beings they treated as property. Of all the slaveholders in Buncombe County, no one enslaved more African Americans than Nicholas W. Woodfin, James W. Patton and James McConnell Smith, according to census records and slave deeds." So, I am OK with MLK Blvd. etc.
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1948 - Tribal chairman of the Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa tribes of North Dakota was crying because he was forced under the threat of death of all his people to sign over the tribes’ homeland on the fertile floodplain of the Missouri River.
Modified by karenl at Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 19:09:08
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That's really sad. And all those white guys calmly looking on... (Manifest Destiny and the hell with anybody who gets in the way.)
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