Saturday 25 April 2020

Entrepreneur Sells Molotov Cocktails During Riots :)

Man Arrested For Selling and Delivering Molotov Cocktails During French Riots

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25 Apr 202050

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A 26-year-old man has been arrested by police in France for selling and delivering pre-made Molotov cocktails to rioters in the Haut-de-Seine department.

The suspect was arrested alongside two other alleged accomplices and is said to have driven around the area, which has been plagued by riots every evening since Sunday, selling beer bottles filled with petrol and cloth wicks to rioters in the commune of Gennevilliers.

Police say that they found evidence that the 26-year-old had manufactured the Molotov cocktails from pictures saved to his mobile phone. He is said to work as a deliveryman and is already known to local police for minor crimes, Le Parisien reports.

Investigators added that the suspect was selling the Molotov cocktails on social media, using the Snapchat mobile app to advertise and charging five euros for three Moltovs and ten euros for ten.

The suspect’s phone is also being examined to determine the identities of those who bought the incendiary devices from him and his accomplices. Identical Molotov cocktails were found in several areas of Gennevilliers by police.

The commune is located next to the commune of Villeneuve-la-Garenne, scene of the motorcycle crash involving local police which sparked the disorder.

Since riots began in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, violence spread across the Hauts-de-Seine department, the infamous no-go Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis, and various other cities and towns across the country.

Aside from multiple attacks on police with fireworks, rocks and other projectiles, there have been two arson attempts in recent days.

The first took place in Strasbourg and saw local youths attempt to light a police station building on fire with Molotov cocktails.

The second arson attack saw the Paul-Langevin elementary school in Gennevilliers set on fire with damage reported in the office of the principal, two classrooms and a staff room.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/25/man-arrested-for-selling-and-delivering-molotov-cocktails-during-french-riots/

Coronavirus: Sir John Houghton dies of suspected Covid-19

20 April 2020
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-52325374

Sir John Houghton pictured speaking at a climate change conference in High Wycombe in 2005

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A physicist from north Wales who was recognised for his work on climate change has died with suspected coronavirus, his granddaughter said.

Sir John Houghton, from Denbighshire, died on Wednesday aged 88.

He accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the honour with Al Gore.

Sir John spent his final years living by the sea in Wales, his granddaughter Hannah Malcolm said on Twitter.

She said it was her grandfather's "favourite place".

"He slowly lost a lot of memories and faculties to dementia, but the sea remained with him. A good life," she said.

The Denbighshire-born climate change scientist, who described global warming as "a weapon of mass destruction", was co-chair of the IPCC when it shared the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sir John went to Rhyl Grammar School, where his dad taught.

He was so capable at physics he got the highest marks in Wales and won a scholarship for Oxford University aged just 16 years old, where he studied maths and physics.

In 1958 he became an Oxford professor, later becoming chair of the World Climate Research Programme.

Analysis by Roger Harrabin, BBC Environment Analyst

John Houghton was a towering figure in the world of climate science. He persuaded many politicians about the gravity of the risk we're taking with his calm, modest, authoritative manner.

As a Christian, in later years he took on the prickly challenge of persuading US evangelist preachers that humans really could influence the climate on earth.

He introduced me to the climate threat back in the late 1980s, and latterly I visited him in his Welsh home - heavily insulated, warmed by heat pump, with stupendous views over the ever-shifting Dovey estuary. A good man.

If you would like to pay tribute to Sir John, please tweet Roger Harrabin at: @rharrabin

Ms Malcolm wrote: "When I was younger, my consistent memory of him was warnings over the devastation waiting us if we didn't act on climate change.

"And I remember thinking how glad I was that scientists like him were in charge. But of course it isn't the scientists in charge.

"He faced a lifetime of lobbyists and corporations trying to undermine his work, question his motives, and distract from evidence.

"But my other consistent memory will be his deep faith that he was doing work in service of the God he loved, and in service of the world he loved."

As the director general of the UK Met Office, he and weatherman Michael Fish were blamed for the failure to predict the big storm that hit the south of England in 1987.

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Man's 'life-changing revelation' about vegetable peeler stuns Twitter: 'This is monumental'

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/mans-life-changing-revelation-vegetable-peeler-twitter

It’s not every day you have a “life-changing revelation” that goes viral. Even rarer when it’s about kitchen gadgets.

However, that’s exactly what happened for one British man this week.

What comes next is a shock not even Twitter saw coming. (iStock)

In a Twitter post shared by author Giles Paley-Phillips, and that was later posted on Reddit, the British man is seen standing up, holding a carrot and a vegetable peeler.

What comes next is a shock not even Twitter saw coming.

“Oh my God, I just figured out it does this,” he tells viewers in the 23-second clip, holding the carrot in one hand and the peeler in the other. He then proceeds to use the vegetable peeler to peel the carrot in both directions — instead of the more common method of just repeatedly peeling the carrot in one direction.

“Who knew?” he ends the clip.

The video, which was posted with the caption “Mind blown,” left Twitter stunned, with many admitting they did not know vegetable peelers could be used like this.

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