UN climate change conference begins in Katowice, Poland

Prime ministers and presidents are amongst the 30,000 people from around the world to begin negotiations on Monday at the United Nations conference on climate change hosted in Katowice, Poland, Radio Poland reports.

This is the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, otherwise known as COP24 and it runs through 14 December.

For the third time, Poland is hosting the conference, having hosted it once in Warsaw in 2013 and in Poznań in 2008. This year the Polish Deputy Environment Minister Michał Kurtyka, took over the presidency of the UN climate summit and will hold the presidency until the COP25 summit, in 2019.

The aim of the conference is to slow climate change and to choose how to enact the 2015 Paris Climate agreement. Border controls have been temporarily reinstated in Poland during the conference.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/12/un-climate-change-conference-begins-in-katowice-poland/

Fall Of Buddhism Rising Star In Taiwan: 200GB Of Home Porn And Bottle Of “Holy Water” Filled With Lube

On November 21st, the head of a Buddhist youth organization in Taiwan was expelled from his temple and arrested, after he was involved in a sex and drugs scandal, Taiwan’s Mirror Media initially reported.

Footage of Kai Hong, secretary general of the Chinese Young Buddhist Association in Taiwan, showed him partake in carnal pleasures with another man, whom he referred to as “husband,” while smoking methamphetamine.

The report on the arrest did not say where or when the film was shot but quoted an unnamed source as saying Kai was a long-time drug user who held “sex parties” with other Buddhists at Tongshan Temple, where he was based.

Authorities at the temple, in the Gongguan township on Taiwan’s northwest coast, said the 29-year-old was expelled on November 13 for “religious discipline problems.”

The report also claimed that two months before being expelled, Kai relocated to the Miaoli Chongfo Temple in the nearby Miaoli county with “dozens of believers.”

He was considered a rising star in Buddhism in Taiwan. He was an influential figure among younger devotees and frequently gave lectures at summer camps.

During the search of his quarters, the police found 19 grams of amphetamine, smoking pipes, condoms, anal relaxants, erection medication, and a bottle of “holy water” filled with lube. They also discovered two USB drives containing over 200GB of porn, which includes homosexual intercourse videos starring the monk himself. In the available videos and related activities, almost a couple of dozen people were engaged, including other inhabitants of the temple complex.

Presumably, the abbot of the monastery knew about what was happening and deliberately covered up this activity, hoping to cast the misfortune into another holy place.

Kai denied any wrongdoing and said the footage was released as part of a smear campaign. Kai claimed that a fellow monk, who was one of his former lovers, leaked the videos to tarnish his reputation. He also told the police that his ex-lover downloaded the 200GB of porn then sent three pornographic clips to temple authorities.

https://southfront.org/fall-of-buddhism-rising-star-in-taiwan-200gb-of-home-porn-and-bottle-of-holy-water-filled-with-lube/

When you want to sanction States, you call them «terrorists»

The new unilateral sanctions by the United States against Iran, Russia and Syria add to the previous actions concerning the same three targets. They now form the most unforgiving embargo in History. The way in which they have been organised is illegal according to the definition of the Charter of the United Nations – these are weapons of war, designed for killing.

For his visit to Moscow on 8 November, ambassador James Jeffrey was tasked with explaining the current US obsession with the expansion of Persian influence in the Arab world (Saudi Arabia, Bahrein, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen). Washington now wishes to formulate this question in geo-strategic rather than religious terms (Chiites/Sunni), while Teheran is organising its national defence around forward posts composed of Chiite Arabs.

Moscow then considered the possibility of negotiating on Teheran’s behalf for the easing of unilateral US sanctions, in exchange for its military withdrawal from Syria. President Vladimir Putin confirmed his proposition, not only for his US opposite number, but also for the Israëli Prime Minister, during their meeting in Paris on 11 November for the celebrations marking the centenary of the end of the First World War .

He attempted to convince the Westerners that Russia alone in Syria was preferable to the Irano-Russian tandem. However, he could not guarantee that Iran would have sufficient authority over Hezbollah – as both Washington and Tel-Aviv pretend – to be able to order it to withdraw also.

Washington’s only answer, nine days later, was to announce the eleventh series of unilateral sanctions against Russia since the beginning of August. This was accompanied by a ridiculous speech according to which Russia and Iran had together organised a vast plot aimed at maintaining President Assad in power and expanding Persian control in the Arab world.

This rhetoric, which we believed had been abandoned, assimilates three states (the Russian Federation, the Syrian Arab Republic and the Islamic Republic of Iran) as machines in the service of three men (Bachar el-Assad, Ali Khamenei and Vladimir Putin) who are united by the same hatred of their respective peoples. It ignores the massive popular support they enjoy, while the United States are profoundly torn apart.

We can leave aside the stupid assertion that Russia is aiding and abetting the conquest of the Arab world by Persia.

According to the US Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, who presented the unilateral US sanctions on 20 November, they do not form the economic section of the present war, but are intended to punish the « atrocities » committed by these three « régimes ». However, on the verge of winter, they mostly concern the supply of refined petroleum to the Syrian people so that they may light their homes and keep warm.

It is not necessary to specify that the three states targeted deny the « atrocities » of which they are accused, while the United States pursue the wars that they started in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.

https://southfront.org/when-you-want-to-sanction-states-you-call-them-terrorists/

>>4132802

Yeah I more think they will be there going wtf are we going to do all our schemes are busted we'll get hung!

>>4132961

You'll see soon