WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The confiscation of Russian property under legislation now moving toward approval by the parliament of Canada is illegal under international law, and, if it happens, Russia would be entitled to take countermeasures, a leading US authority who has worked with the United Nations told Sputnik on Monday.

"That is the correct conclusion under international law," University of Illinois Professor of International Law Francis Boyle said. "Under the current circumstances, it would be illegal to seize Russian assets, confiscate them and then distribute the proceeds to Ukraine."

Elon Musk asks why 'leaking' Justice Department won't spill Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's client list and says it's 'odd' officials remain silent on billionaire pedophile and his madam

Musk shared a meme of 'Things I'll never see in my life,' showing pictures of a dragon, a dinosaur, a unicorn, and text reading 'The Epstein/Maxwell client list'

Elon Musk has questioned why billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's client list has not been released by the 'leaking' Justice Department.

Musk, 50, shared a meme of 'things I'll never see in my life,' showing pictures of a dragon, a dinosaur, a unicorn, and text reading 'The Epstein/Maxwell client list.'

The United States has announced that it will be sending yet another heavy weapon system to Ukraine amid its ongoing proxy war with Russia. After sending thousands of Javelin anti-tank missiles and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, and over 100 M777 howitzers (including several sent by US allies Australia and Canada), the US is preparing to send the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), America’s latest multiple-launch rocket system (MLRS).

BY Brian Berletic

Oil and Gas Industry Seized on War in Ukraine to Water Down Climate Policy, Report Shows

A new report details the PR and lobbying blitz from fossil fuel companies in the early days of the Russian invasion that aimed at benefiting oil and gas interests, while offering little for the current crisis.

By Nick Cunningham

In a video published yesterday Gonzalo Lire, currently under house arrest in Karkov, is asking a very interesting question:

What Happens To Europe When Russia Wins? (vid)

Lira states, and I agree with him, that Russia will win the war in the Ukraine, take the south and east to likely create a new country and leave the rest of the cadaver for Poland, Hungary, Romania, Lithuania and others to feast on.

But then what?

Professor Putin has once again put on his tweed jacket to deliver another quick lecture on basic facts to Western morons.

RT:

Inflation in the US is a consequence of mistakes by American financial authorities, which they admitted to, while in the EU it has more to do with short-sighted energy policies in Brussels, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.  Either way, it has nothing to do with Moscow or its actions in Ukraine, he added.

Massive leak reveals hidden Brexit conspiracy

June 5, 2022

Those involved in the publication downplayed it as “legitimate lobbying” while dismissing it as Russian “disinformation”.

An elaborate high-profile conspiracy allegedly run by shady figures within the British elite was exposed in a massive leak published by a group of hackers at the end of May. A cache of documents and emails alleging that hardcore natives are plotting to secure the ‘hardest’ Brexit possible is now accessible on the “Very English Coop d’Etat” website.

Conspiracy for a Hard Brexit

A scene from Charles II with a small dose of Robert Urbanoski

CHARLES II

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground

And tell sad stories of the death of kings:

How some have been depos’d, some slain in war, 

Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, 

Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping kill’d, 

All murthered—for within the hollow crown

That rounds the mortal temples of a king 

Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, 

Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, 

Allowing him a breath, a little scene,

To monarchize, be fear’d, and kill with looks;

June 5 is World Environment Day. To promote a simple, healthy, low-carbon lifestyle, China Daily and the municipal government of Wuxi, Jiangsu province, are sponsoring the 2022 International Cartoon and Illustration Exhibition. Entries will reflect ideas for a community with a shared future for mankind.

The exhibition is open to art enthusiasts, cartoonists, and illustrators worldwide. The works should reflect the impacts of global climate change on society and everyday life and how the human race is dealing with climate change. The works should also promote environment protection, a green lifestyle and harmony between humans and nature.

And if you want to ask what keeps me awake at night, it is that we are going to run out of vaccines.  We’re not going to be able to have enough of the next generation of vaccines.  We’re going to run out of treatments.  And we’re going to run out of diagnostic tests, probably in the late fall into winter, if we end up having a significant surge of infections. 

We don’t have the resources to buy those things.  And those purchases need to be made now.  They cannot be made in the fall. 

So if you’re wondering what is it that that really worries me — I think we have the tools for the summer.  We will not have the tools for the fall and winter, unless Congress steps up and funds us.

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Ukraine's foreign minister has hit out at French President Emmanuel Macron after he said it was vital that Russia was not humiliated over its invasion.

Mr Macron said it was crucial President Vladimir Putin had a way out of what he called a "fundamental error".

Notes taken, on 9 June 1996, by American/Israeli diplomat Dore Gold, during the interview that took place in Washington between newly-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Bill Clinton, were released by the Israel State Archives.

Dore Gold’s notes shed light on the outlook held by former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who had just been assassinated. He would have been willing to have Clinton give back the Golan in exchange for, at minimum, a peace guarantee on the part of Syria. Netanyahu failed to voice his basic opposition to Rabin’s position, but on the contrary led President Clinton to believe that he would be on board with it.

The Pentagon and State Dept.-linked outfit, with an ex-N.S.A. and C.I.A. director on its board, is accusing Consortium News of publishing “false content” on Ukraine, reports Joe Lauria.

Consortium News is being “reviewed” by NewsGuard, a U.S. government-linked organization that is trying to enforce a narrative on Ukraine while seeking to discredit dissenting views.  

The organization has accused Consortium News, begun in 1995 by former Associated Press investigative reporter Robert Parry, of publishing “false content” on Ukraine.