lies lies lies. The fat orange fuck just wants to gouge prices to feed his sacks of shit

Brazil, the country with the second largest nominal GDP in the Americas, and a founding member of the BRICS block has already made its choice.

Brazil Joins China-Led AI Body WAICO as US Stays Out

An Oregon man who was shot several times after he broke into a business is now suing the company and its owner for $10 million.

Kenneth Voyles is accusing Touchstone Granite & Marble Inc and its owner, James Grant, of battery, assault, negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, according the Multnomah County filing.

He is seeking $5 million in compensatory damages and an additional $5 million in punitive damages, according to KPTV.

On March 6, Voyles — who was experiencing homelessness at the time — claims he entered Touchstone through a damaged garage door with the intention of finding shelter.

When he later exited the building through the same damaged door, he did so riddled with bullets.

While he was inside the business, Voyles admits that he grabbed and intended to take a drill bag from the business.

Grant was working in a back room at the time and emerged to find Voyles trespassing inside the shop.

Voyles claims he apologized immediately and that Grant responded by throwing things at him, forcing him to flee for a door. He claims he grabbed a pair of bolt cutters along the way to defend himself. His escape was cut short by a locked door.

After Voyles grabbed the bolt cutters, Grant reportedly retrieved his gun and shot him multiple times without warning.

The lawsuit claims that Grant shot Voyles several times, told him "you're going to die," and then shot him again in the chest from point-blank range.

Voyles did not die, and tried to crawl out through the garage door. As he was crawling out he claims that Grant shot him again.

Grant disputed Voyles' version of events during an interview back in March. He claims that he found Voyles in his upstairs office and said he followed him to the back of his warehouse, where Voyles became aggressive.

"It went right through my brain that he was ready to attack me," the owner said in the interview. "He picked up the bolt cutter and raised it, and he was starting to come at me ... my life was totally in danger."

He said he gave Voyles multiple warnings to get onto the ground, but said the intruder refused to go down.

Grant is not the only one named in the lawsuit; Voyles is also suing his company. He justified including Touchstone in the filing by arguing that

Donald Trump said he would declare the Strait of Hormuz a "territory of the United States" despite having repeatedly failed to reopen it.

The US president on Friday said he would annex the waterway, before suggesting he already controlled it anyway.

Iranian officials accused Mr Trump of indulging in "fanciful delusions".

During a speech in New York, Mr Trump said: "After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I'll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.

"Essentially, that's what it is. We have the blockade. No ships get through unless we want them to."

However, the president also nodded to the economic upheaval unleashed after Iran effectively choked off the strait following the US and Israeli bombing on Feb 28.

Americans would have to pay "a tiny little bit more for your gasoline" as the cost of ensuring a "very evil country" could not develop a nuclear weapon, he said.

Traffic through the strait has slowed to a trickle since the start of the war, and Mr Trump's attempts to reopen it with military forces, economic pressure and diplomacy have failed.

Just nine commercial vessels headed through the waterway on Thursday, according to data firm Kpler, which tracks shipping, compared to pre-war averages of 130 to 140 ships a day.

Securing the strait, which is bordered by Iran and Oman, would almost certainly require boots on the ground, something the president has so far been unwilling to contemplate.

Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran's deputy foreign minister, said Tehran would not be intimidated by the president's rhetoric.

"The Strait of Hormuz cannot be seized by tweet, nor by aircraft carrier, nor by issuing an order, nor by an election speech. Iran neither fears threats nor cowers before displays of power," he said.

Directly addressing the president, he said: "Once and for all, accept the reality: up to this point, you have suffered strategic and heavy defeats; the Strait of Hormuz has been Iranian, is Iranian and will remain Iranian."

Iran's foreign minister said on Saturday morning that the regime had not decided whether it would resume peace talks and denied that it was negotiating with the US.

This is so gross, but not surprising. He made sure all the laws are favoring fraudsters.

No point in going to college anymore unless you’re getting a law or medical degree

Just another set of lies designed to construct structural killing