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  • We Build The Wall founder sentenced to 4 years in prison

    04/26/2023 11:11:16 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 28 replies
    Associated Press ^ | April 26, 2023 | Jake Offenhartz
    The co-founder of a fundraising group linked to Steve Bannon that promised to help Donald Trump construct a wall along the southern U.S. border was sentenced to four years and three months in prison on Wednesday for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors. Brian Kolfage, a decorated Air Force veteran who lost both of his legs and an arm in the Iraq War, previously pleaded guilty for his role in siphoning donations from the We Build the Wall campaign. A co-defendant, financier Andrew Badolato, was also sentenced to three years for aiding the effort. He had also pleaded...
  • A-Bomb Victims Stage Rally in Hiroshima Against U.S. Nuclear Warship

    10/29/2005 8:13:55 PM PDT · by ncountylee · 229 replies · 3,081+ views
    ap.tbo ^ | October 29, 2005 | AP
    TOKYO (AP) - Victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan joined a sit-in rally in Hiroshima on Saturday to protest plans to base a nuclear-powered American warship in the country, an activist said. The protest came as talks got underway between top Japanese and American security officials on how to realign the U.S. military presence in Japan. About 80 people - many of them victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - rallied against plans announced Friday by the U.S. Navy to deploy a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan, said Kazutoshi Kajikawa, who...