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Fox News
2 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
DAVID MARCUS: There are no more innocent explanations for Democrats' Russiagate lies
Amid last week's bomb-cyclone news cycle, which included a major summit with Russia and the takeover of the Washington, D.C., police force by the Trump administration, one could be forgiven for missing yet another Russiagate bombshell. In December of 2016, just before the unthinkable was about to happen in the form of Donald Trump becoming president, Director of the National Security Agency Mike Rogers emailed then Director of National Intelligence James Clapper with concerns he had over a report outlining Trump's ties to Russia. Rogers wrote of the report, meant to get in front of then-President Barack Obama in short order, "My folks aren't fully comfortable saying that they have had enough time to review all the intelligence to be absolutely confident in their assessments." But the clock was ticking, you see. Soon, Trump would be in the White House to try to bring these sketchy efforts to smear him as having worked with Russia to steal the presidency to a crashing halt. So Clapper made clear that was not what he wanted to hear. "'Understand your concern,' Clapperreplied, according to newly released documents. "It is essential that we (CIA/NSA/FBI/ODNI) be on the same page, and are all supportive of the report – in the highest tradition of 'that's OUR story, and we're sticking' to it.'" If this email is accurate, and there has been no denial, then this isn't just a smoking gun, it's a signed confession. Clapper would go on to say, "We will facilitate as much mutual transparency as possible as we complete the report, but, more time is not negotiable. We may have to compromise on our 'normal' modalities, since we must do this on such a compressed schedule." Compromising normal modalities? Orwell himself would blush at such ornate and vile double speak. The entire paragraph reads like a soft coup attempt, not honest officials following actual leads. Of course, these are not the first damning emails that show a conspiracy among Obama officials, even during the campaign of 2016. Remember this gem, allegedly from the vice president of the George Soros-backed Open Society Foundation, sent around the time of the 2016 Democratic National Convention? "HRC approved Julia's idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections," it read. "That should distract people from her own missing email, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level." About six months later, HRC, aka Hillary Clinton, had lost and the clock was, as Clapper noted, ticking. It was now or never to smear Trump as a Russian asset and thereby frustrate his elected term as president. And it worked. The rest, as they say, was history. Let's be clear: What is apparent now is that Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and the whole clown car of Obama appointees hellbent on destroying Trump didn't fail to see the stop sign. They saw it, and they hit the gas. There are many Trump supporters, including some of his most passionate, who want to see arrests right now, and frankly, it does look more and more like laws were broken. But the law takes time to work. What should not take any time at all now is a universal acknowledgment from those in our media and government that the conspiracy against Trump was absolutely real, and tore our country apart needlessly. Were the Pulitzers worth it? As they collect dust like some sick portrait of Dorian Gray as a journalist, growing uglier and more twisted by the day as these same water-carrying scribes sip fancy cocktails by night? No. There are no more innocent explanations here. This wasn't a case where honest Obama officials acting in good faith got it wrong. They lied. This wasn't a case in which the news media demanded real answers; They lied, too. The gravity of deceit in the Russiagate scandal from Democrats seeking to thwart the will of the American voters is shocking, and yet most of our news outlets, the ones who weren't so much snookered but complicit, will never admit it. For now, our current DNI, Tulsi Gabbard, who is hopefully a whole more honest than James Clapper was, must continue to shine a light on what looks more and more like an attempt to overthrow a duly elected president. It is not enough that the plot against President Trump failed. We must now make sure that nothing like this can ever happen again.
Yahoo
12-07-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
‘Lost everything': ‘Bomb cyclone' no fizzer
Last week's weather system has come and gone, and although many along Australia's east coast copped more their fair share of the wild conditions, many more in Sydney were left wondering if a day of mild rain and strong wind really lived up to the hype of a 'bomb cyclone'. In a reminder that just because a weather system doesn't affect you doesn't mean it hasn't had devastating effects, Mani Kennedy from Long Jetty on the NSW Central Coast says her family has 'lost everything' due to the storm. 'At around 4ish (on Tuesday, July 1) I heard this big noise, we were all inside, me, my husband and my 10-year-old daughter,' Ms Kennedy said. 'The roof peeled off like a banana. The police were driving past just by chance. They came straight away and told us we had to leave because parts of the roof were flying everywhere. 'We pretty much left straight away, we didn't have a chance to gather anything.' Mani and husband Clint are now faced with finding a place to live while trying to care for their young daughter Jazmin, who they say has been thoroughly shaken up by the event. 'She's pretty traumatised. She cries every day. Now it's school holidays, it's become even harder. Her teacher told us in the first couple of days she was back that she was crying to everyone,' Ms Kennedy said. 'It's not easy. She lost everything. She had her own drawings, her artwork she had put up on the wall. She had her toys, everything. 'Afterwards we took her back there because we don't have anywhere to drop her off. Anywhere we go, she goes with us. The rain coming through had destroyed everything. She cries a lot.' Ms Kennedy said just because some areas weren't as badly hit as others didn't mean the system should be dismissed outright. 'I think that's the most extreme situation we've been in. I can't speak for others' experiences, but we lost everything, literally everything,' she said. 'My husband had his work tools there, they were destroyed as well. To us, it was as big as it could be.' The Kennedys have been temporarily housed by the Department of Community Justice but say in the absence of having extended family to turn to urgently need help covering costs as the recovery process begins. 'There's no stability. It feels the same as being homeless, even though we have emergency accommodation,' Ms Kennedy said. 'We don't know for how long we can stay here, and the rent anywhere else we can't afford. I don't know where we stand once this emergency accommodation finishes. 'My husband has been living there for 20 years and I've been there for the last 14 years. 'There's nothing we can recover. We never planned on leaving that place. We lived there for that long and now we have nowhere to go. 'I was about to study for a teacher's degree. I can no longer do that.' The family has started a GoFundMe page to help with caring for their daughter, daily necessities, and essential appliances.
News.com.au
12-07-2025
- Climate
- News.com.au
‘Roof peeled off like a banana': Think ‘bomb cyclone' was a fizzer? Think again
Last week's weather system has come and gone, and although many along Australia's east coast copped more their fair share of the wild conditions, many more in Sydney were left wondering if a day of mild rain and strong wind really lived up to the hype of a 'bomb cyclone'. In a reminder that just because a weather system doesn't affect you doesn't mean it hasn't had devastating effects, Mani Kennedy from Long Jetty on the NSW Central Coast says her family has 'lost everything' due to the storm. 'At around 4ish (on Tuesday, July 1) I heard this big noise, we were all inside, me, my husband and my 10-year-old daughter,' Ms Kennedy said. 'The roof peeled off like a banana. The police were driving past just by chance. They came straight away and told us we had to leave because parts of the roof were flying everywhere. 'We pretty much left straight away, we didn't have a chance to gather anything.' Mani and husband Clint are now faced with finding a place to live while trying to care for their young daughter Jazmin, who they say has been thoroughly shaken up by the event. 'She's pretty traumatised. She cries every day. Now it's school holidays, it's become even harder. Her teacher told us in the first couple of days she was back that she was crying to everyone,' Ms Kennedy said. 'It's not easy. She lost everything. She had her own drawings, her artwork she had put up on the wall. She had her toys, everything. 'Afterwards we took her back there because we don't have anywhere to drop her off. Anywhere we go, she goes with us. The rain coming through had destroyed everything. She cries a lot.' Ms Kennedy said just because some areas weren't as badly hit as others didn't mean the system should be dismissed outright. 'I think that's the most extreme situation we've been in. I can't speak for others' experiences, but we lost everything, literally everything,' she said. 'My husband had his work tools there, they were destroyed as well. To us, it was as big as it could be.' The Kennedys have been temporarily housed by the Department of Community Justice but say in the absence of having extended family to turn to urgently need help covering costs as the recovery process begins. 'There's no stability. It feels the same as being homeless, even though we have emergency accommodation,' Ms Kennedy said. 'We don't know for how long we can stay here, and the rent anywhere else we can't afford. I don't know where we stand once this emergency accommodation finishes. 'My husband has been living there for 20 years and I've been there for the last 14 years. 'There's nothing we can recover. We never planned on leaving that place. We lived there for that long and now we have nowhere to go. 'I was about to study for a teacher's degree. I can no longer do that.' The family has started a GoFundMe page to help with caring for their daughter, daily necessities, and essential appliances.
The Guardian
04-07-2025
- Climate
- The Guardian
Shock and spore: ‘bomb cyclone' delivers bang for buck as ABC banks on mushroom drama
The extreme weather in New South Wales this week generated some dramatic headlines. 'NSW about to get absolutely obliterated' from is a personal favourite – and pretty much summed up the tone of much of the coverage. One term popped up repeatedly: bomb cyclone. 'Urgent warning issued about 'bomb cyclone',' the Daily Mail said. We were, according to 'in the path of a 'bomb cyclone'. A bomb and a cyclone in one term is scary stuff, but was it accurate? The Australian's night editor, David Tanner, noticed what he called the 'explosive terminology', writing: 'In the age of weather dramatisation, nothing goes off quite like a 'bomb cyclone'.' The Bureau of Meteorology, also known (confusingly) as BoM, had not referred to the coming storm as a bomb cyclone, so where did it come from? The first use of the term for this low-pressure system was last Friday afternoon on ABC Radio Newcastle's Drive program, according to the media monitoring company Streem. The ABC's NSW weather presenter and meteorologist, Tom Saunders, raised the term during a discussion of his word of the week: bombogenesis. As he explained in an online story: 'When a low-pressure system transforms from non-existence to a formidable storm just a day later, meteorologists label it a 'bomb cyclone', or a system that has experienced 'bombogenesis'. 'Bomb cyclone' ahead for Australia's east coast, the ABC reported on Sunday. And the rest of the media lapped it up. The term garnered significant traction, amounting to 8,547 mentions over the past week across Australian online news, print, radio, TV and podcasts, according to Streem. The public was a tad sceptical. When the story was posted on the ABC Emergency's Facebook page, some of the replies included: 'A 'bomb cyclone'? Wow … that's dramatic …'; 'A bomb cyclone hahaha. Now I've heard them all'; and 'Now a bomb cyclone. OMG I can't stop laughing.' Guardian Australia published an explainer on Tuesday noting that the BoM stopped short of using that terminology and mostly referred to this week's weather pattern as a 'vigorous' coastal low. While 'bomb cyclone' is not inaccurate, it caused some confusion across the ABC's programs as meteorologists asked to explain it politely talked the term down. 'It's not a term that we choose to use here at the bureau, because it can give people really specific ideas of what they might expect with the weather, which might not actually be what we're forecasting,' one told Patricia Karvelas. Sign up to get Guardian Australia's weekly media diary as a free newsletter When Ros Childs asked the same of the senior meteorologist Jonathan How he was a little more blunt: 'So the word bomb is a very, very old meteorological terminology, so it's not something we use here at the bureau any more, but it used to describe the way that these low-pressure systems intensified very quickly.' An ABC spokesperson said bomb cyclone was an accurate meteorological term deriving from 'bombogenesis' which describes the rapid intensification of a low-pressure system. 'The ABC's meteorologist has given a detailed explanation of the term to audiences as part of his comprehensive reporting on this weather event.' The Australia Institute's petition calling for a parliamentary inquiry into Aukus was approaching 10,000 signatories on Thursday when it attracted some big names. Apparently signing up were the ABC journalists Hamish Macdonald, Fran Kelly, Sarah Ferguson and Jeremy Fernandez. Politicians appeared to be climbing onboard too, including Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese. Wait, what? We asked the institute about the unusual signatories and the petition was immediately taken offline. 'Late this afternoon we became aware that a number of fake signatories had been added to our popular Aukus petition, fraudulently using the names, and in some cases publicly available email addresses, of prominent politicians and ABC journalists,' a spokesperson said. 'We briefly unpublished the petition and after an investigation found that one person had created 37 fake signatories, all of which have been deleted. We have taken steps to block the IP address of the person responsible and to prevent this from happening again.' Sign up to Weekly Beast Amanda Meade's weekly diary on the latest in Australian media, free every Friday after newsletter promotion First there were the podcasts and now the primetime drama series is in development. As the jurors were considering a verdict in Erin Patterson's triple murder trial the ABC announced that Toxic, 'a layered and intricate series' exploring the events surrounding that beef wellington lunch, had been commissioned. Its producer, Tony Ayres (The Slap, Glitch, Nowhere Boys), and showrunner, Elise McCredie (Jack Irish, The Clearing, Stateless), are working with the investigative journalist Rachael Brown of the ABC podcast Mushroom Case Daily fame. Ayres says the story will be told in multiple timelines and from multiple perspectives. 'True stories ask storytellers to probe the complexities of human behaviour,' he says. 'What really lies beneath the headlines? It's both a challenge and a responsibility to go beyond the surface – to reveal, not just sensationalise.' The SBS ombudsman has written to people who complained about the Insight episode on ME or chronic fatigue syndrome to say an investigation found the program did not breach the broadcaster's editorial code. 'Having provided a relevant range of viewpoints in the presentation of the topic, the program was broadcast in line with the code,' the letter seen by Weekly Beast said. 'If you consider this response to be inadequate you are entitled to take your concerns to the Australian Communications and Media Authority.' People living with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome who appeared on the episode had accused the broadcaster of betraying them in the final cut, filing multiple complaints to the ombudsman. They said the show presented a potentially harmful and unscientific narrative and favoured a person who said she had 'cured herself' by 'listening to her body'. One participant who is a carer for his wife and daughter, Peter McCluskey, is disappointed with the outcome and stands by his view that Insight sidelined science, clinical expertise and the lived experience of patients 'all under the guise of balance'. McCluskey said he was considering taking his complaint to the Acma. The Project aired its last episode last Friday after 16 years but its social media pages, run by the production company Roving Enterprises, have continued to entertain. 'The bosses really should have changed the password from Password1,' on Instagram post read. The caption said 'Well, well, well, look who is in charge now … It's me! The social media hero (that's what I call myself). So, one question: what should I do with these accounts?'
Daily Telegraph
03-07-2025
- Climate
- Daily Telegraph
NSW weather live: Warnings of ‘damaging winds' on Thursday, thousands of homes still without power
NSW will see damaging winds as the 'bomb cyclone' continues to bring wild weather, with tens of thousands of homes and businesses remaining in the dark. Conditions are expected to ease on Thursday but severe weather warnings are in place of wind gusts of up to 100 km/h for parts of the Northern Tablelands, the Mid North Coast hinterland and about the Border Ranges. 'A series of low pressure systems remain in the Tasman Sea,' the Bureau of Meteorology said in a Thursday morning update. 'A secondary low that was moving northwards just offshore from the NSW coast has begun to weaken. Strong to gale force south to southwesterly winds around these lows are generating large and powerful south to southeasterly waves today.' The NSW State Emergency Service had responded to more than 3800 incidents across the state since the destructive east coast low closed in earlier this week, including 1442 incidents and two flood rescues in the last 24 hours. The majority of incidents have involved fallen trees and powerlines, damaged properties and vehicles, as well as flood related tasks. Damaging surf conditions which may lead to coastal erosion and localised damage to coastal infrastructure are likely for coastlines between Seal Rocks and the New South Wales-Victorian border on Thursday. 'Damaging winds are forecast to ease significantly today as the low moves east into the Tasman Sea,' the NSW SES said. As of Wednesday evening there were around 28,500 homes without power. Originally published as NSW weather live: Warnings of 'damaging winds' on Thursday, thousands of homes still without power
