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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily Os. It's Friday,

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Speaker 1: the fifth of March. My name is Sam Kazowski and

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Speaker 1: helping me make sense of today's news is Zara Sideline.

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Speaker 2: Making news today. More on the rape allegations, bullying claims

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Speaker 2: towards the Royals, some good news about wind turbines, and

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Speaker 2: a chat about Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 1: Round two is today's Daily Digest.

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Speaker 2: The parents of the alleged victim at the center of

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Speaker 2: the historical rape allegations have released a statement backing an inquiry,

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Speaker 2: saying they are supportive of any inquiry which would potentially

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Speaker 2: shed light on the circumstances surrounding their daughter's death. The

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Speaker 2: government yesterday reiterated their opposition to an independent inquiry.

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Speaker 1: Staying in Canberra, which has dominated the news all week.

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Scott Morrison has answered questions regarding Minister Linda Reynolds' language,

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Speaker 1: saying she deeply regrets it. They were offensive remarks. She

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Speaker 1: should never have made them. I don't condone them. Reynolds

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Speaker 1: is said to have called former Liberal staffer and alleged

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Speaker 1: rape victim Brittney Higgins a lying cow. She is currently

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Speaker 1: on medical leave.

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Speaker 2: Buckingham Palace has announced it will launch an inquiry into

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Speaker 2: allegations that the Duchess of Sussex, Megan Markle, bullied staff

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Speaker 2: during her time living at Kensington Palace. Lawyers for the

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Speaker 2: couple called the allegations a calculated smear campaign based on

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Speaker 2: misleading and harmful information.

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Speaker 1: And today's good news. It's really going to blow you away.

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Speaker 1: The United States installed more wind turbine capacity in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty than in any other year on record. I'm a

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Speaker 1: huge fan. Nationally, eight point four percent of electricity generation

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty came from wind turbines, and Texas now

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Speaker 1: has the most wind turbine capacity out of any state.

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Speaker 2: So our big story today is that the US House

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Speaker 2: of Reps has canceled all legislative business on Thursday, US

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Speaker 2: time after police warned that a militia group inspired by

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Speaker 2: QAnon has been plotting to attack the capital. Okay, let's

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Speaker 2: start at the beginning of this story. Who is QAnon?

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Speaker 1: So? QAnon is an extremist movement that's been around since

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Speaker 1: about October twenty seventeen, and if I give you the

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Speaker 1: really short version of what they believe in, they essentially

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Speaker 1: believe that President Trump was waging a secret war against

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Speaker 1: elite Satan worshiping pedophiles in government, business, and media. In

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Speaker 1: other words, there's a lot of secret enemies in the

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Speaker 1: US that President Trump was going to help them overthrow.

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Speaker 2: To me, that sounds fairly obscure. Do they have a

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Speaker 2: big following in the US.

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Speaker 1: It's absolutely massive, But it's impossible to really quantify massive

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Speaker 1: or is it loud? It's massive because there's so many

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Speaker 1: variations of QAnon that exist within the US, different societies,

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Speaker 1: different groups of people, different Facebook pages, different discord threads.

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Speaker 1: It's really hard to quantify how many QAnon believers there are. However,

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Speaker 1: they're really loud, and the government is really folkocused on

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Speaker 1: ensuring they know what they're doing and when that's where

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Speaker 1: this story came from.

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Speaker 2: It was a nice segue. So from here, what has

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Speaker 2: q andon got to do with the House of Reps

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Speaker 2: canceling all of their business for Thursday?

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Speaker 1: So the first thing I'll say is that the House

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Speaker 1: of Reps has some really serious work to do today.

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Speaker 1: It is not a quiet day in the office. They

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Speaker 1: are currently debating and are likely to pass a one

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Speaker 1: point nine trillion dollar coronavirus relief bill. So it's an

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Speaker 1: important day for them to be at work, and because

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Speaker 1: of the suspected protests, they're not going to be there.

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Speaker 1: What's so significant about March four, It was the date

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Speaker 1: of inauguration up until nineteen thirty three, So it's thought

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Speaker 1: in q andon circles that it's the last opportunity constitutionally

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Speaker 1: for Trump to actually take back the White House, and

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Speaker 1: so Q and on supporters think that if they storm

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Speaker 1: the capital on this last day before the door absolutely

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Speaker 1: shuts I mean, but that doesn't stop you and UN

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Speaker 1: supporters from being potentially violent. So the CIA has reported

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Speaker 1: a ninety three point five percent increase in threats to

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Speaker 1: members of Congress in the first two months of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one. So since the Capitol Hill rits, it's pretty

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Speaker 1: clear to everyone that these people mean business. They stormed

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Speaker 1: the capital, so if they say that they're going to

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Speaker 1: do it again, the US law enforcement agencies have no

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Speaker 1: choice now but to take every measure possible.

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Speaker 2: And I found it really interesting. I was reading in

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Speaker 2: an article that one of the ways that they were

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Speaker 2: going about trying to figure out if this was a

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Speaker 2: legitimate threat was to go around to hotels in DC

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Speaker 2: and see whether there had been an increase in hotel

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Speaker 2: bookings because we know that in the Capitol Hill riots,

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Speaker 2: a lot of people came from across the country and

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Speaker 2: they stormed the capital. So they're trying to understand if

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Speaker 2: this time around will resemble the first Capitol Hill insurrection.

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Speaker 1: And they're not going to just bank on hotel rooms.

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Speaker 1: They've got massive fences of razor wire and five thousand

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Speaker 1: National Guard troops standing outside the Capitol right now protecting

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Speaker 1: the building from potential protests.

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Speaker 2: The January sixth Capitol Hill insurrection actually showed that these

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Speaker 2: conspiracy theories no longer just live on the internet, but

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Speaker 2: that they exist in real life. So it is certainly

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Speaker 2: a threat to take seriously, and we will update you

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Speaker 2: if and when the story unfolds.

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Speaker 1: That's all we have time for today. Have an excellent weekend.

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