1 ELECTION 2024 Daily Biden bad news 2 ELECTION 2024 Trump, the strategist 3 Massive copper find in Zambia 4 Gen X has higher cancer risk 5 NATO calls out China Amazing video of drone “summiting” Mt Everest 7/12/1957 The US surgeon general reports there is link between smoking and lung cancer
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1 ELECTION 2024 Daily Biden bad news
Most Democrats nationwide say that President Biden should end his reelection campaign based on his performance in the presidential debate two weeks ago, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll. The poll results contradict Biden’s claim that only party elites want him to step aside. He has said that positive interactions with supporters on the campaign trail have helped persuade him to stay in the race after a debate in which he trailed off and occasionally appeared confused. But the poll finds that 56 percent of Democrats say that he should end his candidacy, while 42 percent say he should continue to seek reelection. Overall, 2 in 3 adults say the president should step aside, including more than 7 in 10 independents.
The president spoke for nearly an hour, answering questions off the top of his head, making some minor flubs but mostly seeming like a thoroughly different person than the candidate who appeared at the debate two weeks ago. Yet by the time he took the stage Thursday, it might already have been too late. President Biden’s Thursday evening press conference, hotly awaited as a potential opportunity to once again fall on his face, didn’t offer his doubters that satisfaction. But nor did it seem likely to quiet his party’s growing clamor for him to quit the re-election race that he insisted he remained best-positioned to win.
Article Source: WaPo, WSJ
2 ELECTION 2024 Trump, the strategist
Former President Trump is adjusting his agenda, the GOP platform, his vice-presidential plans — even his debate style — to win over more than a half-dozen persuadable voter groups in seven states, advisers tell us. Starting with the debate, every Trump move — from personally editing the Republican platform to lying low while President Biden's debate debacle sucked up attention — has been designed to nudge double-haters and truly undecided voters. The Trump campaign sees a clearer map emerging, with these swing states being hardest to easiest to win, in this order: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada and Arizona. (You could flip the first two, but the campaign puts Pennsylvania first because it's the biggest swing state, and because Biden desperately needs it.) Job 1 for the V.P. nominee, besides raising money, will be to park in Pennsylvania to try to deny Biden the biggest of his Blue Wall states. The Rust Belt appeal of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) helped rocket him to one of the finalist slots to be Trump's running mate.
Article Source: Axios
3 Massive copper find in Zambia
Peering into their computer screens in California last year, the data crunchers watched a subterranean fortune come into focus. What they saw transported them 10,000 miles across the world, to Zambia, and then one more mile straight down into the Earth. A rich lode of copper, deep in the bedrock, appeared before them, its contours revealed by a complex A.I.-driven technology they’d been painstakingly building for years. On Thursday, their company, KoBold Metals, informed its business partners that their find is likely the largest copper discovery in more than a decade. According to their estimates, reviewed by The New York Times, the mine would produce at least 300,000 tons of copper a year once fully operational. That corresponds to a value of billions of dollars a year, for decades.
It’s the first confirmed success for a company that hopes to radically transform the way we find metals critical not only to the tech industry but to the fight against climate change. The geopolitical significance is vast. KoBold’s find comes as the United States and China are increasingly clashing over global access to the minerals needed to manufacture clean-energy technologies.
Their products had become the backbone of the United States economy. But their businesses couldn’t grow much further without a gargantuan increase in the mining of a handful of raw materials that make batteries, without which everything from cellphones to electric trucks simply can’t function. They needed far more copper, cobalt, lithium and nickel.
Article Source: NYT
4 Gen X has higher cancer risk
A major new study projects that members of Generation X—people born between 1965 and 1980—have a higher rate of developing cancer than their parents and grandparents. And researchers are struggling to identify the reasons why cases are rising. Could it be related to changing diets or exercise habits? Are cancers themselves evolving to be wilier and more pernicious? The new research offers some possible clues. The model study, published in JAMA Network Open, sifted through cancer surveillance data collected between 1992 and 2018 on 3.8 million people in the U.S. Researchers looked for patterns in invasive cancer cases—those that have spread beyond the original site—within and among Generation X, Baby Boomers (people born in 1946–1964), the Silent Generation (1928–1945) and the Greatest Generation (1908–1927). The findings suggest that medical advances against some cancers—gained by better screening, prevention and treatment—have been overtaken by startling increases in other cancers, including colon, rectal, thyroid, ovarian and prostate cancers. This troubling trend has researchers baffled and scrambling for answers.
Article Source: Scientific American
5 NATO calls out China
The NATO Summit marked a historic shift as the alliance, for the first time, accused China of becoming “a decisive enabler of Russia’s war against Ukraine.” The alliance demanded that Beijing halt the shipment of weapons components to Moscow. The stance represents a departure for NATO, which only began mentioning China as a concern in 2019. Even a year ago, European leaders were hesitant to challenge Beijing. All 32 NATO leaders approved the declaration, which also blames China for “malicious cyber and hybrid activities, including disinformation” aimed at the United States and Europe. This move aligns NATO more closely with Washington’s stance against Beijing, reflecting a new unity among members in addressing global security threats. China on Thursday criticized the draft communique. “On the Ukraine crisis, NATO hyped up China’s responsibility. It makes no sense and comes with malicious intent,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jin told a regular press briefing.
Article Source: Cipher Brief
Amazing video of DJI drone “summiting” Mt Everest
Article Source: DJI
7/12/1957 The U.S. surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reports that there is a direct link between smoking and lung cancer
