The Presidential Daily Brief - 06/18/2016

[The Presidential Daily Brief] [The Presidential Daily Brief] IMPORTANT June 18, 2016 ["Leave" campaigners in London urge Britons to vote next Thursday to exit the EU. Source: Getty] [Polls Show Britons Ready to Leave EU] They want out. A recent polling average shows a dramatic shift in favor of Brexit, with those wanting to leave the EU leading by 48 to 43 percent. But most of the polling was done before Thursday's murder of Jo Cox - who campaigned for retaining EU membership. Police on Friday said they'd charged Thomas Mair, 52, with a history of mental health problems, with murder in the West Yorkshire MP's stabbing and shooting. Analysts predict the killing, reportedly preceded by Mair saying "Britain first," may blunt the [Leave] camp's surge before next Thursday's vote. Sources: [The Independent], [NYT], [FT (sub)], [BBC] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Orlando Attack Puts America on Edge] There's no end to the pain. Last Sunday's killing of 49 people at a gay nightclub was America's worst mass [shooting] by a single gunman, and possibly the most divisive. For President Obama and others, it shows the urgency of enacting gun control and protection for the LGBT community. For Donald Trump and his supporters, the shooter being the son of Afghan immigrants justifies curbing Muslim immigration. As investigators probe Omar Mateen's motives, they're weighing charges against his wife, Noor Salman, for failing to alert authorities to his deadly intentions. Sources: [USA Today], [CNN], [Politico], [The Atlantic] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] [GOP Gurus Share Lessons of Losing to the Donald] Getting Trumped still stings. Top aides for Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush first discovered the size of the billionaire's phenomenon around Labor Day. It took Marco Rubio's team until February to realize the air wasn't coming out of the bubble. In a joint interview, Jeff Roe (Cruz's campaign manager), Danny Diaz (Bush's campaign manager) and Alex Conant (Rubio's communications director) blamed the media and the Republicans' lack of unity for Trump's rise. They now see a foundering general [election] nominee who threatens to weaken the party's down-ballot candidates. Sources: [Huffington Post] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Experts Warn of Blowback After Bangladeshi Crackdown] It's a vicious circle. In 18 months, machete-wielding attackers have killed dozens in Bangladesh, most of them religious minorities, atheists, political bloggers and LGBT activists. Last week, assailants killed the Muslim wife of a counterterrorism police official, prompting authorities to detain nearly 11,000 in an anti-terror crackdown. The growth of such violence in a [country] founded on secular principles has alarmed many, while the government's response - blaming local political opposition rather than international militants - has raised fears that it may bolster extremist recruitment. Sources: [TIME], [DW] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] Briefly Authorities arrest 12 in anti-terror raids across Belgium. [(Bloomberg)] Russian track team banned from Olympics over doping. [(NYT)] Iraqis declare victory in Fallujah, but some ISIS forces remain. [(Reuters)] Colorado mom saves 5-year-old son from mountain lion attack. [(NBC)] Anti-Trump ploy seeks 'conscience clause' for GOP delegates. [(CNN)]  INTRIGUING [What a Scrap of Papyrus Says About Christ's 'Marriage'] "Jesus said to them, my wife." When these words in Coptic surfaced on a business card-sized papyrus scrap in 2012, the relic was dismissed as fake by theologians and many scientists. But carbon-dating confirmed it was ancient, bolstering those seeking more [diverse viewpoints] in early Christianity. Journalist Ariel Sabar has followed the papyrus's mysterious trail from East German secret police archives to Florida's amateur porn scene to discover the text's origins, prompting its most steadfast academic advocate to [admit] the document might be divorced from reality. Sources: [The Atlantic] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Getting in Touch With Your VR Alter Ego] This is way past selfies. Digital gurus are hard at work making it easier for you to create your very own 3D avatar. For $5,000, you can buy a set of 100 Raspberry Pi-linked cameras to capture the virtual you from all angles, but it's possible that avatars might soon be as cheap as passport photos in the local mall. And they just might change us: Psychologists say seeing our enhanced virtual selves - fitter or kinder, perhaps - could inspire us to improve in real life. Sources: [OZY] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Putting the Science Back Into Crime Solving] They're getting clued in. In 2009, widely used [forensic] techniques - like analysis of fingerprints, blood spatters and bite marks - were deemed unreliable by a National Academy of Sciences report. But science is back in the game with techniques like DNA phenotyping, believed to accurately narrow down the hair, skin and eye color of someone who left trace genetic material at a crime scene. Some worry that these techniques, in turn, will also be debunked - but for now they're helping investigators breathe new life into cold cases. Sources: [National Geographic] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Can the Mother of Streaming Control Her Offspring?] There's no time to chill. Netflix once monopolized the on-demand [streaming] market, changing how viewers consume movies and television series. But today its domestic growth is flattening, it's raising fees, and it's dealing with the uncertainties of going global. While original content like House of Cards is getting rave reviews, Netflix finds itself spending more than its annual $6.8 billion in revenue can cover. And now it faces competition from deeper-pocketed Amazon, while traditional entertainment giants are launching their own streaming platforms to avoid being frozen out. Sources: [NYT Magazine] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Soccer League Offers Home for Unrecognized Nations] It's FIFA's forgotten cousin. Thanks to ConIFA, the disputed East African territory of Somaliland can compete in a world cup, despite not being an actual country. Its squad, mostly second-generation [refugees] in Europe, isn't very good - or recognized by its own territorial government. But it gives fans back home a thrill by competing with dozens of other semi-national teams. That includes ConIFA tournament host, Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia, along with Classical Roman Raetia and a Punjabi diaspora squad, each trying to score some recognition among the family of nations. Sources: [Roads & Kingdoms] Share: [Facebook] [Twitter] [Facebook] [Twitter] Your 8 must reads to get you ahead of the curve FAST FORWARD [Buildings That Grow, Breathe and Burn Calories] [Read In Full] TRUE STORY [The Day the Feds Busted Me for International Drug Trafficking] [Read In Full] IMMODEST PROPOSAL [The "Bless You" Ban] [Read In Full] 20M people love reading OZY every month. Be part of the revolution. [Facebook] [Twitter] [Instagram] [Vimeo] [Youtube] Add us to your Address Book | Having trouble viewing this email? [Read Online] This email was sent to {EMAIL} This email was sent by: OZY Media 800 West El Camino Mountain View, CA 94040 [Manage Subscriptions] | [Unsubscribe from this email] | [Privacy Policy]