Liz Cheney says electing Republican “election deniers” to governor and secretary of state puts entire country at risk of collapse – but insists she is not YET ready to abandon the GOP

• Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming warned Arizona college students against voting for Kari Lake and Mark Finchem in November
• She told the crowd that the Arizona election will have implications for the US
• Lake is running for governor and Finchem is running for secretary of state, who is Arizona’s chief electoral officer for the upcoming Midterms
• Cheney suggested being open about supporting her Democratic opponents
• She lost her area code to a challenger backed by Donald Trump

By Elizabeth Elkind, Political Reporter

Published: 5:08 PM BST, October 6, 2022 | Updated: 5:30 PM BST, 6 October 2022

Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney addressed Arizona State University students at an event with the McCain Institute

Outgoing Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming slammed Wednesday night in Arizona during impassioned remarks about 2020 voter-waivers in her own party who are running for office in November’s midterm elections.

But the anti-Trump lawmaker, who lost her primary to a GOP challenger backed by the ex-president, said she wasn’t ready to give up the Republican Party just yet.

“I am not ready to say that we will allow Trump and those at war with democracy to hijack our party. I’m not ready to give up this fight,” she said.

Since the August defeat, Cheney has taken it upon himself to prevent Donald Trump-backed candidates from winning public office and has repeatedly warned of a threat to American democracy.

She told an audience at a McCain Institute speaking event at Arizona State University that her November voting would have ramifications across the country.

Cheney also suggested her support for Arizona’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee Katie Hobbs and Adrian Fontes, a Democrat running for secretary of state there. Hobbs currently holds that role.

“So what’s happening here in Arizona is important not only to Arizona, but to the nation and the future functioning of our constitutional republic,” the Jan. 6 vice chairman of the Conservative Committee said.

She told the crowd that her battleground state’s races are her main focus.

“In Arizona today, you have a candidate for governor in Kari Lake, you have a candidate for secretary of state in Mark Finchem, both of whom have said — that’s no surprise, it’s no secret — they’ve both said they’re doing it will only recognize the results of an election if they agree with it,” Cheney said.

Both Lake and Finchem are running with Trump’s endorsement, which they earned after parroting his allegations of voter fraud.

Lake is a former Barack Obama supporter and previously worked as a local television news anchor.

Finchem, who would be Arizona’s senior election official if elected, has denounced mail-in ballots, claiming Trump won in 2020 but was the victim of nationwide fraud efforts.

But Cheney said they’ve both seen evidence to the contrary — and are purposely dismissing it.

“They’ve looked at all of this, the law, the facts and the rulings, the courts, and they’ve said they don’t care,” the lawmaker said.

“And if you care about democracy and you care about the survival of our republic, then you have to understand, we all have to understand that we cannot give power to people who have told us they will not honor elections.”

She particularly targeted Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake (left) and Arizona nominee for secretary of state Mark Finchem (right), both of whom are Trump-backed

Cheney praised some Republican state officials, such as current Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who testified before her riot committee at the Capitol over the summer.

Watching Bowers testify about his “faith and duty to the Constitution” was “incredibly moving for me and my colleagues,” Cheney said.

She also celebrated the “brave Republicans” like Bowers who came forward to tell the truth about Trump and January 6th.

Cheney also shot Trump again, saying, “We’ve never been in a phase, in a place where we’re facing that kind of threat. And that’s because we’re being threatened by a former president who’s trying to unravel the republic.”

“I think I knew on some level that even in the United States, this is fragile,” she said.

“But I certainly didn’t understand how fragile. I think that’s such an important lesson to learn from history.

He takes Putin seriously. US President Joe Biden ruled on Thursday that Russian threats to use nuclear weapons in the conflict in Ukraine endangered the world for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in the midst of an “apocalypse” war.

“We haven’t faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962,” he said at a fundraiser in New York, where he felt his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was “not kidding” when he held it made threats. “For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, there is a direct threat to use nuclear weapons if things continue as they are now,” Trump said.

Faced with stubborn Ukrainian resistance, fueled by Western military aid, Vladimir Putin alluded to the atomic bomb in a Sept. 21 televised address. He said he was ready to use “all the means” in his arsenal against the West, which he accused of wanting to “destroy” Russia. “It’s not a bluff,” he assured.

Tactical nuclear weapon

Experts say such attacks would likely use tactical nuclear weapons — with a lower explosive charge than a strategic nuclear weapon. But Joe Biden has warned that even a tactical nuclear strike could ignite a larger conflagration.

“I don’t think you can just (deploy) a tactical nuke and not end up triggering the apocalypse,” he said. Vladimir Putin “doesn’t joke when he talks about the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons because his army is, one could say, very inefficient,” the US president added.

From October 14 to 28, 1962, the missile crisis installed in Cuba by the Soviet Union and discovered by the United States shook the planet, stoking fears of nuclear war.

That Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 was assigned Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless for the development of techniques for engineering biological molecules.

The Americans Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless and the Dane Morten Meldal share the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry equally for their pioneering work in what is known as “snap chemistry”., which was inaugurated by Sharpless about 20 years ago and consists in the possibility of connecting molecules more efficiently and at the same time more easily. A technique that, thanks to Bertozzi, has also been applied to biological molecules. There are many applications, including those related to green chemistry and high-precision cancer therapies.

Carolyn Bertozzi, Mortem Meldal and Barry Sharpless. Photo credit: Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Thanks to techniques developed by Barry Sharpless, Morten Meldal and Carolyn Bertozzi, the chemical reaction they were Easier and efficient: Like Lego bricks, the molecular blocks snap together with a click. The technique developed by Sharpless and perfected by Meldal was applied to living organisms by Bertozzi.

The assembly of increasingly complex molecules is a requirement of many sectors, starting with pharmacy, but until a few years ago the techniques to obtain them were difficult to apply, requiring long and expensive procedures.

Things changed with the advent of snap chemistry which, thanks to research conducted by Sharpless in the early 2000s, made it much easier to preserve the reactions while also making it safer by eliminating unwanted waste products.

Following a similar route, Sharpless and Meldal independently found a new reaction called “copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition‘. The most common applications include pharmacological research, DNA sequencing, and the development of tailored materials for precise performance.

Another step forward was taken by Bertozzi, who was the first to use snap chemistry to observe chemical reactions in living organisms without disturbing them. The first step in this direction was the map of molecules on the surface of cells, called glycans, which until then had been very difficult to observe. This adaptation of Snap chemistry, dubbed “bioorthogonal reactions,” has allowed more accurate cancer drugs to reach their target, which is currently undergoing clinical trials.

Who are the engineers of the molecules?
American Carolyn R. Bertozzi, who shares the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry equally with Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless, is the only woman to receive the 2022 Nobel Prize in Science.* Born in the USA in 1966 and is a professor at the Stanford University, Bertozzi (56 years old) was recognized along with the two colleagues for developing the technique of “click chemistry”, snap chemistry and “bioorthogonal chemistry”, a term coined by Bertozzi himself to to display the chemical reactions that take place in living things without interfering with the biochemical processes taking place therein.
With her, the Danish Morten Medal (68 years old) is awarded, who teaches at the University of Copenhagen and helped to develop and perfect the snap chemistry inaugurated by the American Barry Sharpless (81 years old). Sharpless was born in Philadelphia in 1941 and worked at the Scripps Institute in California.

For Sharpless, the second Nobel Prize in chemistry
Today is the second Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Barry Sharpless. Only once in the history of the world’s most coveted science prize has the same researcher been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice. More broadly, in the history of the Nobel Prize winner, there have been five with Sharpless who have won twice. Sharpless was first credited in 2001 with American William S. Knowles and Japanese Ryoji Noyori for developing a technique called reverse optical catalysis, which paved the way for the manufacture of new drugs for Parkinson’s and new antibiotics. Before him, only the Brit Frederick Sanger had received two Nobel Prizes in chemistry: first in 1958 for discovering the structure of insulin and in 1980 for pioneering research into recombinant DNA. The inventor of the transistor and semiconductor, John Bardeen, won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972. The first to receive two Nobel Prizes in different fields was Maria Curie, awarded in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1906). Linus Pauling won for chemistry in 1954 and for peace in 1962.

Tirelli (Iit), Technology opens up new materials and therapies, from personalized medicines to biomimetic materials
New materials, such as biomimetics, and new personalized drugs are among the first impacts of rapid chemistry, winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Nicola Tirelli, head of the research line for polymers and biomaterials of the Italian Institute of Technology (IT). “The development of ‘click’ reaction techniques parallels that of the concept of bioorthogonal chemistry,” observes Tirelli. “This paradigm, which allows the use of extremely selective chemical reactions in biological environments (even in living cells), has led to the elucidation of numerous biological mechanisms with very high precision and is used both for the development of new functional materials and new therapeutic approaches”, he added.
“In our group’s research, we use this paradigm very often; we are adopting both the click reactions developed by the 2022 Nobel Prize winners and newer ones with similar properties but different modes of action to produce pharmaceutical formulations that can release drugs in a ‘biologically targeted’ manner, i.e. based on cellular recognition,” adds the IIT expert.
These are some of the possibilities opened up by bioorthogonal chemistry, which consists in allowing one group of a molecule to react selectively and unperturbed. The term “orthogonal”, ie perpendicular, is used precisely to define freedom from interference: like a mast planted perpendicular to the ground, the Nobel Prize-winning technique cannot cast a shadow on another object at midday. Thanks to these properties, click chemistry and bio-orthogonal chemistry have made possible “click reactions”, ie rapid reactions based on reagents that act quickly and completely, but always with each other, even when surrounded by molecules of enormous magnitude variety of chemical groups.
These tools make it possible to probe biological mechanisms directly in living cells, as well as to design increasingly selective synthetic systems, such as increasingly customizable or new functional organic materials or biomimetic structures.

Concrete actions are being developed through the tourism portfolio to create opportunities for this important sector of society, a goal pursued by the new facility, the report pointed out.

Joint work between the tourism portfolio, the World Food Program (WFP) and strategic alliances with Francisco Gavidia University (UFG), restaurants and hotels will provide free access to professional training for young people, he said.

This laboratory, the report expands, will be the second in the country, the first being installed in 2021 in Surf City, La Libertad, and has already graduated more than 120 young people in two doctorates, more than 70 percent of whom have reached work set up to enter.

The western part of the country is an important and ever-growing tourist destination, so we are responding to business needs for trained personnel that will improve the destination’s competitiveness, said Minister of Tourism Morena Valdez.

Meanwhile, WFP Representative and Country Director in El Salvador, Riaz Lodhi, expressed his satisfaction at the combined efforts in this work, which favors youth employment.

Gastro-Lab is the training project for young people since 2021 and the initiative promotes culinary practices equipped, among other things, with kitchens, ovens, fryers, griddles and other accessories necessary to do the right thing in the professional kitchen project food handling.

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