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Nektar are icons of progressive rock, but their influence doesn’t strictly end there, having influenced everyone from Pink Floyd to Iron Maiden. Since the beginning, bassist Derek ‘Mo’ Moore has been the keeper of the proverbial Nektar-related flame, and that’s not about to change. He’s intensely proud of Nektar’s legacy and even prouder that they’re not relying strictly on that legacy. That brings us to Misson to Mars, Moore, and company’s latest offering. He feels it will stand up to anything they’ve done before, if only because it shows their diverse approach. “We are a rock band and have been The post Derek ‘Mo’ Moore of Nektar: The ClassicRockHistory.com Interview appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

News V/H/S/Beyond Rev Up Your Chainsaw and Sit Down to Watch this V/H/S/Beyond Trailer This season features six new “found” videotapes By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on September 24, 2024 Credit: Shudder Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Shudder The seventh installment in the V/H/S franchise is about to scare its way into spooky season. This one, V/H/S/Beyond, will include six “found” videotapes that, according to marketing materials, “unleash horror in a sci-fi-inspired hellscape, pushing the boundaries of fear and suspense.” The trailer released today appears to deliver on that promise, or at the very least give us our annual quota of cryptids and various other monsters maiming and terrorizing the humans with video cameras who happen to cross their paths. That’s not to say that the humans don’t give it back. This clip alone features one monster slowly getting decapitated with a chainsaw as well as several other gory, violent moments that make me wonder what a trailer has to do get designated as not suitable for all audiences. For fans of V/H/S films, however, this one appears to be one of the better ones, if the reviews are any indication. Each of the six installments has its own set of directors. Those filmmakers are Jordan Downey (ThanksKilling, The Head Hunter) whose installment is titled “Stork,” Christian Long & Justin Long (Barbarian, Tusk) for “Fur Babies,” Justin Martinez  (V/H/S, Southbound) for “Live and Let Dive,” Virat Pal (Recapture) for “Dream Girl,” Kate Siegel (Hush, The Haunting of Hill House) for “Stowaway,” and Jay Cheel (How To Build A Time Machine) for “Wrap.” The 110-minute feature starts streaming on Shudder on October 4, 2024. Check out the NSFW trailer below. [end-mark] The post Rev Up Your Chainsaw and Sit Down to Watch this <i>V/H/S/Beyond</i> Trailer appeared first on Reactor.

Excerpts Fantasy Read an Excerpt From Sophie Jordan’s A Fire in the Sky Dragons are extinct. Witches are outcast. Magic is dying. But human lust for power is immortal. By Sophie Jordan | Published on September 24, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from brand new epic romantasy A Fire in the Sky by Sophie Jordan—available now from Avon. Note from the publisher: Slight spoiler hints ahead! Dragon fire no longer blisters the skies over Penterra, but inside the lavish palace, life is still perilous… especially for Tamsyn. Raised in the glittering court alongside the princesses, it’s her duty to be punished for their misdeeds. Treated as part of the royal family but also as the lowliest servant, Tamsyn fits nowhere. Her only friend is Stig, Captain of the Guard… though sometimes she thinks he wants more than friendship.When Fell, the Beast of the Borderlands, descends on her home, Tamsyn’s world becomes even more dangerous. To save the pampered princesses from a fate worse than death, she is commanded to don a veil and marry the brutal warrior. She agrees to the deception even though it means leaving Stig, and the only life she’s ever known, behind.The wedding night begins with unexpected passion—and ends in near violence when her trickery is exposed. Rather than start a war, Fell accepts Tamsyn as his bride…but can he accept the dark secrets she harbors—secrets buried so deep even she doesn’t know they exist? For Tamsyn is more than a royal whipping girl, more than the false wife of a man who now sees her as his enemy. And when those secrets emerge, they will ignite a flame bright enough to burn the entire kingdom to the bone. Magic is not dead… it is only sleeping. And it will take one ordinary girl with an extraordinary destiny to awaken it. Fell Tamsyn had been gone for a while. Too Long. I didn’t like her being out of my sight. I told myself it was about being in control, about safety, about knowing where everyone was at all times: my warriors and now… Tamsyn. She was no warrior. Obviously, she should be monitored for her own protection. Of course, it was more than that. More than I was willing to admit to myself. The feeling was different and unfamiliar, like the fit of a new sword, the grip strange in my hand. When I returned from watering the horses, Mari pointed in the direction Tamsyn had gone, and I set off, following her meandering tracks, easy enough to find in ground still moist from the recent rain. I shook my head as they went deeper and deeper into the dense forest. She should not have strayed this far. My frustration with her was tempered by my own sense of responsibility for not keeping a more vigilant eye on her. I crouched low, assessing, touching the freshly broken ground as another set of tracks joined hers. They belonged to a man. Blood rushed to my head. I unsheathed my sword as I stood and wildly glanced around. Heart pounding, I increased my pace, jogging lightly on booted feet, stealthily, circling and following tracks that suddenly became wild and abundant on the forest floor. Were they… running? I resisted the urge to call out for her. I didn’t know who else was out here with her, but I didn’t need to alert them that I was on their trail. That goal fled at her first scream. Squawking birds bolted from their branches. I started in one direction, my ears straining, detecting distant cries. The sounds of struggle. Thuds. Grunts. Flesh striking flesh. Bitter saliva coated my tongue, flooding my mouth. I paused, swinging around, sword poised, roaring her name. She did not respond. Instead, there was a man’s bellow, followed by an eruption of light from the trees to my right. An explosion. I lunged that way, smelling smoke as my sword cut through moss and foliage until I pulled up at the sight of a charred and smoldering body motionless on the ground. I gagged at the overwhelming stench of scorched flesh. I was accustomed to the trappings of battle in all its forms. I knew the odor, but it did not make it any less offensive. I surged forward, examining the body. My chest deflated with a breath of relief. Not her. Not Tamsyn. The words reverberated through me in a comforting mantra. I peered intently at the smoking corpse. The bulk of the damage was to the face and upper body. Hair and skin were gone, revealing only widespread patches of white and blackened tissue, but it was a man. My gaze trailed down the rest of the body. His legs and boots were still identifiable. Recognizable. I knew those boots. My gaze went to his sword beside him. I knew the sword as well. Arkin. My chest sank. What was he doing out here? Dead? Had he followed her? What happened to him? And where was Tamsyn? Had the bandits followed us and decided to claim her anyway? Or was this the work of something else? I circled sharply, muscles taut and ready to spring as I searched for her, for an attacker who had done this… My heart seized in my chest when I spotted scraps of Tamsyn’s clothing littering the ground. The familiar fabric of her riding skirt. The blue shredded bits of her cloak. “Tamsyn!” I roared, acrid panic eating its way up my throat. Buy the Book A Fire in the Sky Sophie Jordan Buy Book A Fire in the Sky Sophie Jordan Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget A branch creaked and groaned. Leaves rustled, several falling, raining over me. My gaze shot up, searching the tree, colliding with a pair of eyes. I went cold beneath their searing regard. Dark vertical pupils flickered and shifted, snakelike, following my movements warily as I withdrew my bow and pulled an arrow from my quiver. The beast moved, and the branch splintered under its weight. It emerged from the tree, the color of flame, and dropped, all twenty feet of it catching itself on the air, its great shuddering wings unfurling with a snap around its lithe form, creating a gust of current that lifted the hair off my shoulders. Dragon. The word filled my mind. Exploded into harsh reality as I stared up at the terrible beauty of it. My focus sharpened on its talon-like fingers, at the shreds of Tamsyn’s cloak tangled there, and my stomach rebelled. Bile rose in my throat, and it was all I could do to stop from being sick. Its face shimmered like firelight as it watched me with an intensity I took for hunger. I braced myself for a torrent of flame. The firestorm did not come. Shaking with rage, I nocked my arrow and aimed, ready to let loose on this monster, this merciless killer. It had incinerated Arkin and taken Tamsyn, leaving only remnants of her clothing. Those golden eyes blinked once, and then it vanished, soaring off into the sky. My arrow fired after the creature, missing—not that it would have done much good. My arrow was simply an arrow. Long had been the day since we’d needed scale-tipped arrows. It was gone. Chest heaving, legs braced apart, I watched it, a bright point in the sky, until it faded from sight. Fury and shock and a whole host of emotions seethed over my crawling skin. The dragon was back. Or rather, it had never left. First my parents. Then Arkin. And now Tamsyn. My wife. It felt as though a limb had been severed from my body. The distress I felt over that… over losing her, was knee buckling. Astonishing in its fierceness. I’d only just found the girl, only begun to contemplate that she might be someone I wanted to keep… that she might not be the princess I set out to obtain for myself, but she was more, better than anything I had imagined… the hand in the dark that I could reach for. Staring where the dragon had once filled the sky, I vowed vengeance. I would find it. Hunt it to the ends of the earth. Nowhere would it be at peace. Nowhere would it be safe from me. I would kill it dead. Excerpted from A Fire in the Sky, copyright © 2024 by Sophie Jordan. The post Read an Excerpt From Sophie Jordan’s <i>A Fire in the Sky</i> appeared first on Reactor.

A federal judge ruled that the Indiana Department of Corrections must pay for an incarcerated baby murderer to turn his penis into an imitation-vagina, on the pretext that the 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the one prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment, requires it. In 2001, 19-year-old Jonathan C. Richardson strangled his 11-month-old stepdaughter while her mother, Linda Thomas, was at work. He showed no remorse for the crime, later telling a prison official, “I killed the little [expletive, expletive].” He was convicted and sentenced to 55 years in prison. “On the day he murdered my child, I personally observed plaintiff with a fresh bleeding tattoo of my child’s name on his arm,” recalled Thomas, who obtained a divorce soon afterward. For nearly two decades, Richardson was housed as a male in a male prison without raising a fuss. Meanwhile, the culture outside was changing rapidly. In 2018, Richardson heard about “gender identity” from another male inmate, who went by the name of “Pearl” and showed him pamphlets from California state prisons. California has housed dozens of trans-identifying males in female prisons. Not surprisingly, California’s prison pregnancy rate has skyrocketed. Richardson began to self-identify as transgender in 2020 and obtained cross-sex hormones. He uses the name “Autumn Cordellioné,” and that false name appears in the lawsuit filed by the ACLU against the Indiana Department of Corrections. Richardson testified that he chose the name “Autumn” after an ex-girlfriend from high school. Presumably, she would find his appropriation of her name offensive. Indiana Trans RulingDownload In 2022, he lodged a sexual harassment complaint, claiming that his cellmate had raped him in 2005, and that he had stabbed his cellmate in retaliation. In a later deposition for his federal lawsuit, Richardson revealed a pattern of having sex with men that dated back to before his incarceration. During his brief marriage to Thomas, the mother of the child he murdered, Richardson worked as a janitor in a pornographic bookstore and would engage in lewd acts with male customers while pretending to be a girl. “I felt I was only a woman when a man used me,” he claimed. He also said he stole female clothing to wear so that he “could for a second realize the girl inside.” Some of Richardson’s statements may be self-motivated. On Jan. 4, Richardson requested a reduction of his sentence, though he’s not eligible for release until 2027, claiming that the “circumstances that resulted in the crime are no longer present,” due to his transgender identity. Under the current policies of the Indiana Department of Corrections, Richardson was allowed to transition both chemically and socially, but the department refused to sponsor gender transition surgeries, under a law the Indiana legislature enacted last year (IC 11-10-3-3.5). With the help of the Indiana ACLU, Richardson sued to obtain gender transition surgeries. Richardson demanded a list of “Surgeries to Reach My Ideal Self,” which was presented as evidence in court and included “a ‘vagina,’ breast implants, a brow lift, a brow reduction, a tummy tuck, gluteal implants [Brazilian butt lift], a uterus transplant, hair removal, and wigs.” He later amended his demands to two surgeries: an orchiectomy (surgery to remove the testicles) and penile inversion. On Sept. 17, federal Judge Richard L. Young of the Southern District of Indiana ruled in favor of Richardson, handing down a “preliminary” injunction, which he would renew every 90 days until Indiana carried out the surgery. This verdict seems offensive to the taxpayers of Indiana. Young’s astonishing rationale was that refusing to provide a prisoner with genital gender transition surgeries counted as “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. He breezily dismissed the state’s argument that these surgeries permanently sterilize the subject by appealing to informed consent procedures. But the state’s argument is a good one: What is truly “cruel and unusual” is allowing mentally troubled inmates to permanently mutilate their bodies based upon their current feelings. Even more astonishing is that Judge Young could cite precedent for this travesty of justice. “In 2011, the 7th Circuit upheld a district court’s injunction of a Wisconsin statute that banned both hormone therapy and surgery for inmates suffering from gender dysphoria,” he wrote. This was a shockingly early decision, predating the Supreme Court’s overturn of the Definition of Marriage Act (Windsor, 2012) and nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage (Obergefell, 2015). Most current transgender lawsuits argue for a redefinition of “sex” under the Equal Protection Clause, which was first proposed by the Obama administration in 2016. The 7th Circuit was pushing a transgender policy agenda years before there was any national transgender movement. In all likelihood, the Indiana Office of the Attorney General lost this case from the moment it was assigned to Judge Young. An appointee of President Bill Clinton who is now on senior status (meaning he has a reduced caseload and does not fill one of the court’s slots), Young actively advanced the LGBT agenda during his time on the federal bench. In 2014, he struck down Indiana’s ban on same-sex marriage—a year before the Supreme Court’s lawless Obergefell ruling. Judge Young’s Sept. 17 ruling continued his streak of judicial activism when he substituted his own judgments about grammar, biology, and reality for those of the state of Indiana. Consider only the following sentence, taken from the ruling, “She was born with anatomy traditionally associated with males.” Such a statement reveals ideological priors that the state never had a chance to overcome. Last week, Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., introduced a bill to prevent the federal government from pursuing the 7th Circuit’s jurisprudence down the slippery slope of providing gender transition surgeries for inmates. Specifically, his bill would “prohibit taxpayer funded transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security,” said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. (The bill assumes a situation—required by federal law, but not currently enforced in practice—where illegal immigrants remain in federal custody long enough to schedule surgeries.) “It shouldn’t be needed, just like we shouldn’t have to have a bill that says that only women play in women’s sports,” Steube declared on “Washington Watch” Thursday. “You would think that no way that America is spending taxpayer dollars to do gender transition surgeries for trans inmates and illegal immigrants in our country, but this is something that Kamala Harris supports. And our tax dollars are picking up the tab.” During her 2019 presidential campaign, Harris responded to an ACLU candidate questionnaire and answered “yes” to the following question: “As president, will you use your executive authority to ensure that transgender and nonbinary people who rely on the state for medical care—including those in prison and immigration detention—will have access to comprehensive treatment associated with gender transition, including all necessary surgical care?” Harris’ answer: I support policies ensuring that federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained. Transition treatment is a medical necessity, and I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to deliver transition treatment. While Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign articulated relatively few concrete policy positions, Harris did say in her first media interview as the Democratic nominee, “I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is: My values have not changed.” That provides small comfort to women like Thomas and other victims and survivors of violent, incarcerated felons. Thomas pleaded with the court not to allow her ex-husband to proceed with his name-change, gender transition procedures, and appeal for early release. “I live in fear for myself and my children of the day [Richardson] is released from prison, which largely increases at the thought that [his] identity may be concealed upon release.” If the ACLU holds Harris to her 2019 candidate pledge, this policy could go nationwide, applying to illegal immigrants, too. “These are people who are in the country illegally. They’re in custody and they’re demanding these surgeries and medical treatment that are unnecessary and costly.” This situation, presumably, would be offensive to most Americans. Originally published by The Washington Stand We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Federal Judge Orders Indiana to Provide Transgender Surgeries to Violent Inmate appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was a no-show at a congressional hearing Tuesday morning, triggering House Republicans to move toward holding the nation’s top diplomat in contempt of Congress. Blinken originally was subpoenaed Sept. 3 by House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, for a hearing on the committee’s investigation into the Biden-Harris administration’s poorly executed withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.  The secretary of state was expected to rebuff the Foreign Affairs Committee’s demand to appear despite persistent threats from McCaul that the panel would hold him in contempt. To show it was serious about holding Blinken accountable, the committee released a draft contempt resolution report Monday, and will now look to carry out its threat. In anticipation of McCaul’s move, Blinken penned a letter to the chairman dated Sunday and attempting to justify his absence from Tuesday’s hearing.  Blinken, an appointee of President Joe Biden, wrote that he was “profoundly disappointed you have once again chosen to send me a subpoena and threaten contempt, rather than engage with me and the [State] Department in a meaningful way to resolve this matter through the constitutionally mandated accommodation process.” The secretary of state also said in the letter that before the committee issued its Sept. 3 subpoena, he spoke with McCaul over the phone and informed the chairman that he would be in Egypt on Sept. 19, the day the committee originally planned to have Blinken testify.  “On Sept. 18, you issued a ‘superseding’ subpoena for me to appear on Sept. 24, accompanied by a letter in which you claimed you had just become aware of my travel to the Middle East, despite the fact I had personally informed you,” Blinken wrote.  The secretary of state added that in their phone conversation Sept. 3, he said he would be unavailable because of meetings at the U.N. General Assembly. Blinken’s letter, however, did not stop the Foreign Affairs Committee from moving toward holding Biden’s secretary of state in contempt. In a 29-page contempt report, McCaul noted that the committee already had made “an accommodation to the secretary’s travel schedule” and “compell[ed] his appearance on a date the secretary stated he would be in the United States.” “Despite repeated warnings and accommodations, Secretary Blinken refused to appear to provide his testimony before the committee,” the report says. McCaul seems to remember his Sept. 3 phone conversation with Blinken differently. When asked to testify before the House committee, the report asserts, “Secretary Blinken refused.”  This would have been Blinken’s first time addressing the committee since it released the findings of its investigation into the Biden-Harris administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. “When asked by Chairman McCaul to dedicate a few hours for public testimony, Secretary Blinken asserted [he] was unavailable every single day in September,” the report says of the Blinken-McCaul phone call. It adds: Secretary Blinken apparently planned to attend events associated with the United Nations General Assembly in New York the week of Sept. 23 to 27 and was unwilling to travel back to D.C. during any of those days for a hearing. The United States has a designated United Nations ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who would also be in attendance. When Blinken didn’t appear Tuesday, McCaul adjourned the hearing on the Afghanistan exit and announced that he intended “to proceed with a markup to begin the formal process of holding the secretary in contempt of Congress.” Rather than taking questions from the American lawmakers, Blinken posted a video of himself on the way to the U.N. gathering where the secretary was to hobnob with the global elite. On my way to watch @POTUS deliver remarks at the UN General Assembly in New York. When the president took office, he was determined to restore, rebuild and rejuvenate our alliances and partnerships. This week at UNGA, we are reminded of how he's done just that. pic.twitter.com/evew8b1RJ4— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) September 24, 2024 The House now heads toward a vote to hold Blinken in contempt of Congress, which if prosecuted and resulting in a conviction may result in $100,000 in fines or one month to a year behind bars.  Prosecuting Blinken’s failure to appear before American representatives is the responsibility of Biden’s Justice Department, led by Attorney General Merrick Garland. Although the House voted in June to hold Garland himself in contempt of Congress, his Justice Department simply declined to prosecute. The post Blinken Ignores Congress, Hobnobs With Elite at UN appeared first on The Daily Signal.