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If the idea of two prog powerhouses coming together for a whirlwind collaborative affair sounds intriguing, then Bioscope’s Gento is probably for you. As for the nitty-gritty, Bioscope is composed of Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning and Marillion’s Steve Rothery. As for how the duo worked together while making Gento, Rothery tells ClassicRockHistory.com: “There was a lot of mutual respect.” “I found what we did quite inspiring,” he adds. “And vice versa, you know, I think Thorston did, too. It was just a very pleasant and painless experience. There were no egos, just the joy of making music.” Rothery specifically singles The post Steve Rothery of Marillion: The ClassicRockHistory.com Interview appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

News Red Sonja Red Sonja Actress Matilda Lutz Defends the Character’s Chainmail Bikini Matilda Lutz finds a deeper meaning in Red Sonja’s iconic and divisive look. By Matthew Byrd | Published on August 11, 2025 Screenshot: Samuel Goldwyn Films Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Samuel Goldwyn Films While the official trailer for the upcoming Red Sonja movie didn’t inspire much hope that the oft-delayed project will live up to the years that have gone into its development, it did at least confirm the film will feature some key aspects of the character. It looks goofy, it’s certainly violent, and Sonja remarkably retains the chainmail bikini that has both defined her look and become the focus of several debates regarding the character’s reputation for embodying the concept of the male gaze. That trailer even features a joke about the outfit being more of a device for the audience’s amusement than a practical piece of gear. But Red Sonja actress Matilda Lutz doesn’t quite see it like that. While she acknowledges that the character’s iconic look comes from a wildly different era, she recently explained to The Hollywood Reporter that she and the upcoming film treat the garment a bit differently.  “In the comics, Sonja uses the chainmail bikini as a distraction, but we’re using it in a different way,” says Lutz of the wardrobe’s function. “It’s still such an iconic costume that it was important to have it, and her enemy Draygan uses it as a form of possession and power. But when Sonja has to wear the bikini, she owns it, and she’s able to defeat soldiers with full armor. So the fact that she’s in a bikini is kind of empowering in a way since she’s still super badass.” Interestingly, Lutz compares and contrasts the Red Sonja character to her breakout role in director Coralie Fargeat’s (The Substance) Revenge: a movie that dissects and subverts the tropes of the infamous rape-revenge subgenre in ways that required Lutz to perform in nude scenes that Vulture’s Jordan Crucchiola rightfully described as “harrowing.” Lutz notes that Revenge was meant to “push the male gaze and the objectification” of her character whereas Red Sonja uses the male gaze concept in a “different way” that she believes means the character is “never objectified” in quite the same manner.  Still, Lutz admits that playing Red Sonja was generally challenging and uncomfortable from a physical perspective, especially on the days when she had to work in the bikini costume. The actress says she eventually became “more comfortable as we went along” regarding both the physicality of the role and the outfit. She’s also previously stated that she had quite a bit of input on the design of the costume and that Red Sonja director M.J. Bassett was constantly checking in with her to make sure she was comfortable with both the attire and the ways it was used in the movie. She does, however, describe a harrowing encounter with a horse that occurred when the horse just “wanted to go back to his stable to chill and eat.” Same, horse. Same. Red Sonja is scheduled to (finally) receive a limited theatrical release on August 13 before being released digitally on August 29. Make of that what you will. [end-mark] The post <i>Red Sonja</i> Actress Matilda Lutz Defends the Character’s Chainmail Bikini appeared first on Reactor.

Ohio is supposed to be welcoming a manufacturing plant from Intel, but there have been considerable delays. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., as well as Sens. Bernie Moreno and Jon Husted, R-Ohio, have also expressed potential national security and fraud concerns. Recently, Cotton shared a letter he sent to Frank D. Yeary, chairman of the Board of Directors at Intel Corportation, expressing his concerns with Lip-Bu Tan, Intel’s CEO. “I write to express concern about the security and integrity of Intel’s operations and its potential impact on U.S. national security,” Cotton wrote. He mentioned how Tab was appointed by Intel as CEO in March 2025 and “reportedly controls dozens of Chinese companies and has a stake in hundreds of Chinese advanced-manufacturing and chip firms,” warning that “[a]t least eight of these companies reportedly have ties to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.” Particularly concerning are the “illegal activities” which occurred during Tan’s time as CEO of Cadence Design Systems. “Intel was awarded nearly $8 billion from the CHIPS and Science Act, the largest grant to a single company. Intel is required to be a responsible steward of American taxpayer dollars and to comply with applicable security regulations. Mr. Tan’s associations raise questions about Intel’s ability to fulfill these obligations,” Cotton’s letter stated. The senator is asking questions about what Intel’s board knew and required of Tan, with a request that Yeary respond by Aug. 15. The new CEO of @intel reportedly has deep ties to the Chinese Communists. U.S. companies who receive government grants should be responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars and adhere to strict security regulations. The board of @Intel owes Congress an explanation. pic.twitter.com/3rYhHge6Wa— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) August 6, 2025 The Daily Signal reached out to Cotton’s office for any update. Husted also shared Cotton’s letter, reiterating the need for his colleague’s questions to be answered while also revealing he spoke to Intel “and they promised me they would respond promptly.” Ohio’s junior senator also spoke about chips. “The facts have not changed: We need an American company to make American chips on American soil. Producing the world’s most advanced high-tech chips in the U.S. is not just economic policy—it’s a national security imperative,” he said on X. “Every day we are not doing that, we are putting our country at risk. We must be confident Intel is serving our national interests at every level of leadership.” I just spoke with Intel. Ohioans and the American people deserve the truth. I shared that I expect answers to the questions Sen. Cotton has asked in his letter, and they promised me they would respond promptly.The facts have not changed: We need an American company to make… pic.twitter.com/jorSGJYC6S— Senator Jon Husted (@SenJonHusted) August 7, 2025 Moreno has also raised concerns, specifically about fraud. Tagging Intel over X, Moreno posted that “It’s pretty obvious” the company “failed to meet the commitments it made to the people of Ohio.” The senator also referenced concerns with “ties to the CCP” and declared how Tan “must immediately resign, the project completed, and a fraud investigation should be initiated by Ohio.” It’s pretty obvious that @intel has failed to meet the commitments it made to the people of Ohio. Now we find out its new CEO is deeply conflicted with ties to the CCP. The CEO must immediately resign, the project completed, and a fraud investigation should be initiated by Ohio.— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) August 7, 2025 News 5 Cleveland reported on the ongoing concerns about delays: Ohio’s multi-billion-dollar semiconductor manufacturing plant has faced delay after delay after delay. We’ve been reporting for years on Intel’s massive semiconductor manufacturing facility—one that was supposed to be operational by now—and its financial hardships. “It was an unrealistic expectation that they would be producing chips in the summer of 2025,” Dorsey Hager with the Columbus/Central Ohio Building Trades Council said Thursday. That’s thousands of construction jobs stalled, ones that Hager said Intel promised when they broke ground at the central Ohio construction site in 2022. “They talked about ramping up to close to 8,000 construction workers at the peak,” Dorsey said. “We have close to 1,200 people out there right now.” The concern is bipartisan, with state Sen. Bill DeMora, a Democrat who represents Columbus, referencing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars going unused. DeMora is quoted as calling the situation “a boondoggle.” “After years of the company’s stock plummeting, plus repeated layoffs, the company moved its expected completion date from 2025 to the 2030s,” the report also mentioned. Despite delays, Moreno is still hopeful that the Intel plant will be built. He told The Columbus Dispatch there’s “definitely an opportunity” for the project. “We need to hold their feet to the fire,” he said, “We have to make sure that facility is completed.” Gov. Mike DeWine’s, R-Ohio, office is also bullish on the project. “The project and construction continue at the Ohio site. Governor DeWine remains confident chips will be manufactured at the site once operational. Intel to date has invested approximately $7 billion in Ohio through the site,” said Dan Tierney, DeWine’s deputy director of media relations. “While any allegations regarding the CCP are very concerning, there are not enough facts available to make definitive comments, and our office will await further information to become available.” President Donald Trump has called for Tan to resign. He also posted to Truth Social on Monday about meeting with the CEO, along with Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent. Trump called the meeting, “a very interesting one.” The Daily Signal reached out to Intel for comment. On August 7, Tan sent a letter to Intel employees addressing the situation and assuring them of his “commitment.” “There has been a lot of misinformation circulating about my past roles at Walden International and Cadence Design Systems,” Tan wrote in part. “I want to be absolutely clear: Over 40+ years in the industry, I’ve built relationships around the world and across our diverse ecosystem—and I have always operated within the highest legal and ethical standards. My reputation has been built on trust—on doing what I say I’ll do and doing it the right way. This is the same way I am leading Intel.” The post Ohio Senators Raise Concerns Over Intel Project Delays appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. This is the 80th anniversary of the Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, bombings—with nuclear weapons, atomic bomb—on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And this past week we’ve seen more of the usual revisionism that either the dropping of the atomic bombs were barbaric, criminal, had no effect, were unnecessary, and/or a bad mark on the history of the United States’ activity in World War II. It’s part of a larger revisionist attempt in this generation. Winston Churchill—under these revisionists—is a terrorist. Adolf Hitler didn’t really mean to start World War II. He could have sued for peace, had the British not been so stubborn. The war really wasn’t worth the cost and lives and destruction entailed in defeating the Axis powers. Nevertheless, though, there’s nothing more wrongheaded than looking at Nagasaki and Hiroshima as preventable or unnecessary. Let me just go through three points. No. 1, why didn’t they drop it, as suggested, in Tokyo Bay? Drop it—the bomb—as a test. There were a variety of reasons. Robert Oppenheimer was the head of the program to develop the bomb, at least the scientific element of it. And he organized a task force. And he suggested that they not use a test. And there were reasons why. They only had the uranium Hiroshima bomb and the plutonium Nagasaki bomb available. They might have had one in a few weeks. They might have had two or three more in months. But the point is, they didn’t know if it was necessarily going to work. The uranium bomb had never been tested. It was very dangerous to trigger it. They weren’t even sure that it could not go off accidentally. The point is, they were afraid since the uranium bomb had never been tested. The plutonium bomb had only been tested on July 16, a little earlier. But it was never dropped from a bomber. They didn’t know what were the atmospherics or what would be the effect, or if it was even feasible to drop it from a B-29. They had practiced, but they weren’t sure. So, in other words, they were afraid if they dropped the bomb and it didn’t work or it didn’t go off with a blast capacity they anticipated, the Japanese would sort of slough it off and say, “Is this all you have?” And then they wouldn’t have had other bombs to remind them that they should surrender under duress. More importantly, it was very dangerous to fly from Tinian, the Mariana’s base of the B-29 bombers that were alone capable of handling this 10,000-pound monstrosity among American aircraft, to fly 1,600 miles into the Japanese mainland to drop the bomb and then fly back. The B-29s had lost 400 planes because of the weather, fighters, flak, and the sheer distances, navigation. And more importantly, they felt that if they announced the test in advance and it didn’t work, of course, the Japanese would even be more emboldened. They weren’t even sure that a test, if it did work, would affect them. And that was proven correct. After the Nagasaki’s second bomb, there was a coup, attempted coup, to try to force the Japanese government not to settle. There were other reasons as well that we should look at this decision in a favorable light. The other was, did it save lives? It did. And it did in a variety of ways. Of all the belligerents in World War II, the Japanese army, military, government—whatever term we use—killed more civilians and soldiers versus the amount of soldiers and civilians that lost than any other belligerent. More than the Russians. More than the Germans. In other words, it was a deadly killing machine that averaged 10,000 deaths a day at its hands. How else could you stop it? No. 2, they had just fought six weeks earlier at Okinawa. That was the bloodiest battle of the entire Pacific War—50,000 American casualties, 12,000 dead. The period—the last 12 months, from 1944 in August to August of 1945—was the deadliest period in the American-Pacific War. In other words, the people at the time thought things were getting worse, as far as American casualties, not better. After they looked at Okinawa and the horrific conditions and taking the Philippines, they estimated a million or more Americans would be killed in taking Japan by a land invasion. There’s another macabre fact to this. Okinawa was just 700 miles to 800 miles from the Japanese mainland targets. Not 1,600 like the Marianas. Once it was captured, Curtis LeMay wanted to bring in 2,000 new B-29s, on order, to augment the 2,000 that they might have had soon on the Marianas. And remember, the European Theater was over. There were plans to bring in B-17s and B-24 four-engine bombers that were idle. The British wanted to chip in and bring hundreds of Lancaster heavy bombers. What I’m getting at, had they not dropped the bomb, the fire raids would’ve continued, but not three or four times a week, every single day, from Okinawa. And not with 1,000-2,000 heavy bombers, but with an envisioned 5,000-6,000. That led Curtis LeMay to say, “The bomb wasn’t necessary. We could have burned Japan to the ground and forced its surrender.” Much more people would’ve died had that entailed. And so, what did the bomb do? It stopped this Japanese war machine from killing people. It stopped a horrendous battle on the mainland of Japan, where the Japanese were waiting for an American invasion with 3.5 million soldiers and 6,000 kamikaze planes. These were the equivalent of or much more lethal than the V-1 buzz bomb rockets that the Germans used. The human mind is a very sophisticated computer and when put in a zero with a 500- or 1,000-pound bomb, it was an unstoppable cruise missile of sorts. And they had over 3,000 of them ready to hit the American fleet. Add it all up and there was only bad and worse choices. We chose the bad choice that entailed 150,000 to 200,000 deaths from the actual shock and blast to the after effects. But the other alternative—of letting this Japanese killing machine continue to murder Chinese, Asians, Pacific Islanders, British Commonwealthers, and Americans, or invading the mainland, or continuing the fire raids—paled in comparison. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Revisionists Get It Wrong: Why the Atomic Bombings Ended WWII appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter dedicated the top of his Monday morning “Reliable Sources” newsletter to shedding a tear and pouring one out for his journalist homies at Al Jazeera as they mourned for a colleague who was blown to bits by an Israeli Defense Forces airstrike. But here’s the thing, Anas Al-Sharif was a Hamas terrorist posing as a journalist. He shared posts praising the October 7 terror attacks, including an image reportedly of Sharif stomping the head of a dead Israeli during the attack. Under the sympathetic banner of “Al Jazeera in Mourning,” Stelter kicked off the newsletter clutching his pearls about the news: “Al Jazeera English's bright red on-screen banner could not be clearer. "ISRAEL MURDERS JOURNALISTS," it has said, for the better part of twelve hours.” Stelter also leaned on his CNN colleague Nada Bashir to praise the former terrorist: "This has really sent shockwaves not only across the Middle East but beyond," CNN's Nada Bashir said this morning. Al-Sharif was "a household name for many in the Arabic-speaking world" for "documenting the horrors that we are seeing in the Gaza Strip." (…) Bashir said it's important to underscore that the strike took place "ahead of a planned expansion of Israel's occupation of parts of the Gaza Strip." Al Jazeera has asserted that Israel is trying to eliminate eyewitnesses; this morning, managing editor Mohamed Moawad called it a "systematic erasure of those who bear witness."     Despite Al Jazeera’s very long and noted history of being nothing more than a Qatari terrorist propaganda outfit, Stelter still elevated them while scoffing at the IDF’s evidence that Sharif was part of Hamas: The Israeli military has confirmed that it targeted correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, 28, claiming that documents found in Gaza show "unequivocal proof" of his "military affiliation to Hamas." Al Jazeera strongly denies the claims; Al-Sharif personally refuted the allegation before he was killed; and CNN's story noted that "CNN cannot independently verify the documents released by the IDF." In an X post, the IDF provided the intelligence they obtained from Hamas’s documentation pointing to Sharif’s affiliation: Al-Sharif was the head of a Hamas terrorist cell and advanced rocket attacks on Israeli civilians and IDF troops. Intelligence and documents from Gaza, including rosters, terrorist training lists and salary records, prove he was a Hamas operative integrated into Al Jazeera.     “A press badge isn’t a shield for terrorism,” they ended the post. If Stelter wasn’t going to take the IDF’s word for it, how about the BBC’s? “Anas al-Sharif, who has been a familiar face on Al Jazeera for much of the war, worked for a Hamas media team in Gaza before the current conflict,” reported the BBC’s Jon Donnison. Donnison went on to whine that the IDF “produced little evidence to support that” Sharif was the head of a Hamas cell. He also claimed Sharif “can be heard criticising [sic] Hamas” in social media posts before his death, but provided no evidence of those purported posts. What evidence did exist was of Sharif glorifying the October 7 attacks. In an X post, Michael Leiter, the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., showed a Telegram post from Sharif celebrating: “9 hours and the heroes are still roaming the country killing and capturing …God, God, how great you are [three green heart emojis].” There was also a picture of Sharif being embraced by Yahya Sinwar, the deceased head of Hamas in Gaza.     There’s also reportedly a graphic Telegram post from Sharif with a picture of him stomping the head of dead IDF soldier from during October 7. Translated text read: “Whenever you feel that morale is not good, remember that we hit them on the head in the middle of their military sites.” The Times of Israel also had a series of photos of Sharif taking a selfie with Hamas’s leadership. It’s worth recalling that Stelter’s CNN had ties to journalists connected to Hamas. A month after October 7, it came to light (thanks to HonestReporting), that CNN (along with The New York Times, the Associated Press, and Reuters) had received pictures from Gazan photojournalists embedded with Hamas as they carried out the attack. In particular, CNN’s photos were from a terrorist named Hassan Eslaiah who could also be seen in pictures being embraced by Sinwar. Eslaiah accompanied the attackers who assaulted Kibbutz Kfar Azza and he did not wear anything that identified himself as a journalist and apparently attempted to hide that he was present during the attack. In a statement to NewsBusters, at the time, CNN said they were no longer going to work with Eslaiah. “We had no prior knowledge of the October 7th attacks. Hassan Eslaiah, who was a freelance journalist working for us and many other outlets, was not working for the network on October 7th. As of today, we have severed all ties with him,” a CNN spokesperson said.

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