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Visit Inverness Loch Ness launches promotional video to aid area’s Covid-19 recovery.A new video is aiming to entice people to come to Loch Ness in search of its most famous inhabitant. Created by Visit Inverness, the clip shows the wonder of Loch Ness and the surrounding area and is inspired by tales of the legendary Loch Ness Monster. As part of VisitScotland’s Year of Stories, it's hoped the video will encourage visitors to come and spend time in the area and discover its stories, including the legend of Loch Ness, and aid the area’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. The...

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Carlsbad native Peter Robbins, the voice actor who brought Charlie Brown to life in the Peanuts cartoons from the 1960s, has died, his family told FOX 5. He was 65. Robbins’ family said he took his own life last week. FOX 5’s Phil Blauer was a close friend of the voice actor over the past 25 years. He says he had closely followed the voice actor’s ups and downs, from interviewing him in jail because of criminal threats he made against several people, including San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore, to speaking with him when he was...

"Democrat-run cities have seen a shocking spike in carjacking cases over the last year, with some cities seeing the highest number of carjackings in decades. According to an NBC report, carjackings are up "55 percent in New York, 63 percent in Minneapolis, and a staggering 85 percent in Philadelphia," though the report does not specify a timeframe. According to police data obtained by CNN, New York City has seen the number of carjackings within the city quadruple in the last four years. The city recorded more than 500 carjackings in 2021, up from 328 in 2020, 132 in 2019, and...

Homes and businesses in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood have been without phone and internet service for five days, and now, CenturyLink says that repairs may take up to three weeks. Are AI cameras in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood start of troubling trend? The outage is being blamed on a pair of vandalism-related incidents from late last week. CenturyLink crews say that it appears as though someone cut through a wooden box running under the Magnolia Bridge that holds fiber-optic cables. Cables and copper wiring were then stolen. After initial repairs, some homes in the area had their service restored on Saturday. But...

"In today’s political and cultural battles, the new governor in Virginia has quickly become a huge speedbump in the collective plan for progressives in the Commonwealth. Using the left’s playbook, Younkin just set up a way for parents to report WOKE teachers trying to force their political views in classrooms. Virginia GOP Governor Glenn Youngkin has established a tip line for parents to report teachers that teach subjects considered “divisive.” ..."

"The latest official data from the New South Wales Government in Australia shows that triple/double vaccinated Australians are over ten times more likely to be infected with the alleged Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus, than Australians who have not been vaccinated, suggesting they may be developing acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or the early stages of antibody dependent enhancement. ... Or putting it another way 787 cases of Omicron cases in NSW in the first week of this year were in unvaxxed and 160,793 were in the singly or doubly or triply vaccinated. This means that less than half a percent...

[1:12 video clip] "I believe in Jesus but I don't believe in Christianity, if that makes any sense. ..."

Top consulting firm McKinsey has calculated that the net-zero emissions targets set by global governments and championed by the United Nations would would cost the public a staggering $275 trillion by 2050, or around $30 billion per day for the next 25 years. The number would account for more than the U.S. government currently spends per day, with the targets especially a part of Boris and Carrie Johnson’s green agenda in the United Kingdom. President Biden recently committed America to the same 2050 target, telling the COP26 conference of his regime’s “overall long-term strategy that outlines [and] how we’ll get...

It was Jesus who adopted the name Bread of Life. And what a name! He alone could give it to Himself. An angel charged with naming our Lord would have given Him a title consonant with His attributes, such as Divine Word, or Lord, or the like — but Bread: such a name he would never have dared to give to his God!Bread of Life! Ah, but that is the true name of Jesus; in it is the whole Christ, in His life, in His death, and after His Resurrection. Crushed on the Cross and sifted like flour, He will...

[15:38 video clip] "‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ host slams the administration for prioritizing the safety of Ukraine’s borders over the southern border."

A Ukrainian mother-of-three has been pictured arming herself with a huge rifle as thousands of the nation's civilians prepare for the prospect of a Russian invasion. Mariana Zhaglo is far from a typical Ukrainian soldier, but the 52-year-old marketing researcher has said she is willing to do whatever it takes. 'As a mother I do not want my children to inherit Ukraine's problems, or have these threats passed on to them. It is better that I deal with this now,' Mariana said. 'If it comes to it then we will fight for Kiev; we will fight to protect our city....

Neil Young reportedly demanded that his music be removed from Spotify due to vaccine disinformation shared by podcaster Joe Rogan on the streaming platform."They can have Rogan or Young. Not both," Young wrote in a since-deleted open letter to his manager and record label that was posted to his website on Monday.NBC has not seen the original post and it is unclear why it was removed from Young's website. A link to the post labeled "A-Message-To-Spotify," currently directs users to a blank page.A representative for Young did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment. But his manager Frank...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Monday rescinded its authorization for Covid-19 monoclonal antibody treatments made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly after those treatments proved ineffective against the omicron variant, over a month after some hospitals voluntarily decided to stop offering the drugs. Monoclonal antibody treatments can prevent serious illness or hospitalization among high-risk Covid-19 patients by reinforcing the body’s natural immune response. Though Regeneron and Eli Lilly’s treatments worked against previous variants of the virus, omicron’s mutation in a spike protein targeted by the treatments all but eliminated their effectiveness. Over a month prior to the FDA’s Monday...

"And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren. But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."...

The latest data set featuring comic book sales from December appear to show that readers are rejecting DC Comics’ woke changes to Superman.

"Gettin' Dirty" - Rock and Roll like it was meant to be performed w/ no apologies. Same link here I was at Bradleys on Palm Beach one night back in the day when girls danced on the bar and Kennedy's roamed free. It was Rod's birthday and he plopped $5K for everyone's bar tab. Then Rachel Hunter danced on the bar in a mini skirt. I saw things I shouldn't have seen.

A “synthetic womb” is what is lately on the agenda of tech billionaires around the globe as they seek out a ways to set aside natural birth entirely. A look into a mind of these individuals do reveal quite curious stances.Possibility of replacing natural birth with synthetic wombs is a matter of discussion among several prominent tech entrepreneurs arguing that such technology would remove the “burden” of pregnancy and allow women to work more. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s fellow tech leaders came up with one solution for declining birth rates, after Muskwarned on Tuesday that society “should be...

ransomnote: The Expose is over the target and taking flak, banned and censored - even Paypal turned against them in an effort to deprive them of funding. Please pray that the Expose receive the funds it needs to keep serving the public.A letter to the editor of the British Medical Journal (“BMJ”) warning of “unintended risks” was published on 20 April 2020, the same day that BMJ published the NICE guidelines. The letter was signed by eleven highly qualified doctors and professors. “These doctors and professors raised concerns about the advice contained in the NICE guidance,” Clare Wills Harrison told...

ransomnote: We're just part of an ant farm the fascists like to play with.A pair of Indonesian fishermen have been fined NT$100,000 (US$3,610) each by Taiwanese health authorities for leaving their quarantine hotel rooms for just over a minute.The men had arrived in Taiwan by plane on November 15, 2020 and checked into a quarantine facility. On the evening of November 22, they left their rooms to buy some food.When they walked into a hotel lobby, staff told them to return to their rooms immediately, and the men complied. However, despite being absent from quarantine for just a little more...

Join together with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.