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Pacific Northwest Delivers Solid Swell

Includes YouTube Big-Wave Addicts Episode 3.

(GIG HARBOR, Wash.) - When the charts in the Pacific Northwest read 10'-12' @ 17-19 seconds out of the NW with light easterly winds there are a handful of big wave chargers that live in the area, know where to go and what to do.

As was the case on December 17, 2011 when the swell was in full bloom, with clear sunny skis and mysto waves breaking on the outer reefs.

Stranglehold Afghanistan: How Politics and Lies Are Destroying an Army

First the Army lies to the President - followed by the Mitt Romney knife in the back...

(CINCINNATI) - American troops in Afghanistan are running out of fuel and food as Christmas approaches. The war rages on as it has for a decade and America is losing, nothing new there.

American supplies are being blockaded in Pakistan because US drones killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

Christ Under Occupation: Christmas in the Holy Land

In Israel, the indigenous Palestinians are labeled “Israeli-Arabs” and approximately 9% are Christian.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - This weekend millions of cultural Christians throughout the world will flock into churches and sing “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and hear stories of Nazareth and Jerusalem. Too few know the 21st century realities about the land where Jesus/AKA The Prince of Peace promised that the Peacemakers are the children of God.

The indigenous Christian population in the Holy Land has shrunk from 20% in 1948 to less than 2% in Israel and the West Bank today.

Oliver Goldsmith Look Out!

The song is an expression of Jamal’s wish to encourage others to join with him and the whole TJP movement to work to build a more truthful, more just, and more peaceful world. It is a big step for a man, an even bigger step for a boy.

(BOSTON) - Oliver Goldsmith! Look out! Jamal Belica’s latest song, World Citizen: Giving It My All, is articulating a new view of the world citizen: bold and aggressive; quite the opposite of the genteel Chinese traveler Lien Chi sojourning in London two and a half centuries ago whom Goldsmith used to satirize the follies and foibles of 18th-century British society in his The Citizen of the World.

Instead, Jamal’s world citizen has muscles and faces the unpleasant realities of the world we live in unflinchingly.

Egypt`s Revolutionary Flame Reignites in Tahrir Square

Egypt's version of the Occupy movement retakes Tahrir Square.

(SALEM) - In typical fashion, the Washington Post is among U.S. news groups backing the 'government' of Egypt as it crushes, rapes and brutalizes citizens in Tahrir Square who stand up and speak out against the military junta that seized power in the wake of the ousting of Hosni Mubarak.

Joy to the world

Includes a message from the mayor of Bethlehem for Christmas...

(BETHLEHEM) - An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.

One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego." He continued, "The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

Does Oregon`s Government Simply Hate Black People?

Questions behind Oregon prison inmate's conviction draw attention of National Advocacy Groups; who was almost immediately sentenced to two more years behind bars.

(SALEM) - An Oregon inmate whose conviction is so questionable that it recently caught the attention of two national advocacy groups with solid track records of freeing wrongly convicted prisoners, just had two more years added to his 19-year sentence.

Advocates close to the case say the saga of Terrence Kimble is one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice in the current Oregon judicial system.

The Last and Gloomy Pages of Egypt`s Revolution

“Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won” – William Ralph Inge: The End of an Age

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Thomas Merton said, “The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt”.

Perhaps this time period best defines that statement, and it is likely Egypt's weathered attempt to shed tyranny and secure a future with liberty, is going to be the new definition.

Egypt`s Activists Bid Farewell to the Revolution

“Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Soldiers have stormed an anti-government protest camp in Cairo …Mubarak says he will not run for another term as president … violent clashes have killed at least seven people and injured more than 150 others- and still counting …Tahrir square is packed with millions of Egyptians.

Protesters set cars alight and threw stones at military police in the Egyptian capital …what inspiring scenes we are getting here from Tahrir square … a wounded activist said that he had been arrested and beaten by soldiers at a sit-in near the parliamentary building earlier…

Video Explores Suspected Murder of Marine Colonel James Sabow

Jim Sabow was a career Marine, a Harrier pilot, third in command of El Toro, and he wasn't going to allow the illegal drug running to keep taking place on his base.

(EL TORO, Calif.) - In early 1991, something happened at the El Toro Marine air base that was so bad, so shameful, that it will not go away.

It's the highly controversial death of Marine Colonel James Sabow. A fighter pilot, a hero of the Vietnam War, a man considered by those who knew him, to be 'general material'.