OTTAWA HAS 5.0 QUAKE-I FELT IT GENTLY

EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind,(WORLD SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)

REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.

THE WEEK OF DANIEL 9:27 WE KNOW ITS 7 YRS

Heres the scripture 1 week = 7 yrs Genesis 29:27-29
27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950

Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.

WORLD GOVERNMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnq5cQMiAB8&feature=related
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-are-already-under-global-government.html#links
DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.

EPHESIANS 6:10-13
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,(DEMONIC ANGELS IN HIGH PLACES) against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.(SPIRTIUAL DEMONIC PERSONS)
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

LUKE 4:5-7(BECAUSE SATAN OFFERS WORLD POWER, WORLD ORDERERS HAVE ACCEPTED SATANS GIFT)
5 And the devil, taking him (JESUS) up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

DANIEL 12:4,1
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

REVELATION 13:1-3,7,8,12,16-18
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
16 And he causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

REVELATION 17:3,7,9-10,12,18
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

Foreigners influencing Canada politics: spy chief By David Ljunggren – Wed Jun 23, 2:25 pm ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) – In startling comments that appeared to surprise the government, Canada's spy agency says it suspects that cabinet ministers in two Canadian provinces are under the control of foreign nations.The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) also said some countries, including China and countries in the Middle East, were playing a long-term strategy that involves trying to recruit people in Canadian universities.The unprecedented remarks by CSIS Director Richard Fadden were broadcast late on Tuesday, a day before Chinese Premier Hu Jintao was due to arrive in Canada on a formal visit.CSIS regularly complains about foreign espionage but this was the first time the agency has openly alleged that domestic politicians have come under the sway of outsiders.There are several municipal politicians in British Columbia, and in at least two provinces there are ministers of the Crown who we think are under at least the general influence of a foreign government, Fadden said in a recent speech that was filmed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.Pressed by the CBC as to what he meant, Fadden said the individuals in question -- whom he did not identify -- had no idea they were being used.

They haven't really hidden their association but what surprised us is that it's been so extensive over the years and we're now seeing, in a couple of cases, indications that they are in fact shifting their public policies as a reflection of that involvement in that particular country, he said.Fadden, speaking generally, said some nations took a very, very long range view of their efforts to influence Canada and used people from their own diaspora. Canada is one of the few western countries still encouraging major immigration.Asked whether he was speaking about China, Fadden referred to recent media stories about Chinese spying in Canada.I wouldn't say that those stories were entirely incorrect and the country you mentioned is, I believe, mentioned in those stories, he said.The office of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, which is trying to boost its ties with China, said it did not know what Fadden was talking about.We have no knowledge of these matters. CSIS directs its own operations, said chief Harper spokesman Dimitri Soudas.British Columbia, on the Pacific Coast, has seen a steady surge of immigrants from China and Hong Kong in the last three decades. It one of the more powerful of Canada's 10 provinces.Professor Wesley Wark, a leading intelligence specialist at the University of Toronto, said Fadden's comments risked harming the reputation of the spy agency.CSIS should not be out front on that story before some kind of policy decision is taken ... what is extraordinary about the allegations is the notion that foreign intelligence services are running agents of influence, he told Reuters.I don't think that in the history of Canada there has ever been a verified agent of influence.(Reporting by David Ljunggren; editing by Peter Galloway)

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/
CNBC VIDEOS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/site/14081545/?tabid=15839796&tabheader=false

HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS THU JUNE 24,2010

09:30 AM -3.52
10:00 AM -74.82
10:30 AM -60.24
11:00 AM -98.40
11:30 AM -116.16
12:00 PM -74.51
12:30 PM -94.55
01:00 PM -89.26
01:30 PM -67.42
02:00 PM -43.46
02:30 PM -84.65
03:00 PM -108.68
03:30 PM -138.84
04:00 PM -145.64 10,152.80

S&P 500 1073.69 -18.35

NASDAQ 2217.42 -36.81

GOLD 1,241.80 +7.00

OIL 76.24 -0.11

TSE 300 11,670.20 -137.20

CDNX 1451.75 -4.14

S&P/TSX/60 685.91 -8.51

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -58 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -120 points at low today.
Dow +1 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,233.80.OIL opens at $76.18 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -169 points at low today so far.
Dow +1 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -169 points at low today.
Dow +1 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,260.90 (NOT AT CLOSE)

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

ALL NIGHT IN ONTARIO CANADA WE HAD TORNADO WARNINGS,STORMS,HAIL,HEAVY RAIN AT TIMES.TORNADO HIT MIDLAND ONTARIO AROUND 8 OR 9 PM JUNE 23,10.

Suspected tornado hits Ont. community Last Updated: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 | 9:44 PM ET CBC News

A picture of what appears to be the tail end of a funnel cloud spotted about three kilometres north of Ardtrea, Ont. (Submitted by Chris Haycox)At least five people were reportedly injured when what Environment Canada suspects was a tornado ripped through a trailer park in Midland, Ont., causing extensive damage.Trailers were piled up at Smith's Trailer Park near King Street and Highway 12, and the area had been sealed off over fears of a potential gas leak, CBC's Dave Seglins reported from the scene.

Midland is about 140 kilometres north of Toronto.Environment Canada issued a tornado warning for the area, and people in and around Midland reported seeing a huge funnel cloud and circling swaths of debris in the dark sky.The Ontario government issued a red alert for a region of the province bounded by Penatanguishine in the north, Barrie in the south, Collingwood in the west and Orillia in the east.A truck was flipped over when a suspected tornado touched down in Midland, Ont. (Dave Seglins/CBC) The red alert requires everyone in this area, including motorists and boaters, to go indoors immediately and seek shelter.James Downer, the mayor of Midland, also declared a state of emergency, telling the Barrie Examiner that the damage was severe in the whole south end.Seglins said the storm cut a large swath of destruction right across King Street in Midland, taking out roofs, smashing windows, destroying cars and knocking out power for most of the area.Environment Canada said radar indicated a severe storm had likely produced a tornado in the area and that there have also been reports of funnel clouds spotted near Orillia, Ont.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/06/23/tornado-midland.html#ixzz0rjSzeOeu

Brazilian mayor: Floods have flattened entire town By BRADLEY BROOKS, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 23,10

RIO DE JANEIRO – Torrential waters flattened a small town as floods raged through two states in northeastern Brazil and the death toll was expected to surpass 44 as rescuers searched Wednesday for hundreds of people reported missing.Mayor Ana Lopes said the entire town of Branquinha, population 12,000, will have to be rebuilt in a different location. Television footage showed a train station washed away, its tracks ripped from the earth. Cars lay overturned and strewn along a riverbank. Dazed people wandered about streets littered with couches, chairs and mountains of mud.A humble Roman Catholic Church with a rose-colored facade was one of the few buildings to survive — but it was surrounded by the rubble of nearby homes.Storms last week dumped a month's worth of rain on parts of neighboring Alagoas and Pernambuco states, near the point where Brazil juts farthest east into the Atlantic.

The Civil Defense Department said in a statement that 29 deaths had been reported so far in Alagoas, while 15 were reported dead in Pernambuco.At least 120,000 people were driven from their homes by the rains, but many found shelter in schools, churches or with family members.In May 2009, flooding in the same areas killed at least 44 people and displaced 380,000.Lopes said Wednesday that she would ask the federal government for help in obtaining land farther away from the Mundau river, which left its banks and sent powerful torrents of water through Branquinha. She also held out hopes for finding most of the 600 people reported missing, mostly from her town and another nearby.We hope that the people who are missing are found as quickly as possible, but it is still possible to believe that more people have been killed, she was quoted as saying by G1, the news portal for Globo television.Rains lifted early Wednesday, allowing rescuers to more easily reach the affected areas, but showers returned by afternoon. Officials said the areas prone to flooding had been evacuated to avoid more deaths.

The Civil Defense department of Alagoas said 200 soldiers were using planes, boats, helicopters and trucks to reach the hardest-hit areas. Tons of food, medical supplies and blankets arrived in the state capital and were being distributed. Heavy machinery was used to remove destroyed homes, while search dogs scoured areas where survivors or more bodies might be found.A fire department spokeswoman in Maceio, the capital of Alagoas, said there were no reports yet of survivors found, but also nothing to indicate the missing were dead. She spoke on condition of anonymity, per department rules.On Tuesday, Civil Defense officials said they believed most of the missing were safe — just unable to notify relatives of their status because there was no electricity and phones were knocked out.Roads were erased by flooding and bridges torn in pieces, hampering search and rescue efforts and making aid delivery more difficult. The federal Transportation Ministry announced emergency funds of $40 million to begin immediate repairs.The administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced it was sending $56 million in food, medicine and other aid, and air force planes had already delivered about 10 tons of supplies to some of the worst-hit areas, officials said.In the city of Palmares, in Pernambuco, residents complained of no support.I lost everything. I and my four sons don't have a home. The little one, 4 years old, broke his arm in a current when he was thrown against a wall,Ana Claudia da Silva, washing mud from her clothes in a public plaza, was quoted as telling the newspaper O Globo newspaper. All I have today is this umbrella, a bucket and dirty clothes.Mechanic Ronaldo Claudino, who took six families into his home, told the newspaper that the only effort at support he saw in Palmares were two tanker trucks carrying fresh water, but they did not stop for thirsty citizens in his neighborhood. We don't have anything to eat, to drink. We don't even have money, he said. And, if we had it, there would not be anything to buy.(This version CORRECTS that Palmares is in Pernambuco state, not Alagoas state.)

Small-scale flooding reported in northwest Haiti
JUNE 23,10

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitian civil protection officials say rains have caused small floods in the northwestern city of Gonaives.Civil protection director Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste said Wednesday night there had been no reports of injuries or damage to property.Much of the country is under an orange alert for more serious floods caused by a rain-producing Caribbean system.Gonaives is on the coast northwest of Port-au-Prince and was not directly affected by the Jan. 12 quake, but it received refugees from the capital.The city is surrounded by denuded mountains and has twice been inundated during tropical storms since 2004, with thousands of lives lost.

Hurricane Celia strengthens to Category 2 storm
Wed Jun 23, 4:46 pm ET

MIAMI – Hurricane Celia has strengthened a bit in the Pacific.According to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, the storm's maximum sustained winds increased Wednesday to near 115 mph (185 kph) with some additional strengthening possible. It's a Category 2 storm.Celia is located about 735 miles (1,180 kilometers) south of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and is heading west — farther out to sea — at about 13 mph (20 kph).Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Darby is gaining strength in the Pacific south of Mexico. It's maximum sustained winds have increased to about 65 mph (100 kph) with additional strengthening forecast.Darby is located about 295 miles (475 kilometers) south of Salina Cruz, Mexico, and is moving west-northwest near 12 mph (19 kph).THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Celia has re-strengthened to a Category 2 storm in the Pacific.According to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, the storm's maximum sustained winds increased Wednesday to near 100 mph (160 kph) with some additional strengthening possible.Celia is located about 740 miles (1,190 kilometers) south of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and is heading west — farther out to sea — at about 12 mph (19 kph).Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Darby is gaining strength in the Pacific south of Mexico. It's maximum sustained winds have increased to about 50 mph (85 kph) with additional strengthening forecast.Darby is located about 305 miles (490 kilometers) south of Salina Cruz, Mexico, and is moving west-northwest near 9 mph (15 kph).

Thousands evacuated from flooded homes in Bosnia
Wed Jun 23, 9:30 am ET

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina – Authorities in Bosnia are evacuating thousands of people as heavy rains cause rivers to spill over, cutting off entire towns and villages. De-miners have been called in, in case the floods have moved land mines laid during the Bosnian War in the 1990s.Firefighters and volunteers worked overnight and Wednesday to evacuate dozens of towns and villages. Officials in Banja Luka say rain caused 30 landslides there; Tuzla and Brcko are reportedly threatened, as well.Sections of most roads in the north and the west of the country are flooded, and people have had to spend the night in their cars or in public buses.

China warns of fresh rain onslaught in flooded regions by Marianne Barriaux – Wed Jun 23, 8:01 am ET

BEIJING (AFP) – Weather forecasters warned Wednesday of a fresh onslaught of downpours across southern China, which has already been battered by floods and landslides that have killed more than 200 people.The south will be hit by a new round of heavy rain today, the National Meteorological Centre warned on its website, as state television broadcast images of devastation in some of the worst-affected provinces.The civil affairs ministry said that the downpours and resulting floods and landslides had left 211 people dead and another 119 missing. The weather centre said rain was likely to continue for another three days in some areas.The disaster, which has hit 10 provinces or regions, has caused an estimated 43 billion yuan (six billion dollars) of economic losses and displaced 2.4 million people.State television showed images of indoor stadiums filled with adults and children forced from their homes and resting on blankets.Thousands of soldiers have been dispatched to flood-hit areas to help in rescue and evacuation work, the official Xinhua news agency said.Troops were filmed struggling up soaked hills with food supplies to help residents stuck in their villages and carrying rowing boats to areas submerged in brown, muddy water.In the hard-hit province of Jiangxi, authorities have carried out a large-scale evacuation after a dyke breach on the Fuhe river flooded a large swathe of land including some towns.Yu Shenghua, a spokesman for Fuzhou city, where the dyke is located, told AFP that 95,000 residents had been evacuated so far and that thousands remained to be moved.

According to the national flood control headquarters, 34 rivers in Jiangxi alone had breached their warning marks, and three of these triggered the most serious flooding in 50 years.In neighbouring Fujian province, state television showed images of rain-drenched workers and diggers piling earth on to riverbanks to try to hold back the deluge.The government has allocated 253 million yuan (37.2 million dollars) for rescue and relief efforts and has already sent more than 30,000 tents to affected areas to house the displaced, the civil affairs ministry said.On Tuesday, President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao Tuesday called for all-out efforts to combat the floods and evacuate areas threatened by dyke bursts.Alternating floods and droughts have plagued China's people for millennia.The current floods are among the worst in south China since 1998, when over 3,600 people were killed and more than 20 million displaced, Xinhua said.Large flood-hit areas of southern and southwestern China, particularly Guizhou, Guangxi and Chongqing, had only just recently emerged from a crippling drought that in some regions was the worst in a century.

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

AT 1:42 PM TODAY WED JUNE 23,10 THERE WAS A SMALL EARTHQUAKE I WENT THROUGH.IT LASTED ONLY ABOUT 10-15 SECONDS BUT I THOUGHT I HAD A DIZZY SPELL.NOW I FIND OUT THERE WAS A 5.0 QUAKE NEAR OTTAWA.MY COMPUTER SCREEN AND MY CHAIR WERE SHAKING GENTALY SO IT NEVER DROPPED ANYTHING OR DAMAGED ANYTHING.THIS IS ONLY THE 3RD SMALL QUAKE I EVER WENT THROUGH.THE BIGGEST WAS WHEN I WAS LITTLE AND IT REALLY SHOOK THE EARTH AS I WAS OUTSIDE NEAR KITCHENER ONTARIO CANADA.THE ONLY OTHER ONE WAS A SMALL ONE A FEW YEARS AGO IN MY ROOM IN ONTARIO CANADA.THAT ONE SHOOK MY ROOM MORE THEN THIS ONE DID THOUGH.
http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?category=News&zone=toronto&site=cbc.news.ca&clipid=1529023408

Magnitude-5.0 earthquake reported in Canada By CHARMAINE NORONHA, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jun 23, 5:34 pm ET

TORONTO – A magnitude-5.0 earthquake struck at the Ontario-Quebec border region of Canada on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and homes and businesses were shaken from Canada's capital in Ottawa on south to an arc of U.S. states.There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.Morgan Moschetti, a seismologist with the USGS, said it was not unusual for an earthquake to be felt 300 miles (482 kilometers) from the epicenter and noted that the latest quake was felt in the U.S. from Chicago to Maine.Other states that reported feeling tremors were Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York.The epicenter of the quake was in Quebec, about 23 miles (38 kilometers) north of Cumberland, Ontario, on the Ottawa River, the USGS said.The agency said the quake occurred at a depth of about 12 miles (19.2 kilometers) at 1:45 p.m. EDT (1741 GMT). The agency initially said the quake had a 5.5 magnitude, but later reduced it to a magnitude-5.0.The tremors, which lasted about 30 seconds, rattled buildings in Ottawa and Toronto, as well as government offices across the Ottawa River in Gatineau, Quebec.The Parliament building in Ottawa was evacuated, with workers sent home while the building was inspected. Workers also left buildings in Toronto.

The quake came just ahead of the weekend summit of G-20 and G-8 world leaders in Toronto and Huntsville, Ontario.Melanie Lauzon, a Liberal member of Parliament, said her first thought was that Ottawa had been hit with with a very large car bomb, since the quake struck on the eve of the summits.Conservative Senator Lowell Murray said the massive chandeliers of the upper chamber of Parliament began swaying during a mundane debate on energy issues.Initially we thought it might have been an airplane crashing into the building, Murray said. But we were standing around wondering what was going on. And I quickly realized it was an earthquake. And then everybody started shouting out, out, out.Residents of a number of states in the Midwest and Northeast reported feeling the earthquake.In Ohio, people reported the sound of plaster cracking in Cleveland and buildings in Cincinnati gently swaying.

In Cleveland, James Haselden says his office in a renovated 19th century brick building swayed and he heard plastic cracking but saw no damage.The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported on its website that the Canadian quake was felt by some residents in the western Pennsylvania area.The quake also was felt in New Jersey, where the Bergen County administration building in Hackensack was evacuated after employees reported they felt a tremor.Bergen County Police Lt. Christine Francois said numerous people in the Hackensack and Englewood areas called police to report earth tremors. In Michigan, residents from suburban Detroit to Port Huron and Saginaw reported feeling the earthquake.Detroit police spokeswoman Yvette Walker told The Associated Press that police personnel on the upper floors of the downtown headquarters building reported feeling the quake. In New York state, people from Buffalo to Albany and north to Massena on the St. Lawrence River said pets were startled and plates rattled when the quake hit.New York City officials said police received emergency calls came in from all over the city about shaking buildings, but there were no reports of damage.David French, 53-year-old state worker from Cicero, New York, said he was at his computer inside his home near Syracuse when he felt his chair shake.I thought the chair was breaking or something, he said.I looked over and my filing cabinet was moving.The quake prompted several calls to state police in the Adirondacks area.A little shake, nothing too big,is how Trooper Mark Revette described the temblor. It happens. We get a couple of these a year.Kellie Tassone, 40, was at home on Oneida Lake in Cicero. My dog picked his head up just before it happened and kind of looked at me, she said. Then the sliding door started to rattle and the house was shaking.The USGS said the two largest quakes in western Quebec occurred in 1935 at magnitude-6.1 and in 1732 at a magnitude of 6.2, where it caused significant damage in Montreal. The agency said earthquakes cause significant damage in the region about once a decade. Smaller earthquakes are felt three or four times a year.Associated Press writers Thomas J. Sheeran contributed in Cleveland and Dan Sewell in Cincinnati contributed to this report.

ITS NO ACCIDENT WE HAD THE EARTHQUAKE AND STORMS,TORNADOS TODAY JUNE 23,10 WITH THE G-20 GLOBAL GOVERNMENT CRUE ALL IN TORONTO FOR THE NEXT 3 DAYS.GOD IS WARNING US WE BETTER TRUST IN HIM(KING JESUS)AND NOT THESE NEW WORLD ORDER NUTCASE LEADERS WHO WANT TO BE CONTROL FREAKS OVER EARTHS CITIZENS.WITH ALL THESE DISASTERS HAPPENING THE G-20 MUST BE GOING TO TRY TO FORCE WORLD GOVERNMENT ON US FAST NOW, PROBABLE WITH FALSE FLAG SETUP WARS AFTER JUNE 27,10 THE END OF THE MEETING.

G20 fake lake revealed Last Updated: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 | 3:44 PM ET
By Lianne Elliott, CBC News Journalists survey the display of wooden Muskoka chairs, a shallow pool and canoes at the G20 media centre Wednesday. (Lianne Elliott/CBC)

The so-called fake lake was shown to journalists with little fanfare Wednesday before the G20 summit in Toronto.Journalists and officials wandered about the controversial exhibit in the Direct Energy Centre at Exhibition Place to examine the cedar deck, wooden Muskoka chairs, shallow pool and stacked canoes sitting in front a giant screen flashing images of Ontario lakes.The pool, costing $57,000, is meant to simulate the charm of Ontario's cottage country in the heart of downtown Toronto, giving journalists a taste of Huntsville, Ont., where the G8 summit will be held Friday before the G20 begins in Toronto on Saturday.Visitors take their picture in front of the fake lake. (Lianne Elliott/CBC) Huntsville Mayor Claude Doughty, who tested out one of the Muskoka chairs, said the exhibit reminds him of home. He wondered if he'd see images of his house on Fairy Lake flash on the screen in front of him.He figures the display is sure to inspire foreign visitors to travel to the Muskoka area.If you're sitting here, how can you not want to go there? he asked.

But Rakesh Tiwari, publisher of the Hindi Times in Brampton, Ont., says it would have been better to have let foreign journalists visit Muskoka in person, rather than forcing them to cover the summit from the media centre in Toronto and having them make do with a fake Muskoka setting.Only a few reporters have access to the facilities in Huntsville.Let them see it with their own eyes, Tiwari said.Rather than being here, let them go there.

Cost under fire
The lake is part of a $1.9-million tourism pavilion called Experience Canada in the summit media centre that has come under criticism for being too costly.The technology exhibit showcases the best in Canadian innovation. (Lianne Elliott/CBC)
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has called the lake and other summit spending an astonishing waste of taxpayers' money. But Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the pavilion is a $2-million marketing project that is an opportunity that can't be missed.Motosada Matano, a Japanese press officer travelling with the 160 Japanese journalists covering the summit, says the display simply reinforced the image of Canada he already has.It's exactly the image I imagine, the beautiful scenery, said Matano, who had never been to Canada before he arrived three days ago.The 3,700-square-metre Experience Canada pavilion includes the lake display to feature Ontario's northern wilderness and an urban section to promote Ontario businesses and innovations. A reception area offers refreshments, including free beer and wine, from all parts of Ontario.The Experience Canada space will host over 3,000 media and other guests, and will serve to highlight Canada's pristine natural beauty, as well as promote leading Canadian businesses and industries, according to a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office.Dan Arnold's company, Arius 3D of Mississauga, Ont., used an iPad to show off the 3-D images it creates to be used in virtual museums, video games and movies. Although he did only a few demonstrations Wednesday afternoon, he expects to be busier as journalists make their way to the media centre over the next five days.It's good to get this opportunity, he said.The government is expected to give a briefing on the lake and media centre features at 6 p.m. ET.Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/06/23/g20-fake-lake.html#ixzz0rjW2NkGL

EU democracy instrument continues to cause headaches
HONOR MAHONY 23.06.2010 @ 17:42 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - It is meant to be the most clear democratising feature of the EU's new rulebook, the Lisbon Treaty, but implementation of the citizen's initiative is a political minefield and is prompting much discussion about the danger of the tool turning into a mockery of democracy.EU politicians are keen to talk up the European citizens' Initiative (ECI), a clause in the EU treaty obliging the European Commission to consider legislating on any idea supported by 1 million European citizens.Institutional affairs commissioner Maros Sefcovic calls it a "real step forward in the democratic life of Europe. Parliament vice-president Silvana Koch-Mehrin, a German liberal, invokes Confucius and Rousseau, the Chinese and French philosophers, to explain its importance.But seven months after the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, Brussels institutions are struggling to get the right tone and the balance for the direct democracy law - partly because it is not clear to what extent and how citizens will use it.We are building something new - something with ramifications that are difficult to foresee now, says Mr Sefcovic.

Earlier in June, the draft legislation went to member states for discussion and has now landed in the parliament's lap. The modified proposal sees the commission decides at the moment it registers the initiative if it is fundamentally silly or against European values.The admissibility of the initiative will then be decided once 100,000 signatures have been gathered. Meanwhile most member states are looking to have signatories provide ID numbers and are fretting about verifying the signatures - pushing to have them all checked.At a hearing on the issue organised by the parliament's Liberal group on Tuesday (22 June), democracy and civil society activists lined up to criticise the proposal.They argued that the system was too bureaucratic and off-putting for ordinary citizens and raised concerns about the vagueness of the wording allowing the commission to reject a proposal.Mario Tenreiro, a commission official working on the issue, dismissed the censorship concerns. All MEPs have to wear blue and stars - should we register this? I don't think so,he said, attempting to highlight how clear cut such decisions will be.

Campaigners are also worried that member states' preoccupation with security issues - most opted to have signatories hand over their ID numbers and want all signatures to be verified - will put off citizens and make the process too lengthy.I don't want my ID spread about the internet,said Tony Venables, from the European Citizen Action Service, while Jorgo Riss, from Greenpeace, said member states' mindset must be changed away from trying to authenticate every signature to examining a percentage of signatures instead.Others took issue with the commission's argument that 100,000 signatures have to be gathered before admissibility is considered, arguing it is too burdensome. The commission says that deciding on admissibility too early would see screeching media headlines like Brussels gives greenlight to abortion.Piotr Kaczynski, from the Brussels-based Centre for European Policy Studies, focused on potential problems after 1 million signatures from the required nine member states are gathered.

Debate-making instrument

The draft rules require that all the signatures and information are then destroyed. According to Mr Kaczynski, however, at the very least the email address should be kept so if the commission decides not to legislate on the issue, citizens are told why. Otherwise this kills the conversation that could be generated by these initiatives,he said. The academic also argued that it is not enough for the commission to say that it is not permitted within the EU treaties to act on an initiative, it should look around to find a mandate from an EU institution or body that does. Participants in Tuesday's discussion were quick to note that although the EU treaty formally bans a bailout of a member state, governments recently found a way around the wording.This is not a law-making instrument, this is a debate-making instrument, says Mr Kaczynski.The Commission would like to see the new law agreed by 1 December, the first year anniversary of the Lisbon Treaty. But this looks unlikely as the parliamentary process is being delayed due to planned extra consultations.

Diana Wallis, a UK Liberal MEP dealing with the issue for the petitions committee, said parliament could enhance this serious instrument by organising hearings on subjects raised by certain initiatives. The EU assembly could also use its right to ask the commission to act - presenting a double whammy to the commission which would be fairly convincing.One citizen present at the debate showed that there is still much work to be done to make it user-friendly. As an EU citizen I feel very confused and lost in all the different intricacies of the proposal, she said.

EU supplies dip as Minsk issues fresh gas ultimatum
ANDREW RETTMAN 23.06.2010 @ 17:37 CET

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Hopes of a quick end to the Belarus-Russia gas war hitting EU supplies were dashed on Wednesday (23 June) after Belarus underpaid Russia and issued a new ultimatum.Belarus deputy PM Vladimir Semashko said Minsk had borrowed $200 million from undisclosed sources and paid Russia $187 million extra for 2010 gas, the independent Belarusian news agency Belapan reported. The amount falls short of the $192 million that Russia is demanding, however.Belarus also issued an ultimatum of its own: it said that if Russia does not pay it $260 million in what it calls outstanding transit fees by 9am Brussels time on Thursday it will shut down gas transit to Germany, Lithuania, Poland and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

Lithuania, which relies on Russia for 100 percent of its gas needs, felt the impact of the three-day-old gas dispute on Wednesday when pressure in its pipelines fell by 30 percent at noon local time. The figure hit 40 percent as the day went on.
Kaliningrad, which houses Russian military facilities and gets all its gas via Lithuania, had the same knock-on effect.The turn of events saw Lithuanian President and ex-EU commissioner Dalia Grybauskaite say the EU should change rules on gas-sharing between member states at times of crisis, a subject currently under discussion in the EU Council.The repeated form of dealing with relations, especially in the field of energy, between Russia and other countries should raise concern for the whole of Europe, she told a press conference. That is why we are saying that the security of supply of gas and other energy sources should be guaranteed, particularly for EU countries.Belarusian analysts say the gas conflict has nothing to do with money and everything to do with Russia trying to drag Belarus into a Customs Union on Russian terms.The EU last year in its flagship Eastern Partnership policy for post-Soviet countries offered Minsk the chance to one day join a free trade zone with the EU that is to resemble the European Free Trade Association it currently shares with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. But the Russian customs scheme would put a spanner in the works, with some provisions, for example, to see import tariffs on EU goods, making new European cars 50 percent more expensive than today and used ones 700 percent more pricy.Belarus' authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has harangued against Russia in the past days, saying the Kremlin has forgotten that Belarusians and Russians died side-by-side fighting Hitler in World War II.Russia is sticking to its ground. The latest statements from Moscow said it has paid for the transit fees in question, but there is a delay in the paperwork to complete the transaction.

TO LIVE IN A SHELTER FOR 7 YEAR-BRIGITE GABRIEL
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2317
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2318

ISRAELS INHERITED LAND IN THE FUTURE
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DEUTERONOMY 7:7-8
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people;(ISRAEL) for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you,(ISRAEL) and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

ZECHARIAH 2:8
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

JEREMIAH 3:14
14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you:(ISRAEL) and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,(ISRAEL) in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

ISAIAH 65:9,22
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect (ISRAEL) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

ISAIAH 56:5
5 Even unto them (ISRAELIS) will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name,(ISRAEL) that shall not be cut off.

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.

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PMW: PA Students Turn Israel into Palestine by David Lev JUNE 23,10

Another clue as to the Palestinian Authority's true stance on how a future Palestinian state would coexist with Israel came in a PA TV program broadcast recently. On the program, called The Stars, in which PA university students compete to answer questions, one student demonstrated what he had learned about Israel in the PA school system: that it does not exist altogether.The latest evidence of what the PA really thinks about Israel and Israelis has just been received from Palestinian Media Watch, which monitors Arab media in order to understand the real messages the PA is presenting to its residents, despite the often positive-sounding messages from PA leaders.PMW says that the fact that Palestinian students routinely depict a world in which Israel does not exist and its land as part of Palestine shows the success of PA education.On the program, a student from Bethlehem University, responding to a question about the size of Jordan, said that Jordan is larger than Palestine. Palestine is 27,000 sq. km. and it [Jordan] is approximately 3times larger than Palestine - i.e., 90,000 sq. km.

The total amount of land in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza – the land the PA claims it wants for its state when speaking to Israelis and the West – is less than 7,000 square kilometers. The 27,000 square kilometer figure that the student refers to as Palestine is the total amount of land in Israel before the disengagement, that is including Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. In its analysis of the program, PMW says that the fact that Palestinian students routinely depict a world in which Israel does not exist and its land as part of Palestine shows the success of PA education. PA schoolbooks and PA educational TV consistently present a state of Palestine that encompasses all of Israel and has an area of 27,000 sq. km.If Israel exists, the group says, Palestine can never be more than 10,000 square kilometers. The combined area of the West Bank (5,860 sq. km.) and the Gaza Strip (360 sq. km.) is 6,220 sq. km. All of Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip together equal 26,990 sq. km. PA education that Palestine alone is 27.000 sq. km. teaches children to envision a world without Israel,PMW said.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Jon Voight Rips Obama for Putting Israel in Harm's Way
by Malkah Fleisher JUNE 23,10

An American actor known for his allegiance with Israel has authored a scathing open letter to US President Barack Obama, accusing him of putting Israel in harm's way.
Academy Award-winning actor and ardent Israel supporter Jon Voight published a missive to the US president in The Washington Times on June 22.You will be the first American president that lied to the Jewish people, and the American people as well, when you said that you would defend Israel… against all their enemies,the letter began.Voight went on to accuse President Obama of propagandiz[ing] Israel and promot[ing] anti-Semitism throughout the world.You have brought this to a people who have given the world the Ten Commandments and most laws we live by today,Voight said, and signed the letter, With heartfelt and deep concern for America and Israel.

In early June, following a brutal attack against Israel Defense Forces soldiers by self-described peace activists aboard the vessel Mavi Marmara headed for Gaza, and the world's subsequent fervent anti-Israel backlash, Voight joined a demonstration of several thousand people gathered in Los Angeles to stand with Israel.Voight has been consistent in his defense of Israel, arriving in the Jewish state in May 2008 to celebrate Israel's 60th birthday, and visiting the missile-bombarded town of Sderot in the country's south, near Gaza. During his visit, he was interviewed by Israel National Radio's Yishai Fleisher, and reminded listeners those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed. Israel National News.com)

Rivlin: By Condemning Israel, World Caters to Terrorism
by Hillel Fendel JUNE 23,10

Former Italian Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini, considered to be Italy's second-most popular politician, was greeted in the Knesset today with warm applause. Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin, in his remarks, castigated the world's indifference to the threat of terrorism.Fini, second only to Prime Minister Berlusconi in popularity, currently serves as President of Italy's Chamber of Deputies, and is a member of the center-right People of Freedom party. Speaker Rivlin headed a ceremonious reception ceremony for his Italian counterpart. The two met just six months ago when Rivlin was in Italy at the invitation of the local Jewish community.

Rivlin: No Wonder Turkey Chooses the Pro-Terror States
Rivlin had some pithy, sharp remarks to say about the international community's weak stance towards the threat of global terrorism. He said that given the perception that the anti-terror camp is weak, it's no wonder that a country like Turkey chooses to change sides and throw its lot with the terror-supporting nations.Speaking before the entire Knesset, Rivlin sharply criticized the world's attitude towards Israel in the flotilla incident: The world sinned by forcing Israel to choose between fighting terrorism and protecting its citizens, or retaining good international relations. This expresses the weakness and helplessness of many countries in the face of the spread of terrorism, and symbolizes the decline and decay of the world's morals.

Nations' Inability to Face the Terrorism Danger
To my sorrow, said Rivlin, the world's approach to Israel, especially in Europe, and its lack of support for Israel's fight against the terrorist organizations, have created a dangerous equation: If Israel goes out to war to protect its citizens, it will face a very difficult additional front on the diplomatic and PR plane, and will pay in the form of international isolation, wall-to-wall condemnations, and the cooling off of diplomatic relations. This is an expression of the nations' inability to present an uncompromising position vis-à-vis the terrorism danger.Israel had no choice in the flotilla incident,Rivlin said.Its extensive diplomatic efforts and presentation of various alternatives for getting the goods to Gaza were all rejected by the flotilla organizers. And the world, instead of analyzing the incident - the Israeli efforts that preceded it and the true motives of the organizers – most nations chose to… prefer their own narrow interests instead of the values that are supposed to guide them… Most of the nations chose to join the festival of hypocrisy and put Israel on trial in a kangaroo court.

Countries Seek Out the Rising Power
Rivlin the delivered the final punch: In light of the weakness being broadcast by the international community towards terrorism and the organizations that back, is it any wonder that there are countries who find it more attractive to join the axis of evil than to join the European Union? Is it any wonder that there are governments that are willing to wipe out in one shot their countries' achievements and to initiate in an institutionalized manner the strengthening of a debased murderous organization? Referring specifically to Turkey, which has essentially erased its good relations with Israel of late, Rivlin said, I don't know the hidden motives of Turkey's Prime Minister [Erdogan], but it is not hard to recognize his recent choices as a new strategy that is adapted to the changing balance of power between the countries that support terrorism and those that fight it. Unfortunately, the world's apathy and the lack of support for those countries that fight against terrorism also contribute to the process in which Turkey is driven into the outstretched arms of [Gaza-Hamas leader] Haniyeh and [Iran's] Ahmadinejad. And now we watch with concern as other countries follow Turkey's lead and begin to wonder which is the rising power and to which camp is it more worthwhile to belong.Rivlin thanked his guest for Italy's strong stance on behalf of Israel at all of the most recent diplomatic junctions, beginning with Operation Cast Lead, and the Durban conference, and more recent ones as well. Your country stands firmly behind the values of the free world, without caving in to cold and narrow interests.Fini, for his part, told Rivlin during their meeting this morning that Israel is democracy at its best… The demand for an inquiry into the flotilla incident is an example of the world's pre-conceived notions [against Israel].(IsraelNationalNews.com)

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Reports: IAF Landed at Saudi Base, US Troops near Iran Border
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu JUNE 23,10

The Israeli Air Force recently unloaded military equipment at a Saudi Arabia base, a semi-official Iranian news agency claimed Wednesday, while a large American force has massed in Azerbaijan, which is on the northwest border of Iran.Both reports follow by less than a week the Pentagon’s confirmation that an unusually large American fleet sailed through the Suez Canal Saturday. Several reports stated that an Israeli ship joined the armada.The Pentagon played down the news, saying the American maneuvers were routine. However, a report by Iran on Wednesday that it has enriched dozens of pounds of 17 per cent enriched uranium serves as a reminder that time is running out to stop Iran from being able to produce a nuclear weapon.Iran’s Fars News Agency said the Israeli military aircraft landed 10 days ago at the Saudi base near the city of Tabuk, located in northwest Saudi Arabia, one of the closest areas in the oil kingdom to Iran.Fars said that the Tabuk base will be the central station for an Israeli attack on Iran. It quoted an Islamic news site that a commercial airline passenger said the airport in Tabuk was closed to all other traffic during the alleged Israeli landings. The passenger said that no reasonable explanation was given for shutting down the airport and those passengers were compensated financially and booked in four-star hotels.The relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel have become the talk of the town, the passenger added. The chief authority in Tabuk, Prince Fahd ben Sultan, was reported be coordinating the cooperation with Israel.

Azerbaijan
Iran’s government-funded Press TV reported that the Revolutionary Guards began closely patrolling the Islamic Republic’s northwestern border after noticing the American forces, which Iran claimed also included Israeli troops. Azerbaijan’s independent Trend news site also reported on Wednesday that American armed forces are in the country, which is in an armed conflict with rebels.Revolutionary Guards Brigadier General Mehdi Moini said Tuesday that his forces are mobilized due to the presence of American and Israeli forces on the western border. The Guards reportedly have called in tanks and anti-aircraft units to the area in what amounts to a war alert.

Enriched Uranium
As signs point to a higher American-Israeli military profile aimed at Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi, the Islamic Republic’s vice president and director of the nuclear program, announced Wednesday that Iran has produced another 37 pounds of uranium enriched to 20 percent. The production of the uranium defies United Nations demands that Iran stop its unsupervised nuclear development, although the 20 percent level is far below level that is needed to build a nuclear weapon.Potentially, we can produce 5 kilograms (11 pounds) a month, but we are not in a hurry over this, Salehi told the semiofficial ISNA news agency. (IsraelNationalNews.com)

Iran produced 17 kgs of further enriched uranium By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jun 23, 7:53 am ET

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's nuclear chief said Wednesday his country has produced 17 kilograms of uranium enriched to 20 percent, defying U.N. demands to halt the controversial program.The 20 percent level, needed to produce fuel for a medical research reactor, is far below the more than 90 percent required to build a nuclear weapon, but U.S. officials have expressed concern Iran may be moving closer to the ability to reach weapons-grade level.The United States and its allies accuse Iran of seeking to acquire atomic weapons. Tehran denies the charge, saying its nuclear program is geared toward generating electricity.Iran has been producing the 20 percent enriched material since February. The new figure of 17 kilograms — about 37 pounds — was announced by Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi, who heads Iran's nuclear program.Potentially, we can produce 5 kilograms (11 pounds) a month but we are not in a hurry over this, Salehi said, according to the semiofficial ISNA news agency.

The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution two weeks ago strengthening sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear program and calling on individual countries and blocs of nations to expand their own sanctions regimes on Iranian individuals and organizations.The European Union followed with new sanctions, and last week the U.S. Treasury Department said it would restrict economic contacts with some three dozen additional individuals and companies alleged to be helping Iran develop its nuclear and missile programs and evade international penalties.Iran is producing the further enriched material from its stocks of low enriched uranium, which at 3.5 percent purity is the level needed to fuel an electricity-generating reactor.Iran says it needs the 20 percent enriched uranium to produce fuel rods to power a research reactor that produces isotopes for treating cancer and other medical material. Salehi said Iran possesses the technology needed to produce the fuel rods and the first should be ready sometime next spring.He said Iran plans to build four new reactors for atomic medical research around the country, saying the reactors will be for radioactive isotopes for medical needs of patients in Iran and abroad.The United Nations has demanded Iran halt all enrichment activities, but Iran says it has a right to the program to fuel a peaceful nuclear program.

Mubarak Says Israel Shirking Responsibility to Gaza
by Hana Levi Julian JUNE 23,10

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak pulled the Gaza card in a speech to the country’s parliament on Wednesday, accusing Israel of shirking its responsibility to the region.Mubarak, who is grooming his son Gamal for a run to replace him as leader of the nation in the November 2011 elections, told Egyptian lawmakers The Palestinian issue is a top priority of his foreign policy. We are exerting efforts to lift the Israeli blockade on Gaza,Mubarak said, although he failed to point out that both Egypt and Israel have agreed for years on the need to prevent Hamas from importing weapons and other ordnance with which to create an Iranian-sponsored base of operations. Earlier this month, Cairo opened its border at the Rafiah crossing indefinitely to allow hundreds of thousands of Gazans to cross in and out of the region.

It was not clear, however, how long Mubarak would allow the border to remain open. Cairo has in the past been notorious for closing the terminal without warning, often leaving residents stranded for weeks in both Gaza and Egypt.Israel announced Sunday that it would change its policy and expand the list of goods allowed through the crossings on humanitarian aid deliveries into Gaza.Among the items still on the blockade contraband list, however, are weapons, ammunition, and dual-use items such as concrete, metal and other construction materials that could be used to build bunkers, tunnels and rockets. The construction materials will be used solely under the supervision of international aid organizations, according to the new regulations.

Mubarak claimed in his speech that Israel is trying to maintain the split between Hamas terrorist-controlled Gaza and the Fatah-led areas of the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria. This, he said, is an attempt to derail the proximity talks and runs counter to the reconciliation that Egypt is trying to achieve between the two rival factions. (IsraelNationalNews.com)

Israel: Flotillas aim to get weapons to Gaza By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jun 23, 4:34 pm ET

JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged Wednesday that the real motivation behind plans to send blockade-busting ships toward Gaza is to allow free flow of weapons into the Palestinian territory.Netanyahu spoke as preparations were under way to send several ships carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists toward Gaza, setting up potential confrontations at sea.On May 31, Israeli naval commandos killed nine pro-Palestinian activists in clashes aboard a Turkish ship headed for Gaza, setting off a world outcry and forcing Israel to ease its three-year-old blockade.Israel already has warned archenemy Iran to drop its plan to send a blockade-busting ship to Gaza. The Iranian ship is one of several that activists say will head for Gaza in the next few months. One is said to be heading for Gaza from Lebanon within days.On Wednesday, Lebanon warned that it would hold Israel responsible for any further attacks on blockade-busting ships.Netanyahu said his government is drawing up a list of weapons and items with military uses that will not be allowed into Gaza so that we can permit all the rest.He said the new list will be made public in the coming days.

In Washington, where Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the U.S. would be a part of that conversation of drawing up the list.Barak assured Clinton that building materials would be let in for a significant increase in the projects that will go forward in Gaza, Crowley said.Since the violent 2007 takeover of Gaza by Hamas — an Islamic militant group responsible for firing thousands of rockets at Israeli border communities — Israel has let in only limited humanitarian supplies, including basic foods and medicine.Construction materials, which Israel maintains Hamas could use to make weapons and build bunkers, were barred, and the vast majority of Gaza's 1.5 million people could not travel. The blockade strangled the already poor territory's economy but failed to undermine Hamas, one of the blockade's main goals.Under Israel's new policy, approved Sunday, Anyone who wants to bring products can do so — food, toys, medicines, anything, Netanyahu said Wednesday at his Jerusalem office, where he was meeting Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann.Israel insists that all cargo from the flotillas must be inspected at one of its ports to remove weapons, and then the aid supplies would be transferred over land to Gaza. Flotilla organizers have rejected this procedure, prompting Israel to take control of the boats at sea and bring them to Ashdod port.The May 31 flotilla was made up of six ships, and violence erupted on only one of them. Israel says its commandos were attacked with iron bars, clubs and knives and opened fire in self-defense.

Flotilla organizers say the Israeli gunfire was unprovoked.Netanyahu said the removal of the ban on civilian products shows that the object of the new flotillas is to stage a provocation to break the military quarantine, not the civilian quarantine, that is, the quarantine against missiles, rockets and other weapons.
Netanyahu did not repeat earlier Israeli vows to stop all ships heading for Gaza. Israel's military, stung by the international outrage over its bloody attack on the Turkish flotilla, has been drilling new procedures for stopping ships at sea.Two ships carrying aid are planning to make the trip to Gaza from Lebanon. Lebanese authorities have so far granted one of them permission to sail first to Cyprus and not directly to Gaza because Lebanon and Israel are technically at war. A Lebanese official said Lebanon sent a letter to the U.N. holding Israel responsible for any attack on the ships, noting Lebanon cannot stop ships from leaving its ports if they comply with its law. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak publicly due to the sensitivity of the issue. Associated Press writer Zeina Karam in Beirut and Matthew Lee in Washington, D.C. contributed to this report.

PESTILENCES (CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS)

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(CHEMICAL,BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

POISONED WATERS

REVELATION 8:8-11
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood:(bitter,Poisoned) and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.(poisoned)

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

Cap again collecting oil from Gulf of Mexico leak By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 23,10

NEW ORLEANS – Oil had spewed uncontrolled into the Gulf of Mexico for much of the day Wednesday before engineers reattached a cap being used to contain the gusher and direct some of the crude to a surface ship.The logistics coordinator onboard the Discoverer Enterpriser, the ship that has been siphoning the oil, told The Associated Press that after more than 10 hours, the system was again collecting the crude. The crewmember, speaking from the bridge of the ship, said the cap was placed back on the gusher around 8 p.m. CDT. He asked not to be identified by name because he was not authorized to provide the information.BP later confirmed the cap was back in place, but said it had been hooked up about an hour and half earlier. The coordinator said it would take a little time for the system to get ramped back up.

Most recently, the system, which has been in place since June 4, was sucking up about 29,000 gallons an hour, crude that spewed back into the Gulf on Wednesday unabated. At that rate, it could mean about 290,000 extra gallons escaped into the water before the system restarted. Another ship was still collecting a smaller amount of oil and burning it on the surface.BP engineers removed the cap after the mishap because fluid seemed to be leaking, creating a possible safety hazard because of the flames above, and they were concerned ice-like crystals might clog it.The latest problem with the nine-week effort to stop the gusher came as thick pools of oil washed up on Pensacola Beach in Florida and the Obama administration sought to resurrect a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling.In court papers, the Justice Department said it has asked a judge to delay a court ruling by U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman in New Orleans that overturned the moratorium. The Interior Department imposed it last month after the disaster, halting approval of any new permits for deepwater projects and suspending drilling on 33 exploratory wells.

Under the worst-case scenario, as much as 104,000 gallons an hour — 2.5 million gallons a day — is flowing from the site where the offshore rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20, killing 11 workers.Bob Dudley, the BP managing director who took over the spill response from his company's embattled CEO Wednesday, had said earlier that engineers expected to replace the cap in less than a day.It's a disruption, and the crew again did exactly the right thing because they were concerned about safety, he said. It's a setback, and now we will go back into operation and show how this technology can work.When the robot bumped into the equipment just before 10 a.m., gas rose through a vent that carries warm water down to prevent ice-like crystals from forming in the machinery, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said.Crews were checking to see if the crystals called hydrates had formed before attempting to put the cap back on.Ed Overton, a professor emeritus of environmental science at Louisiana State University, said he suspects crews are pumping air into the line to flush out any water before they try to reattach the cap.It sounds pretty easy and straightforward, but nothing is easy and straightforward when you're doing it remotely from a mile away, he said.

In May, a similar problem doomed the effort to put a bigger containment device over the blown-out well. BP had to abandon the four-story box after the crystals clogged it, threatening to make it float away.The smaller cap had worked until now. To get it to the seafloor, though, crews had to slice away a section of the leaking pipe, meaning the flow of oil could be stronger now than before.Meanwhile, pools of oil washed up along miles of national park and Pensacola Beach shoreline and health advisories against swimming and fishing in the once-pristine waters were extended for 33 miles east from the Alabama border.It's pretty ugly, there's no question about it, Gov. Charlie Crist said. The oil had a chemical stench as it baked in the afternoon heat. The beach looked as if it had been paved with a 6-foot-wide ribbon of asphalt, much different from the tar balls that washed up two weeks earlier. This used to be a place where you could come and forget about all your cares in the world,said Nancy Berry, who fought back tears as she watched her two grandsons play in the sand far from the shore. Park rangers in the Gulf Islands National Seashore helped to rescue an oily young dolphin found beached in the sand.Ranger Bobbie Visnovske said a family found the dolphin Wednesday, and wildlife officers carried it into shallow water for immediate resuscitation. They later transported it to a rehabilitation center in Panama City, about 100 miles to the east. The Obama administration was plotting its next steps Wednesday on the drilling halt. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a statement that within the next few days he would issue a new order imposing a moratorium that eliminates any doubt it is needed and appropriate.It's important that we don't move forward with new drilling until we know it can be done in a safe way, he told a Senate subcommittee. Attorneys for the oilfield services companies that sued over the moratorium filed court papers accusing the Obama administration of ignoring Feldman's decision. They said Salazar's comments about a new moratorium have had a chilling effect on the resumption of drilling.Several companies, including Shell and Marathon Oil, said they would await the outcome of any appeals before they start drilling again.
Associated Press writers Lisa Leff in New Orleans, Curt Anderson in Miami, Melissa Nelson in Pensacola, Fla., and Harry R. Weber in Atlanta contributed to this report.

(This version CORRECTS Restores much of the background. Changes byline. Adds that cap back on and that adminstration appealed drilling moratorium. Corrects to 10 hours and adds that BP confirms cap back on. Moving on general news and financial services. AP Video.)

SPAIN #11 IN THE EU

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast(THE EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TR BLOCKS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:(10 NATIONS) and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(BE HEAD OF 3 KINGS OR NATIONS).

Spanish EU presidency marred by economic crisis by Pierre Ausseill - JUNE 23,10

MADRID (AFP) – Spain's ambitious presidency of the EU was eclipsed by the European debt crisis which thrust the country's fragile economy into the global spotlight and weakened the Spanish government, analysts said.Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero had planned to use the six-month presidency of the 27-nation bloc, which wraps up on July 1 when Belgium takes over, to bolster his international stature.But nothing went as planned as the eruption of the Greek debt crisis, and the subsequent fears that it could spread to other southern European nations like Spain and Portugal, caused stock markets and the euro single currency to plunge.

Under pressure by EU heavyweight Germany, the Spanish government adopted unpopular austerity measures, including public sector spending cuts, aimed at slashing a public deficit that hit 11.2 percent of gross domestic product in 2009, the third-highest after Greece and Ireland.The government also adopted an overhaul of its rigid labour market as recommended by the International Monetary Fund to fight an unemployment rate of 20 percent.The reforms, which make it easier and less expensive to fire workers, put an end to Zapatero's honeymoon with the nation's unions, which have called a general strike for September 29, and caused his popularity to drop.

Spain was ending its stint as EU president as a protectorate of the bloc with its economy managed from abroad, the leader of the main opposition Popular Party, Mariano Rajoy, charged Wednesday during a debate with Zapatero in parliament.The circumstances of the Greek crisis and the widespread problem of fiscal deficits overtook Spain as they would have overtaken any rotating presidency, said Ignacio Molina, a Europe analyst with the Elcano Institute think tank in Madrid.But Spain also emerged as one of the weakest countries in this scenario. It found itself without a margin for manoeuvre, being in the position of judge and litigant at the same time. It was difficult for other countries to consider it a neutral president, he added.Hierlemann Dominik, a specialist in European affairs at German's Bertelsmann Foundation, said all other priorities such as relations with the Maghreb, the rights of women, were swept away by the crisis in the euro, they were marginalized.On the diplomatic front Spain's presidency of the EU was marked by the cancellation of two key summits, one with the United States in May and the other with the Mediterranean Union in June.The EU-US summit was called off after US President Barack Obama cancelled the trip citing his busy schedule while the Mediterranean Union summit was postponed to give time for progress in indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinians.The death of Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata in February torpedoed Spain's bid to get the EU to soften its common position regarding the communist island.Spain did achieve its goals for the EU-Latin America summit held last month with the announcement of a free trade agreement between the bloc and Central America and the relaunch of free trade talks with South American trading bloc Mercosur, which is made up of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay.

Zapatero defended Spain's performance during the EU presidency, saying Wednesday it had been satisfactory and useful.He pointed to the approval at an EU summit last week of Madrid's proposal to make bank stress tests public -- which he said would be fundamental to restore calm in the markets -- as an example of the success of the Spanish presidency.We had to deal with difficult circumstances for the European Union and also for our country, he added.

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL

AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

WARS AND RUMURS OF WARS.

MATTHEW 24:6
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

MARK 13:7
7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.

Obama to launch Asian diplomacy push
JUNE 23,10

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama, twice forced to cancel a trip to Asia this year, will launch a major diplomatic push on the region by meeting five key leaders at this weekend's G20 summit.The White House said Obama would have meetings in Toronto with the leaders of India, China, South Korea, Japan and Indonesia, and five of his six bilateral encounters there will focus on Asia.Aides said Obama wanted to make a statement about the importance with which he views US links with the dynamic region, ahead of a planned trip to India, South Korea and Japan in November.You'll note that five out of the six bilaterals mentioned are with Asia-Pacific countries, a senior administration official told reporters.That is, I think, an eloquent demonstration of the importance that the president attaches to Asia, the importance of Asia to our political security and economic interests.

It's an area of rising influence globally.Obama, who will also attend a G8 summit in Canada, will discuss key global issues, including emerging from the worst economic crisis in decades, and security threats including North Korea with the Asian leaders, aides said.He will hold the latest of his regular meetings with Chinese President Hu Jintao, which will take place days after Beijing moved towards a key US foreign policy goal, letting the yuan trade more freely against the dollar.We of course have been cooperating and coordinating closely with China on a number of leading priorities heading into this summit, both in terms of the global economy and in terms of security issues, an official said.The administration says its relationship with China is productive, despite disagreements on some key issues, and points to the recently passed UN Security Council sanctions on Iran as the fruit of good ties with Beijing.Obama is also likely to discuss North Korea's nuclear challenge with Hu, and the aftermath of the sinking of a South Korean naval vessel, which an investigation blamed on Pyongyang.North Korea will also be the dominant issue when Obama meets South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak also on Saturday.

The focus of this meeting will be security and alliance issues in the wake of the sinking of the (ship) as the result of a torpedo attack by North Korea, an official said.The meeting will be a public and a private demonstration of our strong solidarity with our South Korean ally in the wake of this episode.On Sunday, Obama will have breakfast in Toronto with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia.
The US leader was forced to cancel a planned visit to Indonesia, a country where he spent four years as a boy, earlier this month, as the Gulf of Mexico oil spill escalated into America's worst environmental crisis.Earlier in the year, a previous attempt to visit Indonesia was dropped as Obama successfully lobbied for his landmark health care reform bill.Regrettably, (Obama) has not been able to make it to Indonesia yet, but he very much wants to continue the close coordination that we have with Indonesia on a number of issues, the official said. Obama will also meet Sunday with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, as a precursor to his promised trip to India in November -- when he is also due to attend the next G20 summit in South Korea and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) in Japan. The president will also have his first encounter with new Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, after he replaced Yukio Hatoyama, who lost his job amid a row over the location of a US base.Obama and Kan will also likely discuss North Korea and Iran.

THE WIMPS IN THE WHITE HOUSE-GENERAL STAN

OBAMA HIRED THIS GENERAL AND THE GENERAL OVIOUSLY FOUND OUT HOW CRIMINAL THIS ADMINISTRATION REALLY IS.NOW THE TRUTH COMES OUT.REPORTS HAVE IT GENERAL STAN WILL RESIGN.I SURE WOULD.WHO WANTS TO LEAD A DICTATOR FALSE FLAG WAR LEADER SOETORO-OBAMA.AT 1:30PM JUNE 23,10 THE GENERAL HAS OFFICIALLY RESIGNED.GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS WILL TAKE OVER HIS JOB.

GENERAL REPORT FROM FOX
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4250529/oval-office-showdown

RAW DATA: McChrystal Biography Published June 22, 2010| FOXNews.com United States Army SOURCE OF COMMISSIONED SERVICE: USMA EDUCATIONAL DEGREES

United States Military Academy - BS - No Major
United States Naval War College - MA - National Security and Strategic Studies
Salve Regina University - MS - International Relations

MILITARY SCHOOLS ATTENDED
Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced Courses
United States Naval Command and Staff College
Senior Service College Fellowship Harvard University

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Spanish

PROMOTIONS DATE OF APPOINTMENT

2LT 2 Jun 76
1LT 2 Jun 78
CPT 1 Aug 80
MAJ 1 Jul 87
LTC 1 Sep 92
COL 1 Sep 96
BG 1 Jan 01
MG 1 May 04
LTG 16 Feb 06
GEN 11 Jun 09

FROM TO ASSIGNMENT

Nov 76 Feb 78 Weapons Platoon Leader, C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Feb 78 Jul 78 Rifle Platoon Leader, C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Jul 78 Nov 78 Executive Officer, C Company, 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Nov 78 Apr 79 Student, Special Forces Officer Course, Special Forces School, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Apr 79 Jun 80 Commander, Detachment A, A Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Jun 80 Feb 81 Student, Infantry Officer Advanced Course, United States Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia
Feb 81 Mar 82 S2/S3 (Intelligence/Operations), United Nations Command Support GroupJoint Security Area, Korea
Mar 82 Nov 82 Training Officer, Directorate of Plans and Training, A Company, Headquarters Command, Fort Stewart, Georgia
Nov 82 Sep 84 Commander, A Company, 3d Battalion, 19th Infantry, 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Stewart, Georgia
Sep 84 Sep 85 S3 (Operations), 3d Battalion, 19th Infantry, 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Stewart, Georgia
Sep 85 Jan 86 Liaison Officer, 3d Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia
Jan 86 May 87 Commander, A Company, 3d Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia
May 87 Apr 88 Liaison Officer, 3d Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia
Apr 88 Jun 89 S3 (Operations), 3d Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia
Jun 89 Jun 90 Student, Command and Staff Course, United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island
Jun 90 Apr 93 Army Special Operations Action Officer, J3, Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina and OPERATIONS DESERT SHIELD/STORM, Saudi Arabia
Apr 93 Nov 94 Commander, 2d Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Nov 94 Jun 96 Commander, 2d Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Lewis, Washington
Jun 96 Jun 97 Senior Service College Fellowship, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jun 97 Aug 99 Commander, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Georgia
Aug 99 Jun 00 Military Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York
Jun 00 Jun 01 Assistant Division Commander (Operations), 82d Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina to include duty as Commander, Combined Joint Task Force Kuwait, Camp Doha, Kuwait
Jun 01 Jul 02 Chief of Staff, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, Fort Bragg, North Carolina to include duty as Chief of Staff, Combined Joint Task Force180, OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, Afghanistan

Jul 02 Sep 03 Vice Director for Operations, J3, The Joint Staff, Washington, DC
Sep 03 Feb 06 Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Feb 06 Jun 08 Commander, Joint Special Operations Command/Commander, Joint Special Operations Command Forward, United States Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Aug 08 Jun 09 Director, The Joint Staff, Washington, DC
Jun 09 Present Commander, International Security Assistance Force/Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan, OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, Afghanistan

SUMMARY OF JOINT ASSIGNMENTS (Date of assignment and rank)

S2/S3 (Intelligence/Operations), United Nations Command Support Group Joint Security Area, Korea (Feb 81-Mar 82, Captain)
Army Special Operations Action Officer, J3, Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina and OPERATIONS DESERT SHIELD/STORM, Saudi Arabia Jun 90-Apr 93 Major/Lieutenant Colonel)
Chief of Staff, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, Fort Bragg, North Carolina to include duty as Chief of Staff, Combined Joint Task Force180, OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, Afghanistan (Jun 01-Jul 02, Brigadier General)
Vice Director for Operations, J3, The Joint Staff, Washington, DC (Jul 02-Sep 03, Brigadier General)
Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina (Sep 03-Feb 06, Brigadier General/Major General)
Commander, Joint Special Operations Command/Commander, Joint Special Operations
Command Forward, United States Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina (Feb 06-Jun 08, Major General/Lieutenant General)
Director, The Joint Staff, Washington, DC (Aug 08-Jun 09, Lieutenant General)
Commander, International Security Assistance Force/Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan, OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, Afghanistan (Jun 09-Present, General)

SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS ASSIGNMENTS DATE GRADE

Army Special Operations Action Officer, J3, Joint Special Operations Command, OPERATIONS DESERT SHIELD/STORM, Saudi Arabia (Jun 90-Mar 91, Major)
Commander, Combined Joint Task Force Kuwait, Camp Doha, Kuwait (Apr 01-Jun 01, Brigadier General)
Chief of Staff, Combined Joint Task Force180, OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, Afghanistan (May 02-Jul 02, Brigadier General)
Commander, International Security Assistance Force/Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan, OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, Afghanistan (Jun 09- Present, General)

US DECORATIONS AND BADGES

Defense Distinguished Service Medal
Defense Superior Service Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster)
Legion of Merit (with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters)
Bronze Star Medal
Defense Meritorious Service Medal
Meritorious Service Medal (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters)
Army Commendation Medal
Army Achievement Medal
Expert Infantryman Badge
Master Parachutist Badge
Ranger Tab
Special Forces Tab
Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge
(Source: International Security Assistance Force)

Obama, McChrystal conclude Oval Office talk By JENNIFER LOVEN and ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press Writers - JUNE 23,10

WASHINGTON – Afghanistan war commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal met privately with President Barack Obama at the White House Wednesday and then departed ahead of a scheduled war strategy session. There was no immediate word on whether Obama would fire him for his inflammatory remarks in a magazine interview.Officials had initially indicated that McChrystal would attend the strategy session on Afghanistan to explain remarks he made in the interview with Rolling Stone magazine. But he was seen leaving the West Wing and climbing into a van after his nearly half-hour face-to-face meeting with the president. McChrystal had met earlier in the day with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Adm. Mike Mullen.

Before the White House meeting, two military officials said McChrystal went in prepared to submit his resignation. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.Obama was expected to make an announcement on McChrystal's future later Wednesday.I think it's clear that the article in which he and his team appeared ... showed poor judgment, Obama said Tuesday at the close of an unrelated Cabinet meeting. But I also want to make sure that I talk to him directly before I make any final decisions.Obama summoned McChrystal to Washington from Afghanistan after learning of his comments about administration officials. A White House rebuke of McChrystal suggested that it would be hard for him to save his job. Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed his confidence in McChrystal during a video conference Tuesday night with Obama, Karzai spokesman Waheed Omar said Wednesday in Kabul.We hope there is not a change of leadership of the international forces here in Afghanistan and that we continue to partner with Gen. McChrystal,Omar told reporters.

Afghan leaders warn against firing Gen. McChrystal By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer - JUNE 23,10

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan officials said Wednesday that firing Gen. Stanley McChrystal would disrupt progress in the war and could jeopardize a pivotal security operation under way in Taliban strongholds in the south.At the end of a one-hour video conference Tuesday night with President Barack Obama, Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed his confidence in the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, Karzai spokesman Waheed Omar said.McChrystal was summoned to Washington to explain disparaging comments published in Rolling Stone magazine that he and his top aides made about Obama's national security team.While McChrystal, who met with Obama on Wednesday, was harshly scolded by his superiors in the United States, officials in Afghanistan rallied to his support, saying he had increased cooperation between Afghan and international troops, worked to reduce civilian casualties and gained the trust of the Afghan people.The president believes that we are in a very sensitive juncture in the partnership, in the war on terror and in the process of bringing peace and stability to Afghanistan, and any gap in this process will not be helpful, Omar told reporters.We hope there is not a change of leadership of the international forces here in Afghanistan and that we continue to partner with Gen. McChrystal.

Taliban spokesman Zabeehullah Mujahid, however, said McChrystal should resign because his strategy had clearly failed.The problems between American leaders over Afghan issues very clearly show that the policy and the strategy of America has failed,he said. They cannot win this war because the Afghan nation is united and they are committed to defeating American forces in Afghanistan.The controversy erupted as June is on track to becoming one of the deadliest months for U.S. and international forces in the nearly nine-year Afghan war.Military officials announced six more NATO deaths Wednesday, including three Americans and one British Royal Marine. The two other service members were not identified by nationality, but NATO said they died in a bomb attack in the south.That makes 73 international forces killed so far this month. Forty-four of them were Americans.The deadliest month of the conflict for U.S. forces was October 2009, when 59 service members were killed. For NATO forces overall, the deadliest month was July 2009, when 75 troops were killed.

The violence is also hitting Afghans. A vehicle belonging to a candidate for parliament hit a roadside bomb early Wednesday in the east, killing the candidate's brother. The candidate was wounded but survived, said Ghafoor Khan, a police spokesman in Nangarhar province.In Uruzgan province, seven private security guards were killed Wednesday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Chora district, said deputy provincial police chief Gulab Khan. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the deaths of the guards, who were providing security for a construction company that was building a road in the area.The flap over McChrystal comes as NATO and Afghan forces are ramping up security in and around the key southern city of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban.Karzai's younger half brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, the head of the Kandahar provincial council, gave McChrystal a ringing endorsement, telling reporters in Kandahar that McChrystal's leadership would be sorely missed.If he is fired, it will disrupt the operation, Ahmad Wali Karzai said. It definitely will affect it. He (McChrystal) started all this, and he has a good relationship with the people. The people trust him and we trust him. If we lose this important person, I don't think that this operation will work in a positive way.

In Kabul, Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi also publicly voiced his support for the general, who is prepared to submit his resignation to Obama, according to two military officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the issue. Since Gen. McChrystal took over the job as commander of the international forces, there have been a lot of changes in different departments, which are very important and positive,Azimi said.For example, there has been a decrease in the numbers of civilian casualties and we're still working jointly with McChrystal to decrease it further.Azimi spoke at a regular news conference held with Brig. Gen. Josef Blotz, spokesman for the NATO command in Kabul. Blotz declined to discuss McChrystal's fate or the magazine article, which reported deep rifts between the top commander in the war and the U.S. administration.Let us be a little bit more patient,Blotz said.
Associated Press writers Amir Shah and Rahim Faiez in Kabul and Mirwais Khan in Kandahar contributed to this report.

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The Runaway General Stanley McChrystal, Obama's top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House.Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, works on board a Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft between Battlefield Circulation missions. U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Mark O’Donald/NATOBy Michael Hastings Jun 22, 2010 10:00 AM EDT

This article appears in RS 1108/1109 from July 8-22, 2010, on newsstands Friday, June 25.(SWEARING BE PREPARED)

How'd I get screwed into going to this dinner? demands Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It's a Thursday night in mid-April, and the commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan is sitting in a four-star suite at the Hôtel Westminster in Paris. He's in France to sell his new war strategy to our NATO allies – to keep up the fiction, in essence, that we actually have allies. Since McChrystal took over a year ago, the Afghan war has become the exclusive property of the United States. Opposition to the war has already toppled the Dutch government, forced the resignation of Germany's president and sparked both Canada and the Netherlands to announce the withdrawal of their 4,500 troops. McChrystal is in Paris to keep the French, who have lost more than 40 soldiers in Afghanistan, from going all wobbly on him.The dinner comes with the position, sir, says his chief of staff, Col. Charlie Flynn. McChrystal turns sharply in his chair.Hey, Charlie, he asks,does this come with the position?

McChrystal gives him the middle finger.The general stands and looks around the suite that his traveling staff of 10 has converted into a full-scale operations center. The tables are crowded with silver Panasonic Toughbooks, and blue cables crisscross the hotel's thick carpet, hooked up to satellite dishes to provide encrypted phone and e-mail communications. Dressed in off-the-rack civilian casual – blue tie, button-down shirt, dress slacks – McChrystal is way out of his comfort zone. Paris, as one of his advisers says, is the most anti-McChrystal city you can imagine. The general hates fancy restaurants, rejecting any place with candles on the tables as too Gucci.He prefers Bud Light Lime (his favorite beer) to Bordeaux,

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(his favorite movie) to Jean-Luc Godard. Besides, the public eye has never been a place where McChrystal felt comfortable: Before President Obama put him in charge of the war in Afghanistan, he spent five years running the Pentagon's most secretive black ops.What's the update on the Kandahar bombing? McChrystal asks Flynn. The city has been rocked by two massive car bombs in the past day alone, calling into question the general's assurances that he can wrest it from the Taliban.We have two KIAs, but that hasn't been confirmed, Flynn says.McChrystal takes a final look around the suite. At 55, he is gaunt and lean, not unlike an older version of Christian Bale in Rescue Dawn. His slate-blue eyes have the unsettling ability to drill down when they lock on you. If you've fucked up or disappointed him, they can destroy your soul without the need for him to raise his voice. I'd rather have my ass kicked by a roomful of people than go out to this dinner, McChrystal says.He pauses a beat.Unfortunately, he adds,no one in this room could do it.With that, he's out the door.Who's he going to dinner with? I ask one of his aides.Some French minister,the aide tells me. It's f----- gay.The next morning, McChrystal and his team gather to prepare for a speech he is giving at the École Militaire, a French military academy. The general prides himself on being sharper and ballsier than anyone else, but his brashness comes with a price: Although McChrystal has been in charge of the war for only a year, in that short time he has managed to piss off almost everyone with a stake in the conflict. Last fall, during the question-and-answer session following a speech he gave in London, McChrystal dismissed the counterterrorism strategy being advocated by Vice President Joe Biden as shortsighted, saying it would lead to a state of Chaos-istan. The remarks earned him a smackdown from the president himself, who summoned the general to a terse private meeting aboard Air Force One. The message to McChrystal seemed clear: Shut the f--- up, and keep a lower profile.Now, flipping through printout cards of his speech in Paris, McChrystal wonders aloud what Biden question he might get today, and how he should respond.I never know what's going to pop out until I'm up there, that's the problem,he says. Then, unable to help themselves, he and his staff imagine the general dismissing the vice president with a good one-liner. Are you asking about Vice President Biden? McChrystal says with a laugh. Who's that?

Biden? suggests a top adviser. Did you say: Bite Me? When Barack Obama entered the Oval Office, he immediately set out to deliver on his most important campaign promise on foreign policy: to refocus the war in Afghanistan on what led us to invade in the first place. I want the American people to understand,he announced in March 2009.We have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan.He ordered another 21,000 troops to Kabul, the largest increase since the war began in 2001. Taking the advice of both the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he also fired Gen. David McKiernan – then the U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan – and replaced him with a man he didn't know and had met only briefly: Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It was the first time a top general had been relieved from duty during wartime in more than 50 years, since Harry Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur at the height of the Korean War.Even though he had voted for Obama, McChrystal and his new commander in chief failed from the outset to connect. The general first encountered Obama a week after he took office, when the president met with a dozen senior military officials in a room at the Pentagon known as the Tank. According to sources familiar with the meeting, McChrystal thought Obama looked uncomfortable and intimidated by the roomful of military brass. Their first one-on-one meeting took place in the Oval Office four months later, after McChrystal got the Afghanistan job, and it didn't go much better. It was a 10-minute photo op, says an adviser to McChrystal. Obama clearly didn't know anything about him, who he was. Here's the guy who's going to run his f-cking war, but he didn't seem very engaged. The Boss was pretty disappointed.

From the start, McChrystal was determined to place his personal stamp on Afghanistan, to use it as a laboratory for a controversial military strategy known as counterinsurgency. COIN, as the theory is known, is the new gospel of the Pentagon brass, a doctrine that attempts to square the military's preference for high-tech violence with the demands of fighting protracted wars in failed states. COIN calls for sending huge numbers of ground troops to not only destroy the enemy, but to live among the civilian population and slowly rebuild, or build from scratch, another nation's government – a process that even its staunchest advocates admit requires years, if not decades, to achieve. The theory essentially rebrands the military, expanding its authority (and its funding) to encompass the diplomatic and political sides of warfare: Think the Green Berets as an armed Peace Corps. In 2006, after Gen. David Petraeus beta-tested the theory during his surge in Iraq, it quickly gained a hardcore following of think-tankers, journalists, military officers and civilian officials. Nicknamed COINdinistas for their cultish zeal, this influential cadre believed the doctrine would be the perfect solution for Afghanistan. All they needed was a general with enough charisma and political savvy to implement it.As McChrystal leaned on Obama to ramp up the war, he did it with the same fearlessness he used to track down terrorists in Iraq: Figure out how your enemy operates, be faster and more ruthless than everybody else, then take the fuckers out. After arriving in Afghanistan last June, the general conducted his own policy review, ordered up by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The now-infamous report was leaked to the press, and its conclusion was dire: If we didn't send another 40,000 troops – swelling the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan by nearly half – we were in danger of mission failure.The White House was furious. McChrystal, they felt, was trying to bully Obama, opening him up to charges of being weak on national security unless he did what the general wanted. It was Obama versus the Pentagon, and the Pentagon was determined to kick the president's ass.Last fall, with his top general calling for more troops, Obama launched a three-month review to re-evaluate the strategy in Afghanistan. I found that time painful, McChrystal tells me in one of several lengthy interviews.I was selling an unsellable position.For the general, it was a crash course in Beltway politics – a battle that pitted him against experienced Washington insiders like Vice President Biden, who argued that a prolonged counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan would plunge America into a military quagmire without weakening international terrorist networks.The entire COIN strategy is a fraud perpetuated on the American people,says Douglas Macgregor, a retired colonel and leading critic of counterinsurgency who attended West Point with McChrystal.The idea that we are going to spend a trillion dollars to reshape the culture of the Islamic world is utter nonsense.

In the end, however, McChrystal got almost exactly what he wanted. On December 1st, in a speech at West Point, the president laid out all the reasons why fighting the war in Afghanistan is a bad idea: It's expensive; we're in an economic crisis; a decade-long commitment would sap American power; Al Qaeda has shifted its base of operations to Pakistan. Then, without ever using the words victory or win, Obama announced that he would send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, almost as many as McChrystal had requested. The president had thrown his weight, however hesitantly, behind the counterinsurgency crowd.Today, as McChrystal gears up for an offensive in southern Afghanistan, the prospects for any kind of success look bleak. In June, the death toll for U.S. troops passed 1,000, and the number of IEDs has doubled. Spending hundreds of billions of dollars on the fifth-poorest country on earth has failed to win over the civilian population, whose attitude toward U.S. troops ranges from intensely wary to openly hostile. The biggest military operation of the year – a ferocious offensive that began in February to retake the southern town of Marja – continues to drag on, prompting McChrystal himself to refer to it as a bleeding ulcer.In June, Afghanistan officially outpaced Vietnam as the longest war in American history – and Obama has quietly begun to back away from the deadline he set for withdrawing U.S. troops in July of next year. The president finds himself stuck in something even more insane than a quagmire: a quagmire he knowingly walked into, even though it's precisely the kind of gigantic, mind-numbing, multigenerational nation-building project he explicitly said he didn't want.Even those who support McChrystal and his strategy of counterinsurgency know that whatever the general manages to accomplish in Afghanistan, it's going to look more like Vietnam than Desert Storm.It's not going to look like a win, smell like a win or taste like a win,says Maj. Gen. Bill Mayville, who serves as chief of operations for McChrystal.This is going to end in an argument.The night after his speech in Paris, McChrystal and his staff head to Kitty O'Shea's, an Irish pub catering to tourists, around the corner from the hotel. His wife, Annie, has joined him for a rare visit: Since the Iraq War began in 2003, she has seen her husband less than 30 days a year. Though it is his and Annie's 33rd wedding anniversary, McChrystal has invited his inner circle along for dinner and drinks at the least Gucci place his staff could find. His wife isn't surprised. He once took me to a Jack in the Box when I was dressed in formalwear,she says with a laugh.

The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces, two Navy Seals, an Afghan Special Forces commando, a lawyer, two fighter pilots and at least two dozen combat veterans and counterinsurgency experts. They jokingly refer to themselves as Team America, taking the name from the South Park-esque sendup of military cluelessness, and they pride themselves on their can-do attitude and their disdain for authority. After arriving in Kabul last summer, Team America set about changing the culture of the International Security Assistance Force, as the NATO-led mission is known. (U.S. soldiers had taken to deriding ISAF as short for I Suck at Fighting or In Sandals and Flip-Flops.) McChrystal banned alcohol on base, kicked out Burger King and other symbols of American excess, expanded the morning briefing to include thousands of officers and refashioned the command center into a Situational Awareness Room, a free-flowing information hub modeled after Mayor Mike Bloomberg's offices in New York. He also set a manic pace for his staff, becoming legendary for sleeping four hours a night, running seven miles each morning, and eating one meal a day. (In the month I spend around the general, I witness him eating only once.) It's a kind of superhuman narrative that has built up around him, a staple in almost every media profile, as if the ability to go without sleep and food translates into the possibility of a man single-handedly winning the war.By midnight at Kitty O'Shea's, much of Team America is completely shitfaced. Two officers do an Irish jig mixed with steps from a traditional Afghan wedding dance, while McChrystal's top advisers lock arms and sing a slurred song of their own invention.Afghanistan! they bellow. Afghanistan! They call it their Afghanistan song.McChrystal steps away from the circle, observing his team. All these men,he tells me. I'd die for them. And they'd die for me.

The assembled men may look and sound like a bunch of combat veterans letting off steam, but in fact this tight-knit group represents the most powerful force shaping U.S. policy in Afghanistan. While McChrystal and his men are in indisputable command of all military aspects of the war, there is no equivalent position on the diplomatic or political side. Instead, an assortment of administration players compete over the Afghan portfolio: U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, Special Representative to Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke, National Security Advisor Jim Jones and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, not to mention 40 or so other coalition ambassadors and a host of talking heads who try to insert themselves into the mess, from John Kerry to John McCain. This diplomatic incoherence has effectively allowed McChrystal's team to call the shots and hampered efforts to build a stable and credible government in Afghanistan. It jeopardizes the mission, says Stephen Biddle, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who supports McChrystal.The military cannot by itself create governance reform.Part of the problem is structural: The Defense Department budget exceeds $600 billion a year, while the State Department receives only $50 billion. But part of the problem is personal: In private, Team McChrystal likes to talk shit about many of Obama's top people on the diplomatic side. One aide calls Jim Jones, a retired four-star general and veteran of the Cold War, a clown who remains stuck in 1985.Politicians like McCain and Kerry, says another aide,turn up, have a meeting with Karzai, criticize him at the airport press conference, then get back for the Sunday talk shows. Frankly, it's not very helpful.Only Hillary Clinton receives good reviews from McChrystal's inner circle.Hillary had Stan's back during the strategic review, says an adviser. She said,If Stan wants it, give him what he needs.McChrystal reserves special skepticism for Holbrooke, the official in charge of reintegrating the Taliban.The Boss says he's like a wounded animal,says a member of the general's team. Holbrooke keeps hearing rumors that he's going to get fired, so that makes him dangerous. He's a brilliant guy, but he just comes in, pulls on a lever, whatever he can grasp onto. But this is COIN, and you can't just have someone yanking on shit.

At one point on his trip to Paris, McChrystal checks his BlackBerry. Oh, not another e-mail from Holbrooke,he groans.I don't even want to open it. He clicks on the message and reads the salutation out loud, then stuffs the BlackBerry back in his pocket, not bothering to conceal his annoyance.Make sure you don't get any of that on your leg,an aide jokes, referring to the e-mail.By far the most crucial – and strained – relationship is between McChrystal and Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador. According to those close to the two men, Eikenberry – a retired three-star general who served in Afghanistan in 2002 and 2005 – can't stand that his former subordinate is now calling the shots. He's also furious that McChrystal, backed by NATO's allies, refused to put Eikenberry in the pivotal role of viceroy in Afghanistan, which would have made him the diplomatic equivalent of the general. The job instead went to British Ambassador Mark Sedwill – a move that effectively increased McChrystal's influence over diplomacy by shutting out a powerful rival. In reality, that position needs to be filled by an American for it to have weight,says a U.S. official familiar with the negotiations.The relationship was further strained in January, when a classified cable that Eikenberry wrote was leaked to The New York Times. The cable was as scathing as it was prescient. The ambassador offered a brutal critique of McChrystal's strategy, dismissed President Hamid Karzai as not an adequate strategic partner,and cast doubt on whether the counterinsurgency plan would be sufficient to deal with Al Qaeda. We will become more deeply engaged here with no way to extricate ourselves,Eikenberry warned,short of allowing the country to descend again into lawlessness and chaos.McChrystal and his team were blindsided by the cable. I like Karl, I've known him for years, but they'd never said anything like that to us before,says McChrystal, who adds that he felt betrayed by the leak. Here's one that covers his flank for the history books. Now if we fail, they can say, I told you so.The most striking example of McChrystal's usurpation of diplomatic policy is his handling of Karzai. It is McChrystal, not diplomats like Eikenberry or Holbrooke, who enjoys the best relationship with the man America is relying on to lead Afghanistan. The doctrine of counterinsurgency requires a credible government, and since Karzai is not considered credible by his own people, McChrystal has worked hard to make him so. Over the past few months, he has accompanied the president on more than 10 trips around the country, standing beside him at political meetings, or shuras, in Kandahar. In February, the day before the doomed offensive in Marja, McChrystal even drove over to the president's palace to get him to sign off on what would be the largest military operation of the year. Karzai's staff, however, insisted that the president was sleeping off a cold and could not be disturbed. After several hours of haggling, McChrystal finally enlisted the aid of Afghanistan's defense minister, who persuaded Karzai's people to wake the president from his nap.

This is one of the central flaws with McChrystal's counterinsurgency strategy: The need to build a credible government puts us at the mercy of whatever tin-pot leader we've backed – a danger that Eikenberry explicitly warned about in his cable. Even Team McChrystal privately acknowledges that Karzai is a less-than-ideal partner. He's been locked up in his palace the past year,laments one of the general's top advisers. At times, Karzai himself has actively undermined McChrystal's desire to put him in charge. During a recent visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Karzai met three U.S. soldiers who had been wounded in Uruzgan province. General,he called out to McChrystal,I didn't even know we were fighting in Uruzgan! Growing up as a military brat, McChrystal exhibited the mixture of brilliance and cockiness that would follow him throughout his career. His father fought in Korea and Vietnam, retiring as a two-star general, and his four brothers all joined the armed services. Moving around to different bases, McChrystal took solace in baseball, a sport in which he made no pretense of hiding his superiority: In Little League, he would call out strikes to the crowd before whipping a fastball down the middle.McChrystal entered West Point in 1972, when the U.S. military was close to its all-time low in popularity. His class was the last to graduate before the academy started to admit women. The Prison on the Hudson, as it was known then, was a potent mix of testosterone, hooliganism and reactionary patriotism. Cadets repeatedly trashed the mess hall in food fights, and birthdays were celebrated with a tradition called rat f------ which often left the birthday boy outside in the snow or mud, covered in shaving cream. It was pretty out of control,says Lt. Gen. David Barno, a classmate who went on to serve as the top commander in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2005. The class, filled with what Barno calls huge talent and wild-eyed teenagers with a strong sense of idealism,also produced Gen. Ray Odierno, the current commander of U.S. forces in Iraq.The son of a general, McChrystal was also a ringleader of the campus dissidents – a dual role that taught him how to thrive in a rigid, top-down environment while thumbing his nose at authority every chance he got. He accumulated more than 100 hours of demerits for drinking, partying and insubordination – a record that his classmates boasted made him a century man.One classmate, who asked not to be named, recalls finding McChrystal passed out in the shower after downing a case of beer he had hidden under the sink. The troublemaking almost got him kicked out, and he spent hours subjected to forced marches in the Area, a paved courtyard where unruly cadets were disciplined.I'd come visit, and I'd end up spending most of my time in the library, while Stan was in the Area,recalls Annie, who began dating McChrystal in 1973.

McChrystal wound up ranking 298 out of a class of 855, a serious underachievement for a man widely regarded as brilliant. His most compelling work was extracurricular: As managing editor of The Pointer, the West Point literary magazine, McChrystal wrote seven short stories that eerily foreshadow many of the issues he would confront in his career. In one tale, a fictional officer complains about the difficulty of training foreign troops to fight; in another, a 19-year-old soldier kills a boy he mistakes for a terrorist. In Brinkman's Note, a piece of suspense fiction, the unnamed narrator appears to be trying to stop a plot to assassinate the president. It turns out, however, that the narrator himself is the assassin, and he's able to infiltrate the White House: The President strode in smiling. From the right coat pocket of the raincoat I carried, I slowly drew forth my 32-caliber pistol. In Brinkman's failure, I had succeeded.After graduation, 2nd Lt. Stanley McChrystal entered an Army that was all but broken in the wake of Vietnam. We really felt we were a peacetime generation,he recalls.There was the Gulf War, but even that didn't feel like that big of a deal.So McChrystal spent his career where the action was: He enrolled in Special Forces school and became a regimental commander of the 3rd Ranger Battalion in 1986. It was a dangerous position, even in peacetime – nearly two dozen Rangers were killed in training accidents during the Eighties. It was also an unorthodox career path: Most soldiers who want to climb the ranks to general don't go into the Rangers. Displaying a penchant for transforming systems he considers outdated, McChrystal set out to revolutionize the training regime for the Rangers. He introduced mixed martial arts, required every soldier to qualify with night-vision goggles on the rifle range and forced troops to build up their endurance with weekly marches involving heavy backpacks.In the late 1990s, McChrystal shrewdly improved his inside game, spending a year at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and then at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he co-authored a treatise on the merits and drawbacks of humanitarian interventionism. But as he moved up through the ranks, McChrystal relied on the skills he had learned as a troublemaking kid at West Point: knowing precisely how far he could go in a rigid military hierarchy without getting tossed out. Being a highly intelligent badass, he discovered, could take you far – especially in the political chaos that followed September 11th. He was very focused, says Annie.Even as a young officer he seemed to know what he wanted to do. I don't think his personality has changed in all these years.

By some accounts, McChrystal's career should have been over at least two times by now. As Pentagon spokesman during the invasion of Iraq, the general seemed more like a White House mouthpiece than an up-and-coming commander with a reputation for speaking his mind. When Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made his infamous stuff happens remark during the looting of Baghdad, McChrystal backed him up. A few days later, he echoed the president's Mission Accomplished gaffe by insisting that major combat operations in Iraq were over. But it was during his next stint – overseeing the military's most elite units, including the Rangers, Navy Seals and Delta Force – that McChrystal took part in a cover-up that would have destroyed the career of a lesser man.After Cpl. Pat Tillman, the former-NFL-star-turned-Ranger, was accidentally killed by his own troops in Afghanistan in April 2004, McChrystal took an active role in creating the impression that Tillman had died at the hands of Taliban fighters. He signed off on a falsified recommendation for a Silver Star that suggested Tillman had been killed by enemy fire. (McChrystal would later claim he didn't read the recommendation closely enough – a strange excuse for a commander known for his laserlike attention to minute details.) A week later, McChrystal sent a memo up the chain of command, specifically warning that President Bush should avoid mentioning the cause of Tillman's death.If the circumstances of Corporal Tillman's death become public,he wrote, it could cause public embarrassment for the president.The false narrative, which McChrystal clearly helped construct, diminished Pat's true actions,wrote Tillman's mother, Mary, in her book Boots on the Ground by Dusk. McChrystal got away with it, she added, because he was the golden boy of Rumsfeld and Bush, who loved his willingness to get things done, even if it included bending the rules or skipping the chain of command. Nine days after Tillman's death, McChrystal was promoted to major general.

Two years later, in 2006, McChrystal was tainted by a scandal involving detainee abuse and torture at Camp Nama in Iraq. According to a report by Human Rights Watch, prisoners at the camp were subjected to a now-familiar litany of abuse: stress positions, being dragged naked through the mud. McChrystal was not disciplined in the scandal, even though an interrogator at the camp reported seeing him inspect the prison multiple times. But the experience was so unsettling to McChrystal that he tried to prevent detainee operations from being placed under his command in Afghanistan, viewing them as a political swamp,according to a U.S. official. In May 2009, as McChrystal prepared for his confirmation hearings, his staff prepared him for hard questions about Camp Nama and the Tillman cover-up. But the scandals barely made a ripple in Congress, and McChrystal was soon on his way back to Kabul to run the war in Afghanistan.The media, to a large extent, have also given McChrystal a pass on both controversies. Where Gen. Petraeus is kind of a dweeb, a teacher's pet with a Ranger's tab, McChrystal is a snake-eating rebel, a Jedi commander, as Newsweek called him. He didn't care when his teenage son came home with blue hair and a mohawk. He speaks his mind with a candor rare for a high-ranking official. He asks for opinions, and seems genuinely interested in the response. He gets briefings on his iPod and listens to books on tape. He carries a custom-made set of nunchucks in his convoy engraved with his name and four stars, and his itinerary often bears a fresh quote from Bruce Lee. (There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.) He went out on dozens of nighttime raids during his time in Iraq, unprecedented for a top commander, and turned up on missions unannounced, with almost no entourage. The f------ lads love Stan McChrystal,says a British officer who serves in Kabul. You'd be out in Somewhere, Iraq, and someone would take a knee beside you, and a corporal would be like Who the f--- is that? And it's f------ Stan McChrystal.

It doesn't hurt that McChrystal was also extremely successful as head of the Joint Special Operations Command, the elite forces that carry out the government's darkest ops. During the Iraq surge, his team killed and captured thousands of insurgents, including Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq. JSOC was a killing machine,says Maj. Gen. Mayville, his chief of operations. McChrystal was also open to new ways of killing. He systematically mapped out terrorist networks, targeting specific insurgents and hunting them down – often with the help of cyberfreaks traditionally shunned by the military.The Boss would find the 24-year-old kid with a nose ring, with some fucking brilliant degree from MIT, sitting in the corner with 16 computer monitors humming,says a Special Forces commando who worked with McChrystal in Iraq and now serves on his staff in Kabul. He'd say, Hey – you f------ muscleheads couldn't find lunch without help. You got to work together with these guys.Even in his new role as America's leading evangelist for counterinsurgency, McChrystal retains the deep-seated instincts of a terrorist hunter. To put pressure on the Taliban, he has upped the number of Special Forces units in Afghanistan from four to 19.You better be out there hitting four or five targets tonight, McChrystal will tell a Navy Seal he sees in the hallway at headquarters. Then he'll add, I'm going to have to scold you in the morning for it, though.In fact, the general frequently finds himself apologizing for the disastrous consequences of counterinsurgency. In the first four months of this year, NATO forces killed some 90 civilians, up 76 percent from the same period in 2009 – a record that has created tremendous resentment among the very population that COIN theory is intent on winning over. In February, a Special Forces night raid ended in the deaths of two pregnant Afghan women and allegations of a cover-up, and in April, protests erupted in Kandahar after U.S. forces accidentally shot up a bus, killing five Afghans. We've shot an amazing number of people, McChrystal recently conceded.Despite the tragedies and miscues, McChrystal has issued some of the strictest directives to avoid civilian casualties that the U.S. military has ever encountered in a war zone. It's insurgent math,as he calls it – for every innocent person you kill, you create 10 new enemies. He has ordered convoys to curtail their reckless driving, put restrictions on the use of air power and severely limited night raids. He regularly apologizes to Hamid Karzai when civilians are killed, and berates commanders responsible for civilian deaths. For a while,says one U.S. official, the most dangerous place to be in Afghanistan was in front of McChrystal after a civ cas incident.The ISAF command has even discussed ways to make not killing into something you can win an award for: There's talk of creating a new medal for courageous restraint,a buzzword that's unlikely to gain much traction in the gung-ho culture of the U.S. military.

But however strategic they may be, McChrystal's new marching orders have caused an intense backlash among his own troops. Being told to hold their fire, soldiers complain, puts them in greater danger. Bottom line? says a former Special Forces operator who has spent years in Iraq and Afghanistan.I would love to kick McChrystal in the nuts. His rules of engagement put soldiers' lives in even greater danger. Every real soldier will tell you the same thing.In March, McChrystal traveled to Combat Outpost JFM – a small encampment on the outskirts of Kandahar – to confront such accusations from the troops directly. It was a typically bold move by the general. Only two days earlier, he had received an e-mail from Israel Arroyo, a 25-year-old staff sergeant who asked McChrystal to go on a mission with his unit. I am writing because it was said you don't care about the troops and have made it harder to defend ourselves,Arroyo wrote.Within hours, McChrystal responded personally: I'm saddened by the accusation that I don't care about soldiers, as it is something I suspect any soldier takes both personally and professionally – at least I do. But I know perceptions depend upon your perspective at the time, and I respect that every soldier's view is his own.Then he showed up at Arroyo's outpost and went on a foot patrol with the troops – not some bullshit photo-op stroll through a market, but a real live operation in a dangerous war zone.Six weeks later, just before McChrystal returned from Paris, the general received another e-mail from Arroyo. A 23-year-old corporal named Michael Ingram – one of the soldiers McChrystal had gone on patrol with – had been killed by an IED a day earlier. It was the third man the 25-member platoon had lost in a year, and Arroyo was writing to see if the general would attend Ingram's memorial service. He started to look up to you, Arroyo wrote. McChrystal said he would try to make it down to pay his respects as soon as possible.

The night before the general is scheduled to visit Sgt. Arroyo's platoon for the memorial, I arrive at Combat Outpost JFM to speak with the soldiers he had gone on patrol with. JFM is a small encampment, ringed by high blast walls and guard towers. Almost all of the soldiers here have been on repeated combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and have seen some of the worst fighting of both wars. But they are especially angered by Ingram's death. His commanders had repeatedly requested permission to tear down the house where Ingram was killed, noting that it was often used as a combat position by the Taliban. But due to McChrystal's new restrictions to avoid upsetting civilians, the request had been denied. These were abandoned houses,fumes Staff Sgt. Kennith Hicks.Nobody was coming back to live in them.One soldier shows me the list of new regulations the platoon was given. Patrol only in areas that you are reasonably certain that you will not have to defend yourselves with lethal force,the laminated card reads. For a soldier who has traveled halfway around the world to fight, that's like telling a cop he should only patrol in areas where he knows he won't have to make arrests. Does that make any f------ sense? asks Pfc. Jared Pautsch. We should just drop a fucking bomb on this place. You sit and ask yourself: What are we doing here? The rules handed out here are not what McChrystal intended – they've been distorted as they passed through the chain of command – but knowing that does nothing to lessen the anger of troops on the ground. F---, when I came over here and heard that McChrystal was in charge, I thought we would get our f------ gun on,says Hicks, who has served three tours of combat. I get COIN. I get all that. McChrystal comes here, explains it, it makes sense. But then he goes away on his bird, and by the time his directives get passed down to us through Big Army, they're all fucked up – either because somebody is trying to cover their ass, or because they just don't understand it themselves. But we're f------ losing this thing.McChrystal and his team show up the next day. Underneath a tent, the general has a 45-minute discussion with some two dozen soldiers. The atmosphere is tense. I ask you what's going on in your world, and I think it's important for you all to understand the big picture as well, McChrystal begins.How's the company doing? You guys feeling sorry for yourselves? Anybody? Anybody feel like you're losing? McChrystal says.Sir, some of the guys here, sir, think we're losing, sir, says Hicks.

McChrystal nods. Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead, he tells the men. You're leading by example. That's what we do. Particularly when it's really, really hard, and it hurts inside.Then he spends 20 minutes talking about counterinsurgency, diagramming his concepts and principles on a whiteboard. He makes COIN seem like common sense, but he's careful not to bullshit the men. We are knee-deep in the decisive year,he tells them. The Taliban, he insists, no longer has the initiative – but I don't think we do, either.It's similar to the talk he gave in Paris, but it's not winning any hearts and minds among the soldiers.This is the philosophical part that works with think tanks,McChrystal tries to joke. But it doesn't get the same reception from infantry companies.During the question-and-answer period, the frustration boils over. The soldiers complain about not being allowed to use lethal force, about watching insurgents they detain be freed for lack of evidence. They want to be able to fight – like they did in Iraq, like they had in Afghanistan before McChrystal. We aren't putting fear into the Taliban,one soldier says.Winning hearts and minds in COIN is a coldblooded thing, McChrystal says, citing an oft-repeated maxim that you can't kill your way out of Afghanistan. The Russians killed 1 million Afghans, and that didn't work.I'm not saying go out and kill everybody, sir,the soldier persists. You say we've stopped the momentum of the insurgency. I don't believe that's true in this area. The more we pull back, the more we restrain ourselves, the stronger it's getting.I agree with you, McChrystal says.In this area, we've not made progress, probably. You have to show strength here, you have to use fire. What I'm telling you is, fire costs you. What do you want to do? You want to wipe the population out here and resettle it?

A soldier complains that under the rules, any insurgent who doesn't have a weapon is immediately assumed to be a civilian. That's the way this game is, McChrystal says. It's complex. I can't just decide: It's shirts and skins, and we'll kill all the shirts.As the discussion ends, McChrystal seems to sense that he hasn't succeeded at easing the men's anger. He makes one last-ditch effort to reach them, acknowledging the death of Cpl. Ingram. There's no way I can make that easier,he tells them. No way I can pretend it won't hurt. No way I can tell you not to feel that. . . . I will tell you, you're doing a great job. Don't let the frustration get to you.The session ends with no clapping, and no real resolution. McChrystal may have sold President Obama on counterinsurgency, but many of his own men aren't buying it.When it comes to Afghanistan, history is not on McChrystal's side. The only foreign invader to have any success here was Genghis Khan – and he wasn't hampered by things like human rights, economic development and press scrutiny. The COIN doctrine, bizarrely, draws inspiration from some of the biggest Western military embarrassments in recent memory: France's nasty war in Algeria (lost in 1962) and the American misadventure in Vietnam (lost in 1975). McChrystal, like other advocates of COIN, readily acknowledges that counterinsurgency campaigns are inherently messy, expensive and easy to lose.Even Afghans are confused by Afghanistan,he says. But even if he somehow manages to succeed, after years of bloody fighting with Afghan kids who pose no threat to the U.S. homeland, the war will do little to shut down Al Qaeda, which has shifted its operations to Pakistan. Dispatching 150,000 troops to build new schools, roads, mosques and water-treatment facilities around Kandahar is like trying to stop the drug war in Mexico by occupying Arkansas and building Baptist churches in Little Rock. It's all very cynical, politically,says Marc Sageman, a former CIA case officer who has extensive experience in the region.Afghanistan is not in our vital interest – there's nothing for us there.

In mid-May, two weeks after visiting the troops in Kandahar, McChrystal travels to the White House for a high-level visit by Hamid Karzai. It is a triumphant moment for the general, one that demonstrates he is very much in command – both in Kabul and in Washington. In the East Room, which is packed with journalists and dignitaries, President Obama sings the praises of Karzai. The two leaders talk about how great their relationship is, about the pain they feel over civilian casualties. They mention the word progress 16 times in under an hour. But there is no mention of victory. Still, the session represents the most forceful commitment that Obama has made to McChrystal's strategy in months.There is no denying the progress that the Afghan people have made in recent years – in education, in health care and economic development,the president says. As I saw in the lights across Kabul when I landed – lights that would not have been visible just a few years earlier.It is a disconcerting observation for Obama to make. During the worst years in Iraq, when the Bush administration had no real progress to point to, officials used to offer up the exact same evidence of success.It was one of our first impressions, one GOP official said in 2006, after landing in Baghdad at the height of the sectarian violence.So many lights shining brightly.So it is to the language of the Iraq War that the Obama administration has turned – talk of progress, of city lights, of metrics like health care and education. Rhetoric that just a few years ago they would have mocked.They are trying to manipulate perceptions because there is no definition of victory – because victory is not even defined or recognizable,says Celeste Ward, a senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation who served as a political adviser to U.S. commanders in Iraq in 2006. That's the game we're in right now. What we need, for strategic purposes, is to create the perception that we didn't get run off. The facts on the ground are not great, and are not going to become great in the near future.But facts on the ground, as history has proven, offer little deterrent to a military determined to stay the course. Even those closest to McChrystal know that the rising anti-war sentiment at home doesn't begin to reflect how deeply fucked up things are in Afghanistan. If Americans pulled back and started paying attention to this war, it would become even less popular,a senior adviser to McChrystal says. Such realism, however, doesn't prevent advocates of counterinsurgency from dreaming big: Instead of beginning to withdraw troops next year, as Obama promised, the military hopes to ramp up its counterinsurgency campaign even further.There's a possibility we could ask for another surge of U.S. forces next summer if we see success here,a senior military official in Kabul tells me.

Back in Afghanistan, less than a month after the White House meeting with Karzai and all the talk of progress,McChrystal is hit by the biggest blow to his vision of counterinsurgency. Since last year, the Pentagon had been planning to launch a major military operation this summer in Kandahar, the country's second-largest city and the Taliban's original home base. It was supposed to be a decisive turning point in the war – the primary reason for the troop surge that McChrystal wrested from Obama late last year. But on June 10th, acknowledging that the military still needs to lay more groundwork, the general announced that he is postponing the offensive until the fall. Rather than one big battle, like Fallujah or Ramadi, U.S. troops will implement what McChrystal calls a rising tide of security.The Afghan police and army will enter Kandahar to attempt to seize control of neighborhoods, while the U.S. pours $90 million of aid into the city to win over the civilian population.Even proponents of counterinsurgency are hard-pressed to explain the new plan. This isn't a classic operation,says a U.S. military official. It's not going to be Black Hawk Down. There aren't going to be doors kicked in.Other U.S. officials insist that doors are going to be kicked in, but that it's going to be a kinder, gentler offensive than the disaster in Marja.The Taliban have a jackboot on the city, says a military official. We have to remove them, but we have to do it in a way that doesn't alienate the population.When Vice President Biden was briefed on the new plan in the Oval Office, insiders say he was shocked to see how much it mirrored the more gradual plan of counterterrorism that he advocated last fall.This looks like CT-plus! he said, according to U.S. officials familiar with the meeting.Whatever the nature of the new plan, the delay underscores the fundamental flaws of counterinsurgency. After nine years of war, the Taliban simply remains too strongly entrenched for the U.S. military to openly attack. The very people that COIN seeks to win over – the Afghan people – do not want us there. Our supposed ally, President Karzai, used his influence to delay the offensive, and the massive influx of aid championed by McChrystal is likely only to make things worse.Throwing money at the problem exacerbates the problem,says Andrew Wilder, an expert at Tufts University who has studied the effect of aid in southern Afghanistan. A tsunami of cash fuels corruption, delegitimizes the government and creates an environment where we're picking winners and losers – a process that fuels resentment and hostility among the civilian population. So far, counterinsurgency has succeeded only in creating a never-ending demand for the primary product supplied by the military: perpetual war. There is a reason that President Obama studiously avoids using the word victory when he talks about Afghanistan. Winning, it would seem, is not really possible. Not even with Stanley McChrystal in charge.This article appears in in RS 1108/1109 from July 8-22, 2010, on newsstands Friday, June 25.