Monday, August 24, 2015

STOCK MARKET CRASH WAS INEVITABLE AND WILL WORSEN SAYS RAMSAY.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

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HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

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.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
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:(CONFISCATED) 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.

LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2  (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3  And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.

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


Dubai, Saudi markets lose 7 percent after oil price dip-Dubai, Saudi equity markets lose 7 percent as trading week opens after slide in oil prices-Associated Press By Aya Batrawy, Associated Press-AUG 23,15-YAHOONEWS

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Stock markets in Saudi Arabia and Dubai closed around 7 percent lower on Sunday on the back of a further slide in oil prices.Dubai's main index closed 6.96 percent lower on its opening day of trading for the week. Saudi Arabia's Tadawul, the region's largest index, lost 6.86 percent. Other Mideast indexes, which trade from Sunday to Thursday, also tumbled. Egypt's main index, the EGX30, dropped 5.4 percent while Abu Dhabi's index dropped 5 percent.Sunday was the first day of trading in the Middle East after Brent crude, a benchmark for international oil, fell more than a dollar to close Friday at $45.46 while the price of U.S. crude closed at $40.45.Oil futures have been falling for eight consecutive weeks because of ample supplies of crude and a slowing global economy. Prices have fallen almost 60 percent since this time last year.Sherif Aziz, an analyst at Mubasher Trade, said there are also growing concerns about a slowdown in China, which announced a devaluation of its currency, the yuan. Concerns about slowing growth in the world's second-largest economy shook markets around the world and drove the U.S. stock market to its biggest drop in nearly four years on Friday.The tumble in the Saudi stock also comes after the Fitch ratings agency revised its outlook for the country from "stable" to "negative" in its foreign and local currency issuer default rating. It cited concerns over the impact of lower oil prices and increased spending on the government deficit, which is expected to widen in 2015. Saudi Arabia's revenues are almost entirely dependent on the sale of oil.On Dubai's main index, Dubai Investments and investment developer Union Properties lost 10 percent. Real estate developer Damac and construction company Arabtec both closed 9.6 percent lower, while another major developer, Emaar Properties, tumbled 8.3 percent.___Associated Press writer Fay Abuelgasim contributed to this report.

Asia braces for selloff on tanking US markets| @SeeKit_T-CNBC.com-AUG 23,15-KIT TANG

Asian stocks are bracing for another sell-off on Monday, tracking the meltdown in global equity markets, amid fears of a China-led economic slowdown.Meanwhile, China allowed pension funds managed by local governments to invest in the stock market for the first time over the weekend, potentially channeling hundreds of billions of yuan into the country's struggling equity market.Trading in stock futures suggests a dismal start for Japan's Nikkei 225 index. Chicago and Osaka futures traded at 18,890 and 19,080, both below the index's previous close of 19,435.Australian stocks will likely fall below Friday's eight-month closing low, as local futures plunged 2.1 percent to 5,058, a 156-point discount to the underlying S&P ASX 200 index.New Zealand shares slumped nearly 2 percent in early trade.Symbol-Name-Price-Change-%Change-NIKKEI     Nikkei 225 Index     19435.83---UNCH     0%-HSI     Hang Seng Index     22409.62--    UNCH     0%-ASX 200     S&P/ASX 200     5214.60---UNCH     0%-SHANGHAI     Shanghai Composite Index     3507.74---UNCH     0%-KOSPI     KOSPI Index     1876.07----    UNCH     0%-CNBC 100     CNBC 100 ASIA IDX     6629.01-6.35     0.10%-Wall Street finished deep in the red on Friday as global growth concerns accelerated selling pressure to push the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average and tech-heavy Nasdaq into correction territory.The Dow and the S&P 500 ended 3.12 percent and 3.19 percent down respectively, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 3.5 percent. On Friday, the major averages had their biggest trade volume day of the year and posted their worst week in four years.

Stock Rout Was Inevitable And Will Worsen Says Leuthold’s Ramsey-Joseph Ciolli-August 23, 2015 — 4:11 PM EDT-bloomberg

Doug Ramsey, whose quantitative research into market breadth, valuation and investor sentiment foreshadowed the drubbing in American stocks last week, says the selling will get worse.The chief investment officer of Leuthold Weeden Capital Management LLC predicted Sunday that losses in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index could reach 20 percent. Last week’s decline left the benchmark index down 7.5 percent from its May record.“It’s going to be pretty deep,” Ramsey said in a telephone interview. “We’re in the camp that this is not yet a big move. It’s scary, and those last two day trends look ugly.”A report by the Minneapolis-based money management firm predicted in early August that the “next big move in stocks should be down” as industries and individual shares peeled away from the 6 1/2-year-old bull market. Should the current plunge worsen, the Federal Reserve would probably postpone raising interest rates, he said.“The Fed didn’t put any bullets back in the revolver when they had the chance,” Ramsey said. “I have to believe that if the correction exceeds 10 percent, we’ll start to hear talk of QE4, and any discussion of the first fed funds rate hike would be tabled.”U.S. shares posted their biggest declines since 2011 last week as losses in commodities and signs China’s economy is slowing pushed the S&P 500 out of a trading range that had provided support all year. The gauge fell 5.8 percent in five days as the Dow Jones Industrial Average capped a 10 percent tumble since May.-Encroaching Dread-The plunge followed weeks of encroaching dread, with data showing clients of mutual and exchange-traded funds had pulled $78.8 billion from U.S. shares in the first seven months of 2015, more than in any full year since at least 1993. A Citigroup Inc. gauge of momentum stocks that had been beating the market 10-fold through July had its first losing week since early June From Aug. 10-14.Forecasts from the 49-year-old Ramsey have been more prescient than most over the course of the bull market, which began in March 2009 and is now in danger of faltering. In July 2013 he said bearish predictions about U.S. equities were misguided and the market was likely to keep rising. Shares rose 22 percent over the next 19 months.Central to Ramsey’s research has been a theory that benchmark indexes are likely to hold their momentum as long as gains are spread evenly around industries and companies. That was the case for the first five years of the current rally, a period when everything from small caps to bank stocks and transportation companies climbed.-Altered View-Ramsey, a one-time academic all-America baseball player for Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, started altering his view in late 2014 as market breadth weakened and U.S. shares in October suffered what was at the time the worst rout since 2011.He turned all-out bearish at the start of August, noting that a record high in the S&P 500 in May had failed to pull gauges of breadth, transportation stocks, utilities and corporate bonds along with it.“The bull market has ground on for so long that it’s tempting to ignore these internal warnings,” he wrote at the time. “But the past six weeks represent the first period since 2008-2009 that all four series have simultaneously been in 40-week downtrends.”At the start of last week, the Dow Jones Transportation Index was down almost 9 percent in 2015, trailing the 30-stock industrial gauge by 7 percentage points. The Dow Jones Corporate Bond Index had fallen almost 3 percent.-‘Bear Paws’-“The scope of the deterioration really has a lot of bear paws on it -- all of action here from arguably Dec. 29 of last year forward, when the transports topped,” he said Sunday. We’re concerned and we’re certainly not thinking about buying the bounce here.’’While not eschewing forecasts based on trends like hiring and housing starts, Ramsey work is more apt to draw conclusions on the economy based on signals sent by markets. For instance, when fewer and fewer stocks are propping up the S&P 500, it’s evidence that growth is weakening around the country.Only 15 companies in the S&P 500 advanced last week, led by gold producer Newmont Mining Corp. Twenty-nine slid 10 percent or more, from Morgan Stanley to Under Armour Inc. to Netflix Inc., which saw its 2015 gain cut to 113 percent from 153 percent.Two industries in the S&P 500 are now down more than 10 percent in 2015, commodity and energy producers, while industrial stocks are close behind with a 9 percent loss. Just two hold gains year to date -- health-care and consumer stocks - - although both saw their rallies cut in half last week.“It wouldn’t surprise me if we got an encouraging rally here that brings people on-board with the idea of taking more of them down with another vicious down-leg,” Ramsey said. “Our idea would be to sell rallies.”

Could China's Yuan Devaluation Spark a New Financial Crisis?-Bloomberg News-August 23, 2015 — 12:01 PM EDT-bloomberg

Asia’s biggest economy is slowing, the Federal Reserve is about to kick off an interest rate tightening cycle, and China has just devalued its currency.That chain of events back in 1994 eventually touched off a round of competitive currency devaluations that helped trigger the Asian financial crisis, featuring bank and corporate failures and recessions across much of the region.Is the current market turmoil foreshadowing yet another region-wide bust? There are certainly parallels, but important differences as well. This time around, Asian economies have stronger current account balances, fiscal positions and foreign exchange reserves that provide a thicker buffer against turbulence.Risks are building nonetheless as China’s surprise yuan policy U-turn on Aug. 11 sends ripples across the globe from Vietnam to Kazakhstan and threatens vulnerable emerging market economies from Brazil to Turkey.China’s yuan devaluation comes on top of a steep slowdown in the world’s second-biggest economy and Asia’s biggest (Japan was No. 1 back in 1994) and a commodities slump that is hurting nations from Brazil to Australia, Malaysia and South Africa. Chinese companies now threaten to displace exports from Asian and emerging market competitors just as the U.S. Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates for the first time since the global financial crisis.“A nasty storm is probable, not just possible” in countries like Brazil and South Africa, said Stephen Jen, co-founder of London-based hedge fund SLJ Macro Partners LLP. “But I do not anticipate a crisis or even very tense moments in Asia. The main reason is that the Asian Crisis of 1997 already cleansed Asia’s financial system and Asia’s resilience ought to be higher.”-Growth Miracle-Before 1994, Asia was the darling of the investment world and viewed by some as a late-20th century growth miracle. That euphoria didn’t last long.China’s devaluation 21 years ago is often cited as a proximate cause to the subsequent emerging markets crisis, while the Fed rate rise the same year was the trigger, according to Lombard Street Research.This year, China’s surprise currency move has prompted Vietnam to devalue the dong. Kazakhstan’s currency tumbled more than 20 percent against the dollar last Thursday when the country relinquished control of its exchange rate. The South African rand and Turkey’s lira have extended losses.The Asian crisis was about indefensible currency pegs to the dollar, inadequate foreign exchange reserves, and heavy exposure to hot money inflows, says Stephen Roach, a senior fellow at Yale University.-Dollar Debt-Today’s circumstances are different on the first two counts. Yet there’s one disturbing similarity: China’s exposure to about $1 trillion of dollar-denominated bank debt as the yuan carry trade starts to unwind after the People’s Bank of China’s devaluation, said Roach, who was chief global economist for Morgan Stanley during Asia’s financial crisis.A weaker local currency adds to the debt burden for China’s already pressured companies, who’ll now have to pay more yuan for their U.S. dollar repayments.Asia also faces a new vulnerability, the sheer dependence of regional economies on a China that is decelerating, said Roach. In the mid-1990s, the robust U.S. economy was the main buyer of products from the region.“That means as Chinese exports sag —- and they are falling quite significantly now (minus 8.3 percent year-on-year in July) —- it spells trouble for the rest of China-dependent Asia,” said Roach.-Weaker Yuan-The yuan will fall to 6.5 against the dollar by the end of this year and 6.9 at the end of 2016, bringing it close to a 10 percent depreciation, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.Jen estimates that a 10 percent depreciation in the yuan will create 5 to 20 percent moves in the rest of Asia.In Asia, Vietnam, Thailand, South Korea and Malaysia are more vulnerable to the devaluation, while in Europe Hungary and Poland are at risk and Turkey may suffer the most, according to Lombard Street Research economist Shweta Singh in London.Not everyone agrees Asia is primed for another crisis. The idea the yuan devaluation then triggered a sequence of events that culminated in a crisis is “the old canard that just won’t be slaughtered,” said David Loevinger, a former China specialist at the U.S. Treasury who is now an analyst at fund manager TCW Group Inc. in Los Angeles.-More Flexibility-The yuan devaluation of a generation ago was more symptomatic of other problems facing the region at the time and not a causal trigger of the ensuing crisis, said Glenn Maguire, a Singapore-based economist at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. Because Asian currencies are no longer rigidly pegged to the dollar, as many nations hit hardest in the last crisis were, the region now has a greater ability to adjust to changing circumstances, he said.The outlook for U.S. monetary policy is also very different. While the Fed raised rates aggressively in 1994, a worsening outlook for global growth and an appreciating dollar means the probability of an increase in interest rates next month has fallen below 50 percent, Credit Suisse Group AG says.The parallels with this year include vulnerabilities in “a bunch of the emerging world countries,” including the whole of Latin America, Turkey and South Africa, said Shane Oliver, head of investment strategy at fund manager AMP Capital Investors Ltd. in Sydney, which oversees about $114 billion.“China has set the cat among the pigeons,” he said.

Asia Braces for More Market Turbulence-Emma O'Brien Adam Haigh-Updated on August 23, 2015 — 7:27 PM EDT-bloomberg

Investors prepared for another day of selling in risky assets with Asian regulators moving to shore up their equity markets as demand for haven investments swelled.U.S. index futures fell at least 0.9 percent as trading got under way for the week, indicating the rout that sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average into a correction Friday may have further to run. Stocks in New Zealand, the first major market to open in the Asian region, slid the most since 2011, while Treasury futures jumped with the yen. Oil extended its tumble.“There’s some craziness going on this morning and futures are already showing people are wanting to get out, again,” Chris Weston, chief market strategist at IG Ltd. in Melbourne, said by phone. “You’ve got to be a very brave man or woman to be buying dips in these markets. Catching the proverbial knife comes into play at the moment.”Taiwan curbed short selling of borrowed stocks at the weekend, while China allowed pension funds to buy shares for the first time as policy makers seek to stymie a selloff that saw equities from Hong Kong to Indonesia enter bear markets on Friday. More than $3 trillion has been wiped from the value of global stocks since China unexpectedly devalued the yuan, igniting a wave of concern over world growth amid angst over U.S. monetary tightening plans and the downward trend in oil.Standard & Poor’s 500 Index futures fell 0.9 percent to 1,954 by 8:27 a.m. Tokyo time, with contracts on the Dow down 1 percent. Nikkei 225 Stock Average futures retreated 0.6 percent in Chicago, as the yen climbed to a six-week high. Gold extended gains into a sixth day, while U.S. crude lost 0.9 percent after briefly breaching $40 a barrel last week.-Get Worse’-Global stocks slid to their weakest level since October 2014 on Friday as anxiety over emerging-market losses infected U.S. markets. Junk bond yields jumped to an almost three-year high, while Treasuries posted their best weekly gain in five months as investors favored safer assets. Ongoing concern over a global glut stoked oil’s retreat, which saw New York-traded crude cap its longest run of weekly declines since 1986.“Things are probably going to get worse before they get better,” Nader Naeimi, the Sydney-based head of dynamic asset allocation at AMP Capital Investors Ltd., which oversees about $118 billion, said by phone. “You really need rate cuts and more policy easing in China. In the meantime, things can get worse. We’ve got to see more clarity around the Fed.”-Asian Futures-Asian index futures signaled losses across the board, with contracts on Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 Index sliding 2.1 percent in most recent trading, and futures on the Kospi index in Seoul losing 1.8 percent. South Korea’s finance ministry said it will act “pre-emptively” in the market after the country’s largest exchange-traded fund saw the biggest weekly withdrawal since its inception 15 years ago.Futures on Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index sank 2 percent after the gauge’s 1.5 percent slump on Friday left it down 21 percent from its April peak, the common definition of a bear market. Contracts on the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index, which tracks mainland Chinese shares listed in the city, fell 1.7 percent in recent trade, after the index sank 7.8 percent last week, its worst weekly performance since September 2011.FTSE China A50 Index futures were down 0.9 percent in Singapore, and contracts on the Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 Index tumbled 3.3 percent. Futures on Taiwan’s Taiex index tumbled 2.9 percent on Friday. Indonesian and Indian index futures declined at least 1.2 percent.-China Curbs-Anxiety over China’s faltering economy has fueled ructions in global markets a number of times this year, with a rout in the nation’s equities sparking declines from Asia to the U.S. last month. The Shanghai Composite Index appeared to resume that downward trend last week, sliding more than 11 percent for its worst slump since the start of July.China’s securities regulator also said over the weekend that it will penalize major shareholders in publicly traded companies for violating rules limiting stake sales. Major investors at 20 companies constitute the list of offenders, according to a statement from the body. It wasn’t specified what the penalties would be.Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul All Share Index joined some Asian benchmarks in a bear market Sunday, capping a more than 20 percent slide from its 2015 high reached in April. Dubai’s DFM General Index saw its steepest drop of the year, while Egypt’s EGX 30 Index sank the most since November 2012, signaling more-Commodities-Commodities looked to be heading for a declining day, with West Texas Intermediate crude dropping to $40.08 a barrel. Futures slid to as low as $39.86 on Friday, the first time WTI has fallen below the $40 mark since 2009. Brent oil lost 0.5 percent to $45.25 a barrel on Monday.Copper futures due in December sank 1 percent on the Comex, falling to $2.2765 a pound after last week’s 2.3 percent drop. The Bloomberg Commodity Index lost 2.8 percent last week in its seventh straight decline, as coffee to industrial metals and livestock dominated declines.-Gold for immediate delivery added 0.1 percent to $1,161.85-Futures on 10-year Treasury notes climbed to their highest level since April on Monday, as Australian and New Zealand bonds tracked the gains. Yields on Australian notes due in a decade fell six basis points, or 0.06 percentage point, to 2.53 percent, while similar maturity New Zealand debt yielded 3.19 percent, down two basis points.-Currencies- In the currency markets, the yen was up 0.4 percent in a fourth day of gains, trading at 121.52 per dollar. Australia’s dollar weakened0.7 percent with its New Zealand’s counterpart. Both countries rely heavily on the commodities trade and on exporting goods to China. The yuan was little changed at 6.4522-Equity-market volatility surged in the U.S. Friday as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index slid 3.2 percent to cap its worst week since September 2011. The index is down more than 7 percent from a record after sinking below a trading range that has supported it for most of the year. The Dow fell more than 500 points, and is down 10 percent from its record high reached in May.Before last week, U.S. stocks had held their ground throughout 2015. The S&P 500 had stayed within a range roughly tracking its 50-, 100- and 200-day moving averages, boosted by signs the U.S. economy is recovering and support from central banks. The benchmark index hadn’t had a decline of more than 5 percent all year. 

ABBAS WILL STILL VISIT IRAN.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

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THE LATEST ON THE KOREAS FIGHT
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No Sign of End to Korea Talks as Kim Steps Up Force Mobilization-Sam Kim-Updated on August 23, 2015 — 11:47 AM EDT-BLOOMBERG

Talks between North Korea and South Korea on how to lower tensions continued into the early hours of Monday, as Kim Jong Un stepped up the mobilization of his forces.Neither side showed any indication of when the meeting between Kim’s top military aide Hwang Pyong So and South Korean President Park Geun Hye’s chief security adviser Kim Kwan Jin, which began at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, might end. It follows a 10-hour session between the officials earlier in the weekend.As the dialog went on at the border village of Panmunjom, a South Korean military official said North Korea had dispatched more than two thirds of its submarines from ports and doubled its front-line artillery forces.The standoff, with both countries’ forces on a high alert for any possible military clashes, is one of the most serious since Kim became Supreme Leader in late 2011. An uneasy truce on the peninsula is periodically disrupted by exchanges of rockets or gunfire that peter out before they escalate, though the unpredictable regime in Pyongyang keeps tensions high.Tensions have escalated in recent weeks across the DMZ that bisects the peninsula more than 60 years after the Korean War. Two South Korean soldiers were injured Aug. 4 by land mines that the government in Seoul said were recently laid by North Korea. North Korea denied setting the devices.South Korea retaliated for the mine blasts by resuming propaganda broadcasts through loudspeakers for the first time since 2004. North Korea views any criticism of its leader as an offense to the nation and restricts the flow of information about the outside world.South Korea said Thursday North Korea fired shells into its territory, and responded with a barrage of artillery.-Provocations’-“Raise the stakes and seize the initiative, that is, leave the big powers hanging and eager for negotiations in the face of provocations -- that’s Pyongyang’s time-tested mode of operation,” Lee Sung-Yoon, a professor of Korean studies at Tufts University, said by e-mail.Park refused to accept Kim’s demand on Thursday that South Korea stop propaganda broadcasts across the demilitarized zone within 48 hours or face dire consequences.North Korean troops are eagerly awaiting an order “to inflict a shower of fire” on their foes, North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Sunday. South Korea is continuing the broadcasts, according to its defense ministry.Kim declared a “semi-state of war” and ordered his front-line troops into a “wartime state” over the broadcasts earlier this week. The U.S. and South Korea scrambled eight fighter jets on Saturday in a show of force, while their top generals agreed in a phone call to respond “strongly” to any North Korean attack, according to Colonel Jeon Ha Kyu, a spokesman for South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.South Korea’s central bank is closely watching the results of the talks and will hold a meeting Monday on the situation, it said in an e-mailed statement on Sunday.The iShares MSCI South Korea Capped ETF, the largest exchange-traded fund tracking the country’s stocks, had the biggest weekly withdrawal since inception in 2000 amid investor concern over a revival of tensions on the Korean peninsula and an escalating sell-off in emerging markets. Traders pulled $195.4 million from the ETF, whose top holdings include Samsung Electronics Co. and Hyundai Motor Co., in the five trading days ended Aug. 21, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Koreas resume talks to pull back from brink, even as Seoul reports North Korea troop movements-The Canadian PressBy Eric Talmadge And Foster Klug, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – AUG 23,15-YAHOONEWS

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Senior officials from North and South Korea on Sunday were in their second day of marathon talks meant to pull the rivals back from the brink, even amid reports of unusual North Korean troop and submarine movement that Seoul said indicated continued battle preparation.While it was not clear whether any progress was made during the first round of talks, which started Saturday evening and finished just before dawn Sunday, the second day of diplomacy, for the time being, pushed aside the heated warnings of imminent war.These are the highest-level talks between the two Koreas in a year. And just the fact that senior officials from countries that have spent recent days vowing to destroy each other are sitting together at a table in Panmunjom, the border enclave where the 1953 armistice ending fighting in the Korean War, is something of a victory.The length of the first round of talks — nearly 10 hours — and the lack of immediate progress are not unusual. While the Koreas often have difficulty agreeing to talks, once they do, overlong sessions are often the rule. After decades of animosity and bloodshed, however, finding common ground is much harder.Neither side has disclosed details about the first round of talks. The second session started Sunday afternoon and stretched into the night.The decision to hold talks came hours ahead of a Saturday deadline set by North Korea for the South to dismantle loudspeakers broadcasting anti- Pyongyang propaganda at their border. North Korea had declared that its front-line troops were in full war readiness and prepared to go to battle if Seoul did not back down.South Korea said that even as the North was pursuing dialogue, its troops were preparing for a fight.An official from Seoul's Defence Ministry said that about 70 per cent of the North's more than 70 submarines and undersea vehicles had left their bases and were undetectable by the South Korean military as of Saturday.The official, who refused to be named because of office rules, also said the North had doubled the strength of its front-line artillery forces since the start of the talks Saturday evening.The standoff is the result of a series of events that started with the explosions of land mines on the southern side of the Demilitarized Zone between the Koreas that Seoul says were planted by North Korea. The explosions maimed two South Korean soldiers on a routine patrol. In response, the South resumed anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts for the first time in 11 years, infuriating the North, which is extremely sensitive to any criticism of its authoritarian system.There was shock and worry Thursday after South Korea's military fired dozens of artillery rounds across the border in response to what Seoul said were North Korean artillery strikes meant to back up an earlier threat to attack the loudspeakers. The North denies it was behind the land mines and the shelling, claims that Seoul calls nonsense.The Defence Ministry official said the South continued the anti-Pyongyang broadcasts even after the start of the talks Saturday and also after the second session began Sunday. He said Seoul would decide after the talks whether to halt the broadcasts.While the meeting offered a way for the rivals to avoid an immediate collision, analysts in Seoul wondered whether the countries were standing too far apart to expect a quick agreement.South Korea probably can't afford to walk away with a weak agreement after it had openly vowed to stem a "vicious cycle" of North Korean provocations amid public anger over the land mines, said Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea expert at Seoul's Dongguk University.It was highly unlikely that the North would accept the South's expected demand for Pyongyang to take responsibility for the land mine explosions and apologize, he added. However, Koh said the meeting might open the door to more talks between the rivals to discuss a variety of issues.At the meeting, South Korea's presidential national security director, Kim Kwan-jin, and Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo sat down with Hwang Pyong So, the top political officer for the Korean People's Army, and Kim Yang Gon, a senior North Korean official responsible for South Korean affairs.Hwang is considered by outside analysts to be North Korea's second most important official after supreme leader Kim Jong Un.South Korea had been using 11 loudspeaker systems along the border for the broadcasts, which included the latest news around the Korean Peninsula and the world, South Korean popular music and programs praising the South's democracy and economic affluence over the North's oppressive government, said a senior military official, speaking on condition of anonymity.Each loudspeaker system has broadcast for more than 10 hours a day, the official said. If North Korea attacks the loudspeakers, the South is ready to strike back at the North Korean units responsible, he said.North Korea, which has also restarted its own propaganda broadcasts, is extremely sensitive to any criticism of its government. Analysts in Seoul also believe the North fears that the South's broadcasts could demoralize its front-line troops and inspire them to defect.In Pyongyang, North Korean state media reported that more than 1 million young people have volunteered to join or rejoin the military to defend their country should a conflict break out.Despite such highly charged rhetoric, which is not particularly unusual, activity in the North's capital remained calm on Sunday, with people going about their daily routines. Truckloads of soldiers singing martial songs could occasionally be seen driving around the city, and a single minivan with camouflage netting was parked near the main train station as the talks with the South went on.Throughout the day, large crowds of people were mobilized to practice mass activities for the Oct. 10 anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers Party 70 years ago.As night fell, instead of anxiously awaiting the outcome of the talks, many Pyongyang residents were riveted to TVs in public places to watch the debut of the "Boy General" cartoon show, which has been revamped for the first time in five years at the order of Kim Jong Un.___Klug reported from Seoul, South Korea. Associated Press writer Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul contributed to this report.

South Korea seeks business opportunities in Iran-Officials from Asian country set to meet with officials in Tehran to discuss possible oil, gas, and construction deals-By Times of Israel staff August 23, 2015, 9:48 am 4

Iranian and South Korean officials are set to meet in the Islamic Republic this week to discuss possible oil, gas, and construction deals, following the signing of a nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers last month, Reuters reported Sunday.The agreement, reached between Iran and the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany on July 14, aims to curb Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from biting economic sanctions.South Korean Deputy Trade Minister Woo Tae-hee is set to visit Iran on Sunday and Monday, the ministry of trade, industry and energy said, according to Reuters. Tae-hee will be accompanied by officials from state-run oil, gas and resources firms, the report said.“We plan to highlight the capability of our firms for major projects with which the Iranian government seeks to rebuild infrastructure, diversify industries and develop energy fields in the post-sanctions era,” a statement by the Korean government read.Yoo Il-ho, the South Korean minister of land, infrastructure and transport, and a delegation of executives and officials from several public and private companies, are currently in Iran as well, the report said.“The delegation will discuss possible deals and continue talks in the second half of this year, as we need to prepare for actual business deals to be made next year,” a source at South Korea’s energy ministry told Reuters.The US Congress is set to vote next month on a resolution to determine whether to accept or reject the nuclear agreement with Tehran. However, US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that if Congress rejects the deal, the US will be unable to prevent allies from doing business with Iran.

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

GENESIS 12:1-3
1  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3  And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

ISAIAH 41:11
11  Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
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,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

Despite Tehran’s reluctance, Abbas says he will visit ‘sister’ Iran-Palestinian leader says trip will strengthen ties, week after Iranian official says Tehran has rejected repeated requests-By Times of Israel staff August 23, 2015, 10:24 pm 1

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday he intends to make an official visit to “sister” nation Iran, Channel 2 reported, contradicting recent claims by an Iranian official that, despite numerous recent requests, the welcome mat in Tehran has been denied to the Palestinian leader.Channel 2 said that Abbas revealed his intentions during an interview with a Polish reporter at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.Abbas said that a date has not yet been set for the trip, but that its purpose was to strengthen ties with Iran, which he referred to as the neighbor and “sister” of the Palestinians.Earlier this month Ahmad Majdalani, a member of the PLO Executive Committee who was visiting Iran at the time, said he had discussed arrangements for the Palestinian leader’s visit with Iranian officials.He said the trip would likely take place within the next two months.However, last week an assistant to the speaker of Iran’s parliament said that his country had rejected numerous requests by Abbas to visit the Islamic Republic.“ They’ve asked to visit Iran more than once and we’ve refused and have never yet said yes,” Hussein SheikhoIeslam, an adviser to parliament speaker Ali Larijani on international affairs, told the Hamas daily al-Resalah.The Palestinian Authority is attempting to strengthen its diplomatic relations with Iran, as ties between the Islamic Republic and the PA’s main Palestinian rival, Hamas, grow increasingly chilly.Iran’s relations with the Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement have been traditionally frosty since the Palestinian leader renounced the armed resistance against Israel, which Iran supports both financially and ideologically.In 2012, Abbas declined an invitation to visit Tehran by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He later met with Ahmadinejad in Cairo in February 2013, thanking the Iranian president for supporting the Palestinians’ November 2012 UN statehood bid.Since Hamas’s violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2007, Iran has clearly favored Hamas over Fatah. However, it has gradually ceased its financial and military support for Hamas after the Palestinian Islamist movement abandoned its Damascus headquarters in early 2012 and reportedly endorsed a Saudi-led military operation against Shiite rebels in Yemen.According to media reports, a planned visit by Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal to Tehran was recently canceled by the Iranian government in protest against Hamas’s rapprochement with Saudi Arabia. Hamas, for its part, has rushed to deny reports of a crisis between the sides, claiming that ties with Iran are ongoing despite the cut in funding.Like us on Facebook

Palestinian FM: EU should ban settlers as well as their products-Palestinian Authority has not yet used its full legal arsenal against Israel at the ICC, claims Riyad al-Maliki-By Elhanan Miller August 23, 2015, 9:35 pm 7-the times of israel

The Palestinian Authority has asked the European Union to block the entry of Israelis living beyond the Green Line into Europe’s 26 Schengen Area countries, PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki told a leading Arab daily on Sunday.In an extensive interview with London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat following his meeting with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Maliki expressed annoyance at the fact that a European Union decision to label settlement products has not yet been implemented.“If the EU argues that settlement products should be ‘discriminated against,’ settlers are among those products and should be viewed the same way,” Maliki told the daily. The PA has also called on the EU and US to place settlers that carry out so-called “price tag” attacks against Palestinian property on their terror blacklist.The European Union was looking into the possibility of blacklisting “violent settlers” late last year, diplomats told Reuters. That sanction would affect up to 200 individuals, they estimated.Schengen Area countries, comprising most of western Europe, have abolished passports and other forms of border control at their common borders. Maliki’s visit to France was timed to pressure the government of Francois Hollande to move forward with its peace plan, including a 24-month cap on bilateral negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, with the threat of a UN Security Council decision against Israel in case negotiations fail to produce an agreement. France, the Palestinian foreign minister argued, had been subjected to intense Israeli and American pressure to abandon the threat of resorting to the Security Council. But Fabius denied that the UN option was off the table, Maliki said.‘If the EU argues that settlement products should be ‘discriminated against,’ settlers are among those products and should be viewed the same way,’ Maliki said-It is the Palestinians, the minister asserted, who are reluctant to launch another Security Council bid only to see it fail, as happened last December. Therefore, a new bid should focus on the issue of settlements — an issue the Americans cannot diplomatically afford to veto — rather than a hopeless bid forcing Israel to negotiate within a fixed timetable.“By doing so, we would obtain something from the Security Council leading to change. This is extremely important for us, given the lack of any kind of movement; we want movement and are interested in it,” Maliki said.The Palestinian leadership, he made clear, has given up hope in the United States as a fair peace broker. During a recent trip to Moscow, Maliki discussed with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov the possibility of copying the P5+1 model — used to negotiate with Iran over its nuclear aspirations — to the Israeli-Palestinian context. “He promised to discuss the matter with [US Secretary of State John] Kerry,” Maliki said of Lavrov.Asked whether the Palestinian Authority intends to continue confronting Israel in the International Criminal Court, Maliki said his government has so far proceeded cautiously, avoiding using doomsday weapons against the Jewish State.Thus far, the Palestinians have merely asked the ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to look into the Palestinian issue in general, and she has begun an independent investigation based on available evidence. But, Maliki noted, there is another tool at the disposal of the Palestinians at the ICC known as “referral,” whereby the Palestinian government can demand an immediate investigation into a specific case, such as the burning of the Dawabsha family in the West Bank village of Duma, apparently by Israeli extremists.“So far we have not used referrals, but have settled for the first method regarding Gaza, settlements and other issues,” he said. “Referrals are a weapon we haven’t yet resorted to. At the right moment we will use them, when we believe we can and should do so.”Maliki avoided explaining when exactly that moment may be.

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

Liberman: Barak revealed ‘state secrets’ on Iran-Former foreign minister says ex-defense minister’s statements on plans to strike nuclear facilities strengthen Tehran-By Times of Israel staff August 23, 2015, 9:22 am 20

Former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman on Sunday accused erstwhile defense minister Ehud Barak of exposing state secrets, after the latter detailed on tape three occasions between 2010 and 2012 when Israel was ostensibly poised to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.Liberman told Army Radio that he was “more than surprised” at Barak, and said statements such as those given by the former minister would ultimately strengthen Iran.“I think that when moves and discussions that should have been closely guarded state secrets are discussed by the press, it relays that you are a talker, that you aren’t serious, that you’re unreliable,” he said.“That is why, among other reasons, Iran is being coddled by the international community, and we have been backed into a corner… These things should only have been discussed in closed forums.”Asked whether he believed Barak was guilty of revealing state secrets, Liberman responded that he had “no doubt” that was the case.Channel 2, which broadcast the bombshell recordings of Barak on Friday night, said Saturday that “anger” at the former defense minister was widespread in the Israeli leadership, and that numerous senior political and security officials were also privately intimating that Barak’s version of events was not entirely accurate. The Prime Minister’s Office did not issue an official response to the broadcast.In the tapes, whose broadcast Barak was said to have tried to prevent, he claims that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to attack Iran in 2010, but that then-IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi indicated that there was no viable plan for such an operation; that they were thwarted in 2011 by the opposition of fellow ministers Moshe Ya’alon and Yuval Steinitz; and that a planned 2012 strike was aborted because it happened to coincide with a joint Israel-US military exercise and Israel did not want to drag the US into the fray.In the aftermath of the broadcast of the tapes, Channel 2 said Saturday, various key Israeli figures indicated that Ashkenazi did not rule out an operation as decisively as Barak suggested, and that a great deal of preparatory work had been done. Furthermore, the TV report Saturday said, Ashkenazi was by no means the only senior Israeli figure who was not decisively supportive of a strike at that time. Others included then-Mossad chief Meir Dagan, who later made public his opposition, and top ministers including Dan Meridor and Eli Yishai.Even if approval had been forthcoming for a strike, the TV report said, it was by no means certain that Israel would have actually gone ahead with it. The discussions described by Barak may have been “more a case of ‘hold us back’” than a genuine determination by Netanyahu and Barak to carry out an attack.Channel 2 also suggested that Barak may be playing party politics with his comments. Ashkenazi is said to be considering entering politics, and Barak, who has now retired from politics, may be out to thwart him. The two became bitter rivals over the years, and Barak’s relationship with current defense minister Ya’alon has also been tempestuous.The material in the tapes comes from conversations related to a new biography of Barak being written by Danny Dor and Ilan Kfir. The former defense minister, who was also previously prime minister and chief of staff, attempted to prevent the broadcasting of the recordings, but Israel’s military censors allowed Channel 2 to play them.The airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities were ostensibly planned to take place because Netanyahu and Barak anticipated that Iran would enter a “zone of immunity,” in which its facilities were so well-protected or developed as to render an attack on them either a short-term solution or even futile. Netanyahu maintains to this day, however, that Israel will act alone if necessary to prevent Iran attaining nuclear weapons, and has been a leading critic of the P5+1 deal with Iran that curbs but does not dismantle its nuclear program.Barak was said Friday to have expressed outrage that the recordings had been released.Steinitz said it was grave that such material was broadcast and had no comment on the specifics, while Ya’alon said he had no comment on what he called biased and skewed material.

20 hurt as Lebanon’s garbage protests enter second day-Demonstrators throw stones and bottles, set motorcycle alight hours after PM hints he may step down over crisis-By AFP August 23, 2015, 11:13 pm-the times of israel

At least 20 people were injured Sunday in Beirut during a second day of clashes between police and protesters angry about the Lebanese government’s failure to remove rubbish from streets, medics said. Around 200 youths, some wearing scarves or masks to cover their faces, threw stones and bottles filled with sand at police and tried to pull down security barricades, an AFP correspondent said.They also set on fire a motorcycle and tried to set up their own barricades using tables and wood. Police retaliated with water cannon and tear gas.Sporadic gunfire echoed through the capital’s commercial district into the night as police fired in the air to disperse protesters. The violence came hours after Prime Minister Tammam Salam hinted he might step down following violent protests Saturday that injured more than 100 people.Some protesters suffered smoke inhalation and were taken away by ambulances for treatment. A Lebanese Red Cross official said 20 protesters were injured, including 13 who were hospitalized.Some shots also rang out in central Beirut, near the prime minister’s office, where thousands of people had rallied peacefully during the day before the violence broke out.The “You Stink” movement that organized the rally insisted they were opposed to violence and distanced themselves from those attacking security forces.Protesters chanted “Down with the regime” and “Freedom”, slogans borrowed from the Arab Spring uprisings that toppled several governments in the region.One demonstrator held up a placard with a bold red message that said “Some trash should not be recycled,” and below it the pictures of more than a dozen top Lebanese politicians.On Saturday, at least 16 were injured during clashes with police, according to a Red Cross official, while the Internal Security Forces said more than 35 of its members were also hurt.Salam held a news conference to plead for calm on Sunday, and pledged to hold accountable those responsible for using “excessive force against civil society and against the people.”Lebanon’s largest landfill was shut on July 17, leaving piles of rubbish to rot uncollected in Beirut and across the country, sparking anger among civilians who accuse authorities of negligence.The Associated Press contributed to this report

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.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

Jerusalem mayor said readying Knesset bid with Likud-Channel 10 says Nir Barkat recruiting supporters; office says he is focused solely on Jerusalem, but won’t rule out future run-By Times of Israel staff August 23, 2015, 10:37 pm

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is preparing a run for the Knesset, Channel 10 reported Sunday, and is signing up potential voters as Likud members.Barkat has worked hard in recent weeks to sign up thousands of supporters to the Likud party, in the hopes that they will form the nucleus of support to land him a viable spot on the party’s Knesset list in the next legislative elections, the TV station says.His supporters reportedly come from beyond Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries, including from major Likud-leaning cities like Ashdod and Ashkelon.A statement from Barkat’s office said he was concentrating solely on Jerusalem for now, but did not rule out a future run.“The mayor is focused exclusively on the advancement and development of Jerusalem,” according to the communique. “Barkat announced in advance that he would run for two to three terms as mayor, and in the next two years he will announce whether he will run for a third term.”If Benjamin Netanyahu does not run again for prime minister, Barkat is reportedly planning to throw his hat into the ring for the party’s — and possibly the country’s — top spot.Barkat endorsed Netanyahu for prime minister in the last national elections, held earlier this year.Meanwhile, Barkat announced Sunday that former rival Moshe Lion, who lost a mayoral campaign against Barkat in 2013, would join his “Yerushalayim Tatzliah” party (“Jerusalem will succeed”).As part of the deal — which will expand Barkat’s slate in the municipality to six seats — Lion will hold the Community Administrations Department portfolio and head its committee.

Shalom bans freed migrants from Tel Aviv and Eilat-Interior minister imposes restrictions as court-ordered mass release from Holot center comes into effect-By Stuart Winer and Times of Israel staff August 23, 2015, 8:10 pm 7

Interior Minister Silvan Shalom on Sunday ordered that 1,200 African migrants set to be freed from a holding center are forbidden from traveling to the industrial hub of Tel Aviv or the southern port city of Eilat.Both cities are home to relatively large numbers of migrants, and Tel Aviv, at least, has seen friction with local residents opposed to their presence.The migrants are scheduled to be released from the Holot detention center in two stages on Tuesday and Wednesday, with roughly 600 detainees allowed permanently out of the gates each day.Wednesday marks the deadline for the migrants’ release, following a High Court of Justice decision two weeks ago that bans the state from holding people in the center for more than a year.The released migrants will be issued with identity cards and anyone caught in the prohibited cities will be sent to Saharonim Prison in the Negev Desert. While the Holot facility is an open center — detainees are free to leave during the day, but required to attend a twice-daily roll call — those held in Saharonim will not be allowed to leave the compound.Another 500 migrants will remain behind in the Holot facility. All the members of this group have been there for less than 12 months.According to a report by Israel’s Haaretz daily, a similar plan to ban migrants from specific cities was proposed in 2008. However, it was cancelled before it went into effect after protests from communities in the periphery.In recent years, an estimated 47,000 African migrants have managed to illegally enter Israel via Egypt, seeking jobs or asylum.Earlier this month the High Court upheld the Prevention of Infiltration Law after it was challenged by human rights groups, but ruled that the government could not hold migrants in detention facilities for more than 12 months — as opposed to the 20-month period that the government had been imposing. The ruling meant that the state had to release hundreds of migrants held in Holot. Aside from disputing the length of the detention period, the nine-judge panel ratified the law.The Prevention of Infiltration Law seeks to prevent additional illegal immigration to Israel and encourages those already in the Jewish state to leave.The court gave the Knesset six months to revise the legislation in accordance with the ruling.Among the African migrants living in Israel — the vast majority of whom claim asylum-seeker status — more than 90 percent come from Eritrea, Sudan and the Congo. But Israel has recognized fewer than 1% as asylum claims and, since 2009, less than 0.15% — the lowest rate in the Western world.

Reporter's notebook-At ancient Israel’s capital, politics and neglect squelch historical resonance-For half a century, while quibbling over whose heritage it is, Israel and the Palestinians have both ignored a historical gem at Sebastia-By Ilan Ben Zion August 23, 2015, 3:03 pm 11-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

SEBASTIA, West Bank — The manager of the Palestinian Authority’s Interpretation Center at the Sebastia archaeological site handed over a brochure; his colleague, roused from slumber, hastily pulled his pants on. Pointing to a small screening room where visitors would see a movie about the site, he contradicted himself with absolute confidence: “There’s a film — but there’s no film.”The PA built the facility two years ago to inform visitors about the ancient city of Sebastia after Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority closed down its day-to-day operations at the site. But besides a pamphlet and some hard candies, the Interpretation Center has little to offer. The brand-new plush chairs in the 40-seat theater meant to show were still in their plastic covers. (The PA didn’t respond to inquiries about the cost of the center; the United Nations Millennium Development Fund, a co-funder, donated $132,000.)“You can learn the history of the whole region (by) staying here because all the powers that crossed the region since the time of the Egyptians were passing through,” Carla Benelli, an art historian working in Sebastia, told AP a few years ago. Sebastia’s tel features remains from 10 different periods, from the Iron Age to modern times. “From this point of view, it’s really very important,”The entire saga of preserving and showcasing ancient Sebastia unfolds like a comedy of errors which could only occur in the Wild West Bank. Israel controls the park containing the ancient finds, which is in Area C, but does nothing with it. The Palestinians say they want to control it, but lack the resources to develop it. And while both sides lay claim to the site as their exclusive cultural heritage, it lies neglected, underdeveloped, unexcavated.Echoes of former glory-Sebastia is situated just a few kilometers northwest of Nablus in the northern West Bank. Known in Hebrew by its biblical name Shomron, the city was capital of the northern Israelite kingdom in the 9th and 8th centuries BCE, founded by the sixth Israelite king, Omri.Fragments of houses, walls and a palace from the Iron Age remain. After its destruction by the Assyrians in 721 BCE, the city became the provincial capital of the conquered region. Under the Greeks it again flourished, but was destroyed by Hasmonean ruler John Hyrcanus. Then his son Alexander Jannaeaus rebuilt the city and repopulated it with Jews.During the Roman era, King Herod renamed it after Augustus Caesar — Sebaste is Augustus in Greek. At its height, Sebastia was a major city and entrepôt; the remains of its Roman theater, temple, palaces, forum, hippodrome and marketplace are still visible today.In the centuries of its long decline, Sebastia was a major Christian site, as underlined by the ruins of a Byzantine church dedicated to St. John the Baptist, where legend says he was executed and his head interred. A Crusader cathedral-turned-mosque still stands in the nearby modern Palestinian village, a vestige of the Crusader city’s former glory that shares the same name.Sebastia also features prominently in the history of archaeology. The first wholly American archaeological excavation in Ottoman Palestine was conducted at Sebastia by a team sponsored by Harvard in 1908. It was then that George Reisner developed a technique now standard in archaeology: study of the non-architectural material — the geological and man-made debris — that comprises the vast majority of a tel, through which scholars can decipher otherwise vanished aspects of a site’s history.Differing perspectives-The PA’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities brochure avoids any mention of Israel or a Jewish connection to the site. It notes that Sebastia was “an important administrative and political regional capital during the Iron Age II and III” and was “a major urban center during the Hellenistic period,” but makes no reference to the Israelite Kingdom or the Hasmoneans.A Palestinian description of Sebastia in a bid to have it listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site goes to even greater lengths to omit references to the city’s Jewish history, referring to it as the former “capital of the northern kingdom during the Iron Age II,” and alluding to Jewish figures such as Omri and John Hyrcanus without explanation.On the other hand, the Nature and Parks Authority’s site makes no reference whatsoever to the village, home to 3,000 Palestinians, in which the church-turned-mosque is located, to the Church of St. John the Baptist located in the ruins, or to the former Crusader presence in Sebastia.The last archaeological dig took place in 1967-Zeid, a 23-year-old Palestinian tour guide from the village, said that despite the PA’s official stance, locals have no issue with Sebastia’s Jewish heritage. “This is the history of the area,” he said.Despite Sebastia’s historical significance, the site has barely been excavated. The last archaeological dig took place in 1967, when the West Bank was still under Jordanian control. Since then only salvage operations have taken place. The national park is dismally neglected. There’s no fence to protect its artifacts, weeds grow rampant throughout, and garbage is littered all over the ancient ruins.Graffiti mars the Roman pillars of the once-grand basilica; a spray-painted Muslim proclamation of faith — “There is no God but Allah” — marks the lintel of the Eastern Orthodox Church of St. John the Baptist, and a Star of David is scrawled on the floor. The Roman forum is a parking lot for the few buses that still bring tourists.Hananya Hizmi, the Civil Administration’s archaeology staff officer in the West Bank, contended that site excavations are ordinarily undertaken by academic institutions, not governmental authorities.“Since ’67, the reason why there haven’t been excavations there is because there haven’t been requests by any academic institutions,” he said.He dismissed the issue of antiquities theft at Sebastia as part of a regional and nationwide problem, and said the Civil Administration’s antiquities department was working to protect and maintain the site.“As far as we’re concerned, we’re of course doing what we can concerning preserving sites,” Hizmi said. “In recent years we’ve really delved into and started work in preservation, restoration and paving trails, and also this year and next year we’re supposed to go in [and do it].”Off-limits-Visits to the site by Israeli tourists are restricted — even though it’s located in Area C, the Israeli-controlled section of the West Bank. The abutting village of Sebastia is inside Palestinian-controlled Areas A and B.The Nature and Parks Authority warns on its website: “Due to the security situation, the site is closed to visitors until further notice except by pre- arrangement during the interim days of Passover and Sukkot.” Buses carrying Israeli tourists are escorted by IDF jeeps. A Civil Administration spokesperson said that such extreme precautions are needed because Palestinian locals throw stones, and occasionally firebombs, at Israeli vehicles.Sebastia residents said altercations with Israelis from the neighboring settlement of Shavei Shomron were infrequent. Nonetheless, Zeid, 23, said he didn’t want Israeli tourists at the site: “In two hours they could be my killer.”Mohammad, owner of the Holy Land Sun souvenir shop which abuts the archaeological site, however, said he misses the pre-Oslo Accords days, when Israeli tourists flocked to Sebastia, bringing business with them.“Before the first intifada,” he said with a puff on his water pipe, “on a Saturday you couldn’t find a place to park your car.” Now in a given month 10 buses of visitors might come, mostly Christian pilgrims who come to pray at the ruined church, he said. As we spoke three buses of Palestinian children sat in the lot and an IDF jeep roared in, idled for a few moments, then zipped out again.“Business was better before the PA,” Mohammad said, adding that he’d like Israeli tourists to return, albeit without the army escort. “We don’t have a problem with civil[ian] Israelis; we have a problem with settlers. Settlers we hate them from our heart as Palestinians, from the baby when he is born until he is dead, because they are taking our land, that is the problem,” he said.Over a cup of tea in the village’s main square, around which a dozen young jobless men lounged in the shade, Zeid said development of the national park would help revive Sebastia village’s flagging economy by creating “more jobs, maybe a hotel, more guiding, more restaurants.”For the time being, however, Sebastia the archaeological site remains largely off-limits, its resonant history at once disputed and neglected.__________Follow Ilan Ben Zion on Twitter and Facebook. 

Sunday, August 23, 2015

EXPLOSION AT US MILITARY BASE WAREHOUSE IN JAPAN ROCKS TO THE CORE-NO INJURIES.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

FEARFUL SIGHTS AND GREAT SIGNS FROM HEAVEN

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.

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

World | Sun Aug 23, 2015 4:00pm EDT-Explosion rocks warehouse at U.S. military base in Japan, no injuries reported-reuters

TOKYO-An explosion rocked a warehouse at a U.S. military base in Sagamihara, Japan, but there were no reports of injuries, Japanese fire officials said on Monday.The local fire department said it received a call just after midnight of an explosion at a U.S. Army depot where it said "dangerous material" is stored and sent firefighters.It added that the fire had subsided and there was no danger of it spreading since there were no adjacent buildings. The cause of the fire was not immediately known, the fire department said.In Washington, U.S. Navy Commander Bill Urban said the blast was at a building at the U.S. Army Sagami General Depot in Sagamihara, about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Tokyo."There are no reports of injury, and base firefighters and first responders are currently fighting the resulting fire to prevent its spread to nearby buildings," Urban said in an emailed statement.A U.S. Army spokesman said the building did not in fact store any hazardous material."The building that exploded was not a hazardous material storage facility. We are in the process of determining the contents of the building. The depot does not store ammunition or radiological materials," Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Toner told Reuters in an email.He added that no troops lived at the depot, where an estimated 200 personnel work in the daytime.(Reporting by Linda Sieg; Additional reporting by Andrea Shalal in Washington; Writing by Sandra Maler; Editing by Peter Cooney)

114 DEAD-722 INJURED-80 MISSING IN CHINA PORT CITY EXPLOSION
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/second-china-chemical-plant-explosion.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/russia-china-drills-west-and-nato.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/what-kinda-story-is-this-america-used.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/112-now-dead-722-injured-in-china-port.html 
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/at-least-56-dead-720-injured-in-chinese.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/08/at-least-52-killed-52-in-serious.html

TORAH PORTION FROM AUGUST 23-AUGUST 29,2015

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

TORAH PORTION FROM AUGUST 23-AUGUST 29,2015
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2011/09/parshah-ki-teitzei-deuteronomy-2110.html

JACK VAN IMPE-
http://www.thegospel.com/clients/jvim-jack-van-impe-ministries/media.asp
JAN MARKELL-
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/understanding-the-times/listen/
TOMI LAHREN-SHES MY KINDA STRAIT TALKER
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm24at_V3q7WF9yGzshULXw
EZRA LEVANTS THE REBEL MEDIA-STRAIT TALKER
http://www.therebel.media/
YOUTUBE THE REBEL
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGy6uV7yqGWDeUWTZzT3ZEg
J D FARAQ
https://www.youtube.com/user/alohabibleprophecy?feature=watch
STEVEN BEN-DENOON
https://www.youtube.com/user/BenDeNoon?feature=watch
MARK BILTZ ON THE FALL FEASTS OF ISRAEL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llOi5nKIb9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PTRMOssYW8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1axKxqV608
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxCXwTXiq1U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMm2iahIhpk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmIZe5-ZnKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsglTPrp7z4
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS
http://www.ifcj.org/site/PageNavigator/eng/USENG_homenew
CHRISTIANS FOR ISRAEL
http://www.c4israel.org/c4i/
INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN EMBASSY JERUSALEM CANADA
http://ca.icej.org/
DAVID SILVER-OUT OF ZION MINISTRIES
http://www.out-of-zion.com/
http://www.out-of-zion.com/about/articles/the-facts-behind-the-conflict
METEORITES HIT EARTH
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/i-think-i-just-figured-out-what-stars.html
NASA SOLAR-LUNAR ECLIPSES
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEdecade/SEdecade2021.html 

IMF ITS PREMATURE TO SAY CHINA IS CAUSING THIS DOWN TURN IN WORLD STOCK MARKETS.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

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.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
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:(CONFISCATED) 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.

LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2  (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3  And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.

Doha Bank Expects Record Gold Sales on Stock Market Volatility-Mohammed Sergie-August 23, 2015 — 9:19 AM EDT-BLOOMBERG

Doha Bank QSC expects to sell a record 200 million riyals ($55 million) of gold this year as consumers take advantage of lower prices and investors seek a haven from falling equities and weakening currencies.The bank, the first lender authorized to import and sell gold in Qatar, took in 23,818 ounces in the first seven months of 2015 compared with 15,830 ounces in the same period last year, Samuel K.V., head of treasury trading and product management, said in a phone interview from Doha Sunday. Sales were worth 110 million riyals in the 2015 period, he said.More than $3.3 trillion has been erased from the value of global equities after China’s decision to devalue its currency spurred a wave of selling across emerging markets. Qatar’s QE Index of shares slumped 5.3 percent on Sunday as lower oil prices raised concern about growth prospects in the Middle East at the same time the Federal Reserve contemplates the first boost to interest rates since 2006.“Gold remains a solid bet for the future,” K.V. said. Demand is expected to rise due to the “big volatility in the Chinese stock market and currency” and the possibility of a delayed interest rate increase by the Fed.Gold rallied 4.1 percent last week to $1,160.77 an ounce on buying because of the equity selloff, along with speculation that the Fed may start to raise interest rates in December instead of next month.Low gold prices often trigger purchases of the precious metal in the Middle East and Asia, the World Gold Council said Aug. 13 when reporting that global gold demand slumped to a six-year low in the second quarter. Prices fell 10 percent in the past year, and traded at a five-year low of $1,077.40 an ounce in July.Demand for gold jewelry in the Middle East declined 20 percent and investment bar and coin consumption dropped 37 percent in the second quarter, the World Gold Council said. It cited an increased value added tax in Iran, lower oil prices and currency weakness. Oil has retreated 21 percent this year..

Kazakh PM Sees Oil-Nation Currency Pegs Axed as Crude Falls-Nariman Gizitdinov-Updated on August 22, 2015 — 2:04 PM EDT-BLOOMBERG

Currency pegs in crude-producing nations are set to topple as the world enters a “new era” of low oil prices, according to the prime minister of Kazakhstan, which rattled markets this week with a surprise decision to abandon control of its exchange rate.“At the end of the day, most of the oil-producing countries will go into the free-floating regime,” including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Karim Massimov said in an interview on Saturday in the capital, Astana. “I do not think that for the next three to five, maybe seven years, the price for commodities will come back to the level that it used to be at in 2014.”Central Asia’s biggest energy producer cut its currency loose on Thursday, triggering a 22 percent slide in the tenge to a record low versus the dollar. The move followed China’s shock devaluation of the yuan the week before, which drove down oil prices on concern global growth will stutter and nudged nations with managed exchange rates toward competitive devaluations of their own.More than $3.3 trillion has been erased from the value of global equities after China’s decision spurred a wave of selling across emerging markets. Brent crude touched a six year-low of $45.07 per barrel on Friday, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average entered a correction.“After I watched what is happening on the financial market and stock market in the U.S. on Friday night, I thought that we did it at the right time,” Massimov, 50, said in his office in the government’s headquarters. The decision avoided “big speculation and pressure this weekend in Kazakhstan,” he said.Competitive Disadvantage-The central bank spent $28 billion this and last year to support the tenge, including $10 billion in 2015, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said this week. After its slump on Thursday, the currency rallied 7.4 percent to close at 234.99 against the dollar a day later. The country’s dollar bonds due July 2025 climbed after the announcement, lowering the yield nine basis points to 5.74 percent in the last two days of the week.Before the currency shift, Kazakhstan was at a competitive disadvantage to Russia, its neighbor and top trading partner along with China. The tenge had fallen by only 7.6 percent against he dollar in the 12 months up to Aug. 20, compared with a 46 percent depreciation for the ruble, while crude had plummeted 55 percent in the period.Commodity weakness means Kazakhstan’s record $4 billion foreign bond sale in July will be its last for the next three to five years, Massimov said. Instead the government will raise funds on the local market to cover the 2016 budget deficit, he said. Brent at about $40 to $45 a barrel next year will leave the government with a shortfall equivalent to 1.6 percent of gross domestic product, he predicted.Fiscal Pressure-The fiscal pressure may hasten reforms aimed at reducing the country’s dependence on energy exports. Bringing the tenge’s free float forward from its original start date of 2020 is one step on that path, he said.“Structural reforms, plus new economic policy will help us to change the structure of our economy, to adjust with the current situation,” he said.Eventually, the world’s biggest oil producers will follow Kazakhstan’s example and use devaluations to support their budgets as they compete for customers by keeping output high and prices low, Massimov predicted.“I believe at the end of the day they will have to do that,” he said. “They are working for their market share, not for the price.” Traders have been increasing bets that some currencies may be allowed to devalue in the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, which includes the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter.Personal Finances-One-year forward contracts for the Saudi riyal jumped to the highest since 2003 last week, indicating some speculation the kingdom may adjust its peg of 3.75 riyals to the dollar. The country’s foreign reserves have dropped five months in a row and the government faces its second annual deficit amid the plunge in oil, which makes up 90 percent of Saudi Arabia’s revenue.The reaction in the Saudi forwards market may be “overdone,” Barclays Plc economists including Alia Moubayed wrote in an Aug. 21 research note. There remains ample liquidity in the banking market and the government’s external and domestic buffers remain solid, they said. Citigroup Inc. economist Farouk Soussa called the increase “unwarranted” in an Aug. 13 note.Similar contracts for the U.A.E.’s dirham also surged last week, to the highest since 2009. The country, whose currency is set at about 3.67 per dollar, is home to 6 percent of the world’s proven oil reserves. The central bank last year ruled out changing its peg even after oil dropped by about 50 percent from its peak.The U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia are among five GCC countries that keep their currencies pegged to the dollar. Kuwait links its dinar to a basket.Amid the turmoil in the global currency markets, Massimov sticks to a tried and tested strategy when it comes to his personal finances. The former head of Kazakh lender Halyk Savings Bank prefers to spread the risk by holding his cash in a variety of currencies.“I keep my personal currency as a basket,” he said. “I used to be a banker myself and I believe in a free market.”Outgoing Africa Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka said Saturday he didn’t see any currency risk in African countries because of Kazakhstan’s devaluation.“This is mainly related to other developments but nothing related to Kazakhstan,” Kaberuka said in an interview from Kigali, Rwanda. The decline in oil prices “has reduced pressures on currencies and reserves in oil importing countries.”

China's Neighbors Step Up Stock Market Support-Bloomberg News-August 23, 2015 — 8:39 AM EDT

China isn’t the only country resorting to extraordinary measures to shore up its tumbling stock market.Taiwan on Sunday slapped a ban on short-selling of borrowed stocks at prices lower than the previous day’s close, while South Korea’s finance ministry said it will act “pre-emptively” after the nation’s largest exchange-traded fund suffered the biggest weekly withdrawal since its inception 15 years ago. China itself said over the weekend it will allow pension funds to invest in stocks for the first time, while penalizing major shareholders at publicly traded companies for violating rules that limit stake sales.Benchmark stock gauges in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Indonesia entered bear markets last week after sliding at least 20 percent from recent peaks as China’s surprise devaluation of the yuan and prospects for the first U.S. interest-rate increase since 2006 triggered concern competitive devaluations will hurt economic growth and fund outflows will accelerate.“ Hopefully, Asian governments don’t panic from the current market turmoil and resort to knee-jerk decisions,” said Sandy Mehta, the chief executive officer of Hong Kong-based Value Investment Principals. “Competitive currency devaluations can become a zero-sum game if all countries resort to it.”In South Korea, financial authorities were ordered to hold meetings to monitor the markets and implement measures when necessary, the country’s Financial Services Commission said.Korean Tensions-Tensions between North and South Korea also drove the iShares MSCI South Korea Capped ETF, the largest exchange-traded fund tracking the country’s stocks, to its biggest weekly withdrawal since inception in 2000. Traders pulled $195.4 million from the ETF, whose top holdings include Samsung Electronics Co. and Hyundai Motor Co., in the five trading days ended Aug. 21, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Taiwan’s financial watchdog imposed the ban on short-selling of borrowed stocks and depository receipts, the Financial Supervisory Commission announced. The measure will take effect on Monday, it said.While the rule doesn’t apply to brokerages and futures brokers who are shorting for hedging purposes, the regulator is working to encourage the financial industry to hold shares of listed companies, it said on its website. Taiwan’s benchmark index fell 5.2 percent last week.In Indonesia, the nation’s largest fund manager is taking the slump that’s driven stocks into a bear market as the cue to start buying again.-China Penalties-BPJS Ketenagakerjaan, which manages around 193 trillion rupiah ($13.8 billion), will enter the equities market along with other state-owned institutional investors, Elvyn Masassya, its president director, said in a text message on Sunday. Shares are “relatively cheap,” he said, without naming any.China securities regulator said late Friday it will penalize major shareholders at publicly traded companies, such as Southwest Securities Co. and Guoxing Rongda Real Estate Co., for violating rules that limit stake sales.The China Securities Regulatory Commission’s investigation focuses on whether shareholders sold their stakes beyond what rules allow, if they sold them during a moratorium period and whether they made timely disclosures, Zhang Xiaojun, a spokesman for the regulator in Beijing, told reporters. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index plunged 4.3 percent on Friday, coming within one point of wiping out an 18 percent rebound since the July 8 low.The State Council, or cabinet, on Sunday announced it will allow pension funds to invest in new products, including the stock markets, while restricting the maximum proportion of investments in equities to 30 percent of total net assets. Pension funds had net assets of 3.5 trillion yuan ($547 billion) by the end of 2014, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

China fears and global growth doubts grip markets-Reuters-By Sarah White – AUG 23,15-YAHOONEWS

MADRID (Reuters) - Markets will be watching for China's next move as signs of a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy stack up, raising expectations it will act to stoke growth.A looming snap election in Greece and a closely watched conference hosted by the Federal Reserve in the United States are also likely to keep investors on their toes next week, in particular as they look for hints on when the U.S. will raise interest rates.Fears that Chinese growth is weakening, dragging down the global economy with it, are already hammering commodities and world stock markets.Both tumbled on Friday after a survey showed Chinese manufacturing slowed the most since the global financial crisis in 2009 - adding to other worrying clues about the country's health, including its falling exports.China devalued the yuan earlier in August, by pushing its official guidance rate down 2 percent. The central bank has said there was no reason for the currency to fall further, but investors are also bracing for further interest rate cuts."It will be all eyes on the Chinese authorities for any further policy support steps, alongside the People's Bank of China yuan fixings and trading swings," analysts at Investec Economics said in a note to clients.China is also widely expected to relax reserve requirements ratios for its banks again in the coming months, a measure intended to spur lending by reducing the cash they need to hold. It is trying to keep its economy on course to grow 7 percent in 2015 - its slowest pace in a quarter of a century."We continue to expect a total of 100 basis points of reserve requirement ratio cuts by end-2015, with the first cut likely to take place within the next two weeks," economists at Standard Chartered said.The cash reserves ratio has already been cut three times this year.-EYES ON FED, GREECE-By the end of next week attention may shift away to the Rocky Mountains, where policymakers are due to gather from Aug. 27-29 for the Fed's conference of central bankers, finance ministers, academics and financial market participants in Jackson Hole.Fed chair Janet Yellen is not expected to attend, raising the prospect that other Fed officials may be more tight-lipped about the likelihood of the first rate increase in almost a decade, some analysts said.The prospect of an increase as soon as September receded this week as the Fed released minutes of July meeting. They gave no clear signals as to the timing of such a move - which would affect markets across the world and could cause more pain for emerging market assets, already being hit by China's woes.Fed policymakers are still concerned about the weakness of the global economy, the minutes showed, but they were also more confident about US growth prospects.Further clues on both matters should be gleaned from data releases this week, including second-quarter gross domestic product figures for the United States, due on Thursday.Quarter-on-quarter GDP growth in the period is expected to be revised upwards to 3.2 percent from 2.3 percent, according to a Reuters poll.In the euro zone, investors will also be looking at an German economic sentiment survey due on Tuesday for a better idea of the scope of the bloc's recovery.Preliminary August consumer price readings for Germany and Spain on Friday will provide further insight into how effective the European Central Bank's bond-buying efforts have been at warding off deflation.But the spotlight will mainly fall once again on Greece, where Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has resigned. That opened the way for early elections after he secured much-needed funds from the country's third international bailout program.The current Greek government aims to strengthen its position in the election after accepting a rescue deal it once opposed. But that creates more uncertainty for markets already on edge over whether Greece will deliver on promised reforms and get its economy and banks back on track.(Additional reporting by Koh Gui King in Beijing, editing by Larry King)

IMF official says 'premature' to speak of Chinese crisis-Reuters-Sat, 22 Aug, 2015 10:23 AM EDT-YAHOONEWS

RIMINI, Italy (Reuters) - China's economic slowdown and a sharp fall in its stock market herald not a crisis but a "necessary" adjustment for the world's second biggest economy, a senior International Monetary Fund official said on Saturday.Fresh evidence of easing growth in China hammered global stock markets on Friday, driving Wall Street to its steepest one-day drop in nearly four years."Monetary policies have been very expansive in recent years and an adjustment is necessary," said Carlo Cottarelli, an IMF executive director representing countries such as Italy and Greece on its board."It's totally premature to speak of a crisis in China," he told a press conference.He reiterated an IMF forecast for a 6.8 percent expansion in the Chinese economy this year, below the 7.4 percent growth achieved in 2014."China's real economy is slowing but it's perfectly natural that this should happen ... What happened in recent days is a shock on financial markets which is natural," he added.China's stock markets have fallen more than 30 percent since mid-year. Following a slew of poor economic data, Beijing devalued the yuan in a surprise move last week.Cottarelli said the IMF would discuss in coming months with Chinese authorities their decision to weaken the currency.China is eager for the yuan to join the IMF's Special Drawing Rights basket of currencies. But the fund is considering extending the current SDR basket by nine months until September 30, 2016.Turning to Greece, which is heading to an early election in September, Cottarelli said the IMF would decide in two or three months whether to join the latest international rescue efforts.The IMF deems Greece's debt unsustainable and has called for debt relief as a condition to participate in a third bailout."The debt sustainability assessment will take place after the launch of the program (agreed with creditors) in two or three months. The IMF will then be able to evaluate whether to intervene," he said.(Reporting by Paolo Biondi, writing by Valentina Za; Editing by Gareth Jones)

TSX sinks to lowest since Feb 2014 on global growth worry-ReutersBy By Solarina Ho and Alastair Sharp | Reuters – Fri, 21 Aug, 2015-YAHOONEWS

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index sank to its lowest in 18 months on Friday, capping a week of rapid retreat on persistently grim global sentiment following more disappointing data out of China.Global equity markets plummeted toward their worst week this year, while the beating in commodities continued as data out of China showed manufacturing in the country was slowing at the fastest pace since the financial crisis in 2009. [MKTS/GLOB]The commodities-heavy TSX took another drubbing, with energy stocks falling 1.5 percent and materials sliding 2.9 percent. The hefty financials group, whose banks report quarterly results next week, fell 1.9 percent."There's not a lot of positive things that support the equity price," said Marcus Xu, a portfolio manager at M.Y. Capital Management Corp in Vancouver. "That's probably why people are getting a little panicked."The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index <.GSPTSE> closed down 263.33 points, or 1.92 percent, at 13,473.67. It lost almost 6 percent in the week, its worst weekly slump since September 2011.Decliners outnumbered advancers by 224 to 21, and the index posted two new 52-week highs and 70 new 52-week lows."We're really breaking some really key levels. It's a sign that we're in a very severe correction," said John Johnston, chief strategist at Davis-Rea. "It's being driven by a continued slowdown in the global production cycle, which is so important for the demand for commodities." He said weakness in emerging markets could drag the global economy into a recession. Canadian Natural Resources fell 2.7 percent to C$26.80.Crude prices suffered their longest losing streak since 1986 following the dismal Chinese data, which also sent copper prices down. U.S. oil futures settled down more than 2 percent to $40.45 a barrel after falling as low as $39.86. Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange ended down 1.3 percent to $5,055 a tonne. [O/R][MET/L]-Of the index's 10 main groups, only telecoms were on higher ground, up 0.8 percent. All the remaining sectors fell more than 1 percent, including consumer staples, which slumped 2.7 percent.Convenience store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard lost 5.9 percent to C$54.58.Royal Bank of Canada fell 1.7 percent to C$72.80 and was among the biggest drags on the TSX. Manulife Financial Corp was down 4.1 percent at C$20.46.In corporate news, Eldorado Gold Corp shares plunged 14 percent to C$4.48 after the company said on Thursday it suspended mining activities in northern Greece.(Reporting by Solarina Ho; Editing by James Dalgleish)

Egyptian stock market continues decline, falls to lowest level in almost 2 years-The Canadian PressBy The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – AUG 23,15-YAHOONEWS

CAIRO - Egypt's main stock index has fallen to its lowest level in almost two years.The market, known as EGX 30, closed at 6784.09 on Sunday, the start of the trading week, falling to its lowest level since December 2013.The 5.43-per cent drop came after a steady fall last week, and as other Middle Eastern markets also tumbled, and it follows an overall global slowdown. Dubai's stock market closed nearly seven per cent lower after a further slide in oil prices.Oil futures are continuing to fall because of ample supplies of crude and a slowing global economy. Brent crude, a benchmark for international oil, fell more than a dollar to close Friday at $45.46 while the price of U.S. crude closed at $40.45.

Iran says an OPEC emergency meeting may stop oil price slide: Shana-ReutersReuters – AUG 23,15-YAHOONEWS

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's Oil Minister, Bijan Zanganeh, said on Sunday that holding an emergency OPEC meeting may be "effective" in stabilizing the oil price, Iran's oil ministry news agency Shana reported.Algeria said earlier this month that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries could hold an emergency meeting to discuss the drop in oil prices but other OPEC delegates said no meeting was planned."Iran endorses an emergency OPEC meeting and would not disagree with it," Zanganeh told reporters in Tehran, according to Shana.U.S. oil prices fell below $40 a barrel on Friday for the first time since the 2009 financial crisis, pressured by signs of oversupply in the United States and weak Chinese manufacturing data. [O/R]-OPEC is not due to meet until Dec. 4.While OPEC rules say a simple majority of the 12 OPEC members is needed to call an emergency meeting before then, some OPEC delegates say a meeting is unlikely unless Saudi Arabia is in favor.Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, and other Gulf states pushed OPEC's strategy shift last year to defend market share rather than cut output to support prices.Relatively wealthy, they are better able to cope with low oil prices than Iran, Venezuela or African members.OPEC delegates see little chance of the exporting group diverting from its policy of defending market share, although the latest drop in prices is starting to sour the business mood even in Saudi Arabia.(Reporting by Rania El Gamal; Editing by Susan Fenton)

Biggest U.S. Stocks Look Like Global Havens to Bank of America-Oliver Renick-August 23, 2015 — 11:25 AM EDT-BLOOMBERG

To Bank of America Corp. equity strategist Savita Subramanian, the forces that torpedoed blue chip U.S. stocks last week may be the same ones that pull them back up.American equities joined foundering currencies and commodities around the world as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index tumbled 5.8 percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average entered a correction. Until now, U.S. stocks had been a pool of tranquility amid a slowdown in China, oil’s 60 percent plunge and geopolitical wrangling in Europe.While slowing global growth is behind the anxiety, it’s also a potential reason for optimism about the biggest S&P 500 companies, with the U.S. economy outpacing its peers, according to Subramanian. Profits in the index, which are falling now, are projected to rebound 10.5 percent in 2016 and 12.8 percent in 2017, analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg show.“When Europe and China eclipse the U.S. we chug along, but when they’re in a down market, that’s when the U.S. really dominates,” Subramanian said in a phone interview. “From a quality perspective, all the boxes are checked off in the U.S. and that becomes more important to investors again.”U.S. gross domestic product rose at a 2.3 percent annualized rate in the second quarter, according to Commerce Department data reported on July 30. From the end of 2011 to the end of 2014, a period when the S&P 500 climbed 64 percent, the economy expanded at a 2.1 percent clip.-Currency Turmoil-Losses earlier in the week in American shares were limited as the rout in emerging-market assets deepened, with developing-nation equities sinking to the lowest level since 2009 and currencies from Malaysia to Kazakhstan tumbling. That changed Thursday as the S&P 500 wiped out gains for 2015 as investors sought the safety of gold and Treasuries.The stocks that have meant the most to U.S. investors have been swept up in the turmoil. Netflix Inc., Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc. and Apple Inc. have seen $139 billion in market value erased over two days.It’s those shares investors should turn to now more than ever, according to Jonathan Golub, the chief strategist for RBC Capital Markets LLC.-Innovating-“The one thing they have in common is none of them need a stronger economy to generate their revenues,” Golub said by phone. “They’re companies that are innovating and taking market share and in a slow global growth environment. Those characteristics are the whole market story.”The S&P 500 will rally 12 percent to 2,233 by year-end, according to the average estimate of Wall Street strategists surveyed by Bloomberg. Golub, who predicts the benchmark will go ever higher than that and land at 2,325, is joined by Thomas Lee, who sees the gauge ending at the same level. Subramanian has a year-end forecast of 2,200.“China has been a weak story for a while,” Lee, managing partner and co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors LLC, said by phone. “We’re getting to the point where the market is going to start looking for the fact that everyone is finished selling. I think that means we’re within days of a low.”

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