EVENTS IN TIME (BIBLE PROPHECY LITERALLY FULFILLED)(BY GOD)

I WRITE NEWS ABOUT AND PUT NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PERTAINING TO BIBLE PROPHESY HAPPENINGS.JOEL 3:20 But Judah (ISRAEL) shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.(THATS ISRAEL-JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED AGAIN)-WE CHRISTIANS ARE ALL WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE TO OCCUR.SO WE CAN GO TO JESUS AND GET OUR NEVER DYING BODIES.SO WE CAN RULE OVER CITIES OURSELVES.WHILE JESUS RULES FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER IN JERUSALEM.

Thursday, August 20, 2015

NORTH SOUTH KOREA EXCHANGE FIRE AT EACH OTHER.

FIRES STILL RAGE IN AMERICA-TURKEYS LIRA WEAKENS TO DOLLAR.

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.

Kazakhstan Currency Plunges by Record 23% in Shift to Free Float-Nariman Gizitdinov-Updated on August 20, 2015 — 3:46 AM EDT-bloomberg

Kazakhstan’s tenge plunged a record 23 percent after the country relinquished control of its exchange rate, becoming the latest emerging market to abandon efforts to prop up its currency after China devalued the yuan.The nation has switched to a free float and will pursue an inflation-targeting monetary policy, Prime Minister Karim Massimov told a government meeting in Astana. Supply and demand will determine the exchange rate, central bank Governor Kairat Kelimbetov said, adding that there will only be intervention if stability is threatened. The tenge sank to an all-time low of 257.21 per dollar in Almaty, data compiled by Bloomberg show.Central Asia’s biggest crude exporter is contending with sliding oil prices and weakening economic growth in China and Russia, its top trading partners. Most emerging-market currencies depreciated this month as the yuan’s steepest slide in two decades and speculation of a Federal Reserve rate increase spurred outflows.The “move follows a huge loss of competitiveness, as key trade partner Russia has allowed the ruble to depreciate significantly as commodity prices slumped,” Tom Levinson, the chief foreign-exchange and rates strategist at Sberbank CIB in Moscow, said by e-mail. The yuan’s depreciation “may be an additional factor,” he said.Russia let the ruble float freely and switched to inflation targeting in November after spending about $90 billion last year from reserves trying to contain the depreciation.The ruble has lost 46 percent of its value in the past 12 months, versus a 7.6 percent weakening for the tenge before today’s switch. As a result, Kazakhstan witnessed an influx of grain, metals, construction materials, oil products and coal from its northern neighbor, according to Kazakh business association Atameken.-Must Adjust-Vietnam devalued its currency on Wednesday for the third time this year. Kazakhstan’s central bank widened the tenge’s trading band against the dollar the same day, raising its upper trading limit to 198 per dollar.The shift by Kazakh monetary authorities could trigger similar moves by regional peers, “which would be tempted to stem competitiveness losses,” BMI Research said in a note on Wednesday, after the band widening. “We assess Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to be most vulnerable to the weakening of the Kazakh tenge.”Kazakhstan, the world’s 18th largest producer of petroleum and other liquids, must adjust to living with a crude price of $30 to $40 per barrel, president Nursultan Nazarbayev said at meeting with state officials on Wednesday. Brent crude has plunged 59 percent from its 2014 high and is now trading at $46.91 per barrel in London.-Correct’ Imbalances-The tenge should stabilize in five to seven days, Governor Kelimbetov said, adding that the central bank isn’t targeting any particular exchange rate. Nomura Holdings Inc. said in an Aug. 12 note the currency would need to weaken to between 235 and 268 per dollar to “correct” imbalances due to the slide in commodity prices and the overvaluation of the real effective exchange rate.The shift to a free float “will create the necessary conditions for a recovery of economic growth, increased lending and investment activity, creation of new jobs and a decrease in the inflation rate to between 3 percent and 4 percent in the medium term,” Prime Minister Massimov said.The nation’s gross domestic product grew 4.3 percent in 2014 and inflation was 3.9 percent in July, down from 7.4 percent in December.“Kazakhstan like a number of other emerging countries, are trying to remain competitive at a time when the dollar is strengthening,” said Gary Dugan, chief investment officer for private banking at National Bank of Abu Dhabi PJSC.

Lira Weakens Past 3 per Dollar Sending Stocks Falling With Bonds-Constantine Courcoulas Tugce Ozsoy-Updated on August 20, 2015 — 4:46 AM EDT-bloomberg
The lira weakened past 3 per dollar for the first time, sending stocks and bonds lower, as Turkey’s economic and political woes mounted amid a selloff in emerging markets.The currency depreciated as much as 2.7 percent to trade at 3.0031 per dollar in Istanbul. It was at 2.9819 as of 11:40 a.m. local time, bringing its retreat this year to 22 percent. The Borsa Istanbul 100 Index of stocks dropped 1.8 percent to the lowest since Oct. 16. The yield on two-year government bonds jumped 40 basis points to 11.11 percent, the highest level since March 2014 on a closing basis. The cost to insure Turkish debt for five years headed for the highest since 2012.“The lira is one of a number of emerging-market currencies which is under strain largely because of domestic vulnerabilities and weaknesses,” Nicholas Spiro, the managing director of London-based Spiro Sovereign Strategy, said by e-mail. “Even if there’s a modest improvement in the external backdrop, the lira is unlikely to benefit. This is a mostly home-grown currency crisis that has yet to run its course.”The lira is this year’s second-worst emerging-market currency following inconclusive general elections in June and as Kurdish, Islamic and leftist militants have stepped up attacks in Istanbul and elsewhere over the past months. The central bank left Turkey’s interest rates unchanged on Tuesday, and signaled at a meeting with economists yesterday it may not raise borrowing costs before the Federal Reserve.Currencies across emerging markets have depreciated this month. The tenge plunged to a record after Kazakhstan relinquished control of its exchange rate, becoming the latest country to abandon efforts to prop up its currency before the U.S. raises interest rates. Vietnam devalued its currency on Wednesday for the third time this year after a similar move in China last week triggered the yuan’s steepest slide in two decades.-Rate Hold-Credit-default swaps insuring Turkish sovereign debt against default for five years rose to 283 points, the highest on a closing basis since June 6, 2012, CMA prices show. The yield on 10-year government notes increased 21 basis points to 10.47 percent.While Turkish policy makers kept borrowing costs on hold for a sixth month this week, they’ve pushed the weighted-average cost of central bank funding up more than 100 basis points to 8.67 percent as of yesterday. The bank decided to implement a tighter liquidity policy “as long as deemed necessary,” it said in a statement accompanying its rates decision.“It’s hard to find a catalyzer that can reverse lira’s decline,” said Akin Tas, vice president of derivatives trading at Istanbul-based Akbank TAS. “The market fears the central bank will remain behind the curve. Investors may have taken the Fed’s dovish statement as a sign that the Turkish central bank could be unwilling to raise rates until the first Fed rate hike to curb lira weakening.”Turkey is more reliant on capital inflows than many countries because of the size of its current-account deficit, making it among the most vulnerable economies to higher U.S. borrowing costs. Fed officials yesterday indicated concern about stubbornly low inflation, even as they signaled that an improving job market is bringing them closer to the first interest-rate increase in almost a decade.-Lira Slump-Turkey’s economy will probably grow 3 percent in 2015, less than the 5.4 percent average in the past five years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. While inflation has decelerated for two months to 6.8 percent in July, consumer-price increases remain above the central bank’s 5 percent target.There’s little information on what caused the lira’s jump on Thursday morning, according to Emre Tekin, a senior fixed income trader at Turkiye Garanti Bankasi AS. “I heard a market player bought not more than $20 million and bid at a higher level and triggered algorithms,” he said.Societe Generale SA analysts Phoenix Kalen and Roxana Hulea said the lira may depreciate to as low as 3.2088 per dollar in an e-mailed note on Wednesday.-Violence-Turkish Lira Falls Before Rate Decision-A flare up in violence yesterday added to pressure on the lira, as assailants tossed a grenade at a guard post at Istanbul’s Dolmabahce Palace and then opened fire, setting off a gun battle in the center of Turkey’s largest city. No one was killed and two members of a leftist extremist group were detained.Eight soldiers were killed when the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, detonated a land mine under an armored vehicle yesterday in the southeastern town of Siirt, state-run TRT TV reported.A Turkish multi-front offensive against terrorist groups and the collapse of a three-year truce with Kurdish militants followed parliamentary elections in June that failed to deliver a ruling majority to any one party. Talks to form a coalition government failed and Turkey may be headed for fresh elections within about three months.Nationalist opposition leader Devlet Bahceli called on Wednesday for the use of martial law in war-torn areas.(An earlier version of this story corrected the year-to-date decline in the second paragraph.)

Currency Pegs-By Kati Pohjanpalo and Ye Xie | Updated Aug 20, 2015 3:45 AM EDT-bloomberg

In the rise and fall of world powers, the currency market keeps score. A nation’s money gains value when it’s a magnet for global investors; in times of trouble it weakens. The volatility can create havoc. To keep things in check, more than half of all countries have fixed the value of their money to another currency — mostly the U.S. dollar or the euro. They’ve hammered in a peg. The tie-ups can provide stability and foster trade, as Hong Kong’s link to the dollar has since 1983. Until they don’t. To hold most pegs in place, the central bank must use foreign reserves to buy or sell in currency markets in a battle with traders to keep the exchange rate stable. If pressure builds, policy makers will be forced to give up. The peg will slip or break — with sometimes disastrous consequences.The Situation-China surprised global markets Aug. 11 with its first major devaluation of the yuan since 1994, as an economic slowdown weighed on the currency and the U.S. prepared to raise interest rates. The shift mounted pressure on trading partners, with Vietnam marking down is currency the following week and Kazakhstan moving to a free float Aug. 20. In January, Switzerland shocked traders by scrapping the franc’s three-year-old cap against the euro. The move forced the central bank in Denmark to defend the krone’s tie-up to the euro by repeatedly cutting interest rates. Russia spent the last months of 2014 struggling to halt the ruble’s steepest slide in 17 years as oil prices plunged. It abandoned efforts to manage the ruble’s flexible, or crawling, peg against a basket of currencies after spending more than $88 billion. Both Egypt and Nigeria have also effectively devalued in 2015. Though the currencies of most large countries and the 19-nation euro float freely, the trend is heading the other way: 34 percent of countries monitored by the International Monetary Fund gave the market free rein in 2014, down from 40 percent in 2008.-The Background-There are various systems for managing exchange rates, and some are more stable than others. Panama and Zimbabwe simply use the U.S. dollar as legal tender. Fixed rates are employed in countries from Bulgaria to Saudi Arabia to Venezuela. Singapore and China have employed different types of links to currencies of trading partners via bands that can move up or down. China has mostly used the arrangement to limit appreciation over the last decade, though it’s now allowing the yuan to fluctuate more in response to market forces. Hong Kong’s peg is seen as virtually impregnable because the total amount of local currency issued is backed by U.S. dollars in reserve, an arrangement known as a currency board. History is full of upheavals. The 1971 “Nixon shock” was sparked when President Richard Nixon abruptly ended the dollar’s convertibility to gold. It led to the end of the post-World War II Bretton Woods system that pegged currencies of industrialized countries to the U.S. The U.K. faced a storm in 1992, when investors including George Soros bet it wouldn’t be able to keep its pound within a pre-euro system of linked rates. It gave in on Sept. 16 and allowed the pound to float, a day known as Black Wednesday.-The Argument-Currency pegs can put a central bank at the mercy of another country’s monetary and fiscal policy, so it must copy moves on interest rates. There’s less freedom to respond to domestic goals, such as reviving growth, creating jobs or containing prices. In Hong Kong, for example, easy-money policies in the U.S. have caused a surge in inflation and home prices. So why peg? More predictability for companies and investors. Tying policy makers’ hands may also lead to more disciplined government spending. For a peg to hold, the exchange rate must be set judiciously and kept in line. Since there’s no automatic rebalancing from trade flows, it’s easy for a peg to get out of whack. That can cause a currency to lose credibility and come under attack. Some countries -– like China, Egypt and Venezuela -– keep speculators at bay with capital controls that limit how much currency can be converted or rules that require banks to trade near official rates.-The Reference Shelf-First Published Jan. 30, 2015-To contact the writers of this QuickTake:Kati Pohjanpalo in Helsinki at kpohjanpalo@bloomberg.net-Ye Xie in New York at yxie6@bloomberg.net-To contact the editor responsible for this QuickTake:-Leah Harrison Singer at lharrison@bloomberg.net

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.

Three firefighters killed battling Washington state wildfire-Reuters By Eric M. Johnson-aug 20,15-yahoonews

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Three firefighters in Washington state were killed and four injured while battling a wildfire threatening the town of Twisp, officials said on Wednesday, as more than a dozen major blazes burned in parched Western U.S. states.The deaths came as a fast-moving wildfire forced authorities late on Wednesday to order the evacuations of about 4,000 homes in Twisp and Winthrop, towns in the foothills of the Cascade mountains of north-central Washington, an emergency management team said on Facebook."I was just told that three firefighters died while battling the Twisp fire and four were injured," Washington governor Jay Inslee said in a statement.The local county sheriff in Okanogan, Frank Rogers, said the firefighters had been in a car accident before flames probably overtook the vehicle.Fires have blackened more than 1 million acres (400,000 hectares) across the arid Western region, prompting fire managers to call in help from the U.S. Army and abroad to reinforce civilian crews.Okanogan County officials were continuing to expand the evacuation zones late on Wednesday, and warned residents that forecasts over the next two days indicated strong winds that could fan the flames across dried-out forest.Oregon Governor Kate Brown toured the fire area in her state on Wednesday and joined Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter in calling up state National Guard troops backed by military aircraft to help combat blazes in their respective states.Based on "extreme fire danger", Washington state's Department of Natural Resources said on Wednesday it was moving to shut down all industrial forest activities, including timber harvest operations and road construction, across almost all of its eastern forested areas, believed to be the first such action in more than 20 years.Inslee said he requested a federal emergency declaration, which would free up resources to help cover firefighting costs.This week, the national year-to-date tally of area burned passed 7 million acres (2.9 million hectares). That figure had not been reached so early in the year for two decades.To the south of the Twisp blaze, firefighters had dug containment lines around about half of a wildfire burning on the outskirts of Chelan, Washington, a resort town, fire information officer Lorena Wisehart said.In central Oregon, wildfires near the rural community of John Day had destroyed three dozen homes and threatened many others.In the mountains of north-central Idaho, blazes that grew to 100 square miles (260 square km) forced evacuations on Tuesday from dozens of homes near the small town of Weippe.Fires in and around the Nez Perce Indian Reservation have consumed 50 homes and 80 outbuildings near the logging town of Kamiah, Idaho.In California, suffering its worst drought on record, about 2,500 people were forced to flee Christian camps east of Fresno at Hume Lake as the so-called Rough Fire crossed Highway 180, officials said. Another blaze that broke out on Wednesday near the northern California city of Livermore expanded to 2,500 acres (1012 hectares) in just hours, fire officials said.(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle, Laura Zuckerman in Salmon, Idaho and Courtney Sherwood in Portland, Ore.; Additional reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis and Victoria Cavaliere in Los Angeles; Writing by Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Peter Cooney and Dominic Evans)

Wildfires trigger new evacuation orders across U.S. Northwest-Reuters By Eric M. Johnson and Laura Zuckerman-aug 20,15-yahoonews

SEATTLE/SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Wildfires raging across the U.S. Northwest triggered new evacuation orders for hundreds of homes as firefighters battled more than a dozen major blazes across drought-parched Western states, authorities said on Wednesday.The blazes have blackened more than 1 million acres (400,000 hectares) across the arid region, prompting fire managers to call in help from the U.S. Army and abroad.This week, the national year-to-date tally of area burned passed 7 million acres (2.9 million hectares). That figure had not been reached so early in the year for two decades.In north-central Washington state, about 200 people were forced from their residences as a cluster of fires bore down on the town of Conconully late on Tuesday, said Lorraine Utt at the county's emergency operations center.More than 1,400 other people were placed under evacuation orders across the county, Utt added, but most of them had since been allowed to return to homes.To the south, firefighters by Wednesday managed to dig containment lines around about half of a wildfire burning on the outskirts of Chelan, Washington, a resort town at the southern tip of Lake Chelan, fire information officer Lorena Wisehart said.In central Oregon, another conflagration of wildfires near the rural community of John Day had destroyed three dozen homes since the weekend and threatened many others.The state's fire marshal's office said high winds posed a challenge as ground crews fought to keep the 48,200-acre (19,500-hectare) fire away from homes and a critical power transmission line.Oregon Governor Kate Brown was due to tour the area later on Wednesday.In the mountains of north-central Idaho, a group of blazes that grew to 100 square miles (260 square km) forced evacuations on Tuesday from dozens of homes near the small town of Weippe.The so-called Clearwater Complex of fires burning in and around the Nez Perce Indian Reservation has consumed 50 homes and 80 outbuildings near the logging town of Kamiah, Idaho, since it was sparked by lightning last week.An elderly woman in the area was killed when she fell and struck her head while trying to secure her backyard chickens before fleeing the fire with her husband, authorities said.On Wednesday, flames were advancing on Kamiah from three sides as another part of the complex was reaching north toward Weippe, said federal fire information officer Dixie Dies."This fire is amoebic. It's spreading everywhere," Dies said.(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle, Laura Zuckerman in Salmon, Idaho, and Courtney Sherwood in Portland, Ore.; Writing by Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Peter Cooney)

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

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

Atlantic may see first 2015 hurricane as 'Danny' strengthens: U.S.Reuters By Letitia Stein-aug 20,15-yahoonews

TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Danny is on track to become the first hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic season by Friday and could approach the Caribbean islands by the late weekend, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Wednesday.It is still too early to predict whether Danny, currently a tropical storm with winds gusting up to 50 miles per hour (85 kph), will impact the United States, said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist and spokesman for the hurricane center in Miami.Danny is the fourth named storm of what is expected to be a quieter-than-normal Atlantic hurricane season, he said.Earlier this month, U.S. government weather forecasters updated their 2015 predictions, saying they expected six to 10 named storms, with as many as four reaching hurricane status of at least 74 mph (120 kph) winds.At most, only one of the storms is considered likely to develop into a major hurricane, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest outlook."Danny is a great reminder that we have now entered the start of the peak the hurricane season," Feltgen said, adding that the Atlantic season runs from June 1 through Nov. 30."Don’t think for a second that anybody is off the hook," he said.So far this year, two tropical storms have hit the United States, with Ana making landfall in South Carolina in May and Bill drenching Texas in June.A major hurricane has not struck the U.S. coast since 2005, although Superstorm Sandy was near hurricane strength when it flooded downtown Manhattan and the New Jersey shore and killed 158 people in October 2012. [ID: nL1N0YI1CZ]-Contributing to this year's expected weak hurricane season is the El Niño weather pattern as well as below average sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic, according to NOAA.(Editing by Frank McGurty and Susan Heavey)

EARTHQUAKES

ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

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

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

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
32 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-08-20 09:09:07 UTCShowing event times using UTC32 earthquakes in map area

    3.6 21km W of Perry, Oklahoma 2015-08-20 08:28:11 UTC 1.1 km
    4.2 38km W of Trinidad, Colorado 2015-08-20 05:14:09 UTC 5.0 km
    2.8 9km ESE of Gilroy, California 2015-08-20 04:03:56 UTC 5.8 km
    3.4 102km N of San Juan, Puerto Rico 2015-08-20 03:32:01 UTC 13.0 km
    3.4 97km NNE of Vieques, Puerto Rico 2015-08-20 03:30:02 UTC 108.0 km
    4.4 9km SW of Lixourion, Greece 2015-08-20 02:56:50 UTC 46.7 km
    4.5 150km NNW of Sola, Vanuatu 2015-08-20 02:56:30 UTC 232.8 km
    3.5 13km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2015-08-20 00:49:17 UTC 3.9 km
    3.9 12km ENE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2015-08-20 00:47:13 UTC 2.9 km
    2.5 97km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska 2015-08-19 23:54:53 UTC 20.7 km
    3.2 14km W of Helena, Oklahoma 2015-08-19 23:13:47 UTC 1.7 km
    5.1 37km SSW of Nchelenge, Zambia 2015-08-19 22:15:47 UTC 15.0 km
    4.6 133km ENE of Kuqa, China 2015-08-19 22:04:34 UTC 10.0 km
    4.6 151km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia 2015-08-19 22:03:14 UTC 45.5 km
    2.7 12km SSW of Caldwell, Kansas 2015-08-19 21:31:03 UTC 5.0 km
    4.1 84km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska 2015-08-19 21:13:49 UTC 36.6 km
    3.4 104km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-19 19:50:07 UTC 101.0 km
    2.9 82km ENE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-19 19:46:36 UTC 25.0 km
    3.1 106km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2015-08-19 18:57:15 UTC 85.0 km
    4.4 195km S of False Pass, Alaska 2015-08-19 18:44:31 UTC 10.0 km
    4.6 139km S of False Pass, Alaska 2015-08-19 18:07:37 UTC 10.0 km
    2.6 60km SE of Adak, Alaska 2015-08-19 17:44:09 UTC 17.8 km
    2.9 76km SE of Lakeview, Oregon 2015-08-19 16:57:35 UTC 10.8 km
    2.9 76km SW of Homer, Alaska 2015-08-19 15:08:55 UTC 69.8 km
    4.6 172km ESE of Hachijo-jima, Japan 2015-08-19 14:04:45 UTC 35.3 km
    3.1 145km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-19 13:53:49 UTC 29.0 km
    4.7 234km N of Chichi-shima, Japan 2015-08-19 12:23:50 UTC 10.0 km
    3.0 29km ENE of Soledad, California 2015-08-19 11:39:37 UTC 7.8 km
    4.8 112km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-08-19 11:04:26 UTC 89.0 km
    4.5 19km ESE of Lucaogou, China 2015-08-19 11:02:12 UTC 29.2 km
    3.2 122km N of Brenas, Puerto Rico 2015-08-19 09:52:00 UTC 69.0 km
    2.7 109km NE of Miches, Dominican Republic 2015-08-19 09:46:35 UTC 46.0 km

THE SEPTEMBER TO REMEMBER 2015-HYPED TO THE CORE OF OBSESSION.

MIKE HUCKABEE IN ISRAEL DEFENDS HIS IRAN WANTS TO HOLOCAUST ISRAEL COMMENT.

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)

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)

IDF soldier hurt in West Bank bomb attack-IDF searching near settlement of Har Gilo for perpetrators after IED attack left soldier in moderate to serious condition-By Adiv Sterman and Judah Ari Gross August 19, 2015, 11:24 pm 1-the times of Israel

An IDF soldier was wounded Wednesday night when an explosive device was hurled at him during a routine patrol near the West Bank settlement of Har Gilo, on the southern outskirts of Jerusalem.The soldier was transferred to a nearby hospital for further medical treatment, and IDF forces began searching the area for the perpetrators of the attack.Earlier Wednesday, a toddler and her father were lightly wounded in a rock-throwing attack on Road 443 north of Jerusalem. The two-year-old girl and the father, who were not immediately named by police, were hit by glass shards from the car’s window, which shattered when it was hit by a thrown rock from the side of the road near the West Bank village of Bir Nabala.According to police, the incident was the second time a car was hit with rocks on the highway Wednesday evening. Both incidents saw damage caused to the vehicles, but only in the later one were passengers hurt.Two other rock-throwing attacks took place in Jerusalem on Wednesday. On Wednesday night, rocks were thrown at the light rail as it passed by the Shuafat neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. No damage was caused to the train. Police are searching for the suspects in the attack.Earlier, a policeman was lightly injured in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiyah when rock-throwing protesters clashed with Border Police forces. The rioters were dispersed with tear gas. There were no arrests or injured reported among the protesters.Times of Israel Staff contributed to this report.

LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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

Abbas to quit chairmanship of PLO executive – report-Possible resignation by PA leader and other senior officials seen as a sign of political instability, factionalism-By Times of Israel staff August 19, 2015, 11:21 pm

Lebanese and Palestinian sources say Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has quit the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.The Hezbollah-affiliated al-Mayadeen television outlet said Wednesday that other senior PA officials would join Abbas in resigning.Channel 10’s Arab affairs analyst Hezi Simantov tweeted that “Palestinian sources” said Abbas would resign as chair of the PLO’s key executive body, but has not done so yet. The resignation is expected on Saturday, they said.The move does not affect Abbas’s standing as Palestinian Authority president, but reflects growing dissatisfaction and factionalism in Palestinian politics.There was no official confirmation of the reports from Palestinian officials.Elected in 2005, Abbas is now in the eleventh year of what was supposed to be a four-year term. He has threatened to resign or dissolve the Palestinian Authority several times since becoming president of the PA.Last Wednesday, Abbas told Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi that he intends to announce his resignation at the next Fatah convention, Channel 2 reported, citing Egyptian journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal. Abbas also reportedly said that he will soon appoint a deputy, who would apparently be a hand-picked successor.

In Israel, Huckabee defends Iran deal ‘ovens’ remark-GOP presidential candidate says it was Tehran that invoked Holocaust imagery, calls West Bank part of Israel-By AP and Times of Israel staff August 18, 2015, 10:54 pm 20

Hours after landing in Israel, Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee on Tuesday defended his comparison of the Iran nuclear deal to the Holocaust, and called the West Bank part of the Jewish state.Huckabee was speaking to reporters at Ancient Shiloh, for which a modern settlement nearby is named and where tradition holds the ancient Israelites kept the tabernacle with Moses’ tablets on its way to Jerusalem.“I am delighted tonight to be here at Shiloh. It is an exciting place and an important place. It is the place where the tabernacle once was. It’s a place of Biblical history,” he said.He told reporters “if you’re going to visit Israel you should visit all of Israel, and that would include Judea and Samaria,” the biblical names for the West Bank.The presidential candidate also defended his comments last month, in which he accused US President Barack Obama of marching Israelis “to the door of the oven” by trusting the Iranians to hold up to the terms of an agreement aimed at curbing the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.“It was the Iranians who invoked the imagery and very word Holocaust, they have said that they have developed missiles that will deliver Israel to the Holocaust. Those are their words,” he said. “Israeli officials regularly remind the people of Israel and the people of the world that the Iranians’ intent is to wipe Israel off the map.”Israel and American Jewish groups have distanced themselves from Huckabee’s analogy, calling it “inappropriate.”Huckabee arrived in Israel on Tuesday to raise money and discuss the Iran nuclear deal with “a number of officials.” He did not elaborate on which officials he was slated to meet.

Nixon-era documents show US sought to curb Israeli nuke ambitions-Declassified 1969 Kissinger memo outlines concerns about Israel’s program, shows US tried to persuade Jerusalem to sign NPT-By Marissa Newman August 19, 2015, 12:44 am 32-the times of israel

Documents from the Nixon administration, recently declassified, indicate the US was concerned about Israel’s nuclear program and sought to convince Jerusalem to sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), a document that Israel, to this day, has not signed.The 1,100-page official report, which covers meetings from 1969-1976 and details American strategy on Israel’s program, comes weeks after Iran and world powers reached a deal to restrict the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.A July 19, 1969 memorandum from then-national security adviser Henry Kissinger to President Richard Nixon outlined the proposed approach to Israel, and showed a vested interest in keeping the Israeli nuclear program from becoming public knowledge. Israel today still upholds its policy of “nuclear ambiguity” — neither denying nor confirming the existence of nuclear weapons.The memorandum also highlighted disagreement between the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense, and State Department on what demands to present to Israel, and whether to threaten to withhold its supply of weapons. All agreed, however, that urging Israel to sign the NPT was a top priority.Kissinger, meanwhile, sought to keep information on Israeli nuclear efforts under wraps, maintaining that “public knowledge [of Israel’s nuclear program] is almost as dangerous as possession itself.”“What this means is that, while we might ideally like to halt actual Israeli possession, what we really want at a minimum may be just to keep Israeli possession from becoming an established international fact,” he wrote.There was across-the-board support to pressure Israel to sign the NPT by the end of the year, though Kissinger noted that becoming a party to the treaty would not hold Israel back from covertly developing nuclear weapons.“Everyone agreed that, as a minimum, we want Israel to sign the NPT. This is not because signing will make any difference in Israel’s actual-Nuclear program because Israel could produce warheads clandestinely,” the memo said. “Israel’s signature would, however, give us a publicly feasible issue to raise with the Israeli government — a way of opening the discussion. It would also publicly commit Israel not to acquire nuclear weapons.”The US administration also sought “a bilateral understanding on Israel’s nuclear intentions because the NPT is not precise enough.”On the various assurances it was seeking from Israel, the various defense branches were divided.The Joint Chiefs of Staff and Department of Defense said the US should hinge its delivery of Phantom jets on Israel’s agreement to curb its missile program. The State Department said the US should not use the Phantoms as leverage.The Joint Chiefs of Staff “felt that if Israel’s program becomes known, we should be in a position to say we did everything in our power to prevent Israel from going nuclear,” while the Department of Defense felt that “we could live with the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons provided they were not deployed.” The State Department, meanwhile, believed “we should try to keep Israel from going any further with its nuclear weapons program — it may be so close to completion that Israel would be willing — and make a record for ourselves of having tried.”Washington also set a goal of preventing Israel from developing its “Jericho” missile program further, maintaining that the projectiles were primarily designed for the purpose of carrying nuclear warheads and did not have an alternative use that justified the program.As part of the plan, a meeting of then- ambassador to the US Yitzhak Rabin with Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard and Acting Secretary Elliot Richardson was encouraged. “If Rabin tried to stonewall, Richardson and Packard would state exactly what we want and make clear that Israeli unresponsiveness would raise a question about our ability to continue meeting Israel’s arms request,” Kissinger suggested.The memo proceeds to outline “the dilemma we face” if the US moves to stop its arms supply to the Jewish state.“Our problem is that Israel will not take us seriously on the nuclear issue unless they believe we are prepared to withhold something they very much need — the Phantoms or, even more, their whole military supply relationship with us,” it said. “On the other hand, if we withhold the Phantoms and they make this fact public in the United States, enormous political pressure will be mounted on us. We will be in an indefensible position if we cannot state why we are withholding the planes. Yet if we explain our position publicly, we will be the ones to make Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons public with all the international consequences this entails.”Three days later, a memo from Nixon approved the plan, but “specifically withheld authority to link explicitly at this stage the delivery of conventional weapons to the Israeli response on the nuclear question.”According to the documents, the meeting between Rabin, Packard and Richardson was held on July 29.Rabin quoted ex-prime minister Levi Eshkol’s statement that Israel was reviewing the NPT, as it had stated earlier, and would not comment further. Moreover, “Rabin said he wanted to make clear that he was not accepting the US assumption that Israel has the capability to build nuclear weapons. He could say neither that Israel was capable nor that it was not,” minutes from the meeting said.In an October 1969 memorandum to Nixon, Kissinger appears to resign himself to the fact that Israel would not imminently sign the NPT.“What we have to settle for, I believe, is an Israeli commitment that will prevent Israeli nuclear weapons from becoming a known factor and further complicating the Arab-Israeli situation,” he wrote. He then offered an alternative, which “would in effect ask the Israelis to accept privately the key obligation of the NPT while allowing them more time to sort out their position on more generally unpalatable aspects of the treaty (e.g. safeguards and public renunciation of the nuclear option).”Nixon approved the recommendation.

COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL AND THE WEST

EZEKIEL 38:10-19
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA)(JORDAN) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
ISRAEL-WEST ENEMIES EZEK 38:4-6,15-19
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts,(RUSSIA-ARAB/MUSLIMS) thou, and many people with thee,(AFRICAN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES) all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
EZEKIEL 39:1-6 ISRAELS ENEMIES DESTROYED
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Israel, Republicans fume at secret deal that lets Iran inspect its own suspect nuke site-Document shows UN nuclear body has ceded right to investigate Parchin facility; Republicans slam ‘naive, reckless’ move; US had claimed side-deal was unremarkable By Times of Israel staff and AP August 19, 2015, 10:43 pm 11
Israel responded with furious cynicism Wednesday night to news that Iran is to be allowed to conduct its own inspections of a site it allegedly used to develop nuclear arms. In the US, Republican leaders also responded bitterly to the news, with a leading senator calling the agreement to have Iran inspect its own suspect site “remarkably naive and incredibly reckless.”According to a document obtained by the Associated Press, an agreement worked out between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran allows the Islamic Republic to use its own experts to inspect the Parchin nuclear site. The IAEA’s concession is unprecedented, according to a former senior IAEA official.Iran has refused access to Parchin for years. Based on US, Israeli and other intelligence and its own research, the IAEA suspects that the Islamic Republic may have experimented with high-explosive detonators for nuclear arms at that military facility. The IAEA has also repeatedly cited evidence, based on satellite images, of possible attempts to sanitize the site since the alleged work stopped more than a decade ago.While the White House declined to comment on the reported document, Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz immediately issued a caustic response. “One must welcome this global innovation and outside-the-box thinking,” he said in a statement dripping with sarcasm. “One can only wonder if the Iranian inspectors will also have to wait 24 days before being able to visit the site and look for incriminating evidence?” Steinitz was alluding to the complex clauses in the agreement reached last month between world powers and Iran aimed at curbing its nuclear program, one of which provides Iran with 24-days notice of efforts to inspect suspect sites.Republican senators were also furious. “This side agreement shows that true verification is a sham, and it begs the question of what else the administration is keeping from Congress,” said Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the House majority leader. McCarthy also complained that Congress learned of the IAEA deal from the AP report and not from the administration.John Cornyn of Texas, the second-ranking Republican senator, said, “Trusting Iran to inspect its own nuclear site and report to the UN in an open and transparent way is remarkably naive and incredibly reckless. This revelation only reinforces the deep-seated concerns the American people have about the agreement.”The Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ed Royce, called the agreement a “dangerous farce,” and accused the world powers who brokered the deal of acquiescing to Iran’s every demand.“International inspections should be done by international inspectors. Period. The standard of ‘anywhere, anytime’ inspections – so critical to a viable agreement – has dropped to ‘when Iran wants, where Iran wants, on Iran’s terms,’” Royce said Wednesday. “For weeks, Congress has been demanding access to this document to assess the viability of the inspections measures. Congress must now consider whether this unprecedented arrangement will keep Iran from cheating. This is a dangerous farce.”Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush also used the term “farce,” writing Wednesday on Twitter that “Nuclear inspections of state sponsors of terrorism can’t work on the honor system.”Israel has savaged the deal concluded by the P5+1 powers and Iran, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu branding it a historic mistake that will both pave Iran’s path to the bomb and, by lifting sanctions, cement the Islamist regime in power and allow it fund more terrorist activity and other dangerous regional activities.Netanyahu has lobbied Congress to reject the deal when it votes on it next month.The AP report on the separate IAEA-Iran side-agreement relating to Parchin dryly termed the self-inspection clause “an unusual arrangement.”It said news of the agreement would be “sure to roil American and Israeli critics of the main Iran deal signed by the US, Iran and five world powers in July.”The investigation of the Parchin nuclear site by the International Atomic Energy Agency is linked to a broader probe of allegations that Iran has worked on atomic weapons. That investigation is part of the overarching nuclear deal.The Parchin deal is a separate, side agreement worked out directly between the IAEA and Iran. The United States and the five other world powers that signed the Iran nuclear deal were not party to this agreement but were briefed on it by the IAEA and endorsed it as part of the larger package.Without divulging its contents, the Obama administration had previously described the document as nothing more than a routine technical arrangement between Iran and the IAEA on the particulars of inspecting the site.Any IAEA member country must give the agency some insight into its nuclear program. Some countries are required to do no more than give a yearly accounting of the nuclear material they possess. But nations— like Iran — suspected of possible proliferation are under greater scrutiny that can include stringent inspections.However, the agreement diverges from normal inspection procedures between the IAEA and a member country by essentially ceding the agency’s investigative authority to Iran. It allows Tehran to employ its own experts and equipment in the search for evidence for activities that it has consistently denied — trying to develop nuclear weapons.Evidence of that concession, as outlined in the document, is sure to increase pressure from US congressional opponents as they review the July 14 Iran nuclear deal and vote on a resolution of disapproval in early September. If the resolution passed and President Barack Obama vetoed it, opponents would need a two-thirds majority to override it. Even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, has suggested opponents will likely lose.The White House has denied claims by critics that a secret “side deal” favorable to Tehran exists. US Secretary of State John Kerry has said the Parchin document is like other routine arrangements between the agency and individual IAEA member nations. IAEA chief Yukiya Amano told Republican senators last week that he is obligated to keep the document confidential.Kerry said last month that neither he nor any members of the administration had actually had access to the agreement itself.“We are aware of what the basics of it are,” he asserted, adding that the agreement “is not shared with the world, but we do get briefed on it.”Republican critics are bound to harshly criticize any document that cedes to Iran the right to look for the very nuclear wrongdoing that it has denied committing. Olli Heinonen, who was in charge of the Iran probe as deputy IAEA director general from 2005 to 2010, said he can think of no instance where a country being probed was allowed to do its own investigation.The document seen by the AP is a draft that one official familiar with its contents said doesn’t differ substantially from the final version. He demanded anonymity because he isn’t authorized to discuss the issue.It is labeled “separate arrangement II,” indicating there is another confidential agreement between Iran and the IAEA governing the agency’s probe of the nuclear weapons allegations.The document suggests that instead of carrying out their own probe, IAEA staff will be reduced to monitoring Iranian personnel as these inspect the Parchin site.Iran will provide agency experts with photos and videos of locations the IAEA says are linked to the alleged weapons work, “taking into account military concerns.”That wording suggests that — beyond being barred from physically visiting the site — the agency won’t even get photo or video information from areas Iran says are off-limits because they have military significance.-Iran’s authenticated equipment’-IAEA experts would normally take environmental samples for evidence of any weapons development work, but the agreement stipulates that Iranian technicians will do the sampling.The sampling is also limited to only seven samples inside the building where the experiments allegedly took place. Additional ones will be allowed only outside of the Parchin site, in an area still to be determined.“Activities will be carried out using Iran’s authenticated equipment consistent with technical specifications provided by the agency,” the agreement says. While the document says that the IAEA “will ensure the technical authenticity” of Iran’s inspection, it does not say how.The draft is unsigned but the signatory for Iran is listed as Ali Hoseini Tash, deputy secretary of the Supreme National Security Council for Strategic Affairs instead of an official of Iran’s nuclear agency. That reflects the significance Tehran attaches to the agreement.Iranian diplomats in Vienna were unavailable for comment, while IAEA spokesman Serge Gas said the agency had no immediate comment.The main focus of the July 14 deal between Iran and six world powers is curbing Iran’s present nuclear program that could be used to make weapons. But a subsidiary element obligates Tehran to cooperate with the IAEA in its probe of the allegations.The investigation has been essentially deadlocked for years, with Tehran asserting the allegations are based on false intelligence from the US, Israel and other adversaries. But Iran and the UN agency agreed last month to wrap up the investigation by December, when the IAEA plans to issue a final assessment on the allegations.Both Iran and the IAEA were upbeat when announcing the agreement last month. But Western diplomats from IAEA member nations who are familiar with the probe are doubtful that Tehran will diverge from claiming that all its nuclear activities are — and were — peaceful, despite what they say is evidence to the contrary.They say the agency will be able to report in December. But that assessment is unlikely to be unequivocal because chances are slim that Iran will present all the evidence the agency wants or give it the total freedom of movement it needs to follow up the allegations.Still, the report is expected to be approved by the IAEA’s board, which includes the United States and other powerful nations that negotiated the July 14 agreement. They do not want to upend their July 14 deal, and will see the December report as closing the books on the issue.Senate Appropriations Committee subcommittee chairman Lindsay Graham, a Republican presidential hopeful, last week asked for “any and all copies of side agreements between Iran and the IAEA associated with the Iran nuclear deal.” He threatened to cut off US funding for the UN agency otherwise.

UN to let Iran inspect its own alleged nuclear activity site-IAEA cedes investigative authority of Parchin site to Tehran; US not a party to agreement, but was briefed on its contents-By George Jahn August 19, 2015, 8:40 pm 29-the times of israel

VIENNA (AP) — Iran, in an unusual arrangement, will be allowed to use its own experts to inspect a site it allegedly used to develop nuclear arms under a secret agreement with the UN agency that normally carries out such work, according to a document seen by The Associated Press.The revelation is sure to roil American and Israeli critics of the main Iran deal signed by the US, Iran and five world powers in July. Those critics have complained that the deal is built on trust of the Iranians, a claim the US has denied.The investigation of the Parchin nuclear site by the International Atomic Energy Agency is linked to a broader probe of allegations that Iran has worked on atomic weapons. That investigation is part of the overarching nuclear deal.The Parchin deal is a separate, side agreement worked out between the IAEA and Iran. The United States and the five other world powers that signed the Iran nuclear deal were not party to this agreement but were briefed on it by the IAEA and endorsed it as part of the larger package.Without divulging its contents, the Obama administration has described the document as nothing more than a routine technical arrangement between Iran and the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency on the particulars of inspecting the site.Any IAEA member country must give the agency some insight into its nuclear program. Some countries are required to do no more than give a yearly accounting of the nuclear material they possess. But nations— like Iran — suspected of possible proliferation are under greater scrutiny that can include stringent inspections.But the agreement diverges from normal inspection procedures between the IAEA and a member country by essentially ceding the agency’s investigative authority to Iran. It allows Tehran to employ its own experts and equipment in the search for evidence for activities that it has consistently denied — trying to develop nuclear weapons.Evidence of that concession, as outlined in the document, is sure to increase pressure from US congressional opponents as they review the July 14 Iran nuclear deal and vote on a resolution of disapproval in early September. If the resolution passed and President Barack Obama vetoed it, opponents would need a two-thirds majority to override it. Even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, has suggested opponents will likely lose.The White House has denied claims by critics that a secret “side deal” favorable to Tehran exists. US Secretary of State John Kerry has said the Parchin document is like other routine arrangements between the agency and individual IAEA member nations, while IAEA chief Yukiya Amano told Republican senators last week that he is obligated to keep the document confidential.Kerry, however, acknowledged last month that neither he nor any members of the administration had actually had access to the agreement itself.“We are aware of what the basics of it are,” he asserted, adding that the agreement “is not shared with the world, but we do get briefed on it.”Republican critics are bound to harshly criticize any document that cedes to Iran the right to look for the very nuclear wrongdoing that it has denied committing. Olli Heinonen, who was in charge of the Iran probe as deputy IAEA director general from 2005 to 2010, said he can think of no instance where a country being probed was allowed to do its own investigation.Iran has refused access to Parchin for years and has denied any interest in — or work on — nuclear weapons. Based on US, Israeli and other intelligence and its own research, the IAEA suspects that the Islamic Republic may have experimented with high-explosive detonators for nuclear arms at that military facility and other weapons-related work elsewhere.The IAEA has repeatedly cited evidence, based on satellite images, of possible attempts to sanitize the site since the alleged work stopped more than a decade ago.The document seen by the AP is a draft that one official familiar with its contents said doesn’t differ substantially from the final version. He demanded anonymity because he isn’t authorized to discuss the issue.It is labeled “separate arrangement II,” indicating there is another confidential agreement between Iran and the IAEA governing the agency’s probe of the nuclear weapons allegations.The document suggests that instead of carrying out their own probe, IAEA staff will be reduced to monitoring Iranian personnel as these inspect the Parchin site.Iran will provide agency experts with photos and videos of locations the IAEA says are linked to the alleged weapons work, “taking into account military concerns.” That wording suggests that — beyond being barred from physically visiting the site — the agency won’t even get photo or video information from areas Iran says are off-limits because they have military significance. Iran’s authenticated equipment’-IAEA experts would normally take environmental samples for evidence of any weapons development work, but the agreement stipulates that Iranian technicians will do the sampling. The sampling is also limited to only seven samples inside the building where the experiments allegedly took place. Additional ones will be allowed only outside of the Parchin site, in an area still to be determined.“ Activities will be carried out using Iran’s authenticated equipment consistent with technical specifications provided by the agency,” the agreement says. While the document says that the IAEA “will ensure the technical authenticity” of Iran’s inspection, it does not say how.The draft is unsigned but the signatory for Iran is listed as Ali Hoseini Tash, deputy secretary of the Supreme National Security Council for Strategic Affairs instead of an official of Iran’s nuclear agency. That reflects the significance Tehran attaches to the agreement. Iranian diplomats in Vienna were unavailable for comment, while IAEA spokesman Serge Gas said the agency had no immediate comment.The main focus of the July 14 deal between Iran and six world powers is curbing Iran’s present nuclear program that could be used to make weapons. But a subsidiary element obligates Tehran to cooperate with the IAEA in its probe of the allegations.The investigation has been essentially deadlocked for years, with Tehran asserting the allegations are based on false intelligence from the US, Israel and other adversaries. But Iran and the UN agency agreed last month to wrap up the investigation by December, when the IAEA plans to issue a final assessment on the allegations. Both Iran and the IAEA were upbeat when announcing the agreement last month. But Western diplomats from IAEA member nations who are familiar with the probe are doubtful that Tehran will diverge from claiming that all its nuclear activities are — and were — peaceful, despite what they say is evidence to the contrary.They say the agency will be able to report in December. But that assessment is unlikely to be unequivocal because chances are slim that Iran will present all the evidence the agency wants or give it the total freedom of movement it needs to follow up the allegations.Still, the report is expected to be approved by the IAEA’s board, which includes the United States and other powerful nations that negotiated the July 14 agreement. They do not want to upend their July 14 deal, and will see the December report as closing the books on the issue.Senate Appropriations Committee subcommittee chairman Lindsay Graham, a Republican presidential hopeful, last week asked for “any and all copies of side agreements between Iran and the IAEA associated with the Iran nuclear deal.” He threatened to cut off US funding for the UN agency otherwise.The Associated Press.