WHAT GAMES ARE PLAYED BY NEW WORLD ORDER BANKS

LETS TAKE A LOOK BACK AT THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARGES AND SEE WHAT GAMES THESE NEW WORLD ORDER BANKS PLAY IN MAKING BIG DEFRAUDED DOLLARS.SEE HOW THESE BANKS GET RICH BY FRAUDULENT MEANS AS REVIEWED IN THIS GOLDMAN SACHS CHARGE.

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION-Litigation Release No. 21489 / April 16, 2010
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Fabrice Tourre, 10 Civ. 3229 (BJ) (S.D.N.Y. filed April 16, 2010)The SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud In Connection With The Structuring And Marketing of A Synthetic CDO

The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed securities fraud charges against Goldman, Sachs & Co. (GS&Co) and a GS&Co employee, Fabrice Tourre (Tourre), for making material misstatements and omissions in connection with a synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO) GS&Co structured and marketed to investors. This synthetic CDO, ABACUS 2007-AC1, was tied to the performance of subprime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) and was structured and marketed in early 2007 when the United States housing market and the securities referencing it were beginning to show signs of distress. Synthetic CDOs like ABACUS 2007-AC1 contributed to the recent financial crisis by magnifying losses associated with the downturn in the United States housing market.According to the Commission's complaint, the marketing materials for ABACUS 2007-AC1 — including the term sheet, flip book and offering memorandum for the CDO — all represented that the reference portfolio of RMBS underlying the CDO was selected by ACA Management LLC (ACA), a third party with expertise in analyzing credit risk in RMBS. Undisclosed in the marketing materials and unbeknownst to investors, a large hedge fund, Paulson & Co. Inc. (Paulson), with economic interests directly adverse to investors in the ABACUS 2007-AC1 CDO played a significant role in the portfolio selection process. After participating in the selection of the reference portfolio, Paulson effectively shorted the RMBS portfolio it helped select by entering into credit default swaps (CDS) with GS&Co to buy protection on specific layers of the ABACUS 2007-AC1 capital structure. Given its financial short interest, Paulson had an economic incentive to choose RMBS that it expected to experience credit events in the near future. GS&Co did not disclose Paulson's adverse economic interest or its role in the portfolio selection process in the term sheet, flip book, offering memorandum or other marketing materials.

The Commission alleges that Tourre was principally responsible for ABACUS 2007-AC1. According to the Commission's complaint, Tourre devised the transaction, prepared the marketing materials and communicated directly with investors. Tourre is alleged to have known of Paulson's undisclosed short interest and its role in the collateral selection process. He is also alleged to have misled ACA into believing that Paulson invested approximately $200 million in the equity of ABACUS 2007-AC1 (a long position) and, accordingly, that Paulson's interests in the collateral section process were aligned with ACA's when in reality Paulson's interests were sharply conflicting. The deal closed on April 26, 2007. Paulson paid GS&Co approximately $15 million for structuring and marketing ABACUS 2007-AC1. By October 24, 2007, 83% of the RMBS in the ABACUS 2007-AC1 portfolio had been downgraded and 17% was on negative watch. By January 29, 2008, 99% of the portfolio had allegedly been downgraded. Investors in the liabilities of ABACUS 2007-AC1 are alleged to have lost over $1 billion. Paulson's opposite CDS positions yielded a profit of approximately $1 billion.The Commission's complaint, which was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, charges GS&Co and Tourre with violations of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, 15 U.S.C. §77q(a), Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. §78j(b) and Exchange Act Rule 10b-5, 17 C.F.R. §240.10b-5. The Commission seeks injunctive relief, disgorgement of profits, prejudgment interest and civil penalties from both defendants.The Commission's investigation is continuing into the practices of investment banks and others that purchased and securitized pools of subprime mortgages and the resecuritized CDO market with a focus on products structured and marketed in late 2006 and early 2007 as the U.S. housing market was beginning to show signs of distress.http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2010/lr21489.htm

TEXT OF THE S.E.C.’S COMPLAINT AGAINST GOLDMAN SACHS-PROSPECTS FOR GOLDMAN ARE DEVASTATING AND COULD LEAD TO ITS COLLAPSE-Sunday 18 April 2010 17:57

IMPLICATIONS OF THE S.E.C.’S CIVIL COMPLAINT AGAINST GOLDMAN SACHS & CO.
We publish below the text of the Complaint lodged by the Securities and Exchange Commission against Goldman Sachs and Co. and a Goldman employee, Fabrice Tourre, filed with the United States Court for the Southern District of New York, on Friday 16th April 2010. This is only the first devastating development which could lead to the collapse of this institution.

• Other entities that have been engaged in similar activities are cruising for a similar bruising.

It is important to note as follows:

(1): This case PRECISELY illustrates, in many exact parallels, the accuracy of the report also dated 18th April 2010 confirming that SECURITISATION IS ILLEGAL.

(2): Specifically, this complaint reveals an ongoing alleged pattern of Fraud in the Inducement, misrepresentation of fact, an intent to deceive targeted against domestic and foreign institutional investors, a conspiracy to procure profits through deception, mail fraud, wire fraud and a general environment of Fraudulent Finance, as specifically exposed for several years by this service.

(3): See in particular: International Currency Review, First Quarter 2009 [Volume 34, Number 2], on Systemic Fraudulent Finance and the de facto (illegitimate) legitimisation of financial corruption through the operation by racketeering money institutions specialising in Fraudulent Finance of sophisticated in Ponzi schemes; edited by your correspondent:

• Architecture of the Corrupt Money Machine:
The Legalisation of Financial Corruption: featuring: the Creation of Securitisation and Credit Default Swaps: Analysis by the US securities expert, Michael C. Cottrell, B.A., M.S.

• Description of the resulting derivative Financial Frauds and Scams, WITH FLOW CHARTS showing how it’s done: Analysis by the US securities expert, Michael C. Cottrell, B.A., M.S.

• Glossary of Exotic Derivatives Market Terminology compiled
by the US securities expert, Michael C. Cottrell, B.A., M.S.

With appendices.

(4): The Complaint has to deal with the material issues that presuppose a likely conviction, and so SIDESTEPS the central issue exposed by the securitisation is illegal report, which is simply that THIS ACTIVITY IS ILLEGAL.

Paragraph 73 of the Complaint [see below] alleges that the defendants, 'in connection with the purchase or sale of securities or securities-based swap agreements, by the use of means or instrumentalities of interstate commerce or of the mails, directly or indirectly (a) employed devices, schemes or artifices to defraud; (b) made untrue statements of material facts or omissions of material facts necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; or (c) engaged in transactions, practices or courses of business which operated or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon persons'.

(5): A German bank based in Düsseldorf, IKB Deutsche lndustriebank AG (IKB), lost about $150 million as a result of this alleged scam. Altogether, investors in the liabilities of ABACUS are alleged to have lost more than $1 billion.

(6): A Civil case is in fact far more prospectively devastating than a criminal case (given that the SEC is dealing with institutions as well as one individual employee to start with), because:

• The case will be decided on the basis of the PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE.

• Scope arises for R.I.C.O. actions providing for awards of three times damages.

• Following conviction, the victims can sue Goldman under R.I.C.O. (three times damages).

• Following conviction, the victims of the victims can sue the first layer of victims, Goldman and the other participants as appropriate under R.I.C.O. (three times damages).

• Individual Directors, executives, securities personnel and those involved in decision-making both within Goldman Sachs & Co. and at other involved institutions, can prospectively be charged individually and severally with fraud.

• The ultimate outcome is that Goldman could be in court for the next 20 years, except that, realistically, it will in all probability cease to exist.

(7): We were authoritatively advised on Saturday 17th April 2010 that this SEC Complaint against Goldman Sachs & Co. and a named Goldman employee was specifically triggered as a DIRECT consequence of the Complaint against the Securities and Exchange Commission and individually and severally against current and former SEC officials filed by the lawyers for the CMKX victims, Hodges and Associates, of Pasadena, CA, in January [see our report dated 9th January 2010] claiming $3.87 trillion following the floating of 2.25 trillion of phantom shares.

Service of that complaint was accepted by the SEC’s Office of General Counsel both on behalf of the SEC and of current officers, while former SEC officers accepted service and had to arrange their own legal representation.

THE S.E.C.’S PRESS RELEASE RE. ITS COMPLAINT AGAINST GOLDMAN SACHS-SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud in Structuring and Marketing
of CDO Tied to Subprime Mortgages FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 2010-59

Washington, D.C., April 16, 2010 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Goldman, Sachs & Co. and one of its vice presidents for defrauding investors by misstating and omitting key facts about a financial product tied to subprime mortgages as the U.S. housing market was beginning to falter.Goldman Sachs structured and marketed a synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO) that hinged on the performance of subprime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). Goldman Sachs failed to disclose to investors vital information about the CDO, in particular the role that a major hedge fund played in the portfolio selection process and the fact that the hedge fund had taken a short position against the CDO.
The product was new and complex but the deception and conflicts are old and simple, said Robert Khuzami, Director of the Division of Enforcement. Goldman wrongly permitted a client that was betting against the mortgage market to heavily influence which mortgage securities to include in an investment portfolio, while telling other investors that the securities were selected by an independent, objective third party.
Kenneth Lench, Chief of the SEC's Structured and New Products Unit, added:The SEC continues to investigate the practices of investment banks and others involved in the securitization of complex financial products tied to the U.S. housing market as it was beginning to show signs of distress.

The SEC alleges that one of the world's largest hedge funds, Paulson & Co., paid Goldman Sachs

to structure a transaction in which Paulson & Co. could take short positions against mortgage securities chosen by Paulson & Co. based on a belief that the securities would experience credit events.According to the SEC's complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the marketing materials for the CDO known as ABACUS 2007-AC1 (ABACUS) all represented that the RMBS portfolio underlying the CDO was selected by ACA Management LLC (ACA), a third party with expertise in analyzing credit risk in RMBS.The SEC alleges that undisclosed in the marketing materials and unbeknownst to investors, the Paulson & Co. hedge fund, which was poised to benefit if the RMBS defaulted, played a significant role in selecting which RMBS should make up the portfolio.The SEC's complaint alleges that after participating in the portfolio selection, Paulson & Co. effectively shorted the RMBS portfolio it helped select by entering into credit default swaps (CDS) with Goldman Sachs to buy protection on specific layers of the ABACUS capital structure. Given that financial short interest, Paulson & Company had an economic incentive to select RMBS that it expected to experience credit events in the near future. Goldman Sachs did not disclose Paulson & Co.'s short position or its role in the collateral selection process in the term sheet, flip book, offering memorandum, or other marketing materials provided to investors.The SEC alleges that Goldman Sachs Vice President Fabrice Tourre was principally responsible for ABACUS 2007-AC1. Mr Tourre structured the transaction, prepared the marketing materials, and communicated directly with investors. Tourre allegedly knew of Paulson & Co.'s undisclosed short interest and role in the collateral selection process. In addition, he misled ACA into believing that Paulson & Co. invested approximately $200 million in the equity of ABACUS, indicating that Paulson & Co.'s interests in the collateral selection process were closely aligned with ACA's interests. In reality, however, their interests were sharply conflicting.According to the SEC's complaint, the deal closed on April 26, 2007, and Paulson & Co. paid Goldman Sachs approximately $15 million for structuring and marketing ABACUS. By Oct. 24, 2007, 83 percent of the RMBS in the ABACUS portfolio had been downgraded and 17 percent were on negative watch. By Jan. 29, 2008, 99 percent of the portfolio had been downgraded.

Investors in the liabilities of ABACUS are alleged to have lost more than $1 billion.

The SEC's complaint charges Goldman Sachs and Tourre with violations of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Exchange Act Rule 10b-5. The Commission seeks injunctive relief, disgorgement of profits, prejudgment interest, and financial penalties.

For more information about this enforcement action, contact:
Lorin L. Reisner
Deputy Director, SEC Enforcement Division
(202) 551-4787.

Kenneth R. Lench
Chief, Structured and New Products Unit, SEC Enforcement Division
(202) 551-4938.

Reid A. Muoio
Deputy Chief, Structured and New Products Unit, SEC Enforcement Division
(202) 551-4488 http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2010/2010-59.htm

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TEXT OF THE S.E.C.’S CIVIL COMPLAINT AGAINST GOLDMAN SACHS & CO.:UNITED STATES COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Plaintiff v.GOLDMAN SACHS & CO and FABRICE TOURRE, Defendants.

COMPLAINT[Securities Fraud]-10-CV-3229-ECF CASE-Jury Trial Demanded
Plaintiff, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission) alleges as follows against the defendants named above.

OVERVIEW

1. The Commission brings this securities fraud action against Goldman, Sachs & Co. (GS&Co) and a GS&Co employee, Frabrice Tourre (Tourre), for making materially misleading statements and omissions in connection with a synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO) GS&Co structured and marketed to investors.This synthetic CDO, ABACUS 2007-AC1, was tied to the performance of subprime residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) and was structured and marketed by GS&Co in early 2007 when the United States housing market and related securities were beginning to show signs of distress. Synthetic CDOs like ABACUS 2007-AC1 contributed to the recent financial crisis by magnifying losses associated with the downturn in the United States housing market.

2. GS&Co marketing materials for ABACUS 2007-AC1 – including the term sheet, flip book and offering memorandum for the CDO – all represented that the reference portfolio of residential mortgage-backed securitiesunderlying the CDO was selected by ACA Management LLC (AC.A.), a third-party with experience analyzing credit risk in RMBS. Undisclosed in the marketing materials and unbeknownst to investors, a large hedge fund, Paulson & Co. Inc. (Paulson), with economic interests directly adverse to investors in the ABACUS 2007-AC1 CDO, played a significant role in the portfolio selection process.After participating in the selection of the reference portfolio, Paulson effectively shorted the residential mortgage-backed securities portfolio it helped select by entering into credit default swaps (CDS) with GS&Co to buy protection on specific layers of the ABACUS 2007-AC1 capital structure. Given its financial short interest, Paulson had an economic incentive to choose RMBS that it expected to experience credit events in the near future, GS&Co did not disclose Paulson's adverse economic interests or its role in the portfolio selection process in the term sheet, flip book, offering memorandum or other marketing materials provided to investors.

3. In sum, GS&Co arranged a transaction at Paulson's request in which Paulson heavily influenced the selection of the portfolio to suit its economic interests, but failed to disclose to investors, as part of the description of the portfolio selection process contained in the marketing materials used to promote the transaction, Paulson's role in the portfolio selection process or its adverse economic interests.

4. Tourre was principally responsible for ABACUS 2007-AC1. Tourre devised the transaction, prepared the marketing materials and communicated directly with investors. Tourre knew of Paulson's undisclosed short interest and its role in the collateral selection process. Tourre also misled ACA into believing that Paulson invested approximately $200 million in the equity of ABACUS 2007-AC1 (a long position) and, accordingly, that Paulson's interests in the collateral section process were aligned with ACA's when in reality Paulson's interests were sharply conflicting.

5. The deal closed on April 26,2007. Paulson paid GS&Co approximately $15 million for structuring and marketing ABACUS 2007-AC1. By October 24, 2007, 83% of the RMBS in the ABACUS 2007-AC1 portfolio had been downgraded and 17% were on negative watch. By January 29, 2008, 99% of the portfolio had been downgraded. As a result, investors in the ABACUS 2007-AC1 CDO lost over $l billion. Paulson's opposite CDS positions yielded a profit of approximately $l billion for Paulson.

6. By engaging in the misconduct described herein, GS&Co and Tourre directly or indirectly engaged in transactions, acts, practices and a course of business that violated Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of l933, 15 U.S.C. §77q(a) (the Securities Act), Section l0(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 15 U.S.C. §78j(b) (the Exchange Act) and Exchange Act Rule l0b-5, 17 C.F.R. §240.10b-5. The Commission seeks injunctive relief, disgorgement of profits, prejudgment interest, civil penalties and other appropriate and necessary equitable relief from both defendants.

JURISDICTION AND VENUE

7. This Court has jurisdiction over this action pursuant to Sections 2l(d), 21(e), and 27 of the Exchange Act [l5 U.S.C. §§ 78u(d), 78u(e), and 78aa]. Each defendant directly or indirectly, made use of the means or instruments of interstate commerce, or of the mails, or the facilities of a national securities exchange in connection with the transactions, acts, practices, and courses of business alleged herein. Certain of the acts, practices, and courses of conduct constituting the violations of law alleged herein occurred within this judicial district.

DEFENDANTS

8. Goldman, Sachs & Co. is the principal United States broker-dealer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., a global investment banking, securities and investment management firm headquartered in New York City. GS&Co structured and marketed ABACUS 2OO7-AC1.

9. Fabrice Tourre, age 31, is a registered representative with GS&Co. Tourre was the GS&Co employee principally responsible for the structuring and marketing of ABACUS 2007-AC1, Tourre worked as a Vice President on the structured product correlation trading desk at GS&Co headquarters in New York City during the relevant period.

Tourre presently works in London as an Executive Director of Goldman Sachs lnternational.

FACTS

A. GS&CO'S CORRELATTON TRADING DESK

10. GS&Co's structured product correlation hading desk was created in and around late 2004/early 2005. Among the services it provided was the structuring and marketing of a series of synthetic CDOs called ABACUS whose performance was tied to RMBS. GS&Co sought to protect and to expand this profitable franchise in a competitive market throughout the relevant period. According to an internal GS&Co memorandum to the Goldman Sachs

Mortgage Capital Committee (MCC) dated March 12, 2007, the ability to structure and execute complicated transactions to meet multiple clients’ needs and objectives is key for our franchise, and [e]xecuting this transaction [ABACUS 2007-AC1] and others like it helps position Goldman to compete more aggressively in the growing market for synthetics written on structured products.

B. PAULSON'S INVESTMENT STRATEGY

11. Paulson & Co. Inc. (Paulson) is a hedge fund founded in 1994. Beginning in 2006, Paulson created two funds, known as the Paulson Credit Opportunity Funds, which took a bearish view on subprime mortgage loans by buying protection through CDS on various debt securities.A CDS is an over-the-counter derivative contract under which a protection buyer makes periodic premium payments and the protection seller makes a contingent payment if a reference obligation experiences a credit event.

12. RMBS are securities backed by residential mortgages. Investors receive payments out of the interest and principal on the underlying mortgages. Paulson developed an investment strategy based upon the belief that, for a variety of reasons, certain mid-and-subprime RMBS rated Triple B, meaning bonds rated BBB by S&P or Baa2 by Moody's, would experience credit events.The Triple B tranche is the lowest investment grade RMBS and, after equity, the first part of the capital structure to experience losses associated with a deterioration of the underlying mortgage loan portfolio.

13. CDOs are debt securities collateralized by debt obligations including RMBS. These securities are packaged and generally held by a special purpose vehicle (SPV) that issues notes entitling their holders to payments derived from the underlying assets. In a synthetic CDO, the SPV does not actually own a portfolio of fixed income assets, but rather enters into CDSs that reference the performance of a portfolio (the SPV does hold some collateral securities separate from the reference portfolio that it uses to make payment obligations).

14. Paulson came to believe that synthetic CDOs whose reference assets consisted of certain Triple B-rated mid-and-subprime RMBS would experience significant losses and, under certain circumstances, even the more senior AAA-rated tranches of these so-called mezzanine CDOs would become worthless.

C. GS&CO AND PAULSON DISCUSS A PROPOSED TRANSACTION

15. Paulson performed an analysis of recent-vintage Triple B-rated RMBS and identified various bonds it expected to experience credit events. Paulson then asked GS&Co to help it to purchase protection, through the use of CDS, on the RMBS it had adversely selected, meaning chosen in the belief that the bonds would experience credit events'

16. Paulson discussed with GS&Co possible transactions in which counterparties to its short positions might be found. Among the transactions considered were synthetic CDOs whose performance was tied to Triple B-rated RMBS.Paulson discussed with GS&Co the creation of a CDO that would allow Paulson to participate in selecting a portfolio of reference obligations and then effectively short the RMBS portfolio it helped select by entering into CDS with GS&Co to buy protection on specific layers of the synthetic CDO's capital structure.

17. A Paulson employee explained the investment opportunity as of January 2007 as follows:It is true that the market is not pricing the subprime RMBS wipeout scenario.
In my opinion this situation is due to the fact that rating agencies, CDO managers and underwriters have all the incentives to keep the game going, while real money investors have neither the analytical tools nor the institutional framework to take action before the losses that one could anticipate based [on] the news available everywhere are actually realized.

18. At the same time, GS&Co recognized that market conditions were presenting challenges to the successful marketing of CDO transactions backed by mortgage-related securities.For example, portions of an email in French and English sent by Tourre to a friend on January 23, 2007 stated, in English translation where applicable:More and more leverage in the system, The whole building is about to collapse anytime now. Only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab[rice Tourre]... standing in the middle of all these complex, highly leveraged, exotic trades he created without necessarily understanding all of the implications of those monstrosities!!! Similarly, an email on February 11, 2OO7 to Tourre from the head of the GS&Co shuctured product correlation trading desk stated in part,the CDO biz is dead we don't have a lot of time Ieft.

D. INTRODUCTION OF ACA TO THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION

19. GS&Co and Tourre knew that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to place the liabilities of a synthetic CDO if they disclosed to investors that a short investor, such as Paulson, played a significant role in the collateral selection process.By contrast, they knew that the identification of an experienced and independent third-party collateral manager as having selected the portfolio would facilitate the placement of the CDO liabilities in a market that was beginning to show signs of distress.

20. GS&Co also knew that at least one significant potential investor, IKB Deutsche lndustriebank AG (IKB), was unlikely to invest in the liabilities of a CDO that did not utilize a collateral manager to analyze and select the reference portfolio.

21. GS&Co therefore sought a collateral manager to play a role in the transaction proposed by Paulson. Contemporaneous internal correspondence reflects that GS&Co recognized that not every collateral manager would agree to the type of names [of RMBS] Paulson want[s] to use and put its name at risk...on a weak quality portfolio.

22. In or about January 2007, GS&Co approached ACA and proposed that it serve as the Portfolio Selection Agent for a CDO transaction sponsored by Paulson. ACA previously had constructed and managed numerous CDOs for a fee.As of December 31, 2006, ACA had closed on 22 CDO transactions with underlying portfolios consisting of $15.7 billion of assets.

23. Internal GS&Co communications emphasized the advantages from a marketing perspective of having ACA associated with the transaction. For example, an internal email from Tourre dated February 7,20A7 , stated:One thing that we need to make sure ACA understands is that we want their name on this transaction. This is a transaction for which they are acting as portfolio selection agent, this will be important that we can use ACA’s branding to help distribute the bonds.

24. Likewise, an internal GS&Co memorandum to the Goldman Sachs MCC dated March 12, 2007 described the marketing advantages of ACA's brand-name and credibility:We expect the strong brand-name of ACA as well as our market-leading position in synthetic CDOs of structured products to result in a successful offering.We expect that the role of ACA as Portfolio Selection Agent will broaden the investor base for this and future ABACUS offerings. We intend to target suitable structured product investors who have previously participated in ACA-managed cashflow CDO transactions or who have previously participated in prior ABACUS transactions. We expect to leverage ACA’s credibility and franchise to help distribute this Transaction.

E. PAULSON'S PARTICIPATION IN THE COLLATERAL SELECTION PROCESS

25. In late 2006 and early 2407, Paulson performed an analysis of recent-vintage Triple B RMBS and identified over 100 bonds it expected to experience credit events in the near future.Paulson's selection criteria favored RMBS that included a high percentage of adjustable rate mortgages, relatively low borrower FICO scores, and a high concentration of mortgages in states like Arizona, California, Florida and Nevada that had recently experienced high rates of home price appreciation. Paulson informed GS&Co that it wanted the reference portfolio for the contemplated transaction to include the RMBS it identified or bonds with similar characteristics.

26. On January 8, 2007, Tourre attended a meeting with representatives from Paulson and ACA at Paulson's offices in New York City to discuss the proposed transaction.

27. On January 9, 2A07, GS&Co sent an email to ACA with the subject line, Paulson Portfolio. Attached to the email was a list of 123 2006 RMBS rated Baa2. On January 9, 20O7, ACA performed an overlap analysis and determined that it previously had purchased 62 of the 123 RMBS on Paulson's list at the same or lower ratings.

28. On January 9, 2007, GS&Co informed ACA that Fabrice Tourre was very excited by the initial portfolio feedback.

29. On January 10, 2007, Tourre sent an email to ACA with the subject line, Transaction Summary. The text of Tourre's email began: we wanted to summarize ACA's proposed role as Portfolio Selection Agent for the transaction that would be sponsored by Paulson & Co. (the Transaction Sponsor). The email continued in relevant part, [s]tarting portfolio would be ideally what the Transaction Sponsor shared, but there is flexibility around the names.

30. On January 22, 2007, ACA sent an email to Tourre and others at GS&Co with the subject line, Paulson Portfolio l-22-10.x1s. The text of the email began: Attached please find a worksheet with 86 sub-prime mortgage positions that we would recommend taking exposure to synthetically. Of the 123 names that were originally submitted to us for review, we have included only 55.

31. On January 27, 2007, ACA met with a Paulson representative in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and they discussed the proposed transaction and reference portfolio. The next day, on January 28, 2007, ACA summarized the meeting in an email to Tourre. Tourre responded via email later that day: This is confirming my initial impression that [Paulson] wanted to proceed with you subject to agreement on portfolio and compensation structure.

32. On February 2, 2007, Paulson, Tourre and ACA met at ACA's offices in New York City to discuss the reference portfolio. Unbeknownst to ACA at the time, Paulson intended to effectively short the RMBS portfolio it helped select by entering into CDS with GS&Co to buy protection on specific layers of the synthetic CDO's capital structure. Tourre and GS&Co, of course, were fully aware that Paulson's economic interests with respect to the quality of the reference portfolio were directly adverse to CDO investors. During the meeting, Tourre sent an email to another GS&Co employee stating: I am at this ACA Paulson meeting, this is surreal.Later the same day, ACA emailed Paulson, Tourre, and others at GS&Co a list of 82 RMBS on which Paulson and ACA concurred, plus a list of 2l replacement RMBS. ACA sought Paulson's approval of the revised list, asking: Let rne know if these work for you at the Baa2 level.

33. On February 5, 2007, Paulson sent an email to ACA, with a copy to Tourre, deleting eight RMBS recommended by ACA, leaving the rest, and stating that Tourre agreed that 92 bonds were a sufficient portfolio,

34. On February 5, 2007, an internal ACA email asked: Attached is the revised portfolio that Paulson would like us to commit to - all names are at the Baa2 level. The final portfolio will have between 80 and these 92 names. Are 'we' ok to say yes on this portfolio? The response was: Looks good to me. Did [Paulson] give a reason why they kicked out all the Wells [Fargo] deals?" Wells Fargo was generally perceived as one of the higher-quality subprime loan originators.

35. On or about February 26, 2007, after further discussion, Paulson and ACA came to an agreement on a reference portfolio of 90 RMBS for ABACUS 2007-AC1 .

F. GS&CO MISLED INVESTORS BY REPRESENTING THAT ACA
SELECTED THE PORTFOLIO WTTHOUT DISCLOSING PAULSON’S
SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN DETERMINING THE PORTFOLIO AND ITS
ADVERSE ECONOMIC INTERESTS

36. GS&Co's marketing materials for ABACUS 2007-AC1 were false and misleading because they represented that ACA selected the reference portfolio while omitting any mention that Paulson, a party with economic interests adverse to CDO investors, played a significant role in the selection of the reference portfolio.

37. For example, a 9-page term sheet for ABACUS 2007-AC1 finalized by GS&Co on or about February 26, 2007, described ACA as the Portfolio Selection Agent and stated in bold print at the top of the first page that the reference portfolio of RMBS bad been selected by ACA.This document contained no mention of Paulson, its economic interests in the transaction, or its role in selecting the reference portfolio.

38. Similarly, a 65-page flip book for ABACUS 2007-AC1 finalized by GS&Co on or about February 26, 2007 represented on its cover page that the reference portfolio of RMBS had been selected by ACA Management, LLC. The flip book included a 28-page overview of ACA describing its business strategy, senior management team, investment philosophy, expertise, hack record and credit selection process, together with a 7-page section of biographical information on ACA officers and employees. Investors were assured that the party selecting the portfolio had an alignment of economic interest with investors. This document contained no mention of Paulson, its economic interests in the transaction, or its role in selecting the reference portfolio.

39. Tourre had primary responsibility for preparing the term sheet and flip book.

40. The Goldman Sachs MCC, which included senior-level management of GS&Co, approved the ABACUS 2007-AC1 on or about March 12, 2007. GS&Co expected to earn between $15-and-$20 million for structuring and marketing ABACUS 2007-AC1.

41. On or about April 26, 2007, GS&Co finalized a 178-page offering memorandum for ABACUS 2007-AC1. The cover page of the offering memorandum included a description of ACA as Portfolio Selection Agent. The Transaction Overview, Summary and Portfolio Selection Agent sections of the memorandum all represented that the reference portfolio of RMBS had been selected by ACA. This document contained no mention of Paulson, its economic interests in the transaction, or its role in selecting the reference portfolio.

42. Tourre reviewed at least the Summary section of the offering
memorandum before it was sent to potential investors.

43. Although the marketing materials for ABACUS 2007-AC1 made no mention of Paulson or of its role in the transaction, internal GS&Co communications clearly identified Paulson, its economic interests, and its role in the transaction. For example, the March 12, 2007 MCC memorandum describing the transaction stated: Goldman is effectively working an order for Paulson to buy protection on specific layers of the [ABACUS 2007-] AC1 capital structure.

G. GS&CO MISLED ACA INTO BELIEVING PAULSON WAS LONG EOUITY

44. GS&Co also misled ACA into believing that Paulson was investing in the equity of ABACUS 2007-AC1 and therefore shared a long interest with CDO investors. The equity tranche is at the bottom of the capital structure and is the first to experience losses associated with any deterioration in the performance of the underlying RMBS. Equity investors therefore have an economic interest in the successful performance of a reference RMBS portfolio. As of early 2007, ACA had participated in a number of CDO transactions involving hedge funds that invested in the equity tranche.

45. Had ACA been aware that Paulson was taking a short position against the CDO, ACA would have been reluctant to allow Paulson & Co. to occupy an influential role in the selection of the reference portfolio because it would present serious reputational risk to ACA, which was in effect endorsing the reference portfolio. ln fact, it is unlikely that ACA would have served as portfolio selection agent had it known that Paulson was taking a significant short position instead of a long equity stake in ABACUS 2007-AC1. Tourre and GSSCo were responsible for ACA's misimpression that Paulson had a long position, rather than a short position, with respect to the CDO.

46. On January 8, 2007, Tourre attended a meeting with representatives from Paulson and ACA at Paulson's offices in New York City to discuss the proposed transaction. Paulson & Co.'s economic interest was unclear to ACA, which sought further clarification from GS&Co. Later that day, ACA sent a GS&Co sales representative an email with the subject line Paulson meeting that read:I have no idea how it went - I wouldn't say it went poorly, not at all, but I think it didn't help that we didn't know exactly how they [Paulson] want to participate in the space.Can you get us some feedback?

47. On January 10, 2007, Tourre emailed ACA a Transaction Summary that included a description of Paulson as the Transaction Sponsor and referenced a Contemplated Capital Structure with a [0]% - [9]%: pre-committed first loss as part of the Paulson deal structure.The description of this [0]% - [9]% tranche at the bottom of the capital structure was consistent with the description of an equity tranche and ACA reasonably believed it to be a reference to the equity tranche. In fact, GS&Co never intended to market to anyone a [0]% - [9]% first loss equity tranche in this transaction.

48. On January 12, 2007, Tourre spoke by telephone with ACA about the proposed transaction. Following that conversation, on January l4, 20O7, ACA sent an email to the GS&Co sales repres- entative raising questions about the proposed transaction and referring to Paulson's equity interest. The email, which had the subject line Call with Fabrice [Tourre] on Friday, read in pertinent part:I certainly hope I didn't come across too antagonistic on the call with Fabrice [Torre] last week but the structure looks difficult from a debt investor perspective. I can understand Paulson's equity perspective but for us to put our name on something, we have to be sure that it enhances our reputation.

49. On January 16, 2007, the GS&Co sales representative forwarded that email to Tourre. As of that date, Tourre knew, or was reckless in not knowing, that ACA had been misled into believing Paulson intended to invest in the equity of ABACUS 2007-AC1.

50. Based upon the January l0, 2007, Transaction Summary sent by Tourre, the January 12,2007 telephone call with Tourre and continuing communications with Tourre and others at GS&Co, ACA continued to believe through the course of the transaction that Paulson would be an equity investor in ABACUS 2007-AC1.

51. On February 12, 2007, ACA's Commitments Committee approved the firm's participation in ABACUS as portfolio selection agent. The written approval memorandum described Paulson's role as follows: The hedge fund equity investor wanted to invest in the 0%-9% tranche of a static mezzanine ABS CDO backed 100% by subprime residential mortgage securities.

Handwritten notes from the meeting reflect discussion of portfolio selection work
with the equity investor.

H. ABACUS 2OO7-AC1 INVESTORS

I. IKB

52. IKB is a commercial bank headquartered in Düsseldorf. Germany. Historically, IKB specialized in lending to small and medium-sized companies. Beginning in and around 2002, IKB, for itself and as an advisor, was involved in the purchase of securitized assets referencing, or consisting of, consumer credit risk including RMBS CDOs backed by U.S. mid-and-subprime mortgages.IKB's former subsidiary, IKB Credit Asset Management, provided investment advisory services to various purchasing entities participating in a commercial paper conduit known as the Rhineland programme conduit.

53. The identity and experience of those involved in the selection of CDO portfolios was an important investment factor for IKB, In late 2006, IKB informed a GS&Co sales representative and Tourre that it was no longer comfortable investing in the liabilities of CDOs that did not utilize a collateral manager, meaning an independent third-party with knowledge of the U.S. housing market and expertise in analyzing RMBS. Tourre and GS&Co knew that ACA was a collateral manager likely to be acceptable to IKB.

54. In February, March and April 2007, GS&Co sent IKB copies of the ABACUS 2007-AC1 term sheet, flipbook and offering memorandum, all of which represented that the RMBS portfolio had been selected by ACA and omitted any reference to Paulson & Co., its role in selecting the reference portfolio and its adverse economic interests. Those representations and omissions were materially false and misleading because, unbeknownst to IKB, Paulson & Co. played a significant role in the collateral selection process and had financial interests in the transaction directly adverse to IKB. Neither GS&Co nor Tourre informed IKB of Paulson & Co.'s participation in the collateral selection process and its adverse economic interests.

55. The first written marketing materials for ABACUS 2007-AC1 were distributed on February 15, 2007, when GS&Co emailed a preliminary term sheet and reference portfolio to the GS&Co sales representative covering IKB. Tourre was aware these materials would be delivered to IKB.

56. On February 19, 2007, the GS&Co sales representative forwarded the marketing materials to IKB, explaining via email: Attached are details of the ACA trade we spoke about with Fabrice [Toune] in which you thought the AAAs would be interesting.

57. Tourre maintained direct and indirect contact with IKB in an effort to close the deal. This included a March 6, 2007 email to the GS&Co sales representative for IKB representing that:This is a portfolio selected by ACA . . .. Tourre subsequently described the portfolio in an intemal GS&Co email as having been selected by ACA/Paulson.

58. ABACUS 2007-AC1 closed on or about April 26, 2007. IKB bought $50 million worth of Class A-l notes at face value. The Class A-l Notes paid a variable interest rate equal to LIBOR plus 85 basis points and were rated Aaa by Moody's Investors Services, Inc. (Moody's) and AAA by Standard & Poor's Ratings & Services (S&P). IKB bought $100 million worth of Class A-2 Notes at face value. The Class A-2 Notes paid a variable interest rate equal to LIBOR plus 110 basis points and were rated Aaa by Moody's and AAA by S&P.

59. The fact that the portfolio had been selected by an independent third-party with experience and economic interests aligned with CDO investors was important to IKB. IKB would not have invested in the transaction had it known that Paulson played a significant role in the collateral selection process while intending to take a short position in ABACUS 2007- AC1. Among other things, the knowledge of Paulson's role would have seriously undermined IKB's confidence in the portfolio selection process and led senior IKB personnel to oppose the transaction.

60. Within months of closing, ABACUS 2007-AC1's Class A-l and A-2 Notes were nearly worthless. IKB lost almost all of its $150 million investment. Most of this money was ultimately paid to Paulson in a series of transactions between GS&Co and Paulson.

2. ACA/ABN AMRO

61. ACA's parent company, ACA Capital Holdings, Inc. ( ACA Capital), provided financial guaranty insurance on a variety of structured finance products including RMBS CDOs, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, ACA Financial Guaranty Corporation. On or about May 31, 2007, ACA Capital sold protection or wrapped the $909 million super senior tranche of ABACUS 2007-AC1, meaning that it assumed the credit risk associated with that portion of the capital structure via a CDS in exchange for premium payments of approximately 50 basis points per year.

62. ACA Capital was unaware of Paulson's short position in the transaction. It is unlikely that ACA Capital would have written protection on the super senior tranche if it had known that Paulson, which played an influential role in selecting the reference portfolio, had taken a significant short position instead of a long equity stake in ABACUS 2007-ACL.

63. The super senior transaction with ACA Capital was intermediated by ABN AMRO Bank N.V(ABN), which was one of the largest banks in Europe during the relevant period.

This meant that, through a series of CDS between ABN and Goldman and between ABN and ACA that netted ABN premium payments of approximately 17 basis points per year, ABN assumed the credit risk associated with the super senior portion of ABACUS 2007-AC1's capital structure in the event ACA Capital was unable to pay.

64. GS&Co sent ABN copies of the ABACUS 2007-AC1 term sheet, flipbook and offering memorandum, all of which represented that the RMBS portfolio had been selected by ACA and omitted any reference to Paulson's role in the collateral selection process and its adverse economic interest. Tourre also told ABN in emails that ACA had selected the portfolio. These representations and omissions were materially false and misleading because, unbeknownst to ABN, Paulson played a significant role in the collateral selection process and had a financial interest in the transaction that was adverse to ACA Capital and ABN.

65. At the end of 2007, ACA Capital was experiencing severe financial difficulties.

In early 2008, ACA Capital entered into a global settlement agreement with its counterparties to effectively unwind approximately $69 billion worth of CDSs, approximately $26 billion of which were related to 2005-06 vintage subprime RMBS. ACA Capital is currently operating as a run-off financial guaranty insurance company.

66. In late 2007, ABN was acquired by a consortium of banks that included the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). On or about August 7, 2008, Royal Bank of Scotland unwound ABN's super senior position in ABACUS 2007-AC1 by paying GS&Co $840,909,090. Most of this money was subsequently paid by GS&Co to Paulson.

CLAIMS FOR RELIEF-FIRST CLAIM I-Section 17(a) of the Securities Act-Paragraphs l-66 are realleged and incorporated herein by reference.

68. GS&Co and Tourre each violated Section l7(a)(1), (2) and (3) of the Exchange
Act [15 U.S.C. § 77q(a)(1), (2) & (3)].

69. As set forth above, Goldman and Tourre, in the offer or sale of securities or securities-based swap agreements, by the use of means or instruments of interstate comrnerce or by the mails, directly or indirectly (a) employed devices, schemes or artifices to defraud; (b) obtained money or property by means of untrue statements of material facts or omissions of material facts necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; or (c) engaged in transactions, practices or courses of business which operated or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon purchasers of securities.

70. GS&Co and Tourre knowingly, recklessly or negligently misrepresented in the term sheet, flipbook and offering memorandum for ABACUS 2007-AC1 that the reference portfolio was selected by ACA without disclosing the significant role in the portfolio selection process played by Paulson, a hedge fund with financial interests in the transaction directly adverse to IKB, ACA Capital and ABN. GS&Co and Tourre also knowingly, recklessly or negligently misled ACA into believing that Paulson invested in the equity of ABACUS 2007-AC1 and, accordingly, that Paulson & Co.'s interests in the collateral section process were closely aligned with ACA's when in reality their interests were sharply conflicting.

SECOND CLAIM-Section 10(b) and Rule 10-b(5) of the Exchange Act

71. Paragraphs 1-70 are realleged and incorporated herein by reference.

72. GS&Co and Tourre each violated Section l0(b) of the Exchange Act [5 U.S.C § 78j&)l and Rule l0b-5 [17 C.F.R. § 240.10b-5].

73. As set forth above, GS&Co and Tourre, in connection with the purchase or sale of securities or securities-based swap agreements, by the use of means or instrumentalities of interstate commerce or of the mails, directly or indirectly (a) employed devices, schemes or artifices to defraud; (b) made untrue statements of material facts or omissions of material facts necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; or (c) engaged in transactions, practices or courses of business which operated or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon persons.

74. GS&Co and Tourre knowingly or recklessly misrepresented in the term sheet flip book and offering memorandum for ABACUS 2007-ACl that the reference portfolio was selected by ACA without disclosing the significant role in the portfolio selection process played by Paulson, a hedge fund with financial interests in the transaction adverse to IKB, ACA Capital and ABN. GS&Co and Tourre also knowingly or recklessly misled ACA into believing that Paulson invested in the equity of ABACUS 2007-AC1 and, accordingly, that Paulson's interests in the collateral section process were closely aligned with ACA's when in reality their interests were sharply conflicting.

PRAYER FOR RELIEF-WHEREFORE, the Commission respectfully requests that this Court enter a judgment:

A. Finding that GS&Co and Tourre each violated the Federal securities laws and
the Commission rule alleged in this Complaint;

B. Permanently restraining and enjoining GS&Co and Tourre from violating Section 17(a) of the Securities Act [15 U.S.C. §77q(a)], Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act [1s U.S.C. § 78j(b)] and Exchange Act Rule l0b-5 [17 C.F.R § 240.10b-5];

C. Ordering GS&Co and Tourre to disgorge all illegal profits that they obtained
as a result of their fraudulent misconduct, acts or courses of conduct described in this Complaint, and to pay prejudgment interest thereon;

D. Imposing civil monetary penalties on GS&Co and Tourre pursuant to
Section 20(d)(2) of the Securities Act [15 U.S.C. § 77t (d)(2)] and
Section 21(d)(3) of the Exchange Act [l5 U.S.C. §78u(d)(3)]; and:

E. Granting such equitable relief as may be appropriate or necessary for the benefit
of investors pursuant to Section 2l(d)(5) of the Exchange Act [5 U.S.C. §78u(d)(5)].

Dated: Washington, D.C.April 16,2010 Respectfully submitted [signed]
Andrew M. Calamari (AC-4864)-Richard E. Simpson (RS 5859)-Reid A. Muoio (RM 2274)

Kenneth Lench-Cheryl J. Scarboro-James A. Kidney-Jeffrey Tao-Jason Anthony
Nicole C. Kelly-Jeff Leasure-Securities and Exchange Commission
IOO F St., NE-Washington, D.C. 20549-4010-(202) 551-4492 (Simpson)
simpsonr@sec.gov

LIST OF U.S. STATUTES, SECURITIES REGULATIONS AND LEGAL PRINCIPLES OF WHICH THE CRIMINALISTS, ASSOCIATES AND ALL THE MAIN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS REMAIN IN BREACH:LEGAL TUTORIAL: The Steps of Common Fraud:

Step 1: Fraud in the Inducement: … is intended to and which does cause one to execute an instrument, or make an agreement… The misrepresentation involved does not mislead one as the paper he signs but rather misleads as to the true facts of a situation, and the false impression it causes is a basis of a decision to sign or render a judgment. Source: Steven H. Gifis, Law Dictionary, 5th Edition, Hauppauge: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 2003, s.v.: Fraud.

Step 2: Fraud in Fact by Deceit (Obfuscation and Denial) and Theft:

• ACTUAL FRAUD. Deceit. Concealing something or making a false representation with an evil intent [scanter] when it causes injury to another…. Source: Steven H. Gifis, Law Dictionary, 5th Edition, Happauge: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 2003, s.v.: Fraud.

• THE TORT OF FRAUDULENT DECEIT… The elements of actionable deceit are: A false representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth, and with intent to induce reliance thereon, on which plaintiff justifiably relies on his injury…. Source: Steven H. Gifis, Law Dictionary, 5th Edition, Happauge: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 2003, s.v.: Deceit.

Step 3: Theft by Deception and Fraudulent Conveyance:

THEFT BY DECEPTION:

• FRAUDULENT CONCEALMENT… The hiding or suppression of a material fact or circumstance which the party is legally or morally bound to disclose….

• The test of whether failure to disclose material facts constitutes fraud is the existence of a duty, legal or equitable, arising from the relation of the parties: failure to disclose a material fact with intent to mislead or defraud under such circumstances being equivalent to an actual fraudulent concealment.

• To suspend running of limitations, it means the employment of artifice, planned to prevent inquiry or escape investigation and mislead or hinder acquirement of information disclosing a right of action, and acts relied on must be of an affirmative character and fraudulent….Source: Black, Henry Campbell, M.A., Black’s Law Dictionary, Revised 4th Edition, St Paul: West Publishing Company, 1968, s.v. Fraudulent Concealment.

FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE:

• FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE… A conveyance or transfer of property, the object of which is to defraud a creditor, or hinder or delay him, or to put such property beyond his reach….

• Conveyance made with intent to avoid some duty or debt due by or incumbent or person (entity) making transfer….Source: Black, Henry Campbell, M.A., Black’s Law Dictionary, Revised 4th Edition, St Paul: West Publishing Company, 1968, s.v. Fraudulent Conveyance.

U.S. SECURITIES REGULATIONS OF WHICH INSTITUTIONS
HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE IN BREACH [SEE REPORTS]:

• NASD Rule 3120, et al.
• NASD Rule 2330, et al
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and 3040
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and IM-2110-1
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and SEC Rule 15c3-1
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and 3110
• SEC Rules 17a-3 and 17a-4
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and Procedural Rule 8210
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and 2330 and IM-2330
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and IM-2110-5
• NASD Systems and Programme Rules 6950 through 6957
• 97-13 Bank Secrecy Act, Recordkeeping Rule for funds transfers and transmittals of funds, et al.

U.S. LAWS ROUTINELY BREACHED BY THE CRIMINAL OPERATIVES AND INSTITUTIONS:

• Annunzio-Wylie Anti-Money Laundering Act
• Anti-Drug Abuse Act
• Applicable international money laundering restrictions
• Bank Secrecy Act
• Crimes, General Provisions, Accessory After the Fact [Title 18, USC]
• Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act
• Economic Espionage Act
• Hobbs Act
• Imparting or Conveying False Information [Title 18, USC]
• Maloney Act
• Misprision of Felony [Title 18, USC] (1)
• Money-Laundering Control Act
• Money-Laundering Suppression Act
• Organized Crime Control Act of 1970
• Perpetration of repeated egregious felonies by State and Federal public employees and their Departments and agencies, which are co-responsible with the said employees for ONGOING illegal and criminal actions, to sustain fraudulent operations and crimes in order to cover up criminalist activities and High Crimes and Misdemeanours by present and former holders of high office under the United States
• Provisions pertaining to private business transactions being protected under both private and criminal penalties [H.R. 3723]
• Provisions prohibiting the bribing of foreign officials [F.I.S.A.]
• Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act [R.I.C.O.]
• Securities Act 1933
• Securities Act 1934
• Terrorism Prevention Act
• Treason legislation, especially in time of war.
http://worldreports.org/news/285_text_of_the_s.e.c.s_complaint_against_goldman_sachs

AND THE RESULT OF THESE CHARGES

Goldman Sachs, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Largest Fine Ever Paid to the SEC JULY 16,10

Goldman eventually settled for $550 million, the largest fine ever paid to the SEC and a humiliation for Goldman Sachs. Tourre is still tied up in civil fraud charges. As Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) told Lloyd Blankfein at a Senate hearing: … somebody has made a decision [Tourre's] going to be a whipping boy, he's the guy getting hung out to dry. Above, Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.), on the left, and Senator Coburn, to the right, framed the head of Lloyd Blankfein at a hearing in 2010.

THEY PAID $550 MILLION BUT PROBABLY MADE $2 TRILLION DOLLARS ON THE SCAM TO RIP PEOPLE OFF.THIS IS A NEW WORLD ORDER WAY OF PAYING TO BRING ABOUT A WORLD GOVERNMENT AND BUYING UP LAND AND COMPANIES AND ALL KINDS OF INFLUENCE IN THE WORLD TO GET WHAT YOU WANT NO MATTER THE COST ,WHICH IN TURN GIVES YOU POWER OVER EVERYONE TO STEAL THEIR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS AND GO BY YOUR RULES.

UPDATE ON STORY

Goldman Sachs Trader Tourre Claims Abacus Deal Done by Jersey Companies Q By Thom Weidlich and Patricia Hurtado - Sep 1, 2011 12:44 PM ET-BLOOMBERG

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) trader Fabrice Tourre, accused of misleading investors in a collateralized debt obligation, said in a court filing that IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG (IKB)’s alleged $150 million investment was actually made by two Jersey-based companies.Tourre wants to take testimony of witnesses at Loreley Financing (Jersey) No. 29 Ltd. and Loreley Financing (Jersey) No. 30 Ltd., according to the filing yesterday in federal court in Manhattan. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has said Duesseldorf, Germany-based IKB made the investment in the CDO, Abacus 2007-AC1.Discovery in this matter thus far has shown, however, that IKB’s alleged $150 million investment was, in fact, made by the Jersey-based companies, Tourre’s lawyers wrote in the filing.On June 10, U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones in Manhattan declined to dismiss the case against Tourre. The judge said the SEC had met its burden for pursuing a claim that Tourre violated a securities law designed to prevent fraudulent sales of securities and should stand trial.John Nester, an SEC spokesman; Jorg Chittka, an IKB spokesman; and David Esseks, a lawyer for Tourre at Allen & Overy LLP in New York, declined to comment on the filing. Pamela Rogers Chepiga, another lawyer representing Tourre, didn’t immediately return a call and e-mail yesterday after business hours inquiring about the Jersey-based companies’ investments.

Investment Adviser
IKB advised Loreley on the investment, according to Tourre’s filing.

I think what they’re trying to establish here is they have sophistication piled on top of sophistication to show that this was a well-reasoned investment by, yet again, a sophisticated institution, Jacob S. Frenkel, a former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer now in private practice in Potomac, Maryland, said in a phone interview today.They also could be trying to establish that whatever representations may have been made to the German bank ultimately could have been irrelevant to the investor, Frenkel said.The SEC initially sued the London-based trader in April 2010, saying he defrauded investors by not disclosing that hedge fund Paulson & Co. had helped pick the underlying securities for the CDO and planned to bet against them. After reaching a $550 million settlement with New York-based Goldman Sachs, the SEC filed a new claim against Tourre, saying he gave the company substantial assistance as it misled investors.

Portfolio Selection

The SEC said IKB wouldn’t have invested if it had known of Paulson’s involvement in the portfolio selection, according to yesterday’s filing.IKB’s role was apparently limited to that of investment adviser to the Loreley companies, in which capacity IKB could only recommend to the directors of the Loreley companies that they enter into securities transactions, according to the filing.Yet the factual record in the case contains almost no evidence of the Loreley companies, according to the filing.
Citing last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Morrison v. National Australia Bank, Jones, in June, threw out some claims involving IKB, which allegedly lost almost all of its $150 million investment, and ABN Amro Bank NV, which assumed the credit risk associated with a portion of Abacus.

Sale of Securities

In Morrison, the high court ruled that U.S. securities laws don’t protect foreign investors who buy stocks on overseas exchanges.Jones let the case proceed on a claim against Tourre that he knowingly, recklessly or negligently made misrepresentations in the sale of securities to ACA Management LLC, IKB and ABN Amro.Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands, is a dependency of the U.K. with its own legislative assembly and is known as a tax haven.CDOs are pools of assets such as mortgage bonds packaged into new securities. Interest payments on the underlying bonds or loans are used to pay investors. The Abacus entity was a synthetic CDO, meaning its cash flow came from derivatives that referenced mortgage-backed securities.The case is SEC v. Tourre, 10-03229, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
To contact the reporters on this story: Thom Weidlich in Brooklyn, New York at tweidlich@bloomberg.net; Patricia Hurtado in New York at pathurtado@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Hytha at mhytha@bloomberg.net.

911 REMEMBERED-10 YEARS LATER

WORLD TERRORISM

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

2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

WHY IS THERE NOT AN OFFICIAL INQUIRY INTO 911.THIS WOULD ANSWER QUESTIONS LIKE.WAS EXPLOSIVES BUILT INTO THE TOWERS WHEN IT WAS FIRST BUILT SO IF THERE WAS A DISASTER THE TOWERS COULD BE BROUGHT STRAIGHT DOWN INSTEAD OF FALLING SIDEWAYS AND KILLING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS.WHY WOULD THE GOVERNMENT NOT TELL THE CITIZENS THE TRUTH IF THIS WAS THE CASE.WHY DID BBC BROADCAST ON 911 10 OR 15 MINUTES BEFORE BUILDING 7 FELL,THAT IT WOULD BE FALLING AND POLICE WARNING THE PEOPLE THAT BUILDING 7 IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE...GET OUT OF THE WAY.THESE ARE JUST 2 QUESTIONS.WE NEED AN OFFICIAL INQUIRY INTO 911 TO GET THE TRUTH OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AND THE BEHIND THE SCENES HAPPENINGS ALSO.WERE THE NEW WORLD ORDER CONTROL FREAKS BEHIND THE 911 ATTACKS. BUYING OFF MUSLIMS FROM SAUDI ARABIA AND THE MUSLIM COUNTRIES,SETTING IT ALL UP WITH FAKE DRILLS GOING ON THE SAME DAY.THEN QUICKLY AFTER THE ATTACKS GETTING THE MUSLIMS OUT OF AMERICA SO THE SECRET NEW WORLD ORDER MISSION COULD BE COVERED UP AND THE BUY OFF COMPLETED,THEN THE NEW WORLD ORDER CONTROL FREAKS COULD THEN GET CLOSER TO THEIR WORLD GOVERNMENT PLANS AND TO STEAL THE FREEDOMS OF THE WORLDS CITIZENS RIGHTS AND CONTROL THEIR EVERY MOVES AND ACTIONS UNDER THE GUISE OF WORLD TERRORISM.THIS ALSO BY THE NEW WORLD ORDER THEN THEY COULD BUY OFF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO START WARS WITH MUSLIM COUNTRIES UNDER THE GUISE OF OSAMA BIN LADEN OR ALQUIDA LEADERS AGAINST THE WEST OR A RELIGIOUS WAR OF MUSLIMS AGAINST CHRISTIANS AND JEWS.AND JUST THINK OF ALL THE REBUILDING CONTRACTS THE NEW WORLD ORDER COMPANIES COULD GET BY THE TOWERS COMING DOWN AS WELL AS INSURANCE AND OTHER BENEFITS.THESE 911 ATTACKS MADE A LOT OF NEW WORLD ORDER-ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT GROUPS AND COMPANIES REAL RICH.AND REPORTS HAD IT THAT THE BUSH FAMILY AND BIN LADEN FAMALIES WERE CLOSE,ALLOWING BIN LADENS TO LEAVE AMERICA BY PLANE THE NEXT DAY AFTER 911.GOVERNMENT ALLOWING ALLEDGED TERRORISTS OUT OF THE COUNTRY....MAYBE.BUSH ,CHENEY AND RUMSFELD HAD TO KNOW ABOUT LETTING THESE SO CALLED TERRORISTS LEAVE AMERICA THE NEXT DAY BY PLANE.SO WE SEE WE NEED ANSWERS TO A LOT OF QUESTIONS,WE NEED AN OFFICIAL INQUIRY NOW.

HAGMANN & HAGMANN REPORT ON 911 ANSWERS-LISTEN HERE SEPT 10,11
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cfp-radio
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cfp-radio/2011/09/11/cfp-radio--the-hagmann-hagmann-report
911 TOWERS COMING DOWN VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNNTcHq5Tzk&feature=player_embedded

From Bush to Obama:I can hear you; the rest of the world has heard you and the people who knocked this building down will hear all of us soon, to one who never hears and who only talks down to people through a TelePrompter.Obama and Bloomberg cannot put 9/11 in a box - Judi McLeod Sunday, September 11, 2011-CANADA FREE PRESS

A watching world will see on full display the utter failure of President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg during tomorrow’s 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001. In trying to rewrite history, Obama and Bloomberg, in effect, try to steal from the people the true meaning of why citizens the world over will never forget what happened on that fateful day.Revisionists of 9/11 history fail and fail miserably for the truth is it is impossible to micro manage human emotion.
Mayors and presidents can issue officialdom’s never-ending proclamations and decrees. They can ban clerics and first responders from the 10th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on American soil.They can send out speaking points to which all politicians will dutifully follow; they can even ban the words al Qaeda and jihad from being spoken.While politicians of the day try to ban God from the public square, the words God protect America will be the most overriding ones tomorrow as they are murmured by untold millions, not just at Ground Zero but worldwide on September 11, 2011.The 10th anniversary of 9/11 cannot be put into a box by politicians who use the occasion for photo-ops and re-election plugs. The 10th anniversary of 9/11 belongs to decent people everywhere, who will remember it in their own way.

Politicians like Obama and Bloomberg will don their most mournful expressions to greet television cameras. But millions will be looking past them to undying memories of the horror of people jumping to their deaths from the World Trade Center. People will be remembering the heartbreaking television images of the loved ones of the innocents desperately showing their pictures at Ground Zero, and even 10 years later will still be praying for them.Even the most gullible among us know that politicians will promise anything, say anything, all to cling to power, but that their words are empty and their message self-serving.First responders have been disinvited by the politicians for only one reason: The politicians were far removed from that day ensconced in safety, while the first responders were there, risking their lives to save others. Listening masses tomorrow would hang on their every word, but ignore the shallow bleatings of soapbox politicians.No, try as you might you cannot possibly put 9/11 in a box and instruct people how to remember it. Memories of America’s worst terrorist attack never faded and are as much alive today in the watch of lonely goatherds in far-flung lands and remembered in the tiniest of fishing villages in faraway places.A lot of things changed since that fateful day on September 11, but God isn’t one of them.In one decade we went from a president who, despite his often cited failings, spoke directly to his people from Ground Zero, calling out, I can hear you; the rest of the world has heard you and the people who knocked this building down will hear all of us soon, to one who never hears and who only talks down to people through a TelePrompter.No matter how hard politicians work word to misrepresent it, appeasing terrorists is never the right thing to do.And no matter how they strive for eloquence of speech, outstanding American courage on September 11, 2001 came through in words that speak to the human soul 10 years later. These are words that could never be trumped. For they are the words of Todd Beamer, who will forever hold us in deepest admiration for the greatest country on earth. Those words volley down loudly through a decade of time. Are you guys ready? Let’s roll!

September 11th, Jihad & the Doctrine of Perpetual War
- Kelly O'Connell Sunday, September 11, 2011 CANADA FREE PRESS

Lest we forget, during our mourning for the ten year anniversary of the 9/11 holocaust and its victims, we still battle violent Muslim Jihadists. In fact, there is not only a Muslim holy war being waged upon the battlefields of Afghanistan, but also in the murkier shadows where terrorists eviscerate their unsuspecting victims.
But what is Jihad? The doctrine of Jihad has been both debated publicly and also ignored in the years after the 9/11 attacks. Yet it has a set meaning and use since Muhammad’s days, despite much propagandizing and obfuscations by its apologists. Further, any group opposed by violent Islam shall be permanently attacked since Islamic radicals demand submission or death. Jihad, the Western idea of the Just War, and September Eleventh are the topic of this brief essay, lest we forget the cause of the terrorist butchery.

I. September 11th, 2001

It is a matter of the most solemn remembrance that we recall what happened on September 11th, 2001 in New York City, NY, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania. As one source describes it:The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. area on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers intentionally crashed two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours. Hijackers crashed a third plane into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth jet, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed into a field near Shanksville, PA, before it could reach its intended target in Washington, D.C., after the passengers attempted to take control. Nearly 3,000 died in the attacks.

II. Two World Views: Western & Islamic
A. Muslim World View: Fundamentalism with no Reformation or Enlightenment

To understand the doctrine of Jihad, we must first realize how differently the Muslim world view is from that of the West. Briefly, in the aftermath of the fall of the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment, the West developed a liberal manner of dealing with politics, government, and religion. The root word and idea were liberty, or that freedom should be allowed people in what they believed and how they acted, as long as they did not disturb others. This became the classical liberal doctrine of tolerance in the midst of free expression of belief.The result was the Social Contract which delivered peace as a side benefit of allowing matters of conviction to remain private choices. This resulted, ultimately, in the founding of America upon the classic expressions of political liberalism—the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, along with the Bill of Rights. The results have revolutionized the world.On the alternative, Islam has never experienced a Reformation, and is therefore still highly impacted by the values of 7th century Arabia. Whereas the West developed the nation-state theory of sovereign lands, doctrinaire Muslim writers never countenanced such an idea. Instead they taught the Quranic view of society and religion, where church and state are one, no democracy is possible, and the land is ruled by a strong man.

B. Essential Elements of Islamic Convictions

First, the law stands at the heart of Islam, not the religion, according to Joseph Schacht. He wrote,The sacred law of Islam, the Shari’a, occupies a central place in Muslim society, and its history runs parallel with the history of Islamic civilization. It has often been said that Islamic law represents the core and kernel of Islam itself and, certainly, religious law is incomparably more important in the religion of Islam than theology.Second, there is no doctrine of practical separation of mosque and state, even if some Muslim states have practiced such. Third, there are two possible spheres of reality—the lands of the believers versus that of the unbelievers. Fourth, only believers hold unmitigated rights of any kind, but only when they hold tight to the one true faith.

C. House of God v. House of War

The practical outcome of these Muslim beliefs is to turn the world into two opposing, and perpetually antagonistic spheres—House of Allah versus the House of War. This fact then explains why true Islam and those who refuse to accept the teachings of Muhammad must always remain at odds. As Bernard Lewis describes this Muslim idea in The Multiple Identities of the Middle East:The world is divided into the House of Islam and the House of War, the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-harb. The Dar al-Islam is all those lands in which a Muslim government rules and the Holy Law of Islam prevails. Non-Muslims may live there on Muslim sufferance. The outside world, which has not yet been subjugated, is called the House of War, and strictly speaking a perpetual state of jihad, of holy war, is imposed by the law. The law also provided that the jihad might be interrupted by truces as and when appropriate. In fact, the periods of peace and war were not vastly different from those which existed between the Christian states of Europe for most of European history.The law thus divides unbelievers theologically into those who have a book and profess what Islam recognizes as a divine religion and those who do not; politically into dhimmis, those who have accepted the supremacy of the Muslim state and the primacy of the Muslims, and harbis, the denizens of the Dar al-harb, the House of War, who remain outside the Islamic frontier, and with whom therefore there is in principle, a canonically obligatory perpetual state of war until the whole world is either converted or subjugated.

III. Jihad
A. Moral Struggle v. Holy Warfare

It has been stated many times that the term Jihad in Islam is more properly defined as holy struggle than holy war. Reuven Firestone, in Jihad, The Origin of Holy War in Islam, points out that the word Jihad has no direct connection to war. Yet, it would be better to state that Jihad is a holy struggle most often expressed in terms of violent attack against Islam’s enemies. Firestone states,When the word is used without qualifiers, like of the heart, or of the word, it is universally understood as war on behalf of Islam (equivalent of Jihad of the sword”—jihad al-sayf), and the merits of engaging in such Jihad are described plentifully in the most respected religious works.Firestone describes how the doctrine of Jihad developed, especially as holy war was allowed by Allah to evolve because of the obdurate attitude of the unbelievers. Eventually this developed into a doctrine of total war in the name of God.

B. Jihad as Bloodshed

And yet, Jihad remains a duty of all Believers, both individual and the group, as explained by Rudolph Peters in Jihad, In Classical And Modern Islam. For example, there is an immediate duty to kill all pagans, aka polytheists, according to Peters, who writes,The only reasons an unbeliever should be put to death…is their unbelief. This motive then goes for all unbelievers…Enemies must not be tortured nor their bodies mutilated. The Muslims agree they may be slain by weapons. Controversy exists, however, concerning whether it is allowed to burn them by fire.As to whether once could wage total war, and thereby also destroy the homes and property of unbelievers, Peters reports that while the Prophet’s right-hand man Abu Baker did not allow this, Muhammad did himself.

C. Seven Aspects of Legal Jihad

Peters lists Seven aspects of the legal doctrine of Jihad: 1. Legal Obligation: Muslim communities are everywhere held responsible to wage violent Jihad, even if all members cannot bear a sword; 2. The Enemy: All pagans—ie polytheists (everyone not Muslim, or dhimmi, being Jew or Christian). Christians and Jews can also be targeted under many circumstances; 3. Damage Allowed: Any confiscation or destruction of property, and the enslavement, jailing or death of enemies—except women and children; 4. Prerequisites of Warfare: The enemy must hear first the call to Islam before being attacked; 5. Maximum Number of Foes One Must Not Retreat From: Double the size of the forces of the Muslims; 6. Truce: A truce may be entered for advantage or from fear of extinction; 7. Aims of Warfare: To force dhimmis to either convert or pay the war truce tax “Jizya,” and either convert or kill the rest.
D. 164 Jihad Verses

There are said to be 164 verses in the Quran extolling Jihad. Here are just two:
[2.190] ...fight in the way of Allah with those who fight with you…[2.191] And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.

IV. Western v. Muslim Just War Theory
A. Western Just War: 6 Elements

In the history of the West, appearing very early, was the notion of the Just War, first articulated by Augustine, but well-outlined by Aquinas and Grotius. According to the standard theory, a Just War must have six elements to be defensible:
1-The war must be for a just cause.
2-The war must be lawfully declared by a lawful authority.
3-The intention behind the war must be good.
4-All other ways of resolving the problem should have been tried first.
5-There must be a reasonable chance of success.
6-The means used must be in proportion to the end that the war seeks to achieve.

B. Islamic Just War

Peters explains that in the classic Muslim war theory, any battle with unbelievers was considered justified. Writes Peters,The classical doctrine of jihad considered all wars against unbelievers as legal wars, sanctioned by the Shari’ah. In Fact, the Shari’ah required that the head of state organize once a year a military raid into enemy territory.

V. Doctrine of Perpetual War & the Cult of the Assassins
A: Submission

Perhaps the most unnerving aspect of the West’s unwanted war with Islamic terrorism is its permanent tenor. On the one hand, America and other nations have long vexed Islamic societies because of our freedoms and irreverence. On the other, the mere existence of a large group of highly successful unbelievers guaranteed at some point violent Islamists would try to take us down. Radical Muslims have launched surreptitious attacks against foes for a thousand years. This will not end till either they, or we, prevail.Let us not forget that Islam means submission to the will of Allah. This denotes the group as a political entity, which all history proves. To become a Muslim merely means verbal assent to Allah and Muhammad. Therefore, conversions by sword is not merely possible, but clearly the most efficient way to bring the world to Allah. And, for example, while Muslims might sign a treaty—up to 10 years long—there is no shame in breaking such, whenever it benefits Islam. In fact, this is highly recommended.

B: Assassin Cult

Consider the murderous cult of the Assassins, an offshoot of Islamic Ismailis. The Assassins would take young boys, groom them into fanatics, then allow them to infiltrate a hated foreign enemy’s camp. There they would assiduously work to gain trust, often over decades, until they got close enough to a king or leader to drive a dagger into his heart when least suspected. Says one writer:Marco Polo brought the remarkable tale of Hasan-i Sabbah and his cult of Assassins to the West. He visited their former stronghold, the fortress of Alamut (Eagle’s Nest), near Tehran, in 1273 C.E., 150 years after the death of Hasan.Beginning just before the First Crusade, the Assassins held the Muslim world in the grip of fear. From his mountain keeps, Master Hasan directed campaigns of holy terror against rivals. Rulers could be struck down at any moment not just by a hidden assailant, but by a beggar or holy man on the street, even a trusted member of their own households. When captured, the attackers were contemptuous of death, resisting severe torture without betraying their comrades, sometimes even naming innocent people as their supporters, causing their deaths as well.Hasan’s organization was clearly a prototype for modern Islamic terrorist groups. In some ways, it is eerily like Osama bin Laden’s. As one historian put it,Hasan’s contribution to the art of assassination was that by careful selection, training, and inspiration he developed the practice into a sacred ritual and the prime weapon of a small state waging war against a great power. Thus, Alamut became the greatest training center of fanatical politico-religious assassins the world has known.In other words, this group prizes martyrdom and murder so highly, one must assume that their entire purpose is to fight for their religion—even in the face of impossible odds. So, of course, they will not give up their war against the West. That is not in their nature or beliefs.

Conclusion

The Price of Liberty Is Eternal Vigilance, claimed Thomas Jefferson. And once we have accepted the obvious—that Islam is destined to a perpetual war against us infidels—our lives become easier. Because we are then on notice who our enemies are, and what their methods shall be. Instead of feeling sorry for ourselves, let’s instead recall that war appears the fate of mankind.In the not too distant past, one of our greatest presidents commented upon the meaning of war and its heroes. Recall the immortal words of President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, while we likewise remembering the victims and heroes of 9/11:Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.What radical Islam attempts is nothing less than the assassination of world freedom. America’s liberties are what really drive militant Muslims to want to destroy us. Their chief aim is obliterating freedom, and they shall not rest until achieving this. And unless America stands up to these religious bullies, world liberty will always be very much be at risk.

A changed America: Marking 10 years since 9/11 AP By SAMANTHA GROSS and LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press – SEPT 11,11

NEW YORK – Ten years. Of longing for loved ones lost in the worst terrorist attacks to happen on American soil. Of sending sons, daughters, fathers and mothers off to war in foreign lands. Of redefining what safety means and worrying about another 9/11 — or something even worse.Ten years has arrived. And with it, memories. Of that September morning, when terrorists crashed hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and a fourth plane crashed into a field in rural western Pennsylvania. Of heroism and Samaritans and unthinkable fear.And of nearly 3,000 killed at the hands of a global terror network led by Osama bin Laden, himself now dead.On Sunday, people across America gather to pray at cathedrals in their greatest cities and to lay roses before fire stations in their smallest towns. Around the world, many others will do something similar because so much changed for them on that day, too.Bells will toll. Americans will see new memorials in lower Manhattan, rural Pennsylvania and elsewhere, symbols of a resolve to remember and rebuild.But much of the weight of this year's ceremonies lies in what will largely go unspoken. There's the anniversary's role in prompting Americans to consider how the attacks affected them and the larger world and the continuing struggle to understand 9/11's place in the lore of the nation.

A lot's going on in the background, said Ken Foote, author of Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy, examining the role that veneration of sites of death and disaster plays in modern life.These anniversaries are particularly critical in figuring out what story to tell, in figuring out what this all means. It forces people to figure out what happened to us.On Saturday in rural western Pennsylvania, more than 4,000 people began to tell the story again.At the dedication of the Flight 93 National Memorial near the town of Shanksville, former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden joined the families of the 40 passengers and crew aboard the jet who fought back against their hijackers.The moment America's democracy was under attack our citizens defied their captors by holding a vote, Bush said. Their choice cost them their lives.The passengers and crew gave the entire country an incalculable gift: They saved the Capitol from attack, an untold amount of lives and denied al-Qaida the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government, Clinton said.They were ordinary people given no time at all to decide and they did the right thing, he said.
And 2,500 years from now, I hope and pray to God that people will still remember this.The Pennsylvania memorial park is years from completion. But the dedication and a service to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks are critical milestones, said Sally Ware, one of the volunteer ambassadors who has worked as a guide at the site since the disaster.

Ware, whose home was rocked when the jet crashed two miles away, recalled how hundreds of people flocked to the site in the days afterward to leave their own mementos and memorials. She began volunteering after finding one along the roadside — a red rose placed atop a flight attendant's uniform.It really bothered me. I thought someone has to take care of this, said Ware, whose daughter is a flight attendant.Now, a decade later, she said the memorial may do little to ease the grief of the families of those who died in the crash.But the weekend's ceremonies recall a story with far broader reach. The ceremonies honor those who fought the first battle against terrorism — and they won, Ware said.It's something I don't want to miss. It's become a part of my life.On Sunday, the focus turns to ceremonies at the Pentagon, just outside Washington, D.C., and in lower Manhattan for the dedication of the national Sept. 11 memorial. President Barack Obama planned to attend events at the sites and was to speak at a Sunday evening service at the Kennedy Center.The New York ceremony begins at 8:30 a.m., with a moment of silence 16 minutes later — coinciding with the exact time when the first tower of the trade center was struck by a hijacked jet.And then, one by one, the reading of the names of the 2,977 killed on Sept. 11 — in New York, at the Pentagon and in rural Pennsylvania.They include the names of 37 of Lt. Patrick Lim's fellow officers from the police department of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.Lim, assigned to patrol the trade center with an explosives detection dog, rushed in to the north tower after it was hit to help evacuate workers. He and a few others survived despite still being inside a fifth-floor stairwell when the building fell.In the years since, Lim said he has wrestled with survivor's guilt. He took shelter in selective memory, visualizing the ground covered with women's shoes amid the destruction.That's how I got through that because what was attached to the shoes was a lot worse,Lim said.

The 10th anniversary has forced Lim to revisit an experience he's worried too many people have pushed from their minds. But the approach of Sunday's ceremonies has convinced him of the value of revisiting Sept.11, both for himself and others.When it happened, talking about the events of that day wasn't easy for me. This was very difficult. But it became ... a catharsis, he said. What I want is for people to remember what happened.And so arrives a Sunday dedicated to remembrance, with hundreds of ceremonies across the country and around the globe — from a memorial Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York to a ceremony featuring nine-stories-tall replicas of the twin towers on a plaza in Paris.But some of the most powerful ceremonies will likely be the smallest and most personal.In Newtown, Conn., retired American Stock Exchange floor broker Howard Lasher planned a ceremony Sunday morning under the canopy of six maple trees standing alongside his gravel driveway; their trunks are painted to resemble an American flag.Lasher commissioned the painting as a tribute to nine colleagues and the son of another who died inside the trade center.I wanted something that would reach out to people, that people would not forget, Lasher said.And in tiny Brown City, Mich. — with no direct connection to the attacks — firefighters plan to lay 343 roses on a 15,000-pound steel beam salvaged from the World Trade Center, in honor of their New York City brethren who perished. It has already become a local shrine, Chief Jim Groat said.

A few days ago, a couple from St. Joseph, Mich. who happened to be driving through, pulled into the fire station lot when they spotted a sign for the memorial. The woman explained to Groat that she was an American Airlines flight attendant on Sept. 11.Then she turned to face the steel beam from the trade center and cried. She said she was just honored that somebody still cares, Groat recalled.The chief observed silently, before offering an invitation.Will I see you here on Sept. 11? he asked.
I'll be here,she answered.Associated Press writers Adam Geller in New York and Joe Mandak in Shanksville, Pa., contributed to this report.

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Video of Collapse of WTC-The US National Terror Alert has distributed a home video of the Twin Towers attack 500 yards from their 36th floor apartment.By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu First Publish: 9/11/2011, 3:14 PM

The U.S. National Terror Alert has distributed a home video of the collapse of the Twin Towers 500 yards from a 36th floor apartment.Bob and Bri five years ago released their video of the Twin Towers attack, but the National Terror Alert noted that most people probably have not seen the unique views of the towers.Releasing this tape was a difficult decision for us because of its emotional and personal nature and the potential for misuse, said the couple.They explained, We feel, however, that our unique perspective has an important historical value and shows the horror of the day without the soundtracks of hype often seen in other accounts. Bri’s sobs can be heard as the second tower collapses.Noting the 10th year since the 9/11 attacks by Al Qaeda terrorists, President Barack Obama vowed that American will not live in fear...and hunker down behind walls of distrust.He insisted there are signs in the Middle East of a new generation that points to a future that belongs to those who want to built and not destroy.

Op-Ed: 9/11 Attacks Linked to a Wider Moral Malaise
Published: Sunday, September 11, 2011 8:15 AM

This first appeared in the London Times, was sent to Arutz Sheva by the Rabbi's office. Posted here for our ango non-UK readers to see its important message as well.

Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks
Rabbi Dr. Sacks is Chief Rabbi of England since 1991, a member of the House of Lords since 2009. He has authored many books on Judaic thought, appears regularly in the British media and has kindly allowed us to post his essay on the Sabbath Torah reading each week.Published in the Times 8/9/2011-Two things have haunted me since 9/11. The first is the pain, the grief, the lives lost and families devastated, the sheer barbaric ingenuity of evil. The scar in our humanity is still unhealed. The second is our failure to understand what Osama bin Laden was saying about the West. We did not hear the message then. I’m not sure we hear it now.After the shock and grief subsided, two theories began to be heard. The first was that this was an event of epoch-changing magnitude. The terms of international politics had been transformed. The Cold War was over. Another war had begun. This time the enemy was not the Soviet Union and communism. It was radical, political Islam.The second was the opposite. 9/11 was terrifying and terrible but it changed nothing because acts of terror never do. Terrorist campaigns have been aimed at other countries. Britain suffered similarly from the IRA in the 1970s. The most important thing is not to overreact. Terror may bring dividends in local conflicts but it never succeeds in its larger political aims.There is something to be said for both theories. But there is a third, no less consequential. Why did al-Qaeda attack America? Because it believed that it could. Because it thought the US was a power past its prime, no longer as lean and hungry as it believed it was.

Robert McNamara said that the first rule in politics is to understand your enemy’s psychology. As I struggled to understand 9/11 I began to suspect that the answer lay in the events of 1989. That is when the narratives of the West and the rest began seriously to diverge.In the West, 1989 was seen as the collapse of communism, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the implosion of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. The Western narrative was triumphalist. It saw those events as heralding the victory of its values without a shot being fired. The free market and liberal democratic politics had won for the simplest of reasons. They delivered, while communism did not. They would now spread across the world.It was, said Francis Fukuyama in a famous essay, the beginning of the end of history.There was, though, another narrative that few were listening to. It said that the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989 not because of the triumph of liberal democracy but because of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan earlier that year. It had invaded in 1979 and was forced to withdraw, not because of superpower politics but because of the determined resistance of a small group of highly motivated religious warriors, the Mujahidin and their helpers.That, historically, is the event that captured the imagination of Osama bin Laden.According to this account, that one event, the humiliating retreat of the Soviet Army, set in motion a series of internal crises that resulted, months later, in the fall of a great power. If one of the world’s two superpowers was vulnerable to asymmetric warfare — the war of the few against the many — why not the other, America itself? What 1989 represented was not the end of history but the end of a history dominated by the twin superpowers of communist Russia and capitalist America.Both were vulnerable because both were overripe and about to fall from the tree. Much excitement was felt in the West by the failure of communism. Less attention was paid to what Daniel Bell called the cultural contradictions of capitalism.Throughout this period there were voices that few seemed to be listening to. First and greatest was the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre in his 1981 masterwork, After Virtue. He argued that the moral discourse of the West had broken down.The Enlightenment project of a purely rational ethic had failed — not because there was no such thing, but because there were too many. They clashed inconclusively and people were left with a sense that morality is whatever you think it is.

His minatory warning was: The barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time. That was a scary thing to hear from one of the world’s great philosophers. I soon began to hear it from other leading intellectuals also, such as Philip Rieff, Christopher Lasch and Robert Bellah.That is what I heard in the echoes of 9/11: that all great civilisations eventually decline, and when they begin to do so they are vulnerable. That is what Osama bin Laden believed about the West and so did some of the West’s own greatest minds.If so, then 9/11 belongs to a wider series of phenomena affecting the West: the disintegration of the family, the demise of authority, the build-up of personal debt, the collapse of financial institutions, the downgrading of the American economy, the continuing failure of some European economies, the loss of a sense of honour, loyalty and integrity that has brought once esteemed groups into disrepute, the waning throughout the West of a sense of national identity; even last month’s riots.These are all signs of the arteriosclerosis of a culture, a civilisation grown old. Whenever Me takes precedence over We, and pleasure today over viability tomorrow, a society is in trouble.If so, then the enemy is not radical Islam, it is us and our by now unsustainable self-indulgence.The West has expended much energy and courage fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq abroad and defeating terror at home. It has spent far less, if any, in renewing its own morality and the institutions — families, communities, ethical codes, standards in public life — where it is created and sustained. But if I am right, this is the West’s greatest weakness in the eyes of its enemies as well as its friends.The only way to save the world is to begin with ourselves. Our burden after 9/11 is to renew the moral disciplines of freedom. Some say it can’t be done. They are wrong: it can and must. Surely we owe the dead no less.

Netanyahu on 9/11: Terrorism is War of Radical Islam-PM Netanyahu marked the 10th anniversary of the Al Qaeda attack on the United States by calling it a war - of radical Islam.By Chana Ya'ar First Publish: 9/11/2011, 5:20 PM

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu marked the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 Al Qaeda attack on America Sunday by noting that the terrorists were all Islamists -- and that terrorism is a tool of war.Speaking at the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Netanyahu told the ministers:We are in this struggle, the struggle against terrorism, and while there is no doubt that this is terrorism, it is a tool of war. This is not a conventional war. This is a war of terrorism – by the forces and regimes of radical Islam. Radical Islam threatens moderate Islamic and Arab regimes. It threatens the very existence of the State of Israel and in its linking up with radical regimes, it brings the tools of terrorism – rockets and missiles – to Israeli civilians.This network, which has several heads, composed of two basic movements, denies the principles of progress and peace, and the principles of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, he continued.They seek to make a historic change, an historic regression, through the use of violence that knows no borders and no bounds. Terrorism is their tool and therefore, we must know that we are in a decade of terrorism, of that same radical Islam that is implanted deep in the expanse between east and west, and – most of all – runs amok in the heart of our region.Netanyahu noted that it is not only Israel who has been targeted by Islamic terrorists over the past decade, nor even at present.Today it hangs over all of us, over the regimes and the stability of the Middle East, over the security of Israel, over the security of Europe and the US and, in my opinion, over the security and stability of Russia and many other countries.This struggle is not over,he warned. We are still in the thick of it.The worst, he said, will be if terrorists manage to acquire nuclear weapons -- the number one fear of Israel and Western civilizations.

It is clear that it will be indescribably disastrous if the radical Islamic forces or regimes acquire the ultimate weapon – weapons of mass-destruction, and the terrorists stand together and are able to operate under the nuclear umbrella of a radical regime, or even with tools for mass-destruction that they acquire, Netanyahu said.Iran, which acts as a major patron of terrorist groups such as Hizbullah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other jihad organizations, is in the process of refining its nuclear development technologies. Russia has assisted Tehran to complete construction of its first nuclear plant at Bushehr, which recently was connected to the country's electrical grid for the first time.Iran is continuing to enrich uranium in defiance of all United Nations mandates to cease the program, and appears to be hurtling towards developing of nuclear weapons capability despite denials of an intent to create them.In numerous speeches, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has also vowed to wipe the Zionist entity (Israel) off the face of the map.Netanyahu warned that the world must take action now, before it is too late.The struggle against radical Islamic terrorism, which is, in effect, a description of the past decade, is at its peak; it is not yet over,he said.We must all unite, countries that aspire to life, certainly the democracies that cherish life, and act in concert against this blight.

Danny Lewin, All-Israeli Hero Killed on 9/11, Remembered-Lewin was the best at everything he did: he served in the IDF's top unit and his algorithms created a firm worth billions.By Gil Ronen First Publish: 9/11/2011, 8:11 PM

Among the people remembered Sunday in Israeli ceremonies commemorating the 9/11 terror atrocities was Daniel Lewin, a true all-Israeli hero who was the best at everything he did. Lewin's life story contains elements that are reminiscent of both Yoni and Binyamin Netanyahu's biographies.Lewin was a mathematician and entrepreneur, best known for co-founding internet company Akamai Technologies.Born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Jerusalem, he served for four years in the Israel Defense Forces as an officer in Sayeret Matkal, the IDF's most prestigious elite unit (which was commanded by Yoni Netanyahu and in which Binyamin Netanyahu served as an officer).He attended the Technion in Haifa, Israel while simultaneously working at IBM's research laboratory in Haifa, where he developed the Genesys system, a processor verification tool that is used widely within IBM and in other top companies.He then traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts to begin graduate studies at MIT (where Binyamin Netanyahu studied). While there, he and his advisor, Professor F. Thomson Leighton, came up with innovative algorithms for optimizing Internet traffic and reducing loads on servers that would otherwise crash. These algorithms became the basis for Akamai, which the two founded in 1998. Lewin served as the company's Chief Technical Officer and a board member, and achieved wealth estimated at two billion dollars at a certain point.On September 11, 2001, Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines Flight 11 apparently toward the beginning of the hijacking. A 2002 FAA memo suggests Lewin was seated in business class in seat 9B, close to hijackers Mohammed Atta and Satam al Suqami. According to the 9/11 Commission, Lewin may have been stabbed in the throat when he tried to foil the hijacking, not knowing that Satam was sitting just behind him.Ironically, the algorithms Lewin developed made it possible for the Internet to remain functional during 9/11, despite the extreme peak in global traffic.After his death, the intersection of Main and Vassar Streets in Cambridge was renamed Danny Lewin Square in his honor.
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Jerusalem Monument to 9/11 Victims Unveiled by JNF-Family members gathered in Jerusalem with dignitaries and leaders to dedicate a monument to the memory of the victims of the 9/11 terror attack.By Hana Levi Julian First Publish: 11/12/2009, 4:15 PM / Last Update: 11/12/2009, 9:12 PM IsraelNN TV

A bright blue sky could not hide the gray shadows of pain that marked the eyes of the families of the victims of the "9/11" terrorist attack that found themselves in Arazim Park in Jerusalem on Thursday. They had gathered together with international dignitaries and Israeli leaders to dedicate a new monument to the their loved ones, who lost their lives in the senseless 2001 attack on America by the Al Qaeda terrorist organization.Designed by award-winning Israeli artist Eliezer Weishoff and commissioned by the Jewish National Fund-USA/Keren Kayemet L'Israel (JNF-USA/KKL), the memorial depicts the World Trade Center and Pentagon through sculpture and landscape architecture.All of the buildings were attacked by Arab terrorists who hijacked commercial airliners and used them as suicide weapons, flying the planes directly into the structures. The two Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan, New York, were completely destroyed in the conflagration that followed. The Pentagon, located in Washington D.C., was damaged but not destroyed in the simultaneous multi-site attack.A fourth airliner, aimed at the White House, was stopped from reaching its target by passengers on the plane determined to prevent the hijackers from achieving their goal. They gave their lives to attack the terrorists in their own suicide mission that led to the downing of the plane in a field in nearby Pennsylvania.People from nations around the world lost their lives that morning, among them a number of Jews, including Israelis. Fewer Jewish New Yorkers than usual were present in the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, however, because many had stopped on their way to work to vote in fiercely-contested local primary elections.

The 30-foot high bronze sculpture commemorating the event and honoring the memories of the victims is composed of a waving American flag transformed into a memorial flame. The monument rests on a base of gray granite, part of which comes from the original Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan, destroyed in the mammoth airliner attack eight years ago. The sculpture, which was funded by the Bronka Stavsky Rabin Weintraub Trust, is surrounded by a circular, crater-like plaza and reflection area tiled in stone.The Jerusalem monument is one of the first major international memorials to mark the terrible event and honor the memory of its victims -- and the only site outside of New York to recognize the names of every victim of the attack.Memorial donor and native New Yorker Edward Blank explained that he funded the project as a means of expressing the myriad conflicting feelings he struggled with after the tragedy. My wife died just a few days before 9/11, he said, and then the whole world was sent reeling by the events of that day. I was looking for a meritorious way to recognize the many feelings I was having, and this memorial was the perfect fit.U.S. Ambassador to Israel James Cunningham attended the ceremony dedicating the monument, as did U.S. Congressman Erik Paulsen, who led a delegation from the United States. They were joined by Israeli Cabinet ministers, Knesset members and many families of the victims of 9/11, as well as other distinguished guests.

Did Bible Code Predict Joplin Tornado?
ContributorNetwork William Browning – Sat Sep 10, 10:31 pm ET

The so-called Bible code has been used to show that world events can be predicted. Michael Drosnin's book published in 1998 purports that the original Hebrew text of the Old Testament can find patterns that show names, places and events that have yet to occur.One website claims the devastating Joplin tornado May 22 was predicted in Biblical texts. Bible-Codes.org states they ran a series of codes in their computer and came up with the words terrible tornadoes bracketed by a week that ended with May 22.Another website took the matrix of Bible texts one step further. Words such as the pillar of cloud by day intersected the term Joplin near the phrases in the tornado and surely be put to death.ArkCode.com explains the statistical improbabilities of these terms showing up near each other as astronomical.Although hardly a scientific explanation, using a supposed code to find out future events has been a relatively new phenomenon. Computers use complex mathematical formulas called algorithms to crunch numbers and recognize patterns not readily seen by humans.The Bible code supposedly has predicted the September 11 terrorist attacks, presidential elections and world cataclysms. Might some divine influence had a hand in warning residents of the Midwest of some major tornado?

Even more than three months afterward, residents and volunteers are still looking for answers. People survived or perished due to split-second decisions. The Springfield News-Leader reported Rusty Howard took his two young children to seek shelter in Home Depot where they died just as the tornado hit. Just minutes before the tornado hit, Howard was having dinner at McAlister's with his wife Edie. The restaurant survived completely intact despite being just a block away from the hardware store. The mother survived as she was in a separate vehicle from her husband.The New York Daily News reported Will Norton, who graduated from Joplin High School 45 minutes before the tornado hit, was driving a Hummer down Range Line Road. He was pulled out of the vehicle's sun roof even though he was wearing a seat belt in one of the sturdiest vehicles ever made. Had he driven the truck a little further down the road, he might have survived.There are hundreds of such stories about how instant decisions either caused someone to survive or perish in the massive tornado. For families who lost loved ones, answers as to why those events happened may never come.Despite spiritual or even sometimes weird answers such as a Bible code, no one may truly know why the Joplin tornado killed 160 people and devastated 30 percent of the town. The only answers that matter are those found within each of the people who survived that fateful day in late May.William Browning, a lifelong Missouri resident, writes about local and state issues for the Yahoo! Contributor Network. Born in St. Louis, Browning earned his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Missouri. He currently resides in Branson.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

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

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.

Tropical Storm Nate weakens off southern Mexico
AP - SEPT 11,11

MIAMI – The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Nate has weakened somewhat as it heads toward expected landfall later today in southern Mexico.The Miami-based center said at 5 a.m. EDT (0900 GMT) Sunday that Nate was centered 60 miles (95 kilometers) northeast of Veracruz. It said Mexican authorities have replaced a hurricane warning from Tuxpan to Veracruz with a tropical storm warning. Nate has top sustained winds of 60 mph (95 kph) and is moving west at 7 mph (11 kph).Meanwhile, U.S. forecasters say Tropical Storm Maria had 60-mph (95-kph) winds early Sunday, intensifying slightly while moving northwest at 13 mph (20 kph) on a gradual course away from the northeast Caribbean toward the open Atlantic. Maria's center was 95 miles (150 kilometers) east-northeast of St. Thomas early Sunday.

MUSLIM NATIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Egypt vows to try those who targeted Israel mission
By Amena Bakr and Sami Aboudi – Sat Sep 10, 4:55 pm ET

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt's army rulers vowed on Saturday to try those behind the violence that pushed Israel to evacuate its ambassador from Cairo, as they struggled to contain public fury against the Jewish state while fending off U.S. criticism.
Washington, which has poured billions of dollars in military aid into Egypt since it made peace with Israel in 1979, urged Cairo to protect the mission after protesters hurled embassy documents from the windows of the building and removed and burned the Israeli flag.Three people died and 1,049 were wounded in the clashes that began Friday and raged on into the early hours of Saturday around the Cairo tower block housing the embassy, the Health Ministry said. Police and soldiers fired shots in the air and tear gas to disperse the crowd, which replied with stones.Egypt's army, under pressure to hand power back to civilians after taking over from toppled president Hosni Mubarak, must balance public calls for a more assertive policy toward Israel with maintaining ties that bring it cash and U.S. military hardware.

Egypt witnessed a harsh day that inflicted pain and worry on all Egyptians. It is clear that the behavior of some threatens the Egyptian revolution,Information Minister Osama Hassan Heikal said in a televised statement.Egypt would transfer those in custody or involved in inciting or participating in (Friday's) events to the emergency state security court, the minister said. Justice Minister Mohamed Abdel Aziz el-Guindy told state television the government had decided to apply emergency laws still in place forcefully and that trials would be swift.Protesters burned tyres in the street and at least two police vehicles were set alight near the embassy. Many had come from a demonstration in central Cairo organised to push the army to end emergency law and speed up political reforms.Our dignity has been restored,said Mohi Alaa, 24, a protester near the site of the overnight clashes. Bits of concrete and bullet casings were strewn over the street.We don't want the Americans' money,he said, reflecting the greater readiness of many Egyptians to express resentment of Israel and the United States after decades of pragmatic official relations.Some 500 protesters stayed after dawn and a few threw stones at police, who gradually pushed them away and secured the area around the embassy, located on the upper floors of a residential block overlooking the Nile.

AMBASSADOR EVACUATED

It was the second big eruption of violence at the embassy since five Egyptian border guards were killed last month when Israel repelled cross-border raiders it said were Palestinians. Egypt then briefly threatened to withdraw its envoy to Israel.Israel has stopped short of apologising, saying it is still investigating the Egyptian deaths, which occurred during an operation against gunmen who had killed eight Israelis.Israeli ambassador Yitzhak Levanon, staff and family members arrived home Saturday, but one diplomat stayed in Egypt to maintain the embassy, an Israeli official said.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would preserve its 1979 peace with Egypt despite the incident. We are working together with the Egyptian government to return our ambassador to Cairo soon,he said in televised remarks.I would like to ensure that the security arrangements necessary for him and for our staff will be steadfast.The Egyptian information minister's statement followed a crisis meeting of his key cabinet members and talks with Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, who heads the military council that has ruled Egypt since Mubarak stepped down on February 11.State television said the military council rejected an offer by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf to resign.Israel is finding itself increasingly at odds with formerly sympathetic states in the region. It is embroiled in a feud with Turkey, once the closest of its few Muslim allies, over an Israeli raid last year that killed nine Turks on a flotilla bound for Gaza.Egypt's ties with Israel, though never warm, were a pillar of Mubarak's foreign policy and buttressed his claim to be a regional mediator. Under Mubarak, displays of hostility to Israel were crushed by force.

U.S. DEMANDS

President Barack Obama called on Egypt to honor its international obligations and protect the Israeli mission. He told Israel's Netanyahu that Washington was taking steps to resolve the situation.The State Department said Washington had been in contact with Egyptian and Israeli officials over the violence.Israel and Egypt are key partners and allies of the United States, and both states have made clear their continuing commitment to maintain their bilateral relationship and the peace treaty between them, which remains a cornerstone of regional stability,Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said Cairo was committed to fully respect all its international obligations regarding protecting and safeguarding international diplomatic missions on its soil, the state MENA news agency said.An Israeli official said the ambassador, staff and family members had left in one plane and a second one had brought home six Israeli security personnel who had been left guarding the embassy, protected from the crowd only by a reinforced door until Egyptian troops extracted them.British Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the embassy attack and urged Egypt to protect diplomatic property.
Some Egyptian politicians and activists criticised the violence, even if they backed the anti-Israel demonstration.Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahy called for the army to take a serious stance matching the public anger toward Israel but said violence sullied the image of Egypt's uprising.Last month, a man scaled the embassy building, took down Israel's flag and replaced it with Egypt's. Protests continued daily but did not turn violent until the latest flare-up.In response to the protests, the authorities had erected a wall around the building, which was quickly defaced with anti-Israel slogans and then painted in Egypt's national colours. Friday, the wall was torn down.(Reporting by Yasmine Saleh, Mohamed Abdellah, Seham Eloraby, Ahmed Tolba and Sami Aboudi in Cairo, Dan Williams in Jerusalem, and Christopher Wilson and Timothy Gardner in Washington; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

Parshah Ki Tavo - Deuteronomy 26:1-29:8

SINCE WHAT ISRAEL READS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THAT WEEK I WILL BE PUTTING THE WEEKLY TORAH PORTION ON FOR ALL OF US TO KEEP TRACK OF ISRAEL HAPPENINGS.

TORAH PORTION FROM SEPTEMBER 11,2011 6PM - SEPTEMBER 17,6PM 2011

DEUTERONOMY 26:1 - 29:9
1 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;
2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.
3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.
4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
5 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
7 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:
9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:
11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.
12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.

DEUTERONOMY 27:1-26
1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.
2 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:
3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
4 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.
5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:
7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the LORD thy God.
8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.
9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.
10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,
12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:
13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
19 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
21 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
22 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
23 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
24 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.
25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

DEUTERONOMY 28:1-68
1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.
10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
13 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
21 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
25 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
27 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
31 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.
33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
35 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;
59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

DEUTERONOMY 29:1-9
1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

PROPHETS PORTION

ISAIAH 60:1-22
1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.
7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.

NEW TESTAMENT PORTION

MATTHEW 13:1-23
1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.
3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

LUKE 21:1-4
1 And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.

ACTS 28:17-31
17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
19 But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
21 And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee.
22 But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
24 And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.
25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
26 Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
28 Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.
29 And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.
30 And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,
31 Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.

ROMANS 11:1-15
1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?