WILL UN BE DIS BAN DED

1-Historic storm hits Ontario. 2-350,000 without power in Buffalo area. 3-The Weather Channel (Record Low Temperatures). 4-Iranian Minister Calls for Improved Ties with PA. 5-Rescued Torah Scrolls to Star in Jerusalem Holiday Celebrations. 6-UN poised for sanctions on North Korea. 7-New $100 mln fund to fight killer diseases in Myanmar. 8-Ban Named Next U.N. Secretary-General.

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.

Historic storm hits Ontario
Pre-winter blast wallops Niagara Peninsula, cottage country
Oct. 13, 2006. 11:18 AM,CANADIAN PRESS

The Fort Erie and Welland areas of southwestern Ontario are digging out from as much as 30 centimetres of snow following a powerful pre-winter storm.

The region may receive up to 15 more centimetres before a let-up to what Environment Canada terms significant snowfalls of historic proportions. The snow and strong winds of up to 90 kilometres an hour have caused snow-laden branches to snap onto power lines, causing power outages from Port Colborne to Fort Erie, and forcing part of the Queen Elizabeth Way to be shut down The storm that dumped snow on the Fort Erie-Welland areas also walloped Buffalo and western New York state.

Snowsqualls coming off Lake Huron also left parts of Ontario’s Bruce Peninsula, Parry Sound and other cottage country areas covered in snow.

Another 10 centimetres of snow might fall this morning before it changes to showers. Northern Ontario also received an early introduction to winter, with an additional five centimetres expected today in some areas, including Kenora, Fort Frances, Dryden and Red Lake. In Huntsville, Ontario Provincial Police have closed down southbound Highway 11, south of Stephenson Rd. 4 after a vehicle went into the ditch, killing one person inside at about 5 a.m., Const. Julia McCuaig said.

The road conditions up there were very poor at the time. It was sever weather conditions ... Roads were icy, she said. Apparently in Bracebridge, it’s clear. It’s just when you go just north of that, you hit the severe weather conditions.The man, whose identity is being without until police can notify his next of kin, was alone in the vehicle at the time. No one else was injured.More of those same conditions and zero visibility has closed down Fort Erie-bound Queen Elizabeth Way at Netherby Rd. in Niagara Falls where the weather has knocked out power in part of the region, McCuaig said.We have to be sure to be careful out there today that’s the main thought.

Yesterday, winter weather may have claimed its first victim of the season in the province when a 27-year-old woman was killed in a head-on collision south of London.Langton resident Jaclyn Szalkai was driving south on Concession Rd. 2 in Norfolk County, near the north shores of Lake Erie, when the collision occurred just after 2 p.m.

Szalkai lost control of her van, crossed the centre line and collided head-on with a Dodge pick-up truck driven by a 22-year-old Langton man, OPP said.A snow (or) slush covered road is being considered a contributing factor in this collision,OPP said.Szalkai was pronounced dead at nearby Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital. The driver of the other vehicle sustained non life-threatening injuries and has been released from hospital, police said.With files from Tamara Cherry

350,000 without power in Buffalo area

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Up to 60 centimetres of snow from an extraordinary fall storm closed roads, cut power to some 350,000 customers and left this city paralyzed as officials banned driving in the region today.

The snow, delivered in a fury of thunder and lightning, blanketed Buffalo and surrounding areas last night and early today. A 168-kilometre stretch of the New York State Thruway from Exit 46 at Rochester to Exit 59 at Dunkirk, southwest of Buffalo, was closed this morning because of heavy lake-effect snow. Food and water was being delivered by snowmobile to stranded motorists on the highway. Normally busy downtown streets were empty as residents tried to push their cars from snowbanks and shovel out the wet, heavy snow.

Trees and hedges that had yet to lose their leaves crumpled into heartbreaking heaps. Unharvested apples and pumpkins were buried and schoolchildren who began the week with the Columbus Day holiday ended it with a snow day.The season’s first snowfall in western New York left more than 350,000 customers without electricity. Gov. George Pataki was expected to declare a state of emergency for the four hard-hit counties. As of 8:30 a.m. today, 45 to 60 centimetres of snow had fallen in the general Buffalo area, said Tom Paone, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. The snowfall had moved north over Niagara Falls and at least for the immediate Buffalo area, the worst is over. Yesterday, 21 centimetres of heavy snowfall set the record for the snowiest October day in Buffalo in the 137-year history of the weather service. The record lasted for all of one day as 30 centimetres of snow fell early today. The previous record of 6 inches was set Oct. 31, 1917.

Tom Niziol, also a meteorologist with the weather service, said the northern half of Erie County and southern Niagara and Orleans Counties were among the hardest hit areas.The Buffalo Police Department received more than 3,000 calls late yesterday and about two-thirds were related to the weather, Lt. James Watkins said. Unnecessary driving was banned in Buffalo, its largest suburb, Amherst, as well as the suburbs of Blasdell, Orchard Park and Hamburg. Thruway spokeswoman Sarah Kampf said she did not know when the highway would be cleared. She also did not know how many motorists were stranded on the Thruway. We have a condition where 80 percent of the roads are impassable,said Lt. Stephen McGonagle of the Amherst Police Department.

Dozens of schools were closed and states of emergency were declared in the City of Tonawanda, and towns of Cheektowaga, Elma, Lancaster, Akron and Depew.The airport closed for less than two hours late yesterday and then closed again during the night. Crews were working to clear runways this morning and flights were expected to resume at noon, an airport official said.
Associated Press

The Weather Channel (Record Low Temperatures)
29 minutes ago

A rare early October snowstorm left parts of the Great Lakes and Midwest blanketed with 2 feet of snow Friday, October 13. The system brought snow, high winds and gusts, and cold temperatures to the region beginning on Wednesday, October 11. By Friday, many cities saw snow records broken.

Buffalo -- Most snow for October; earliest lake-effect snow warning
Detroit -- Earliest measurable snow, breaking a 98-year record.
Chicago -- Earliest measurable snow
Flint, Mi. -- Earliest measurable snow
Grand Rapids, Mi. -- Most snow so early in the season
Some low temperature records also were broken. Friday, October 13:
Greenville, Miss. -- 35 degrees
Topeka, Kan. -- 26 degrees
Glasgow, Mont. -- 18 degrees
Vichy-Rolla, Mo. -- 26 degrees
St. Joseph, Mo. -- 24 degrees
Jackson, Kent. -- 29 degrees

Thursday, October 12:
Antigo, Wisc. -- 19 degrees
Rhinelander, Wisc. -- 20 degrees
Marshfield, Wisc. -- 21 degrees
Wausau, Wisc. -- 23 degrees
Chadron, Neb. -- 20 degrees (tie)
Rapid City, S.D. -- 18 degrees (tie)
Jackson, Kent. -- 31 degrees
Beckley, W.V. -- 27 degrees
Jackson, Tenn. -- 33 degrees
Crossville, Tenn. -- 31 degrees
Miles City, Mont. -- 19 degrees

The early snow and cold even prompted Major League Baseball to move the third game of the American League Champsionship Series between the Detroit Tigers and Oakland A's from night start to afternoon start.

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 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 have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

JOEL 2:20,30-31
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.

Iranian Minister Calls for Improved Ties with PA
16:30 Oct 12, '06 / 20 Tishrei 5767

(IsraelNN.com) Iranian Interior Minister Mustafa Pur-Mahmadi said his country must officially strengthen its ties with the PA (Palestinian Authority). In a Tehran news conference with PA Interior Minister Sa'id Si'am, Mahmadi stated, Iran sees providing assistance to the PA in a number of spheres as its role, and there is a large aspiration to support the Palestinian nation and its freedom.

Rescued Torah Scrolls to Star in Jerusalem Holiday Celebrations
By Hillel Fendel(INN)

Torah scrolls rescued from Ethiopia will be featured in Jerusalem celebrations this weekend and one of them will then be returned to the dwindling Yemenite community in Ethiopia. The Simchat Torah (Rejoicing of the Law) holiday begins Friday evening, and features particularly festive prayer services including dancing, singing and rejoicing in the study of the Torah. On Saturday night, traditional Hakafot Shniyot will be held continuing the celebration of the Torah, as if to say, We don't want to end the spiritual highs of the holiday season just yet. Jews outside of Israel celebrate Simchat Torah as a full-fledged holiday on Saturday night and Sunday as well.Hakafot Shniyot will be commemorated in cities and towns all over Israel. In Jerusalem, celebrants will dance with two Torah scrolls that were brought to Israel on Thursday in a daring Jewish Agency mission.

The fascinating story of the scrolls came to a head earlier this week, when the Jewish Agency received a call for help from NACOEJ, the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry.

The Torahs had been housed in the city of Gundar, in a compound that served in the past as an Aliyah center. The center was ultimately closed, with NACOEJ prevented from accessing it, and on Tuesday night of this week it came officially under the auspices of other groups including a Jews for Jesus organization. Various legal entanglements necessitated the removal of the Torah scrolls before midnight, or else have them possibly lost forever. With the help of the police in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, the Jewish Agency managed to extricate them just four hours before the deadline.

Permanent residence for one of the Torah scrolls will be in an Ethiopian synagogue damaged by Katyusha missiles during the summer war, in a Jewish Agency absorption center in Kiryat Yam. The Torah was originally donated by an American philanthropist.
The other Torah scroll will actually be returned to Addis Ababa after the holiday, to the tiny Yemenite Jewish Community there that originally loaned it to the Addis Ababa compound synagogue 100 years ago. The Yemenite Jews in Ethiopia hailed from Aden, and were a community of merchants that traveled with their Torah scroll from place to place, finally ending up in Addis Ababa early in the 20th century. The community currently numbers only five families, and when Taleb Kanzan, its head, heard with great emotion that the scroll was in Israel, he asked that it be returned only after the Simchat Torah holiday. We have other Torah scrolls, he said, and it will be a great privilege for us to use a Torah that was used for Hakafot in Jerusalem.

Jewish Agency Chairman Ze'ev Bielski noted that the rescue of two Torah scrolls on the eve of Simchat Torah symbolizes the Biblical verse, The Torah will come forth from Zion, which is widely recited and sung on this holiday.In other holiday news, hundreds of Chabad-Lubavitch families will be guests in Hevron, the City of the Patriarchs, this holiday weekend. Lubavitch families from all over Israel will spend the Simchat Torah, beginning Friday evening, in Hevron. They will lodge in the Jewish Community's guest house, and will commemorate the traditional Hakafot (dancing around, and with, the Torah scrolls) in the Machpelah Cave. Their presence will give strength to the beleaguered but strong community, residents say.Thousands more people will arrive in Hevron on Saturday night for the Hakafot Shniyot.

UN poised for sanctions on North Korea
Financial Times ,By Mark Turner at the United Nations
Updated: 12 minutes ago

The UN Security Council was on Friday night on the brink of agreeing to sanctions on North Korea after its claim of a nuclear test last Monday, with both the US and China giving some ground ahead of a vote scheduledfor Saturday.The North Koreans tested on October 9, [and] I expect a vote by the 14th, said John Bolton, US ambassador to the UN. That is a sign of the determination of the Council to move quickly. There may be some additional changes to the text, but we do have unanimous agreement we will follow that schedule.A new draft was based on the UN's tough Chapter 7 enforcement provisions, but specified that the measures taken would not involve military force. That decision was meant to allay Chinese and Russian concerns that broader Chapter 7 powers could be later invoked to justify an armed response.The draft also calls on all countries to take co-operative action to prevent the traffic of nuclear, chemical and biological weapon materials, including through inspection of cargo to and from the DPRK [North Korea], asnecessary.

Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, is to visit Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing next week. Chris Hill, assistant secretary of state and chief negotiator at the stalled talks with North Korea, told reporters that Ms Rice's aim was to ensure the UN resolution had teeth and will function properly.The sanctions in the resolution, plus additional measures, would be painful and costly to North Korea, Mr Hill said, describing the regime as a terrible scar on the [Korean] peninsula.The emphasis on co-operation was designed to meet Chinese and Russian concerns that interdictions at sea could spark confrontation. The resolution specifically gives states the right and, indeed, the obligation to help in inspections that's a substantial step forward,said Mr Bolton. He saw the move as a codification of the US-led Proliferation Security Initiative.

I expect most inspections would take place in port. That is the most desirable, he said. But there are circumstances in which ships could be boarded at sea.Land and air cargo would also be subject to inspection.China, however, said it could not support PSI.

Wang Guangya, China's UN ambassador, said of PSI, Politically, China will not do it. I believe that the exercises under PSI will easily lead, whether it is intentional or not, to escalations of provocations.Other measures include a ban on conventional heavy weapons such as battle tanks, large calibre artillery, combat aircraft and missile systems, as well as an embargo on luxury goods.

The resolution obliges countries to freeze funds that could be used to develop North Korean missiles and weapons of mass destruction, and imposes a travel ban on individuals to be designated by a Security Council committee.Alexander Alexeyev, the Russian deputy foreign minister, discussed with North Korea a return to six-party talks. At the basis of the consultations which took place was a desire to find a way out of the existing crisis situation, he was quoted as saying in Pyongyang.Vitaly Churkin, Russia's UN ambassador, said of the Security Council negotiations: I think we are on the right track. We are not there yet. He added that he was somewhat disappointed and upset by the stereotyping of Russia as an obstructive force in the talks.

REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

New $100 mln fund to fight killer diseases in Myanmar
13 Oct 2006 11:28:09 GMT,Source: Reuters, By Aung Hla Tun

YANGON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A new $100 million fund to fight three killer diseases in army-ruled Myanmar should be operational early next year under the supervision of a U.N.-appointed manager, a senior U.N. official said on Friday.The 3-Diseases Fund is a five-year programme that aims to plug the gap left by the abrupt departure of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria last year, citing restrictions on their activities.Health Minister Kyaw Myint signed an agreement with the United Nations Office for Project Services on Thursday that paves the way for the appointment of a U.N. project manager and setting up of an office to manage the fund.

The Global Fund basically finished in August and the sense is that the 3D Fund will probably become operational early next year, Charles Petrie, U.N. country coordinator for Myanmar, told Reuters.He said bridge funding was in place to keep programmes running until the new fund began operation.Myanmar's 55 million people suffer some of the highest rates of malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis in Asia, overwhelming the crumbling health care system.Ruled by the military since 1962, Yangon receives far less Western foreign aid than its regional neighbours due to its poor human rights record and suppression of political opponents.

SAME CURBS

Pro-democracy activists have questioned whether the new fund can work effectively under the same restrictions that forced the Global Fund to withdraw.The junta announced new rules on foreign aid in February, including travel permits and official escorts for field trips and tighter rules on transporting supplies and materials.Funds must be deposited in a state-run bank and withdrawn in dollar-denominated foreign exchange certificates (FECs), raising the potential for abuse, activists say.Petrie said guidelines for the 3D Fund were still being worked out.The government has assured us that this is a programme to which they attach high importance.

Clearly, if in the future there are problems, one should expect a reaction from the donors,he said.The new fund backed by Australia, Britain and other European governments is expected to work with U.N. agencies, international NGOs, charities and local health authorities.Aid workers have said projects backed by the fund could include promoting condom use to prevent HIV infection, expanded TB testing and drug treatments.Malaria is the biggest killer of children under five in Myanmar, formerly Burma, claiming 3,000 lives each year and drug-resistant strains are spreading beyond Myanmar's borders.Tuberculosis causes more than 12,000 deaths a year but more worrying is the rapid growth of drug-resistant TB blamed on poor medical services
and sub-standard drugs.

An estimated 360,000 people are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and despite expanded prevention and care in recent years, UNAIDS says much more needs to be done. AlertNet news

Dr Samuel Doctorian from the Angel.

SECOND ANGEL:

Then I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting. The second angel said, Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the way to Iran. I saw those countries in a few split seconds. All of Turkey and those [inaudible;] countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another. I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries.

I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full of blood. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction - men destroying one another.

I heard these words, Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come.The angel said, The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God. I saw fires rising to heaven. The angel said, This is the final judgment.

My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Water shall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries.The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.

Well Ban might be named new President of the Lukewarm UN, but for how long till it folds.

Ban Named Next U.N. Secretary-General
By EDITH M. LEDERER,The Associated Press
Friday, October 13, 2006; 4:39 PM

UNITED NATIONS The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution Friday appointing South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon to succeed Kofi Annan as the next U.N. secretary-general.

Ban, 62, will become the eighth secretary-general in the U.N.'s 60-year history on Jan. 1 when Annan's second five-year term expires. He was one of seven candidates vying to be the U.N. chief and topped all four informal polls in the U.N. Security Council.Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary-General shakes hand with Ban Ki-moon, Foreign Minister of South Korea at the U.N. headquarters in New York, Wednesday, October 11, 2006. Ban Ki-moon is the favorite for next Secretary-General. (AP Photo/Osamu Honda) (Osamu Honda - AP)

Hundreds of diplomats and U.N. staff in the chamber broke into loud applause when assembly president Sheikha Haya

She then banged the gavel and said, It is so decided.Ban will oversee an organization with 92,000 peacekeepers around the world and a $5 billion annual budget. The U.N.'s reputation has been tarnished by corruption scandals and its outdated practices need reform to meet the challenges of the 21st century.Annan hailed Ban as a future secretary-general who is exceptionally attuned to the sensitivities of countries and constituencies in every continent and said he would be a man with a truly global mind at the helm of the world's only universal organization.

Annan recalled that the first U.N. secretary-general, Trygvie Lie, told his successor, Dag Hammarskjold, You are about to take over the most impossible job on Earth.While that may be true, Annan said, I would say: This is also the best possible job on Earth.

He said he had only one piece of advice for his successor when he takes over try to make full use of the unparalleled resource you will find in the staff of the organization. Their commitment is the U.N.'s greatest asset.U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said Ban is the right person to lead the United Nations at this decisive movement in its history, particularly as the U.N. struggles to fulfill the terms
of the reform agenda that world leaders agreed to last fall.

The Staff Union, representing over 5,000 staff at U.N. headquarters, welcomed Ban's appointment, saying in a statement it provides a fresh start for the organization.The union, which has had rocky relations with Annan, said it looked forward to working closely with Ban and his management team on U.N. reform.By tradition, the post of secretary-general rotates among the regions of the world
and most countries agreed that this time it was Asia's turn. The last Asian secretary-general was Burma's U Thant, who served from 1961-71.Ban has been South Korea's foreign minister for more than 2 1/2 years and served as national security adviser to two presidents jobs that focused on relations with North Korea which he has said will be a top priority in his new job. During a nearly 40-year diplomatic career, he was posted in India, Austria, Washington and at the United Nations.