Topic: Japan
UVB-76 wakes up, 4chan message warns of World War, New World Order
UVB-76 is the call-sign of a shortwave radio transmission that broadcasts what many believe to be Russian Morse code. Also known as the buzzer that has the sound of a alarm clock with a flat battery. Since 1982 there were only 3 times when the buzzer's signal got interrupted and on August the 23rd something happened. A person with a "Hebrew" voice said the following words:
UVB-76, UVB-76 – 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 – 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4
No one really knows what the station is for but many believe it is for Russian spies and military to receive encrypted code but a voice speaking is very unusual. If you take the first letter of each word it spells NAIMNA which could be "na imena" which means "on names" as if someone is giving them names.
What makes the story even stranger is that a few days ago a user posted a message on 4chan, you can see the picture above. The entire threat is now missing on 4chan.
It says:
First message:
The information I am about to relay to you is highly classified. No one is supposed to know this. I do not know how much time i have to relay this to you. Currently, I am behind several unknown proxies so the government is unable to track down my location. However, I know that with several people educated about the events about to unfold, I may be able to save hundreds of lives. These evens have been planned out for years in special sessions of the United Nations, barring some representatives from these meetings which were never to go down on record. This is completely staged, and everything that occurs results of these evens will be expected and set into motion by the government officials all over the world.
Second message by same user:
The Russian Station UVB-76 is a "Dead Man's Switch" created to detonate a nuclear device set in South Korea's capital. It will be activated by Dmitry Medvedev's assassination in early September. It has been made clear in the sessions that North Korea will take the blame and war will begin.
The United States and Japan will join South Korea as China will with North Korea. Nuclear weaponry will be involved, especially in nuclear incidents on USA's Western Coast.
The Middle East will get involved, attacking the Eastern seaboard. President Obama and other continental political figures will be evacuated to an undisclosed location as the stock market crashes, civil unrest erupts and the National Guard takes over and puts martial law into effect.
Western Europe, Africa and South America will be heavily affected economically while Australia remains virtually untouched. Russia will join China and North Korea and win the third World War, and a New World Order will be put into effect. Tell everyone you know to go into hiding in the most isolated corners of the earth and prepare for the worst.
I can reveal very little information except for this. I am endangering my life and those of my loved ones by uncovering this massive plot. Please, let no one with authority know.
End of message.
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UPDATE: The transmission is live right now. According to people tuned in people are talking on the transmission.
UVB-76 wakes up, 4chan message warns of World War, New World Order
UVB-76 is the call-sign of a shortwave radio transmission that broadcasts what many believe to be Russian Morse code. Also known as the buzzer that has the sound of a alarm clock with a flat battery. Since 1982 there were only 3 times when the buzzer's signal got interrupted and on August the 23rd something happened. A person with a "Hebrew" voice said the following words:
UVB-76, UVB-76 – 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 – 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4
No one really knows what the station is for but many believe it is for Russian spies and military to receive encrypted code but a voice speaking is very unusual. If you take the first letter of each word it spells NAIMNA which could be "na imena" which means "on names" as if someone is giving them names.
What makes the story even stranger is that a few days ago a user posted a message on 4chan, you can see the picture above. The entire threat is now missing on 4chan.
It says:
First message:
The information I am about to relay to you is highly classified. No one is supposed to know this. I do not know how much time i have to relay this to you. Currently, I am behind several unknown proxies so the government is unable to track down my location. However, I know that with several people educated about the events about to unfold, I may be able to save hundreds of lives. These evens have been planned out for years in special sessions of the United Nations, barring some representatives from these meetings which were never to go down on record. This is completely staged, and everything that occurs results of these evens will be expected and set into motion by the government officials all over the world.
Second message by same user:
The Russian Station UVB-76 is a "Dead Man's Switch" created to detonate a nuclear device set in South Korea's capital. It will be activated by Dmitry Medvedev's assassination in early September. It has been made clear in the sessions that North Korea will take the blame and war will begin.
The United States and Japan will join South Korea as China will with North Korea. Nuclear weaponry will be involved, especially in nuclear incidents on USA's Western Coast.
The Middle East will get involved, attacking the Eastern seaboard. President Obama and other continental political figures will be evacuated to an undisclosed location as the stock market crashes, civil unrest erupts and the National Guard takes over and puts martial law into effect.
Western Europe, Africa and South America will be heavily affected economically while Australia remains virtually untouched. Russia will join China and North Korea and win the third World War, and a New World Order will be put into effect. Tell everyone you know to go into hiding in the most isolated corners of the earth and prepare for the worst.
I can reveal very little information except for this. I am endangering my life and those of my loved ones by uncovering this massive plot. Please, let no one with authority know.
End of message.
UPDATES TO FOLLOW&nb
UPDATE: The transmission is live right now. According to people tuned in people are talking on the transmission.
America's withdrawal from Iraq not what it seems
Everywhere you look there is a title that the Iraqi war is over and the American troops are at last coming home. After seven years of war the last brigade of American troops have left Iraq but this is very misleading. Yes, some troops have gone back to their families but 50 000 troops have remained and some have been sent across to Afghanistan. The Obama administration is not breaking any promises because that is exactly what they said they will do. They said there will be 50 000 recovery troops left in Iraq to help support the Iraqi government until the police have been properly trained.
They are just twisting their words so that the people of America comes to the conclusion that the 'occupation' has ended while in actual fact it did not. Their promise to leave Iraq entirely in 2011 is also deceptive as private contractors will be in place to continue where the military left of. Sure there will be no 'military' presence but the American people will still be paying for the private contractors, who are American - there is not much of a difference just a official title. It has worked in the past, Japan is a perfect example of where there are still a strong American presence even after all these years.
Their occupation 'ended' in 1951 but there are still over a 1 000 US troops on this one small country. If you look at the map it is clear how wide spread the U.S military are around the world. The excuse that those bases have only a skeleton crew is mostly false. Look at the numbers:
Company - 62 to 190 soldiers. Three to five platoons form a company, which is commanded by a captain with a first sergeant as the commander's principle NCO assistant. An artillery unit of equivalent size is called a battery, and a comparable armoured or air cavalry unit is called a troop.
There is no set size (number of troops) assigned to any specific element. The size of an element of command depends primarily upon the type of unit and mission. For example, an aviation company would have a different number of troops assigned than an infantry company because it has a different mission, different equipment, and therefore different requirements.
There are not only 50 000 soldiers staying behind but troops meaning it might be up to ten times that amount. People tend to think of troop as one soldier when in fact it's a group of them and someone who is part of a troop is called a trooper. Does the American government use poor English or they are being misleading on purpose?
The fact remains that not all U.S soldiers have been withdrawn from Iraq.
Color codes for map:
Countries with a US military presence in 2007
More than 1000 US troops. More than 100 US troops. Use of military facilities.
America's withdrawal from Iraq not what it seems
Everywhere you look there is a title that the Iraqi war is over and the American troops are at last coming home. After seven years of war the last brigade of American troops have left Iraq but this is very misleading. Yes, some troops have gone back to their families but 50 000 troops have remained and some have been sent across to Afghanistan. The Obama administration is not breaking any promises because that is exactly what they said they will do. They said there will be 50 000 recovery troops left in Iraq to help support the Iraqi government until the police have been properly trained.
They are just twisting their words so that the people of America comes to the conclusion that the 'occupation' has ended while in actual fact it did not. Their promise to leave Iraq entirely in 2011 is also deceptive as private contractors will be in place to continue where the military left of. Sure there will be no 'military' presence but the American people will still be paying for the private contractors, who are American - there is not much of a difference just a official title. It has worked in the past, Japan is a perfect example of where there are still a strong American presence even after all these years.
Their occupation 'ended' in 1951 but there are still over a 1 000 US troops on this one small country. If you look at the map it is clear how wide spread the U.S military are around the world. The excuse that those bases have only a skeleton crew is mostly false. Look at the numbers:
Company - 62 to 190 soldiers. Three to five platoons form a company, which is commanded by a captain with a first sergeant as the commander's principle NCO assistant. An artillery unit of equivalent size is called a battery, and a comparable armoured or air cavalry unit is called a troop.
There is no set size (number of troops) assigned to any specific element. The size of an element of command depends primarily upon the type of unit and mission. For example, an aviation company would have a different number of troops assigned than an infantry company because it has a different mission, different equipment, and therefore different requirements.
There are not only 50 000 soldiers staying behind but troops meaning it might be up to ten times that amount. People tend to think of troop as one soldier when in fact it's a group of them and someone who is part of a troop is called a trooper. Does the American government use poor English or they are being misleading on purpose?
The fact remains that not all U.S soldiers have been withdrawn from Iraq.
Color codes for map:
Countries with a US military presence in 2007
More than 1000 US troops. More than 100 US troops. Use of military facilities.
NASA releases high quality image of Petermann glacier iceberg
A few days ago a massive chunk of ice broke off the Petermann Glacier, since then NASA released some brilliant images of the more than 250km iceberg that broke off in Northwestern Greenland.
According to NASA:
On Aug. 5, 2010, an enormous chunk of ice, roughly 251 square kilometers (97 square miles) in size, broke off the Petermann Glacier along the northwestern coast of Greenland. The Petermann Glacier lost about one-quarter of its 70-kilometer- (40-mile-) long floating ice shelf, according to researchers at the University of Delaware. The recently calved iceberg is the largest to form in the Arctic in 50 years.
Icebergs calving off the Petermann Glacier are not unusual. Petermann Glacier's floating ice tongue is the Northern Hemisphere's largest, and it has occasionally calved large icebergs.
Scientists are monitoring the movement of the iceberg closely. If it moves out into the narrow Nares Strait, there is the potential it could interfere with or block the loss of Arctic sea ice out of the Arctic Ocean into Baffin Bay, a sea that connects the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans.
This image of Petermann Glacier and the new iceberg was acquired from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft on Aug. 12, 2010. It covers an area of 49.5 by 31.5 kilometers (30.7 by 19.5 miles) and is located at 81.1 degrees north latitude, 61.7 degrees west longitude.
With its 14 spectral bands from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelength region and its high spatial resolution of 15 to 90 meters (about 50 to 300 feet), ASTER images Earth to map and monitor the changing surface of our planet. ASTER is one of five Earth-observing instruments launched Dec. 18, 1999, on NASA's Terra spacecraft. The instrument was built by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. A joint U.S./Japan science team is responsible for validation and calibration of the instrument and the data products.
The broad spectral coverage and high spectral resolution of ASTER provides scientists in numerous disciplines with critical information for surface mapping and monitoring of dynamic conditions and temporal change. Example applications are: monitoring glacial advances and retreats; monitoring potentially active volcanoes; identifying crop stress; determining cloud morphology and physical properties; wetlands evaluation; thermal pollution monitoring; coral reef degradation; surface temperature mapping of soils and geology; and measuring surface heat balance.
The ASTER U.S. science team is located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The Terra mission is part of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C.
NASA releases high quality image of Petermann glacier iceberg
A few days ago a massive chunk of ice broke off the Petermann Glacier, since then NASA released some brilliant images of the more than 250km iceberg that broke off in Northwestern Greenland.
According to NASA:
On Aug. 5, 2010, an enormous chunk of ice, roughly 251 square kilometers (97 square miles) in size, broke off the Petermann Glacier along the northwestern coast of Greenland. The Petermann Glacier lost about one-quarter of its 70-kilometer- (40-mile-) long floating ice shelf, according to researchers at the University of Delaware. The recently calved iceberg is the largest to form in the Arctic in 50 years.
Icebergs calving off the Petermann Glacier are not unusual. Petermann Glacier's floating ice tongue is the Northern Hemisphere's largest, and it has occasionally calved large icebergs.
Scientists are monitoring the movement of the iceberg closely. If it moves out into the narrow Nares Strait, there is the potential it could interfere with or block the loss of Arctic sea ice out of the Arctic Ocean into Baffin Bay, a sea that connects the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans.
This image of Petermann Glacier and the new iceberg was acquired from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft on Aug. 12, 2010. It covers an area of 49.5 by 31.5 kilometers (30.7 by 19.5 miles) and is located at 81.1 degrees north latitude, 61.7 degrees west longitude.
With its 14 spectral bands from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelength region and its high spatial resolution of 15 to 90 meters (about 50 to 300 feet), ASTER images Earth to map and monitor the changing surface of our planet. ASTER is one of five Earth-observing instruments launched Dec. 18, 1999, on NASA's Terra spacecraft. The instrument was built by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. A joint U.S./Japan science team is responsible for validation and calibration of the instrument and the data products.
The broad spectral coverage and high spectral resolution of ASTER provides scientists in numerous disciplines with critical information for surface mapping and monitoring of dynamic conditions and temporal change. Example applications are: monitoring glacial advances and retreats; monitoring potentially active volcanoes; identifying crop stress; determining cloud morphology and physical properties; wetlands evaluation; thermal pollution monitoring; coral reef degradation; surface temperature mapping of soils and geology; and measuring surface heat balance.
The ASTER U.S. science team is located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The Terra mission is part of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C.
Google Earth updated beaches
Google just updated and released some high resolution images of beaches around the world. The high resolution aerial images are mainly in Florida but the High Resolution Satellite Images of the beaches are updated globally, some even in South Africa.
That means there is some exploring to do with the new imagery.
According to Google here is a list of updated beaches with new high quality Google Earth imagery.
High Resolution Aerial Updates:
USA: Chicago, Stockton, Modesto, Nez Perce (ID), Barre (VT), Orange County (NC), Polk County (FL), Hardee County (FL), Okeechobee County (FL)
Uruguay: Salinas, Atlantida
Countries receiving High Resolution Satellite Updates:
Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Morocco, Libya, Egypt, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda, Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, Madagascar, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, The Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand
You can see all the updates on Google Earth in the update file released by Google
Google Earth updated beaches
Google just updated and released some high resolution images of beaches around the world. The high resolution aerial images are mainly in Florida but the High Resolution Satellite Images of the beaches are updated globally, some even in South Africa.
That means there is some exploring to do with the new imagery.
According to Google here is a list of updated beaches with new high quality Google Earth imagery.
High Resolution Aerial Updates:
USA: Chicago, Stockton, Modesto, Nez Perce (ID), Barre (VT), Orange County (NC), Polk County (FL), Hardee County (FL), Okeechobee County (FL)
Uruguay: Salinas, Atlantida
Countries receiving High Resolution Satellite Updates:
Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Morocco, Libya, Egypt, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda, Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, Madagascar, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, The Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand
You can see all the updates on Google Earth in the update file released by Google
Japan executions of two men condemned
Amnesty International has condemned the executions of two Japanese men in the first death sentences carried out since the country's new government came to power last year.
Amnesty International has condemned the executions of two Japanese men in the first death sentences carried out since the country's new government came to power last year.
Convicted killers Ogata Hidenori, 33, and Shinozawa Kazuo, 59, were hanged in the Tokyo Detention Centre on Wednesday, exactly one year after the last executions took place.
“Japan continues to go against the international trend toward abolition and mete out this cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment," said Donna Guest, Deputy Director of the Asia Pacific Programme.
"A day that should have marked one year without executions has instead seen Japan return to carrying out state-sponsored killings.”
The executions are the first to be approved by Minister of Justice, Keiko Chiba, since she took office under the Democratic Party of Japan in September 2009.
Minister Chiba, who has previously spoken out against executions, announced plans to set up a working group on the death penalty within the Ministry of Justice, following the double hanging.
However, there are concerns among non-governmental organizations in Japan that more executions will take place outside of Tokyo in the coming days. There are currently 107 people on death row in Japan.
“A working group to discuss the death penalty is not enough. There needs to be an open and public debate and an immediate moratorium on executions while the discussion takes place,” said Donna Guest.
Shinozawa Kazuo was convicted of killing six women when he set fire to a jewellery shop in 2000, while Ogata Hidenori was sentenced to death for killing a man and a woman in 2003.
Background
Japan executed seven people in 2009 but no death row inmates had been killed since 28 July 2009.
Executions in Japan are by hanging and are typically carried out in secret. Death row inmates are only notified on the morning of their execution and their families are usually informed only after the execution has taken place.
This means that prisoners live in constant fear of execution. Enduring these conditions for years or even decades has led to depression and mental illness among death row inmates.
Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases as a violation of the right to life. It calls on the government of Japan to immediately commute all death sentences and introduce a formal moratorium on executions as a first step towards abolition of the death penalty.
Public Document
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For more information please call Amnesty International's press office in London, UK, on +44 20 7413 5566 or email: press@amnesty.org
International Secretariat, Amnesty International, 1 Easton St., London WC1X 0DW, UK
www.amnesty.org
Wednesday 28 July 2010
Japan executions of two men condemned
Amnesty International has condemned the executions of two Japanese men in the first death sentences carried out since the country's new government came to power last year.
Amnesty International has condemned the executions of two Japanese men in the first death sentences carried out since the country's new government came to power last year.
Convicted killers Ogata Hidenori, 33, and Shinozawa Kazuo, 59, were hanged in the Tokyo Detention Centre on Wednesday, exactly one year after the last executions took place.
“Japan continues to go against the international trend toward abolition and mete out this cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment," said Donna Guest, Deputy Director of the Asia Pacific Programme.
"A day that should have marked one year without executions has instead seen Japan return to carrying out state-sponsored killings.”
The executions are the first to be approved by Minister of Justice, Keiko Chiba, since she took office under the Democratic Party of Japan in September 2009.
Minister Chiba, who has previously spoken out against executions, announced plans to set up a working group on the death penalty within the Ministry of Justice, following the double hanging.
However, there are concerns among non-governmental organizations in Japan that more executions will take place outside of Tokyo in the coming days. There are currently 107 people on death row in Japan.
“A working group to discuss the death penalty is not enough. There needs to be an open and public debate and an immediate moratorium on executions while the discussion takes place,” said Donna Guest.
Shinozawa Kazuo was convicted of killing six women when he set fire to a jewellery shop in 2000, while Ogata Hidenori was sentenced to death for killing a man and a woman in 2003.
Background
Japan executed seven people in 2009 but no death row inmates had been killed since 28 July 2009.
Executions in Japan are by hanging and are typically carried out in secret. Death row inmates are only notified on the morning of their execution and their families are usually informed only after the execution has taken place.
This means that prisoners live in constant fear of execution. Enduring these conditions for years or even decades has led to depression and mental illness among death row inmates.
Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases as a violation of the right to life. It calls on the government of Japan to immediately commute all death sentences and introduce a formal moratorium on executions as a first step towards abolition of the death penalty.
Public Document
******************************
For more information please call Amnesty International's press office in London, UK, on +44 20 7413 5566 or email: press@amnesty.org
International Secretariat, Amnesty International, 1 Easton St., London WC1X 0DW, UK
www.amnesty.org
Wednesday 28 July 2010