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Updated: Tue., Nov. 9, 2010, 11:54 AM




Pentagon calls mystery missile 'unexplained,' cannot rule out threat

Last Updated: 11:54 AM, November 9, 2010
Posted: 9:51 AM, November 9, 2010

The Pentagon said Tuesday that a missile launch off the southern coast of California remained “unexplained” and that its mysterious origins meant that it was not possible to rule out any threat to the homeland, Fox News Channel reported.

Earlier Tuesday, NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) and NORTHCOM (United States Northern Command) officials told Fox there was no threat, but Pentagon Spokesman Col. Dave Lapan would not confirm that because the military does not know what the missile was or where it came from.


Lapan added that the incident did not appear to be a regularly scheduled test, as no warnings to mariners or airmen appeared to be issued ahead of its launch.
The contrail was caught on camera by a KCBS news helicopter at around sunset Monday evening, approximately 35 miles out to sea and west of Los Angeles.
The missile appeared to be launched from the water, and not from US soil, Lapan added.


The military was trying to solve the mystery using the video from KCBS as there was no indication that NORAD and NORTHCOM were able to detect it independently.
According to Fox News, NORAD and NORTHCOM would only say they were aware of the launch.
However one unnamed senior defense official added: "There was no threat to the homeland."
A navy spokesperson previously told KCBS that no navy activity was reported in the region.


A sergeant at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County said a Delta II rocket was launched from the base last Friday, but insisted there were no launches since then.
On viewing the footage, former deputy defense secretary Robert Ellsworth speculated on KCBS that the launch could be a show of military muscle.
"It could be a test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile from a submarine ... to demonstrate, mainly to Asia, that we can do that," Ellsworth said.




MYSTERY MISSILE FIRED OFF CA COAST; PENTAGON 'NO CLUE'

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that is some sketchy business...

Los Angelos and greater California seems to be the first choice for a Nucleur Stike by any Asian Enemy. (North Korea) I guess its too late to squash them now


Does this have somthing to do with Obama being in Asia right now?


If they fry California ima be one of the thousands parachuting into east Asia with california on my mind. if my state aint nuked too that is.... they dont even know who did it, so who are we suppose to retaliate against anyways?

Maybe another world war approches, money is getting tight, and we are devaluing our currency as of recent news. China Russia Germany Brazil and countless other countries are extreamly pissed about this. If this starts a currency war between nations it will end in a world war. they say that exactly how WWII started

heres som context news stories from the past 5 days only:

Fed to spend $1 trillion to buy gov't bonds... *

BACKLASH BUILDS AGAINST FED PUMPING... *

'Dollar at Risk of Crashing, Triggering Inflation'... *


Treasury Yields Tumble to Records... *

China tees up showdown with USA... *


$10,200,000,000,000 IN GLOBAL BORROWING *




CHINA, RUSSIA ATTACK FED MOVE *

Fed Backlash Grows...

China Fires Back At Bernanke With Harsh New Capital Controls...

WARNS: 'CATASTROPHIC INFLUENCE ON WORLD'...

Chinese Credit Rater Downgrades U.S. ...

GERMANY: 'The US Has Lived on Borrowed Money for Too Long'...

Palin Takes Aim...

Key banker skeptical about Fed plan...

John Taylor Parallels Current Situation To World War 2, Predicts Global Debt Structure Could Collapse



Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/21/2010 11:17 -0500



After the Phoney War, Things Really Got Nasty
October 21, 2010
By John R. Taylor, Jr.

Chief Investment Officer

Not too many traders remember ‘the phoney war,’ or the Sitzkrieg, as it happened 71 years ago. After Hitler invaded Poland on the first day of September 1939, Poland’s European allies France and England declared war on Germany, but nothing significant happened on that front until the following May when the German Army rolled through Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium and into France. Although the horror started in Poland in the fall of 1939, for a few months, the rest of Europe was spared that horror, which eventually lasted through the next five years. Strangely, this past September (2010), the US equity market rose by about 8.8%, its best return for that month, since that same September (1939). To me the parallels are ominous. What were those people thinking back in 1939? Could a coming world war have that positive an impact on the economy and on markets? They must have been crazy – of course equities gave up their gains and were cratered in May 1940 when Germany invaded the west. But, what are we thinking of now? A war has just begun. Didn’t Bernanke and the Fed announce in late August at Jackson Hole (and multiple times since then) that the US was going to enter QE2 and debase its currency setting off a currency war. Bernanke, like Hitler seven decades ago, had been warning everyone who would listen for years.

On November 21, 2002 he said that he would debase the US dollar if the American economy looked as though it would go through the same lost decades that the Japanese have recently endured. Now, it is clear that he has been true to his word and the currency war has begun. Although it took Guido Mantega the Finance Minister of Brazil to state the obvious saying that “an international currency war” had broken out, the reaction at the recent IMF meetings and among analysts of all stripes make it clear that this situation is well comprehended by everyone who is paying attention. The US has thrown a rock through the world’s plate glass window. This country will be severely disrupting the current global monetary system because the Federal Reserve – and not necessarily the Obama administration – believes that the status quo is not in the interest of the American people.

Right now the world is in the ‘phoney war’ period as the US has only just begun the process of flooding the world with excess dollars. The recent IMF meetings had and the coming G-20 meeting will see lots of venting and some skirmishes but no real attacks. Countries are complaining loudly because Bernanke’s excess dollars are being sold and their own currencies are being purchased, rising as the dollar declines. As most are trying to slow that rise by buying the dollars as reserves, reserves are climbing, their money supplies are ballooning, and inflation will surely follow. With inflation and strong currencies, these countries will see their trade positions destroyed. The real war will begin as countries place restrictions on capital flows. Mantega seems as though he will make a good economic general as Brazil is one of the first to move, taxing bond inflows. Interestingly the Brazilian leaders will miss the G-20 meeting in Seoul, avoiding any direct discussion of their actions.

Capital controls are likely to spring up in Asia and in other attractive economies during the next few months, but the really destructive war begins when tariffs appear. This should happen next year – maybe in May, mirroring 1940 – because by then the next recession should be in full force in both the US and in Europe, forcing many millions more out of work. The political pressure for raising tariffs in the US is intensifying and the new Tea Party supported Congressman will help tip the political scales in that direction.

This war will not be fought for territory, but for markets and wealth, and when tariff walls are raised the destruction of livelihoods and property will be almost as dramatic as in the old fashioned shooting wars. With the loss of economic value, the global debt structure must collapse and entitlement promises will not survive.
h/t Teddy KGB




things are gonna get much worse in the roll around to 2012 or as some say armegedon

Has anyone contacted Sea Launch? Those guys are based in Long Beach Ports and tug out to sea to fire satellites every now and then. Could of been them... But just a guess.

I have a hard time seeing this as an accidental launch, way to many chains of command needed for firing these things. Whatever the military says I will have a hard time believing. If what you say is true that's 3 world wars within a 100 year time frame, Humans are FUCKED!

That looks to be a sub-surface launch of an ICBM, and if reports are true in that it originated within our territorial waters (in the EEZ to be specific) then even the most feeble minded would find it implausible to believe that the military does not know exactly where this came from and who launched it. The darn thing is obviously ours otherwise the entire west coast would be locked down with every military asset deployed to root out the foreign sub.
Any evidence of intense military activity noted today in that region of the US?
Nope, I didn't think so - then its settled, we shot it.
Now the question is who and why.

A secondary thought to ponder.
If it wasn't ours, then why didn't one of our SM-3 interceptors from the National Missile defense get it?
The conspiracy plot thickens.

yea this better be the US military and they are just lieing about it. cuz if it is some other country firing missles intentionally 35 miles from our coast and the second largest city in the USA theres gonna be trouble plain and simple.

i love a mystery as long as it gets solved

GreatwhiteNorth said:

That looks to be a sub-surface lauch of an ICBM, and if reports are true in that it originated within our territorial waters (in the EEZ to be specific) then even the most feeble minded would find it implausible to believe that the military does not know exactly where this came from and who launched it. The darn thing is obviously ours otherwise the entire west coast would be locked down with every military asset deployed to root out the foreign sub.
Any evidence of intense military activity noted today in that region of the US?
Nope, I didn't think so - then its settled, we shot it.
Now the question is who and why.

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yes this makes a lot of sense, it must be from us and thats why NORAD said there was no threat to national security.


You know the missle defense system, I wonder if it is somwhat automated. I mean how is the missle defense system suposed to shoot down incoming enemy missles if is has to wait for an ok from a human? maybe somthing triggered thier missle defense system and they dont wanna talke about it


maybe a UFO


or just a glitch

I hadn't seen the news today. shit thats crazy I'm so glad I didn't get vaporised this morning. I'm even happier than usual to be alive

I didn't get nuked today and get to play COD Black Ops while high on G-13 x Jack Herrer...

Today is a good day.

beardo said:

I hadn't seen the news today. shit thats crazy I'm so glad I didn't get vaporised this morning. I'm even happier than usual to be alive

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I got vaporized willingly.

Still can't believe this is being treated as non-news.
I cast my vote for US Saber rattling, there is simply no other explanation.

Weird shit, saw this earlier today. Haven't heard anything about it in the mass media though

don't worry... this was just a contrail from a jet or a plane.... makes complete sense.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/09/mystery-solved-missile-launch-jet-contrail/#content





Why does everything gotta be so fucked up?

I thought the government watched for this kind of shit?

Clearly there is something they don't want the majority knowing.

If it was a plane I'd like to know what exact plane... and who the exact pilot was... I'm sure it can be done. WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY!

I'm sure if we can find out who flew into the trade centers within a day or two, we can find out what the fuck this thing is.

Yeah now their saying it was just a plane

beardo said:

Yeah now their saying it was just a plane

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Not a plane, that's bullshit camo. It was definitely a missile and a freaking big one too - minimum of twice the size of a Tomahawk.
We're being lied to folks.