Posted on 08/24/2007 12:31:34 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
My cellphone has not stopped ringing for the past ten minutes. Various sources inform that an announcement will come within the next few minutes from the Cuban government on Cuban TV and media. Stay tuned and we'll see if we've been manipulated once again or if today is the birth date of Cuba's liberty.
Update: Here's the deal and what I know up to now, as of 1500 hours, August 24, 2007:
First, South Florida Law Enforcement is on alert. An EOC (Emergency Operations Center) has been set-up and manned somewhere in Homestead.
Im also told Local and State government agencies have food, bottled water, and other necessities - valued in the millions - stored and/or staged in Homestead at or near the EOC.
I am presently verifying whether Coast Guard and DHS and Border Patrol agencies are on high alert. (Verified 01445)
Local News stations are abuzz, mostly on reports very much like the above, with massive law enforcemnt mobilizations throughout Dade county.
Local emergency medical services notified to be on alert by law enforcement agencies.
Im told - and still awaiting confirmation - that buses in Havana have been recalled to terminals and that Cuban workers have been sent home. (still unconfirmed 1500)
Again, I am loathe to publish the title as I did in this post, but I would be remiss in not telling you all what I know, right now. All of my sources are good but the Cuban government, as we all know, is masterful at controlling media and information and we should not rule out that this and last Friday's "news" have been and are feelers to see what the reactions are here, as well as who reacts within the island. If we've been duped we've been duped. If not, then bust out the champagne.
Once again, these may all be rumor to discredit us and other media sources. All we can do is exactly what we've been doing for quite some time now: wait and see.
More from Killcastro, with sources from within Cuba.
The inner circle worries about the transition of power; the next circle tries to steal everything that isn't nailed down; and the 3rd circle scrammbles onto the boats. The peasants are left to sort everything out while generally being kept in the dark.
That’s the best!
Castro is not merely dead, he’s really quite sincerely dead.
“Cuban Blog” ...in Communist Cuba?
LOL! That’s a good one!
Jimmah could do a “James Brown with the cape” act at the funeral. It’d be perfect.
Well that should confirm it then.
that wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
Of course, this government spokesman could be lying. I hope he is lying. But Castro may still be alive.
I have heard rumors about great beach front property being available for Americans to purchase. Only if Castro is dead.
” be interesting to see how he is eulogized in the MSM, and by prominent Democrats (not to mention Hollywood stars.)”
they will want him displayed in the dome room or where ever they put the special people who pass
I’ll be there to pass out kleenex
Tuned into WIOD, Schnitt’s trying to kill off the story and get on with his Giuliani interview. Good grief.
Can Ricky Ricardo finally go back to Habana?
That’s from the outtakes of “Breakin’ 3: Electric Babalu”.
I thought I was the only one with that in my DVD collection!
His foreign minister, however, is in Brazil. He may not know what is really going on and he may just be parroting propaganda.
Nothing really new in that article.
The list of pall bearers may be endless; but, here are a few who qualify:
Hillary Clinton,
Bill Clinton,
John Kerry, and
Jane Fonda.
Sean Penn and Danny Glover are already crying.
Now we need a “tickle Fidel” animated gif.
Oliver Stone, Robert Redford
These rumors are 14 hours old, says Google.
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