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.
Ding, dong the witch is dead, ding, dong the wicked witch is deaaaaadddd...
And if not...Follow the yellow brick road...
It does make you wonder what would have happened if she followed the red brick road???
CUT, back to position one!!! ;-)
Well somebody better ice him down pretty quick if they’re not gonna bury him.
I wonder if Jimmie Carter will lead the eulogy or will his emotional distress at Castro beating him to Hades override his ability to speak?
Jeanna Garafallo??? She could be a guy...Right???
pall bearers: Ted Turner, don’t forget old ted
He is not still dead. He's died again. That's different.
Castro died around the 15th of August.
Michael Moore is deeply saddened.
Doesnt revolutions typically have some sort of finality to them? The American Revolution led the the United State of America. We don't still consider being in any sort of revolution. What exactly is Castro and friends revolting from these days?
Excuse by Spanish, for the Cinque di Maio will now be joined as a national holiday in “Cooba” as The 24th of August.
Gunga Dan.
“Bay of Pigs...The Untold Story” by Peter Wyden. Published in 1979.
It’s an excellent narrative of the entire invasion fiasco, from it’s inception under Allen Dulles at CIA during the Eisenhower Administration, to the actual disastrous invasion 90 days into the Kennedy Administration, and ends with the release of the last of the Brigade from Cuban prison in the late 1970s.
This book explains why things are the way they are with Cuba, and why the United States will not change things as long as Fidel Castro draws breath.
Personally I hope he does not suffer, but I do hope Fidel has assumed room temperature at long last.
superwarfarin finally took it’s toll on the dear comandante.
yourrrrrrr out!
Just got off the ohone with a customer in Miami and hadn’t heard anything...yet. Check out:
http://www.perezhilton.com
4:21EDT:
MIAMI — Rumors circulating from Miami to North Carolina and calls coming in to Local 10 said an announcement would be coming from Cuba by the end of Friday that Fidel Castro is dead.
http://www.local10.com/news/13969598/detail.html
Drive by posting...
Friend’s mom just got off the phone with family in Cuba and reports that Cuban police have been posted on every corner.
My mom just heard from her co-worker (whose SIL lives in Cuba and called him moments ago) that Cuban officials have shut down the airport and are not allowing any flights in or out of the island.
Folks, this may finally be it.
This is sounding more and more interesting. Prayers to your mom’s friend for safety. I’m getting chills.
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