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.
Stout fellow! Do your worst.
Old dictators don’t die . . . they just smell that way.
The corpse, the corpse, the corpse.
Time to take out the trash: Die you [expletive deleted] monster.
And especially such young children. It breaks my heart to see that. We have a president with a good heart.
“Did Castro have any other useful idiots (besides his brother ) lined up to succeed him?”
——YES! Oddly enough, both Uday and Qusay Hussein
were lined up and considered likely replacements.
BTT
NOW, having made the above joke, I ask:
WHY have we heard NOTHING about this for nearly ONE WEEK??
Has the MSM been communicating amongst themselves about what the “official” response to this “unsubstantiated rumor” is going to be?
That's a good start. Whoopi Goldberg had some nonsensical, pro-commie comments. I was thinking, let's send them with a one way ticket. But Cubans have suffered enough..
Steven Spielberg once said that his 8 hour conversation with the dictator was the most important, facinating and meaningful conversation he ever had in his life. Throw in Dan "What's the frequency, Kenneth" Rather who cherishes the photograph of himself, beaming from ear to ear, with the dictator.
:-)
The Miami Cuban dudes claim The Bearded Bastard died last week.
How many minutes, and are they "business minutes"?
The best news I've heard from Cuba in a long time.
Playing pattycake with Satan.
LOL - pattycake! ;-) I hope Raul can enact reform and make somehow be a different kind of leader for them and fast, Chavez is chomping at the bit to be 'our' next commie leader and 'help' (read: help himself to) Cuba.
I just heard this recently, since your ping, and still didn't want to believe it. Shudder. I shudder to think of that, it's an idea I never imagined in any way.
Important? Fascinating? Meaningful? With a communist dictator? Makes me want to spit. (And I don't.) Blech.
Spielberg's got some money, perhaps he can fund their one way trip... Dan can send us back reports of their adventures.
You were joking just there, right, because I was!! Don’t tell me you actually heard that....pleeeeezzzzzz, don’t tell me.
You were joking just there, right, because I was!! Don’t tell me you actually heard that....pleeeeezzzzzz, don’t tell me.
Ummm dude, I live in Homestead and am all over town during the day as part of my work and have direct links to the Police Dept and City Gov.
I can tell you NO PREP HAS TAKEN PLACE IN HOMESTEAD FOR CASTRO’S DEMISE, TODAY, NEXT WEEK OR EVEN NEXT MONTH!!!!
If you’re gonna start an urband legend, at least place it it Miami where the roits will take place when Castro finally does kick a well deserved bucket.
So nice you said it twice? I was joking for part. Well, most was tongue in cheek. I guess that week away from posting has left me a little lost...
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