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2017-09-30 Caribbean-Latin America

U.S. cuts embassy staff in Cuba, warns citizens not to visit

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-09-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 We are, most assuredly, under new management.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2017-09-30 00:36|| 2017-09-30 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Not enough. That still leaves the 40% vulnerable hostages and too many Cuban spies running around in the US.

Twenty-one U.S. embassy employees in Cuba have been injured and reported symptoms such as hearing loss, dizziness, headache, fatigue, cognitive issues, and difficulty sleeping, the State Department said.

Posted by Victor Emmanuel Ebbaise1246 2017-09-30 02:51|| 2017-09-30 02:51|| Front Page Top

#3 What are rantburg theories on what these 'sonic attacks' were? Seeing amazingly few theories from MSM

Posted by Clem Graigum2229 2017-09-30 09:13|| 2017-09-30 09:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Might want to check the power settings on some of the embassy 'equipment.'

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-30 09:22|| 2017-09-30 09:22|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't understand why reports of these attacks/phenomena contain so little information.

It does look like they're tiptoeing about something.

Detecting strong inaudible sound waves with proper equipment is trivial. A spectral analysis will reveal information about the nature of the phenomenon.
It should also be possible to get a bearing on the source and some estimate of the source's distance.

IOW US authorities should pretty much know exactly what they're dealing with and who's behind it.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2017-09-30 11:20|| 2017-09-30 11:20|| Front Page Top

#6 IOW US authorities should pretty much know exactly what they're dealing with and who's behind it. Posted by Elmerert Hupens

Yes to all of the above. I once watched in near panic as a foreign student officer turned around to ask a question of the tower, with an M72 law armed and ready to fire sitting on his shoulder.

I'll bet that foreign student doesn't talk about that much either.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-30 11:38|| 2017-09-30 11:38|| Front Page Top

#7 By the way, did you know that "LRAD was a gamechanger for communications."

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-30 11:45|| 2017-09-30 11:45|| Front Page Top

#8 HF Directed Area Denial systems?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-30 13:37|| 2017-09-30 13:37|| Front Page Top

#9 My son the world traveler visited recently and said it sucked. Took a couple of pics of some empty piazzas and put his camera away, for there was nothing he wanted to remember from that hellhole.

Posted by Regular joe 2017-09-30 21:45|| 2017-09-30 21:45|| Front Page Top

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