Cindy Sheehan on Pacifica Radio right now, I'm on next

[paulthompson]

Hi,
Cindy is on Caroline Casey's Pacifica show right now, which is being broadcast live I believe at the New York City and San Franciscio (KPFA) Pacifica stations.

I'll be on next, and for most of the remaining hour. I'll be talking about Sibel Edmonds and the latest 9/11 developments.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

1. Thanks for your hard work Paul!

I hope I can get home in time to hear you!

[DIKB]

2. Thanks for the heads up

I started streaming it just now.

OMG you're on !!!!

[Stephanie]

where are you Paul?

are you back here?

[paulthompson]

15. I'm back in San Diego

Too bad we didn't hook up in NYC, but I was only there one day.

[Stephanie]

19. Thought you were in NZ

[paulthompson]

20. I was...

But now I'm in SD for a while. Probably till the end of the year, at least.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. a live strem link PLEASE?

[DIKB]

4. here

http://www.kpfa.org/cgi-bin/gen-mpegurl.m3u?server=aud-one.kpfa.org&port=8000&mount=icy_0&file=dummy.m3u

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. thank you

[Sequoia]

5. We just got a call from Camp Casey where I work!!!

It's was like...seeing Santa Claus on Christmas Eve!! I couldn't believe it, I was so jazzed and told her I'd been looking at all the stuff here on DU! I told her there's all sorts of photos that people have been posting, etc. She had no idea. DU rocks!!

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Excellent!

[Doctor_J]

7. Be sure to call * a coward

no one ever does that.

[DIKB]

9. Nice.

I don't know how composed I could be in a similar situation, but you're doing a good job.

[BrotherBuzz]

10. You were grand

I especially liked the Sibel Edmonds information/update. You filled a lot of voids in my feeble understanding of the whole thing. Thanks

Sparkle? Mass confusion in my house during that part (son came home after first day of grammar school and pandemonium broke out! :))..Did you cover it....What is it? Should I know about it?

"You have to go deeper than a ten second sound bite" - Paul Thompson :thumbsup:

I trust you will make another appearance with them soon.

[paulthompson]

11. Sparkles

Glad you liked the show. A sparkle is a term in the intelligence community that refers to a government creating a terror attack or incident and blaming it on some other country or entity, ususally with the purpose of getting the population behind a war. For instance, before Germany invaded Poland in 1939, they staged an incident on the border and claimed Poland had attacked them! This kind of thing happens so often that there's a special term for it amongst spies.

The host and I were going to talk some about the history of sparkles, which goes back hundreds of years and continues to this day. The American public, including many here at DU, continue to think that our government is far too honest and good to ever do such a thing when in fact there are very recent examples. For instance, the Italian government did an official investigation into the US covert program Operation Gladio, and concluded that US intelligence was involved in the bombing of a train station in Bologna, Italy, in 1980 that killed 80 people and was blamed on far left forces. In 2002, the Macedonian killed about a dozen innocent people and claimed they were a thwarted al-Qaeda cell, simply to get more aid from the US (this came out in a New York Times story).

1980 wasn't that long ago. Some of the people deeply involved in Gladio have risen high in the Bush Administration, like Bush's foreign policy advisor Michael Ledeen. He's the guy who said that sometimes in order to achieve great things, a leader has to "enter into evil." I think the left's failure to even consider that people in our government can and do "enter into evil" and perpetrate things like sparkles is one of the left's greatest weaknesses.

[BrotherBuzz]

14. Thanks for the explanation....

and when the media is complicit in the sparkles, we should call it yellow journalism, no? I guess we could update the term and call it yellow cake journalism.

Please post in DU when you are going to return to Pacifica radio ..Thanks.

[leftchick]

18. thank you paul

You are one of the greatest truth tellers in this new millennium.

peace,
lc

[paulthompson]

12. You can listen to the show on the Internet any time, right here

http://www.kpfa.org/archives/

Click on "Listen" at:

August 11, 2005

2:00 pm The Visionary Activist Show

Cindy Sheehan and Jody Evans are on the first 15 minutes from Crawford, Texas, then I'm on for the other 45 minutes.

[Al-CIAda]

13. Thank you Mr. Thompson for all of your great work. nt

[Rhiannon12866]

16. Great, Paul! You sure deserve the continued recognition and platform...

Thanks so much for letting us know!:hi:

[paulthompson]

17. Thanks for the thanks!

Most of what I learn seems to come from DU in one way or another. ;)