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Daylight Again ~ Find the Cost of Freedom
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Daylight again, following me to bed
I think about a hundred years ago, how my fathers bled
I think I see a valley, covered with bones in blue
All the brave soldiers that cannot get older been askin' after you
Hear the past a callin', from Armegeddon's side
When everyone's talkin' and no one is listenin', how can we decide?
(Do we) find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground
Mother earth will swallow you, lay your body down
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Yup, if something big is going on you can be sure we have a story to go with it.
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Purpleaura ~ December 5th, 2005
I dreamt this morning I was talking to someone who felt like either military or a politician wearing a business suit. He was talking about using some sort of nerve gas to get rid of most of population, it renders them unconscious then after a few hours they give in and die. He said it’s the most powerful thing they know of. He also mentioned there has only ever been one group, a family, who has a natural immunity against the gas, they experimented on them and found they are the only ones with a natural defence against it. That got me intrigued. He goes on to say your family is the one that is immune to it. You were on (what sounded like) St. John’s Philippe Island. I said, “No, I have never been on or lived on any island by that name”.
Suddenly I’m looking at a black and white picture on the wall which he is showing me, I presumed it was taken on this island as the photo was comprised of people, palm trees and sun. As I was looking at the photo I noticed one of the people was my dad, then I became aware of my dad’s 2 brothers and was thinking, “I didn’t know our family lived on this island”. On even closer inspection I saw kids in the background playing in a playground, there was sand and a slide. I recognised the children, one of them was me around 4 or 5 years old with platinum white hair. My brother and sister along with some cousins were also there. I was thinking, “This is crapping me out, how come I don’t remember anything about living on this island?” I was drawing a complete blank on it.
The dream jumps and everything is in colour and I’m at a major party. We now know about military/government plot and what they are about to do. Now this part seems vague, something was concealed in a ball or some sort of round object that opened, it kind of looked like a disco ball made of mirrors. The plan was being staged, I assumed this round object had been opened because people were lying on the floors everywhere either unconscious or dying slowly. Since we were aware of the plan I find myself on the floor pretending to be affected but keeping an eye on things all around me. I noticed the same military man wearing a gas mask and now that the gas has dissipated he takes it off. At that same time I am working with others to prevent this or to catch whoever intends on implementing the plan.
Again it jumps and we recognise who is behind the masked man so we stand up and lead an attack and he is killed. Again I am aware of working with other people. We went outside, it seems we had sent someone to get a vaccination or some kind of antidote to help the affected people, unless this is treated within 2 hours they will die and time was ticking. At this point a female on a motorcycle comes around the corner with a container on either side of the motorcycle. Medical staff and people in white coats are following close behind.
Suddenly we are running inside and loading the people onto what looked like wooden pallets to move them into rows outside, once they’ve had a jab they are marked with green. This was important to make sure they were not given 2 doses as the medicine was extremely rare. As we loaded them up they started gradually coming around and then I woke up.
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We never did figure out where this island was exactly, Australia was mentioned along with a few other places, but none of them felt quite right. Being the daughter of a military man, Purpleaura was fortunate to have lived in many exotic locations as a child, including Burma when she was around 4 or 5 years old. So that crossed our minds as well. However it still wasn’t 100%, at the time there was nothing going on in Burma to warrant headlines in mainstream news. Certainly not where a mass extermination was concerned. Horrifying how that changed.
So June 2, 2006 I’m on my way to work and notice the vehicle in front of me is sporting a rather elegant freemason’s emblem on the trunk. I automatically looked at the plate and freaked a bit to see the first three letters just happened to be the name of the company I work for, and we don’t have personalized company plates. I got home that evening and Googled it which led to somebody’s phone number in Myanmar. Never heard of it. I have heard of Burma though but other than the Burma Shave ads I still didn’t really know much about it and completely forgot Purpleaura once lived there. On my quest to learn more this came up:
US to seek UN resolution against Myanmar
Associated Press
Washington, June 1, 200612:59 IST
The United States intends to pursue a UN Security Council resolution aimed at highlighting complaints about continuing repression and other problems in Myanmar, the State Department said on Wednesday.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7598_1710619,000500020010.htm
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The events currently taking place in Burma are horrific to say the least, but at the time this wasn’t a well known fact, not to me at least. I had to wonder why the U.S. was so concerned about the situation in Burma. I would have thought they had enough on their plate without taking on any more causes.
So I emailed Purpleaura and told her about the license plate and Myanmar and that’s when she reminded me she used to live there, then told me a little story her parents like to recount.
“Any time you disappeared we would find you with the Gurkhas, eating with them beside the camp fire getting from the pots they dished out. They said the Gurkhas would never let anyone outside of their own customs do that but I was attached to them."
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Gurkha, also spelled as Gorkha, are people from Nepal and parts of North India, who take their name from the eighth century Hindu warrior-saint Guru Gorakhnath. His disciple Bappa Rawal, born Prince Kalbhoj/Prince Shailadhish, founded the house of Mewar. Later descendants of Bappa Rawal moved further east to found the house of Gorkha, which in turn founded the Kingdom of Nepal. Gurkhas are best known for their history of bravery and strength in the British Army's Brigade of Gurkhas and the Indian Army's Gorkha regiments. Gorkha is one of the 75 districts of modern Nepal.
The Gurkhas were designated by British officials as a "Martial Race". "Martial Race" was a designation created by officials of British India to describe "races" (peoples) that were thought to be naturally warlike and aggressive in battle, and to possess qualities like courage, loyalty, self sufficiency, physical strength, resilience, orderliness, hard working, fighting tenacity and military strategy. The British recruited heavily from these Martial Races for service in the colonial army.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorkha
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I wouldn’t exactly say Purpleaura is warlike, not on this plane at least. She does kick ass in the dream realm if she has to though and doesn’t fear much in this realm either. And I don’t know about any finesse she may possess in the military strategy field but each and every other adjective used to describe the Gurkhas can be equally interchanged to describe Purpleaura. However you won’t see things like the fighting tenacity unless you put her in a position where she’s forced to show you that. All of this among other factors leads me to believe she has a past history with these people. She knew it and they knew it. Maybe not consciously but they knew all the same.
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July 6, 2007 I had a dream before waking where an aunt told me to ask for Burma’s sister. That was it, nothing more was said. I woke up, turned on the news and the first story was this:
Nepali women rush for Gurkha training
GOPAL SHARMA IN KATHMANDU
MORE than 1,500 Nepali women have signed up with private firms to train for a possible career with the British Army after it allowed them to join the Brigade of Gurkhas for the first time in nearly two centuries.
Britain is studying how Nepali women could be recruited for its Gurkha force and authorities took out a newspaper advertisement this month asking women to give "notification of interest".
Gurkha soldiers, from a tribe in Nepal's Himalayan foothills known for their combat skills, have been serving in the army since 1815. But only men have been recruited.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1001182007
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Interesting. For 192 years, since its conception, women have been shunned from the sanctity that is the Gurkha Tribe. Except for that one little girl who was welcomed with open arms as a member of the family. That in itself speaks volumes.
I’m not sure if Purpleaura’s dream of the deadly gas was directing us to the genocide that has recently befallen Burma or if this is something yet to come. In either case it sucks but I am 99.9% certain she was indeed dreaming of Burma. We’re still not sure where or who John Philippe is.
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A few nights ago while I was working on this blog, which partly involves reading through past emails, I kept coming across the names John and Sara. Those 2 names come up frequently and often in conjunction with each other, as they did around the same time as the gas dream. Some might say so what, they’re 2 extremely common names. Well so are Bob and Debbie but we don’t dream of them ever, let alone consistently. So while I’m researching Burma I’m also recapping the John and Sara enigma since John did turn up in the gas dream. I wasn’t sure if Burma had palm trees so I Googled images of Burma + palm trees. Only one picture caught my eye so I clicked on it and was redirected to a blog called John and Sara’s Honeymoon.
After I got up off the floor I began again to wonder what was with the sanctions and why was the U.S. so concerned, horrors go on all over the world every day. Yes the U.S. military is infamous for sticking their proverbial noses where they aren’t welcome or don’t belong, always under the guise of some cockamamie humanitarian rescue mission, but what does Burma have that the U.S. is so adamant about protecting? I continued reading emails and came across an article Purpleaura sent January 28, 2007. This answered all the questions.
Big Oil Trumps Freedom
Marco Simons
September 26, 2006
Marco Simons is the U.S. Legal Director for EarthRights International, which represented the plaintiffs in Doe v. Unocal Corp. and is currently representing villagers suing Chevron for human rights abuses in Nigeria.
Recent media reports have suggested that Western oil and gas companies are increasingly looking to investment in Burma, also known as Myanmar, which has languished under a brutal military dictatorship for nearly two decades. The Bush administration's attitude toward U.S. oil companies in Burma is, sadly, emblematic of its general policy of valuing petroleum over human rights and democracy. Whatever efforts Bush has made to promote human rights stop at the well, the pipeline, and the pump.
It's no secret that the Bush administration is far from a standard-bearer for human rights. But if there's one place in which Bush has been a consistent, strong advocate for human rights and democracy, it would be in Burma. Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. government has reauthorized the prohibition on new investment in Burma by U.S. companies, enacted a ban on imports, and frozen the assets of Burma's military leaders. The U.S. has also been a driving force behind recent efforts to bring the situation in Burma to the attention of the U.N. Security Council. By any measure, Bush has been at least as committed to human rights and democracy in Burma as his predecessors.
Even in Burma, however, Bush's support for human rights yields to his fondness for the oil and gas industry. Burma has large natural gas reserves, and multinational oil corporations want to cash in. Chevron Corporation is currently the largest U.S. investor in Burma, with a partnership stake in the multi-billion-dollar Yadana gas pipeline project. The Yadana project was originally developed by Unocal, another American oil company, which was acquired by Chevron last year. (Although new investment in Burma is prohibited, the pipeline is grandfathered in under an exception, pushed by Unocal, for pre-existing projects.)
The Yadana pipeline has been repeatedly condemned by human rights and environmental advocates as one of the most destructive "development" projects in the world. The Burmese military government is a direct partner in the project, and Burmese soldiers providing security and other services to the pipeline project have conscripted villagers for forced labour on a vast scale, as well as committing murder, rape and torture. These abuses have been widely acknowledged; before Bush took office, the U.S. Department of Labour concluded that "refugee accounts of forced labour" on the project "appear to be credible."
The Bush administration has close ties to Chevron. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was a member of the Chevron Board of Directors for 10 years before Bush was elected, and even had a Chevron oil tanker named for her until it was quietly renamed after Bush took office. And Halliburton, the oilfield services giant formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, has numerous ties to Chevron, signing several multimillion-dollar contracts during Cheney's tenure. And yet there is no evidence that the Bush administration has used its connections to convince Chevron to divest its Burmese holdings, despite the evidence of abuses committed on the Yadana project and Bush's public position on promoting human rights and democracy.
Indeed, even before Chevron acquired Unocal and the Yadana project, Bush's government actively took steps to thwart accountability for the Yadana project. When refugees who had suffered rape, torture, enslavement, and murder at the hands of soldiers protecting the Yadana pipeline sued Unocal in U.S. court, the Bush administration intervened to try to convince the courts that the lawsuit should not proceed. The administration essentially argued that, even if the case would not actually interfere with U.S. relations with Burma, holding Unocal liable would create a precedent that could conflict with U.S. foreign policy in other parts of the world. (The lawsuit, Doe v. Unocal Corp., was ultimately resolved before the courts considered the administration's position, with Unocal compensating the victims in a historic settlement-see
http://www.earthrights.org/legal/unocal/.)
If the Bush administration opposes accountability for human rights violations committed by the oil and gas industry in a pariah state such as Burma, the situation is even worse when oil companies commit abuses in countries friendly to the United States. In the troubled Indonesian region of Ache, security forces hired by Exxon Mobil have committed rape, murder and torture against local villagers. When the victims filed suit in federal court against the oil giant for compensation, the Bush administration sent a letter to the court stating that the case could cause a "serious adverse impact" on "the ongoing struggle against international terrorism." The judge subsequently dismissed parts of the case.
In Colombia, Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum has employed military contractors to protect its pipeline from suspected attacks by insurgents. When Occidental's contractors directed the Colombian military in a misguided air raid on the village of Santo Domingo, killing three civilians, their relatives sued the oil company in federal court in California. As in the case against ExxonMobil, the Bush administration argued that the case could have "negative consequences for our bilateral relationship" with Colombia, which it called a "partner in the vital struggles against terrorism and narcotics trafficking." Relying on the administration's position, the federal court dismissed the case.
In the Occidental lawsuit, the Bush administration went a step further than it had before, and turned its favouritism for oil production over human rights into an actual pronouncement of policy. Adjudicating whether an oil company committed human rights abuses, the administration argued, could deter other oil companies from getting involved in unstable regions such as Colombia, and "reduced U.S. investment in Colombia's oil industry may detract from the vital U.S. policy goal of expanding and diversifying our sources of imported oil." In other words, oil production is, in and of itself, such an important "policy goal" that it trumps human rights.
This is the essence of the Bush administration's diplomacy. Increasing oil production is "vital," while accountability for human rights violations is inconvenient at best. When it comes to Bush's foreign policy, oil remains king.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/09/26/big_oil_trumps_freedom.php
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I guess that explains that then. Wonder who’s funding the junta?
Burma’s sister, you are being asked for. All the brave soldiers that cannot get older been askin' after you.
