david graeber - inside occupy

OCCUPY soil, water and air => SAVE the planet EARTH :-)

please do not think when on mauritius, i do nothing all day long. i have just finished reading the so great book by david graeber - inside occupy.

damn, the current system can't last for too long because it completely destroys world's nature and resources, true? ok, so what could the 99% to do against the 1% who profit from current system most? well, david graeber tells us a lot about revolution, anarchy, anarchocapitalism, freedom, democracy, the occupywallstreet (OWS) movement 2011, democratic ways of finding a consensus, about work (there is so much unneded work done at the moment) + wages + happiness, about better and sustainable societies => anarchocommunism .... just read it, it is 100% worth the time spent 😉.

anarchy, freedom, communism are the solution = anarchocommunism

anarchy = absence of control, not murder and violence at every corner as promoted by the mainstream media
 

freedom = base income for all => no existence related fear => great creativity of mankind possible
 

communism = from each according to his ability, to each according to his need (first used by louis blanc in 1851), not the communism as known from the former soviet union (= jeder nach seinen möglichkeiten, jedem nach seinen bedürfnissen)
 

anarchocommunism = something like in a family or other small communities where people help each other and share common resources. you still remember jacque fresco and his resource and demand driven economy (without money)? don't you? last but not least, let's ask plato

anarchocapitalism?

source: here

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thus my friends: unite for global change + tat tvam asi => OccupyWallStreet + OccupyWarStreet + OccupyYourStreet + OccupyTogether = RealDemocracyNow :-)

SAVE THE WORLD, will you?

eof

mauritius, giant shiva + 3 national parks

mauritius, part lll, our one day trip to the southern + central mauritius

the agony of choice: which pictures and whats insides should i share with you, my friends?

well, let's start with some kind of an agenda and select the pictures + stories later :-)

• pineapple + sugar cane field
• tamil (hindu) temple
• city of curepipe
• inactive volcano
• water bassin / reservoir
• giant shiva + hindu temples site
• alexandra falls
• black river gorges national park
• 7 colored earth (chamarel national park)
• etc

pineapple

tamil temple (hindu)

curepipe

inactive volcano

curepipe

curepipe

water bassin / reservoir

100 feet high shiva (30 m) in ganga talao


ganga talao ~ a holy hindu site

 alexandra falls, mt. cocotte, south coast

 black river peak ~ national park

 a tourist who stayed in mauritius till now :-)

chamarel national park ~ 7 colored earth

 a prisoner at mauritius

 the best of all wives

 west coast

a rainbow driven way back home to our hotel at the east coast in trou d'eau douce

read my impressions about mauritius in the main blog post here
see more pictures in my g+ album :-)

more coming soon ...

flacq, mauritius, east coast

mauritius, part II 

after giving you some general information in my first post, let's continue with few pictures from the surroundings of our hotel at the windy east coast :-)

beaches in Trou D'eau Douce aka sweet waters

there is a coral reef where the waves break ... some 100-150m from the beach 

beaches in Trou D'eau Douce

on the way to flacq

bus station in flacq

drinking coffee + coconut milk at the bus station / city market cafe

the most mauritians are of indian origin, you know?

SAVE the WORLD :-)

reduce, reuse, recycle :-)

back in the hotel ...

good night, mauritius 

more is coming soon (2 more day trips planned),,, if interested, you can find more pictures in my g+ album ~ enjoy :-)

mauritius

greetings from the southern hemisphere :)

the southern hemisphere is special in many many ways, e.g. there are no nuclear weapons stationed. this is really special if you asked me. in the north we have nukes even in the historic city center of berlin or in the mini-country of liechtenstein :(. thus we feel very save here, so far away from nukes + (NATO's) armies ...

well, what to say about this tropical french speaking island in the indian ocean? first of all, it is only 40 km wide and 60 km long and it has 1.2 million people (it is above 600 per square kilometer, which is really really a lot). most of the citizens are of indian origin and creoles, if i can tell it after 2 days of being here.

what about its nature? well, the dutch have cleared almost all tropical forests because of ebony and other hard tropical wood and even mauritius' heraldic animal, the not flying bird dodo was eradicated by the sailors many, many years ago. so pity ... ok, there is a taxidermied bird and the famous stamp 'blue mauritius' in the museum of port louis, but it is not a real substitute, is it? the island is quite pretty + green anyway, because of its sugar cane plantations, lakes, nice hills (the highest mountain is the dark river peak in the southern part of mauritius with 828 meters above the sea level). i'm looking forward to learn more about the island on our planned day trips soon ...

let's go over to wikipedia in order to learn more about mauritius' history: [wikipedia on] ... The first Portuguese explorers found no indigenous people living on the island in 1507. The Dutch settled on the island in 1638 and abandoned it in 1710. Five years later, the island became a French colony and was renamed Isle de France. The British took control of Mauritius in 1810 during the Napoleonic Wars. The country remained under British rule until it became an independent Commonwealth realm on 12 March 1968 and a republic within the Commonwealth on 12 March 1992. ... The island of Mauritius was the only home of the Dodo bird. The bird became extinct fewer than eighty years after its discovery. ... [wikipedia off]

enjoy few pictures from this so colorful island😄

#OccupyMauritius

great value for money, our 3 star hotel silver beach in Trou D'eau Douce :-)

 
bed

so tasty + nice prepared food, maybe the best we have ever had on holidays, similar to the 5 star hotel in the dominican republic few years ago

 

 drinks

 
beach + mountains on the horizon

 

 
the south is colorful ... bus station in FLACQ

 

few more general insights on mauritius? ok, maybe about value for money down here? well, mauritius is not really poor (we have seen less beggars as we have in the centre of munich) and the most people smile or look relaxed as far as we can tell. even if the prices in the supermarkets are not very cheap (only a little bit cheaper as we have in the discount markets in munich) and the food in the streets is not cheap either (coconut a little bit more than 1 euro, coffee at the bus station kiosk 60 cents, a small peach lassi yogurt drink in the supermarket 50 cents ..... t-shirts about 5 euros, short pants maybe 7 - 8 euro). but what is really cheap here is public transport (30 minutes bus drive only 60 cents) and unbelievable cheap is labour. you can get a taxi driver for a whole day (incl. petrol) for only 70 euro. cheap labor is also the reason why there are so many waiters running around us, why there is every evening live music or a show in our hotel. the people here earn maybe between 250 euro (beginners in public sector?) up to 1,500 euro per month (good jobs in the private sector), the most of them probably between 500 tand700 euro a month .... it makes us feel so colonial, all the white folks being served by the dark skinned locals ,,,,, hmmm, it is a strange feeling, my dears but not too nice one i feel ... anyway, the second week came few young couples from india for their honeymoon and also few chinese tourist / businessmen, so it changed the situation a lot :-)

for my american + russian friends who are not used to euros, 1 EUR = 1.38 USD and 1 EUR = 49.89 rubles today

• east coast
• south + central part (giant shiva + 3 national parks)
• catamaran trip (flic en flac, black river ~ west coast)
• two of us (beach pictures .... if there will be time to come back + upload few nice pictures)

all in all, for me is mauritius more like asia than africa :o)

if interested, you can find more pictures in my google album ~ enjoy :-)