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Jim Thorpe was an American Icon, an Olympionic figure, as the first Greeks like Filippides the messenger running the 25miles from Marathon to Athens to inform about the victory of Greece against the Persians during the Medic War!
Jim Thorpe was a Native American Indian!
Wa Tho Huk! That means Bright Path in English! And he was a thunderbolt in sports, specially in American Football. First President of the NFL!
He won 8 olimpic medals in running, jumping, marathon, decathlon, etc with a pair of broken shoes, after they stole his, in Sweden in 1912! After 6 months they took away his records and medals, because he was payed some dollars to play sports before the Olympic Games. At that time, the Olympic Games was just for “amateurs” (Normal citizens that made sports just for love and passion). President Eisenhower played against Thorpe when he was in the West Point football team! They lost 27 to 6! Thorpe scored almost all the points! He never understood how a Native American was able to do this! It was a different America, when Native American Indians were not full citizens until the end of the 1920’s.
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What happened in the last United Kingdom General elections was a big surprise for everybody, especially for the historical victory of Sir Keir Starmer with Almost complete Support of the citizens. What is positive is the respect that British politicians have for the political rules. A few hours later, the newly elected First Minister is in front of the King getting the keys of 10 Downing Street! This is something to teach in many Democratic countries. From the other side I had big expectations for Rishi Sunak, a very brilliant person. But the current status of the world economics and geopolitics, are a big weight for all the occidental world. Enough reason to fail in his initiatives with little frame of time to implement them. Sir Keir Starmer who will respect Shabbos and Shabbat and this is a Mitzvah; will have all in his hands now. But just to raise taxes on the Rich people or fortunes? This is not a Solution, Never was, money goes little and in the wrong pockets. Socialist governments historically work just in times of wealth. He Needs to reinvent a new UK socialism that give opportunities to everybody (Rich and Poor), to Open Businesses to work, to aid the old people, to work in the farms, industries, ports etc; and to have constant educational projects, made by people who know about economy; the developed British companies and groups. Internationatly he needs to look at Australia, that holds the same king, that has a lot of Space for present and future, for New British generations. The Australians are in need of UK Diplomat support to open new market possibilities to avoid the control and disrespect of China. There’s a lot to do!
Mazel Tov! Sir Keir Starmer.

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Abraham Lincoln is not just the founder of the Republican Party, the winner of the American Civil War. The President that believed in the US integrity. A citizen from Kentucky that arrived to the power taking out the traditional city people from the government. He was his own university of law, becoming maybe, one of the best presidents in the history of the occidental culture, holding the heart of a boy like Tom Sawyer!

An authentic American patriot!

Karl Marx and his philosophy is clear about the necessity to be productive and create richness. Its all about the understanding of the worker and his role in this process and the importance to know who you are, be prepared for what you do, and enjoy it having the conscience of this fact. Then the wealth needs to have a serious and correct distribution in-between the actors that made it.
The only wrong point for Bertrand Russell, was the hostility that had Marx for the borghese, that made any thought or position that hate is not to be considered.

Arturo Toscanini, started as an orchestra director at just 19 years old!
He was the first in many things, not just with the Premiers of Otello, Turandot e Pagliacci that he directed at La Scala! He was the first orchestra director playing directly for Radio and TV in New York. He was a Patriot and a big critic of Mussolini, he went away from Europe after being bitten by a Fascist group in Bologna, because he refused to Play fascist music with his orchestra. Toscanini, created the New York Philarmonic Orchestra, incorporating jewish musicians that escaped from the Holocaust in Europe. He directed the First Israelian Orchestra of Tel Aviv in 1936, before the refoundation of Israel in 1948! He was an passionate  lover of Richard Wagners music. He was the first non-German director in the Festival of Bayreuth! He denied to Play for Hitler! His son in-law the Great Jewish Piano player Vladimir Horowitz Rest in the same family tomb in the Monumentale of Milano! On the grave of Toscanini is writen: Here the Opera ends, because the Maestro dieds (Same words Toscanini repeats after Puccini died at the same time he was finishing the First of Turandot!

Agrippa The Edile! The Builder of his friend Ottaviano Empire! The closest and trustful person for Augusto! The first Roman Emperor. Agrippa was not just the Choice of Giulio Cesare to be next to his beloved Gaio Ottavio Turino (the future Augusto), he was a superior intelligence with the highest virtues: The Service for Rome. He did all for what represented the light of Rome. Naval Crown for destroying the blocks of the wheat by the Sicilians. The complete distruction of the Egyptian float Commanded by his friend Marco Antonio, who went for love of Cleopatra against his own people in AZIO. Agrippa, always accepted the orders of his friend, Brother, Augusto with respect, even if he was taken away from the army leadership, to be an Edile, for many it looked like a degradation for somebody victorius like Agrippa! But he took this Chance Not just to build the Pantheon, but to make roads, streets.
(400k km of roads had the Romans, with multiple Connections from North Africa, to Britain. From Spain (Hispania) to Almost Persia!) Agrippa restored many old Roman roads, and made new ones. Restored the complete clean water service of the Capital of Rome, and adapted new services to capture the dirty water problematics for the health of the Roman citizens!
He Built Public pools for summer and Thermal ones for winter in the entire Empire for good cleaning/hygiene and health of the people. He died at 50 years old leaving empty his position until the end of the Empire. Augusto, after days of reflection and sadness, was able to conduct his funeral, putting his dead Body in his personal Imperial grave. Every important President, King or government, especially in our times, will miss somebody like Agrippa!

Don Quijote, the main character of the book of Cervantes, represents what was important at the time to save Europe from the Ottoman imperium invasion. You need to prepare your own personal army and go to fight; As did Vlad II Dracul, and other historical nobilty. 
To stay in your castle and in your lands just waiting for better times will take you to loneliness, to be disrispected by your own subdits, and to become poor.
Just to go to war using your resources and even asking for a credit, will give you the possibility  after the victory to renegotiate your position, and to point how important your contribute was to Save Europe, their culture and faith. 
Don Quijote waited and lost his chance, he was old, without being old, he was poor having lands and farms, without people to work on them. Then he was  trapped in a dream that became his faith and exit of this sadness that made cloudy his life. He decided to go to war and to fight for goodness when there was already peace, and people with weapons were banned. 
Was a new Europe! And this peace and normality broke all his efforts to have a victory and change his life.
Great Book, and so much to learn about time and space!

Saigo Takamori, was not just the last Samurai, but a strong defender of the typical quality products from Satsuma. The farmers and their families from there, believed and trusted in Saigo. He controlled carefully the sale of goods to get the right amount to have a good living of his people. When Japan wanted to get rid of the Samurais to directly trade with the communities with an open market bases, Saigo understood that the wealth of Satsuma was in danger, and he started the war, until the last consequences. His life was given in the name of his values and traditions. 
That means in protection of a Regulate, Control and of Quality market. That Never died in Japan thanks to Saigo and makes of Japan a symbolic example of food quality, giving richness to all people in the Production process.

Pythagoras founded the Esoteric school in what is now Crotone(Calabria), to develop his idea of Democracy. Creating a generation of Young men ready to Server humanity. Where the main of these Teenagers were not from Rich families but selected for their qualities! Being an esoteric teacher, meaning to be selective! Creating people to be the holders of the power of their nations: Democracy. The question will be? And the not chosen one? They will be educated? They will be people? The answer was no. Not everybody was considered people, so the idea of Democracy was very different of what we have in use Right now,  mainly in all occident. But since it was the Greeks who created the meaning of Demos(People) and Democracy(The Power of the people), I think that is time to call with a new word, specially with actual experience.