Greek Antiques, Amazon Women - Absorbed Into Vast Asia

So, here you are in a Greek antiques shop far north of Athens but still in Greece, in Macedonia. You Hold two figurines: one of a Greek Amazon Female Warrior, the other a model of an princess from Persia. You wonder what these two have in common, so you ask the shop keeper. It is a quiet moment, so he sits you down and makes you a cup of tea, and tells you his story. His ancestors are of the family of those who were close to Alexander the Great. He leans forward and as if in telling a secret, he... Read more »

Greek Antiques, Democracy, Modern China - Brutal Panda In Tibet

Greek and Chinese antiques history has both had a wise and kind, or arrogantly powerful leadership. However, unlike Greece, China has always been imperial. Emperor or Chairman, all rules come from within the walls of the forbidden city and must be obeyed, or shame, pain, and death will follow you and your family into the grave. Socrates drank his cup of hemlock for saying too much truth, but the people of Athens, disgusted, punished those Ruling 30 and soon all were in disgrace, banned or dead.... Read more »

Greek Antiques, Roman Warriors - Senior Aristotle Bush vs Junior Nero Bush

When Greek antiques met the incoming Roman warriors, what usually was left of the library was in shambles and flames; there was always much blood on the floor and the walls, and after not as much book learning as sword contests forever and a day ever after. And such fine minds who could bring others together in a common goal based on mutual discussion leading to what seemed a meeting common ground between two very opposing views. And in that regard we see the senior President Bush as not unlike Aristotle,... Read more »

Greek Antiques, China, Democracy - With Star Treck Under Tianaman Square?

The mind can imagine all that which we have seen and known of, and this is an honest leap of imagination into what could well be. And I will lead us from point of fact and logic to a point of projected logic: we know that if you keyboard certain words, such as democracy, or Tibet, that a certain tracking system may have been kicked into place, to attach itself as a bug to your system, and follow you wherever you may go. If you get to be a guest aboard a modern marvel of technology, as I have been,... Read more »

Healthy Lifestyles - More Soul Of Aristotle, Less Sword Of Caesar

To watch the news from the middle east can be so painful. We can feel our hearts ache for those dying and being blown apart each day, we can despair, or still search for ways to stop the bloodshed. How we can best apply a kind and wise use of compromise and decision to create fair agreements that all can abide by is still nowhere in sight. Perhaps it is near time that we all take one step back from their wall building actions, which do not seem to be working as hoped for. The Biblical or Koran... Read more »

Greek Antiques, Democracy , Open To All - Except Inside China’s Bunker

The times they are changing, daily, as events around the world arrive to us so much more than ever before. Events of protest in Tibet come to us live, as does activities and horrors from everywhere on earth now. We have today watched the British channel interview, from the back, three women who live in that hell hole on earth run by a hateful fool, Zimbabwe. One of these women is a teacher, we a re told. Another is a female police officer, the other is a judge. They have large families, one has... Read more »

American Antiques, Historic Barriers - Gates vs Walls

American antiques history has shown before how America has expanded confidently into the world, and then shrunk back in on itself, becoming fearful of the outer world. That fear helped make of a market hiccup in 1929 a lost decade for the world. Many studies have concluded that most of the silliest decisions possible had been made by all parties involved. During this less than necessary contraction, each nation shrank itself and each neighbor. By 1933, the economy of the world, and America, was... Read more »

Roman Aniques, Modern Europe - Sahara to Sweden

Roman antiques ruins of great gates and palaces and spas in Libya are being open to the outside world at last. The wars in the east seem to have finally convinced the leader of Libya to change hats, as we see. Black turban put away, white ten gallon welcome, slowly, as the steely doors of tyranny slowly begin to creak open. As they have in other nations of north Africa. The site of these magnificent ruins, with no visitors, and the winter heat and date trees only requiring the productivity and enthusiasm... Read more »

Greek Antiques, Olympic Freedom Torch - Left Athens For Tibet Today

The rich irony of our ever more wired world is to watch the fabled Greek antiques Olympics Torch being lit on the original grounds in a ceremony just now. It and each speaker speaks of the vital touch of humanity that comes from us all out of these games. They were a fair and honest test of the best athletes from all over Greece, and now over the world. All wars would be put aside, and honest civil rights to all was really the point of this, as much as the scholarly debates brought forward the... Read more »

Roman Antiques, Teutonic Knights, Charlemagne, Wenceslas, Ataturk- New Europeans

Each morning telecast from other time zones now tells us who decided what where and why, and which ways the money will flow as a result. We can pause, but not for long at the varieties of riots and fatalities and train wrecks of the day, and seek out the wheat from the chaff. Again, further discussions in Europe make it clear that at least talk goes on while events unfold. This applies to the fact that a vast swath of Europe now extends from the Atlantic all up through the North Sea and into the... Read more »