http://manticeye.com/ Mantic eye is a diverse source with a wide selection of news reports, analysis, theories, opinions, historical documents, buried truths, and biographical profiles... en-us Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:28:39 GMT Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:28:39 GMT info@manticeye.com info@manticeye.com pMachine 2.4 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://manticeye.com/RSSlogo.jpg http://manticeye.com/ Mantic eye is a diverse source with a wide selection of news reports, analysis, theories, opinions, historical documents, buried truths, and biographical profiles... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1249_0_2_0_C It was a Saturday night and drivers whooshed past on their way to the Sunset Strip club scene. But the crew was undeterred, and by the wee hours, they had transformed the blight into bloom with green bushes and an array of colorful flowers. City workers on overtime? Nope, no budget for that. These were "guerrilla gardeners," a global movement of the grass-roots variety where people seek to beautify empty or overgrown public space, usually under the cover of darkness and... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1249_0_2_0_C Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:06:39 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1248_0_2_0_C US central bank accused of unleashing an inflation shock that will rock financial markets Fortis is a large bank and insurer in the Netherlands and Belgium and 3rd largest bank in the world). It took over ABN Amro last year, together with RBS and another bank. Last Thursday, its share lost 17% because Fortis attracted foreign capital. The following statement form Fortis (originally in Dutch) explains the reason behind this injection with foreign capital American... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1248_0_2_0_C Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:44:50 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1247_0_2_0_C Honey Bee Crisis Could Push Food Prices Even Higher -- Food prices could rise even more unless the mysterious decline in honey bees is solved, farmers and businessmen told lawmakers Thursday. "No bees, no crops," North Carolina grower Robert D. Edwards told a House Agriculture subcommittee. Edwards said he had to cut his cucumber acreage in half because of the lack of bees available to rent. About three-quarters of flowering plants rely on birds, bees and other... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1247_0_2_0_C Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:09:27 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1246_0_8_0_C In March, 2003 my sister, Army Captain Chaplain Fran E. Stuart was deployed to Iraq with the rest of her battalion, from Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, the 101st Airborne. The uncharted desert would not only hold uncertainty for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, but if she survived during her one-year deployment, she would return to the U. S. forever changed. Although the changes that would occur two years to the day from her return home were changes she never could... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1246_0_8_0_C Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:14:57 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1245_0_2_0_C Is 90 the new 50? Not yet, aging researchers say, but medical breakthroughs to significantly extend life and ease the ailments of getting older are closer than many people think. "The general public has no idea what's coming," said David Sinclair, a Harvard Medical School professor who has made headlines with research into the health benefits of a substance found in red wine called resveratrol. Speaking on a panel of aging experts, Sinclair had the boldest predictions.... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1245_0_2_0_C Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:39:28 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1244_0_2_0_C Over dinner with a movie producer in a bistro called Le Petit Paris, just off the famous Croisette - the strip of swanky hotels, designer boutiques, bars and clubs in Cannes - we watch as guests spill out onto the street from the fourth Indiana Jones movie, screened as part of the 61st annual film festival. There are beautiful women with tiny bodies and big breasts on the arms of men in dinner jackets. There is a full moon, and you can hear the waves crashing on to the beach a few... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1244_0_2_0_C Sun, 25 May 2008 17:39:11 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1243_0_8_0_C Health Care As The New Terrorist To Fear Thanks to America's health care system, today was a very stressful day for me. My story is so typical as to be boring - which is a really sad commentary. This morning, while thumbing through some routine paperwork, my wife discovered that I have no health insurance. Without going into the details, we missed a bi-annual deadline for payment - a deadline that the company buried in fine print, and one that the company didn't even bother to tell us... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1243_0_8_0_C Tue, 20 May 2008 16:50:03 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1242_0_3_0_C Barack Obama's horoscope is not totally verified at this time. We have the date and place, but the time is under question. He is certainly the radiant Leo, born 8/4/61. The late astrologer, Frances McEvoy, reported 1:06 pm from his memory. To test this time, astrologers need to check it against known dates in his life to see if the passages of the planets were triggering this horoscope. One timing observance is in 1995 Pluto went into Sagittarius, putting it in opposition to this... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1242_0_3_0_C Sat, 10 May 2008 17:49:33 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1241_0_6_0_C The belief that admitting you have psychological problems is a career killer is still fairly common among military personnel. However, the U.S. Department of Defense is taking steps to eliminate soldiers' fears. During a news conference Thursday, the department announced a new policy under which soldiers will no longer have to reveal previous mental health treatment unless it involved violence or was court-ordered. "I hear everywhere I go the belief that admitting to the need... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1241_0_6_0_C Wed, 07 May 2008 17:55:43 GMT http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1240_0_8_0_C The initial controversy over Pastor John Hagee's highly public endorsement of Senator John McCain's presidential bid, at a nationally televised press conference viewed potentially by millions of Americans, arose when the Catholic League, a far-right Catholic defense organization headed by William Donahue, attacked the endorsement on the basis that Hagee was virulently anti-Catholic. Beyond Hagee's demonizing of Catholics and Catholicism, pastor Hagee appears radically anti-American to... http://www.manticeye.com/article.php?id=1240_0_8_0_C Sun, 04 May 2008 19:04:27 GMT