HuffingtonPost.com
By James Moore

Posted: 07/30/2012 11:50 am

What is destined to become the most popular video on HuffPost over the next few days is of a purported UFO approaching the Olympic Stadium in London as fireworks are going off during opening ceremonies. Outside of porn, UFOs are probably the most clicked upon subject matter on the web. They are also increasingly recorded with the proliferation of camera phones. But no explanation is generally acceptable to all observers. Each event is considered separately and often dismissed as a camera artifact or light flare or aircraft lights or blimps. But all of them?

Mainstream media has been mostly uncomfortable with the subject. Even The Huffington Post, which is more or less now a part of traditional media, publishes UFO stories under its "Weird News" category and when, invariably, a local news station gets video of something unexplainable from a viewer, the recording ends up at the back of a newscast and prompts Bob and Suzy Goodhair to make comments about "little green men." The subject makes a lot of people uncomfortable and, consequently, they have to be dismissive. Hell, I'm going to get grief for even bringing up the topic.

NaturalNews.com
Thursday, July 26, 2012
by: Willow Tohi

(NaturalNews) A new study published this month finds that the hormonally active form of vitamin D, Calcitriol 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3), inhibits the growth of many kinds of cancerous cells, including breast cancer, indicating that vitamin D3 can be useful in treating and even preventing a variety of cancers. Authors of the study said that caner cell growth is inhibited by "anticancer actions including cell cycle arrest, promotion of apoptosis and inhibition of invasion, metastasis, and angiogenesis." Vitamin D's anti-inflammatory properties and interference with estrogen synthesis further explains its anti-tumor properties.

Two studies from 2007 used meta-analysis, which combines data from multiple reports, to find that therapeutic doses of vitamin D could prevent up to half of all cases of breast cancer, and two-thirds of all cases of colorectal cancer in the United States. The studies showed a direct correlation between blood levels of vitamin D and cancer. Those with the highest blood levels were found to be at the lowest risk, and the lowest blood levels at the highest risk.

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AlterNet.org
Progressive Populist
By Mark Anderson
July 22, 2012

An attorney's courageous report exposes just how ruthless and greedy big business is capable of being.

A unique, hard-hitting report just completed by a California attorney exposes a largely unknown federal food-stamp racket involving large grocery retailers, food manufacturing giants and other private players, including the Federal Reserve and JPMorganChase, which combine to channel food stamp spending into a gravy train for the heavy hitters in the food industry.

And the report’s author, Michele Simon, says administrative costs added by these privateers inflate the overall price tag of the Supplemental Nutrition Allowance Program (SNAP). And high program costs are prompting potentially deep legislative cuts to SNAP in the pending Farm Bill — when a record 46 million Americans use SNAP, of which 47% are children.

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NaturalNews.com
Thursday, July 26, 2012 by: J. D. Heyes

(NaturalNews) The United States, for its warts, has achieved much in its short 230-plus year history. It is a benevolent world superpower, for the most part, that serves as a beacon of hope and freedom for an increasingly oppressed world, even as it serves as a guardian against tyranny for as many as half of the world's nearly seven billion people.

But a few chapters in our history - slavery, oppression of the Native American tribes, causes of the civil rights movement, and moments of unconstitutionality on the part of our elected leaders - serve as more than simple blemishes on an otherwise admirable record of defending liberty and freedom. One such stain is the way we've treated some of our nation's military veterans.

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• Amelia Hill and Rupert Neate
  guardian.co.uk
• Wednesday 25 July 2012 13.27 EDT
  
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  Mitt Romney is in the UK for a fundraising dinner and to attend the Olympics. Photograph: James Glover/Reuters