Insurance for alien abduction?
   This is not a joke. You can actually buy insurance to cover you if you are abducted by an alien. This insurance has been available since the 1980s through The Saint Lawrence Agency in Florida. The policy, which costs as little as $24.95 will provide you with medical and sarcasm coverage up to $10 million There's even a double indemnity clause for $20 million in the event of alien conjugal visits, resulting pregnancies or where the abductee is regarded as a nutritional food source. You can actually buy a policy and it will pay out when you prove you were abducted. And, believe it or not, the company has paid policyholders in the past. There is one catch though – the benefit is paid out one dollar a year, over the next 10 million years.  

Steven Seagal named Russian envoy
   Russia appointed martial artist and action film star Steven Seagal as US envoy the first of August. He once described Vladimir Putin as 'one of the greatest world leaders’, and was granted Russian citizenship in 2016. He is a special envoy to improve ties with the U.S. The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that he will be unpaid. His responsibility will be to “facilitate relations between Russia and the United States in the humanitarian field, including cooperation in culture, arts, public and youth exchanges.” November 2016, Mr Seagal visited the Russian president and was granted Russian citizenship. Seagal's grandmother was born in Vladivostok.

Woman uses ESP on mountain lion
   On July 8 a woman walked into her house to find a mountain lion in her living room. Lauren Taylor of Ashland, Oregon, claims she used mental telepathy to  lead the cat peacefully out of her house and back to its natural habitat. When Lauren Taylor walked intothe  room,  the cat was startled and it tried flee through a window, but it was closed so she hid behind a couch and eventually was quiet. Later, Ms. Taylor bravely checked on the cat and found it asleep. Ms. Taylor relates: "When I made noise, she woke up and looked startled so I consciously raised my frequency, gazed lovingly into her eyes, and communicated using feline-speak eye blinking to calm her." Amazingly this worked.

"I gazed lovingly then blinked hard and then she did it back! Then, she went back to sleep. Once the energy shifted, she calmed down. I sent telepathic pictures of the routes out of the house via open doors and the route out the backyard, across the creek, through an open field, and back up into the hills. We got guidance that the way to get her to leave without panicking was through drumming. We started drumming. She roused and knew just what to do.... walking out through the open doors, through the yard, across the creek, and through the empty field behind us exactly as we had shown her."

Hidden "Henge" found in Ireland
     In Europe this summer, a drought and high-flying drone revealed an unknown "Stonehenge." The huge monument in New-grange, Ireland, has remained hidden for centuries. In the middle of a farmer's sprawling field of wheat, the monument is a series of dark markings in the shape of a perfect circle as wide as one and a half football fields. As archeologist Stephen Davis explains, it's the remnants of a henge, an ancient center built around 5000 years ago. "In the Neolithic Age, it was absolutely hopping," Davis says. "There were loads of people here doing things." Similar to England's famous Stonehenge, this Irish version was built using wood instea of stone. Over thousands of years they decomposed, leaving only prints of fertilized soil visible when a heatwave wilts the crops.

Decriminalize marijuana nationally?
    U.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Senator Chuck Schumer to introduce a bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, leaving the decision about legalization in states’ hands. Specifically, the Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act removes marijuana from the list of scheduled substances under the Controlled Substances Act, effectively decriminalizing it at the federal level. The legislation allows states to continue to decide how they will treat marijuana possession. The legislation, however, does not change federal authorities’ ability to prevent trafficking from states where marijuana is legal to states where is not.

California to reign in Facebook
    Lawmakers in California have introduced a sweeping privacy bill to the state legislature that would give Californians unprecedented control over their data and rein in the power of Facebook and other social media companies.  Introduced in the State Assembly, the bill would allow California residents to find out what information businesses and data brokers collect about them, where that information comes from, and how it's shared. It would give people the power to ask for their data to be deleted and to order businesses to stop selling their personal information. It places limits on selling data on users younger than 16 years of age, and prohibits businesses from denying service to users for exercising their rights under the bill. "All these new technologies are able to gather information about where you are, when you are, what your heart rate is," a legislator said. "It's critical that government is on its toes."

"Suffer the little children"
    In October, while Pope Frances was addressing the Italian Olympic team, Gemma Pompili, a 5-year-old little girl with Down's Syndrome, presented the pope with some Special Olympics-branded training shoes then little Gemma pontaneously climbed into the chair behind the Pope. While her parents attempted to stop her doing so, she shook her head and called out ‘Papa!” to attract the attention of Pope Francis. He took her hand  and continued with his speech.

Pres Trump wants a Space Force
     President Donald Trump has directed the Department of Defense to create a Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. military, alongside the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard.
     “We are going to have the Air Force and we are going to have the Space Force, separate but equal,” Trump said at a White House meeting of the National Space Council. “It is going to be something so important.”
       He called on Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the joint Chiefs of Staff, to carry out the assignment and Dunford accepted the job on the spot.
      The idea of creating a separate Space Force to focus on national space security has been around for years, but gathered momentum after Trump took office.
  

Green Gems fall from the Sky

  Meteorologist Erin Jordan of Tucson, Arizona reports that friends in Hawai have sent her pictures of green stones which have fallen from the sky. Her explanation is that the shiny green crystals are olivine, used as the gemstone peridot, the sandy crystals that make up Hawaii’s green beaches. Popular Mechanics reports that the falling crystals are inside the lava erupting into the sky from the Kilauea volcano. As the lava cools, it hardens into pumice. Being full of holes and fairly lightweight, the pumice falls slowly, allowing the olivine crystals to drop out of the holes and fall separately.

Televangelist wants $54 mil private jet

  Jesse Duplantis, a prosperity gospel televangelist from Louisiana says Jesus has asked him to buy a new private jet. And wouldn't you know it, Jesus has real nice taste in planes. He already owns three other private jets, but he is asking his followers to chip in to purchase a brand new Dassault Falcon 7X, for about $54 million. Duplantis says the planes get him closer to the Lord - and he had a divine conversation in which Jesus asked for the new aircraft by name. "It was one of the greatest statements the Lord ever told me, he said, 'Jesse do you want to come up where I'm at?'" the minister says. "'I want you to bleed me for a Falcon 7X.'" By "bleed," Duplantis -- er, Jesus -- apparently meant "ask for donations." Duplantis goes on to tell his followers that jets, especially nice ones with good fuel efficiency, allow him and his ministries to reach more people around the world. Duplantis publishes a photo of him standing beside his other three jets. Under the portrait is a quote, which he proudly reiterates: "It's not about possessions, it's about priorities."

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Art Bell dies, paranormal radio host 

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