Fossett Faked Death

Is adventurer Steve Fossett still alive? many think so. Disappearing off the face of the Earth last September on a joyride in a light aircraft above the Nevada desert in the U.S.

The round-the-world flying legend had crashed hot-air balloons and planes across the globe but had always emerged unscathed.

No body or wreckage has ever been found and now five months after a judge officially declared the 63-year-old financier dead investigators have made the astonishing suggestion that he faked his own death.

Lloyd’s risk assessor Robert Davis spent eight months trying to find out what happened, he says that Lloyd's are to pay out $ 25 million on Fossett's death. "All you have in this case is a missing man and a missing plane, no more and no less."

Davis says that law enforcement agents failed to launch a proper investigation into Fossett’s disappearance. The only person who claims to have seen Fossett take off has never been interviewed.

Lieutenant Colonel Cynthia Ryan of the U.S. Air Force who was involved in every aspect of the Air Patrol’s month-long hunt finds it deeply suspicious that no trace of Fossett has been found.

" I’ve been doing this search and rescue for 14 years. Fossett should have been found.

It’s not like we didn’t have our eyes open. We found six other planes while we were looking for him. We’re pretty good at what we do."

Even though they hadn't found those planes before.

Lt Col Ryan believes there are many things about Fossett’s supposed last flight that simply don’t add up. He borrowed a tiny Bellanca Citabria Super Decathlon plane a make that Fossett, a serious plane buff, was known to dislike and was easy to dismantle.

He left behind his expensive global positioning system watch at the guest cottage where he was staying at on Billionaire Barron Hilton's ranch something he always wore during flights.

He wore only a T-shirt and shorts, and had no parachute or blankets with him just a suitcase filled with $100 bills. The plane was fitted with a satellite rescue beacon to alert rescuers to his position if he crashed. No signal was ever received and the beacon has never been located and even though he always filled out a flight plan he didn't on this occasion.

Fossett’s financial position was not as secure as it seemed. He dabbled on the stock market and had invested heavily in troubled financial companies including Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley.

He had been having affairs with two women and also with close friend Richard Branson who has always seemed to be a bit of a queer duck, many have put that down to him merely being English as it can be so hard to tell. A faked death would be one way to escape an expensive divorce and to avoid everyone knowing he was AD/DC .

Hilton, the billionaire grandfather of party girls Paris and Nicky Hilton employed mercenaries from the controversial security firm Blackwater to guard his ranch during the search and spin doctor Carl Rove was seen fishing at the well stocked trout river.

William Hasley, who co-wrote Fossett’s autobiography, said: "He has unbelievable survival skills, and has crashed all over the world in planes and balloons. I would be very discouraged if he passed in this way."

Mr Fossett should have remembered that its called 'flying' and not crashing. Maybe Fossett is alive and living off hidden bank accounts and has changed his appearance and name to Steve Faucet or now he lives in another dismension which has been previously reported.

A source close to Richard Branson says that Branson has met with Fossett several times since the supposed crash and a pair of Branson's underwear contained not only skid marks but Branson's and Fossett's DNA.

A spokesperson for Richard Branson denies all knowledge and condemns the story as pure fantasy but of course they would. Branson himself who is testing his new space plane in Nevada right now refused to answer any of the questions I shouted to him as the security guards dragged me off.

Branson still sports that crazed maniacal smile in spite of his close friend's supposed demise but if you can't trust millionaires then who can you trust?

Not Quite Babe

Villagers of the Fengzhang village, Xiping township of China were shocked after a monkey-like piglet was born.

The owner Feng Changlin said: "It's hideous. No one will be willing to buy it, and it scares the family to even look at it how are we supposed to eat it?"

He says the piglet looks just like a monkey, with two thin lips, a small nose and two big eyes. Its rear legs are also much longer than its forelegs, causing it to jump instead of walk and as pigs are quite clean animals it chucks it's poo rather than fling it.

"But our son likes to play with it, and he stopped us from getting rid of it. He even feeds it milk."

There is hope for the pig as Feng says when it gets bigger he will have it cured.

New Post For HMS Cornwall Commander

Commander Jeremy Woods who was in charge of HMS Cornwall that had 15 sailors and Royal Marines captured and held for 13 days by the Iranians has been removed from his command.

Two inquiries into the incident showed no shortcomings and no one person was to blame and that the move was not in any way related to the Iran Hostages said a MOD spokesperson.

The Spokesperson added: "Cdr Woods would continue to serve in the Royal Navy in a post where his talents and experience would be used to great effect."

Navy trainees will get to enjoy his talents and experience at the training base HMS Raleigh where Cdr Woods will be serving lunch in the cafeteria and mopping up any spills and telling tales of his 23 years man and boy serving in the Navy.

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Rehab Is For Quitters

Amy Winehouse the Brittish chart topping singer is looking more glassy eyed than usual. It isn't because of her drug and alcohol addictions this time, its because she has become the latest star to join the wax work collection at Madame Tussauds in London.

The glossy hair and glowing skin on the wax dummy seems to be a wax brushed image of Amy as she is usually seen disheveled with a matted beehive and cigarette in her mouth as she staggers from night clubs getting into fights.

The singer decided to stay home and let her parents Janis and Mitch unveil the figure. Amy refused to model for the artists so they had to work from photographs which took 4 months to complete. Mother Janis was quoted as being 'stunned' by the figure her father Mitch said Burt Reynolds looked a bit creepy. Mr Reynolds was in town for a movie and was not on display.

Bale Makes Bail

Batman star Christian Bale, 34, argued with his mother after she allegedly insulted his wife by calling her a "lunch box licker and a Seagull rubber".

Bale was arrested and bailed over an assault claim, which he has denied. 'He just got very loud because his mother was saying some very outrageous things about him, and his wife,' said sources close to the actor.

Bale is said to have become depressed over the death of close friend and co-star Heath Ledger which has caused some troubles in his marriageto Sandra 'Sibi' Blazic, a former model and make-up artist .

"His marriage is not perfect, but his relationship with his mother is in much more trouble," said a friend of Bale.

Sir Michael Caine who was also there as he stars in the movie said loudly ; '' That bloody stupid woman if I see her in the street she'll get a left hook, he's under a lot of pressure and simply got incredibly loud with members of his family around, his mother should get over the fact that another woman shares Christian's bloody bed now."

Christian has admitted that something just snapped, but he didn't threaten anyone with violence.

Mother Jenny Bale says there was a family incident but says she did not call the police to the scene.

A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said: " Bale has to realise that this is not Gotham city and his wild vigilante ways will not be tolerated we are making further investigations."

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Material Pope Is So Humble

Sydney, Australia, Pope Benedict XVI said a "spiritual dessert" topped with sprinkles was spreading throughout the world and he challenged young people to shed the greed and cynicism of their time to create a new age of hope for humankind.

Speaking at a Mass before some 350,000 Roman Catholic pilgrims and a likely television audience of millions more, Benedict wrapped up the church's six-day World Youth Day festival. He urged the young people in his more than 1 billion-strong flock to be agents of change because "the world needs renewal and strict rules, order must be restored ."

"In so many of our societies, side by side with material prosperity, a spiritual dessert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair, and blood when you wipe " the pontiff said as he stood in his Gucci loafers and designer robes.

The appeal came as Benedict finished a visit to Australia that touched on the themes that have defined his three-year-old papacy, including the struggle to rejuvenate a crisis-battered Church, reaching out to other faiths encouraging young buff men to join the Priesthood, the promotion of unprotected sex and raising global warming as an important issue.

The 81-year-old pope said it was up to a new generation of Christians to build a world in "which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished not rejected, feared as a threat and destroyed" as his generation can't be bothered with the youth of today as they don't know they're born.

The Mass came a day after the pope made a forceful apology for the sexual abuse of children by Australia's Roman Catholic clergy, keeping up efforts begun in the United States to publicly atone for what he called evil acts by priests even though the Devil made them do it so you can't really blame them.

The pope was due to leave Australia for the Vatican on Monday. He announced that Madrid, Spain, would host the next World Youth Day in 2011 and told the pilgrims: "I look forward to seeing you again in three years' time, bring your young friends."

Benedict, who shrugged off the effects of a longer-than 20-hour flight from Rome and kept a hectic schedule during his time in Australia, coughed a couple of times during Sunday's Mass and at one point blew his nose, looked at the tissue and shook his head, prompting reporters to ask about his health.

"It was chilly, and everybody felt it, no?" Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said. "But he is in fine health as all us humble servants of God have the very best healthcare with our own private physicans so don't worry."

What Do They Know That We Don't ?

The US government has purchased hundreds of thousands of cheap plastic burial vaults in Georgia, North America.

OBB News got no response when it inquired whether the Government is expecting a half million people to die soon.

Georgia is the home of the CDC, the Center for Disease Control and these air tight seal containers would be perfect to bury victims of plague or biological warfare.

Maybe there was a sale on so they snapped up 500,000 plastic vaults, stayed tuned people of Georgia.