March 2009 Archives

The tragic death of Jade Goody at just 27-years-old has left the nation in mourning.
But for conspiracy buffs is raises once more one of the most morbid, yet interesting, theories out there.
Club 27, as it has become known, is a group of notable stars who have all died at just 27.
The membership list reads like a who's who of celebrities, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, all lost their lives at the dreaded age.
In the case of some of these legendary figures, their deaths have been shrouded in mystery.
Cobain's final hours, depressed, drugged and alone, will remain a riddle, but conspiracy theories abound as to whether he would have been able to pull the trigger on the shotgun that claimed his young life.
Hendrix's end was also drug-linked, while Joplin lost her life to the same heroin addiction that had so consumed Cobain.
Guitarist Jones died in very suspicious circumstances. The former Rolling Stone was found at the bottom of his swimming pool by his Swedish girlfriend, who later wrote a book about how her lover had been murdered.
As for The Doors' frontman Morrison, his demise is particularly mysterious. He was found dead in a bathtub at his Paris apartment, but no autopsy was ever performed, allowing theorists to speculate on everything from murder to a faked death.
Jade's sad end may not have been a mystery, but the mere fact that she died at 27 will start tongues wagging again about the curse that stalks young celebrities at that tender age.

Germany 1945.
The Third Reich is crumbling, and the military victory of the allies is assured.
With the world only just learning the true horrors that lay behind the barbed wire of Auschwitz and Dachau, the US army is uncovering a rich treasure trove of military and scientific knowledge.
Under Hitler, the German army had invested more money in research and development than any military unit in human history.
The results were staggering.
Not only had the Nazis mastered previously unknown methods in the field of rocket science and munitions, they had used gruesome experiments in the death camps of Eastern Europe to learn the secrets of chemical warfare and medical manipulation.
But the scientists who had so callously and cruelly exploited the suffering of the holocaust victims were now freelance, no longer shackled by the constraints of the Nazi regime.
Their knowledge and expertise were going to prove crucial over the coming years, but their distasteful views and their appalling actions meant the Allies would baulk at accepting them as refugees.
So where did these brilliant, brutal men end up?
More to the point, what did they end up doing, and did some of their inhuman experiments outlive the Nazi regime that spawned them and cross the Atlantic to the US?

George W Bush left office with the lowest approval rating of any US president in living memory.
So great was the impact of his catastrophic leadership that it handed the White House, Congress and the Senate to the Democrats, and left the Republican party so desperate for leadership that they turned to Sarah Palin.
But what if it was all a con?
Could Bush really have stolen not one but two elections to grab hold of and keep the most powerful office in the world?
Conspiracy theorists believe the former President and his party did just that, exerting influence over election officials, using the position of his brother Jeb as Governor of Florida and blocking hundreds of thousands of democrats from having their votes counted.
The potential ramifications of such a conspiracy are almost too extreme to comprehend.
How different would history have been if Al Gore had been sitting in the Oval Office on 9/11, or had John Kerry been commander-in-chief in Iraq?
If Bush did steal the elections then where does that leave the most proudly democratic nation on earth, and how easily could it happen again?
Both the 2000 and 2004 elections saw Bush beat the pundits and confound the opinion polls to claim the White House.
The big question is, did he do this through skillful politics and well-planned campaigning, or did he use Machiavellian cunning to dupe a nation into handing him power?