After WWII, Australia took in a lot of refugees from Europe. Unfortunately, some of them had ties to Croatia’s Ustaše — the fascist government that even the Nazis thought went too far. They got the band back together in two remarkably conspicuous places: football clubs, and the conservative Liberal Party. 

Come for the football banter, stay for lesson in Australian slurs.

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Frank Olson was a chemist working for the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories when he was covertly dosed with LSD. Shortly afterwards, he was found dead in highly suspicious circumstances.

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In June 2019, Brazilian preacher Anderson do Carmo was murdered in cold blood in a flashy suburb of Rio de Janeiro.

Along with his wife Flordelis, the couple had become famous for adopting over 50 street children after emerging from poverty to start a series of successful churches with a heavy emphasis on the prosperity gospel.

But was it really a robbery gone wrong — or were there more sinister forces at play?

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On June 18 2023, a Sikh plumbing business owner called Hardeep Singh Nijjar was executed in a carpark in British Columbia. 

The Canadian government accused the Indian version of the CIA of doing the hit — and that’s only the beginning of a fallout that continues to reverberate around the world. 

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Sipho talks Elon Musk, Donald Trump and how apartheid South Africa found its way into the United States in 2025.

Musk grew up in a country where every government leader was a member of the Afrikaner Broederbond, an exclusively male, Afrikaner Calvinist secret society that dominated political, cultural and social life.

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Aamer, Elle and Sipho discuss how a daring midnight heist inside the Vatican exposed dark networks of fraud, money laundering and sexual abuse, taking down one Pope and threatening the Catholic Church with bankruptcy.

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