The 100th Episode Special

Couple of pointers on the Olof Palme-chat 62~ mins - Palme was actually shot while walking from a night at the Cinema with his wife Lisbeth. - An initial suspect was a man named Victor Gunnarsson connected to the European wing of the LaRouche-movement. He was found murdered in 1993 in North Carolina. - A notorious junkie by the name of Christer Pettersson was initially convicted, but later freed for the murder and turned into a local counter-culture celebrity. - The police also investigated a possible "PKK-lead". During the 1980s, the Turkish-Kurdish conflict was in full swing and had spillover effects all over Europe. The PKK was suspected of having killed two defectors in the mid 80s, which in turn led to Sweden formally proscribing the group as a terrorist organization. The lead stems from a drunk finnish guy calling the cops, saying he had overheard a kurdish guy talking about procuring a S&W-pistol to cap Palme while they were both in jail. - A plethora of conspiracies regarding the SÄPO (Swedish Security Service), rogue elements inside the police, Stay Behind/Operation Gladio with or without help of the South Africans exist. Most of these in one way or another imply that Palmes pro-third world, anti-war, anti-apartheid positions would be unacceptable to these institutions. (He did famously compare the Christmas bombings of North Vietnam to nazi war crimes, which prompted the US to freeze their diplomatic relations with us in the 1970s.) - Another wild conspiracy angle is that the KGB had him killed because he "refused to follow orders", which presupposes that he was in fact a communist sleeper agent initially, but was not pliant enough. - Stasi, the East German secret police, conducted their own investigation into the Palme murder and concluded the most likely perpetrator to be Amir Heidari, Europes largest human trafficker.

OK, some questions to keep your list growing: - Let's assume one-way time travel is possible. You are forced to take part in one of the conflicts that you handled on the podcast, but as a last wish you have the choice. What is it? Spoiler: you can't alter history. - The podcast "Smart enough to know better" has a game called "pimp my time", in which one is stuffing the other in a time machine, where the victim has one hour to learn as much as possible about the target time and place and can then do anything to live the best possible life then and there. Play a round! - Is there someone (now or in history) you hate enought to endure the sentence for having killed that person?

Arnim Sommer