They sort of gave me an ultimatum. They said you either leave or we're going to have to kidnap you.

You've never heard these stories. The Albanian politicians literally turned up after the

explosion with plastic bags of cash.

They affect you.

They shape our world.

They shape our politics.

But they're hidden.

Sometimes in plain sight and sometimes in the shadows.

I killed their brothers, killed their sisters,

ripped them, crippled them, they are right not to forgive me.

I was the target of a Russian disinformation campaign.

I'm Brian Kloss, a political scientist and a columnist for the Washington Post.

And this is Power Cor corrupts. One episode per week, one theme

per episode. Themes like ransom. When I got kidnapped they broke my glasses I

mean that was the first thing to go basically

when they roughed me up after pulling me out of the car.

Conspiracy theories personally I don't feel the great need to spend a massive amount

of time investigating the idea that the world is run by

shapeshifting lizards. The arms trade. Taxpayers are supporting

a guy-der-length militias in Yemen. The politics of magic and

witchcraft. Going into battle dressed in wigs or walking backwards or wearing amulets to make you bulletproof.

Narko politics.

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