The Empire Never Ended

TENE relays the story of a little know but powerful organized crime network known as Grupa Amerika. Especially interesting is Grupa Amerika's connection with both the CIA and the Serbian deep state, as well as its origins in SOPO and the Westies. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

One hundred episodes since Boris, Fritz, and Rey discovered that they were in a tabletop rpg, they are drawn back into the Morlak's partisan struggle and forced to leave their pyramid studio. Music from pixabay (mostly Lexin_Music) and from FesliyanStudios. SFX from freesound.org Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Rey describes the history of the Hell's Kitchen-based gang the Westies, and their unlikely boss during the 80s, Boško Radonjić, aka "Yugo". Yugo was simultaneously one of the leaders of the Serbian terrorist group SOPO and the closest friend of the crazy hijacker Nikola Kavaja, and had some even more surprising connections... Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Rey discusses revolutionary nationalist groups in Bosnia and Croatia of the pre-WWI period, and how this history reflects on the relation of nationalism and imperialism and contributes to continuing misery of our lives - which is not appealing at all. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Rey summarizes a century of Serbian and Yugoslav history along a thread of obscure groups such as Serbian National Defense, the Black Hand, and SOPO, as well as SOPO's connections to organized crime. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

In their second tamburitzan-themed episode, Boris tells of the rise of performer-cum-Neo-Ustasha political activist Miroslav Škoro in Croatia and his musical education under lovable Pittsburgh tamburitza virtuoso, Jerry Grcevich. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Rey forces Boris to listen to Neofolk and gives TENEpod some background on its three foundational artists while Boris reviews Douglas Peace's Death in June, Tony Wakeford's Above the Ruins, and Ian Read's Fire + Ice. Spoiler alert: It's terrible nazi music. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris, Fritz, and Rey answer their last round of Patron questions from Arc 4, discussing metal bands, Balkan historical texts, ideal weirdos for future episodes, and jazz, jazz, jazz! Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE concludes their look at media representations of Ustashas in Yugoslav television and cinema in the '80s with an analysis of the 1988 film Braća po Materi and its attempt to subtly rewrite the histories of Croatian and Serbian nationalism. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod accepts their first round of patron questions for arc 4, giving their thoughts on BBC documentaries, made-up nonsense games with the podcast's favorite characters, Balkan political geography and history, left conspiracism, future episode ideas, and other weirdness. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE sits down to catch up on some current events, namely the "hard-left" FBI reporting on Catholic traddies, the recent arrest of RAM founder Robert Rundo in Romania, the new hipster nazi zine hitting the front lines of the war in Ukraine, the sudden rise of Albanian white supremacists, and the under-mentioned legacy of the late "godfather of the green berets". Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

The guys finally close the book on the third volume of the fash-files with a detailed look at radionics and psionics, leading, somehow, to the Satanic Self-Help scene and the one and only Uncle Chuckie. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE recounts the violent and doomed coup attempt by neo-Ustashas in the '70s to topple the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia through the vantage point of a Bosnia-made miniseries from the 1980s called 'Brisani Prostor'. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Fritz narrates the rise and fall of Project Stargate, the US 'intelligence' community's and army's special unit of psychic remote viewers, as well as a brief look at Jim Channon's First Earth Battalion, made famous by the film, The Men Who Stare at Goats. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Originally published on January 29, 2022. TENE dusts off the Fash-Files and looks into two mysterious close encounters of the third kind. Fritz offers a fresh look at the famous stories of the Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter of 1955 and the Lovette-Cunningham Incident at White Sands, New Mexico in '56. He examines the social and political environment in which these stories were popularized and argues that understanding Christian Identity suggests hypotheses usually overlooked in most tellings. Music Credit: "Times", "Dark Winds", and "Distorted Doom" by David Fesliyan @ fesliyanstudios.com Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod continues their look into fashy ruling class woowoo following JB Rhine's ESP lab at Duke into the first steps on the path to Project Stargate alongside the Golden Age science fiction fandom created by John W. Campbell and Astounding Science Fiction. Praise Mighty Jorth! Cool sci-fi sounds from freesound.org Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE examines Operation Gvardijan through a TV show from 1983 in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia called "Traps" (Zamke), an unusual docudrama about OZNA, Yugoslav Security Service, and their successful operation to capture ninety Ustasha stay-behind terrorists after WWII. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Fritz analyzes the history of 'psychokinesis' and its creation by rich folks playing with ghosts and trying to make it sound scientific in an attempt to discover the new "Laws of Nature" that will help them stop communism. From 18th-century psychic churches and societies to the founders of American psychology and science fiction, tenepod eventually finds itself in the ESP labs of J. B. Rhine. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

In part two of the Mahmut Muftic story, the tene squad examines Muftic's wide-ranging links to Western intelligence agencies through the lens of the CIA's broader support for the Muslim Brotherhood and (ex)Nazis. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod finally cracks open MKUltra with the hypnosis research of Mahmut Muftić for Dr. William Joseph Bryan, Jr., taking Fritz down a rabbit hole of ancient Egyptian alien spirits, psychic surgery, and 'Mexican mushroom cults' through the life and career of superstar CIA asset Andrija Puharich. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris introduces tenepod of Mahmut Muftić, the enigmatic Ustasha who forged an unlikely alliance between the Muslim Brotherhood and Croatian National Resistance in the 1960s. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Rey forces Boris to listen to neofolk and gives tenepod some background on its three foundational artists while Boris reviews Douglas Peace's Death in June, Tony Wakeford's Above the Ruins, and Ian Read's Fire + Ice. Spoiler alert: It's terrible nazi music. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris examines the activities of post-war Bosniak collaborationists going from the Levant and the 1948 Arab-Israeli war to the SS clerics behind one of Chicago's oldest mosques. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE is joined by Cal to introduce the basics of contemporary Hungarian fascism following the recent arrests of anti-fascists on the annual 'Day of Honor', remembering the defeat of Nazi and Arrow Cross forces at the hands of the Red Army. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

From deep in the dusty TENE pod archives (May 2021), an exhaustive review of Ryan Fleming's book, "Scithain", a sort of sequel to the Drakon Covenant's (much shorter) founding text. Featuring Nazi Ryan's disgusting history, Skyrim NPCs, Vampire King Aurthur, Satanic Neanderthals, and of course, Werewolves! Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris examines the life of Ante Pavelić's bodyguard, Ustasha Adolf Pilsel, through the eyes of his son Drago, an anti-fascist liberation theologist who tried to get his father to face his past. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

With the recent arrests of Atomwaffen founder, Brandon Russell, TENE pod reviews the history of the Atomwaffen Division and discusses the recent trendiness of neo-Nazi terror fantasies about destroying energy infrastructure. The fellas also consider the life of Brandon Russell's co-conspirator, Sarah Clendaniel, as well as the role of the FBI in their planned attack on Baltimore's power grid. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

The fellas discuss the bombing of JAT flight 367 and the survival story of flight attendant Vesna Vulović by taking a look at mainstream western media coverage of the event. Boris takes us through the weird world of the Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood and Australian Ustasas with a fondness for camping. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris concludes his three-part study of the Croatian National Resistance with Miro Barišić and Dinko Šakić; from Death Camps in Yugoslavia to armed forces in Paraguay to Taekwondo championships in Oklahoma to a Hijacking in Sweden, the story of the CNR takes some strange turns. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

The boyzies screen the 1952 American anti-communist propaganda film, The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima, and decide it would have been much better as a horror. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

The crew takes a look at the life and times of the infamous Croatian terrorist Zvonko Busic and the 1976 hijacking of TWA flight 335 that led to his long-term imprisonment. The lads also weigh in on the still unsolved 1975 bombing of LaGuardia airport that killed 11 people. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Ever ask yourself why Mel Gibson is like that? TENE has the answer with their character study of Mad Max's sedevacantist and holocaust-denying father, Hutton Gibson. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris narrates the final days of Maks "The Butcher" Luburić and introduces the next generation of Neo-Ustasha terrorists and their mafia-like reign in emigree communities. Music from pixabay.com and fesliyanstudios.com Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE opens the F-Files once again to investigate the demonic UFOlogy of the Most Holy Family Monastery, a small sedevacantist cell originally from Berlin, New Jersey that now runs its mostly online operation from a compound in Fillmore, New York. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris falls down the strange rabbit hole of Albanian anti-communist exiles, from the almost unbelievable life of globe-trotting warlord King Leka I to the South Bronx's most famous "defender of the national flag". Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

The Congregation of Mary the Immaculate (CMRI) is the lovechild of the Cold War-era anticommunist organization, the Blue Army, and the bizarre consecration spree of exiled Vietnamese archbishop Ngô Đình Thục, once favored by US cold warriors. Hear the tragicomic bromance of Frank Schuckardt and Denis Chicoine and get to know the Cold War's greatest anti-soviet propagandist, Our Lady of Fatima. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE continues their look at the hijinks of post-war Ustashe as competing groups enter an uneasy alliance with each other under the banner of anti-communism. Ante Pavelić finally dies, but his legacy continues. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE continues their look into fashy Catholic types by diving into sedevacantism (the belief that there is no pope) and the Society of Saint Pius V (SSPV). Plenty of imagined assassination attempts, real CIA coups, creepy Nazi doctors, and traffic accidents for the whole family! Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris finally breaks into the twisted history of post-war neo-Ustasha organizations and personalities that lead to a Cold War terrorist network/'government-in-exile' that wildly outpaced their Serbian counterparts in SOPO. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

FBI agents Boris and Rey tumble towards a catastrophic conclusion in the second half of TENE's New Year RPG based on the film, Imperium. Music from fesliyanstudios.com and pixabay.com Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE offers an analysis of Nina Bunjevac's compelling graphic novel, Fatherland (2014), about her father's fatal relationship with SOPO, Freedom for the Serbian Fatherland, and the intergenerational trauma that helped shape his tragic destiny. Check out her work at ninabunjevac.com Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris, Fritz, and Rey drunkenly ring in the New Year with an original tabletop RPG adaptation of the film, Imperium (2016), starring Daniel Radcliffe and Toni Collette about an undercover FBI agent inside the white nationalist underworld. Agent Rey and Agent Boris infiltrate a gathering of notorious American fascists and begin to search for, or manufacture, the "best terror plot" the FBI has ever seen. Happy New Year from all of us at The Empire Never Ended! The future is looking weird. Music from pixabay. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Rey convinces Boris and Fritz to reenact a revealing interview given with CIA assassin and nationalist terrorist, Nikola Kavaja from back in 2006, inspiring the boyzies to create a recruitment ad for the wokest of deep state agencies. Originally released Nov 18, 2022. Music by Daddy's Music at pixabay.com. SFX from freesound.org. Original interview here. By Christopher Stewart. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE introduces The Society of Saint Pius X to their roster of freaks, Catholic fascists who rebelled against Vatican II in the '70s, and who themselves recently suffered their own absurd schism with even nuttier Nazis. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE concludes their biographical study of CIA terrorist, 'Tito's hunter', and member of SOPO (Freedom for the Serbian Fatherland), Nikola Kavaja, from his post-hijacking prison time to his return to Belgrade in the late '90s. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris recounts the life and career of Ray Jurjevich (Ratibor Đurđević) who united the most antisemitic elements of the American right with the heritage of the Serbian Nazi collaborator, Dimitrije Ljotić, in the latter half of the 20th century. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE examines the 2016 film starring Daniel Radcliff, Imperium, and critiques its depiction of the relationship between the FBI and American neo-nazis. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE recounts the 2013 drama inside the Order of Nine Angles that lead to David Myatt passing the reigns to the Tempel ov Blood, all in the context of Myatt's master plan to troll David Icke for attention. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Nikola Kavaja's strange associations and CIA career culminate in the very-1970s move of hijacking American Airlines Flight 293. Also, the return of the Black Hand! Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE delves into the pathetic shit show that is the Order of Nine Angles and attempts to get to the bottom of their current crisis of leadership. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.