The Empire Never Ended

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...

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. Subs...

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. Subs...

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. Sub...

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.