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Democrats Lose A Vital Propaganda Machine With The Fall Of The SPLC

When creating a short list of nefarious NGOs that manipulate government policy and socially engineer public opinion, the Southern Poverty Law Center is usually near the top.  The group has been fading in influence due to excessive exposure, with new and less visible left wing NGOs taking it's place.  However, it remains a key pillar of the Democratic Party's propaganda machine and a poisonous cloud looming over grassroots conservative organization.

News from the Trump FBI and DOJ indicates that this reign of political terror may finally be coming to an end.  The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges that accuse it of illegally raising millions of dollars to pay informants in white supremacist and other extremist groups.  

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the SPLC used paid operatives within extremist circles to incite and intensify racial tensions, arguing the group fostered the very threats it claimed to fight.  But why was an NGO allowed to operate like a covert federal agency for so long?

These operations were essentially endorsed by the Democratic Party (as well as some Neo-Cons).

One could say that the SPLC had two missions:  First, to drum up hysteria among weak minded liberals and make them believe that there are malicious "hate groups" under every rock and behind every tree.  Second, to make conservatives paranoid about informants when seeking to build political opposition movements.

Sadly, to this day, the SPLC was rather successful in achieving both goals.  The NGO's efforts to create a false model of "hate networks" (especially during the Obama years) was a primary impetus for the eventual rise of the woke activist movement from around 2012 onward.  In other words, the insane cult obsessed with race and identity that plagues America today found its roots within the SPLC and their alliance with the Democratic Party.  

SPLC "informants" were a constant nuisance among conservative activist and protest groups as well as preparedness groups.  Nothing these conservatives did was actually illegal, but, the SPLC had a knack for making it sound as if they were engaging in criminality.  Far too many right wingers were frightened into refusing to engage in basic meetings and public discussions, simply on the possibility that SPLC informants might be present. 

No such infiltration was used to target left wing extremist groups like Antifa, which have carried out numerous criminal attacks, riots, sabotage and acts of intimidation against their political opponents.   

But, times change and the truth cannot be suppressed forever.  Conservative and nationalist movements grew exponentially, even if they still suck at organizing formally.  And today, the SPLC is a widely known and rightfully despised entity. 

The SPLC was specifically integral to the Obama and Biden Administrations, including a direct information sharing relationship with the DHS and FBI.  The majority of anti-conservative policy papers published by the federal government during this time were crafted using SPLC propaganda. 

The 2009 DHS Rightwing Extremism Report, a unclassified assessment warning of potential "surges" in right-wing extremism, drew input extensively from SPLC info. The report targeted militia groups as potential homegrown terrorists and was partially withdrawn because of political backlash. 

A separate 2009 state-level fusion center report - the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) "Modern Militia Movement" report - linked supposedly dangerous militia members to "3rd party political groups" and  "supporters of Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr." The report flagged symbols like the Gadsden Flag, as well as anti-government, anti-new world order and anti-martial law discussion as potential indicators of homegrown terrorism.  The SPLC was a key participant in the formation of the MIAC report.

SPLC President Richard Cohen served on Secretary Janet Napolitano’s CVE Working Group in 2010. Cohen and an SPLC colleague acted as subject-matter experts on right-wing extremism in the DHS Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Working Group.  Their purpose was to shift federal law enforcement focus almost entirely from Islamic-based terrorism over to right wing extremism. 

Under Biden, the SPLC was highly active in shaping public narratives surrounding the J6 trials.  SPLC staff provided training to DOJ prosecutors and SPLC leaders/staff visited the White House at least 11 times.  President Biden personally met with SPLC representatives at least 6 times.

With the fall of the SPLC, the Democrats lose a vital tool in their social engineering arsenal.  If the accusations turn out to be true and SPLC leaders are convicted, their activities should be considered as treason against the American people.  Any and all NGOs participating in social engineering operations against the US populace must eventually be indicted and erased if the country is ever going to rebuild the public trust, but bringing down the SPLC is a good start.

Tyler Durden Wed, 04/22/2026 - 10:00

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'Time Is Running Out For Iran': The Market Is Calling 'Bullshit' On Mainstream's Narrative, Hugh Hendry Explains...

The stock market is telling a different story from the 'Iran is strong, America is overreaching' narrative being spewed by mainstream media.

For weeks, the financial war narrative has been 'Iran, strong; America, reckless', risk's like mercury and the thermometer rising. And yet, the stock market has done the opposite.

As Hugh Hendry remarks in his latest 'Acid Capitalist' report:

"the gap between what you're reading on the front page of the Financial Times or in the Wall Street Journal, and what you're seeing every day in the stock market... has become too wide to ignore."

Hendry goes further:

"...the transatlantic intelligentsia of the coastal elites and the European Sophistocrats, tell you the same goddamn thing: 

Iran, Darling, Iran has the upper hand. The strait is their choke point. 

Trump, Trump, that clown he’s out of his depth. He’s a reckless vulgarian, and he’s dragging all of us into another disaster. 

While the patient, chess-playing Iranians, they hold every card as they sip tea in Tehran. 

My brothers and sisters, this is not journalism. It’s a fucking echo chamber. "

This is all perfectly engineered to confirm with every lazy prejudice. It is also contemptible because it's wrong.

The market took one cold look at this narrative, and it did what the journalists would say is unforgivable: 

"The market the market did not validate.

The market did not hedge. The market it didn’t even blink. It just fucking ignored it.

It went the other way. It made fresh all-time highs whilst the entire elitist Tehran-centric fantasy was still being printed as gospel."

Simply put, Hendry goes on, markets reduce the world to one ruthless fucking question:

"it looks at adversaries in conflict, and asks who is constrained and how badly. And the answer once you strip out the BS, it’s not complicated..."

And below, Hendry lays out why Iran is cornered...

"Iran’s oil system is not built to pause. It’s built to flow. It’s a flow system.

Oil cannot simply sit in the ground while strategists argue over maps and how much uranium dust to give over. It has to move. Iran and its system has to move continuously from the rock underground to the tanker in the harbor to the Chinese buyer in Asia.

Pause long enough, and the whole machine breaks.

Interrupt that flow. And the problem isn’t just lost revenues of like forty, fifty, sixty billion dollars. It’s the least of your concerns. The problem is physical and is irreversible.

Because when you suddenly shut the well, remember there’s no physical storage. They pump, they load, they ship.

If they can’t load, if they can’t ship, they can’t pump. And when you suddenly shut the wells, the pressure underground drops fucking fast. 

Do you know what happens?

The heavy, sticky crap in the oil, it gums up, gums up in the tiny holes within the rocks and becomes like glue. It traps the oil. It makes it really fucking hard to extract. And once that damage is done, it’s permanent. You lose a big chunk of the oil. 

The more Iran is actively either through theater or through bluff, the more that it sits in a standoff, the more it is actively destroying the one thing that it actually depends upon. 

That’s the trap. And you’re not reading in in the press, but you’re damn well reading it on your screens.

Because this is where the gap between the narrative of the media and the price stops being subtle and irrelevant, and it’s why stock markets have priced something entirely differently.

The Iranian system, the adversary, cannot afford to stay disrupted without hurting itself. That's what's in the equity market's price."

With this week's lack of talks (and the US ceasefire/blockade still in play now), the question is how long does Iran have before it folds from pain, or its ideological inability to come to the Infidels' table makes it a shadow of its former self.

The answer is Iran has very limited time left - according to JPMorgan's latest estimates:

...with a "total export blackout" having effectively started this weekend, Iran now has about 15 days before it has to begin production shut-ins, which then have to be fully completed by day 30, or sometime around May 20. 

Hendry concludes:

"...the market has priced the probability.

And right now, the probabilities tell you. Well, what do they tell you? They don’t point to an empowered adversary like Iran dictating terms to a paralyzed American administration.

They certainly do not tell you that.

They point to something simpler, a constrained energy producer hitting the natural limits of its own system. A system put on pause that needs flow. A system that is precariously on the edge of irreversible damage." 

And global capital markets have already moved to price that eventuality in.

You can read/listen to the rest of Hugh Hendry's excellent summary of the current status quo here...

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