May Cognitive Dissidents

This episode features three hosts—Parallel Mike (Parallel Systems), Monica (The Monica Perez Show), and Hrvoje (geopoliticsandempire.com)—discussing geopolitical developments, financial instability, psychological operations, and what they term the "Absolute Zero" agenda: a coordinated global push toward energy scarcity, food restriction, digital control, and neo-feudalism.

The Iran Conflict and the "Next COVID"

The hosts claim they predicted Iran would become the central conflict taking the world to "the next stage of the reset" as early as their first 2025 episode. They note that others are now calling this "the next COVID," a framing they believe they originated. The conflict is viewed not as organic but as a controlled escalation serving multiple agenda items:

Massive defence spending: The US defence budget proposal has reached $1.3 trillion (possibly $1.5 trillion), with Germany and other nations establishing independent defence systems
Mini-drone proliferation: Commercial-style advertising for military drones in places like Sri Lanka and Poland, described as "Skynet becoming self-aware"
Population manipulation: The Iranian regime's permitted "fight back" may be designed to convince its population they are genuinely resisting Western control, unlike Venezuela where leadership swaps appear more overt

Financial Instability: The Missing Piece

Mike argues that unlike COVID—where a financial crisis quickly followed the viral narrative—the current Iran conflict has occurred without its accompanying financial event, though he believes one is imminent. Key indicators cited:

Bond yields spiking: Rising yields are "ripping apart" commercial banks' bond portfolios (their collateral), creating massive unrealised losses
Job losses since 2025: Real economy shedding jobs across manufacturing, industrials, and technology; only healthcare, "death care," and private education growing
Stock market disconnect: Described as "debt-fuelled," requiring ever-increasing debt to sustain; without it, "that will eventually start to unravel"

WHO "Polaris" Exercise and Hantavirus Cruise Ship

A two-day WHO high-level simulation exercise called "Polaris" was conducted, based around a fictional new bacterium spreading globally. This coincided with reports of a hantavirus outbreak on an isolated cruise ship—echoing the Princess cruise ship association with early COVID. The hosts treat this with extreme scepticism:

Hantavirus is not spread human-to-human but by rodents; the "terrified" passenger interviewed by Sky News was described as obviously reading from a script with "fake crying"
The hosts speculate this may be deliberately clumsy "phishing"—attracting only the most credulous to engage with the narrative
Monica notes hantavirus genuinely occurs on ships, but "nobody talked about it last year when this happened to somebody I know"—suggesting selective amplification

The Trump Assassination Attempts: "Omicron B Variant"

The hosts draw a striking parallel between COVID variants and Trump assassination attempts:

"The first few COVID variants people were panicked and scared of; by the time you got to Omicron B or whatever the hell it was, people were like 'this is nonsense.' Well I think that was the recent Trump assassination attempt—it was the Omicron B variant of the Trump assassination. Nobody bought it."

Videos shared on X reportedly show Trump being booed at baseball games and UFC events. The hosts speculate that having made the public "endure" fake assassination attempts, a real one could now serve as a "black mass trauma event" to install J.D. Vance, setting up a more compelling political "face-off" against Democratic figures like Newsom and AOC.

Media Deception and Alternative Media Infiltration

The hosts express deep distrust of ex-CIA figures now appearing in alternative media, with Hrvoje creating a meme stating: "There are no ex-CIA agents". They identify what they call a "tight little narrative network" cross-promoting figures including:

Jimmy Dore
Vigilant Fox (described as potentially "some Zionist guy behind" it)
Russell Brand (mocked for a Piers Morgan interview where he failed to locate a Bible quote he claimed to reference)
Patrick McDavid (described as a "cleared security state operation")
Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson (viewed as controlled opposition)

Hrvoje listens to such content "from that 10,000-ft view" to discern "where they want to take things".

The "Absolute Zero" Agenda: Core Documentation

Mike references a document titled "Absolute Zero" that he displays on screen, describing it as the blueprint for:

"The goal is to put us all into such deficits in terms of energy, food, water that we can only live through dependency. There will be zero ability to live without the state having complete control and you will need the state, otherwise you will starve."

Concrete implementations cited globally:

Amsterdam: City council approved ban on outdoor advertisements for meat, fossil fuels, airline tickets, and cruise ships—while permitting advertising for prostitution, cannabis, and magic mushrooms
Pakistan: "Smart lockdown" with checkpoints and movement restrictions due to energy costs, described as "exactly the COVID playbook"
Global airlines: Canceling flights at "unprecedented pace" due to jet fuel costs; Delta stopping snacks and drinks on short flights
Argentina: 70% jump in beef prices leading to people buying donkey meat, which has "sold out"

UAE: First "Algocracy" and OPEC Exit

A significant development highlighted: UAE left OPEC while simultaneously announcing it would become the world's first "algocracy"—rule by AI government/agentic AI algorithmic government. Hrvoje claims he predicted this in 2020, calling COVID "about global algocracy." He connects this to:

Bretton Woods 3.0: Moving from petrodollar to a digital/tokenized system, possibly "Bitcoin dollar" or digital petro-yuan equivalent
IMEC corridor and tokenization (referenced via Patrick Wood)

Elon Musk and the "Retirement Is Irrelevant" Narrative

Elon Musk's interview with Peter Diamandis is cited, where Musk stated:

"Saving for retirement is irrelevant... The services will be there to support you... There will be zero scarcity of goods and services"

The hosts treat this with contempt, noting Musk's simultaneous wealth accumulation. They interpret this as the elite sales pitch: AI and brain chips as saviours, while Palantir controls most of life and jobs disappear.

AI, Data Centres, and Biological Risks

Nvidia partnership: Mini AI data centres installed on residential homes, marketed as "income generation" to offset energy costs
5G/COVID symptom parallel: Monica notes loss of taste/smell during COVID coincided with 5G rollout; "loss of smell and taste is a symptom of radiation sickness"
Grand solar minimum: Mike argues we are entering a period of extreme cooling that will make energy demands catastrophic; NASA's claim that global warming will offset this is contradicted by lived experience of harsher winters

Religious and Esoteric Dimensions

Multiple threads converge on what the hosts see as spiritual warfare:

Baha'i faith: On their mailing list, openly lamenting slow progress toward "world government," "world constitution," and "world federalism"
Theosophical League for Federation of Nations (1923): Document from Geneva linking Theosophical Society to European federation
Pope Leo XIV: Described as an "American Pope" psyop; criticised for calling Ukraine "pure Russian imperialist aggression" while ignoring Turkish atrocities against Syrian Christians; Rubio reportedly seeking his humanitarian aid intervention for Cuba
UFO disclosure: Perry Stone reported pastors being briefed by US government to "prepare for UFO disclosure"—identified as the "long-awaited Iron Mountain last card"

White Pills and Final Observations

Despite the bleak analysis, the hosts offer two "white pills":

Hrvoje's biblical white pill: Revelation 21—"new heaven and new earth," God dwelling with humanity, wiping away tears and death
Mike's darkly humorous white pill: Ted Turner's death at 87—"one of the biggest cheerleaders for mass depopulation... the population was reduced by one"

Google Trends as Economic Barometer

Mike shares four search terms spiking to near-COVID or above-2008 levels:

"Lost my job"
"Sell my house"
"Divorce my husband"
"Sell 401k" (record levels of early drawdowns)

These are presented as evidence that "the walls closing in on them financially" is already occurring for ordinary people, even before any formal financial collapse.