Plague on cue

Hosts (three-way roundtable):

• Hrvoje Morić — host/producer of the Geopolitics & Empire podcast ^[1:1]
• Monica Perez — The Monica Perez Show
• Parallel Mike — The PM Report / Parallel Systems Broadcast (Substack)

1. The Bab al-Mandab and the Horn of Africa

Monica opens by arguing the real focus should be the Bab al-Mandab strait (between Yemen and the Horn of Africa — Somalia, Djibouti and Eritrea), not just Iran, Hormuz and oil prices.

• She has done news flashes on Somalia, and when Ethiopia's civil war/rebellion reappeared in the news she suspected a Middle East link.
• She believes the Ethiopian government droned dormant rebels to incite them to rise again in the north (on the border with Eritrea), which is drawing Eritrea in.
• Eritrea won independence from Ethiopia roughly 20–30 years ago and took all of Ethiopia's Red Sea access — which she thinks is the crux of the whole Horn of Africa situation.
• Ethiopia is "no friend of the US" but is cooperating with the US in this action.
• Saudi Arabia is hitting Yemen to take Mocha (a port city).
• Her central claim: Bab al-Mandab is more important than the Strait of Hormuz, because it gives access to the Suez Canal.
• The hot spots — Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Yemen — all ring that strait.
• She argues Iran is a less challenging opponent because it has a powerful central government, whereas the West finds it far harder to control the factional Horn of Africa (Somalia barely has a central government; Yemen is similar; Ethiopia has problems).
• She would not be surprised if the Iran war was started in the hope that it would spread and become caught up in subduing the Horn of Africa.

2. "Regionalised World Government" and Technocracy

The roundtable's running thesis is the endgame of regionalised world government:

• Large swathes of the world are already controlled; functioning governments are co-opted by the "globalist technocracy".
• The outliers — Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia, failed parts of Latin America — must be filled in to establish a technocratic world federation.
• In Latin America, the "narco" pretext is used to move in, clear out narcos they don't control, and install a functioning government onto which a digital technocracy layer is added.
• Michael Avery is cited commenting on the African Union statement about escalating tension between Ethiopia, Eritrea and Egypt, paralleled to the ASEAN/Taiwan crisis — each regional crisis serving as pretext for regional integration (Asian Union, African Union).
• Javad Zarif is cited calling for a regional nuclear group, regional economic connectivity and regional communications.

Technocratic precedents cited:

• COVID showed how quickly people become dependent on the system (entrepreneurs taking handouts).
• Ukraine: cryptocurrency hub, digital platforms, land sales routed through blockchain — a "prepackaged set of tools" unrolled at the moment of crisis.
• Gaza: Jared Kushner (late September) published 66 projects for Gaza and a "technocratic Palestinian government"; the pattern is to plan the projects, "detonate", clear everything, then implement with NGOs and corporations.
• Monica's term "algocracy" (rule by algorithm): whoever owns the compute platform rules. Her example — BlackRock effectively runs Mexico; Sheinbaum is "just the floor manager".

3. Financial Reset and Choke Points

All of this is linked to a financial reset:

• The bond crisis and collapse of sovereign debt, occurring alongside the choking-off of critical commodity/energy pathways.
• World trade is falling apart; two crises eventually merge — the financial crisis and the consequences of far less diesel.
• There are fewer than 1,000 refineries in the world, and Russia had ~70% of its refineries hit over the last 6 months, plus those in the Strait of Hormuz. Rebuilding takes years.
• The goal: squeeze supply lines so tightly that everyone depends on the system to be saved.
• Expect conflict around every global choke point, orchestrated towards the reset.

4. The Plague Narrative

Documented timeline presented in the episode:

• The 2024 CDC plague bioterrorism event guide explicitly stated that pneumonic plague would be the most likely manifestation following an international release of Yersinia pestis (i.e. pneumonic, not bubonic).
• Monica characterises it as "a pandemic false flag for world dictatorship" and the strategy of tension — a fear-based narrative whose likely use is to get people wearing masks again going into winter.
• She recalls living in Mongolia in 2006–07, where bubonic plague cases occur annually via marmots and fleas; the Peace Corps issued a medical kit including large green pills for plague. She jokes she "ate the plague" (grilled marmot).
• Mike warns this could repeat 2020 (Wuhan → lockdowns), a manufactured false flag aimed at global algocracy/world government and a "second wind" for digitalisation (digital ID, eliminating cash).
• Vernon Beard is cited: because plague is bacterial, you need antibiotics (much of which comes from India), not a vaccine — tying into supply-chain control under AI governance.
• John Mearsheimer / Harry Kreisler (Conversations with History) is invoked: the argument that national medicine is needed "for the information" — to know whether someone crossing a border has an infectious disease, centralising all that data.
• The Report from Iron Mountain: the route to global government is problems not solvable at the national level.

5. Historical Plague–Financial Reset Parallels

• 1300s: The two largest European banks — the Florentine Bardi and Peruzzi — collapsed after too many loans to defaulting kings, triggering a Europe-wide banking crisis and collapsing merchant credit. Then the plague arrived, killing roughly two-thirds of the population, with property swept up; two centuries later came the Dark Ages. This occurred during a grand solar minimum (which they say we are entering). Mega-rich banking houses somehow survived 200 years of plague.
• 1600s: In the City of London, the 1665 plague killed over 50% of its 500,000 citizens; the 1666 Fire of London killed another few hundred thousand; the population fell to ~50,000. The fire cleared the way for the rebuilding of the City, "rebuilt by a master freemason" using sacred geometry.

Origins debate: Some argue the plague was not spread by rats but by poisoned wells as a depopulation method. Monica says plagues are real, that some events may be organic and some manufactured, that impoverishment lowers immunity, and that she does not claim to know. She says she believes in both germ and terrain theory (terrain more important) but accepts infectious, contagious disease exists — while doubting that most declared "pandemics" are genuine.

mRNA angle: They cite a claimed timeline — Russia 2019 producing a plague vaccine, 2023 Israel working on an mRNA version — and speculate that a supply-chain-driven antibiotic shortage could be answered with an mRNA pneumonic plague vaccine. They also note the narrative that plague is being brought in by trade/uncontained ships, giving another reason to collapse the global economy.

6. Pandemic Exercises and "COVID 2.0"

• Exercise Polaris 2 (WHO, two-day simulation, 22–23 April) featured a fictional new bacterium spreading globally.
• The UK's largest-ever pandemic simulation, Pegasus, used a fictional meningitis outbreak in September–October 2025; in early 2026 they say a real meningitis outbreak was pushed.
• A promotional video for Polaris 2 is played, describing an outbreak spreading from a single international hub, 13 countries reporting clusters within a week, rising to 27 countries, unknown cause. Monica compares it to Event 201.
• A clip with a "Michael Kaine" overdub is discussed; a commenter asked Grok, which said the video was promotional material for the exercise. Monica could not find it on the WHO site and explicitly cautions against outsourcing thinking to AI — Grok could be wrong.
• Mike's worry: if "COVID 2.0" comes with pneumonic plague, they may remove the friction of 2020–22 (masks, certificates, PCR tests) by replacing it with phone + digital face biometrics and turnstiles at every entry point — no recourse, no argument.
• Monica contrasts 1984 vs Brave New World — the aim being a dystopia with less friction. She recounts being fast-tracked through passport control by facial recognition (including her son, who has Down syndrome) without realising.
• Mike's Kazakhstan lockdown experience (one person per household allowed out every other day, on a card, with loopholes) — the second iteration could be verified by smartphones, drones, cameras and facial recognition.

7. Ukraine/Russia Drone Warfare

• Videos of drones pouring molten metal onto houses in Ukraine/Russia are described as "a beta version of Skynet" and as satanic.
• Their argument: the war is being prolonged to develop such technology — ironic given AI is framed as an existential threat; "don't make autonomous drones that pour molten metal on people."

8. The "Plague on Cue" Media Build-Up

• Annie Jacobsen is cited as the mainstream "expert" of the moment (author of a book on biological warfare), three months after the Polaris 2 exercise, discussing pneumonic plague on Joe Rogan's show: aerosolised bubonic plague, 100% case fatality rate unless antibiotics within 24 hours, a Tier One select agent, "most likely to be used", and the threat of modifying it to evade cure.
• Tedros (WHO) is dismissed as fear-mongering ("get stuffed").
• Population reduction is said to be "definitely part of it".
• Taylor Swift is said to have released a video containing plague propaganda; Dmitri's video compiling the data (including a Russian lab worker and plague) is referenced, along with Zelensky in September talking about "spreading" and "patient zero" as neural-linguistic priming.
• A "ritual" six-year cycle image is cited:

9. Health/Supplement Aside

• Ed Griffin's newsletter is cited on taking zinc with copper early when illness starts.
• Monica warns not to overdo zinc, and lists her own protocol (vitamin C, zinc, vitamin D, lysine and a juice drink), noting this is not medical advice.

10. False Flags and "State Terrorism"

Phone registration (Mexico): Monica notes her sudden flood of ~10 spam calls daily as a "false flag" by the "narco government" to force her to register her phone number.

UK "Iran drone" story: She reads the agenda as justifying Western development of deadly drone swarms ("our enemies are doing it"), drawing the parallel to chemical-weapons propaganda in WWI (fake soldiers' letters at the Imperial War Museum, London) and Cold War-era justifications for mind-control programmes.

flydubai:

• Framed as part of the "hybrid war coming to a city near you" messaging across Europe — a culture of fear.
• Morgan the Substacker noted a nearly identical event in the 1970s; Monica connects it to the film Delta Force (Chuck Norris; Israeli producer; Jewish passengers and Islamic-extremist hijackers bound for Beirut).
• Monica read two Wall Street Journal pieces the same day: one framing it as the best thing to happen to Netanyahu ahead of an election; the other listing "multiple security failures".
• The story as recounted: the Omani co-pilot stabbed the pilot, opened the cockpit door and let passengers in using an axe from the cockpit; a plumber passenger who "remembered from TV how to fly a plane" grabbed the controls as the aircraft was in a nose-dive with the rudder ripped off, stabilised it, and two deadheading pilots then landed the plane — the only two pilots in the world who could land without a rudder — before disappearing into the crowd.
• Mike Huckabee is quoted saying "Hollywood couldn't make this stuff up"; Monica: "No, but Netanyahu could."
• Mike's ChatGPT fact-check: a commercial aircraft has recovered from an extreme dive and landed with part of its rudder missing — but not the entire rudder ("a one-off, a special case").
• Monica's rule: "if after the plane lands, a boom box appears, it was fake."
• They note John Kiriakou was promoting the official flydubai narrative, and that a film is being made about him.

FBI-manufactured terror:

• A 2012 New York Times article on terrorist plots hatched by the FBI is referenced.
• Monica interviewed Trevor Aaronson (2017), author of a book on the FBI as a "manufacturer of terror"; she says every single domestic event involved FBI agents or informants — "the only terrorism is state terrorism".

11. Germany, Treason and Capital Punishment

• Monica calls Friedrich Merz (German chancellor, ex-BlackRock) an internationalist and "traitor to his country". She traces him to the Andean Pact, tied to a subset of the Konrad Adenauer Institute foundation, and a joint RAND / Konrad Adenauer Foundation conference.
• Quoted from that material: "Successful nation-building operations require joint planning before military intervention begins, bringing together civilian agencies like the State Department, USAID, Treasury alongside defense elements under the White House National Security Coordination." — i.e. they design the new country before bombing it.
• Germany arrested a former spy chief that morning.
• A Tennessee death-row case is discussed: a woman convicted of murder in high school and of attempted murder in prison wrote to the governor ("not afraid to die, but afraid of the process"), received two lethal doses, survived into a coma she was not expected to leave, and recovered the next day. Monica suspects a staged narrative and says it changed her mind about capital punishment — noting that treason is a capital crime, so a citizen defending the constitution against a treasonous government could be hanged.

12. Bolivia / Narco Nexus

• They recall Kiki Camarena, who was about to expose the nexus between the US government and narcos before CIA operative Felix Rodriguez had him killed.
• Breaking story: Bolivia's attorney general, blacklisted by the US and alleged to traffic drugs and launder money, was being arrested — but Ryan Grim of Drop Site News explained the attorney general was about to expose the narco nexus (with Ecuador and probably the US government), and the script was flipped.
• Compared to Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma) — Ethan Hunt framed as the villain, his innocent parents handcuffed — illustrating how hard it now is to tell the guilty from the innocent, or a genuine whistleblower from a fraud.

Referenced Sources (as cited in the episode)

• Cognitive Dissidents roundtable — Hrvoje Morić (Geopolitics & Empire), Monica Perez (The Monica Perez Show), Parallel Mike (The PM Report / Parallel Systems)
• Michael Avery (commentary on the African Union statement)
• Javad Zarif (regional nuclear/economic/communications proposals)
• Jared Kushner (Gaza "66 projects", September)
• Vernon Beard (plague/antibiotic supply-chain angle)
• John Mearsheimer / Harry Kreisler, Conversations with History
• Report from Iron Mountain
• CDC (2024 plague bioterrorism guide; 1 October pneumonic plague report); WHO (September plague report; plague fact sheet)
• Exercise Polaris 2 (WHO, April, 22–23); UK Exercise Pegasus (September–October 2025)
• Annie Jacobsen (biological-warfare book; Joe Rogan appearance)
• Tedros (WHO)
• Dmitri (plague-propaganda video analysis); Taylor Swift video
• Ed Griffin newsletter (zinc/copper)
• Morgan (Substack); Gary Barnett (Substack)
• Wall Street Journal (two articles on the flydubai incident); Mike Huckabee
• 2012 New York Times article on FBI-hatched plots; Trevor Aaronson (FBI terror book, interviewed 2017)
• RAND / Konrad Adenauer Foundation conference document; Andean Pact
• Ryan Grim, Drop Site News (Bolivia attorney general); Kiki Camarena; Felix Rodriguez
• John Kiriakou

Note on reliability: This is a summary of the hosts' claims and commentary as stated in the transcript. Several points are speculative or contested by the speakers themselves (e.g. the origins of plague, whether the Polaris 2 video is genuine, and the flydubai rudder claim), and the transcript contains an AI-sourced fact-check that the hosts caution against treating as authoritative.

References

1. About Geopolitics & Empire (81%) ↩︎ ↩︎
2. Cognitive Dissidents Podcast | The PM Report | Parallel Mike - Substack (19%) ↩︎