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“Tranquil Passport”: US Gov Rehearsed World Cup Ebola ‘Outbreak’
Trump Administration’s 2025 drill predicted the evolving ‘health security’ event

DemocracyManifest
Jun 13, 2026



The countdown is on!
The highly anticipated Men’s FIFA World Cup 2026 - co-hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico - kicked off on June 11th. The final is scheduled for July 19th.

And in news developments that echo mid-March 2020, the Trump Administration has been preemptively pointing the finger at Europe as the main secondary source of ‘spread’ to the US of coronavirus Ebola ‘cases’ originating in China Africa.

Source: The Independent - Jun 10, 2026
Because if there’s one thing the phony COVID ‘pandemic’ taught us all, it’s that multiple mass gatherings compounded by international travel could portend ‘super-spreader’ stories (according to the ‘experts’).

Or rather…

What early 2020 revealed is that it’s not so much about ‘cases’ being seeded but the dissemination of a narrative. (See James Giordano for tips!)

For example: “Doctor warns Ebola virus can linger in people for hundreds of days.”

Chris Cuomo interview with Patrick Soon-Shiong - NewsNation, 2 June 2026
The COVID-19 event also showed us that ‘health security’ plotlines are ‘predicted’ with a high degree of accuracy, well in advance.

And whaddayaknow?

As with COVID-19 - foretold by the tabletop exercises Event 201 and Pacific Eclipse - the current Ebola ‘outbreak’ appears to be tracking in the direction of a pre-determined outcome.

Tranquil Passport: Full-Scale Exercise (2025)
That’s right…

In June 2025, the “interagency” of the US Government executive branch conducted a complex, week-long “full-scale exercise” (FSE) which (wait for it!) simulated an Ebola outbreak in North America during the 2026 Men’s FIFA World Cup, with a cluster of American ‘cases’ subsequently transported from Toronto to specialized human biosecurity facilities in five US cities.

(No kidding!! And the absence of media coverage of the event is also striking.)

As a designated destination, New York City was (yet again) center stage for a High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID) dramatization1, with hazmat costumes reminiscent of the COVID-19 charade of spring 2020.

“The scenario imagined an outbreak… during the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup”
The following December 2025 report by NACCHO (the National Association of County and City Health Officials) contains further details about Tranquil Passport.

Preparedness in Motion: NYC’s Tranquil Passport Exercise and the Road to the 2026 World Cup

Over the past year, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (referred to as the NYC Health Department) participated in Tranquil Passport, a full-scale federally led international exercise designed to test national and local capacity to respond to high-consequence infectious disease outbreaks.

The scenario imagined an outbreak of a viral hemorrhagic fever during the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup, requiring the transport of patients for care, underscoring how international events can become flashpoints for global health emergencies.

NACCHO - 3 December 2025

Just to state the obvious…

Isn’t it an amazing series of coincidences - that this 2025 US Government script “imagined an outbreak of a viral hemorrhagic fever during the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup”, and then the WHO just happened to declare a FAKE PHEIC (Public Health Emergency of International Concern) for an Ebola ‘outbreak’ in Africa on 16 May 2026, only weeks ahead of the actual kick off in North America?

Here’s 30 seconds from this World Cup Ebola trailer released a few months ago by Secretary Kennedy’s Department of Health and Human Services2 - specifically the subagency ASPR (Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response) - highlighting the transportation phase of the exercise.

Note: the “PBCU” in Tranquil Passport is a Portable Bio-Containment Unit (for people) — a major focus of the simulation.

In addition to Canada playing a substantive role, several American-allied nations joined the audience at Tranquil Passport.

An excerpt from an Australian Government report reveals the international scale of the June 2025 exercise, attended by AUSMAT (Australian Medical Assistance Teams).

Building readiness: AUSMAT observes advanced biocontainment transport

The exercise tested the U.S. national readiness for a high-consequence infectious disease (HCID) scenario…

[…] Alongside AUSMAT, international disaster medical assistance teams from Germany, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan also observed the exercise, reinforcing the value of cross-border, knowledge-sharing efforts aimed at preparing for emerging infectious disease threats.

[…] The PBCU [Portable Bio-Containment Unit] was developed in response to lessons learned from the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, when the need to repatriate American citizens under biosecurity conditions arose. Purpose-built for long-range air or road transport of multiple HCID patients, the PBCU can transport up to two patients on stretcher beds, up to 10 seated patients, or a combination of both.

National Critical Care and Trauma Centre - 6 October 2025

Further information on the Portable Bio-Containment Unit (also referred to as the Containerized Bio-Containment System or CBCS), featuring the US Department of State logo, can be found here and here. Think “Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions” taken to the max… and a symbol of American Exceptionalism at its best!

There’s more to say about Tranquil Passport, but first - to put these 2025 predictions in the context of current events - let’s return to the evolution of the manufactured ‘crisis’ in Washington in recent weeks.

“So, it’s a well-constructed game plan.”
As readers are aware, the US ‘response’ to the latest Ebola ‘outbreak’ in Africa has attracted a great deal of press attention, most notably the uncompromising Zero-Ebola policy (concerning Americans abroad) emanating from the Trump Administration in the wake of the Hantavirus Hoax Exercise.

Rigorous CDC protocols for ‘biocontainment’ have surpassed the expectations of former critics of the agency’s acting director, Dr Jay Bhattacharya, who became world famous in 2020 for proposing a ‘slow-the-spread’ strategy of selective lockdowns (of the elderly and/or economically unproductive): Focused Protection.

Link: The New York Times - 21 May 2026
For Ebola, the State Department’s contentious keep-in-Kenya plan (versus repatriating Americans) was entirely predictable, based on The Science™.

Here’s Secretary Rubio alongside President Trump at a Cabinet meeting on May 27th.

(30 sec - with transcript)

Something else that I know is concerning people, ‘cause it’s on the news, is Ebola.

Our number one obligation - you know, we’re involved in foreign policy, but even our foreign policy - the number one priority of our foreign policy is to protect the American people. We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States.

And so we’re very, the State Department and other agencies represented here, the Centers for Disease Control, HHS, others, are working very, very hard to contain this crisis to the countries where it’s currently located, particularly the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio - 27 May 2026

The next plot development - i.e. the build-up to the inevitable ‘threat’ to US homeland security - was rolled out in a dialogue between Dr Oz, the acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and a journalist at a White House press briefing on June 2nd, setting the stage for a potential World Cup ‘outbreak’.

(75 sec with transcript)

Reporter:

Back on Ebola - given the World Cup coming up and millions of visitors coming to the United States - on the US preparation for this: Who is in charge of pro-active surveillance measures and what type of surveillance will the United States be doing for visitors coming in? Will that be expanded beyond the DRC, Uganda and Sudan? Can you describe what is in place knowing this influx of people coming soon?

Medical Expert:

So Jay Bhattacharya who I spoke to this morning, who’s our brilliant leader of the NIH but also CDC now, is running this program. He’s got a lot of hype (!) help from Dr Heidi Overton and many others at the White House.

So, it’s a well-constructed game plan. They aggressively got in to - and they’re funding now - a lot of the treatments that are being offered in the DRC, and the Kenya facility is just an extra wait for us to take folks who are Americans who need help. But we have very purposefully put up testing tools and mechanisms at the major airports that people will be traveling through. I have great confidence in Jay’s ability - he’s a brilliant scientist and knows a lot about viruses. He wrote one of the most important papers really describing the true reality of what was happening during COVID early in the pandemic. It got him into hot water ‘cause it was not convenient to hear it, but he’s a brave man who will make the right decisions and be transparent about it.

White House press briefing - 2 June 2026

Translation: There’s nothing to fear because President Trump has the brilliant Dr Birx Bhattacharya in charge of ‘lockdowns’ ‘biocontainment’!

Note also the uncontested Official Narrative being maintained here (six-plus years on!) to the effect that COVID-19 was a ‘pandemic’, as opposed to a pandemic live exercise as explicitly announced by the then US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, on 20 March 2020 - two days after President Trump “gave the order” - in an unforgettable piece of political theatre.

Link to clip: “Pompeo announces that we are in a live exercise”
“… the next outbreak… is a matter of when, not if.”
Returning to the 2025 Tranquil Passport Full-Scale Dramatization…

Consider how the psychological and ideological capture of those ‘fighting on the frontlines’ in a declared ‘public health emergency’ is key to pulling off apocalyptic contagion charades like COVID-19.

In the post-transport, hospital phase of the 2025 Tranquil Passport drill (see clip below) note how the super-extreme ‘PPE’ performance that was pushed during the COVID-19 live exercise (starting with “the first wave”) has been taken up a notch five years later in this Broadway-worthy performance from (you guessed it!) the Johns Hopkins Special Pathogens Unit.

(90 sec with transcript)

Johns Hopkins Hospital Hosts National Infectious Disease Transport Drill

Public Health Expert:

Ebola, Marburg virus - these are extremely dangerous pathogens.

We save lives by preparing for the next outbreak because it’s a matter of when, not if.

My name is Christopher Sulmonte and I am the Administrative Director of the Johns Hopkins Special Pathogens Center.

So today we’re here on the Biocontainment Unit.

We’re a part of a federal exercise that’s being run over the course of the next five days that’s specifically focused on admitting a parent and a child onto our Biocontainment Unit.

We’re using the 2026 Men’s FIFA World Cup as a reference point.

And so the idea is if we have multiple Americans that require transport how we best partner with both our federal agencies and also with our other biocontainment units around the country.

We’re incredibly excited to be part of this - it’s part of our federal funding that we receive through the Health and Human Services Department.

One of the reasons this is incredibly important is to be ready for whatever pathogen we may face here in the United States in the future, and making sure the patients get the care that they so desperately need.

During COVID it was recognized that these biocontainment unit programs are amazing resources.

So will go to VA (Veterans Affairs) medical centers; we will go to military hospitals; we will go to civilian healthcare facilities to educate their healthcare workers.

Protection and sustainability of healthcare workers to be ready for whatever pathogen we must face next is incredibly important to us.

Indeed, the healthcare workers wear astronaut-like attire, even though the Tranquil Passport scenario explicitly states that the hypothetical HCID (High Consequence Infectious Disease) is “a novel viral hemorrhagic fever (unnamed)” — i.e. Ebola-like — and therefore (according to The Science™) not spread via the air, but only direct contact with body fluids.

(Unless it’s “novel” in an airborne way, according to other experts!)

More importantly though…

Does the final scene of happy healthcare workers trigger bad memories?

Who knows whether any of the ‘essential’ personnel participating in the 2025 simulation were dancing during the lockdowns of spring 2020, but here’s a must-watch Mad World reminder of the COVID-19 live exercise - including Fake News headlines about overwhelmed hospitals in the US.

Never forget…

Tranquil Passport provides further compelling evidence that COVID-19 - particularly “the first wave” - was planned and executed as a highly coordinated US-led live exercise ‘response’ to an existential ‘biothreat’, with the intended effect of creating a manufactured ‘crisis’ to coerce people into complying with lockdowns and ‘medical countermeasures’.

It also reveals the scale and sophistication of the ‘pandemic preparedness’ matrix, and the extent of ‘stakeholder’ buy-in.

Only time will tell if the scenes in Washington in mid-2026 are part of a global superpower warm-up act ahead of the next major ‘biosecurity’ event.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/exposed-uk-govt-has-thought-police-unit-control-mass-migration-narrativ

by Tyler Durden
Monday, Jun 15, 2026 - 11:00 AM

A secretive Home Office propaganda outfit founded by a former MI6 officer is actively working to control narratives around incidents involving migrants and rising tensions, a bombshell report reveals.

The Research, Information and Communications Unit, or RICU, has been exposed advising police on how to portray protesters and intervening in the aftermath of brutal attacks by migrants to prevent statements that might inflame public anger over mass immigration failures.

This comes as fresh confirmation of suspicions raised after the attack on vulnerable special needs man Stephen Ogilvie in Belfast. Sources now confirm the unit's role in managing family liaison and messaging in such cases. The pattern fits a broader shift where government "nudge" operations once focused on enforcing COVID compliance have pivoted to shielding open borders policies from scrutiny - and are now being hardened into formal crisis powers.

The Daily Mail reports that RICU was set up in 2007 by the late Charles Farr, a former MI6 officer, under the Prevent counter-terrorism banner. It operates from Home Office headquarters and draws on tactics from the old Information Research Department, the post-war propaganda unit used to counter communist influence.

Its methods include planting media stories, deploying undercover operatives, and shaping online conversations in targeted communities.

Recent operations show the unit extending far beyond its original remit. During unrest in Belfast following the stabbing attack on Stephen Ogilvie by Sudanese asylum seeker Hadi Alodid, RICU worked with the Police Service of Northern Ireland's C3 intelligence unit.

A source described the effort: "They are working with the Police Service of Northern Ireland's C3 intelligence unit to identify those posting the online 'calls to protest' in Belfast and other areas, as well as giving strategic messages to the police to ensure that the protesters were portrayed as unsympathetic thugs, rather than activists, and effecting behavioural change."

The same source noted RICU's involvement with family statements in volatile incidents. "RICU made sure that the liaison team dealing with the family were well briefed." Another observation: "You can see their fingerprints all over the statements released by the families of victims in these volatile situations - they usually have a similar tone."

This aligns with what was noted right after the Belfast incident. The family statement released in the wake of the attack on Stephen Ogilvie came across as oddly generic and scripted, using placeholder phrasing such as "our loved one" and quickly pivoting from shock to calls for calm plus emphasis on migrants' contributions rather than raw, unfiltered grief or pointed questions about what had happened. It did not read like the spontaneous words of devastated relatives.

The Mail also notes that RICU was involved with the aftermath of the murder of Henry Nowak by Vickrum Digwa, again providing strategic input to police handling the family.

The interventions align with long-standing criticisms that RICU applies uneven standards. Sir William Shawcross, in his 2023 review of Prevent, observed: "The bar for what RICU includes on Islamism looks to be relatively high, whereas the bar for what is included on the extreme Right-wing is comparably low."

The unit has flagged mainstream cultural consumption - watching Michael Portillo's programmes, reading Shakespeare, Chaucer or Milton, or books documenting grooming gang scandals - as potential indicators of far-Right susceptibility. It even linked Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg to sympathetic audiences.

Professor Anthony Glees described the outfit's position: "The unit that produced this report is called RICU. It's based in the Home Office but it's in that kind of shadowy area between what the Home Office does and what the security service MI5 ought to be doing."

A Home Office spokesman offered the standard line: "RICU provides analysis on extremist use of propaganda and exploitation of the internet to inform the UK's counter terrorism system. We cannot comment on its operations."

The unit has pushed for expanded recording of non-crime hate incidents, measures later scrapped after public backlash over their chilling effect on ordinary speech. It has also claimed that discussion of grooming gangs in Pakistani communities is exploited by the far-Right to stir hatred.

This is not isolated activity. Government narrative management operations have multiplied. A 2025 examination detailed how teams such as the National Security and Online Information Team monitor "concerning narratives" on social media and flag material to platforms for removal, particularly content critical of migration policy during periods of unrest.

An elite police unit tracks anti-migrant posts. Officials stated they make "no apologies for flagging to platforms content which is contrary to their own terms of service and which can result in violent disorder on our streets."

The same infrastructure that once deployed propagandistic fear tactics to drive mass compliance during the COVID period has been repurposed. What began as emergency messaging around a virus has evolved into tools for managing public reaction to the consequences of sustained high immigration and associated crime.

We have also seen the Prevent apparatus targeted firmly at British people, and even children, who have expressed concern about mass migration.

This apparatus is also now being formalised and expanded under the banner of "crisis response." In the wake of the Belfast unrest sparked by the attack on Stephen Ogilvie, ministers have moved to give Ofcom sweeping new authority under the Online Safety Act to pressure platforms into rapid removal of content labelled "false information" or inciting disorder during declared crises.

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall announced the government will "lay in Parliament an update to the Online Safety Act requiring services to take quicker action to remove illegal content circulating during times of crisis."

Ofcom has already issued open letters to platforms citing spikes in content tied to the Northern Ireland events and demanding enhanced, crisis-specific moderation measures - without requiring fresh parliamentary approval.

The definition of "crisis" is deliberately broad, drawing on the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and covering threats to welfare, security or public order. This builds directly on the informal narrative-shaping RICU has conducted for years, now also augmented by a new £115 million PoliceAI centre equipped with live facial recognition, predictive analytics and automated real-time content flagging.

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss directly addressed the underlying dynamic. She stated that mass migration "is being weaponised to undermine Western civilisation." Truss continued: "They want to undermine the family. They want to undermine the nation state. And people in Britain are saying 'we've had enough of this.'"

She added that institutions have been corrupted by a DEI mentality focused on group outcomes rather than equal treatment under law, with the response being suppression of discussion and attacks on those highlighting the role of mass migration.

The through-line is clear. Legitimate public concern over policy outcomes - crime rates, community cohesion, strained services - is reframed as dangerous extremism requiring state-managed behavioural change. Protesters become "thugs." Family grief is shaped into generic calls for calm that emphasise migrant contributions.

Online speech is monitored and throttled. Cultural touchstones are recast as radicalisation risks when they appear on the "wrong" side of the narrative. Now "crisis" declarations provide the trigger to accelerate these controls with regulator muscle and AI tools.

This apparatus operates with minimal transparency and little accountability to elected representatives or the public whose taxes fund it. Critics inside Whitehall have described it as out of control. Its expansion from countering Al Qaeda propaganda into domestic speech management on immigration - and now into codified crisis powers - represents a fundamental shift toward treating British citizens' unfiltered reactions as the primary threat.

Britain faces real pressures from decades of rapid demographic change and enforcement failures. Honest examination of those pressures does not equate to hatred. Suppressing that examination through coordinated narrative control only deepens distrust and guarantees that underlying problems fester.

Citizens retain the right to discuss the impacts of policy without state operatives scripting responses or directing police to rebrand dissent.

The revelations about RICU and the accelerating "Ministry of Truth" machinery confirm what many already sensed: the tools built for one set of emergencies have been turned inward to protect another set of political choices.

Restoring open debate and accountability requires dismantling these layers of managed perception and returning to straightforward governance that prioritises the security and cohesion of the existing population.
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Dmitry Medvedev

Three key developments of the week

First, the signing of the notorious “deal” between the US and Iran. Empty verbiage aside, everyone now realizes that Tehran didn’t lose this war to Washington, to say the least, even in spite of the killing of the Iranian leader and devastating missile strikes. Israel, the third embittered participant, has seen its hopes of the annihilation of Iran’s political regime dashed and therefore craves revenge. And there’s nothing Trump can do to keep it in line. The precarious agreement can be easily torpedoed by new strikes against Lebanon or other provocations, which is precisely what Netanyahu’s cabinet needs because it depends on war for survival. 

Thus, it would be premature to expect peace, as the Strait of Hormuz has been turned into a Persian nuke, which I wrote about on April 8. And this weapon will be put to use…

Second, given the enemy’s massive attacks against our cities, the intensity of which is growing and will apparently keep growing, it’s time to say it loud and clear that we are not and cannot be bound by any more rules when it comes to dealing with neo-Nazi Kiev. The only thing that must be unacceptable to us is the premeditated targeting of civilians. Let me stress the word “premeditated,” meaning knowingly intended. Otherwise, it’s no holds barred, however the freak on Bankovaya and his scummy European stooges might whine. The Hague conventions on the laws and customs of war don’t apply either, by the way. They’ve outlived their usefulness. War has changed too much over the past hundred of years. Back in the day, kidnapping or murdering heads of state, even enemy states, was out of the question, and dropping bombs from balloons has given way to missiles and drones, so invoking rebus sic standibus principle is entirely appropriate.

Third, some mad Dutchmen, after smoking way too much weed in their coffeeshops, are blabbering about concentration camps for Russian prisoners of war. 

What can I say about this drug-induced verbal vomit? Unlike the vile neo-Nazi hag that Europe has become, Russia is not going to build concentration camps for Europeans. And not because it’s immoral but simply because we just won’t need them in case of a war with some pathetic Dutchmen. Radioactive bones and ashes are usually buried deep in the ground.
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