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The 3/11 Truth Movement: Sonia Elijah on DarkHorse

July 12, 2026

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In September 2019, the world’s largest database of coronavirus samples—run by Dr. Shi Zhengli, the so-called "Batwoman" at the Wuhan Institute of Virology—was abruptly taken offline. A month later, the Wuhan Military Games took place. By December, a novel coronavirus was circulating. By March 11, 2020—what independent journalist and former BBC researcher Sonia Elijah calls "3/11"—the World Health Organization declared a pandemic. Elijah’s book, 3/11 Viral Takeover, argues this was not a natural disaster but a manufactured crisis, a "biological sequel to 9/11" that followed a rehearsed blueprint for expanding state control.

The Tabletop Exercise That Previewed the Pandemic

The most striking piece of evidence for foreknowledge is Event 201, a pandemic simulation exercise hosted in October 2019 by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The exercise explicitly recommended that governments work closely with social media and traditional media companies to develop "nimble approaches to combating disinformation." Elijah notes that this is exactly what materialized: on March 27, 2020, the BBC launched the Trusted News Initiative, a cross-platform censorship network that brought legacy media and big tech together to decide what counted as misinformation. Any voice deviating from the offic

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  • 1 The 3/11 Truth Movement: Sonia Elijah on DarkHorse
  • 2 Main Outline
  • 3 (00:00) **Introducing Sonia Elijah and the 9/11–3/11 Parallel** - Brett welcomes former BBC researcher and independent journalist Sonia Elijah; she frames March 11, 2020 (WHO pandemic declaration) as a "biological sequel to 9/11" where a disruptive event enables massive state power expansion
  • 4 (04:08) **Event 201 and the Pre-Written Blueprint** - Elijah traces the pandemic playbook to the October 2019 tabletop exercise hosted by Johns Hopkins, the World Economic Forum, and the Gates Foundation
  • 5 (06:57) **SAGE's Weaponized Fear Playbook** - Elijah reveals early SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) documents showing behavioral scientists explicitly outlined nine ways to modify behavior, including coercion
  • 6 (12:29) **The Foreknowledge Question** - Brett interrogates whether Event 201 proves someone knew a pandemic was coming, and why they would risk a public exercise if they had foreknowledge
  • 7 (17:30) **The Engineered Origin: Wuhan, North Carolina, and the DOD Memo** - Elijah details the evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was laboratory-modified, citing a DOD memorandum from Major Joseph Murphy stating the virus was "American created"

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Show Notes

Bret Weinstein speaks with Sonia Elijah on the subject of her book, 3/11: Viral Takeover, covering the Covid pandemic. 

Find Sonia Elijah at https://www.soniaelijah.com and on X at https://x.com/sonia_elijah. Purchase her book on Amazon https://amzn.to/4wEKjRC (commission earned). 

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