As evidence of a potential bioweapons
cover-up has started emerging, a company called Metabiota is gaining
prominence. The links between Metabiota and several key players in the
COVID pandemic and/or the Ukraine labs story are manifold, so there’s no
really simple way to unravel it in a logical sequence. That said, let’s
start with what Metabiota does and the connections of its founder, and
expand from there.
Metabiota’s Mission
Metabiota’s mission is to make the world more resilient to epidemics
by providing “data, analytics, advice and training to prepare for global
health threats and mitigate their impacts.”1
Through data analysis, they help “decision makers across government
and industry” to estimate and mitigate pandemic risks. But they also
claim to support “sustainable development,” which seems to have little
to do with pandemic risk management.
That term, “sustainable development,” is one promoted by Klaus
Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF). It’s part and parcel
of Schwab’s plan for a global Great Reset and transhumanist revolution
(aka, the Fourth Industrial Revolution).
It’s not surprising, then, to find out that the founder of Metabiota,
Nathan Wolfe, not only has close ties to the WEF, but is also a rising
star there. He’s a WEF Young Global Leader graduate and was awarded the
WEF’s Technology Pioneer award in 2021.
Metabiota and the Search for Pandemic Viruses
Metabiota was a core partner of a United States Agency for
International Development’s (USAID) Pandemic Threat Program called
PREDICT, which sought to identify viruses with pandemic potential.
Contractors funded through this
program have included the EcoHealth Alliance, headed by Peter Daszak.
The PREDICT program, directed by Dennis Carroll, appears to have served
as a proof of concept for the Global Virome Project that Carroll
founded.
According to a recent investigation by U.S. Right to Know (USRTK),2
Carroll appears to have diverted government funds from the PREDICT
program while he was still running it, to fund this personal side
project, which was set up with the intention to collect, identify and
catalogue 1 million viruses from wildlife in an effort to predict which
ones might cause a human epidemic.
Metabiota’s Funding
Metabiota receives funding from several interconnected organizations and agencies, including:3
• Pilot Growth Management, cofounded by
Neil Callahan. Callahan is also a cofounder of Rosemont Seneca
Technology Partners, and he sits on Metabiota’s board of advisers
• The Global Virome Project, which reportedly paid (or was planning to pay) Metabiota $341,000 to conduct a cost-benefit analysis4
• In-Q-Tel, a CIA venture capital firm
that specializes in high-tech investments that support or benefit the
intelligence capacity of U.S. intelligence agencies
• The U.S. Department of Defense’s Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).5
Specifically, in 2014, DTRA awarded Metabiota $18.4 million in federal
contracts for scientific and technical consulting services to the DTRA’s
labs in Ukraine and Georgia6
By outsourcing work to private companies, DTRA is able to circumvent
Congressional oversight. Russia is now accusing the U.S. of funding
secret and illegal bioweapons research in these Ukraine labs, and claims
this was the real reason behind its invasion
• Rosemont Seneca,7 an investment fund co-managed by Hunter Biden.8
If Russia’s accusations turn out to be true, this tie may prove deeply
problematic for the White House, as this means the Biden family was more
or less directly involved in the funding of that research
Wolfe has also received more than $20 million in research grants from
Google, the NIH and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, just to
name a few, and was a friend of now-deceased Jeffrey Epstein. In his
2012 book, “The Viral Storm,” Wolfe thanked friends for their support,
including Epstein and Boris Nikolic. Nikolic, a biotech venture
capitalist, was named “back-up executor” in Epstein’s will.9
Epstein, who besides being a convicted pedophile and accused child
sex trafficker, had a robust interest in eugenics. It’s now well-known
that he dreamed of creating a “superhuman” race of his own by
impregnating dozens of women at a time at his New Mexico ranch.10 Epstein also managed to secure meetings with Bill Gates,11 whose family history is also marked by an interest in eugenics and population control.
Metabiota’s Founder Tied to Suspect in COVID Pandemic
In addition to having close ties to the WEF and its Great Reset
agenda, Wolfe, the founder of Metabiota, has also served on the
EcoHealth Alliance’s editorial board since 2004. In 2017, he even
co-wrote a study on coronaviruses in bats together with EcoHealth
Alliance president, Peter Daszak.
As you may recall, EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization
focused on pandemic prevention, worked closely with the Wuhan Institute
of Virology (WIV) in China, where SARS-CoV-2 is suspected of having
originated.12
Daszak — who received funding for coronavirus research from the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), led by
Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the U.S. State Department13 — subcontracted some of that work to Shi Zheng-li at the WIV. He was also the coauthor on research projects at the WIV.
Once rumors of SARS-CoV-2 being man-made first began, Daszak played a
central role in the plot to obscure the lab origin by crafting a
scientific statement condemning such inquiries as “conspiracy theory.”14,15
This manufactured “consensus” was then relied on by the media to
counter anyone presenting theories and evidence to the contrary.
This, despite the fact that he, in 2015, warned that a global
pandemic might occur from a laboratory incident — and that “the risks
were greater with the sort of virus manipulation research being carried
out in Wuhan”!16
In 2021, two investigations into the origins of the COVID pandemic were opened, one by the World Health Organization17 and another by The Lancet,18
and Daszak somehow managed to end up on both of these committees,
despite having openly and repeatedly dismissed the possibility of the
pandemic being the result of a lab leak.19
Editor’s note: The WHO reference has been scrubbed from both the
agency’s website and internet archives, but several news stories like
this one from NPR,20 published after the investigation was launched, are still live and accessible.
Interestingly, one of EcoHealth Alliance’s policy advisers is a
former Fort Detrick commander named David Franz. Fort Detrick is the
principal U.S. government-run “biodefense” facility, although Franz
himself has publicly admitted that “in biology ... everything is dual
use — the people, the facilities and the equipment.”21
Metabiota and the DTRA
In late May 2016, Metabiota hired Andrew C. Weber,22 a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, to head up its Global Partnerships.23
Between 2009 and 2014, Weber served as assistant secretary of defense
for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense under then-president Obama.
Weber is credited with creating the Defense Threat Reduction Agency
(DTRA) — a combat support agency within the U.S. DoD, specializing in
countering weapons of mass destruction, including biological weapons24,25
— and as mentioned earlier, the DTRA has reportedly funded Metabiota to
operate U.S.-funded biological research labs in Ukraine.
The DTRA has also issued a number of grants to the EcoHealth Alliance, totaling at least $37.5 million,26,27 including a 2017 grant for $6.5 million to “understand the risk of bat-borne zoonotic disease emergence in Western Asia.”28
According to a December 2020 report by The Defender,29
EcoHealth Alliance had tried to hide most of the Pentagon funding that
it had received between 2013 and 2020, most of which came from the DTRA.
Metabiota’s Bungled Ebola Response
In 2016, CBS News published a scathing critique of Metabiota’s response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa.30
Metabiota had been hired by the WHO and the local government of Sierra
Leone to monitor the spread of the epidemic, but according to an
investigation by The Associated Press, “some of the company's actions
made an already chaotic situation worse.”
In a July 17, 2014, email obtained by AP, Dr. Eric Bertherat, medical
officer at the WHO’s Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and
Response, complained about misdiagnoses and “total confusion” at the
small laboratory Metabiota shared with Tulane University in Kenema,
Sierra Leone.
According to Bertherat, there was "no tracking of the samples" and
"absolutely no control on what is being done." "This is a situation that
WHO can no longer endorse," he wrote. Similarly, Sylvia Blyden, special
executive assistant to the president of Sierra Leone, told AP
Metabiota's response was a disaster:31
"’They messed up the entire region,’ she said. She
called Metabiota's attempt to claim credit for its Ebola work ‘an insult
for the memories of thousands of Africans who have died.’"
U.S. health official Austin Demby, who evaluated Metabiota’s and
Tulane’s lab work at the request of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention and the government of Sierra Leone, was also critical.
In one email, Demby noted used needles were left out and there was no
ultraviolet light for decontamination. The space was also too small to
safely process blood samples. "The cross-contamination potential is huge
and quite frankly unacceptable," he wrote.
Anja Wolz, an emergency coordinator with Doctors Without Borders,
told AP she witnessed Metabiota workers entering homes of suspected
Ebola patients without protective gear, and leaving high-risk areas
without performing any kind of decontamination procedure. She also
accused Metabiota of miscalculating the severity of the outbreak, while
insisting that they had the situation under control when clearly, they
didn’t.
Tulane microbiology professor Bob Garry was also critical of
Metabiota’s choice to have Dr. Jean-Paul Gonzalez run the operation, as
Gonzalez, in 1994, had accidentally gotten infected with a rare
hemorrhagic fever while working in a Yale University lab.
He failed to notify anyone about the exposure for more than a week, a
delay that put more than 100 other people at risk. Gonzalez was ordered
to take a remedial safety course, but according to Garry, such
carelessness was a red flag, and he didn’t think Gonzalez was the right
man to teach Sierra Leoneans about Ebola.
"Do you really want the person who infected himself with hemorrhagic
fever going around explaining to people how to be safe?" Garry asked in
an email to a Metabiota media representative. Wolfe defended his
company, saying there was no evidence they’d done anything wrong. Some
of the problems he blamed on misunderstandings, and others on commercial
rivalry.
Lab Accident ‘Most Likely,’ yet Least Probed Cause of COVID
In a March 28, 2022, report,32 U.S. Right to Know (USRTK) revealed the contents of a 2020 State Department memo33 obtained by the group. USRTK writes:34
“‘Origin of the outbreak: The Wuhan labs remained the
most likely but least probed,’ reads the topline. The memo is written
as a BLUF — ‘bottom line up front’ — a style of communication used in
the military. The identity of the author or authors is unknown ...
‘BLUF: There is no direct, smoking gun evidence to
prove that a leak from Wuhan labs caused the pandemic, but there is
circumstantial evidence to suggest such is the case,’ the memo reads.
Apparently drafted in spring 2020, the memo details circumstantial
evidence for the ‘lab leak’ theory — the idea that COVID-19 originated
at one of the labs in Wuhan, China, the pandemic’s epicenter.
The memo raises concerns about the ‘massive amount’
of research on novel coronaviruses apparently conducted at the Wuhan
Institute of Virology and the nearby Wuhan Center for Disease Control
lab ...The memo also flags biosafety lapses at both labs, calling the
Wuhan Institute of Virology’s ‘management of deadly viruses and
virus-carrying lab animals … appallingly poor and negligent.’
The memo provides an extraordinary window into
behind-the-scenes concerns about a lab accident among U.S. foreign
policy leaders, even as this line of inquiry was deemed a conspiracy
theory by international virologists, some of whom had undisclosed
conflicts of interest.
The memo also calls into question these virologists’
impartiality. Shi Zhengli, a Wuhan Institute of Virology coronavirus
researcher nicknamed the ‘Bat Woman,’ has forged wide-reaching
international collaborations, including with prestigious Western
virologists, the memo notes.
‘Suspicion lingers that Shi holds an important and
powerful position in the field in China and has extensive cooperation
with many [international] virologists who might be doing her a favor,’
it reads ...
The memo laments that ‘the most logical place to
investigate the virus origin has been completely sealed off from inquiry
by the [Chinese Communist Party]’ ... The memo even suggests that other
hypotheses may have served as a distraction from a probe of the city’s
extensive research on novel coronaviruses. ‘All other theories are
likely to be a decoy to prevent an inquiry [into] the WCDC and WIV,’ it
states ...
The memo cites a 2015 paper35
coauthored by Shi titled ‘A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat
coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence’ that described
creating a ‘chimera,’ or engineered virus, with the spike protein of a
coronavirus from a Chinese horseshoe bat.
Editors at Nature Medicine added a note in March 2020
cautioning that the article was ‘being used as the basis for unverified
theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered’
... But the memo shows that the State Department indeed considered the
paper relevant to the pandemic’s origins.”
NIH Retracted Gene Sequence at WIV Researcher’s Request
While we’ve yet to obtain bulletproof evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was
developed as a bioweapon, there’s plenty of circumstantial evidence that
points in that direction. Disturbingly, as time goes on, more and more
of this circumstantial evidence seems to highlight the United States’
involvement. If one proverbial finger is pointing at China, four others
are pointing back at us.
This is profoundly bad news, but it really ought to strengthen our
resolve to get to the bottom of it. None of us are safe until the mad
scientists responsible for this pandemic are brought to justice. It
doesn’t matter who they are. In all likelihood, we’ll find that blame
cannot be pinned on a single nation. At bare minimum, the U.S. and China
appear to be covering for each other.
As just one example, there are the deletions of information that have
occurred both at the National Institutes of Health and the WIV, either
at the other’s request, or as what appears to be a favor.
As reported by Just the News,36
NIH deleted a genetic sequencing submission of SARS-CoV-2 from its
Sequence Read Archive (SRA) at the request of a researcher at the WIV.
Emails37
obtained via FOIA request to the NIH by Empower Oversight show a WIV
researcher who had submitted two genetic sequences to the SRA, one in
March 2020, and a second in June 2020, asked to have the last one
retracted.
NIH initially stated that it would be better to edit or replace the
submission rather than retracting it, but the researcher insisted it be
removed, which they did. To be fair, the NIH also states it has
retracted at least eight SRA submissions in total, most from American
researchers, at their request. However, emails also show the NIH
directed reporters on how to provide more favorable and less
sensationalized coverage of the deletion of the Chinese sequence. Just
the News writes:38
“[Empower Oversight] says one of the most
disconcerting elements of the emails is evidence showing the NIH has
refused to participate in a transparent process to examine data on the
deleted sequences.
‘Most importantly, why has NIH refused to examine
archival copies of deleted sequences in an open scientific process to
determine whether any of that information might be able to shed light on
the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic?’ the group asked.
However, that argument was dismissed by NIH official
Steve Sherry. Although sequences are never fully deleted, according to
the agency, Sherry told a researcher who asked for transparency, ‘As you
know, when data sets are withdrawn from the database, that status does
not permit use for further analyses.’"
WIV Deleted Mentions of US Collaborators
The WIV has also deleted information in what appears to be an effort
to shield the NIH. Shortly after Fauci testified in a Senate hearing in
March 2021,39
the WIV quietly deleted all mentions of its collaboration with Fauci’s
NIAID, the NIH and other American research partners from its website. As
reported May 15, 2021, by The National Pulse:40
“March 21st, 2021, the lab’s website listed six
U.S.-based research partners: University of Alabama, University of North
Texas, EcoHealth Alliance, Harvard University, the National Institutes
of Health (NIH), the United States, and the National Wildlife
Federation.41
One day later, the page was revised to contain just two research partners — EcoHealth Alliance and the University of Alabama.42 By March 23rd, EcoHealth Alliance was the sole partner remaining.43
EcoHealth Alliance is run by long-standing Chinese
Communist Party-partner Dr. Peter Daszak, who National Pulse
Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam has repeatedly claimed will be the first
‘fall guy’ of the Wuhan lab debacle …
Beyond establishing a working relationship between the NIH and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, now-deleted posts44 from the site also detail studies bearing the hallmarks of gain-of-function research conducted with the Wuhan-based lab.”
Indeed, a now-deleted WIV web page titled “Will SARS Come Back?” stated that:45
“Prof. Zhengli Shi and Xingyi Ge from WIV, in
cooperation with researchers from University of North Carolina, Harvard
Medical School, Bellinzona Institute of Microbiology … examine the
disease potential of a SARS-like virus, SHC014-CoV, which is currently
circulating in Chinese horseshoe bat populations.
Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system, the
scientists generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the
spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone.
The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding
the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple
orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II
(ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve
in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV.
Evaluation of available SARS-based immune-therapeutic
and prophylactic modalities revealed poor efficacy; both monoclonal
antibody and vaccine approaches failed to neutralize and protect from
infection with CoVs using the novel spike protein.
On the basis of these findings, they synthetically
re-derived an infectious full-length SHC014 recombinant virus and
demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo …”
The WIV’s deletions of American research partners from its website
(with the exception of EcoHealth Alliance), and its deletion of the
article discussing genetic research on the SARS virus only served to
strengthen suspicions of a cover-up. At the time, the most surprising
thing about it was that they were covering up American involvement and
not just their own.
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Alas, as noted by Maajid Nawaz,46
a former Islamist revolutionary who became an anti-extremism activist,
if it turns out that the U.S. did in fact engage in illegal bioweapons
development in Ukraine, it might just turn out that we’re the bad guys
here. He writes, in part:47
“On the 24th February 2022, the very day of Russia’s
invasion, some of us were already worried about the prospect of
biological weapons laboratories existing in Ukraine ...
The existence of bio-weapons labs on Ukraine’s border
with Russia has since been confirmed by both Russia and the US (I say
both because the Ukrainian government is essentially serving as a US
proxy). The only remaining question is around what we were doing in
those laboratories.
It is no longer in doubt that we funded bio-weapons
research in the Wuhan lab in China, from where it is now believed that
COVID most likely leaked from. So were we doing the same in Ukraine too?
Russia has certainly made the allegation ...
The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov stated48 ‘In
the course of a special military operation, the facts of an emergency
cleansing by the Kiev regime of traces of a military biological program
being implemented in Ukraine, funded by the US Department of Defense,
were uncovered.’
With this, he released this document drop49 alleging
... that these papers substantiated their case. If Russia’s allegations
hold up, the US and her proxy Ukrainian regime would be in violation of
the first article of the UN Convention on the Prohibition of
Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons.50
Russia’s announcement appears to have forced
America’s hand to admit that such bio labs do indeed exist. US
Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland framed this admission by stating
that these labs were for defensive research only.
Under Secretary Nuland however continued to make the
case that such labs would be dangerous if they fell into Russian hands,
without apparently noticing the contradiction inherent in her position
that such labs are only dangerous because they can be
weaponized ...
Matching Russian precision strikes to a map of bio
lab locations inside Ukraine certainly does suggest that Putin’s
‘special military operation’ appears to be targeting some of these
dangerous labs.”
Indeed, Nawaz highlights a 2021 Ukrainian petition51,52
to president Zelensky, asking for a) the immediate closure of “American
bio-laboratories in the territory of Ukraine,” b) an investigation into
the activities of those labs, and c) an investigation into potential
Ukrainian participation in the creation of SARS-CoV-2.
In other words, at least some Ukrainians, by 2021, were wondering
whether the U.S. labs in their country might have been involved in the
creation of this pandemic.
Denouncements Ring Hollow
Not surprisingly, the U.S. State Department took a hard line,
denouncing all allegations with the statement that “The United States
does not have chemical and biological weapons labs in Ukraine.”53 In another statement,54
the State Department “clarified” that the labs were for “biodefense,”
not biological weapons, thus semantically cleansing their criminal
activities.
The problem with that is that there’s no hard line between biodefense
and bioweapons research. As admitted by EcoHealth Alliance’s policy
advisor and former Fort Detrick commander David Franz, it’s all “dual
use — the people, the facilities and the equipment.”55
Biodefense implies biowarfare, as it involves the creation of more
dangerous pathogens for the alleged purpose of finding treatments
against them.
Bioweapons expert Francis Boyle, who drafted the Biological Weapons
Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, has also pointed out that most BSL-4 labs
are dual use: “They first develop the offensive biological warfare agent
and then they develop the supposed vaccine.”56 And then, there’s the weapons proliferation agreement57 between the U.S. and Ukraine, signed at the end of August 2005.
Incidentally, former President Barrack Obama spearheaded the project
to construct these Ukrainian labs back in 2005, when he was still a
senator and, curiously, the online announcement of his involvement in
this project has also been deleted from the web.58
According to this agreement, the U.S. Department of Defense will
assist the Ministry of Health in Ukraine, at no cost, to prevent
“proliferation of technology, pathogens and expertise” found in a number
of Ukraine labs, that “could be used in the development of biological
weapons.”
The Burning Question of Intent
So, the agreement itself clarifies that they’re working on pathogens
that COULD be used as biological weapons, and Nuland’s stated concerns
back this up. The only question remaining then is one of intention.
What’s the intended use of these pathogens? Defense? Or offense? And is
there really a difference?
As noted by Nawaz, the U.S. clinging to the defense of “biodefense”
and anti-bioweapons proliferation is “the equivalent of denying that
Einstein’s discovery of splitting the atom to generate energy is not
also something that could be used to make nuclear weapons. After the
COVID outbreak, the notion that bio labs can be weaponized should simply
be presumed as a rule.”
Also, consider the network of players reviewed earlier. The
Ukrainian-American collaboration to study pathogens capable of
weaponization is run by the DTRA, which funds Metabiota, which is run by
a WEF leader with close personal ties to the one person — Daszak —
suspected of being a key player in the creation of SARS-CoV-2, a
go-between of the NIH and the WIV, and a central force in the cover-up
of the lab leak theory.
Interestingly, Metabiota is also financially backed by Hunter Biden’s
investment company, and let’s not forget that young Biden also
collected a six-figure salary from a Ukrainian gas company for doing
literally nothing, other than supplying his “powerful name.”59
Circumstantial or not, it just doesn’t look good. And, by now, it
should be crystal clear that any lab doing defensive work is equally
capable of churning out offensive weapons. Debating that point is just
silly, as it all boils down to semantics.
According to Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, Metabiota is
a key player in the Ukrainian labs. David Horowitz, a political writer,
has noted that Metabiota is “a company that tracks the trajectory of
outbreaks and sells pandemic insurance, but also seems to have its hand
in the actual labs that ... might be the source of some of these
outbreaks.”60
In other words, could it be that Metabiota has been producing
biological agents under diplomatic cover and then selling pandemic
insurance and pandemic trackers to “help countries get ahead of what
they are putting out”?61
Nawaz asks, “was ensuring that a ‘next pandemic’ doesn’t occur by
taking out these bio labs, what Putin had in mind by his phrase ‘special
military operation’?”62 At this point, it seems a valid question.