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ILLUSTRATION BY KIT RUSSELL As WikiLeaks was riding to global fame a decade ago by publishing archives of leaked American military and diplomatic files, its founder, Julian Assange, liked to call his organization an “intelligence agency of the people.” The slogan conjured an ideal of gathering and disseminating information solely to improve public understanding of the world and to enable democracy to better function, without the presumed machinations of a nation-state spy agency. But by 201...

What follows has been largely excerpted and edited from a originally published in early September of 2015. Much ado has been made that the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines are delivering messenger RNA directly into the genetic transcription process. Transcription is the synthesis of RNA from DNA. The Genetic information then flows from DNA into a protein, the substance that gives an organism its form. Messenger RNA (mRNA) is fragile and “would be chopped to pieces by our natural enzymes ...

Illustrative: A creek and corniche in Ras al Khaimah, illuminated at night (iStock) A report last week accusing a private Israeli intelligence firm of impersonating journalists in order to elicit information from opponents of an Emirati royal family shines a spotlight on Israeli cyber intelligence firms that reportedly do business in authoritarian regimes. A Times of Israel investigation has revealed that the owner of the firm in question, Bluehawk CI, has a history of prior fraud prosecutions ...

Sue Surkes is The Times of Israels environment reporter. Two dead dolphins found on Israels Mediterranean coast await autopsy at the Morris Kahn Center for Marine Research, April 6, 2021. (Dr Aviad Sheinin) Two dead dolphins washed up on southern Israeli shores Tuesday, one at a beach in the city of Ashkelon and the other, later in the day, at a marine reserve just south of Nitzanim beach. Both were taken for autopsy at Haifa University’s Morris Kahn Center for Marine Research. It was thought...

Friday, April 2, 4:30 to 7 p.m. When Ink Lounge screenprinter Stuart Alden headed to Europe, he quickly realized that there was nothing to photographed that hadn’t already been captured on film millions of times. Not to be thwarted, he began buying up miniatures of everything from the Eiffel Tower to a classic Vespa parked in Italy to photograph in tandem with the real thing. It turned out to be pretty cool; now you can see and buy the prints in person at Ink Lounge’s new COVID-safe outdo...

‘Luanda Leaks’ files given to Rui Pinto By TPN/Lusa, in News, Crime · 01-04-2021 01:00:00 · 1 Comments Secret recordings cited by lawyers for Isabel dos Santos in a court case in London allege that files relating to the Luanda Leaks case were given by Angolan secret services to the hacker Rui Pinto. The documents were filed ...

Sue Surkes is The Times of Israels environment reporter. A satellite image of Israel and Gazas southern Mediterranean coast taken by the EUs Sentinel 1 on February 12, 2021. (screen capture) The head of the company that helped Israel pinpoint a vessel it says is responsible for spilling oil that wound up polluting the country’s beaches is calling on Jerusalem to significantly bolster its monitoring capabilities, or risk being stricken again. “Until Israel, like every other country that resp...

Sue Surkes is The Times of Israels environment reporter. A British expert collects tar samples from a beach for detailed analysis as Israel prepares to sue the London-based International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund over a disastrous oil leak in the Mediterranean Sea in February, 2021. (Environmental Protection Ministry) A British expert in marine oil spills representing the London-based International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund visited Israel last week to collect samples of crude oil le...

× People shop from a stall selling Ramadan lanterns along a main street in the in the northern suburb of Shubra (home to a large Christian population) of Egypts capital Cairo on April 12, 2021, at the start of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. AFP 1/4 A general view shows the Umayyad Mosque in the Old city of Damascus, Syria, on 12 April 2021. EPA 2/4 A man checks a traditional lantern known in Arabic as "Fanous Ramadan " at the start of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in the...

The owners of the Emerald, the tanker believed to have spilled massive amounts of oil off the Israeli coast in February, have been identified, the Environmental Protection Ministry revealed Sunday. According to an independent investigation by the private intelligence agency Black Cube, the tanker - registered in the