http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-02-15T12:30:34-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/15/show_trial.php During Mao's Cultural Revolution, show trials were used to cover-up the evils of the regime. Innocent parties were brought in, tried without justice, then either killed or sent to "re-education" camps. The U.S. House held its own version of such... 48648@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-02-15T12:30:34-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/02/a_world_of_rationed_liberty.php If you want to launch a lynch mob against the "Chinese Communists," I'll probably be there with a pitchfork. I'm an American who believes in ordered liberty, after all. Of course, when Congress tried to get the leaders of the... 47776@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-02-02T14:16:12-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/24/alternative_energy_no_longer_an_option.php John Robb of Global Guerillas has posted a blog entry that should curl your hair. (The picture is from Drexel University.) The control over the price of oil is in now in the hands of global guerrillas -- the open... 46996@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ energy 2006-01-24T17:00:28-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/19/murder_the_beloved_country.php One reason I haven't been around much lately is I have been (finally) reading Salman Rushdie's latest 2005 1997classic Shalimar the Clown. Like all great writers Rushdie tends to be ahead of his time, sometimes far ahead. Just as his... 46726@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ fun stuff 2006-01-19T14:38:28-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/29/end_impeachment_talk_now.php There has been some talk on the left calling for the impeachment of President Bush. That talk should end now. No competent legal authority has the facts justifying any charge. The Congress is the only such authority, and Congress has... 45044@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2005-12-29T08:02:26-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/23/this_weeks_clue_the_spring_of_consensus.php This week's issue of A-Clue.Com is my annual Year in Preview essay. You're invited to join the A-Clue.Com community by clicking this link. Always free. One problem I have with Robert Prechter's work is its apocalyptic nature. It's the deep... 44779@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2005-12-23T10:30:10-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/19/the_terrorists_won.php This is an easy call to make. When you’re terrorized, the terrorists have won. And Americans remain terrorized. When a democracy is spying on its own people, when it claims the right to do this with impunity, when it’s attacking... 43377@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ war 2005-12-19T10:54:27-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/16/this_weeks_clue_slouching_toward_armageddon.php This week's issue of A-Clue.Com is my annual Year in Review essay. You're invited to join the A-Clue.Com community by clicking this link. Always free. There are many forms of depression. There's the economic kind. There's the personal kind. There's... 43247@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ History 2005-12-16T10:54:55-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/24/the_aljazeerah_story.php I don't know, frankly, whether President Bush sought to bomb Qatar in order to destroy al-Jazeerah TV. But the way this story has been reported, and not reported, makes me question just how freedom-loving the U.S. and Britain really are.... 38569@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Journalism 2005-11-24T09:03:54-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/15/phishing_and_terrorism.php John Robb, at his Global Guerillas site, today has one of his most fascinating posts yet, a comparison between terrorism networks and phishing networks. He starts with an analysis of the phishing business from Chris Abad of Cloudmark, which found... 37968@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-11-15T12:48:18-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/08/democracy_vs_consensus.php Americans idolize democracy. It is, as Winston Churchill observed, the worst political system possible, except for all others. In a democracy forging a majority gives you power. The system is stable because majorities shift. People change their minds over time... 37743@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2005-11-08T09:11:54-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/01/cops_vs_robbers.php Some recent posts at Techdirt have me thinking of some basic questions, about the pace of change and the continuing battle between cops and robbers. In successive entries, we have dismissal of new anti-crime ideas from the banking industry, copyright... 37622@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Moore's Lore 2005-11-01T15:19:30-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/10/02/this_tower_of_babel_has_fallen.php I'm about to go off on the Bush Administration again, but at least this time it's on a subject near to this blog's stated purpose. Some days I think George W. Bush was imposed on us by our enemies. If... 36704@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-10-02T11:15:59-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/30/internet_war_beginsin_the_us.php The Internet War we've warned about here for years has begun, but in a most unexpected way. While most attention was being placed on the UN and ITU, which were making noises about seizing control of Internet resources, perhaps by... 36693@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-09-30T15:34:10-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/08/27/save_the_internet.php Milton Mueller and the Internet Governance Project, whom we interviewed in June, has entered the political arena with a petition against U.S. interference in ICANN. (The illustration chosen has little to do with the subject, it's the cover of an... 8915@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-08-27T10:49:16-05:00