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<body> <a href="http://www.xanga.com/ThePopulist">ThePopulist</a><ul><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=858>The Trials of Microsoft</a><br>Copywrite A. Scott Piraino <br /> <br /> <br /> Microsoft owes their monopoly to a crucial mistake made by IBM Corporation. <br /> <br /> When IBM debuted the personal computer in 1984, it had a central processor made by Intel, and operating software from Microsoft. IBM did not seek patents for the entire computer, and soon other companies were copying, (or cloning), the PC. As more companies cloned the PC, Intel and Microsoft became the two key suppliers to the computer industry. <br /> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=858">[READ MORE]</a> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/858"> [2 COMMENTS]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=833>On the Fall of Empires</a><br>Copywrite A. Scott Piraino <br /> <br /> This is how Rome fell. First a vibrant empire comprised of wealthy citizens was reduced to an aristocracy. Then that decadent, impoverished empire was overcome by external enemies. <br /> <br /> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=833">[READ MORE]</a> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/833"> [1 COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=779>A Bright Shining Lie</a><br>A. Scott Piraino <br /> <br /> The President’s pretense for launching this invasion was his assurance that Iraq had, or would soon develop, Weapons of Mass Destruction. Now those accusations have been proven false, and it is impossible to believe that President Bush actually thought those weapons ever existed. The Bush administration does have overwhelming evidence of a rogue state developing nuclear weapons, but in North Korea, not Iraq. <br /> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=779">[READ MORE]</a> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/779"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=725>A Cause Worth Lying For</a><br>Copyright 2003 <br /> A. Scott Piraino <br /> <br /> This is not the first time the United States has lied to start a war. <br /> <br /> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=725">[READ MORE]</a> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/725"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=709>The Nerve of the Federal Reserve</a><br>Copyright 2003 <br /> A. Scott Piraino <br /> <br /> <br /> In 1981 the United States entered the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. With the country mired in recession, President Reagan argued for massive tax reductions so Americans could spend and invest more money. The recession of 1981 ended the following year, not because of Reagan’s tax cuts of course, but because the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates. <br /> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=709">[READ MORE]</a> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/709"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=676>Reaganomics at War</a><br>copyright 2003 <br /> <br /> A. Scott Piraino <br /> <br /> In 1981, when Ronald Reagan was sworn in, the country faced the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. President Reagan proposed a novel solution, lowering tax rates on the wealthiest Americans so they could spend and invest more money. His administration argued that only this increased economic activity could lift the country out of recession. <br /> <br /> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=676">[READ MORE]</a> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/676"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=657>The Forgotten Deficit</a><br>copyright 2003 <br /> A. Scott Piraino <br /> <br /> Last year the United States posted a trade deficit of 435 billion dollars, a new record high. Our cumulative trade deficits since 1980 add up to over three trillion dollars. That's the second largest transfer of wealth in history, second only to our national debt. <br /> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=657">[READ MORE]</a> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/657"> [1 COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=656>Chasing the Dragon</a><br>Copyright 2003 <br /> <br /> A. Scott Piraino <br /> <br /> China has grown from an agrarian backwater into the world’s third largest economy in the last twenty years. While our yearly trade deficits with China have risen from zero to over 100 billion dollars a year, their country has been the world’s fastest growing economy. China has become a colossus precisely because of these trade deficits. <br /> <br /> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=656">[READ MORE]</a> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/656"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=652>Power Exchange</a><br>Copyright 2003 <br /> <br /> A. Scott Piraino <br /> <br /> As California goes, so goes the nation. First an “energy crisis” caused rolling blackouts throughout the state, and bankrupted California’s government . Now the biggest blackout in US history has crippled the Northeastern United States, leaving Americans in the dark as to the cause. <br /> <br /> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=652">[READ MORE]</a> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/652"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li><li><a href=http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=651>The De-Evolution of Warfare</a><br>Copyright 2003 <br /> <br /> A. Scott Piraino <br /> <br /> Conventional warfare is dead. More precisely, wars with national armies fighting across opposing lines will be the exception in the future, not the rule. Instead the twentieth century has seen the rise of guerrilla warfare and its vicious stepchild, terrorism.<a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/link.php?id=651">[READ MORE]</a> <a href="http://quikonnex.com/channel/item/651"> [COMMENT]</a><br><br></li></ul> </body>