Dear Friends:
I would like to share with you some of the comments posted
by myself in the WSJ Journal Community about important headlines of the Wall
Street Journal from April 20 to April 26.
The comments are about politics, economy, business, technology,
education and social issues in the United States,
Europe and the world.
As you can see for the RECOMMENDATIONS, the majority of
these comments generated a good interaction with other members of the Journal
Community.
Domingo Trassens
Analyst
World Rethink
April 27, 2014
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BLOG COMMENTS: 2015/04/20–
2015/04/27
MY COMMENT: In this new campaign for the White House, we
have to differentiate the politicians who live according to Christian
principles every day, from the candidates who only claim for the support of the
Evangelical voters in their personal benefit. 1 Recommendation 04/26/2015 01:02:29 PM
On The
Democrats Own Iran: (By Daniel Henninger)
MY COMMENT: We cannot separate the Iranian nuclear deal
from the terrorist activities linked directly or indirectly to the ayatollahs
regime of Iran.
The Americans who
don’t see the threat, they never read History. They are naive. They are blind.
They don't see the secret powers that are moving behind the Middle-East
volcano. 5 Recommendations 04/26/2015 02:42:56 AM
MY COMMENT: Thank you Dan for your work in the
development Google Maps! Surely, your name will be remembered as a tech hero.
Our message of
sympathy to the family of Dan Fredinburg for his tragic death climbing Mount Everest! 3 Recommendations 04/26/2015 02:18:59 AM
On Powerful
Magnitude-7.8 Earthquake Rocks Nepal, Death Toll Nears 1,900: (updated more
than 4000 dead people)
MY COMMENT: Dramatic scenes! The earthquake that rocked Nepal shows us how fragile we are the human beings
in front the fury of Nature.
The news says
“powerful magnitude-7.8 earthquake rocks Nepal, death toll nears 1,400”. This is only a
first approach. We have to see during the next day, real magnitude of the
tragedy. 1 Recommendation 04/25/2015 07:31:25 PM
MY COMMENT: The Volkswagen’s war between the Chairman
Ferdinand Piech and the CEO Martin Winkerkorn looks like is ending with the
resignation of Mr. Piech.
Is this the start of
a new era in Volkswagen? Ferdinand Piech was famous for his hard hand. Somebody
defined him as a tyrant. Nobody knows is he is really leaving the main scene… 1
Recommendation 04/25/2015 02:28:34 PM
MY COMMENT: Our politicians talk a lot about the
climate-change, but till now the streets of the cities are full of trash and in
the public transportation and stations we find rest of food, cigarettes, cans
of beverage. More: How many owners of dogs use the public areas as toilet of
their animals?
The celebration of
the Earth Day is not only for dramatic speeches, it is for real facts starting
for a new “culture” of each inhabitant in their daily life. 1 Recommendations 04/24/2015 03:36:51 PM
On Quid
Pro Clinton:
MY COMMENT: We continue learning more about the “dark
businesses” of Bill and Hillary Clinton, but probably we will never know about
the most scandalous operations thanks the “famous” emails that were deleted in
the server of the Clinton family.
The pending question
is: How many hours of the Mrs. Clinton’s trips during the time she was U.S.
Secretary of State were official activities of the government? It looks like
Hillary used part of her trips for private businesses.
By the way, when
Mrs. Clinton resigned as Secretary of State, a political analyst in a PBS-News
panel said that Hillary was tireless traveler, but the results of her trips
were not much. 2 Recommendations 04/24/2015 02:31:17 PM
MY COMMENT: The stakes in 2016 are high because the current
paradigm of government is antique for the times that we are living now. After
the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, we tried to update our model of
country according to the new world reality, but we didn’t build a new
‘foundation”. All was only rhetoric.
We are losing international
friends, while we are trying to make new friends in an environment of complete
uncertainty. Meanwhile, our enemies or dangerous rivals are growing, in a lot
of cases, thanks the benefit of be advanced students of our best technological
masters. 1 Recommendation 04/23/2015 02:29:19 PM
MY COMMENT: Again we see that the war of drones is very
risky because the remote human operators are very distant from the ground and
the drones don’t ask if you are friend or enemy before they shoot… 3
Recommendations 04/23/2015 01:05:48 PM
MY COMMENT: You say that Facebook manipulates content
from individual users and you expect that when the users realize this
situation, they will begin to move away from the platform.
We have to observe
that Facebook generates more than half its revenue overseas. For overseas users
without digital culture, Facebook is like a “god of the communication”. The
majority of these people don’t have the capability to see they are manipulated
by the social media giant.
While the “legion”
of fans of Facebook does not decline, the business of Mark Zuckerberg will
continue generating revenues. 04/23/2015 09:24:46 AM
MY COMMENT: It looks like “Project Fi” is a test of
Google to see what happens in the niche of wireless service.
Risk: Sometimes, the
technology companies launch projects that after a period go to a dead-end.
If we are customers
of Verizon or AT&T, before to change, we have to see how “Project Fi’ works
in the ground. 1 Recommendation 04/22/2015 03:09:28 PM
MY COMMENT: In a country where the corruption has roots
in all the levels of the society including the government, the real solutions
for the victims never arrive in time and form. 1 Recommendation 04/22/2015 02:25:10 PM
MY COMMENT: The refugee surge is not only a problem for the
small towns of Germany. The inhabitants of big cities and capitals
of the Western European countries are seeing the decline of their security with
their own eyes, day per day.
Europe is not prepared to receive thousands of
immigrants in the current circumstances. Today is very easy to travel through
the European Union from one country to another. The Europeans need border
police controls to stop the entrance of the criminals before they are inside
their own countries. 9 Recommendations 04/22/2015 02:00:02 PM
MY COMMENT: The drama of Mario Draghi, the president of
the European Central Bank, is that the euro-zone is growing in geography: more
countries, more people, however its economic engines don’t grow.
The new members of
the euro-zone are small countries without a strong industry and
energy-dependence.
From the other side,
Greece doesn’t solve its problems, but it remains
in the community.
The future looks
worse than the present due to the number of refugees that are coming to
countries like Germany, France and Italy. 04/21/2015 02:14:21 PM
MY COMMENT: In my opinion, IBM is “an inflection point”
that forces to reinvent the company.
It is not about
product lines or “clouds”, “big data” or “analytics”… It is about the ROLE of
this technology company in the new era with “cloud computing”, “big data”,
“analytics”, Internet of Things”, cyber-security or something else.
The problem is more
complex than the selection of a series of products or services to market from
now and another series of products and services that IBM will stop to market.
We have to hope that
CEO Ginni Rometty makes the job. If not, the IBM board of directors board has
to find a new visionary like Lou Gerstner was in 1993. 2 Recommendations 04/21/2015 10:37:35 AM
MY COMMENT: Everyone knows that the Ayatollah is playing
poker and he wants all our cards. 2 Recommendations 04/20/2015 03:25:44 PM
MY COMMENT: Italians have right to complain for the
influx of refugees from Africa because this spiraling migration crisis
started after the first Arab Spring movements removed the Libyan regime and
others.
The questions are:
Who promoted the Arab Spring? Who supported with military actions the fall of
the Libyan regime? Who supported the Morsi’s chaotic government?
We know the answers
of these questions, but today nobody wants to assume the consequences of bad
political strategies and wrong military actions. Meanwhile, Africa is really a big volcano and in short time
the Mediterranean will become a huge mass grave. 2
Recommendations 04/20/2015 02:47:58 PM
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SOURCES:
1) External Sources: Wall Street Journal, The New York Times,
Tweeter and PBS NewsHour.
2) Own Sources: My own research for previous publishing projects
like TTT of Comlab Corp, Spanish English Club online and others.
Website: http://world-rethink.blogspot.de/
