Monday, April 27, 2015

BLOG COMMENTS - APRIL 27, 2015



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



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



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.



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