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 May 18 to May 25.
The comments are about politics, economy, business, social
issues, education and technology in the United
States, Europe and
the world.
As you can see for the RECOMMENDATIONS, the majority of
these comments generated a good reaction of other members of the Journal
Community.
Domingo Trassens
Analyst
World Rethink
May 25, 2015
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BLOG COMMENTS: 2015/05/18
- 2015/05/25
MY COMMENT: In the gloomy moments, the financial and
economic problems generate division.
Now some politicians
of the Greece’s governing party want to cut in a bad way with the European community,
but the euro-zone exit could move the country to a period of a lot of
uncertainty. 1 Recommendation 05/25/2015 03:03:04 PM
MY COMMENT: During approximately 10 years, the Europeans
were dreaming in the magic of the euro.
Meanwhile, the
social problems grew because the economy walked in a slower step than previous
expectations.
In parallel, the
riots and social commotions of Greece and the massive immigration of refugees from
Middle East, South Asia
and Africa shook the European Community.
Now, across the
region, there are a lot of people who are trying to survive with low-wage jobs
or social assistance. Of course, these individuals cannot move the economy
because they don’t have enough money to cover their basic expenditures. 1
Recommendation 05/25/2015 02:23:16 PM
MY COMMENT: When the politicians in charge of the
government make serious mistakes, acting with arrogance and using corrupt
practices, it is good that the citizens punish them in the voting. This is
democracy.
In Spain, the Popular Party has been accused of
corruption since they took the central government.
In the regional
elections the Spaniards punished it voting for other parties. It looks like the
democracy works in Spain.1 Recommendation 05/25/2015 05:08:47 AM
MY COMMENT: Till now, despite the fall of Ramadi in the
hands of the ISIS militants, the White House didn't change its
attitude about the Iraq war.
We have to see, what
kind of strategy the U.S. Defense Secretary will define.
Without a strong plan,
arming Sunnis to fight against ISIS is a
double edged sword. 2 Recommendations 05/24/2015 04:06:08 PM
MY COMMENT: John Forbes Nash, Nobel Prize in Economic
Sciences, is dead, but the work of his “beautiful mind” will illuminate the
path of the science forever.
My deepest sympathy! DAT 3 Recommendations 05/24/2015 03:16:07 PM
MY COMMENT: The new initiative of President Vladimir
Putin is nothing new in his style of ruling Russia.
We cannot expect
that Mr. Putin accepts the criticism of they think different from him. 05/23/2015 05:52:47 PM
MY COMMENT: In the Republican side, Sen. Rand Paul is
playing as a rebel. With this attitude, he will win the vote of independents,
but he will lose Republican constituents. 2 Recommendations 05/23/2015 04:16:53 PM
MY COMMENT: In other times, Ireland was a very conservative and traditional
country.
The vote in favor of
legalizing same-sex marriage looks like now the Irish people are changing 360 degree
in their way of thinking and acting. 1 Recommendation 05/23/2015 04:04:34 PM
MY COMMENT: The news says that Scott McNealy, Sun
Microsystems ex-chairman, is back as CEO of Wayin.
Scott has a rich
experience in the technology business. He has the knowledge and skill to make
new contributions in his new role of CEO of a startup related with the
social-network environment. Good luck! 1 Recommendation 05/22/2015 03:10:35 PM
MY COMMENT: After all its successes, the fall of
BlackBerry is sad, but in the technology arena, it is normal.
When a tech hero is
in the top of the hill, it does not expect that somebody else will push down.
But in the curve of
life a product – in this case, the BlackBerry smart-phone- after the inflection
point, if the father of this product doesn’t find in a fast way the answer to
the new requirements of the market, it falls.
Apple iPhone did not
cripple Blackberry smart-phone. Its fall was the result of the mistakes of BlackBerry
(company).
When somebody walks
wrong in the technology path, other/s jump over its corpse.
05/22/2015 02:46:42 PM
05/22/2015 02:46:42 PM
MY COMMENT: This new bombing attack in this case in a
Shiite mosque of a Sunni country is “horrible picture” of the deep division
among different Muslim groups. 2
Recommendations 05/22/2015 01:55:02 PM
MY COMMENT: This story about “Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi
Emails” does not give enough elements to make a serious judgment about the way
that Mrs. Clinton acted before, during and after the attack. It says all that
we knew before with a little more of cosmetic.1 Recommendation 05/22/2015 01:27:46 PM
MY COMMENT: Now, the Brazilians are pointing against
Dilma Rousseff, when last year they gave her their vote to win a second term
despite everybody knew about the corruption of her government in the first term
of presidency.
This shows the Brazilian
mentality, fun and dance during the night and in the next morning, to cry and
go to pray in the church.
It is truth that
Dilma Rousseff and her team are corrupt, but this is not because they are
leftists or socialists. The Brazilian government apparatus was corrupt before
Dilma Rousseff and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...
We cannot expect
that the resign of Dilma Rousseff will fix the current problems of the country
because the Brazilian corruption is not the “sin” of a leader or political
party. The corruption is a sickness that involves all the political system,
including the constituents who vote today for the left and tomorrow for the
right. 1 Recommendation 05/22/2015 12:41:02 PM
MY COMMENT: Today the ethical values are not important
for the politicians with hunger of power and personal ambitions. However, somebody
who doesn't give good example to others cannot rule them in a right way. 2
Recommendations 05/21/2015 03:22:44 PM
MY COMMENT: The silence of the western leaders in front
the horror of Boko Haram is more than indifference to the suffering of the
victims of this terrorist organization.
It shows the women,
girls and children of the African countries are not considering human beings
with the same sensitivity of the women, girls and children of the western
world. 7 Recommendations 05/21/2015 02:46:33 PM
MY COMMENT: The current situation in Iraq reflects the crash of two different
attitudes:
1) The Islamic State
has the resolution to capture all the territory it can and it pursues its plans
in the ground step by step. The air-strikes and killing of some of its
commanders don’t stop it.
2) The Iraqi
government does not have clue how to defend its territories and stop the
advance of the ISIS militants. It sleeps in the belief that the
American troops will comeback to the battlefield with all the power to defeat
the enemy. Meanwhile, in Washington, there is not a real will power to return to Iraq and drive a war in the ground against the
Islamic State.
In summary, the
passiveness of the Baghdad government and the hesitant attitude of Washington are playing in benefit of the Islamic State.
1 Recommendation 05/21/2015 02:08:11 PM
MY COMMENT: In recent days, the White House has
declassified materials that the American special troops seized during the 2011
raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
It is interesting to
know that the “Bin Laden’s Bookshelf” includes “software manuals” among 400
letters, books, news articles and research reports.
Perhaps, in his free
times, Bin Laden studied software, (Excel, Word, PowerPoint…) (??)
1Recommendation 05/20/2015 02:29:23 PM
1Recommendation 05/20/2015 02:29:23 PM
MY COMMENT: The news says that six Chinese citizens –
including several university professors – are charged with economic espionage
against the United States.
The environment of a
university is good for economic espionage due to the access that the professors
have to key information of the research in specific subjects. 3 Recommendations
05/19/2015 03:24:19 PM
MY COMMENT: According to the news, Apple had dropped its
plans of ultra-high-definition television.
From the other side,
the investor Carl Icahn said that Apple will enter the TV market next year and
in the car market in 2020.
Frequently, Mr.
Icahn knows about the “movements” and “plans” of the technology companies
because he is in the “noise” of the environment.
However, sometimes,
he makes public comments to “force” the companies to act or to “focus"
other investors in one or another direction of the investment market. Often,
this is his game. 6 Recommendations 05/19/2015 06:19:44 AM
MY COMMENT: The fall of the Iraqi City of Ramadi in the hands of the ISIS militants acts in an opposite way to the
killing of a top leader of the Islamic State by U.S. special-operations team.
If the troops of the
Iraqi government cannot maintain under their control important cities and
provinces of the country, the killing of some leaders of the militants will not
debilitate the Islamic State.
The efforts of the United States to support the Iraqi authorities will be
useless and the panic of the civil population will spread everywhere also in
the same streets of Baghdad.
0 Recommendations 05/18/2015 11:38:05 AM
0 Recommendations 05/18/2015 11:38:05 AM
MY COMMENT: The story starts “David Cameron and Alexis
Tsipras are miles apart politically, but they share more in common than either
may care to admit”
From my point of
view, the arguments used to mark the common points of David Cameron and Alexis
Tsipras are weak.
Tsipras won the
elections lying to his people about promises that he could not make. Before the
voting, he knew that the finance and economy of Greece was in very bad shape and he didn’t have
agreements with the international creditors to facilitate the payment
conditions.
From the other side,
Tsipras and his finance minister are cheating with the top leaders of EU and Germany in a way that looks grotesque.
Prime Minister David
Cameron is a combative politician but he acts with ethical manners.
3 Recommendations 05/18/2015 07:45:49 AM
3 Recommendations 05/18/2015 07:45:49 AM
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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.
