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 11 to May 18.
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 18, 2015
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BLOG COMMENTS: 2015/05/11
- 2015/05/18
MY COMMENT: The fall of the Iraqi City of Ramadi in the hands of the ISIS militants reverses the effect of the killing
of a top leader of the Islamic State by U.S. special-forces.
If the troops of the
Iraqi government cannot maintain under their control important cities and
provinces of the country, the death 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.
1 Recommendation 05/18/2015 11:38:05 AM
1 Recommendation 05/18/2015 11:38:05 AM
MY COMMENT: The PC era helped the semiconductor
manufacturing equipment makers to grow strong. From those times, Applied
Materials became a very important player of the sector.
After the golden era
of the personal computing, all the gear makers suffered the impact of the
decline of the sales of PCs.
Now, it looks like
the boom of cloud computing can open new opportunities for the sector and
reinforce the business of leading companies like Applied Materials and Lam
Research. But till now, it is early to make forecasts. 1 Recommendation 05/18/2015 09:09:06 AM
MY COMMENT: Google always makes “experiments”, but this
does imply that all its projects work properly.
We have to observe
for a period and see if this new project impacts in the businesses of Amazon
and eBay… Now, it does not make sense to predict results. 05/17/2015 02:17:30 PM
MY COMMENT: From the beginning, the Iraq war was a very controversial issue.
However, it is not
fair to put all the weight of the Iraq-war decision in the Republicans because
a series of Democrat politicians – included Hillary Clinton – agreed with the
invasion before the war started.
Today we have to
seek solutions for the problems that we have in our hands now and stop to stir
the facts of the past. 1 Recommendation 05/17/2015 01:53:02 PM
MY COMMENT: Behind the Amtrak case there are 2 scenes:
1) A real story that
some somebody is hiding (probably the Amtrak engineer)
2) A fictitious
story that is full of speculations.
Meanwhile, we have a
balance of eight dead people and more than 200 wounded plus all the damages and
technical problems for the derailed train. 5 Recommendations 05/17/2015 01:27:54 PM
MY COMMENT: This was a positive movement after a series
of unsuccessful operations. We have to wait the good news continue. 05/16/2015 01:48:29 PM
MY COMMENT: The months run, but the case of Alberto
Nisman is in the same point of the beginning.
Why? The answer is
easy. This case includes: a body, a pistol and two powerful shadows: Cristina
Kirchner and the Iranians.
Both - Ms. Kirchner
and the Iranians - have sufficient resources and power to block the case with
strong barriers.
One detail: Cristina
ends its presidential term in December. Maybe after that, we have some news.
However, in Argentina since the old times of Juan Domingo Peron, a
lot of crimes never had a clear explanation.
To be against of the
boss of the Rose House was always risky in Argentina because the owners of the power are not
tolerant with the people who try to research dirty government businesses.
The best recent
example is the death of Nisman. For a superior order, somebody closed his mouth
forever. 15 Recommendations 05/15/2015 03:10:15 PM
MY COMMENT: The news of the accident of the American
helicopter is sad, but we have to be proud that members of our army forces are
taking serious risks working in the Nepal’s rescue operation.
The U.S. mariners who died helping the Nepalese
victims deserve all our respect. 17 Recommendations 05/15/2015 08:24:34 AM
MY COMMENT: The attendance to the summit does not
guarantee that when the visitors return home, they will walk in the direction
that President Obama wants.
I have doubts about
the success of this dialogue. The Sunnis don’t like the Iranians and they will
not change they way of thinking because the President of the United States invited them to Camp David. 7 Recommendations 05/14/2015 03:09:15 PM
MY COMMENT: The news says that the engineer of the Amtrak
train doesn't know what happened. The statement looks like an excuse. If the engineer
was not sick, drunk or sleeping, he had to realize that train was a risk before
the accident happened.
Normally, when a
train goes more than twice the speed limit in a curve, for physical laws it
derails. 8 Recommendations 05/14/2015 01:26:36 PM
MY COMMENT: “Die
Welt”, German newspaper of Berlin, said that Russia lost 220 soldiers in the Ukrainian conflict.
Probably, President Putin is trying to redefine its plans because the Russians
don’t want a “new Afghanistan”. 1 Recommendation 05/14/2015 12:30:23 PM
MY COMMENT: Scientific studies alone will not modify the
vicious cycle of poverty. 1 Recommendation 05/13/2015 03:20:41 PM
MY COMMENT: In a terror or criminal organization, when
one of the heads is killed, always they have a replacement.
We have to assume
that the position of Abu Ala Al Afri was filled for other.
The only way to
dismantle a terror organization is through a massive killing of all the heads
in an operation that weaken the command structure. 2 Recommendations 05/13/2015 02:15:47 PM
MY COMMENT: Again, the North Korean dictator showed that
for him everybody has to be a robot that follows him everywhere, smiling and
saying: Yes, Yes, Yes…
The followers don't
have any value as human beings. It is only him, the big North Korean God.
According to the
news, the North Korean Defense Minister was executed by antiaircraft fire
because he was sleeping during a speech of Kim Jong Un.
If the rules of North
Korean dictator are implemented in the western countries, a lot of lawmakers,
cabinet members and top officers have to be executed when they sleep during
boring speeches. 1 Recommendation 05/13/2015 01:50:28 PM
MY COMMENT: The “No” of the Democrats is a new experience
of President Obama.
Every time, that Mr.
Obama has problems with the Republicans, his reaction is hard and he blames the
opposition for the government problems.
Now, we have to see
if the President is more diplomatic in his negotiations with the Democrats. 5
Recommendations 05/13/2015 12:20:30 PM
MY COMMENT: It looks like when the Obama Administration
started the negotiations with Iran, nobody with influences on President Obama
gave him a Middle-East history book to learn about the risks of dealing with
the Iranians.
The Sunni Arabs don't believe in the promises of the White House because they know better than any Obama’s adviser who the Iranians are and act.
It is regrettable that the United States is losing the diplomacy efforts of decades to maintain good relationships with a series of countries and governments that were our allies. Under the ayatollah regime, Iran never will be a reliable friend of the America.
4 Recommendations 05/12/2015 02:42:24 PM
The Sunni Arabs don't believe in the promises of the White House because they know better than any Obama’s adviser who the Iranians are and act.
It is regrettable that the United States is losing the diplomacy efforts of decades to maintain good relationships with a series of countries and governments that were our allies. Under the ayatollah regime, Iran never will be a reliable friend of the America.
4 Recommendations 05/12/2015 02:42:24 PM
MY COMMENT: Verizon is buying fantasies of the “past”. A
leading company has to buy “future”.
With $4.4 billion,
Verizon can buy 4 or more technology startups that probably will bring to the
telecommunication carrier a long series of innovative technologies and the
potential of huge revenues for the next years.
During the last
decades, we saw marriages of technology companies similar to Verizon-AOL that
did not work. Good luck! 1 Recommendation 05/12/2015 11:24:45 AM
MY COMMENT: Samsung has the fever to be the world’s No. 1
technology brand, but in the technological arena nobody can insure its future.
In the first quarter
of 2015, the fall of Samsung in the Chinese mobile phone market was dramatic.
According to IDC, compared with the same quarter of 2014, it declined 53%. It
was fourth in shipments behind Apple, Xiaomi and Huawei. 1 Recommendation 05/12/2015 10:41:05 AM
MY COMMENT: The Russians like to make spectacles that
produce intimidation. And Victory Day 2015 was a great opportunity because the
western leaders didn’t want to show their “muscles”.
In the end, we are
losing the stature of power of the world. 2 Recommendations 05/11/2015 02:10:10 PM
MY COMMENT: The friends and enemies of Jeb Bush are
waiting a decision from the former Florida Governor. Everybody wants to know if
he will run for the Republican presidential nomination.
But Jeb is acting
like he has fears to say: “Yes” or “No”. If he continues with this attitude, he
will arrive to the “contest” late. 1 Recommendation 05/11/2015 12:52:54 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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