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 June 9 to June 16.
The comments are about politics, economy, business, social
issues, technology and other subjects 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
June 16, 2015
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BLOG COMMENTS: 2015/06/09
- 2015/06/16
MY COMMENT: Some people don’t like Jeb Bush for his
family name. Others criticize his ideas. In general, we don’t hear criticism
about his tenure of Florida Governor.
The others who try
to find “spots” in the Jeb’s curriculum, they don’t find big “spots”, perhaps
some details. (By the way, there is not a perfect human being in the planet…)
Previously to the
announcement of his candidacy, Jeb made an extensive study of the political
environment, also traveling to Europe and
speaking with German Chancellor Angela Merkel… Really, his preparation to enter
into the “race” was extensive and dedicated.
Before continuing
making guesses about his possible future as U.S. president, we have to look his campaign
against other Republicans. And if he wins this contest, we have to observe with
clinical eyes his attitude in front of Hillary or the Democrat candidate. 1
Recommendation 06/16/2015 07:25:47 AM
MY COMMENT: The news says that a U.S. air-strike in Yemen killed Nasser al-Wuhayshi, second in command of Al Qaeda.
During the last few
years, drones, air-strikes and command operations killed a series of top
terrorist leaders including Osama bin Laden. However, Al Qaeda and other
terrorist groups continue their devilish work.
Probably, the death
of Nasser al-Wuhayshi is a big blow, but we cannot
sleep peaceful because every time that one dies, ten or more are in line to
cover the vacancy. 1 Recommendation 06/16/2015 06:51:03 AM
MY COMMENT: Pope Francis is not a monarch of the Italian
palaces. He is not a cynical Machiavelli or a magical alchemist dealing with
devils and wizards. He is a humble shepherd with strong ethical principles.
And he wants to put
the Catholic Church in the place that Jesus wanted to see according to his
sermons to the first Christians. 1 Recommendation 06/15/2015 11:04:51 AM
MY COMMENT: During his years in charge of the White
House, President Obama always showed serious difficulties to negotiate with
politicians and leaders of other countries who are against his initiatives
and/or plans.
Now again, President
Obama is showing his weakness to deal because House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi says: No!
In a democracy, a
president who is not a good negotiator cannot rule the country in an effective
way. 4 Recommendations 06/15/2015 10:37:09 AM
MY COMMENT: The transfer of detainees from Guantanamo to Arab countries is risky due to the
political unstable conditions of these countries. 1 Recommendation 06/14/2015 03:53:38 PM
MY COMMENT: The decision to move heavy weaponry to Poland has to be evaluated by military experts. It
has a series of costs and in the modern wars there are other “tools” to
persuade the enemy that any attack will answer with strong attitude.
Independently of the
recommendations of the military experts, NATO has to implement emergency plans
to react immediately if one or more of its members are threatened by Russia or other country or a terrorist
organization. 1 Recommendation 06/14/2015 01:54:33 PM
MY COMMENT: The news says that the robotic probe that
landed on Philae Comet is sending signals to the Earth after months of silence.
This is really good!
These signals
confirm that the robotic probe is not dead and also show that sometimes the
robots don’t act like the humans expect. In other words, the interruption of
signals from the robotic probe didn’t imply the end of the contact with the
Earth.
It would be good if
the probe sends other data to the researchers of the European Space Agency for
the analysis. 06/14/2015 01:06:38 PM
MY COMMENT: The shadow of the cyber hackers is shaking
the German Parliament. The situation looks very confused.
We have to remember
that during the Cold War, Germany was one of the gates of the spies between
the West and the East. 06/13/2015 11:34:30 PM
MY COMMENT: The Greeks were looking for the default… When
somebody complains without putting the own effort to go out a crisis, the worst
comes. 1 Recommendation 06/13/2015 11:21:54 PM
MY COMMENT: We can contain China only if we act smarter than the Chinese. But
in recent years, the Chinese acted smarter than us. 1 Recommendation 06/13/2015 11:20:46 PM
MY COMMENT: A country with serious economic and financial
problems has to be very careful in the way it manages its retirement package
and the payment of the public employees. The generosity of the government with
money from others always breaks the system.
The rest of Europe and the IMF don’t have to pay privileges
that the Greeks have like the retirement of the men at age 61.9 and women at
60.3. 1 Recommendation 06/12/2015 03:35:49 PM
MY COMMENT: This story says the Obama’s strategy is “to
give a basic training course of between two and four weeks to the Iraqi troops
and Sunni tribesmen.”
If this is the
“plan”, it will not change the current situation. A basic training to fire with
an AK-47 will not lift the low “moral” of the Iraqi troops.
From my point of
view, the White House continues losing time and energy. 1 Recommendation 06/12/2015 02:22:46 PM
MY COMMENT: The efforts of German Chancellor Angela
Merkel to solve the Greece crisis are huge, but the Greeks don’t help.
Really, they are gambling like irresponsible teenagers.
Ms. Merkel knows the
complete fall of Greece will generate serious damages to the EU. 1 Recommendation 06/12/2015 01:58:57 PM
MY COMMENT: It would be good that President Obama comes
to Congress with more frequency to talk with the lawmakers.
He only goes to the
Capitol to make pressure in one or another direction. 06/12/2015 01:18:50 PM
MY COMMENT: This is the reaction of the Spaniards tired
of the corruption of the Popular Party that today is ruling the country.
When the citizens
don’t see solution to the normal problems of the population and feel the bad
government practices of the ruler, they react voting for something different.
This happens everywhere. 1 Recommendation 06/12/2015 12:49:29 PM
MY COMMENT: The statement of Ukrainian President
Poroshenko: “We’re Making Steady Progress in Ukraine, Despite Putin” is something positive. But
it is not enough to guarantee that Ukraine will solve its sovereignty problems.
In the current
circumstances, the Ukrainians have to assume that they lost Crimea because today an invasion of this peninsula
without NATO support is near impossible.
The political and
military targets have to be the defense of Eastern Ukraine. 2 Recommendations 06/11/2015 03:23:00 PM
MY COMMENT: The shake that the Turkish President Erdogan
received in the last elections was strong. However his party –AKP- remains as
the largest party in Parliament.
The Turkish people
are changing their political attitude in a gradual democratic process. This is
an advance in a good direction. 1 Recommendation 06/11/2015 03:01:36 PM
MY COMMENT: The news says the Chinese former security
chief Zhou Yongkang was sentenced to life prison, “convicted of bribery, abuse
of power and leaking state secrets”.
In China, when a top official falls for a crime, the
punishment is hard. Maybe, other countries of the world have to use similar
criteria to punish corrupt officials. This initiative could be a start step for
cleaning the high corruption that we find everywhere. 1 Recommendation 06/11/2015 02:44:28 PM
MY COMMENT: Ana Botín, the chairwoman of Banco Santander,
has a strong international experience in the banking business. However, if she
wants to rethink her father’s legacy, she has to move carefully.
We saw cases where
the children killed the businesses of their families due to the excessive
changes they made. 1 Recommendation 06/11/2015 02:29:49 PM
MY COMMENT: The initiative of Pope Francis to order the
establishment of a special court to try bishops related with cases of sex abuse
is an important step of an authority of the Catholic Church. Never before, a
Pope tried to punish high members of the institution.
The mission is very
difficult. Probably, his order will be resisted for some sectors of the Church.
1 Recommendation 06/10/2015 02:56:57 PM
MY COMMENT: The news says “Obama Administration Readies
Big Push on Climate Change”.
It looks like the
rush of the White House to implement the control of the greenhouse-gas
emissions in the next months is because President Obama wants to travel to Paris next December with the “climate change
homework” finished.
Probably, Barack Obama
expects to receive an award for his effort on the United Nations summit on
climate change. 2 Recommendations 06/10/2015 02:29:45 PM
MY COMMENT
ANSWERING ANOTHER JOURNAL MEMBER WHO CRITICIZED JEB BUSH BECAUSE HE FOCUSED ON
HIS FATHER, IN THE BERLIN SPEECH:
You see the trip of
Jeb Bush to Germany with American eyes, but you have to see this
trip with German eyes.
Jeb Bush talked to
the Germans in Berlin. And it is truth that in Germany, George H. W. Bush has better reputation
than the brother of Jeb. Why?
1) George H. W. Bush
helped to the Germany unification and he had very good connection
with conservative politicians like Helmut Kohn who was the German Chancellor in
his time.
2) George W. Bush
had differences with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder due to the Iraq war. Schroeder is SPD (social democratic).
Jeb Bush in his
speech to the Germans was smart because he knows that Germany population is 50% conservative and 50% left-wing.
Nobody is against George H. W. Bush, but there are Germans who didn’t like the
pressure of George W. Bush for the Iraq war and the differences with Mr. Schroeder. 06/10/2015 01:50:50 PM
MY COMMENT: This initiative could mark the beginning of
the end of the foreign deposits in the Swiss banks. 1 Recommendation 06/09/2015 03:09:15 PM
MY COMMENT: The improvement of the profitability is a
common argument of the big companies and banks when they want to cut job
positions and reduce the payroll. 1 Recommendation 06/09/2015 02:30:59 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/
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