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 January 17
to January 26.
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.
For example, you can
see that the story titled: Some
Migrants in Germany Want to Go Home generated 27 recommendations in less
than 2 days. This story published by Wall Street Journal says that a lot of
refugees from Syria and Middle
East don’t like the
way of living of Germany. In their countries they heard that all is
great is Germany for everybody.
Domingo Trassens
Analyst
World Rethink
January 26, 2016
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BLOG COMMENTS: 2016/01/18 - 2016/01/26
Posted In Italy
Scrambles to Resuscitate Banks
MY COMMENT: It is good that Italy scrambles to resuscitate its troubled
banking sector.
We have to hope they
will clean the corrupt practices of the past. 01/26/2016 01:55:35 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: The visit of Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani to the Vatican has different readings:
1) It is a good
marketing image of current openness of Iran.
2) It a bridge between
the top spiritual authority of the West and representative of a controversial
Islamic country.
Questions about Iran:
- Is all that
we are seeing real or fiction?
- Will it stop its
support to terror organizations?
- Will it become a
good friend of the West?
01/26/2016 01:40:01 PM 3 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: The Iranian government is very active to
promote a new face of the country. Really, has Iran a “new face”? 01/25/2016 07:51:57 PM
MY COMMENT: Today Egypt looks quiet, but we don’t know what is
behind the “scene”. Presidents like Abdel Fattah Al Sisi use the power to close
mouths. 01/25/2016
07:40:32
Posted In Behind
Donald Trump’s Attack Strategy
MY COMMENT: Donald Trump is very hard when he attacks an
opponent. But Ted Cruz is strong too in his attacks.
Now, Ted has to show
to the political observers that he has not fears against Mr. Trump. This is his
first serious test as candidate to the White House’s seat. 01/25/2016 04:43:43 PM
MY COMMENT: The automotive competition in Japan and markets dominated by Asian makers is not
easy. However, the Ford’s news doesn’t look good.
When a car maker
leaves a market, the customers who believed in the brand and spent money buying
its vehicles are the losers. 01/25/2016 04:37:02 PM
Posted In The
Bloomberg View
MY COMMENT: Michael Bloomberg is in the same line of all
the rich people who have ambitions to be the president of the United States.
The question is:
What he can offer better than the Republicans and Democrats?
The country needs
leaders who make good contributions to the national interests and their
citizens. 01/25/2016 02:19:05 PM 1
Recommendation
MY COMMENT
answering to another Journal Community Member who doesn’t understand why Mrs
Fiorina lost steam soon:
Carly Fiorina can
have good ideas. However, in this opportunity the Republicans are focused in
candidates like Trump, Cruz, Rubio...
After a good start,
Carly has lost positions very fast because the voters look for other kinds of
candidates. These are the facts. 01/25/2016 12:59:19 AM
MY COMMENT: Turkey has to be flexible and realist. The big
enemy of everybody is the Islamic State. Kurdish groups can help in the war
against ISIS militants. 01/25/2016 12:38:47 AM
Posted In Some
Migrants in Germany Want to Go Home
MY COMMENT: Germany is not the heaven for people who come from
countries without rules and a chaotic way of living. 01/25/2016 12:33:19 AM 27 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: From the Carter's era, we didn't learn to
deal with the Iranians according to our national interests. 01/24/2016 01:21:21 PM
MY COMMENT: Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
can be the “president” of New York City or maybe the “president” of New York State.
However, as
independent, I don’t believe Mr. Bloomberg can conquer the heart and vote of
the Americans who live in the Rocky Mountains, Texas or Alaska. The apparatus of a big party is necessary
to arrive to everybody across the country.
This is the reason
why Donald Trump is trying to win the Republican nomination instead to run as independent.
01/24/2016 12:13:50 PM
MY COMMENT: The European leaders have to learn to work as
a community to solve the migrant influx together with common and effective
actions.
Probably now it is
late to fix all the mistakes of the past. However, the initiatives have to stop
the massive entrance of immigrants.
Also they have to
define immigration policies to conduct a selective entrance of immigrants with
similar criteria. 01/24/2016 12:00:06 PM 1 Recommendation
Posted In Ted
Cruz Likes Being Hated
MY COMMENT: Ted Cruz is not a classic politician. He has
a strong personality and his way of thinking is different from the
establishment of both parties. 01/24/2016 03:05:52 AM 5 Recommendations
Posted In Can
We Stop Homegrown Terrorists?
MY COMMENT: It is very difficult to eradicate the roots
of the terror organizations. It is like to want to kill all the devils. 01/24/2016 03:00:47 AM
MY COMMENT: “More than 9,000 flights canceled” implies a
serious problem for a lot of passengers.
This problem is
worse for everyone who has connections or for the people who are traveling
internationally. 01/24/2016 02:21:35 AM
MY COMMENT: Today the education sector is a business more
than an academic environment to educate and form new professionals.
A lot of
institutions don’t have ethical principles and they don't give to the students
the real tools and background they need to be successful in the professional
market. 01/24/2016 01:30:10 AM 2 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: Yes, the national solutions to the migrant
problem create problems to the other members of the EU.
But if EU has not a
reasonable solution for everybody, each state has its own interests and
national politics.
The problem is that
till now the European Union is like a “bag of cats”. It is distant the day that
this community of countries acts as a real community. 01/22/2016 03:16:55 PM
MY COMMENT: The Iranian deal about its nuclear program is
opening new business doors to the Iran regime.
The sale of oil to
the EU will produce good revenues for Tehran. It is a great start!
01/22/2016 02:01:24 PM 2 Recommendations
Hillary Clinton
wants to disqualify her opponent Sanders with the statement that the US Senator doesn’t understand the Middle East politics and problems.
MY COMMENT: Does Hillary really understand Middle East in the right way?
Does she understand
the Syrian problem?
Does she understand Libya and Benghazi problems?
Does she understand Iran?
Does she understand Iraq?
Does she understand
the Islamic State? 01/21/2016 09:31:56 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: Who informed about the Ted Cruz’s career in
private practice? Was the hand of Donald Trump? Were the advisers of
Hillary?
By the way, how many
foreign links (or businesses) Trump and Clinton have?
It will be good to
know the list of foreign businesses and links each presidential candidate has. 01/21/2016 09:25:48 PM 3 Recommendations
This story says that
a former marine released by Iran talked about the bad conditions in the
Iranian prisons.
MY COMMENT: Never an Iranian prison will be good for an
American citizen who enters there as prisoner. 01/21/2016 06:26:26 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: Greece has the right and obligation to order the
migrants who pass for its territory to declare where they are going.
Maybe this
initiative can help to stop criminals and bad people who are making a
terror-tour across Europe. 01/21/2016 06:21:12 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: In the Russian regime, normally the top
leader is behind the punishment of the people who are against the interests of
the state.
This is a domestic
problem of the Russians. We cannot put our noses in their affairs.
01/21/2016 01:20:40 PM 4 Recommendations
Posted In Ann
Goldstein: A Star Italian Translator
The story comments
that Ann Goldstein, an Italian translator who translates from Italian to
English won celebrity for her work in the translation of a very good Italian
book.
MY COMMENT: Good story. Frequently, the intellectual workers
don’t gain celebrity in the times we are living. (This is a serious drama of
the people who produce intellectual assets today.) 01/20/2016 09:45:00 PM 1
Recommendation
Posted In Why
Hillary Is Faltering
MY COMMENT: Hillary Clinton is past and she doesn’t have
the flexibility to recreate her vision for a future with new challenges and
politicians who are better trained to understand the complexity of the new
world. 01/20/2016 06:40:57 PM 1 Recommendation
Posted In Bad
Days for Wal-Mart Americans
The story comments
that Wal-Mart is thinking to close some of its super centers located across the
country.
MY COMMENT: During the last few years, Walmart has spread
its net of super centers and big shops more than the customer potential
purchases. Now, it feels the impact.
01/20/2016 06:35:56 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: Definitively, this is not a good moment to
make economic predictions in frame of World Economic Forum.
The gurus will have
time to ski and play poker, and the attendants will return home without magic
formulas to improve their businesses. 01/20/2016 06:31:09 PM 4 Recommendations
Posted In New
Evidence on Immigrants and Jobs
MY COMMENT: The entrance of Syrian refugees is risky for
the security of the country.
01/19/2016 09:26:02 PM 2 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: It looks like Ms.Tsai will start a cycle of
important changes in the politics of Taiwan.
We have to see if
her inspiration in Angela Merkel gives her good learning. 01/18/2016 08:52:11 PM
MY COMMENT: Surely, the Asian militants who travel to Syria and Iraq are new students of the ISIS terror techniques and potential promoters of
the Islamic State revolution across the world. 01/18/2016 08:42:46 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: Before, everybody asked Germany for its support. Now everyone is
criticizing Germany.
In other words, Italy is in the same line of the others who are pointing
against Germany now. 01/18/2016 08:40:47 PM
The story says that
nobody know who is Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari, one of the “American
prisoners”, who was freed by Iran in the last days.
MY COMMENT: Was Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari, really a
prisoner?
01/18/2016 12:11:22 AM 6 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: The Iranians are happy dealing with the
current American administration, but they will never love us. They hate as we
hate the worst rats.
01/17/2016 08:32:53 PM 3 Recommendations
Posted In The
Terrorists Freed by Obama
MY COMMENT: The terrorists will never be good guys. If we
free terrorists, they will come back to kill us. This is the terror law. 01/17/2016 08:28:16 PM 6 Recommendations
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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/
