Monday, February 29, 2016

BLOG COMMENTS - FEBRUARY 29, 2016



Dear Friends:

I would like to share with you a “summary” of recent news and the comments posted by myself in the WSJ Journal Community about headlines of the Wall Street Journal from February 22 to February 29.

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.

Important: Some of the comments were rewritten according to the summary of news.


Domingo Trassens
Analyst
World Rethink
February 29, 2016


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BLOG COMMENTS: 2016/02/22 - 016/02/29


Days before the voting of “Super Tuesday”, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are using harsh expressions to damage the front-runner Donald Trump. Ohio Governor Kasich – the third rival of Mr. Trump – is standing apart from this kind of war.

MY COMMENT: When somebody attacks his rival with insults, he takes the risk to damage his image.

Normally, the "insult" war damages both sides in the confrontation.
02/29/2016 01:13:33 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: The criticism of Viktor Orban has sense because Hungary is not a rich country with the capability to share resources with others.
02/29/2016 12:46:52 AM


MY COMMENT: The Apple’s argument that the computer programs are protected by the First Amendment puts technology officially under the umbrella of our Constitution.
02/28/2016 08:51:25 PM 3 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: The current Islamic State attacks show the weakness of Iraqi security forces to avoid the militant infiltrate into the capital of the country.
02/28/2016 08:34:16 PM 1 Recommendation


The conference of Governor Chris Christie endorsing his former rival Donald Trump for the Republican nomination generated bad comments of bloggers and analysts.

MY COMMENT: How many millions of dollars Chris Christie received to make this miserable parody?
02/28/2016 08:19:18 PM 2 Recommendations


In the Democratic voting of South Carolina, Hillary Clinton surpassed for longer to Bernie Sanders.

MY COMMENT: South Carolina results put down the ambition of Bernie Sanders to recreate America under a socialist model.

Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders continues proclaiming “A future to believe in”. And some people answer: “A future without future!”
02/28/2016 05:33:20 PM 5 Recommendations


In a public interview, Retired Gen. Michael Hayden showed disappointment for the methods that the candidate Trump promises in the war on terror. The former CIA Chief said that the U.S. Military could defy Donald Trump’s orders.

MY COMMENT: The statement of Retired Gen. Michael Hayden that U.S. military would likely refuse to follow certain orders from Donald Trump is serious warning.
02/28/2016 05:27:39 PM 4 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: From the beginning of his campaign, Jeb Bush knew that the entrance to the presidential race would be difficult. He has not to feel that he is a “failure”. He was governor of Florida.
02/28/2016 02:02:48 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: It is right that “The Court, like the Country, needs balance”. The problem is that the Court and the Country are losing balance in the current moment.
02/28/2016 09:32:36 AM 1 Recommendation


MY COMMENT: We are not in a funny moment. With the low substance of our potential leaders, we will lose America.
02/28/2016 09:16:35 AM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Trump is the result of the American frustration for the inability of our political elite to drive the country on the right direction.
02/28/2016 08:53:20 AM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: The recent economic and financial problems of China are the best sample that the economic risks are going up globally.
02/28/2016 03:36:46 AM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: The massive invasion of migrants will destroy the European economy and life in a dangerous way. 

When desperation grows, the massacres come in series.
02/28/2016 12:12:22 AM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: The attitude of Chris Christie endorsing Donald Trump puts Christie in low level. It shows that in the politics, there are not principles today.
02/28/2016 12:02:28 AM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: Marco Rubio started his direct attack against Donald Trump a little late.
02/27/2016 11:44:13 PM 9 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: The police officer who entered the building without backup and killed the gunman is the hero of this new serious incident.
02/26/2016 09:22:02 PM 12 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: This is another subject for the presidential race: What are the propositions of each candidate to strengthen government systems against cyber-attacks.
02/26/2016 08:50:56 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: Iran made a good nuclear deal, and now it can move its economy without the restrictions it had before the agreement.
02/26/2016 08:44:05 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: If Europe wants to be Europe, it has to be independent from Russia in energy matters.
02/26/2016 03:52:12 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Today, the economy forces everybody to be efficient reducing non-necessary costs and redefining their business models.
02/26/2016 03:31:46 PM 0 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: From the first moment, everybody suspected that Alberto Nisman was killed. The question is who killed or who ordered to kill him.
02/26/2016 07:56:43 AM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: Google and Facebook are in the same line of Apple about issues where the technology is in conflict against national security and government requests.
02/25/2016 09:49:06 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: In intricate and delicate ethical issues, the Supreme Court after Antonin Scalia never will be the same than before. 
02/25/2016 09:44:37 PM 4 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Today the terrorists have the capacity to massacre soldiers and regular troops like the civil population
02/25/2016 07:21:54 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: Iran uses the jail as a political tool to silence the people who think different from the regime.
02/25/2016 07:08:50 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: In the Arab countries, nobody is compromised with one or other side for principles. Dirty businesses run for the “underground” from one side to another.
02/25/2016 02:18:36 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: A high percentage of the North Korea’s threats are only propaganda of a dictatorship.
02/24/2016 09:25:13 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: The criminal organizations always have banking networks behind.
02/24/2016 09:14:44 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: Facebook is entering in a delicate ground of categorizing human feelings.

What will be the next step: measuring our feelings?

Maybe Mr. Facebook wants to robotize the human beings.
02/24/2016 09:03:32 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: We don’t have to be ingenious. China is building the foundation to become the First Power of the World.

The only way to stop to the military expansion of the Chinese is through a hawkish tone of the western leaders.
02/24/2016 04:50:06 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: While the leaders of the world discuss about stupid differences, ISIS militants behead people and spread terror where they enter.
02/24/2016 04:38:40 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Normally, LG designs good products and it has expertise in the mobile-phone business.
02/24/2016 07:52:45 AM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: If San Bernardino County had software that could have given the FBI, why all this pressure against Apple?
02/23/2016 09:35:02 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: The only way to stop Trump is through the voting of the people.The people have to rethink their votes twice…
02/23/2016 09:25:58 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: Work is health and better than medicine for older workers.
02/23/2016 02:56:59 PM 3 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: If Apple extracts data from about 1+12 iPhones, it will have to extract data from everybody.
02/23/2016 02:48:41 PM 5 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: This is not a flourish moment for a printer maker.

If Lexmark cannot reinvent itself, the "grave" is near its next steps.
02/23/2016 02:41:51 PM



MY COMMENT: Is Rubio the “David” who can stop Trump? 
02/23/2016 02:33:58 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: It is a good start, but only a good start. We cannot expect a strong peace agreement in short time.
02/23/2016 02:28:32 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: What is the behind the Italian support to the American operation against Libya targets? Is money? Is a real compromise against the terror war?
02/22/2016 10:01:19 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: With a paranoiac dictator, it is not possible to hold serious peace talks.
02/22/2016 05:50:18 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: The massive flow of refugees and other migrants coming to Europe will end in a human massacre.
02/22/2016 05:38:10 PM 3 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: The "deep scars” are some of the costs of the “Brexit”.
02/22/2016 02:10:37 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: The British plan to leave the European Union has pros and cons. Today nobody can guess the consequences.
02/22/2016 02:02:41 PM 1 Recommendation

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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.

Monday, February 22, 2016

BLOG COMMENTS - FEBRARY 22, 2016



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 February 4 to February 22.

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
February 22, 2016


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BLOG COMMENTS: 2016/02/04 - 016/02/22



MY COMMENT: Jeb Bush has voters, but they are not enough to lead the chaotic 2016 campaign.
02/21/2016 09:09:03 PM 1 Recommendation


MY COMMENT: The Supreme Court has to be an institution committed to law. This must be its target.
02/21/2016 09:04:27 PM 1 Recommendation


MY COMMENT: Some people are starting to think that the Robin Hood of our times will spread misery behind their coupons of free food and social benefits.
02/21/2016 03:00:08 PM 1 Recommendation



Answering to another Journal Community member who named “idiots” to the followers of Sanders:

MY COMMENT: The “idiots” believe they can receive all free for nothing.
02/21/2016 02:44:55 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: Today is very risky to invest in Africa due to the advance of the terrorism and the corruption of African governments.
02/21/2016 02:32:24 PM 8 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: How many $50/100 bills Donald Trump distributed among the South Carolina voters?
02/21/2016 02:28:48 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Dozens of more dead people don't change a lot the huge human tragedy of the Syrians.
02/21/2016 02:25:12 PM 1 Recommendation


MY COMMENT: Trump means the defeat of the Republicans in the primary against Hillary or Sanders.
02/21/2016 08:54:55 AM 3 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: The exit of Jeb Bush puts Marco Rubio in a strong position against Donald Trump. No more competition between the teacher and his pupil.
02/21/2016 08:44:20 AM 3 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Honda likes to design and redesign vehicles. It is very active in this direction.
02/20/2016 11:04:00 PM



MY COMMENT: In the Silicon Valley, always there is hangover, but like the waves of the ocean, it comes and it goes...
02/20/2016 11:00:20 PM 1 Recommendation


MY COMMENT: Everybody is anxious for the official 5G network technology welcome.
02/20/2016 03:54:17 PM 1 Recommendation


MY COMMENT: The smart-phones in the hands of the students are digital tools with pros and cons.
02/20/2016 03:49:18 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: All is possible in the case of North Korea

The North Korean leader enjoys the pleasures of the devils.
02/20/2016 03:46:18 PM



MY COMMENT: IBM continues strengthening its Watson computing system to drive across a tech future without limits.
02/18/2016 09:31:25 PM



MY COMMENT: Another mistake of President Obama! The Castro brothers were the "masters" of the Latin American terrorism.
02/18/2016 06:52:09 PM 1 Recommendation


MY COMMENT: The legal immigrants don't jump a wall. They enter to the country for the right way.
02/18/2016 06:42:33 PM


MY COMMENT: Is really Pope Francis the Pope of the Catholic Church or he is a new “Che Guevara” with the clothes of a Pope? 

Please Francis, Rethink your sermon twice before to express it to the people!
02/18/2016 06:28:47 PM
4 Recommendations


MY COMMENT: Maybe Pope Francis has to learn that the invasion of other country with weapons or without weapons is an invasion.
02/18/2016 06:21:36 PM 6 Recommendations


MY COMMENT: Pope Francis is a top leader of religious issues. He has not to mix religious issues with the politics and sovereignty issues of the countries. 
02/18/2016 05:51:12 PM 7 Recommendations


MY COMMENT: Again and again, we - the Americans - build the tech giants that the Chinese buy as bargain.
02/18/2016 01:12:55 PM



MY COMMENT: Wall-Mart has to pay more attention about the quality of products. For example, in the electronic sector, it is selling old products like new products.

A lot of computer devices that today Wall-Mart has in its stores are products that companies like HP and others have discontinued. 

In addition, its employees of the electronics department don't have clue they are selling. Very regrettable!
02/18/2016 01:06:49 PM 1 Recommendation


MY COMMENT: Chinese companies always learn technology secrets for other companies. They are smart and fast learners.
02/17/2016 09:08:31 PM



MY COMMENT: The dispute between Apple and the federal government over access to a terror suspect’s phone opens a serious question about the technology role in crime issues.
02/17/2016 08:59:39 PM 1 Recommendation


MY COMMENT: The pending question is: How many of the boxes of food and supplies will arrive to the people who is starving?
02/17/2016 05:19:15 PM 1 Recommendation


MY COMMENT: The Islamic State enjoys killing and spreading panic everywhere. This is the smile of the devils.
02/17/2016 05:13:53 PM



MY COMMENT: The Pope has right to pray for dead people, but he has not the right to make movements that can have negative political effects. 

We need a Pope who spreads the Catholic principles, but not leader who generates dubious waves that can motivate to new violence. 

Jesus always preached peace, compassion and justice in positive way.
02/17/2016 05:01:08 PM 2 Recommendations


MY COMMENT: Iran doesn't want to be under an umbrella that can stop its new movements.
02/17/2016 04:46:12 PM



MY COMMENT: Virtual reality is a great tool to help medical doctors to learn more about our body and how the internal organs work.
02/16/2016 08:43:09 PM 1 Recommendation


MY COMMENT: IBM has expertise and tools to test new technologies like the blockchain. 02/16/2016 08:35:03 PM 1 Recommendation


MY COMMENT: It is good news that the European car sellers improved their sales in January.
02/16/2016 08:31:01 PM



MY COMMENT: Everybody who thinks with human feelings knows that the drug trafficking and human suffering are pushing for the spirit of evil.
02/16/2016 08:26:47 PM 2 Recommendations


MY COMMENT: Cameron can make suggestions to the EU, but the European Parliament has to take the decisions of change.
02/16/2016 08:22:40 PM


MY COMMENT: It is good that somebody understands that the taxpayers have to work hard to feed bureaucratic members of the government.
02/16/2016 07:58:55 PM 7 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: When you are active involved in political issues, you always have risks, but your decisions help to show who you are.
02/16/2016 07:52:23 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: The news that Iran launches first oil shipments to Europe shows how Iran is going fast to build new world businesses…

But the key issue is its nuclear project. Probably, in short time, we learn that it starts to sell its nuclear technology to emerging countries.
02/14/2016 09:02:59 PM



MY COMMENT: It is strange that Putin and Obama agree in something.
02/14/2016 05:49:03 PM



MY COMMENT: Turkey has to stop its attacks against the Kurdish fighters, if it wants to have the support of the western countries.

From the other side, Turkey has also serious problems with Russia.
02/14/2016 05:47:36 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: It looks like President Obama has hurry to cover the vacancy in the US Supreme Court probably with a liberal with similar ideology of him.

It will be one of the harder battles between the Democrat President and the Republican Congress.
02/14/2016 05:22:05 PM



MY COMMENT: Scalia was a hard member of the U.S. Supreme Court, but nobody will forget his contributions to our Justice.
02/13/2016 11:59:55 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: The statement of Russia's Medvedev does say nothing new. We are walking into a new Cold War that can move us also to the World War III.
02/13/2016 10:05:48 PM 1 Recommendation


MY COMMENT: The economic and social collapse of Venezuela is a political crime and a new demonstration of the idiocy of a leader who is not leader.

Today, Venezuela is like a ship in a stormy sea without captain.
02/13/2016 10:01:49 PM 4 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: The announcement of AT&T doesn’t generate surprise. The industry is in the first steps of the 5G wireless technology.
02/12/2016 07:53:10 PM 1 Recommendation


MY COMMENT: Marco Rubio is one of the presidential candidates with more clear hawkish tone about national security and foreign relationships.
02/12/2016 07:48:08 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: Russia is very consistent in its foreign relations and military strategies. Also it always protect s its friends.
02/12/2016 07:39:49 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: Definitively, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are two very different “faces” of the politics.
02/12/2016 04:41:47 PM
 

MY COMMENT: It is not secret that Hillary Clinton has good friends in Wall Street. She is not a socialist leader of the poor people.
02/12/2016 04:37:56 PM 6 Recommendations


MY COMMENT: Historically, the rebels cannot confront strong military forces face to face, but they can hit the enemy through guerrilla tactics.
02/11/2016 09:28:17 PM



MY COMMENT: The pending question is: When this fall of the crude will end to start a new climb?
02/11/2016 09:17:54 PM 1 Recommendation


MY COMMENT: Google is walking fast to the new horizons of the technological world, thanks its research efforts.
02/11/2016 09:14:01 PM



MY COMMENT: The North Korean dictator doesn’t have friends in the military forces.
02/11/2016 06:35:55 PM



MY COMMENT: Qualcomm is a powerful innovator in the segment of semiconductors for the smart-phones sector. It gained in initiative to other players.
02/11/2016 06:22:53 PM 1 Recommendation


MY COMMENT: Hungary is one of the leaders of the European hard line against migrants
02/11/2016 06:18:25 PM



MY COMMENT: Without the cooperation of President Assad and the rebels, a cease-fire will not be effective.
02/12/2016 04:34:38 PM



MY COMMENT: If Bernie Sanders doesn’t defeat Hillary before the Democratic Primaries, the famous emails can be a serious problem for the former Secretary of State in the fighting against the Republicans.
02/11/2016 09:09:30 PM 5 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Sanders and Trump – the winner of New Hampshire - represent the two extremes of the American politics.
02/10/2016 05:09:38 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: The pending question is: When this fall of the crude will end to start a new climb?
02/11/2016 09:17:54 PM



MY COMMENT: The effort of the technology companies to replace the current passwords for other digital security systems is not new.

IBM, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP and others had worked in this subject for years.
02/09/2016 08:28:09 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: Today, the intellectual workers who create content and write books and articles are the worst paid in the world. 

They spent their lives studying, researching and writing but frequently they don’t have enough money to make a decent way of living.

It is necessary to stop the steal of intellectual work now!
02/08/2016 09:09:29 PM



MY COMMENT: The ambition to build the tallest towers of the world shows the stupidity of rich countries that don’t know how spend their money.
02/06/2016 10:55:54 PM



MY COMMENT: It is not a good image for the Catholic Church that Pope Francis always visits Cuba, a country where the dissidents continue going to jail.
02/05/2016 03:26:51 PM 8 Recommendations


MY COMMENT: German Police has to arrest more than two suspected Islamic terrorists.

Surely, now Europe is infected of armies of terrorists.
02/04/2016 03:38:44 PM 9 Recommendations


MY COMMENT: The golden times of Sharp ended long time ago. The current situation of this Japanese company is very bad.

Sharp is another sample of the battles the Japanese lost against Koreans and Chinese.
02/04/2016 03:34:08 PM



MY COMMENT: Amazon is returning to the start of all the book business, the brick-and-mortar book stores,
02/03/2016 04:19:49 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: The U.S. labor market is the picture of the drama of millions of workers with poor incomes or without real incomes. Nothing new with the U,S. Labor Report of January!
02/05/2016 03:16:45 PM 1 Recommendation


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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.