Tuesday, April 5, 2016

BLOG COMMENTS - APRIL 5, 2016 - FROM CUBA TO WISCONSIN



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 March 9 to April 4.

These comments were published before Tuesday March 5, key day of the Wisconsin battle for the nomination of the Republican and Democrat candidates for the presidential election next November.

This series of BLOG COMMENTS include comments about the American politics, Europe and the rest of the world plus opinions related to economy and technology issues.

As you can see for the RECOMMENDATIONS, the majority of these comments generated a good reaction of other members of the Journal Community.

Please see the high number of recommendations that the COMMENTS about the President Obama’s visit to Cuba generated.

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


Domingo Trassens
Analyst
World Rethink
April 5, 2016


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BLOG COMMENTS: 2016/03/09 - 2016/04/04


The new Hewlett-Packard of personal computer and printer is expected to unveil the thinnest laptop on the market.

MY COMMENT: During decades, HP grew through the path of innovation, despite a series of wrong steps of the last few years.

The analysts are interesting to see personally the laptop that Hewlett-Packard says: it will be “the thinnest laptop on the market”.
04/04/2016 01:07:13



MY COMMENT:  As we know, Suu Kyi won the elections in Myanmar, but the military remains like the strong power of the country.

The new government, a mix of democracy and dictatorship, will not help to Sue Kyi in her ambitions to lead Myanmar for the path of freedom and human rights.
04/04/2016 12:28:16 PM



MY COMMENT: Greece is trying to stop the massive migration of refugees from Middle East. It is a hard action, but Europe cannot open its doors to everybody.
04/04/2016 12:18:35 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: The ISIS militants are going to the university to learn how to produce explosives for bombing attacks.

Now the Mosul University Chemistry is model factory to spread horror.
04/04/2016 02:30:35 AM 1 Recommendation.


“Donald Trump speech is generating unfavorable ratings among women voters.”

MY COMMENT: Donald Trump is a male chauvinist.
04/03/2016 04:23:49 PM 4 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: The terrorist threat will not stop with more security forces in public places of the big cities.

It is necessary more intelligence and effective efforts to kill the terrorists in their own nests.
04/03/2016 04:15:22 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: Neither U.S. nor Russia will change the animosity of a regional war between Christians and Muslims.
04/03/2016 04:03:39 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: Universities and colleges have to give more possibilities to American students than Chinese who come here only to use own resources.

Chinese will never say: Thank you America! Chinese have their heart in China also enjoying our hospitality.
04/03/2016 03:51:20 PM 3 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Donald Trump doesn’t have solid arguments to conquer the heart of conservative thinkers. He gains ground among disappointed voters without strong Republican roots.
04/03/2016 03:38:31 PM 5 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: John Kasich has a good profile and government experience, however he has not enough followers to compete for 2016 GOP nomination.
04/03/2016 03:15:48 PM 4 Recommendations



MY FIRST COMMENT: If we deconstruct the military treaty with Europe, we will start an isolation process.
04/02/2016 11:31:02 PM 3 Recommendations

MY SECOND COMMENT ANSWERING TO ANOTHER JOURNAL MEMBER:
We have to recreate NATO for the right way. NATO, ONU, EU and other international alliances and communities don't work effectively because they include a lot of members that they don't have common principles and resources to work together in a balanced way.

Maybe, in the case of the NATO, we have to put tough conditions to force that everybody acts in a responsible way and all the members share costs.
04/03/2016 02:58:59 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: Donald Trump will not change because he is himself a mess.
04/03/2016 02:19:45 AM 5 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: The Islamic State is making genocide of all the people who don’t follow its diabolic principles.
04/02/2016 11:37:53 PM 6 Recommendations


Author Philip K. Howard wrote in an WSJ opinion column: “Congress rarely revises or repeals outdated legislation or obsolete programs”.

MY COMMENT: White House and Congress are co-responsible of the government collapse. Nobody can say we are the angels and you are the devils.
04/02/2016 05:54:17 PM 1 Recommendation

Philip K Howard answered me through his Twitter page: “True. @trassens @WSJ Bad laws are suffocating out common sense. Nobody is really in control at this point. It's #TheRuleofNobody



MY COMMENT: In the states of the north of the country, religious principles are embedded in rural communities. There, Ted Cruz can make a shift.

04/02/2016 05:45:20 PM 5 Recommendations


Armenia and Azerbaijan are involved in a army conflict for Nagomo-Karabakh.

MY COMMENT: Armenia has a bloody history of wars and army conflicts.
04/02/2016 04:50:40 PM



MY COMMENT: Donald Trump’s tactics are to sink another candidate. He enjoys mocking and criticizing others.
04/02/2016 04:13:03 PM 1 Recommendation


WSJ columnist Daniel Henninger wrote about Obama: “He is six months away from destroying both the Republican Party and Reagan’s legacy.”

As part of his opinion column, also Daniel Henninger describes the Republican candidates in a graphical mode.

MY COMMENT: In this moment, the American politics environment is shaking...

Barack Obama made more than destroying the Republican Party and the Reagan’s legacy. He is destroying the trust in the American political system that ruled the country during centuries.

Daniel: Your “paint” of Trump and Cruz is great: “Donald Trump, a political independent who is using the Republican Party like an Uber car; Ted Cruz, who used the Republican Party as a footstool…”
03/31/2016 05:56:52 PM 3 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: It is good that FBI develops its own techniques to follow criminals that use advance technology.
04/01/2016 08:51:02 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: Every month, when the job data come, the experts deploy new graphics, but in the end they are only figures. In the real fact, the street walks for other side.
04/01/2016 08:12:46 PM



MY COMMENT: The orders for 180,000 vehicles put Tesla in a high level of the electric car projects.

Can Tesla answer to this high demand in the right way? Cars in the road are not fantasy.
04/01/2016 08:00:00 PM



MY COMMENT: The Brazilian miracle is distant from the current times that the South American country is living now.
03/31/2016 05:50:34 PM



MY COMMENT: South African President Zuma is another life-monument of corruption of the world.
03/31/2016 05:44:44 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Huge and expensive mansions in big cities like New York are not better than small cabins of the valleys of the Rocky Mountains, full of Nature.
03/31/2016 05:38:21 PM 10 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: The Spaniards are not good in the math of crucial economic issues.
03/31/2016 05:33:22 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Burning question: What will be the formula of the hamburgers that McDonald will sell in China? Beef meat or what?
03/31/2016 05:29:00 PM



MY COMMENT: This looks like an expensive corrupt operation.
03/30/2016 07:29:03 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: This is a bad image, but who cares in times of low ethical principles.
03/30/2016 07:05:06 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Wisconsin will be the real first battle between GOP establishment and Trump. Before, Trump was fighting against individual candidates.

If Ted Cruz suffers a defeat, this will be the “good bye” for the current GOP establishment. 
03/30/2016 06:44:51 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: The recession shrank the incomes of a lot of people. As consequence, these people changed the way to spend money and make shopping.
03/30/2016 06:33:04 PM



MY COMMENT: The new microprocessors designed to mimic the way the brain works are the results a long road of continuous tech advances, but the goals are not new.

From the first computers, the engineers were thinking in the emulation of the human brains.
03/30/2016 04:13:06 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: 4,500 jobs looks a high number, but in the case of Boeing with 161,000 employees is a low percentage.

The problem is for the workers who will lose the job.
03/30/2016 04:03:04 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: The construction of condos in Miami is a big bubble that will burst soon.
03/29/2016 08:38:21 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Now, when the waves in the sea of corruption grow, nobody wants to take responsibilities.

Surely before, everybody captured big fishes full of gold inside.
03/29/2016 07:19:58 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Family campaign in the political arena: this is nothing new.
03/29/2016 07:13:52 PM



MY COMMENT: Oil business requests big investments. When the price of oil barrel is low, the projects of oil explorers face financial problems. This is normal.
03/29/2016 06:42:53 PM 1Recommendation



MY COMMENT: Turkey always was risky country for western citizens despite its beautiful places to make tourism. Now, the terrorism extends the problems to live there.
03/29/2016 06:33:02 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: Reasonable decision of Scott Walker
03/29/2016 03:54:08 PM 5 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Fidel Castro is near to go to the grave, but he wants to show to the world that till now he is the Cuban “macho”. 

He continues remarking that he is the leader of the Cuban Revolution, a revolution that opened a lot of wounds in his own people and in the countries when Cuba promoted terrorism.
03/28/2016 08:28:49 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Before to repair the damage that the ISIS militants made in Palmyra, they have to protect all the area to avoid a return of the devils of the Islamic State.
03/28/2016 05:33:24 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: It is truth; Donald Trump has a series of weak points that cannot help him in their intention to come to the White House.
03/27/2016 08:48:45 PM 3 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Young girls used as suicide bombers! This a crime of crime orchestrated by masters of terror and human humiliation.
03/27/2016 08:41:55 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: This is a new terrible picture of the hate of extremist Muslims against Christians. 

We are returning to the Middle-Ages time when the Crusades had to defend the Christian lands and population against the Islamic invasions.
03/27/2016 08:32:08 PM 7 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Probably, John Kerry is right. The current presidential career is showing to the world a non-great picture of our internal problems.
03/27/2016 07:58:36 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: During the last decade, the Brazilians thought that Brazil was climbing to the top of the hill of progress and national greatness.

They believed that Brazil can be one of the big powers of the world. They didn’t realize that they were climbing to the top of the corruption hill. 

Now, the consequences are evident: high corruption across of the "aisles" of its political institutions and the fall of the dreams of the best nation of “O Globo”.
03/27/2016 02:28:11 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: It is terrible but the bombing attacks in Baghdad are not news. It will be a good news when we learn that for months all is quiet there.
03/25/2016 09:54:57 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: But now the historic Palmyra is in ruins. Difficult work to rebuild History!
03/25/2016 09:47:56 PM



MY COMMENT: Poland and Hungary suffered a lot during the WWII and the Cold War. They don't want any kind of terror in their territories.

They came to the new Europe looking for peace, progress and a better life in freedom.
03/24/2016 05:23:26 PM 3 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Donald Trump survives attacks because the establishment didn’t offer effective solutions to the political sickness of the country during years.

Today all the GOP candidates that represented the establishment are dead. Ted Cruz is also rebel against the establishment.

The difference between Trump and Cruz is the marketing apparatus of Trump and the power of his money.
03/24/2016 02:01:32 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Surely, President Dilma Rousseff and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are “masters” of the Brazilian corrupt scandal.
03/23/2016 01:41:29 PM



MY COMMENT: Will the Brazilian Supreme Court goes against Lula? When a government apparatus is completely corrupt, we cannot expect better justice.
03/23/2016 01:14:57 PM 3 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: It is an irony that President Obama condemns Brussels from Cuba, a world factory of terrorists.

Surely, a lot of ISIS militants are emulators of Che Guevara. By the way, the famous Che liked to cut heads too.
03/22/2016 05:14:28 PM 9 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: You say that Andy Grove is one of the best CEOs of the Silicon Valley. Really, Andy was more that a CEO. He was one of the "fathers" of the Silicon Valley.
03/22/2016 02:27:34 PM 9 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Now the Europeans have fears for the terrorism actions across their capitals, but before they didn't measure the risks of the massive migration.
03/22/2016 02:20:36 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: The death of Andrew (Andy) S. Grove is very sad news of the technology world. 

He was one of the heroes of the tech evolution in recent decades, brilliant thinker, great visionary, educator of generations of top engineers of the magic Silicon Valley and extraordinary person. 

I have the privilege to know personally and I feel a lot of respect for Andy Grove since my first dialogue with him.
03/22/2016 11:32:27 AM 3 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: The terror is hitting Europe to destroy the classic free life of the Europeans, its tourist attractions and probably its economy.
03/22/2016 11:19:33 AM 6 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: The visit of President Obama will not reduce the ‘serious differences’ between the two countries in real sense.
03/21/2016 07:47:44 PM 3 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: After the Donald Trump nomination, the Republicans will be not more Republicans. They will be Trump-party.
03/21/2016 04:48:48 PM 3 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: President Obama doesn't care if the Cuban jails continue hiding freedom fighters. He only wants to put the Republicans and the Congress in trouble. 

It is a new "tools" to divide America in parts.
03/20/2016 09:14:46 PM 41 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: This is a historic trip, but it is a historic trip of our dishonor. 

We are saying: "Welcome to the free world to a regime that puts in jail to all the people who fight for the real freedom."
03/20/2016 09:07:51 PM 12 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: This is “propaganda” in pro of the Castro-Brothers regime. You are trying to “paint” a nice picture of a regime that is “master” in terror makers.
03/20/2016 05:56:54 PM 9 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: The New York protest against Donald Trump is a serious warning. We are losing the democratic behavior to decide our destiny through the voting.

The protests from one or another side are signals of intolerance and the use of “tools” that destroy the democratic principles of the countries.
03/20/2016 12:46:20 PM 6 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: The business people only care for their businesses. Normally, they don’t have ideology. They can deal with dictators and terrorists. They don’t care.
03/19/2016 07:27:54 PM 4 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: This is classic mentality of Latinos and Brazilians. They fabricate "heroes" from the "trash" and after that they push to the trash again.
03/19/2016 07:09:32 PM 1 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: Everywhere the Chinese are competing in business today, and in special in the Latino countries with bad American relationships.
03/18/2016 10:11:43 PM 2 Recommendations



MY COMMENT: The “machines” are thinking now. About the feelings, they also have some basic “feelings”, but the machines will never think and feel like humans despite the fantasy of the movies. 

In the end, it is probably, the humans will think and feel like the machines.
03/18/2016 09:57:11 PM 1 Recommendation



MY COMMENT: The Latino Americans have a lot of problems in the own countries that till now they didn’t solve.

No all the Latino problems were dictators like Chavez or Peron.

Until this moment, we have cases like the Castro Brothers, the current Venezuelan president, the Brazilian president that continue governing their countries with fake democratic messages. 
03/18/2016 09:29:24 PM 2 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.

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