Sunday, May 3, 2015

BLOG COMMENTS - MAY 3, 2015




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 April 27 to May 3.

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 interaction with other members of the Journal Community.

Domingo Trassens
Analyst
World Rethink

May 3, 2015


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BLOG COMMENTS: 2015/04/27– 2015/05/03



MY COMMENT: When there are big disasters and catastrophes, people and organizations from different part of the world try to make businesses using the suffering of the victims in their benefit.

For this reason, the authorities of the place (in this case, Nepal) have the right to organize the entry of aid supplies, and the technical and humanitarian assistance.

The United Nations have special organizations that can assist the Nepalese authorities in a responsible way. 1 Recommendation 05/03/2015 02:16:34 PM



MY COMMENT: The protests will continue because the air is full of fury and the activists are making a good business. 4 Recommendations 05/03/2015 05:06:10 AM



MY COMMENT ANSWERING TO ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE JOURNAL COMMUNITY:
The problem is not only Baltimore... Did you forget Ferguson and New York

This is a national problem... We are returning to the past because there are a lot of social problems and the politicians are busy in the campaigns but they don't put enough effort to learn about the problems of the people and how to modify the aggressive attitude of some groups of policemen in poor areas with racial discrimination. 2 Recommendations 05/03/2015 09:22:01 AM



MY COMMENT: The British Royal Family is growing like in the fairy tales.  1 Recommendation 05/02/2015 07:33:03 PM



MY COMMENT: Every year, Warren Buffett leads the annual conference of the Berkshire shareholders with a lot of action and activities around him.

We can rename the current story as "The 2015 business show of Warren Buffett.” For a billionaire, this is a good entertainment. 1 Recommendation 05/02/2015 07:28:52 PM



MY COMMENT: We are living in times when the reality of every day and the drama of the streets are distant from the windows of the offices of government.

It is looks like a tragic comedy, but it is serious disconnection between the busy agenda of the politicians and the cry of the people who don’t have life options. 8 Recommendations 05/02/2015 06:34:04 PM



MY COMMENT: This story says that “six Baltimore police officers were be charged… in the death of Freddie Gray”, but it does not enough information to know all that happened before he died.

With these “pictures”, the Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby will not calm the protesters. 1 Recommendation 05/01/2015 11:54:37 AM



MY COMMENT: You are talking about Vietnam’s war…, but your subject is longer: “The real lesson is that bad things happen when the U.S. loses or walks away from a war”.

The second point of your subject “… when the U.S. walks away from a war” is the case of Iraq, something different from Vietnam, but with very negative consequences.

When we walk away from a war, we can plan our actions before we leave the battlefield. This didn’t happen in Iraq, and now we see the consequences. 3 Recommendations 05/01/2015 01:44:00 AM



MY COMMENT: The news says that Vermont Senator. Bernie Sanders will run for the Democratic presidential nomination challenging Hillary Clinton.

In a democracy, it is important to hear everybody. The diversity of opinions gives us a wide spectrum of political tones. This does not imply that we will applaud everybody.
2 Recommendations
04/30/2015 11:05:36 AM



MY COMMENT: @Wayne Mayo
The reverend Al Sharpton likes to stay in the noise of the protests. He runs from a riot to another, and he does not help to put calm…

Al Sharpton has not the capacity to put order among the people around him. His interventions are disastrous. 3 Recommendations 04/30/2015 02:19:33 AM



MY COMMENT ANSWERING TO ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE JOURNAL COMMUNITY:

Today, the racial violence is worse than 8 or 10 years ago. 4 Recommendations 04/30/2015 02:26:59 AM



MY COMMENT: After the terrible earthquake that shook Nepal, the claims of some groups against the authorities will complicate more the effort to the recovery of the country.

When we live dramatic moments with very serious problems, always some people like to create more problems. 1 Recommendation   04/29/2015 02:41:05 PM



MY COMMENT: Ferguson, New York… and now Baltimore are giving a very bad picture of our domestic problems. Across the world, the international media is showing each riot with a big smile in the face of the journalists: “Oh! This is the America!”

We are returning to decades ago when the Afro-Americans did not have access to the top positions of the institutions of the government.

It is time that authorities and police reconsider the incidents with minorities and the motivations of the riots:

First: Everybody – white, black, Latino, Asian… – deserve a fair treatment of the police forces.

Second: The authorities have to take a firm attitude against agitators and criminals who want to make their business destroying cities and creating problems to the civil population. 2 Recommendations 04/29/2015 01:26:35 PM



MY COMMENT: The last economic graphics show that since 2010, the economy of the United States grows a little and after that, it goes down.

In this way, it is not possible to enter in a period of a strong and continuous growth. 1 Recommendation 04/29/2015 12:34:51 PM



MY COMMENT: We are living a serious crisis of the religious principles of the society, in part due to the changes that technology has generated in the life of the people.

In addition, during the last decades, a lot of religious leaders did not answer crucial questions of the believers in the right way.

However, I don’t believe the future of religion is bleak. I prefer to say that the future of religion will be different that we know today. 1 Recommendation 04/28/2015 03:35:28 PM



MY COMMENT: Like the news says, the members of the U.S Supreme Court appear divided about the gay marriage.

The gay marriage is a social issue. Never the changes about social issues are fast and immediate. The activists have to way… 1 Recommendation 04/28/2015 03:18:29 PM



MY COMMENT: It is sad for Nepal and the world that after the earthquake now History is only rubble, but it is terrible more painful that the toll of corpses continue growing.

(Some sources talks about 7000 dead people…) 2 Recommendations 04/28/2015 02:16:55 PM



MY COMMENT: According to the news, the White House is dealing a new trade deal with the Asian countries and a lot of Democrats are against it.

In this case, President Obama has to go ahead without the support of his normal political partners. He is not familiar with this kind of situation. 2 Recommendations 04/27/2015 03:18:32 PM



MY COMMENT: The news says that the South Korean Prime Minister steps down after a short time in charge of the government due to corruption problems.

In other countries, presidents and prime ministers are accused of bribery or other crimes, but they remain in power.

Today, across the world, the political apparatus is not a chorus of angels. We are living in times where the corruption is in the top! 04/27/2015 03:05:26 PM



MY COMMENT: The defense of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is trying to put the weight of responsibility of the bombing attack in his dead brother because he is not more in this world.

This is not justice because Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was also directly involved in the Boston Marathon bombing. He has to be punished for his responsibility in the killing. 04/27/2015 02:51:32 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.

Monday, April 27, 2015

BLOG COMMENTS - APRIL 27, 2015



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 April 20 to April 26.

The comments are about politics, economy, business, technology, education and social issues in the United States, Europe and the world.

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

Domingo Trassens
Analyst
World Rethink

April 27, 2014


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BLOG COMMENTS: 2015/04/20– 2015/04/27



MY COMMENT: In this new campaign for the White House, we have to differentiate the politicians who live according to Christian principles every day, from the candidates who only claim for the support of the Evangelical voters in their personal benefit. 1 Recommendation 04/26/2015 01:02:29 PM


On The Democrats Own Iran: (By Daniel Henninger)

MY COMMENT: We cannot separate the Iranian nuclear deal from the terrorist activities linked directly or indirectly to the ayatollahs regime of Iran.

The Americans who don’t see the threat, they never read History. They are naive. They are blind. They don't see the secret powers that are moving behind the Middle-East volcano. 5 Recommendations 04/26/2015 02:42:56 AM



MY COMMENT: Thank you Dan for your work in the development Google Maps! Surely, your name will be remembered as a tech hero.

Our message of sympathy to the family of Dan Fredinburg for his tragic death climbing Mount Everest! 3 Recommendations 04/26/2015 02:18:59 AM



MY COMMENT: Dramatic scenes! The earthquake that rocked Nepal shows us how fragile we are the human beings in front the fury of Nature.

The news says “powerful magnitude-7.8 earthquake rocks Nepal, death toll nears 1,400”. This is only a first approach. We have to see during the next day, real magnitude of the tragedy. 1 Recommendation 04/25/2015 07:31:25 PM



MY COMMENT: The Volkswagen’s war between the Chairman Ferdinand Piech and the CEO Martin Winkerkorn looks like is ending with the resignation of Mr. Piech.

Is this the start of a new era in Volkswagen? Ferdinand Piech was famous for his hard hand. Somebody defined him as a tyrant. Nobody knows is he is really leaving the main scene… 1 Recommendation 04/25/2015 02:28:34 PM



MY COMMENT: Our politicians talk a lot about the climate-change, but till now the streets of the cities are full of trash and in the public transportation and stations we find rest of food, cigarettes, cans of beverage. More: How many owners of dogs use the public areas as toilet of their animals?

The celebration of the Earth Day is not only for dramatic speeches, it is for real facts starting for a new “culture” of each inhabitant in their daily life. 1 Recommendations 04/24/2015 03:36:51 PM



MY COMMENT: We continue learning more about the “dark businesses” of Bill and Hillary Clinton, but probably we will never know about the most scandalous operations thanks the “famous” emails that were deleted in the server of the Clinton family.

The pending question is: How many hours of the Mrs. Clinton’s trips during the time she was U.S. Secretary of State were official activities of the government? It looks like Hillary used part of her trips for private businesses.

By the way, when Mrs. Clinton resigned as Secretary of State, a political analyst in a PBS-News panel said that Hillary was tireless traveler, but the results of her trips were not much. 2 Recommendations 04/24/2015 02:31:17 PM




MY COMMENT: The stakes in 2016 are high because the current paradigm of government is antique for the times that we are living now. After the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, we tried to update our model of country according to the new world reality, but we didn’t build a new ‘foundation”. All was only rhetoric.

We are losing international friends, while we are trying to make new friends in an environment of complete uncertainty. Meanwhile, our enemies or dangerous rivals are growing, in a lot of cases, thanks the benefit of be advanced students of our best technological masters. 1 Recommendation 04/23/2015 02:29:19 PM



MY COMMENT: Again we see that the war of drones is very risky because the remote human operators are very distant from the ground and the drones don’t ask if you are friend or enemy before they shoot… 3 Recommendations 04/23/2015 01:05:48 PM



MY COMMENT: You say that Facebook manipulates content from individual users and you expect that when the users realize this situation, they will begin to move away from the platform.

We have to observe that Facebook generates more than half its revenue overseas. For overseas users without digital culture, Facebook is like a “god of the communication”. The majority of these people don’t have the capability to see they are manipulated by the social media giant.

While the “legion” of fans of Facebook does not decline, the business of Mark Zuckerberg will continue generating revenues. 04/23/2015 09:24:46 AM


MY COMMENT: It looks like “Project Fi” is a test of Google to see what happens in the niche of wireless service.

Risk: Sometimes, the technology companies launch projects that after a period go to a dead-end.

If we are customers of Verizon or AT&T, before to change, we have to see how “Project Fi’ works in the ground. 1 Recommendation 04/22/2015 03:09:28 PM



MY COMMENT: In a country where the corruption has roots in all the levels of the society including the government, the real solutions for the victims never arrive in time and form. 1 Recommendation 04/22/2015 02:25:10 PM



MY COMMENT: The refugee surge is not only a problem for the small towns of Germany. The inhabitants of big cities and capitals of the Western European countries are seeing the decline of their security with their own eyes, day per day.

Europe is not prepared to receive thousands of immigrants in the current circumstances. Today is very easy to travel through the European Union from one country to another. The Europeans need border police controls to stop the entrance of the criminals before they are inside their own countries. 9 Recommendations 04/22/2015 02:00:02 PM



MY COMMENT: The drama of Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, is that the euro-zone is growing in geography: more countries, more people, however its economic engines don’t grow.

The new members of the euro-zone are small countries without a strong industry and energy-dependence.

From the other side, Greece doesn’t solve its problems, but it remains in the community.

The future looks worse than the present due to the number of refugees that are coming to countries like Germany, France and Italy. 04/21/2015 02:14:21 PM



MY COMMENT: In my opinion, IBM is “an inflection point” that forces to reinvent the company.

It is not about product lines or “clouds”, “big data” or “analytics”… It is about the ROLE of this technology company in the new era with “cloud computing”, “big data”, “analytics”, Internet of Things”, cyber-security or something else.

The problem is more complex than the selection of a series of products or services to market from now and another series of products and services that IBM will stop to market.

We have to hope that CEO Ginni Rometty makes the job. If not, the IBM board of directors board has to find a new visionary like Lou Gerstner was in 1993. 2 Recommendations 04/21/2015 10:37:35 AM



MY COMMENT: Everyone knows that the Ayatollah is playing poker and he wants all our cards. 2 Recommendations 04/20/2015 03:25:44 PM



MY COMMENT: Italians have right to complain for the influx of refugees from Africa because this spiraling migration crisis started after the first Arab Spring movements removed the Libyan regime and others.

The questions are: Who promoted the Arab Spring? Who supported with military actions the fall of the Libyan regime? Who supported the Morsi’s chaotic government?

We know the answers of these questions, but today nobody wants to assume the consequences of bad political strategies and wrong military actions. Meanwhile, Africa is really a big volcano and in short time the Mediterranean will become a huge mass grave. 2 Recommendations 04/20/2015 02:47:58 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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Monday, April 20, 2015

BLOG COMMENTS - APRIL 20, 2015



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 April 12 to April 20.

The comments are about politics, economy, business, technology, education and social issues in the United States, Europe and the world.

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

Domingo Trassens
Analyst
World Rethink

April 20, 2014


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BLOG COMMENTS: 2015/04/12– 2015/04/20



MY COMMENT: The ISIS militants are more barbarians than the pagan monarchs who martyred the first Christians. 11 Recommendations 04/19/2015 03:03:53 PM



MY COMMENT: The human beings without future go to the death in crowd. Again the painful news comes from the coasts of Africa, near the Libyan Inferno. 6 Recommendations 04/19/2015 02:14:30 PM



MY COMMENT: 50 years ago, the “Moore’s Law” was the first step for the development of a new niche of the technology industry: semiconductors.

In its turn, the semiconductor industry gave step to other specific segments of the technology: microprocessors for computers, graphic microprocessors, semiconductors for memories.

And the microprocessor makers for computers pushed the foundation of the personal computer industry: hardware, software, peripherals and supplies.

In summary, the contribution of Gordon E. Moore was huge. After the formulation of the Gordon's Law, millions of people with technical vocation have discovered a New World: the digital world. 04/18/2015 08:04:35 PM



MY COMMENT: The analysts comment that the Greek debt and the weak quarterly earnings produced negative reactions of the Wall Street investors on Friday April 17.

The 1.5% decline of Dow Jones Industrial Average to 17826.30 is not a Greek tragedy.

We know that when Dow Jones goes down, after that it climbs again. 04/18/2015 07:20:23 PM



MY COMMENT: ECB President Mario Draghi does not want to push Greece out of the euro-zone. However, the negative Greek attitude will continue damage Europe04/18/2015 07:09:29 PM



MY COMMENT: The resignation of Mrs. Clinton from the Clinton Foundation’s board is only a domestic formal aspect of the case.

For the governments of Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom, Clinton is Clinton. If Hillary wins the election, all these countries will expect to be the “VIP” members of the foreign relations club. 5 Recommendations 04/17/2015 02:40:14 PM



MY COMMENT: The "Moore's Law" will always remain as an important milestone of the History of the Technology, despite the new advances of the digitization of the world. 3 Recommendations 04/17/2015 02:03:58 PM



MY COMMENT: The victory of Marco Rubio against the former Florida Governor Charlie Crist in 2010 was the first test of the political talent of the current Senator Rubio.

In that moment, Mr. Crist was a "hero" of the classic political environment like Hillary is today.
3 Recommendations
04/17/2015 01:56:41 PM



MY COMMENT ANSWERING TO ANOTHER MEMBER WHO SAYS MARCO RUBIO HAS NOT ENOUGH GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE:

It is possible that Marco Rubio needs more experience to be the No.1 of a presidential formula. We have to observe him through the Republican presidential campaign.

However, Rubio is a politician that will continue growing because he has a special talent for the politics.

I remember when he announced his decision to fight for the position of the Florida Senator in direct confrontation with Mr. Crist. In that moment, Crist had all the apparatus of the Florida government in his hands, but he lost.

Rubio grew from the underground thanks his own talent. He is not a sophisticated politician and he has the capacity to defeat “Goliaths” of the politics.

By the way, in the late 1990s, Rubio served as a City Commissioner for West Miami, city of working people in the Miami Metro.

In 2000, he was elected to the Florida House of Representatives and he became Speaker of the Florida House in 2006.

In 2009, he announced that he will run for U.S. Senate and he won the Republican nomination against the Republican Governor of Florida Charlie Crist. Upset for this situation, Crist ran with no party affiliation and Rubio as Republican defeated him again. In summary, Rubio defeated the former Florida Governor Charlie Crist two times. 2 Recommendations 04/17/2015 02:20:42 PM



MY COMMENT: The Republicans need free-hypocrisy candidates: politicians who show “passion, sincerity and authenticity”. 1 Recommendation 04/16/2015 02:57:01 PM



MY COMMENT: The “Battle of Washington” looks like the fight of the “American natives” against an international coalition of foreign powers that want to put their flags around the American flag in the White House on 2016. We are returning to the times before the Independence War. 6 Recommendations 04/16/2015 02:41:27 PM



MY COMMENT: From my point of view, it is not right to mix a presidential campaign with the donations from foreign governments.

By the way, during the last two weeks, the German newspapers only talk about Hillary Clinton and her presidential campaign. Today one of the headlines of prestigious Die Zeit of Hamburg was about Hillary. Nobody talks about the other candidates. 3 Recommendations 04/16/2015 02:25:05 PM



MY COMMENT: The Iranians don't like politicians with own mind and people who know about the history of the Iranian revolution.

Till now the United States is a federal republic with 3 independent powers and with politicians who don't say: Amen, Amen, Amen to the decisions of the White House. This is a great value of our political culture. 2 Recommendations 04/15/2015 02:44:46 PM



MY COMMENT: We have to see if Nokia has the patience and intelligence to solve the problems of Alcatel-Lucent. 04/15/2015 02:41:31 PM



MY COMMENT: The EU regulators always are against American technology companies that introduce innovative software, hardware and tech tools.

The history of European complaints against American companies started long time ago against IBM, after that Microsoft, now Google and others.  1 Recommendation 04/15/2015 12:02:45 PM



MY COMMENT: Where are the defenders of women who can sleep quiet while more than 200 Nigerian girls remain in the hands of criminals and sexual traffickers? 1 Recommendation 04/14/2015 03:14:03 PM



MY COMMENT: We have to hope the Senators act with open mind and without the pressure of the White House. 1 Recommendation 04/14/2015 12:40:30 PM



MY COMMENT: The acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent will be the end of the French-American company; and probably new problems for Nokia.

As everybody who analyzes the technology industry knows, Alcatel-Lucent is a sick company since the marriage of the French Alcatel and the American Lucent.

If Nokia cannot merge Alcatel-Lucent in a right way, in two or three years the last valuable parts of the French-American company will come to the Chinese Huawei hands as a bargain. 2 Recommendations 04/14/2015 11:04:58 AM


On The Hillary Machine:  PART 1

MY COMMENT: In 2008, Hillary also had a strong machine, but she fell like Goliath due to the stone of a David. 5 Recommendations 04/13/2015 02:21:37 PM



MY COMMENT: The Democrats will commit a big mistake if they put all their “eggs” in the basket of Hillary because the money of her donors and her “machine’ do not guarantee that she will win in front of a Republican candidate. 5 Recommendations 04/13/2015 02:33:28 PM



MY COMMENT: Marco Rubio is the opposite extreme of Hillary Clinton.

Also he has experience, defeating incumbent candidates. He defeated former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist in a historic election for the US Senate.

These were the results of the Florida U.S. Senate Election 2010 when Rubio defeated Crist:

1) Marco Rubio: 2,645,743 votes (48.9%)
2) Charlie Crist: 1,607,549 votes (29.7%)
3) Kendrick Meek: 1,092,936 votes (20.2%)
4) Alexander Snitker: 24,859 votes (0.5%)

4 Recommendations 04/13/2015 01:36:08 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.