Month: June 2018

Everywhere you turn someone is screaming “fake news”,  media outlets today not only offer up a different point of view but seemingly a whole different set of facts.  Is there a way to verify facts and make sure that the news you are reading is in fact true?  Let’s have a look at how you can discern real news from fake.

1. Consider the source

Remember a few years ago all those tabloids near the checkout in the grocery store, proclaiming alien abductions or the love child of Elvis and Big Foot.  Those tabloids have all moved online.   While you are reading news online  you have to consider the source just like you used to in the grocery store.  Do they verify their sources, are there links to a credible source.  There are some sites that offer headlines so irrational you can dismiss them out of hand.

2. The Devil is in the details

No one has screamed “Fake News” louder than President Trump, seemingly every outlet that doesn’t give him favorable coverage now publishes fake news.  Sometimes you get news stories with one or two verifiable facts but the rest is completely false.  If you rely on social media to get your news, and many people do, then be wary of MEME’s.  Memes provide an often funny or humorous way to present information, the problem is, most of the information is outright false or completely biased.

3. Don’t live in an echo chamber

Don’t automatically agree with the information because it supports your point of view, rather try and look at it objectively.  Does it make sense?  Look at the actual facts rather than what you would like to be true.

4. Try and be openminded

Overcoming your own personal prejudice and biases isn’t easy.  You need to evaluate the entire story and never get all your information from just one source.  There are plenty of credible media outlets that have their own political biases so don’t rely on just Fox News or MSNBC to get the whole picture, get as many facts and perspectives as possible.

5. Double check absolutely everything

Don’t be part of the problem and spread misinformation, even inadvertently.  That means before you post a story on social media do the best you can to double check the facts.

We deserve better than having to double check each and every piece of information that comes in front of us.  Yes, some news organizations are far better than others but be wary just the same.…

What is a Trade War?

Trade war isn’t the conventional physical war between nation’s as you maybe thinking, but this is rather fighting for the dominance over the global market. This in simple words means, knocking out other countries trade business’s, by imposing certain kind of restrictions in form of levying the taxes in huge amount. This could be the high rate of import duty taxes in the imported goods or services, which could cripple down the other countries exports. This trade war is currently in the news, as everyone’s eyes has focused on the United States of America, following it’s protectionism policy, as the president Donald Trump came into power.

Speculations’ of Trade War

United States of America has been the super power since the cold war era. The dominance over the world trade was maintained by US. The active trade disputes is largely between the USA and China, but recently spilled over the Latin American and some very close ally’s of USA in the European Union. But in recent decades China has immensely growing as the worlds fastest economy and is on the verge of replacing US as the number one in ranking.

The American economy is being damaging due to the Chinese growing influence all over the world via it’s unlikely trade practice’s. The expansionist policy of China in the South China Sea and rapidly growing unfair trades has urged USA to forced trade restrictions on certain types of Chinese goods exported to US. This in return, about to some extent back fired upon US, where Chinese have also added trade restrictions upon US. This growing trade disputes outbreak upon other Latin American countries like Brazil being heavily levied tax in chunk’s for aluminum exports to USA.

World Trade Organization (WTO)

The World Trade Organization is an independent body which regulates the trade flows across the globe and sets the rules and regulations through legal channels which are abide to all countries But every nation has it’s foreign trade policy and right to trade freely on global market. The recent reports by WTO says to avoid the on going trade disputes and further to stop the future escalation on global scale, right decision should be taken to resolve the issues mutually, since trade war is currently hot bed for certain countries currently. The protectionism policy by major world leaders is not good for free and fair the global market.

In the future, this might give a way to recession, which isn’t good as trade war keeps looming over. So overall to see, the trade disputes is neither going to help anyone of the countries, as it is better to resolve the issues mutually and beneficial to all in peaceful manner.…