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I didn't suggest anything about a dairy subsidy. I'm not defending our system. Honest debate does also require admission of the detrimental results of unrestricted American over-production; potential dumping of surpluses into foreign markets and the artificially forced suppression of domestic prices. That is correct. Canadians do pay more. Not Americans. Is the suggestion that messing with Canada's dairy regulatory system and demanding greater access to our market is an act of American benevolence? Well trump is pandering to the trump base. Just as Canadian governments have babied its dairy industry. NZ cut off subsidies over ten years ago to all aspects of agriculture. Its industry thrived. I'm personally contemptuous of Canadian dairy farmers. They are pigs in their continuous demands for protections in every trade agreement. Twenty years ago it was the US beer industry that forced open Canadian brewers to competition. Surprise Molson and Labatts thrived, as did many smaller brewers. Did I say Molson? Now its Molson Coors.

Don't think Trump hasn't noticed! He's got you in his sights now: "Canada has made business for our dairy farmers in Wisconsin and other border states very difficult. We will not stand for this. Watch!" We've dealt with ignorance and hostility from some folks in your nation long before the arrival of the Bronzed Buffoon. A couple of simple little facts: there are more dairy cows in the state of Wisconsin than there are in all of Canada and Canada imports 5X the amount of dairy products than we export. source: http://www.dairyinfo.gc.ca/index_e.php?s1=dff-fcil&s2=imp-exp&s3=bal And as of this morning, we're back to the game we call "Lies, lies, and more damned lies". "U.S. Imposes 20% Tariff On Canadian Softwood Lumber" source: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/04/24/softwood-lumber-tariff_n_16219018.html Hang on a minute. Could the American's actually be mistaken? Again? "Both resolution panels from the World Trade Organization and under the North American Free Trade Agreement had found that Canadian softwood lumber production is not subsidized" source: http://globalnews.ca/news/3399952/reality-check-does-canada-subsidize-softwood-lumber/ A fairly accurate timeline of the history of the softwood lumber dispute can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/qdbrmda You are right about softwood lumber. Canada does not subsidize lumber. But you are wrong about the dairy industry in Canada. It largely originates with Quebec dairy farmers. "Apart from raising roadblocks to trade, marketing boards also raise prices at the dinner table. According to a study published in December 2010 by the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI), in 2009 Canada’s milk producer price was third highest in the world, behind Japan and Norway. This translates into higher retail prices: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development reports that Canadians pay twice the world market rate for dairy produce. A survey of farm-gate prices by the International Dairy Foods Association estimated prices for the past three years at $16.40 in the United States, $19.19 in the European Union, $14.49 in New Zealand and $29.87 in Canada (all prices in U.S. dollars per fixed weight). http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/national-post-editorial-board-get-rid-of-dairy-subsidies-and-price-supports Dairy aside, US farmers receive higher subsidies than Canadian farmers. With NZ farmers, worldwide, receiving the least overall. The Dairy Processors Association of Canada estimates CETA could result in annual losses of over $230 million for cheese processors in particular, contributing to a $719 million loss for the overall economy. That may translate into up to 2,900 job losses, it said. The new fund is "a way to mitigate those negative impacts that we are facing," said Jacques Lefebvre, the president and CEO. The processors want the quota for new cheeses entering Canada tariff-free under CETA to be assigned to existing processors as the Canada-based importers. But a requirement written into the deal specifies that 30 per cent of the quota must be allocated to new entrants. The government has not yet announced who will be importing what kinds of tariff-free cheese under CETA, but a decision is expected soon following several months of consultations. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dairy-compensation-announcement-ceta-thursday-1.3845003 So $720 million a year to bring Canada to EU subsidy levels. Which would still be 32% net subsidies above NZ. The Canadian dairy industry acts like pigs at the trough of Canadian dairy consumers.

Given the long waiting list. If he lived in Israel his insurer could have sent him overseas bought the organs and had insurance pay for organs, surgery and still save money. Cost surgery US https://www.transplantliving.org/before-the-transplant/financing-a-transplant/the-costs/ India http://www.pulmonaryfibrosis.in/lung-transplants-in-india.html Cost body parts: http://gizmodo.com/5904129/heres-how-much-body-parts-cost-on-the-black-market https://www.theguardian.com/society/2003/dec/04/health.medicineandhealth

Daily Caller is not a peer reviewed science journal. It's a right wing alt-fact source, and quoting it just makes you look bad. Still suffering from a case of message/messenger inversion and that makes me sad. Maybe this will help you out. https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/ef-data-research-report-second-editionfinal041717-1.pdf Authored by the signatory of this statement: ""We believe Earth and its ecosystems — created by God’s intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence — are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human flourishing, and displaying His glory. Earth's climate system is no exception."[6]" [/url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_D%27Aleo[url] Brent, Brent, Brent, you are the energizer bunny of the alt-fact global cooling movement. No wonder you and Ron agree on so much.

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I sit next to/work with a Venezuelan girl, as in born and raised and her entire family is there. What exactly should I ask her? Ask her how well populism aka trump-chavez worked out? Ask her how well border tariffs to protect domestic industry worked out aka trump border taxes? Ask her how well chavez protected and enriched his family aka trump? Ask her how the Chavez- polarization of the voter aka trump, attacks the media as fake to appeal to the masses? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/9993238/Venezuela-the-wealth-of-Chavez-family-exposed.html https://www.cjr.org/opinion/trump-chavez-media.php

The "Fox News is graying fast. It is losing younger viewers at a faster rate than its competitors. With a median viewer age of 68,... Fox’s viewers skew older, whiter, more ideological, less educated and have (slightly) lower income than its competitors. Beyond the shake-up, the demographic trend is not Fox’s friend." What they missed is more racist,misogynist, etc. like management. and Several areas could affect shareholders. Let’s consider each: Shareholder litigation: One of the more shocking allegations that appeared in Sherman’s reporting in August was the lack of oversight on how Ailes spent money and that Ailes allocated a portion of Fox’s budget “to hire consultants, political operatives and private detectives who reported only to him, according to a senior Fox source.” This, if true, would be in addition to the millions of dollars to settle Ailes-related sexual harassment charges, and raises significant questions. Among them: Where were the accountants? How could shareholder dollars be spent in such a way that it escaped notice in the annual audit? If Sherman’s allegations prove to be true, this would suggest people at Fox knew but did nothing. No wonder shareholder law firm Scott & Scott announced in a news release an investigation into Fox to “determine whether Fox’s Officers and Directors have breached their fiduciary duties.” http://ritholtz.com/2016/09/shareholders-consider-litigation-succession-talent/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-mysteries-love/201502/12-ways-spot-misogynist

Two Ohio coal plants to close An electric utility company is closing two coal-fired power plants by next year, citing economic conditions. Dayton Power & Light, a subsidiary of utility giant AES Corp., announced on Monday the closure of the J.M. Stuart and Killen generating stations, following a monthslong review of the plants. They are the latest in a string of hundreds of coal-fired power plants announcing closure in recent years. “Along with our co-owners of the plants, we have completed a thorough review of our options and it has become clear that, without significant changes in market conditions, the plants will not be economically viable beyond mid-2018,” Dayton Power said in a statement about the plants that sit along the Ohio River in the southern part of the state. http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/324857-two-ohio-coal-plants-to-close From 2010 through 2015, the most recent data available, total greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired plants in Pennsylvania fell by almost one-quarter. .. One of Pennsylvania’s biggest coal-fired plants - Homer City - filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this year so it could reorganize. It has 250 employees. .. Stephanie Walton, a spokeswoman for FirstEnergy, which once had four coal-fired plants in Pennsylvania, said the company is down to one: Bruce Mansfield in Shippingport in the far western part of the state. But even that could be in jeopardy. Walton said that FirstEnergy is evaluating all its plants over the next 18 months. “That could mean deactivating, or retiring plants,” Walton said of the evaluation, which she noted is the result of “challenges with the competitive market.” Bruce Mansfield uses seven millions tons of coal a year and employs 350 people. Walton said current economic conditions have nothing to do with Obama’s regulations, although she noted that his administration’s rules have hurt the industry in the past. http://www.philly.com/philly/health/Trump-environmental-rollback-likely-too-late-for-not-Pennsylvania-coal-plants.html Carnegie Mellon assistant professor of economics and public policy Edson Severnini says those closures may have caused reduced birth weight in children in the area at the time, due to pollution exposure from the increased reliance on coal-burning power plants https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/low-birth-weights-found-in-areas-where-coal-replaced-nuclear-power-in-the-80s/ Environmental officials said for years that a coal-fired power plant on the Delaware River in Pennsylvania harmed New Jersey residents by spewing air pollution across state lines. Now it appears they have proof. A study published this week by a team of scientists shows New Jersey mothers living as far as 20 to 30 miles downwind from the Portland Generating Station had a greater chance of having babies with low birth weight. http://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/local/2017/04/04/report-coal-power-plant-pennsylvania-caused-low-birth-weights-nj/100032920/

“The direction of travel is that both in the UK and globally we are already moving towards a low carbon economy. It is a clear message to any new government that they should prioritise making the UK a world leader in clean, green, technology.” Gareth Redmond-King, head of climate and energy at WWF, called the first coal-free working day “a significant milestone in our march towards the green economic revolution”. “Getting rid of coal from our energy mix is exciting and hugely important." Above from story. Don't tell trump and his supporters this. Coal is all part of making America GREAT again. One black lung case at a time.

Evidently its friendly at AA as well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KuicmwiGAk

1.) “There’s a cultural acceptance of child rape in Latino culture that doesn’t exist in even the most dysfunctional American ghettos. When it comes to child rape, the whole family gets involved.” 2.) “A lot of people are upset when I talk about Mexican child rapes, Muslims clitorectomies, Muslim honor killings…white people don’t do that. America is not used to these types of crimes. We are bringing in cultures where child rape is very common.” 3.) “These unaccompanied children (anchor babies) we [America] have, you know, hundreds of these [immigrants] being reported they have never seen a flushed toilet before. It is simply a fact; we are bringing in peasant cultures.” 4.) “If we don’t cut off bringing in millions and millions of these very backward cultures, we won’t have America again.” 5.) “I’ve never understood the argument ‘we’re going to war for oil.’ We need oil. Why shouldn’t we go to war for oil, we need it…drop a nuc, daisy cutter, it doesn’t matter.” 6.) “If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream. It’s a personal fantasy of mine.” 7.) “It’s going to be a thousand years of darkness if this country stops being this country and we just become a second Mexico, which is where we’re heading right now. http://racisminamerica.org/the-top-10-most-obnoxious-and-racist-ann-coulter-quotes/

"Average Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were very likely higher than during any other 50-year period in the last 500 years and likely the highest in at least the past 1,300 years."... During the 1,900 years before the 20th century, it is likely that the next warmest period was from 950 to 1100, with peaks at different times in different regions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record_of_the_past_1000_years Second warmest.

What data would it take to convince you that climate change as a result of man-made CO2 was real? For the 15th consecutive month, the global land and ocean temperature departure from average was the highest since global temperature records began in 1880. This marks the longest such streak in NOAA's 137 years of record keeping. The July 2016 combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces was 0.87°C (1.57°F) above the 20th century average, besting the previous July record set in 2015 by 0.06°C (0.11°F). July 2016 marks the 40th consecutive July with temperatures at least nominally above the 20th century average. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201607

I see where the confusion lies. You think a "new round of tax credits" is a solution. Kinda like throwing a suitcase off the Titanic. Public Approval of Health Care Law PPP (D) For/Favor 47, Against/Oppose 31 For/Favor +16 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/ So the latest poll suggests 16% more Americans approve the status quo ACA vr changing the law.

I'm so very sorry, so very sorry. That explains so much. From Fox news, so you know its a fact. "Exposure to the synthetic pesticide DDT may increase both the risk and severity of Alzheimer’s disease in some individuals – especially those over the age of 60." http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/01/28/exposure-to-ddt-pesticide-may-increase-alzheimers-risk-study-finds.html Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) causes a slight but noticeable and measurable decline in cognitive abilities, including memory and thinking skills. A person with MCI is at an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's or another dementia. http://www.alz.org/dementia/mild-cognitive-impairment-mci.asp

Got a link to the story? "Oath keepers" from Montana. Oh well. Stewart Rhodes, founder of the citizen militia group known as the Oath Keepers, said he came from Montana with about 50 others to protect Trump supporters. They were joined by bikers and others who vowed to fight members of an anti-fascist group if they crossed police barricades. “I don’t mind hitting” the counter-demonstrators, Rhodes said. “In fact, I would kind of enjoy it.” http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-berkeley-trump-rally-20170415-story.html 'Shocking photos" https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3340505/donald-trump-protests-berkeley-fight-video/

Berkeley cancels Ann Coulter’s speech over security concerns "Given current active security threats, it is not possible to assure that the event could be held successfully," the letter read. But Coulter told The Hollywood Reporter that she plans to speak anyway. "Yes, it was officially banned," Coulter said, according to the report. "But they can't stop me. I'm an American. I have Constitutional rights." http://thehill.com/homenews/news/329608-berkeley-cancels-ann-coulters-speech-over-security-concerns Ah!, the right to spread lies, hate and misinformation. What was the name of that organization that beat up the protestors last week in California, "freedom fighters?? The ones from Idaho??

No one sane thinks that it did. The outcome isn't the point. The fact that another superpower actively tried to interfere at all is the point. How can you not see what a huge concern that is? What they said was there was no evidence that the physical voting process. i.e. voting machines and counting was not manipulated. The psychological manipulations of news and information was not under consideration by any US agencies. As it would be very difficult to quantify.

Bill O'Reilly was safe at Fox until General Motors, Nutrisystem, and 48 other advertisers out of 100 pulled their ads. Obviously all run by leftists and Obama lovers. Be it politics or business. Follow the money.

trump's carrier battle group instead of sending a warning to North Korea. turns out be be a big sham. Like trump; " A photograph released by the Navy showed the aircraft carrier sailing through the calm waters of Sunda Strait between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java on Saturday, April 15. By later in the day, it was in the Indian Ocean, according to Navy photographs. In other words, on the same day that the world nervously watched North Korea stage a massive military parade to celebrate the birthday of the nation’s founder, Kim Il Sung, and the press speculated about a preemptive U.S. strike, the U.S. Navy put the Carl Vinson, together with its escort of two guided-missile destroyers and a cruiser, more than 3,000 miles southwest of the Korean Peninsula — and more than 500 miles southeast of Singapore. Instead of steaming toward the Korea Peninsula, the carrier strike group was actually headed in the opposite direction to take part in “scheduled exercises with Australian forces in the Indian Ocean,” according to Defense News, which first reported the story." https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/despite-talk-of-a-military-strike-trumps-armada-was-a-long-way-from-korea/2017/04/18/e8ef4237-e26a-4cfc-b5e9-526c3a17bd41_story.html?utm_term=.b3ae703c1b67 Oh well, trump and the baby leader from N. Korea can continue on. Sabres on the ready.

They were laid off due to slowing sales, something that had been going on for centuries, not because they were replaced by robots. trump's photo stop at Boeing South Carolina received 900 million in subsidies to move that plant there. "Created 3000 "NEW" jobs" "President Donald Trump visited a Boeing aircraft factory in South Carolina on Friday, just days after workers there rejected a bid to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers." http://www.voanews.com/a/trump-visit-boeing-plant-where-workers-rejected-union/3727947.html So if one state outbids an existing union shop fly-fly-away go the jobs. A state paying $300,000 per job seems like good economics. Subsidizing aircraft manufacturing is a worldwide national pastime. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/bombardier-and-canadas-corporate-welfare-trap Bombardier lost: "In mid-January, Bombardier announced a “pause” for an “indeterminate period” in the Learjet 85 program, interpreted by some market analysts as permanently shelving the project. In light of Montreal’s taking a pre-tax special $1.4 billion write down that represents nearly 90 percent of development costs, as well as announcing a cut of 1,000 jobs at company facilities in Wichita, Kan., and Queretaro, Mexico, it appears the most ambitious Lear model ever is lapsing into a deep coma." http://aviationweek.com/bca/bombardier-learjet-85 In their failed attempt to build a carbon Learjet. The new wing on the Global 7000 was too heavy and now has to be redesigned and rebuilt. "Bombardier launched a costly redesign of the Global 7000 wing in 2015 to reduce the structural weight and not to alter its aerodynamic profile, chief executive Alain Bellemare has disclosed." https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/weight-reduction-cited-for-global-7000-wing-redesign-434265/ Which more than eats up the money from the Province of Quebec and the Gov. Canada. that it just received. Oh Airbus, Awash in subsidies from just about every EU country that it operates in. "EU rapped by WTO for $10bn a year Airbus subsidies" http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37444780

They were laid off due to slowing sales, something that had been going on for centuries, not because they were replaced by robots. trump's photo stop at Boeing South Carolina received 900 million in subsidies to move that plant there. "Created 3000 "NEW" jobs" "President Donald Trump visited a Boeing aircraft factory in South Carolina on Friday, just days after workers there rejected a bid to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers." http://www.voanews.com/a/trump-visit-boeing-plant-where-workers-rejected-union/3727947.html So if one state outbids an existing union shop fly-fly-away go the jobs.

You are right

Boeing Co. plans to lay off hundreds of engineers amid slowing aircraft sales, the company announced Monday. The workforce reduction scheduled for June 23 comes after the Chicago-based manufacturer laid off about 1,800 mechanics and engineers earlier this year. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/04/17/boeing-laying-off-hundreds/100573444/

A Lesson in Moscow About Trump-Style ‘Alternative Truth’ Jim Rutenberg NY Times APRIL 16, 2017 MOSCOW — I wanted to better understand President Trump’s America, a place where truth is being ripped from its moorings as he brands those tasked with lashing it back into place — journalists — as dishonest enemies of the people. So I went to Russia. It was like a visit to the land of Alternative Truth Yet to Come. But it also gave me a glimpse into how our new national look is playing in the global information war, where competing narratives are clashing along a sliding scale of fact and fiction. I had picked a ghoulishly perfect week to swing through President Vladimir V. Putin’s Moscow, where spring was struggling to break out over the low-slung, slate-gray cityscape. Mr. Trump had just ordered a Tomahawk strike against Syria’s Shayrat air base, from which, the United States said, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria had launched the chemical weapons attack that killed more than 80 and sickened hundreds. As soon as I turned on a television here I wondered if I had arrived through an alt-right wormhole. Back in the States, the prevailing notion in the news was that Mr. Assad had indeed been responsible for the chemical strike. There was some “reportage” from sources like the conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones — best known for suggesting that the Sandy Hook school massacre was staged — that the chemical attack was a “false flag” operation by terrorist rebel groups to goad the United States into attacking Mr. Assad. But that was a view from the fringe. Here in Russia, it was the dominant theme throughout the overwhelmingly state-controlled mainstream media. On the popular Russian television program “Vesti Nedeli,” the host, Dmitry Kiselyov, questioned how Syria could have been responsible for the attack. After all, he said, the Assad government had destroyed all of its chemical weapons. It was the terrorists who possessed them, said Mr. Kiselyov, who also heads Russia’s main state-run international media arm. One of Mr. Kiselyov’s correspondents on the scene mocked “Western propagandists” for believing the Trump line, saying munitions at the air base had “as much to do with chemical weapons as the test tube in the hands of Colin Powell had to do with weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.” That teed up Mr. Putin to suggest in nationally televised comments a couple of days later that perhaps the attack was an intentional “provocation” by the rebels to goad the United States into attacking Mr. Assad. RT, the Russian-financed English-language news service, initially translated Mr. Putin as calling it a “false flag.” The full Alex Jones was complete. When Trump administration officials tried to counter Russia’s “false narratives” by releasing to reporters a declassified report detailing Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles — and suggesting to The Associated Press without proof that Russia knew of Mr. Assad’s plans to use chemical weapons in advance — the Russians had a ready answer borrowed from Mr. Trump himself. As the pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia put it, “Apparently it was for good reason Donald Trump called unverified information in the mass media one of the main problems in the U.S.” It was the best evidence I’ve seen of the folly of Mr. Trump’s anti-press approach. You can’t spend more than a year attacking the credibility of the “dishonest media” and then expect to use its journalism as support for your position during an international crisis — at least not with any success. While Mr. Trump and his supporters may think that undermining the news media serves their larger interests, in this great information war it serves Mr. Putin’s interests more. It means playing on his turf, where he excels. Integral to Mr. Putin’s governing style has been a pliant press that makes his government the main arbiter of truth. While talking to the beaten but unbowed members of the real journalism community here, I heard eerie hints of Trumpian proclamations in their war stories. Take Mr. Trump’s implicit threat to the owner of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, during the election campaign. In case you’ve forgotten, while calling The Post’s coverage of him “horrible and false,” Mr. Trump warned that if he won the presidency Mr. Bezos’s other business, Amazon, would have “such problems.” (The Post was undaunted, and the issue hasn’t come up again.) The government here doesn’t make threats like that. Things just happen. That was the case last year at the independent media company RBC after its flagship newspaper reported on sensitive financial arrangements of members of Mr. Putin’s family and his associates. The Russian authorities raided the offices of its oligarch owner, Mikhail Prokhorov. Within a few weeks its top three editors had left. The Kremlin denied involvement. But it must have liked the new editor’s message to the RBC staff: Journalism is like driving, and “if you drive over the solid double line they take away your license.” Mr. Prokhorov is considering selling RBC to another oligarch who is closer to the government, the Russian business journal Vedomosti reported on Tuesday. That same day, I met with one of the former RBC editors, Roman Badanin. We chatted at his new place of employment, TV Rain, in the Flacon warehouse complex here, populated by young people with beards, tattoos, piercings and colored hair. (Brooklyn hipster imperialism knows no bounds.) TV Rain has its own hard-luck tale. It was Russia’s only independent television station. Carried mainly on cable, it regularly covered anti-Putin protests and aired voices excluded from the rest of television. But after it ran an online poll asking whether Russia should have abandoned Leningrad to the Nazis to save lives — deeply offending Russian national pride, and receiving a public rebuke from Mr. Putin’s top spokesman — its landlord evicted it and its cable carriers dropped it. It now lives primarily as a subscription service on the internet, which remains fairly free given Mr. Putin’s primary focus on television as the most powerful medium in the country. (Mr. Badanin and others worry that’s going to change, too.) When I asked Mr. Badanin what would be different if Russia had full press freedoms, he looked at me wearily and said: “Everything. Sorry for that common answer, but everything.” Despite steep challenges, people like Mr. Badanin are still battling on. Their journalistic spirit couldn’t be killed, even after some of their friends and colleagues had been. One newspaper here, Novaya Gazeta, has lost five reporters to violence or suspicious circumstances since the turn of the century. Toward the end of the week, I went to its spartan offices in central Moscow to visit its longtime editor, Dmitri Muratov, who has fiercely guarded the paper’s independence through all of the killings and the crackdowns. With the gallows humor of a seasoned journalist, Mr. Muratov was in a jovial mood and told me that he was getting a great kick out of state media’s hard turn against Mr. Trump. Initially, Mr. Muratov said of the president, “he was treated as warmly as McDonald’s; he entered every home like he was our national Santa Claus.” Mr. Muratov had no doubt the sentiment toward Mr. Trump would reverse again, perhaps soon. (To borrow from “1984”: “Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”) Novaya Gazeta had the toughest coverage on the chemical weapons attack that I saw here, challenging the government narrative with reporting from the ground indicating the chemical weapons were dropped from the air. (The anti-Assad forces do not have airplanes.) There’s a lot of speculation in Russian media circles about why the Kremlin allows Novaya Gazeta to continue to operate. Mr. Muratov says he believes it’s because the newspaper is not owned by a single businessman subject to pressure. The newspaper’s staff owns a majority of the shares, and the rest of them are owned by the former Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and the Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev. (Mr. Lebedev told The Guardian last year that he was no longer financing newsroom operations because of “the strain.”) That, and a loyal subscriber base of more than 240,000, help insulate it from outside pressure, if not the violence. The very day of my visit, Mr. Muratov received a threat against his entire staff from religious leaders in Chechnya, angry over articles about anti-gay violence in the region. The Novaya Gazeta offices are scattered with reminders to take such threats seriously, like the case that holds the dusty desktop computer of Anna Politkovskaya. She was shot dead in her apartment building in 2006 after exposing human rights abuses in Chechnya and writing unflinchingly about Mr. Putin. I wondered aloud whether it scared any of Mr. Muratov’s reporters away from certain stories. He turned serious, looked straight at me and said, “I really wish it could.” Mr. Muratov follows the American news media closely. I asked him what he thought about the American press corps’ quandary when it comes to covering a president, like Mr. Trump, who trades in falsehoods and demonizes journalists. He seemed put off by the question; the answer, to him, was so obvious. “Information from the Kremlin or from the White House, it’s not for us verified information,” he said. “We don’t place our trust just on their word.” It’s a lesson American reporters should have learned long before Mr. Trump came along, especially after Iraq. Journalists in Russia like Mr. Muratov haven’t lost sight of that lesson because they can’t afford to. Neither can we. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/business/media/vladimir-putin-moscow-press-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0