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After facing a backlash for his decision to travel to Hamburg, Germany and speak at an anti-capitalist, protester-organized gathering on Friday outside the G-20 conference, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, who’s facing re-election this year, defended his decision, arguing that it’s up to local officials like himself to speak up on issues like climate change now that President Donald Trump has taken the US out of the Paris Accord, Bloomberg reports.

A new Politico-Morning Consult poll has found that six in 10 American voters now support the new travel ban on people from six predominantly Muslim countries.

You will find more statistics at Statista

As Statista's Niall McCarthy notes, the research found that 37 percent of people strongly support the State Department's guidelines while 23 percent somewhat support them.

Only 14 percent are both opposed and strongly opposed to the legislation while 11 percent said they don't know or have no opinion.

The liberal facade behind Europe's grand refugee acceptance experiment took a big hit on Friday, when Italy's Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and head of the ruling Democratic Party, said his country does not have "any moral duty to take in migrants", sharply toughening his stance over surging numbers of asylum seekers.  His U-Turn follows that of Angela Merkel, who infamously accepted nearly 1 million mostly Syrian refugees in 2015, only to see a surge in terrorist attacks across Germany and Europe, and a plunge in her popularity as a result of an angry social backlash

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Anything short of a declaration of war is treason, according to some in this country. I see the neocons are mostly never Trumpers now, without an organ in the government to draw from. Since their interests and the democrats are aligned now, the left would be wise to ignore them and cast them out from their party, otherwise you will soon become the party of war.

On the topic of the Trump-Putin meetings, the President said it was 'tremendous.'

Authored by Giulio Meotti via The Gatestone Institute,