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Productivity + Workers Pay = Inequality: New Study Shows Why Wages Aren't Rising

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<h2>Productivity + Workers Pay = Inequality: New Study Shows Why Wages Aren't Rising</h2>
<span>Productivity + Workers Pay = Inequality: New Study Shows Why Wages Aren't Rising</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span>Al Jazeera America</span></div>
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<p>The widening chasm between workers’ pay and productivity since the 1970s is “the central component of the wage stagnation story” in the United States, the <a href="http://www.epi.org/publication/understanding-the-historic-divergence-between-productivity-and-a-typical-workers-pay-why-it-matters-and-why-its-real/" rel="nofollow">Economic Policy Institute (EPI) said in a report</a> issued Wednesday ahead of the Labor Day weekend.</p>
<p>Drawing on data from the Social Security Administration and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, EPI economists Lawrence Mishel and Josh Bivens found that median hourly compensation, adjusted for inflation, grew by 8.7 percent between 1973 and 2014. Productivity rose 72.2 percent over the same time period, the EPI report said.</p>
<p>“Productivity and compensation – all wages and benefits for a typical worker – used to grow together from 1948 to 1973, but since 1973 they have diverged,” Mishel said Wednesday in a conference call with reporters. “That’s very important."</p>
<p>The gap between wages and productivity growth has been thoroughly documented, by economists at EPI, a think tank with connections to organized labor, as well as by other scholars.</p>
<p>The paper released Wednesday defends and expands on prior research, arguing that specific policy choices and business practices have fueled the growth of productivity relative to worker compensation – a gap the authors say has been a major driver of inequality.</p>
<p>The paper blames “two key dynamics” for the gap: Growing inequality between workers when it comes to wages, and “the shift in the share of overall national income going to owners of capital and away from the pay of employees."</p>
<p>Analysis of that shift found what the authors called a “surprisingly modest effect of redistribution from labor to capital incomes.” Based on the data available, they calculated that such redistribution “accounts for only 11.5 percent of the gap between pay and net productivity over the 1973 to 2014 period.”</p>
<p>But the authors also said the available figures had some limitations. For example, they wrote that the data EPI used to calculate the breakdown between labor and capital incomes included CEO compensation, “including realized stock option gains of executives and bonus pay,” in its estimate of labor compensation – even though such forms of compensation, wrote Bivens and Mishel, have “a strong character of capital income" because they are tied to stock prices.</p>
<p>At the same time that capital’s share of income has grown over the last few decades, the size of the financial sector has exploded, according to recent research from the Roosevelt Institute, a liberal economic think tank.</p>
<p>“Capital has taken home an increasing share of national income with labor taking home less,” wrote Roosevelt Institute researchers in a July white paper on the “financialization” of the U.S. economy. “This increasing importance of wealth in our economy is an important element of financialization." The term refers to the encroachment of the financial sector into public and private life.</p>
<p>EPI's Bivens and Mishel focused on labor policy in explaining how wages have become uncoupled from productivity growth, citing three broad types of policies that they said had widened the split: Policies that hindered full employment, those that weakened labor standards, and those that undermined collective bargaining.</p>
<p>Bivens said the impact of such decisions is obvious to people in the workplace.</p>
<p>“Mostly what it means for the typical American worker is they don’t see their hourly pay rise, even as lots of income is being generated around them, even generated by them,” he said.</p>
<p><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/9/2/new-research-dissects-gap-between-wages-and-productivity.html" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Al Jazeera America</a></p>
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<p>The widening chasm between workers’ pay and productivity is “the central component of the wage stagnation story” in the U.S., according to an Economic Policy Institute report issued ahead of the Labor Day weekend.</p>
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<p>A DOJ report released Thursday denounces poor community-police relations, ineffective communication among law enforcement groups, police orders that infringed 1st Amendment rights, and military-style tactics that antagonized demonstrators.</p>
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<p>The popular, months-long protest movement led by ordinary people – which some have called the "Guatemalan Spring" – brought justice to the highest echelons of government.</p>
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<p>Liberals are celebrating the news that the federal deficit is $59 billion lower this year than last year and defending Obama's record in the process – but making an argument for decreased public investment is doing conservatives’ work for them.</p>
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<p>From the failure to create jobs to the inability to rescue the environment or provide adequate housing and education, the catastrophe of modern day capitalism is more and more evident by the day – and something's got to give.</p>
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<p>Wall Street hedge fund Fortress Investment Group and L.A.-based Imperial Capital bought up hundreds of small debts — from unpaid water bills to delinquent property taxes — and could take property worth tens of millions of dollars if families can’t pay.</p>
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Justice Dept. Declares Ferguson An Example of How Police are Not to Act in Protests

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<h2>Justice Dept. Declares Ferguson An Example of How Police are Not to Act in Protests</h2>
<span>Justice Dept. Declares Ferguson An Example of How Police are Not to Act in Protests</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span>Associated Press</span></div>
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<p>The police response to unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer offers lessons in how not to handle mass demonstrations, according to a <a href="http://www.stlpublicradio.org/papertrail/document.html?id=2328941-after-action-assessment-of-the-police-response" rel="nofollow">Justice Department report</a> that warns such problems could happen in other places roiled by mistrust between law enforcement and the community.</p>
<p>The report fleshes out a draft version made public in June, creating a portrait of poor community-police relations, ineffective communication among the more than 50 law enforcement agencies that responded, police orders that infringed first amendment rights, and military-style tactics that antagonized demonstrators.</p>
<p>The final version, which is to be released on Thursday, was obtained in advance by the Associated Press.</p>
<p>The report focuses on the regional police response in the 17 days that followed the Aug. 9, 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, by a white police officer. In a detailed chronology, it tracks missteps that began almost immediately after the shooting when police wrongly assumed that crowds would quickly dissipate, withheld information from the public and were slow to grasp community angst over the hours-long presence of Brown’s body beneath white sheets in the street.</p>
<p>It details more flaws over the next two weeks, including the improper use of police dogs, armored vehicles and snipers to monitor the crowds; the decision by some officers to remove their nameplates; arbitrary orders to demonstrators to keep moving after five seconds; and poor communication among agencies about which policy to follow and who was in change.</p>
<p>Several law enforcement agencies whose actions were studied said they have learned from the events.</p>
<p>Police officers interviewed for the report complained of inconsistent orders from commanders, with some saying “there was no plan in place for arresting people” or that they “were unclear who they could arrest.” Community members, meanwhile, described poor relationships with the police that long predated – and were made worse by – the shooting.</p>
<p>“Having effective relations and communications with the community, recognizing that endemic problems were at the base of the demonstrations, and understanding how the character of the mass gatherings was evolving and spreading beyond the initial officer-involved shooting would have all aided in incident management decisions,” the report states.</p>
<p>It also makes clear that the situation in Ferguson was not unique, particularly in a year of heightened tensions between police and minority communities nationwide.</p>
<p>The Justice Department cautioned in its report that while much of the world sees the St. Louis suburb “as a community of division and violence”, the protests and unrest that occurred there could happen in other places “in which fostering positive police-community relationships and building trust are not a priority”.</p>
<p>Federal officials hope the report will be instructive to other police departments confronting mass demonstrations.</p>
<p>“In many ways, the demonstrations that followed the shooting death of Michael Brown were more than a moment of discord in one small community; they have become part of a national movement to reform our criminal justice system and represent a new civil rights movement,” Ronald Davis, director of the Justice Department’s Community Oriented Policing Services office, wrote in an introduction to the report.</p>
<p>The Ferguson shooting, along with other deaths of blacks at the hands of white police officers, sparked a national dialogue about police-community relations and the role of race in policing. Several recent fatal shootings of on-duty police officers – including those in Illinois and Texas – have focused attention on violent crime and officer safety.</p>
<p>“We have seen violence strike at all segments of our community,” the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, said at a housing conference on Wednesday. “It is a sad fact now that no one is safe.”</p>
<p>The Justice Department began its review of the regional police response in September 2014 following a request from the St Louis County police chief. Its report is separate from a Justice Department report from March that was critical of Ferguson police practices and the city’s profit-driven municipal court system. A grand jury and the Justice Department both declined to prosecute white officer Darren Wilson, who later resigned.</p>
<p>The report focuses in particular on the responses of police in Ferguson, St Louis city and county and the Missouri highway patrol.</p>
<p>The Ferguson police department had no immediate comment on the report, while the Missouri highway patrol said it has implemented “lessons learned from its own review of events in Ferguson”.</p>
<p>A spokesman for the St. Louis city police department, Schron Jackson, said the agency had made multiple changes since last summer, including hiring more minority officers and launching a community engagement division.</p>
<p>“What our officers encountered during those first 17 days of unrest has forever changed policing,” Jackson said. “We acknowledge such change by the progressive steps our department has taken to build better community relationships.”</p>
<p>The St. Louis County police chief, Jon Belmar, said demonstrations like the ones that occurred in Ferguson are “unwieldy and difficult to manage by any precise measure” and that law enforcement nationwide could learn from “our successes and lessons learned”.</p>
<p>But he said the report provided only a limited snapshot, ignoring more recent police responses seen as improvements, such as during the first anniversary last month of Brown’s shooting.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/02/police-ferguson-response-justice-department-report" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Associated Press</a></p>
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<p>The widening chasm between workers’ pay and productivity is “the central component of the wage stagnation story” in the U.S., according to an Economic Policy Institute report issued ahead of the Labor Day weekend.</p>
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<p>A DOJ report released Thursday denounces poor community-police relations, ineffective communication among law enforcement groups, police orders that infringed 1st Amendment rights, and military-style tactics that antagonized demonstrators.</p>
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<p>The popular, months-long protest movement led by ordinary people – which some have called the "Guatemalan Spring" – brought justice to the highest echelons of government.</p>
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<p>Liberals are celebrating the news that the federal deficit is $59 billion lower this year than last year and defending Obama's record in the process – but making an argument for decreased public investment is doing conservatives’ work for them.</p>
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<p>From the failure to create jobs to the inability to rescue the environment or provide adequate housing and education, the catastrophe of modern day capitalism is more and more evident by the day – and something's got to give.</p>
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<p>Tens of thousands of people have gathered in front of Japanese parliament to protest against security bills they believe to be unconstitutional, allowing Japanese soldiers to fight overseas in defense of national interests.</p>
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<p>Privatization advocates contend that Katrina brought essential reforms to Louisiana’s education system – but the facts tell a different story, as black residents report they live in a city that has yet to recover.</p>
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<p>Not only does this program far exceed USDA nutritional standards, but it ties the health of our children to the health of our planet.</p>
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<p><span>It’s our 6 month anniversary!</span></p>
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<p>Wall Street hedge fund Fortress Investment Group and L.A.-based Imperial Capital bought up hundreds of small debts — from unpaid water bills to delinquent property taxes — and could take property worth tens of millions of dollars if families can’t pay.</p>
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<p>Privatization advocates contend that Katrina brought essential reforms to Louisiana’s education system – but the facts tell a different story, as black residents report they live in a city that has yet to recover.</p>
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<p>From the failure to create jobs to the inability to rescue the environment or provide adequate housing and education, the catastrophe of modern day capitalism is more and more evident by the day – and something's got to give.</p>
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"Triumph of the People" As Guatemalan President, Former War Criminal, Resigns in Disgrace

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<h2>"Triumph of the People" As Guatemalan President, Former War Criminal, Resigns in Disgrace</h2>
<span>"Triumph of the People" As Guatemalan President, Former War Criminal, Resigns in Disgrace</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/09-3" rel="nofollow">Common Dreams</a></span></div>
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<p>The widening chasm between workers’ pay and productivity is “the central component of the wage stagnation story” in the U.S., according to an Economic Policy Institute report issued ahead of the Labor Day weekend.</p>
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<p>A DOJ report released Thursday denounces poor community-police relations, ineffective communication among law enforcement groups, police orders that infringed 1st Amendment rights, and military-style tactics that antagonized demonstrators.</p>
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<p>The popular, months-long protest movement led by ordinary people – which some have called the "Guatemalan Spring" – brought justice to the highest echelons of government.</p>
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<p>Liberals are celebrating the news that the federal deficit is $59 billion lower this year than last year and defending Obama's record in the process – but making an argument for decreased public investment is doing conservatives’ work for them.</p>
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<p>From the failure to create jobs to the inability to rescue the environment or provide adequate housing and education, the catastrophe of modern day capitalism is more and more evident by the day – and something's got to give.</p>
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<p>Tens of thousands of people have gathered in front of Japanese parliament to protest against security bills they believe to be unconstitutional, allowing Japanese soldiers to fight overseas in defense of national interests.</p>
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<p>Privatization advocates contend that Katrina brought essential reforms to Louisiana’s education system – but the facts tell a different story, as black residents report they live in a city that has yet to recover.</p>
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<p>Not only does this program far exceed USDA nutritional standards, but it ties the health of our children to the health of our planet.</p>
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<p><span>It’s our 6 month anniversary!</span></p>
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<p>Wall Street hedge fund Fortress Investment Group and L.A.-based Imperial Capital bought up hundreds of small debts — from unpaid water bills to delinquent property taxes — and could take property worth tens of millions of dollars if families can’t pay.</p>
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<p>As the left-wing MP prepares to seize the reigns of his party, he is riding massive popularity on a mandate to reject austerity policies, make education free, re-nationalize the railways and energy companies, and rebuild universal healthcare.</p>
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<p>Scott Courtney, who is helping steer the low wage movement through the SEIU and union channels, says "this is about lifting up the 64 million American workers who aren’t making enough to live on.”</p>
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Here's How You Turn America's Low Deficit Into An Infrastructure Boom

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<h2>Here's How You Turn America's Low Deficit Into An Infrastructure Boom</h2>
<span>Here's How You Turn America's Low Deficit Into An Infrastructure Boom</span> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/328.jpg?itok=nvQOGjjl" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_narrow/public/field/image/328.jpg?itok=nvQOGjjl" /></a>
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<p>Every time liberals celebrate new low-deficit numbers, the Karl Roves, Grover Norquists and David Kochs of the world smile with glee. It proves that the right-wing has won the framing battle over federal spending, and that they will always define the terms of the debate whenever the subject of more federal spending comes up.</p>
<p>The Congressional Budget Office is reporting that on September 30, the federal deficit hit <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/budget-deficit-to-drop-to-lowest-since-2008-2015-8" rel="nofollow">$426 billion</a> – $59 billion lower than it was last year, $60 billion lower than projected in March, and its lowest point since President Obama took office. <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/08/obama-boom-office-united-states-cut-deficit-two-thirds.html" rel="nofollow">Liberals are jumping on this news</a>in an attempt to refute the dominant right-wing argument that Obama has been increasing the deficit since he took office. Liberals even made a <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/11/1343931/-Another-Open-Letter-To-Americans-About-Midterms-This-Time-From-Canada-This-One-Hurts" rel="nofollow">Canadian letter to the editor</a> go viral after it celebrated America’s declining deficit under the Obama administration.</p>
<p>But all low deficits prove is that our economy is still seeing anemic job growth in the public sector, which means less money circulating in local economies, which translates to less demand for goods and services and fewer jobs as a result. Essentially, liberals making an argument for decreased public investment are doing conservatives’ work for them.</p>
<p>“We’re already of the notion that big debt is a problem, and it’s really not. We’re a sovereign country with sovereign currency, and we can issue as much money as we need to cover our needs,” said Walt McRee, chairman of the Public Banking Institute. “Now would be a good time for government to declare that it’s issuing money for infrastructure.”</p>
<p>Currently, the U.S. government is in a prime position to borrow money to build up its outdated, aging infrastructure, as Fed interest rates remain at 0 percent. McRee pointed out the Federal Reserve could start up quantitative easing again, but use the money for infrastructure repair instead of give it to banks. We could certainly use it – the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has given American infrastructure a D+ rating, saying it would take an estimated <a href="http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/" rel="nofollow">$3.6 trillion</a> to bring that grade up to an A by 2020.</p>
<p>Through quantitative easing, the Fed spent <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/federal-reserve-printing-free-lunch/" rel="nofollow">$85 billion each month</a> in the years following the financial crisis, buying up the same toxic assets that Wall Street banks marketed to investors and pension funds with the help of complicit ratings agencies that gave them AAA ratings. A similar investment program aimed at updating roads, bridges, dams, levees, schools, sewage systems, power plants, railways, parks, and public transportation could create millions of new jobs in the short-term, and millions more when the added income from the first influx of jobs cycles through local economies. Call it “Quantitative Easing for People,” if you like. And such a program would only cost half of what we spent on the banks.</p>
<p>Doing the math, the Fed created $85 billion a month for 72 months and gave it to the banks, totaling $6.12 trillion. If the Fed were to print the same amount of money each month and allocate for infrastructure investments beginning in January 2016, Quantitative Easing for People would only last 40 months, meeting the ASCE’s goal of $3.6 trillion in infrastructure investments by May of 2019. So what would that look like for America?</p>
<p>Our public highways could theoretically be replaced by something resembling Elon Musk’s hyperloop, in which people traveling in bullet trains going 800 miles per hour could get from L.A. to San Francisco in just 30 minutes, or people making a 2,800-mile journey from Seattle to New York could get to their destination in just 3.5 hours. We could have nationwide public internet access, making cable monopolies a thing of the past. Every major metropolitan center could have a highly sophisticated subway system, rendering highway commutes obsolete. Water storage systems and reservoirs could get a much-needed upgrade, turning floods that run off into oceans into purified drinking water. The possibilities are limitless. And the process itself is not unfamiliar – we’ve already done this before, and the results were a resounding success.</p>
<p>Between 1932 and 1957, the <a href="http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1523.html" rel="nofollow">Reconstruction Finance Corporation</a> was tasked with rejuvenating American infrastructure at the height of the Great Depression. Congress signed off on providing $500 million in initial capital, which would be <a href="http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi" rel="nofollow">$8.56 trillion in 2014 dollars</a>. While the program was justly criticized for helping big business over small business, it set a historical precedent that support for mass economic stimulus in a time of economic malaise works.</p>
<p>“Our debt is not complicating our lives, and it’s not inflationary to put that money into our economy,” McRee said. “That’s what money is for.”</p>
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<p>The widening chasm between workers’ pay and productivity is “the central component of the wage stagnation story” in the U.S., according to an Economic Policy Institute report issued ahead of the Labor Day weekend.</p>
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<p>A DOJ report released Thursday denounces poor community-police relations, ineffective communication among law enforcement groups, police orders that infringed 1st Amendment rights, and military-style tactics that antagonized demonstrators.</p>
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About those 3.9 million desperate Syrian Muslim refugees…

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<p>By BI:…not one oil-rich Arab Muslim Gulf State has taken in even one refugee:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Amnesty International: The 6 Gulf countries have offered 0 resettlement places to Syrian refugees <a href="http://t.co/Npta0xm8nz">pic.twitter.com/Npta0xm8nz</a></p>
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MUSLIM invaders posing as refugees are throwing away food and water given to them by sympathetic European Christians

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<p>By BI: <strong>HUNGARY:</strong> The usual reason they throw away food is because it is not ‘halal’ (Islam-approved) but here they are throwing away water bottles, too, likely because Hungary has refused to send them to the generous EU welfare state of their choice.</p>
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<p><strong>GERMANY:</strong> Muslim illegal aliens refuse food donated to them either because it is not ‘halal’ or is not to their liking in terms of ingredients and freshness.</p>
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<p class="yt watch-title-container"><strong>MACEDONIA:</strong> Muslim invaders refuse food packages from the Red Cross because they have a ‘cross’ on the boxes and are not ‘halal.’</p>
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By BI: HUNGARY: The usual reason they throw away food is because it is not ‘halal’ (Islam-approved) but here they are throwing away wat...