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In Farmers Market, A "Free Market" Rises In Cuba

http://www.npr.org

Cuba has no shortage of fertile farmland, but the country spends $1.5 billion a year importing about 70 percent of its food. The communist government's chronic struggle to get farmers to produce more is forcing authorities to grudgingly accept a greater role for market principles and the profit motive. Now authorities seem willing to go another step further, tolerating the rise of what might be described as Cuba's "free-est" market.

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Another way to kill US farmers: Seize bank accounts on phony charges

http://foodfreedomgroup.com

when the Sowers earned over $10,000 in February, and learned they’d have to fill out paperwork at the bank for such large deposits, they simply rolled the deposits over to keep them below that amount, rather than waste time on bureaucratic red tape.
Structuring explains Overlawyered.com, is the federal criminal offense of splitting up bank deposits so as to keep them under a threshold such as $10,000 above which banks have to report transactions to the government.

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Natural News editor Mike Adams calls for armed citizens' arrests

http://exm.nr

The Department of Natural Resources has gone too far. They're raiding farms.

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While CA Persecutes Raw Milk Farmers, France Unveils Vending Machines

http://www.naturalnews.com

In France, raw milk is happily sold in vending machines on street corners, but in California -- a state which used to represent a healthy, happy lifestyle -- raw milk advocates are targeted by the state as criminals, then subjected to personal vengeance campaigns run by the DA's office.

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EPA Classifies Milk as Oil, Forcing Costly Rules on Farmers

http://www.mlive.com

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is classifying milk as oil because it contains a percentage of animal fat, which is a non-petroleum oil.
The Hesperia farmer and others would be required to develop and implement spill prevention plans for milk storage tanks. The rules are set to take effect in November, though that date might be pushed back.

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