Free Talk Live - farmers

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

Jking8767 — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:53:59 +0000

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.

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

iamodd999 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:49:13 +0000

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.

Natural News editor Mike Adams calls for armed citizens' arrests

Sussex County Angel — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:02:22 +0000

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

While CA Persecutes Raw Milk Farmers, France Unveils Vending Machines

ZEUSLGN — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:06:42 +0000

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.