Entrepreneurship

Let Them Eat Grass – The Food Freedom Revolution

"The foods the farm produced have never harmed anyone and there is no scientific evidence that proves it could harm anyone. The State is acting like mafia saying, 'Do things our way, pay us for allowing you to feed yourselves, but still in a few years, we will bankrupt you and close your farm.' The families who own the Hershberger family farm are independent, caring for themselves. They have harmed no one, there are no victims, no crime. They act to protect themselves because governments are not protecting the food supply. In fact, they aid and abet the poisoning of our food supply." Continue reading →

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How China Spawned a Bitcoin Industry in Three Months (and Why it Might be Doomed)

"Techweb reports that China’s bitcoin scene now has everything from professional bitcoin investment services to customized bitcoin mining chip manufacturing. And indeed, wherever we looked, it seems services have sprung up, or grown significantly in popularity. For example, where the West has Mt. Gox, China now has a variety of its own platforms including btcchina, btctrade, FXBTC, and Bter (among others). And while some of those have been around for quite a while, their popularity over the past few months has skyrocketed. The big question mark surrounding all of this, of course, is what China’s government will ultimately say about the all-digital currency." Continue reading →

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Chinese farmer ‘privatizes’ part of Great Wall to develop new tourist attraction

"At the farthest end of the Great Wall, Yang Yongfu limps along the section he arduously restored, in effect 'privatising' it and putting himself on a collision course with the authorities. The farmer spent five million yuan ($800,000) and years of backbreaking work renovating several hundred metres of the national symbol deep in northwestern China, turning it into a tourist site. He set up an entrance area for tourists, complete with a car park and fishpond, and his wife Tao Huiping collects the 25 yuan admittance fee at the ticket booth — a table in the open air. A 2006 law gave the government the exclusive right to manage national relics — making Yang’s project illegal." Continue reading →

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Chinese farmer ‘privatizes’ part of Great Wall to develop new tourist attraction

"At the farthest end of the Great Wall, Yang Yongfu limps along the section he arduously restored, in effect 'privatising' it and putting himself on a collision course with the authorities. The farmer spent five million yuan ($800,000) and years of backbreaking work renovating several hundred metres of the national symbol deep in northwestern China, turning it into a tourist site. He set up an entrance area for tourists, complete with a car park and fishpond, and his wife Tao Huiping collects the 25 yuan admittance fee at the ticket booth — a table in the open air. A 2006 law gave the government the exclusive right to manage national relics — making Yang’s project illegal." Continue reading →

Continue ReadingChinese farmer ‘privatizes’ part of Great Wall to develop new tourist attraction

Chinese farmer ‘privatizes’ part of Great Wall to develop new tourist attraction

"At the farthest end of the Great Wall, Yang Yongfu limps along the section he arduously restored, in effect 'privatising' it and putting himself on a collision course with the authorities. The farmer spent five million yuan ($800,000) and years of backbreaking work renovating several hundred metres of the national symbol deep in northwestern China, turning it into a tourist site. He set up an entrance area for tourists, complete with a car park and fishpond, and his wife Tao Huiping collects the 25 yuan admittance fee at the ticket booth — a table in the open air. A 2006 law gave the government the exclusive right to manage national relics — making Yang’s project illegal." Continue reading →

Continue ReadingChinese farmer ‘privatizes’ part of Great Wall to develop new tourist attraction

Chinese farmer ‘privatizes’ part of Great Wall to develop new tourist attraction

"At the farthest end of the Great Wall, Yang Yongfu limps along the section he arduously restored, in effect 'privatising' it and putting himself on a collision course with the authorities. The farmer spent five million yuan ($800,000) and years of backbreaking work renovating several hundred metres of the national symbol deep in northwestern China, turning it into a tourist site. He set up an entrance area for tourists, complete with a car park and fishpond, and his wife Tao Huiping collects the 25 yuan admittance fee at the ticket booth — a table in the open air. A 2006 law gave the government the exclusive right to manage national relics — making Yang’s project illegal." Continue reading →

Continue ReadingChinese farmer ‘privatizes’ part of Great Wall to develop new tourist attraction

Chinese farmer ‘privatizes’ part of Great Wall to develop new tourist attraction

"At the farthest end of the Great Wall, Yang Yongfu limps along the section he arduously restored, in effect 'privatising' it and putting himself on a collision course with the authorities. The farmer spent five million yuan ($800,000) and years of backbreaking work renovating several hundred metres of the national symbol deep in northwestern China, turning it into a tourist site. He set up an entrance area for tourists, complete with a car park and fishpond, and his wife Tao Huiping collects the 25 yuan admittance fee at the ticket booth — a table in the open air. A 2006 law gave the government the exclusive right to manage national relics — making Yang’s project illegal." Continue reading →

Continue ReadingChinese farmer ‘privatizes’ part of Great Wall to develop new tourist attraction

Chinese farmer ‘privatizes’ part of Great Wall to develop new tourist attraction

"At the farthest end of the Great Wall, Yang Yongfu limps along the section he arduously restored, in effect 'privatising' it and putting himself on a collision course with the authorities. The farmer spent five million yuan ($800,000) and years of backbreaking work renovating several hundred metres of the national symbol deep in northwestern China, turning it into a tourist site. He set up an entrance area for tourists, complete with a car park and fishpond, and his wife Tao Huiping collects the 25 yuan admittance fee at the ticket booth — a table in the open air. A 2006 law gave the government the exclusive right to manage national relics — making Yang’s project illegal." Continue reading →

Continue ReadingChinese farmer ‘privatizes’ part of Great Wall to develop new tourist attraction