I think these urban citizen gardens, particularly in low income neighborhoods, which are often food deserts because grocers don't service these communities, constitute a wonderful healthy trend. Here is the latest.
As you know, all equity markets are currently rigged. The physical investors have, by and large, left the stock exchanges since 2008 and the share prices are since then manipulated by coordinated, rigged electronic trading done by a few US and other Western big banks and funds. Until they crash them in a controlled manner as the Twin towers. And we are exactly at this point in time now.
We have now a triple peak in DJ, Nasdaq and in all other major indices, such as FTSE, Nikkei and DAX in the last 4-5 months, since the beginning of this summer, with an extreme sharp 3rd peak in the last two weeks of October. This alone is the most clear proof for massive speculation of the big banks, before they cash and leave, and crash the markets, as the world economy, and in the particular the US, Canadian and EU economies, are in a terrible shape and this peak is not justified by any sound economic data from the real producing industry. It is a very short and highly explosive equity bubble, created by rigged electronic trading on a large scale by a few big banks and funds.
Average job seeker completes 400 applications each taking at least one hour. Average “job” site increases work and frustration without providing any value-added. This could be a market changer!
Phi Beta Iota: They have selected Amazon as the payment channel, instead of PayPal, BitCoin, and other more popular alternatives. We have asked them to expand the options since so many people hate Amazon and will not pay through Amazon. This also leads to the suspicion that this is a Jeff Bezos hobby horse that will eventually screw all prospective employees and employers in some way (55% of your first paycheck, anyone?), so buyer beware.
The targeting of religious minorities, repeatedly and with impunity, for assassination, forcible conversion to Islam, abduction, church destruction, and blasphemy punishments is a growth industry among radical Muslim movements worldwide, particularly in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.