More - And Less - Of The Same Things

"Buffers Running Down Quickly": HSBC Warns Next Global Food Shock Brewing Warnings on Wall Street about a confluence of stressors building deep within global agricultural supply chains are growing louder by the week, raising the risk of a food crisis next year. JPMorgan analysts warned last week that the next global food crisis "won't be short-lived." HSBC analysts sounded a similar alarm, pointing to tightening grain supplies, El Niño, disruptions at maritime chokepoints, and a supply "squeeze" sending grain prices soaring. HSBC economist Jamie Culling, who covers Australia, New Zealand, and global commodities,...

An Illegal Migrant Tried To Saw Off A Man's Head; You Won't Believe What The BBC Did Next... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A leaked internal email shows a senior BBC executive reaching for the language of "solidarity" after a Sudanese asylum seeker was charged with trying to brutally murder a Northern Irish man in the street. The corporation's instinct was not to dwell on the victim, but instead to soothe colleagues "who have come to Northern Ireland and the UK from other countries." A local man is carved up...