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Vivid Sydney

Ruh roh

Wait until bunds get going..

Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95

Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon.

Close-up of Emmanuel Macron. Overlaid text reads: Macron open to stationing French nuclear weapons in other European nations

The French president has held talks with allies such as Germany and Poland as Europe responds to signs that the US plans to scale back its military presence on the continent. www.ft.com/content/9623...

Oh *that* Enoch Powell speech.

NYT: “.. The United States is the only country .. that is forecast to see an international visitor decline in 2025.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/t...

Image of library book display labeled:

“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm

Shocked . Shocked i tells you

In return for……

Vibes of John Gummer and the mad cow burger 🍔

Big start, large book already and tighter pricing in the benchmark Semi in € from QTC.

a cartoon character with a stethoscope around her neck ALT: a cartoon character with a stethoscope around her neck

God. Not Milton Keynes. Would somebody please think of the children!

Opportunities amidst the chaos Amidst all the Trump-induced chaos and uncertainty, there are opportunities for other countries.

Great note here from
@WestpacMacro Luci Ellis on trade policy, opportunities, currency valuation, portfolio management and Australia’s defence sector. www.westpaciq.com.au/economics/20...

Well, I don’t want to go off on some sort of tangent, but I can’t work out what his angle will be. He’s obtuse.

A pope with a maths degree. It’s some sort of sine.

You’ve still got it

I need a (Taiwanese) dollar, dollar, a dollar is what I need.

Per OMFIF.

That would make more sense

Hmm not sure !

{GE} "GERMAN DEFENCE MINISTER PISTORIUS IS SEEKING DRASTIC INCREASE IN GERMAN ANNUAL DEFENCE BUDGET - TWO SOURCES TELL REUTERS
* AIMS FOR MORE THAN 60 BLN EUROS PER YEAR IN DEFENCE SPENDING FROM 2025 - ONE SOURCE TELLS REUTERS" - Reuters

Evening run.

You’d think so..

Errrrr… you sure ?