“Imperfection
is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely
ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe
Asked how she ended up with men as different as Pablo Picasso and Jonas Salk, Françoise Gilot replied: “Lions mate with lions” Lions mate with Lions
After Jim Kable wrote in reply to Henry Reynold’s Pearls and Irritations article, ‘When the War on Terror Turns inward’: “are there any updates” on what has become of Mr Moselmane, I feel compelled to provide a brief response.
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Kirsty NeedhamChina Correspondent, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age Australian Federal Police raided the home and office of a man employed by a NSW Labor politician as part of a foreign interference investigation into whether he was working to advance "Chinese state interests", according to court documents.
The disclosure is made in documents lodged on Monday in Australia's High Court by the employee, John Zhang, who is seeking to quash the search warrants used by police and the return of seized computer evidence.
Mr Zhang, who could not be reached for comment, has not been charged with any offence. His lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Wednesday.
The case is the first test of the foreign interference law which was introduced in 2018, spurred in part by a classified Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) report on Chinese activity
Milan Kundera's private library to MZK
They've announced that Milan Kundera is donating his private library to the Moravská Zemská Knihovna -- the Moravian Regional Library -- in Brno; see also, for example, Ruth Fraňková's Q & A with library director Tomáš Kubíček at Radio Prague International, “It shows his deep roots” – Kundera gifts book collection to library in native Brno
