Saied shemirani biography of donald
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The country where having a pet could soon land you in jail
BBC World Service
"He looks at me with his innocent and beautiful eyes. He is asking me to take him out for a walk, but I don't dare. We will get arrested."
Mahsa, who has a dog, is referring to a new wave of arrests of pet owners and seizures of their animals in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Police there recently announced that walking dogs in parks was a crime. The ban was justified as a measure to "protect the safety of the public".
At the same, the Iranian parliament could soon approve the Protection of the Public's Rights Against Animals bill, which would restrict pet ownership across the board.
Symbols of 'Westernisation'
According to the proposed legislation, pet ownership would be subject to a permit issued by a special committee. There would also be a minimum fine of around $800 (790 euros; £670) for the "import, purchase and sale, transportation and keeping" of a range of animals, including common pets such as cats, turtles and rabbits.
"Debates around this bill started more than a decade ago, when a group of Iranian MPs tried to promote a law to confiscate all dogs and give them to zoos or leave the
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Donald Trump and the Sharding of the Real
Abstract
Sharded media have produced a state of hyporeality, in which easily produced and personally curated information diminishes the attainment and significance of a shared, objective truth. The digital revolution has unleashed personal realities and individualised experience, forced upon us a much more complex process of sense-making and hyper-inflating our own voice and our own important opinions, all of which we try to force back upon the world. This chapter, instead of following the trend to see conspiracy theorists as somehow fundamentally different and deluded, argues rather that they are like us. Contrary to the Democrat’s never-Trumpism and Kamala Harris’ late-campaign rhetoric warning of Trump’s fascism and threat to democracy, for millions of Americans, in their realities, it was precisely that ‘democracy’ was the problem and Trump that was the solution. For many, given the 2020 ‘steal’, Trump was actually the president and this was merely the re-election of the incumbent. Hence he could campaign as simultaneously the real sitting president and as an outsider who would have run the country better. This chapter turns over the perception that others are trapped in unreal and deluded states, but rather is a result o
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