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Community => Society and History => Topic started by: dpareja on August 19, 2017, 11:10:28 am
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64 years ago today, one of the greatest crimes ever committed against democracy and the right of a people to the free choice of their leaders was committed against Iran and the Iranian people in a coup d'état led by the Shah, backed by the US and UK.
The coup culminated in the removal of the democratically-elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, from power and imposition of the autocratic rule of the Shah for the next 26 years until the Iranian Revolution of 1979 that installed the current theocratic regime.
Mossadegh had planned to nationalize Iran's oil reserves, leading first Clement Attlee to attempt to undermine his government and then Winston Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower to back the coup.
And I bet this is "Breaking News" you won't see on CNN.
(https://cdn.newsbusters.org/images/2014/April/BreakingNews!%20(1).jpg)
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While I was in the boat, I captured a very beautiful Carib woman, whom the said Lord Admiral [Columbus] gave to me. When I had taken her to my cabin she was naked -- as was their custom. I was filled with a desire to take my pleasure of her and attempted to satisfy my desire. She was unwilling, and so treated me with her nails that I wished I had never begun. But -- to cut a long story short -- I then took a piece of rope and whipped her soundly, and she let forth such incredible screams that you would not have believed your ears. Eventually we came to such terms, I assure you, that you would have thought she had been brought up in a school for whores.
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^Where's that from.
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^Where's that from.
Michele de Cuneo was one of Christopher Columbus' lieutenants. That's a translation of something he wrote about his experiences.
I posted it today, of course, since it's officially Columbus Day in the US.