On this day in 1953, the U.S. and British governments initiated a coup d'état against the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh. Mosaddegh had been preparing to nationalize Iran's British-owned oil fields.
Mosaddegh had sought to audit the documents of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), later re-named British Petroleum, and to limit the company's control over Iranian oil reserves. When the AIOC refused to cooperate with the Iranian government, the parliament voted to nationalize Iran's oil industry and to expel foreign corporate representatives from the country.
In response, the British began a worldwide boycott of Iranian oil to pressure Iran economically and engaged in subterfuge to undermine Mosaddegh's government.
Judging Mosaddegh to be unreliable and fearing a communist takeover, Winston Churchill and the Eisenhower administration overthrew Iran's government. The coup action was also supported by the Iranian clergy, who opposed Mosaddegh's secularism.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) hired mobsters to stage pro-Shah riots and paid people to travel to Tehran and take over the streets of the city. Between 200 and 300 people were killed in the ensuing mayhem.
Mosaddegh was arrested, tried, and convicted of treason by the Shah's military court. Many of his supporters were imprisoned, several received the death penalty. Mosaddegh himself lived the rest of his life under house arrest, dying in 1967.
After the coup, the Shah ruled as a monarch for the next 26 years until he was overthrown in the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup
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sooooo what's happening to cartoons on HBO max is quite insane to me. erasing entire catalogues so an exutive can write a tax write off is evil :internet-delenda-est:
they're legitimately trying to erase all proof some of these ever existed. there's nothing on their youtube channels, i think they deleted tweets.
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yeah, hbo is just cutting a ton of content, presumed to be for tax writeoff and residual cost purposes. after the recent merger
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the creators behind many of these shows are more or less openly advocating for their piracy. i saw that apparently one animator shared a guide to torrenting before taking it down, and the showrunner for infinity train mentions in his bio that piracy is the only way to watch it
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i think you kind of have to say that if you ever want to be able to do anything in a creative field again
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yeah, that's not happening anytime soon
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yeah, but that's not gonna make tv shows! that might have some usage for posters or designing stuff, but it can't be used for animation and it isn't reliable enough to write full length episodes of television either. it might reach the point where it partially replaces online commissions, but its hard to say with the copyright issues.
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Right now, AI is really uncanny - which means it's really, really good at creating surreal horror imagery.
it definitely might be a yet, but that yet is still a long ways off. and even for posters it's only so useful. that image is nice looking, but if you're making an ad for a show or a movie or whatever you need kit to be accurate to the source material, and i'm not sure ai is consistent enough to make even that worthwhile yet. but that's a definite yet, as opposed to writing or animating which are maybe yets
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infinity train is gone. cartoon network has taken down related videos from their youtube and everything
Discovery's CEO -> :purge-1: <- Old HBO content
I don't know anything about how this works but shouldn't this be in some contract? Why is WB able to do this without breaching a contract?
i mean, do you really think that matters? it's unlikely that anyone sues, and even if they do they probably won't get much.
extremely redundant reminder that piracy is ethical
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