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Important

Hi,

We, the useless-countryfacts community has decided to make a joint call on this topic, as this isn’t a political problem anymore, it’s a humanitarian one.

The war in Yemen has brought heavy consequences to the population, the biggest one: lack of resources. Cholera hit the country ten days after the sewersystem gave out, and the lack of food and medical assistance led to 80% of the people in great need of  humanitarian assistance and protection.

Out of 30.5 million Yemenis, 20 million are being haunted by hunger every day.

We want to change at least something, by showing you options for donation, as this is very very important and not overseeable anymore.

The UNHCR is providing the citizens with protection, humanitarian relief, medical supplies and more. Please consider donating, and if you can’t then please please reblog this.

Thank you.

#not venezuela #yemen

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10% of the Venezuelan population left the country in the last 3 years, this is where they went.

#refugees

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FAQ

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about my stance on the current situation. I am not going to debate the finer points of international policy and Venezuela’s political state with non-Venezuelans because I don’t actively hate myself. All you need to know is that I support Guaido as interim president until free elections can be held, and aid should immediately be allowed to enter the country and provide relief to the starving Venezuelan people. No asks about this will be answered so don’t bother sending them.

#venezuela #juan guaido #venezuelan opposition #anti chavez #anti maduro #sos venezuela #venezuela libre

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Typical dishes of South America.

#maps #venezuela #cuisine #latin america

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im not talkin to any of y’all latins that be acting like the community is split into mexicans vs. everyone else. miss me with ur xenophobic bullshit xx

#xenophobia #intracommunity #reblog

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any spanish speaker: cojer

méxico and argentina:

#languages #dialects #this is so funny im...bye

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When Anon is trying to start tea but you’re tired

What are your thoughts on Catalonia?

It’s a lovely place, very pretty, nice food. I have cousins who live in Barcelona (beautiful city, by the way. Lots of really amazing parks and very rich in culture).

#other countries #not venezuela #jokes

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a slightly-late Felíz Januca to everyone!

Hanukkiot Around the World

Karlsruhe, Germany

Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Caracas, Venezuela

Brooklyn, NY, United States

Mumbai, India

Paris, France

Hong Kong

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Sources: x x x

#hannukah #caracas

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A million congratulations to Alfredo Romero of Foro Penal for earning the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his tireless work representing and advocating for the political prisoners of Venezuela!

#useless venezuela facts #useless venezuelafacts #alfredo romero #foro penal #venezuela #rfk human rights award #robert f kennedy human rights award #MY GODFATHER GUYS

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For the first time in my life I feel over-represented.

The world’s most violent cities, 2015.

#img #stats

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A formal welcome to @useless-basquefacts, the newest member of this disjointed chaotic family!!

#useless country facts #ucf #useless basque facts #basque country

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How can YOU help Catalonia?

Hey! So by now you’ll have heard about the military police invasion of Catalonia by Spanish forces, the violation of the human rights of Catalan people, the cancellation of many parts of Catalonia’s government, all the political prisoners, and the brutal violence that the Spanish police did on Catalan people attempting to vote, etc.

90% of voters in the independence referendum voted “Yes”, so we’ll declare independence even if Spain doesn’t want it. We don’t know how violently they will answer from now on, but, seeing what they have been doing these days, we will need your help.

Warning: some of the links may stop working, since the Spanish government is constantly closing websites that talk about these topics. I will look for new ways to access the webs and update this post when necessary.

Here’s a little list of how you can help us Catalans from outside Catalonia!

Stay informed and talk about it with your friends. Spread the word, amplify our voices. Let the world know that human rights are been violated against the Catalan people. You can read trustworthy news in English on Col·lectiu Emma’s website (they’re a non-profit org that works to tell the world the situation of the Catalan people), and the newspapers Vilaweb and CataloniaToday.

Share information about what’s going on on your social media, so more people can see it.

Here’s some Facebook pages in English (some of these sometimes post in other languages as well): Catalonia Votes, ANC USA / ANC England / look for ANC + your own country or city, Collectiu Emma, Americans for Catalonia, Vilaweb News from Catalonia in English, Catalan News.

Twitter: Raül Romeva (secretary of foreign affairs of the Catalan gov), ANC International, Catalan News, Col·lectiu Emma, Vilaweb English.

If you can, consider donating to the main non-profit organisations fighting for the rights of Catalan people.

Òmnium Cultural: an independent organisation that since 1961 has helped to promote the Catalan language and culture (even during the dictatorship, when Catalan was strictly banned! These people have done A LOT), social cohesion, and these last years have leadered the independence process. Click here to donate. You have to write the amount of euros you want to donate and click “següent” (“next”) and fill up your details (you can use google translate).

Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC): the most important pro-independence organisation. Together with Òmnium, they have been organising the protests and preparing everything to make sure everybody can vote, pressuring politicians to listen to the poeple, etc. They have thousands of volunteers in every area. Definitely the best pro-indy organisation! To donate, pay in what you want in the account number you can find in their website.

Plataforma per la Llengua: an NGO that works to promote the Catalan language. They do a great job in helping immigrants learn the language and get more integrated, and also help older people (who were raised during the dictatorship and so can’t write/read their mother language) learn Catalan. This is not directly linked to the politics you’ll hear about on TV, but after 300 years where Spain has been constantly trying to suppress our language, still speaking it is a revolutionary act. And it makes the fascists angry. Here to donate.

Check out if there’s an ANC organization in your country, city or region, and get in touch with them. Volunteer if you can, or sign up to known when they’re planning events so yo can help or at least attend.

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, ASK YOUR GOVERNMENTS TO RECOGNIZE THE REPUBLIC OF CATALONIA AS AN INDEPENDENT STATE ONCE WE DECLARE INDEPENDENCE, WHICH WILL BE VERY SOON.

Thank you very much for your interest and solidarity!

#ngl rajoy played himself like a fucking fiddle im dead #catalonia

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i know a lot of you don’t give a fuck about latinos issues, but venezuela may or may not be entering in a TOTAL dictatorship tomorrow, and i’m so fucking angry, i’m so sad…i’m not venezuelan i’m argentinian and i’m so angry because we can’t do shit to help our venezuelan friends we can do nothing to help the people from venezuela we can just PRAY that everything will okay and venezuela can kick maduro’s ass out of their country, so CAN YOU [THE REST OF THE WORLD] JUST HELP US, LATINOAMERICA, PRAYING FOR VENEZUELA??? please, i’m losing my shit out here because i don’t have not a single way to contact my venezuelan friend and i’m fucking worried. sorry for swearing i’m really freaking out

#violence tw #protesting #how to help

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PSA

venezuelanalysis is NOT a reputable source on the crisis in Venezuela. It is communist propaganda. Your opinion has 0 merit if all your sources are from venezuelanalysis.

#venezuela #venezuelanalysis #communism #anti communism

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I am really sorry for what's happening right now in Venezuela. My condolences. I really feel bad. I know, how horrible communism is. Please, stay strong.

thanks, Anon. we will keep fighting for freedom, no matter what it takes

#venezuela #ask #Anonymoose #asks

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My bros I have been doing a lot of reading about Wacky WWII Hijinks lately and I want to tell you a story because I love it okay

once upon a time there was a dude in Spain named Juan Pujol Garcia. Pujol was a chicken farmer. Pujol hated him some goddamn fascists.

See Spain had recently ended its civil war, with the fascists taking power. So when WWII broke out in Europe, Spain technically remained neutral but in practice was buddy buddy with the Nazis. Juan Pujol Garcia thought this was pretty bullshit

so soon after war breaks out Pujol travels to his local British embassy and goes “hey I wanna spy on the Nazis for you”

“who the fuck are you?” say the British, and kick him out

but Pujol is not deterred! He still wants to dunk on some fascists, so now he goes to his local German embassy instead. “hey” he says, “I wanna spy on the British for you, I sure do hate them”

“yeah okay” say the Germans “that seems pretty legit”

and just like that Pujol now officially works for the Abwehr, the German intelligence agency. They hand him some spy gear (invisible ink and such) and instruct him to travel to Lisbon, and from there make his way into the UK. So Pujol heads to Lisbon, and a little while later writes to his German handlers telling them he’s made it to England

Pujol had not made it to England. He had, in fact, made it to the Lisbon public library, where he checked out a number of English guide books and set about just wholesale making shit up

this is slightly complicated by the fact that, for example, he completely did not understand British currency and all his expense reports were basically gibberish. He also reported things like bribing Scotsmen, because the people of Glasgow would “do anything for a litre of wine” (an actual quote) because, hey, people in Spain like wine so that’s probably the same right?

Here is where it starts to get really crazy, because the Abwehr loves this. “wow this dude is a great spy” they say, because apparently none of them had ever been the England either. In fact, they are so pumped about this new awesome spy that the British start to get worried

you see, by this time the British had cracked German’s supposedly unbreakable Enigma code and were totally dunking on the Nazis by reading basically all of their ~super top secret~ radio transmissions. And, crucially, they’d become so good at breaking and reading traffic that there were literally no German spies in England. The Germans would set up a spy drop (usually dropping dudes in by parachute in the middle of the night), the British would intercept the message and then just scoop the dudes up as soon as they landed in a move that must have been SUPER embarrassing to the spies

so there are no German spies in the UK because they’re all sitting in a prison run by MI5 (although some are being run under supervision as double agents, feeding Germany bullshit). But suddenly MI5 is picking up all this traffic from the Germans talking about their super great spy- a spy the British do not have in their jail

“oh shit” says MI5, and starts rereading all the transmissions they have to and from this mysterious super spy.

“hey wait” says MI5, upon actually reading the shit the spy was sending. “someone is playing silly buggers, pip pip cheerio”

At this point, Pujol, still in Lisbon, had actually been approaching the British embassy again, repeatedly, but apparently “I am literally an Abwehr agent and would like to offer you my services” wasn’t interesting enough, because he was repeatedly turned away, again. It wasn’t until MI5 started asking around that one of the embassy staff was like “oh yeah we know that guy”

so in 1942 the British finally make contact with Pujol and he officially becomes a spy for MI5. They move him to London and assign him a case officer so he can start making up even better bullshit

and he does. Once actually in London, Pujol reports to the Abwehr that he’d recruited a whole slew of informants- from a bunch of Welsh Aryans to disaffected army officers. He ends up with a network of 20+ sub-spies, all feeding him information from around the UK

none of these people actually exist

Pujol just straight up invented like 20 people, keeping careful track of their fake personalities, names, and activities. With the help of MI5, the information he sends becomes even better- a mix of true but ultimately useless facts and actually important intel timed to arrive in Germany just slightly too late to be of any use. He and his “spy network” become the Abwehr’s most trusted agents

Pujol, now codenamed Agent Garbo (for his acting skills), ends up playing a huge role in the run-up to D-Day, where the Allies mounted a huge intelligence campaign to convince Hitler that the planned site of attack was going to be Calais and not Normandy (this was Operation Fortitude and you should absolutely look it up for more Wacky WWII Adventures). Obviously you know how this ended

crazily enough, the Abwehr never figured out that Pujol was a double agent. After the war he received both the Iron Cross Second Class (which require personal authorization from Hitler), and a Member of the Order of the British Empire (from King George VI)

unable to resist being totally fucking ridiculous, Pujol turned down MI5’s post-war offer to continue spying, but this time against the USSR. “no,” he said “just help me fake my own death and then I’m moving to Venezuela”

and that’s exactly what he did. Juan Garcia Pujol died in 1988, at the age of 76

#history #im only reblogging this bc he decided to move to venezuela #world war 2

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CITIZENS OF VENEZUELA

Vote in the referendum

#venezuela #referendum #venezuelan referendum #july 16th #go vote