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Dandelion is used in traditional medicine to promote lactation and reduce abscesses.

info from established mainstream medical regarding some uses & impacts of dandelion with additional less “traditional” uses & potential hazards noted as well

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THEY’RE NAMED GIRL NAMES BECAUSE YOU GET MILK FROM FEMALE DAIRY COWS

CHRIST, IT AIN’T THAT DEEP

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Personally I would be happy to know my yogurt was coming from a place that cared enough about its livestock to not only give then names, but to properly credit them in the finished product.

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Personally I would be happy to know my yoghurt wasn’t milked from a bull

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bull yogurt is super expensive and requires special refrigeration.

On this day, 6 May 1919, Alexandre Campos Ramírez (more commonly known as Alejandro Finisterre), anarchist poet and inventor of the Spanish version of table football or “foosball” was born. His political idealism seemed to be realised with the outbreak of the revolution in 1936 which defeated the military rising of general Franco. However his house was bombed by nationalist forces and he was severely injured. Seeing many injured children who were unable to play football with their friends, he built a table out of pine and attached players to steel bars - inventing the modern version of table football commonly played in Spain. After the war he had to flee the Franco regime to France, and was imprisoned for four years in Morocco before heading to the Americas. More info in this fascinating short biography of him here: https://libcom.org/history/finisterre-alejandro-1919-2007 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1710713479113795/?type=3

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On this day, 7 May 1954, French colonial forces in Vietnam were effectively defeated by the pro-independence Viet Minh in the battle of Dien Bien Phu. The French army, receiving significant aid from the US, had occupied the town of Dien Bien Phu the previous year in an attempt to cut supply lines for the anti-colonial forces. But the Viet Minh took them by surprise, surrounding the French base with 40,000 troops and eventually overrunning it on May 7. In the wake of the defeat, France was forced to surrender and, following a peace agreement, retreat temporarily into South Vietnam pending an election to unify the country within two years. These elections were later blocked by the US as they predicted a communist victory, leading to the direct US invasion of Vietnam. Learn more about this conflict in our podcast episode 14 with Noam Chomsky: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/10/31/e14-the-vietnam-war-with-noam-chomsky/ Pictured: Viet Minh troops declare victory after the battle. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1710800835771726/?type=3

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On this day, 7 May 1919, Eva “Evita” Perón, actor and later wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón was born. Commonly seen as a hero of workers and the poor, the reality was very different. Evita and her husband were admirers of the fascism of Hitler and Mussolini, and were influenced by some of their policies, particularly trying to integrate the working class into the state machinery. While some of their early reforms helped improve living standards, after the 1949 stock-market collapse they slashed wages by a third, and declared military rule to stop a rail workers’ strike. During World War II they maintained relations both with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy until they were eventually pressured to drop them in 1944, although they maintained relations with fascist Spain from the time of general Franco’s (pictured) victory until his death, even sending aid to the country in the 1940s. After the defeat of the Nazis, the Peróns offered safe haven to hundreds of Nazi and fascist war criminals, like Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, Joseph Mengele, the Auschwitz “Angel of Death” and the genocidal Ustaše leader Ante Pavelić. Responsible for the genocide of over 300,000 people, including 90% of Croatia’s Jews, Pavelić was given sanctuary by Perón who then hired him as an adviser. Perón himself claimed that he hosted several thousand Nazis “for humanitarian reasons” as well as around “five thousand Croats threatened with death by [Yugoslav communist leader Josip] Tito”. The Peróns also helped launder hundreds of millions of dollars from Nazi corporations like Mercedes-Benz, while keeping a cut for themselves. During their time in power the Peróns amassed a huge fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, much of which they held in overseas bank accounts. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1711125305739279/?type=3

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On this day, 7 May 1945, Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered, leading to the end of World War II in Europe. But rather than be punished for their crimes, many Nazi and fascist leaders continued to hold onto power and wealth. In West Germany, despite “denazification”, most Nazi war criminals went unpunished, and many were rehired in official positions as the Cold War with the eastern bloc heated up. For example, out of around 1 million people involved in the Holocaust, only around 600 received serious prison time. Even convicted war criminals like Hanns Martin Schleyer rapidly regained power: Schleyer himself quickly became president of Germany’s main employer associations, helping to break unions. Many Nazi scientists were employed to work in the US as part of Operation Paperclip, while others were put to work in the Soviet Union under Operation Osoaviakhim. In Greece, the US and UK backed Greek fascists and Nazi supporters in a brutal civil war against the former resistance members. In Italy, the CIA intervened in elections in 1948 to prevent victory of the left, which had been the backbone of the resistance. And in Italy and across Western Europe, ex-Nazis were employed by NATO to form an underground anti-communist army called Gladio which carried out terrorist attacks in countries like Italy and Belgium. In the East, in Romania, resistance guerrillas were labelled “bandits” by the new Soviet authorities, who put Petru Groza and Gheorghe Tatarescu in charge. Both men had previously been part of right-wing governments, and Tatarescu was minister of state during anti-Jewish pogroms in 1927. In Bulgaria, fascist leader Khimon Georgiev was made Prime Minister, and soon repressed striking coal miners. In Hungary, the man appointed to run the first government in Russian-occupied territory was Bela Miklos, the first Hungarian to have been awarded the highest Nazi honour: Knight Grand Cross of the Iron Cross. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1711283592390117/?type=3