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Flu claimed at least 17 lives in the London region this season, according to the final surveillance report for the season by the Middlesex-London Health Unit.

The deaths in laboratory confirmed cases included two children, 11 seniors and four people under 65 years of age.

The much feared pandemic flu a year earlier claimed eight lives in the city and county.

This flu season started on Sept. 5, 2010 in London and Middlesex.

In total there were 28 outbreaks declared in institutions, mainly long-term care homes.

There were 159 people hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed flu - 59% were individuals over age 65.

It is a sad assessment that, despite the fact that the animals used for food represent almost all the animals exploited, they are extremely invisibilized.  It is up to us, activists, to make their lives and their miserable destiny visible and to present prospects for putting an end to their slaughtering.  It is up to us to proclaim that it is morally necessary to abolish the exploitation of animals used for their flesh.

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This is a non-fiction article regarding real-word domestic espionage in the US, the majority of which appears to be illegal.

This article discusses how to detect police spies, in the flesh, in their vehicles and how to observe their tactics, as well as a historical perspective on the use of spies.  It is also very critical of community policing groups like Cellular On Patrol and the alumni of the FBI's National Citizens' Academy, who practice harassment tactics against American citizens, sometimes to the point where their victims commit suicide.

Transparency has been the watchword with the Fed since TARP and the bank bailout, and according to the Associated press, the national bank most recently released a record detailing which banks took money, and just how much. In areas like Mississippi, where big money is more visible, banks took bailout money to the tune of numerous millions, according to the Mississippi newspaper The Dispatch. Source of article - Multiple Mississippi banks took bailout money, says Fed by MoneyBlogNewz.

More short term loans with Fed after Lehman collapse

The European Collectives Nodo Solidale (Italy), Zapatista “Marisol” Collective of Lugano (Switzerland), and Nomads of XM24 (Italy), which make up the Internationalist Platform for Resistance and Self-Initiative Weaving Autonomies (PIRATA), organized a brigade for the observation of the violation of the rights of native peoples in the municipality of Santiago Xanica, Oaxaca, México, in which activists from France and the Spanish State also participated. The brigade traveled through the municipality from March 14 to March 21, 2011.