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(Whoaaa!!! Busted,eh? -CLP) By: The Canadian Press TORONTO - Victoria pop songstress Nelly Furtado says she was paid $1 million to perform for members of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's "clan" in 2007, but she now intends to donate the money to charity. The New York Times recently reported that several Western pop stars had accepted massive sums of money to perform for Gadhafi's family in recent years. Related Items Articles UN humanitarian chief worried about aid access to Libya, says borders should remain open A glance at anti-government protests and political unrest in 7 Arab countries Canada ramps up sanctions, says Gadhafi must go Libya oil chief says production down 50 per cent, urges foreign workers to return 'Brother leader' morphs into maniacal tyrant US moves naval, air forces near Libya, as Gadhafi forces manoeuvr to strike opposition cities Beyonce and Usher reportedly performed at a New Year's Eve party for Gadhafi's son Muatassim — Libya&

(My Lord....what a bunch of irresponsible morons...they cant pay for the two wars they got themselves in and they are attacking American workers in Wisconsin and Indiana... and now this!!!!!! When are the American people going to ditch these idiots once and for all??? -CLP) By Heather Cross CNN's Candy Crowley spoke to Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman about the situation in Libya and whether the United States should get more involved in supporting the uprising there. Of course they think we should be imposing a no-fly zone and providing arms to the protesters so they can defend themselves. So as usual they want the Unites States injecting themselves militarily into another Middle Eastern country and potentially into the middle of another country's civil war. What could possibly go wrong? And McCain had lots of tough talk about war crimes tribunals for the mercenaries brought in by Muammar Gaddafi. Too bad he doesn't feel the same way about what we did to the Iraqis.

An architectural rendering developed by Creswin for a new stadium for the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers. (blueandgold.ca) Documents released under Manitoba's information laws confirm businessman David Asper's Creswin Properties was paid more than $4 million by the province in a failed bid to build a new stadium for the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers. But citing confidentiality concerns, the government release of more than 30 pages of itemized payments is short on the details. The documents show Creswin was compensated a total of $4,079,556.34 for architectural, legal, planning and communications work on the stadium project, which Asper spearheaded prior to exiting the process last December. Creswin was paid thousands for work such as reviewing emails, updating websites, media monitoring, making phone calls and electronic tax searches. In December the province, the football club, the City of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba approved a new $190-million deal to build a 3

A secret investigation may implicate dozens of high-ranking government officials. A guard at Kabul Bank. “If this were America, fifty people would have been arrested by now,” one American official said. In the spring of 2009, as the reëlection campaign of President Hamid Karzai was gathering momentum, a group of prominent Afghan businessmen met with the candidate for breakfast at the Presidential palace. Among them was Khalil Ferozi, the chief executive officer of Kabul Bank, a freewheeling financial institution owned by some of the most colorful and politically well-connected Afghans in the country, including one of President Karzai’s brothers. Ferozi, a banking novice, had a history that seemed lifted from a Saturday-afternoon adventure movie. In the late nineteen-nineties, working for the legendary anti-Taliban commander Ahmed Shah Massoud, he sold emeralds mined in the crags of the Panjshir Valley and used the proceeds to pay an obscure Russian company to print truckloads of Afghan