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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Crowd-funding brings creative Pozibilities for Cold River

Crowd-funding brings creative Pozibilities A YEAR and a half ago, a trio of Melbourne filmmakers faced a watershed moment.

They had secured the participation of Academy Award winning actor Geoffrey Rush as a narrator for their short film, but simultaneously run out of money for post-production. Creative pozibilities



Five detainees at Guantanamo Bay have drawn up a lengthy business plan for an agricultural venture in Yemen as part as an instructional exercise.  The document was approved for release last month by military officials.  Judicial Watch rightly observes that the level of detail in the plan shows that the detainees “had access to many research tools, likely on the internet.”  Although the business proposal appears to be only a classroom activity and not an actual, shovel-ready project, the language in the document indicates that terrorists would be comfortable with crowdfunding as a sharia-compliant platform to raise money. Good ideas lead to bad