the mega seizure of mega upload one of the government takedown of the popular hosting site mean for internet freedom and copyright law apparently the government doesn't need any law to stand in their way of going after people over copyright infringement days after sopa and people were voted down the u.s. government bypassed criminal courts to shut down and seize the assets of the website over what they see as copyright infringement so is this an overstepping of federal authority and what does it reveal about a revolving door relationship between government and commercial interests julie samuels is a staff attorney for the electronic frontier foundation she focuses on intellectual property issues and joins me now to break down the case. julie what does this say about a federal overstepping of the law. well everything this time and again where the government does exactly that and goes in takes down the whole site because it alleges that there are. that content exists on those sites that infringes copyright but it does this without paying any attention to all of the content on those sites that

the website mega upload has proven to be a mega pain in the you know what official or not are now trying to extradite founder kim dotcom to the u.s. to face the american justice system we'll bring you the latest in this cyber scandal. as the republican establishment circles the wagons around mitt romney the race isn't over yet ron paul is still racking up delegates and that has the r. and c. worried we'll tell you how this texas congressman is working the system in his favor and teaching the g.o.p. a few lessons along the way. plus you know the saying ignorance is bliss for parents about the new policy for sex education for the department of health and human services coming up one cover the truth about abstinence only education in the u.s. . it's thursday may third five pm in washington d.c. i'm abby martin you're watching our t.v. the mega seizure of mega upload what is the government takedown of the popular hosting site mean for internet freedom and copyright law apparently the government doesn't need a lot of stand in their way of going after people for copyright infringement days aft

plus the website mega upload is proving to be a mega pain in the you know what officials are now trying to extradite founder kim dotcom to the us to face the american justice system we'll bring you the latest in this cyber scandal. it's thursday may third seven pm in washington d.c. i'm martin you're watching r.t. . starting off this hour the f.b.i. is calling it a victory against homegrown terrorism five self described anarchists were arrested after allegedly plotting to blow up a bridge near cleveland that bombing was supposed to take place on occupy wall street's huge day of action on may day but the good guys rush to the rescue stop the men in their tracks and save civilians from danger right well as it turns out the government agency was actually instrumental in helping the cleveland flight five plan this terrorist bridge plot the entire event was provoked and orchestrated by agent provocateurs they supplied the motive the means and everything else to carry out the plot now f.b.i. entrapment in terrorism is nothing new the agency currently has fifteen thousand undercover operatives

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and the long journey to justice the seizing of the assets of the fund of sharing website a mega upload is deemed illegal but he still faces official to the u.s. that is growing concern among some in the dooars who believe he's prosecution is all about big corporations cashing in on that site. later before that japan is set to turn off its last working reacts to this weekend leaving one of the world's largest industrial nations without a source of nuclear energy for the first time in almost fifty years the government has bowed to public pressure following last year's disaster the fukushima power plant after the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami and for more on the bunch of the shutdown when i joined live by james corbett editor of the colbert report cheney welcome to the program so shutting down its reactors is just pan taking an economic hit. that there is no doubt that it's taking quite an economic hit in a number of ways and i think we can see that reflected most obviously by the fact that they are now forced to import much more oil and light natural gas and and other energy materi

. >>> tonight on "nightline," mega church, mega scam? authorities say a future son, claiming to be an investor, hit congregations across the country, leafing hundreds of bankrupt believers in his wake. they call it a giant ponzi scheme, and "nightline" is investigating. >>> at home with the sister wives, a rare invitation to spend time at home with america's most famous polygamists, how one man, four wives, 16 kids, plus a new baby, make it work in sin city. >>> and going with the flow. hit it big with the dog days are over, but the lead singer of florence and the machine still lives at home with mom. we go on the town with rock's most fashionable new icon. >>> good evening, i'm terry moran. tonight authorities are throwing the book at one son of a preacher man, accusing him of targeting christian church goers with a multimillion-dollar ponzi scheme. alleged victims tell us, he quoted the bible, and gained their trust and then billked them out of their entire life savings. we followed the money for tonight's "nightline" investigation. >>

the founder of the popular file sharing website mega upload has started to get back his assets in new zealand after a local court ruled the confiscation of his fortune was illegal kim dotcom is currently facing extradition to the us when we facing charges of money laundering racketeering and corporate infringement american authorities shut down mega upload in january while the dot com and his fellow executives were arrested in new zealand at a u.s. request but voices are growing louder in america that the prosecution of the website and its owners as unlawful and law professor eric goldman all these that they shut down were simply a gift to the entertainment industry. there are very tight linkages between the government and the content industry so for example many of the people who are in the government worked in the content industry and many of the people in the government will get jobs in the content industry after they're done as a result they understand each other's issues very well they've been there firsthand in addition the content industry contributes a significant amount of mo

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charges of money laundering racketeering and copyright infringement american authorities shut down mega upload in january while dot com and his father executives were arrested in new zealand the u.s. request but voices are growing louder in america that the prosecution of the website and its own is unlawful law professor goldman argues that the shutdown was simply a gift to the entertainment industry. there are very tightly in kitchens between the government and the content industry so for example many of the people who were in the government worked in the content industry and many of the people in the government will get jobs in the content industry after they're done as a result they understand each other's issues very well they've been there firsthand in addition the content industry contributes a significant amount of money to the administration and to other politicians who are decision makers as a result they get a great deal of influence over what the government does and that's part of the reason why. we're wondering if the mega upload prosecution it's really the beginning of that

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the mega-church are all politically concerned. but you talk about this model. which is sort of talk about how would that develop? msn web my rick warren? >> i think this true out of the sense they no longer trust the nbn porter. the starter of christian school. they were very horrified in education in the 1960s being introduced in the curriculum. he had already become the ministries to alcoholic of this church. his father died at a young issue of alcoholism. his father had actually shot his brother, who had been an alcoholic and on a truck and used rage. so that was a congregation in his congregation grew he was very attentive and not in a pejorative way about reading their names. so they started a day care center and started a food center for the poor in the town and things like this. very much, although he would not -- i couldn't find any evidence he saw this as a model come in very much in a kind of similar sociological circumstance the ethnic irish urban parish of the century in the face of perceived hostility by the imposter built their own schools, wrote

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productive capital, it's mega, mega welcome. >> what about the higher interest rates?that had a very significant impact on new business starting? i recognize trying to stop the hot capital, she wants long-term capital, she doesn't want this hot money. >> yeah, the beauty of brazil, in a country that is growing, so much demand. export boom. we have projects that generated unleveraged 15%. so yes, we have a high interest rate environment. but if you have a real project with 15% return, come. >> you control five publicly traded companies. you've got oil, oil drilling, power generation, port developers, ship building. a huge grasp on what's going on in terms of commodities, infrastructure. what can you tell us about the growth of brazil right now? >> brazil's main commodities, meat, coffee, sugar, iron ore, soy, now oil. which is, you know, the world -- the southern hemisphere world, brazil, africa, india, indonesia, china. we're creating 20 million jobs a year. there's a disconnect, a total disconnect. the chinese, i don't know fun the number, but they have a steel produc

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are to live from moscow still ahead the lawyers lining up to protect an online pirate ship dotcoms mega upload felt the full force of america's copyright crusade but legal experts say the moves against the site's owner a deeply flawed and suspicious just a bit later we explain why. germany's foreign minister has labeled iran's nuclear energy program enormous danger in that an atomic armed iran will never be accepted despite that berlioz just sold israel a force nuclear missile capable submarine but it discovered a key concern now is whether the submarine could be used in a strike on iran an attack that the pentagon claims would be one in three weeks what he's got and she can reports. the pentagon says they're just doing some contingency planning in case you ran attempts to close the strait of hormuz or attacks u.s. ships in the persian gulf but analysts say it's the kind of planning that drives the tensions to a whole new level now it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that iran is encircled militarily here is the iran and here are the countries in red where the u.s. has mili

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