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Brazil's Leader Committed to Austerity With Social Focus

Brazil's Leader Committed to Austerity With Social Focus WochitBusiness Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday her government is firmly committed to fiscal adjustment but will not sacrifice social programs to balance its overdrawn public accounts. After extending for another four years a generous formula for calculating minimum wage increases, Rousseff said, "The government knows that the adjustment is fundamental for Brazil, but that does not mean that social policies will not be maintained. The best example is that we are today sending Congress legislation to increase the value of the minimum wage." Rousseff's government has adopted unpopular austerity measures to reduce Brazil's gaping fiscal deficit and save the country's coveted investment grade with credit agencies. The belt-tightening steps, which include tax increases and stricter rules for access to unemployment and pension benefits, have run into opposition from Rousseff's coalition allies in Congress and even her Workers' Party.

NASA's Opportunity Rover Celebrates Mars Marathon Milestone

NASA's Opportunity Rover Celebrates Mars Marathon Milestone Techy GUYS NASA's Opportunity rover celebrates Mars marathon milestone For more Latest Tech News and Product reviews SUBSCRIBE to http://www.youtube.com/user/TechyGUYS It certainly won't be troubling any earth-based runners' personal bests, but NASA's long-serving Mars rover Opportunity set a significant benchmark Tuesday as it clocked in 26.219 miles (42 kilometers) -- the first-ever Martian marathon. It might have taken the robot 11 years and two months but it represents a significant landmark for NASA. "This is the first time any human enterprise has exceeded the distance of a marathon on the surface of another world," said John Callas, Opportunity project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. "A first time happens only once." It beat out previous record-holder, the Soviet-era Lunokhod 2 moon rover in the distance stakes. "This mission isn't about setting distance records, of course," said Cornell University's Steve Squyres,

Seymour Hersh Recalls Reporting on My Lai Massacre in Vietnam

Seymour Hersh Recalls Reporting on My Lai Massacre in Vietnam democracynow Watch the full 35-minute interview with Seymour Hersh on Democracy Now!: http://owl.li/KMJjw Fifty years after the U.S. ground invasion of Vietnam began, we look back at the 1968 My Lai massacre, when American troops killed hundreds of civilians. Journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story of the massacre and cover-up, winning a Pulitzer Prize for his work. But Hersh never actually went there — he interviewed soldiers stateside. Forty-seven years later, he recently traveled to My Lai for the first time, which he documents in a new article for The New Yorker, "The Scene of the Crime: A Reporter's Journey to My Lai and the Secrets of the Past." Hersh joins us to discuss how he exposed the massacre nearly five decades ago and what it was like to visit My Lai for the first time.

Private Prisons for Immigrant Families Grow Despite Court Ruling Against "Detention as Deterrence"

Private Prisons for Immigrant Families Grow Despite Court Ruling Ag... democracynow http://democracynow.org - The Obama administration continues to expand its controversial practice of detaining mothers and their children despite a judge's order that using it to deter mass migration is illegal. Starting last summer, thousands of Central American women with kids as young as a few months old crossed into the United States seeking asylum. Even though many were later found to have a "credible fear" of violent persecution, they found themselves rounded up and put into detention, with little chance for freedom until they were deported. But last month, a federal judge ordered immigration authorities to begin releasing the women and children. He found the Obama administration's policy of detaining them in order to deter others from coming was illegal. Since then, more families have been granted bond and released, while others who are unable to afford the bonds remain locked up.

Amazon Drone Complaints 'Could be Opportunity for UK'

Amazon Drone Complaints 'Could be Opportunity for UK' Techy GUYS Amazon drone complaints 'could be opportunity for UK' For more Latest Tech News and Product reviews SUBSCRIBE to http://www.youtube.com/user/TechyGUYS US regulators' sluggishness over drone testing could be an opportunity for the UK, a leading academic has said. The comments came after Amazon told a US Senate committee that the country's reticence was holding it back. The firm said that, by the time it had been given permission to test one prototype, the drone had already been rendered obsolete. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the congestion of America's airspace justified its slow approach. Paul Misener, Amazon's vice president for global public policy, told the committee earlier this week that permission to conduct outdoor tests on a home delivery drone prototype had taken more than six months to be granted, and came through about a week ago. "We don't test it anymore. We've moved on to more advanced designs that we are already testing abroad," he said.

My Lai Revisited: 47 Years Later, Seymour Hersh Travels to Vietnam Site of U.S. Massacre He Exposed

My Lai Revisited: 47 Years Later, Seymour Hersh Travels to Vietnam ... democracynow http://democracynow.org - Fifty years after the U.S. ground invasion of Vietnam began, we look back at the 1968 My Lai massacre, when American troops killed hundreds of civilians. Journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story of the massacre and cover-up, winning a Pulitzer Prize for his work. But Hersh never actually went there -- he interviewed soldiers stateside. Forty-seven years later, he recently traveled to My Lai for the first time, which he documents in a new article for The New Yorker, "The Scene of the Crime: A Reporter's Journey to My Lai and the Secrets of the Past." Hersh joins us to discuss how he exposed the massacre nearly five decades ago and what it was like to visit My Lai for the first time.

Moonshine: The American Rebel Spirit

Moonshine: The American Rebel Spirit ReasonTV Moonshine evokes imagery of outlaw distillers practicing their craft by the light of the moon to evade the law. But Prohibition ended in 1933. Why are illegal moonshiners still a thing? "To make this liquor on your own is really exciting to a lot of people. It's under the radar. It remains against the law to make distilled spirits even though wine and beer you can make legally [without a permit]," explains Jaime Joyce, author of Moonshine: A Cultural History of America's Infamous Liquor. According to Joyce, it's also a matter of economics. Illegal moonshine is most prevalent in poor, rural America where getting licensed to make and sell distilled spirits comes with prohibitive costs. To a financially strapped family, it's more beneficial to risk jail and be able to afford food on the table than it is to shell out hundreds of dollars in fees.

HJ Heinz Buys Kraft to Build a $28 Billion Food Giant

HJ Heinz Buys Kraft to Build a $28 Billion Food Giant WochitBusiness H.J. Heinz Co. is buying Kraft Foods, creating one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world with annual revenue of about $28 billion. The Kraft Heinz Co. will own Kraft, Heinz, Oscar Mayer, Ore-Ida and other brands. Eight of those brands have annual sales of $1 billion or more and five others log sales between $500 million and $1 billon every year. The deal to bring together the two companies, each more than a century old, was engineered by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital.

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