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Stop Watching Us: The Video

StopWatching.us is a coalition of more than 100 public advocacy organizations and companies from across the political spectrum. Join the movement at https://rally.stopwatching.us. This video harnesses the voices of celebrities, activists, legal experts, and other prominent figures in speaking out against mass surveillance by the NSA. Please share widely to help us spread the message that we will not stand for the dragnet surveillance of our communications.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a nonprofit civil liberties law and advocacy center that has been fighting the NSA’s unconstitutional spying for years. Learn more at https://eff.org.

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Census: Welfare Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Workers

Click here: Census Bureau: Means-Tested Gov’t Benefit Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Year-Round Workers

 

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Democrat Harry Reid: ‘Everybody … Willing to Pay More’ Taxes

Click here: Harry Reid: ‘Everybody … Willing to Pay More’ Taxes
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NSA keeps record of every telephone call in the United States

Click here: NSA keeps record of every telephone call in the United States

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$3.7-Trillion spent on Welfare in only 5-years

Click here: U.S. Spent $3.7 Trillion on Welfare Over Last 5 Years

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Census: 49% of Americans Get Gov’t Benefits

Click here: Census Bureau estimates 151,014,000 Americans out of a  population of 306,804,000 receive benefits from one  or more government programs.
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Doctors: Carbs more damaging to arteries than butter or cream

Click here: Cutting back on butter, cream and fatty meats may have done more harm to heart health than good.
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Iowa Computer Programmer Finally Buys Health Care Through Obamacare Site After 100+ Tries

Click here: Even though he was eventually successful, Voss criticized the website for resembling one from the 1990s, saying it was one of the worst he’s seen. He recommended that the administration consider shutting the site down for at least a week in order to address the problems. “It’s “hard to fix things while you’re up and running,” he said.
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Survey: Americans distrust government in major catastrophe

Click here: Survey finds distrust in government to handle emergency
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Consumer Reports: ‘Stay Away From HealthCare.gov’

Click here: Consumer Reports: ‘Stay Away From HealthCare.gov’