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	<itunes:summary>The Big 3 News Podcast. Rusty Ray is Executive Editor of Big 3 News, founded May 4, 2009.
We are an Ohio-based, politically Independent, fiscally Conservative freelance news project. Recovering Republican Since 2008.
Rusty Ray started his first freelance news project on Feb. 15, 2008 with live coverage of the Democratic &amp; Republican Presidential primaries on social broadcasting sites.
Big 3 News has interviewed &amp; featured an impressive roster  of people, groups and causes.
Politics. Faith. Love. What&#039;s more important than &quot;THE BIG THREE?&quot;
At Big 3 News, our mission is to Cover The Stories That Matter Most. Whether it’s political actions that impact our lives, spiritual events that determine our destiny, or matters of the heart that define who we are, Big 3 News has it covered.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>TRANSPARENT: President Obama, in PBS interview, confirms existence of NSA &#8220;2015 and &#8220;Prism&#8221; surveillance programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama, in a taped interview with PBS&#8217; Charlie Rose, on Monday confirmed the existence of and defended two specific National Security Agency surveillance programs. &#8220;With respect to the NSA, a government agency that has been in the intelligence gathering business for a very long time &#8212; what I can say unequivocally, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SHOCK: NSA whistleblower Snowden claims Congress has &#8220;special immunity&#8221; from being spied on by domestic surveillance programs</title>
		<link>http://www.big3news.net/cms/2013/06/17/shock-nsa-whistleblower-snowden-claims-congress-has-special-immunity-from-being-spied-on-by-domestic-surveillance-programs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an exclusive online Q&#38;A session with The Guardian, NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden suggested that members of the U.S. Congress are granted special immunity from the Agency&#8217;s domestic surveillance programs to mute opposition. The overlooked exchange came at the end of the session during which readers could participate in the discussion. The Guardian&#8217;s Glenn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BALANCE: Apple says iMessage and Facetime conversations protected by &#8220;end-to-end encryption&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.big3news.net/cms/2013/06/17/balance-apple-says-imessage-and-facetime-conversations-protected-by-end-to-end-encryption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The technology company Apple on Monday released total number of  requests from law enforcement for customer data for the period covering the last six months. In addition, Apple said in a privacy statement posted on its website that the company takes seriously the need to protect customer data and stated they don&#8217;t collect or maintain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SECRET LAW: Dem. Senator says NSA domestic surveillance programs violating the Fourth Amendement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Democratic Senator from Colorado, and a member of the Select Committee on Intelligence, on Sunday said the NSA&#8217;s program of collecting massive amounts of phone &#8220;metadata&#8221; is not making the country any safer. &#8220;I am skeptical that the 215 Business Records program of the NSA is effective,&#8221; Colorado Senator Mark Udall said during a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PROGRESS: Facebook, Microsoft received more than 15,000 requests for user data from U.S. gov&#8217;t entities for second half of 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.big3news.net/cms/2013/06/16/progress-facebook-microsoft-received-more-than-15000-requests-for-user-data-from-u-s-govt-entities-for-second-half-of-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of the companies named in highly sensitive National Security Agency (NSA) documents as playing a role in the government&#8217;s domestic surveillance program named &#8220;Prism&#8221; on Friday released total numbers of user-data requests, including national security requests. Attorneys for Microsoft and Facebook said that both companies had received permission from the FBI and Department of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIRECT LINE: FCC, FEMA&#8217;s Wireless Emergency Alert system prevents consumers from turning off Presidential notifications on mobile devices</title>
		<link>http://www.big3news.net/cms/2013/06/16/direct-line-fcc-femas-wireless-emergency-alert-system-prevents-consumers-from-turning-off-presidential-notifications-on-mobile-devices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new public safety system for mobile device consumers allows government officials to issue emergency alerts to geographically-targeted areas in the event of imminent threats to safety. The Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system, managed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in partnership with the wireless industry, became operational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FBI CONFLICT: NY Democrat says NSA analysts can access content of collected digital data without warrant</title>
		<link>http://www.big3news.net/cms/2013/06/16/fbi-conflict-ny-democrat-says-nsa-analysts-can-access-content-of-collected-digital-data-without-warrant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.big3news.net/cms/2013/06/16/fbi-conflict-ny-democrat-says-nsa-analysts-can-access-content-of-collected-digital-data-without-warrant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler (10th District-D) on Thursday revealed during a House Judiciary Committee hearing that National Security Agency (NSA) analysts have the capability to access digital content once its collected in bulk without any new authorizations from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The statement seemed to contradict the testimony of FBI Director Robert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retired AT&amp;T tech says company installed secret &#8220;secure room&#8221; at California hub to divert &amp; duplicate domestic communications for NSA</title>
		<link>http://www.big3news.net/cms/2013/06/15/retired-att-tech-says-company-installed-secret-secure-room-at-california-hub-to-divert-duplicate-domestic-communications-for-nsa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A former 22-year AT&#38;T telecommunications technician claims the company split &#38; routed copies of domestic Internet traffic &#8212; including voice &#38; data &#8212; to a secret room in California which was controlled by the U.S Government&#8217;s National Security Agency (NSA). Mark Klein, an employee of AT&#38;T from 1981-2004, first made the explosive allegations in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? Oregon Sen. Merkley grills NSA top brass over collection of Verizon phone records</title>
		<link>http://www.big3news.net/cms/2013/06/12/can-you-hear-me-now-oregon-sen-merkley-grills-nsa-top-brass-over-collection-of-verizon-phone-records/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rusty Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Democratic Senator from Oregon on Wednesday challenged the Director of the National Security Agency over its practice of collecting all phone records on all Americans in the name of national security. &#8220;Here I have my Verizon cell phone,&#8221; Sen. Jeff Merkley said to Keith B. Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency, during a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google gives: Fearing loss of users&#8217; trust, technology giant asks U.S. gov&#8217;t for permission to publish national security requests</title>
		<link>http://www.big3news.net/cms/2013/06/11/google-gives-fearing-loss-of-users-trust-technology-giant-asks-u-s-govt-for-permission-to-publish-national-security-requests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calling untrue recent claims that it has given the U.S. government &#8220;unfettered access&#8221; to its users&#8217; electronic data, a lawyer for the technology giant Google has asked for permission to published &#8220;aggregate numbers&#8221; of national security requests. &#8220;Google has nothing to hide,&#8221; said David Drummond, Google&#8217;s Chief Legal Officer, in a June 11 letter to [...]]]></description>
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