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Oregon News Website Sees Increases on a Global Scale

Salem-News.com existed when 'blogs' were still called 'Web logs' - long before much of what you see today ever hit the Internet.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Salem-News.com has seen Internet traffic spike in recent weeks, as well as heightened rankings in the U.S. and on a worldwide level, according to Alexa.com.

Salem-News.com now has an Alexa World Traffic Rank of 94,094, and has seen the U.S. Traffic Rank grow to 20,593. Our 5/10 page ranking on Google continues, which is an extremely positive example of what five and a half years of daily news can mean.

Facebook Breaks Ground in Oregon on First Custom Data Center

This investment creates jobs across a variety of fields... -Facebook's Jonathan Heiliger

(PRINEVILLE, Ore.) - Prineville, Oregon will be the home of Facebook's first Customer data center. It will employ construction crews in the beginning and around 35 permanent employees after completion.

News released about this development today by Facebook's Jonathan Heiliger, the group's vice president of technical operations, is well received by elected officials like Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, who applauded today’s announcement by Facebook, Inc. about the LEED certified data center in Prineville.

VT Hacked After Breaking CIA/Blackwater Ties at Camp Chapman Story

It is hard to discuss the war in Afghanistan without tripping over the hundreds of tons of opium and tens of billions of dollars that seem to miss the MSM mainstream press.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - WE are back up, working on a new look and will come back swinging for the fence. Thank you all for your loyalty and patience. We certainly angered someone.

Over the past few days, we had received warnings to “back off” from sources around the world and some here at home. We are more than a bit unlikely to do that. With news being such as it is, worthless drivel peddled by...

Operation `Aurora` Hit Google, Others

The current bumper crop of malware is very sophisticated, highly targeted, and designed to infect, conceal access, siphon data or, even worse, modify data without detection.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - McAfee Labs has been working around the clock, diving deep into the attack we are now calling Aurora that hit multiple companies and was publicly disclosed by Google on Tuesday.

We are working with multiple organizations that were impacted by this attack as well as the government and law enforcement.

Repercussions Expected Over Google`s China Operations

Cyber-attacks directed against Google draw a response from the company and questions from U.S. officials.

(HONG KONG) - Google's announcement this week that it will quit filtering its Web-based searches in China and may leave the country altogether may affect the operations of other foreign firms in China, sources said.

“Google has posed a tremendous challenge to the Chinese government,” Internet research expert Isaac Mao said on Twitter.

Google Rebels Against China`s Internet Censors

China, which is on the list of countries identified by Reporters Without Borders as “Enemies of the Internet,” with the world’s biggest prison for netizens, with a total of 69 bloggers and cyberdissidents detained.

(BEIJING) - Reporters Without Borders hails US Internet giant Google’s announcement yesterday that it will stop censoring the Chinese version of its search engine, Google.cn – a move that could lead to Google.cn’s closure and Google’s withdrawal from the Chinese market.

The company said it took the decision following sophisticated cyber-attacks on Gmail accounts coming from China.

Amnesty International Says China`s Censorship of the Internet Must Stop

"...censorship measures adopted in China are not in the best interests of their customers and do not help promote freedom of expression or the right to information" -Roseann Rife, Amnesty International

(BEIJING) - Amnesty International has again urged the Chinese authorities to end censorship of the internet.

The matter hit the news after online firm Google raised concern about the hacking of human rights activists’ email accounts.

Answering Helen Thomas on Why

It would help if American people were finally let in on the root causes for what otherwise get dismissed as irrational actions by Muslims.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Thank God for Helen Thomas, the only person to show any courage at the White House press briefing after President Barack Obama gave a flaccid account of the intelligence screw-up that almost downed an airliner on Christmas Day.

It took this 89-year old veteran correspondent to break through the vapid remarks about rechanneling “intelligence streams,” fixing “no-fly” lists, deploying “behavior detection officers,” and buying more body-imaging scanners.

New Column: `Odd Man Out` Will Clear the Air Over Environmental Contaminants

In 2001, Roger was acclaimed as one of the Top 5 enviro-activists in Orange County by the LA Times editorial staff.

(LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.) - Launched in 2010, Odd Man Out is a new Salem-News.com environmental segment that is the creation of Roger von Bütow, a professional environmental consultant. Written exclusively for the Salem-News, it's intended as the next evolutionary step on the path of an eco-warrior.

Roger's success on the environmental war front have left him hungry and motivated, constantly seeking new challenges. As a by-product of his life's journey, Roger had the good fortune to cross paths with the Salem-News crew over the fiasco of the US Government’s questionable remediation of MCAS El Toro insidious soil and aquifer contamination.

Op-Ed Signals From Seaside:
21st Century Demands Return to Founder-Wisdom

The role of the writer is to generate cogitation in the reader. “Provocation outweighs persuasion” here.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - Ocean-distilled air is clean, clear, cold and somehow mind-stimulating...”cold” being clearly the current chief characteristic !

This short squib is our simplified summary of signals-to-come from Seaside, “whether” permitting.