other stuff being ignored: Facebook, the moon, and of course Mama Mary

the UK is supposed to be "secular", but in the BBC, a recent poll showed  3 in 5 of the population believes in miracles.

but then they quote a PC Catholic priest to say, hey the miracles didn't really occur: people just shared their soggy 2 day old pita bread.

 Which says a lot about the PC politics over morals church there.

or should I say "anti church"?
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 the pope says calm down and pray the rosary.

He's better watch it: a million Pinoys praying the rosary overthrew Marcos, and you don't want to get Mama Mary mad at you. (/s)

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an election is coming up in Mexico, and the Diplomad2.0 discusses.
He notes Mexico's traditional anti Americanism, and says learn about their revolution to find out why.

Mike Duncan is podcasting the Mexican Revolution on his Revolutions podcast, so go and download some history.

related item: from PhysOrg: BP reached a settlement with Mexico after the 2010 Deepwater  spill.

According to PODER, a corporate transparency group, BP secretly negotiated to pay Mexico $25.5 million—a fraction what it paid in the United States—even as it invested hundreds of millions in President Enrique Pena Nieto's prized project, the reopening of the Mexican energy sector to foreign firms. 

Gee, do you think all of that is a coincidence?(/s)

On the other hand, (UKTelegraph) a lot of BP compensation in the US went into corrupt pockets.

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NASA's space plans: to the moon and beyond.

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related item: Marketing the moon:





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First my Federal OPM personnel file, and now this: Facebook hacked.

several scandals have popped up recently. 

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from Drudge:

Tim Berners Lee (who actually invented the internet) has a new plan for a new internet.

This week, Berners-Lee will launch Inrupt, a startup that he has been building, in stealth mode, for the past nine months.

Backed by Glasswing Ventures, its mission is to turbocharge a broader movement afoot, among developers around the world, to decentralize the web and take back power from the forces that have profited from centralizing it. In other words, it’s game on for Facebook, Google, Amazon.

For years now, Berners-Lee and other internet activists have been dreaming of a digital utopia where individuals control their own data and the internet remains free and open. But for Berners-Lee, the time for dreaming is over. “We have to do it now,” he says, displaying an intensity and urgency that is uncharacteristic for this soft-spoken academic. “It’s a historical moment.”

Ever since revelations emerged that Facebook had allowed people’s data to be misused by political operatives, Berners-Lee has felt an imperative to get this digital idyll into the real world. In a post published this weekend, Berners-Lee explains that he is taking a sabbatical from MIT to work full time on Inrupt. The company will be the first major commercial venture built off of Solid, a decentralized web platform he and others at MIT have spent years building.

for later reading: Drudge also linked to WND (right wing) that has a three part series  that interviews the author of Life After Google.