Speaking of seven billion souls, four and a half billion of which the Illuminati allegedly are seeking to remove from the planet.

Here is a beautifully done series of interactives and stories from National Geographic on Earth's soon to be realized milestone of a world population totalling seven billion people.

That is of course unless the alleged Illuminati get their alleged way.

Thanks to Angie for this one.

As always, click on the photo below to link up to this very well done piece.

You may remember from some time ago our post discussing the coincidental or not alignment of the Earth, Sun, and Mercury along with the comet Elenin on the exact dates of the record breaking (among other things) earthquakes in Chile, New Zealand and Japan.

Good news, you don't have to remember it, just click here.

The bad news is that Elenin is about to make a new series of alignments, only this time it will be on our side of the solar system and very near Earth.

Despite the fact that it contains 6 to 8 minutes of discussion on the Hopi Indian prophecies concerning the Blue and Red Katchinas and the resultant destructions here on Earth following their passage through our solar system, the following video is the most serious scientific analysis I've been able to find concerning the possibilities regarding the passing of this comet.

Consider yourself warned.

From Michigan Capital Confidential the news service from the Michigan Libertarian think tank, The Mackinaw Center for Public Policy

Government Golf Gobbles Up Lansing City Budget

By TOM GANTERT | Aug. 29, 2011

At a time when the city of Lansing is laying off police officers and contemplating raising taxes, it is losing about $400,000 a year on city-owned golf facilities. Lansing lost $431,073 in fiscal 2007-08 and another $398,452 in fiscal 2008-09 on its golf facilities, according to Angela Bennett, the city’s deputy finance director. The city also had to cover another $431,073 from golf facility deficits from prior years, Bennett wrote in an email.

The city budgets for 18-hole and 9-hole golf courses and a driving range/learning center. The city covered these expenses by taking money from its general fund and parks millage.

Here's just another in a long line of examples having to do with why that "Tax the Rch' idea never works.

Sneaky bastards just up and move away ..... take their money with em.

Someone else gains access to their disposable income and you of course, don't get squat.

As usual click on the photo for this Wall Street Journal story.

Tax Haven's Tax Haven Pays a Price for Success

By DEBORAH BALL 

ZUG, Switzerland—Developed nations from Japan to America are desperate for growth, but this tiny lake-filled Swiss canton is wrestling with a different problem: too much of it.

Zug's history of rock-bottom tax rates, for individuals and corporations alike, has brought it an A-list of multinational businesses. Luxury shops abound, government coffers are flush, and there are so many jobs that employers sometimes have a hard time finding people to fill them.

But when Stefan Hurschler, a man who works with the disabled, and his schoolteacher wife decided to expand their family and wanted a bigger house, they found nothing in Zug they could afford. They moved to Zurich, and Mr. Hurschler now commutes back to the town he grew up in.

"There are older people who still live [in Zug] because they bought their homes in the 1960s," said his wife, Lilian. "Or there are the very rich. But there isn't much of a middle class."

If Switzerland is the world's most famous tax haven, Zug amounts to a haven within a haven. It has the highest concentration of U.S.-dollar millionaires in Switzerland, a country where nearly 10% of households meet that standard, according to Boston Consulting Group. The highest personal income tax anyone in Zug has to pay is 22.9%, and companies pay an average of just 15.4%—rates lower than Switzerland's average and far below top rates in the U.S.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Conscience is God present in man.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

We love Fred Reed around here, and despite the fact that his subject matter is frequently ugly and/or brutal, we look forward to each new installment and struggle to refrain from linking up Fred On Everything everytime he posts.

While we don't always agree with Fred, his resume' forces us to always give strong consideration to his point of view.

Click anywhere on the excerpt below to link up to Fred's latest ..... you know, as of this instant.

"It wasn’t until ‘The Great Society’ and the ‘War on Poverty’ and Lyndon Johnson that the black family began to fall apart. The old adage is ‘The road to hell is paved in good intentions’, and I believe that the liberals that designed the welfare programs were well intentioned but WRONG.

Rules are meant to be broken and programs are designed for people to capitalize on the weak points and misapply them to their advantage.

This is what I saw happen with the black families when the father moved out, stayed down the street and only came by for conjugal visits which increased the family’s income.

The black father and young men were no longer hard working heads of the their families but part of disjointed groups that were intent on personal gratification and working the system and they developed a ‘plantation mentality’ with the government being the great provider and not the men of the family.”    Fred Reed

I think this might be the best time lapse video I've seen, and I've seen a mess of em.

From Randy Halverson at DakotaLapse.com.

Tempest Milky Way.

Absolutely go full screen.

I love the buck at 1:58.