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A Neglected History

Surely the great repositioning of the poles of our planet a few decades ago counts as the most significant event in recent human history. Indeed, as an engineering feat, it is unequaled. Yet astoundingly one can find almost no mention of it on the internet. Try Googling repositioning the poles of planet Earth to see for yourself. Beyond that, a quick look and most maps on-line will show a strange, stubborn use of the old-style latitudes and longitudes. One only rarely finds a map with the north pole correctly located in the north pacific, and the south pole in the south Atlantic. Nor are the vast human settlements of Antarctica, Greenland, etc. yet documented.

Perhaps this lack of information—this conspiracy of silence, if you will—is the result of lingering resentment from some concerning the enormous human upheavals that necessarily follow any project of great magnitude. Certainly no one is denying the inconvenience caused many, even if the benefits far outweigh the costs. Nevertheless, as we will document in more detail below, the New World Order has had its enemies, some who were, are are, powerful and unscrupulous.

This webpage exists then to fill a void. This is the story of how an entire planet was set turning on a new axis, and how vast territories of frozen wasteland were turned into lush places, to the benefit of humanity.

A Visionary Proposal

The New World Order began as an audacious and visionary proposal to reorient the rotation of our planet. It's purpose was to maximize the amount of habitable land. This was to be acheived by moving the poles to their now present, familiar locations in the north Pacific and south Atlantic.

Hard as it is for young people today to imagine, there was a time not too long ago that Antarctica, Greenland, and large areas of Eastern Canada (e.g. Baffin Island) and Western Russia were covered in permafrost. These large land masses in frigid climates allowed huge polar ice caps to form, which in turn meant that the ocean levels were somewhat lower than they are today.  At that time the warm waters of the Schreck Ocean were completely frozen over year-round.  This illustration shows the Schreck Ocean (formerly called the Arctic Ocean) with the markings in red for the old location of the north pole and Arctic Circle.  The region around Greenland and the now inapropriately named Iceland is one of the areas of the globe subjected to the most extreme transformation in climate, with Iceland now lying near the equator (shown as yellow line) where once it lay near the Arctic Circle.

A Triumph of Engineering

As the proposal became known, it captured the imagination of the world's leading scientists and engineers. At first, experts hoped Earth's axis could gently be changed by propelling large heavenly bodies into close "fly-bys" with the Earth. This is a high-risk venture, however. The first (and last) such attempt involved Jupiter's moon Ganymede. Massive explosions on the surface of Ganymede shook it loose from Jupiter's gravity and sent it on its way to Earth. But then, scientists lost control of Ganymede and an unspeakable disaster was barely averted. Those who sentimentally recall the beauty of Earth's moon shining in the evening sky need to be reminded that's its fall into the Sun is a small loss compared with the possible destruction of all life on Earth.

In the end scientists chose to finish the job using space ships tethered to the Earth. This method required new technologies and a tremendously costly construction program. Each tether needed to be many thousands of miles long and made of a material with greater tensile strength than any previously known. But the result was success with a minimum of earthquakes. The death toll was blessedly low. Some residents of Siberia needed to be relocated as the north pole passed near their homes, but this population was small. The populations of Alaska, and more significantly, Japan, were forced to endure several very cold winters during that time.  Fortunately in the southern hemisphere the path of the pole crossed only Antarctica and open ocean.

A Triumph of Political Will

The New World Order was a great engineering acheivement, but it was no less a great acheivement of leadership. Powerful vested interests aligned themselves against the project. The governments of Japan, Brazille, and certain south African countries (Liberia, Senegal, Angola, etc.) chose the selfish path of promoting their own interests over that of the general good. More worrisome was the resistence from those who were concerned about the rising sea levels that would accompany the melting of the polar ice that existed at the time. Indeed, the seas did rise and it was necessary to relocate some populations. Yet the project contained the solution to the very problem it caused! Vast new territories, previously too cold to settle, became available. Those needing resettlement were given priority in the distribution of land ownership in many of the new parcels. In fact, this resettlement was not much of an inconvenience since the only people affected were those that lived in coastal areas.

Ultimately the project proved to be unstoppable. The United Nations, led by its heroic Secretary General Max Schreck, used the powers it had recently acquired to implement the project as the manifest will of the people, over the objections of the previously mentioned special interests. Various attempts were made to organize referenda on the project, but such polling is notoriously subject to the manipulation of powerful voices and the General Assembly wisely ignored all such election results.

The project survived its final threat when a few long-time critics published news reports about large-scale land purchases allegedly made by Secretary General Schreck on Baffin Island in Eastern Canada. It is undeniable that certain enterprising individuals did become wealthy, as is inevitable whenever large-scale migration and speculation in real estate is occuring. In any event, the charges against the Secretary General were never proven and the project was by that time already underway; the work could not be stopped without causing massive death and destruction. The newly-established UN Policing Agency demonstrated convincingly that it was able to assume its duties. We remember with honor all those heroic policemen who died in the line of duty in that difficult time.

Regions of Change

The following illustrations show key areas of change on the globe. As before, markings indicate the equator, boundaries of the arctic and antarctic regions, and the poles. Red markings are the original locations, while yellow is the new, improved locations.

These first two illustrations show the pivot points. These points are located where the old and new equators cross. These are areas of no climate change. Only the cardinal directions have rotated, by about 60 degrees. Both locations are in oceans, but note that there are nearby land areas of Central America, northern South America, and on the other side of the globe, India.

From Cold To Hot

The illustration to the left highlights an area of extreme climate change. Northern Antarctica now boasts a tropical climate but previously was bitterly cold. Formerly the entire continenent roughly defined the antarctic circle. Note that for northern Antarctica the cardinal directions have not changed, while for southern Antarctica they have flipped.

Similarly, in the northern hemisphere, Iceland and Greenland have lost their glaciers and become countries with enormous potential for development; see the illustration at right. Tree-planting and other landscaping efforts are underway at a scale never before imagined. The Scandinavian countries now find their entire region a tropical paradise. The same is true for Baffin Island and the whole Hudson Bay area. Meanwhile, the Russian Government reports that alcoholism has declined in that country by an astonishing 12 percent.

From Hot To Cold

Finally, we consider those areas changing most dramatically from hot to cold. New Guinea (seen at left, in the lower-left of the picture) is no longer a tropical island slightly south of the equator, and now finds itself near the northern edge of the temperate zone. Japan (in the upper-left) meanwhile skirts the arctic circle.

In the south Atlantic, seen at right, residents of parts of Brazil and several African nations have needed to come to terms with a location near the Antarctic circle. It is important to note however that, for both polar regions, the areas of most extreme temperature drop are over oceans.

Sadly, the people of Japan, Brazil, and a few other nations have been slow to embrace this change. One could go so far as to characterize them as resentful luddites. Be glad that their desire to turn back the clock and restore the Earth's axis to its original position will, and must, remain frustrated for the greater good of mankind.