Southern New Zealand has moved slightly closer to the east coast of neighboring Australia as a result of a massive earthquake last week off the country’s South Island, a scientist said Wednesday.

The magnitude 7.8 quake, centered in the ocean near Resolution Island in the country’s Fiordland region, twisted South Island out of shape and moved its southern tip 12 inches (30 centimeters) closer to Australia, seismologist Ken Gledhill said.

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Since starting this blog I have consciously tried to avoid posting anything to do with the political/economic quagmire that the world seems to be in. There are enough people with far bigger brains than mine who are writing about these issues, and there is enough freely available information out there that I felt I would muddy, and not add to, the message.

However, after listening to some people recently, it’s clear that many, many people are simply not aware (or do not care) that many aspects of this world are just unsustainable, or what a pitiful world we are leaving to our kids. Perhaps we really do need to start trying every day to make everyone around us more aware.

For example, it is painfully clear that Civilization cannot go on gobbling up all the worlds natural resources without any ramifications.

It also seems obvious that the world (U.S in particular) cannot continue to maintain such ridiculous debt levels without repercussions.

Meanwhile, the gap between the Elite (supported by an illegitimate president) and the rest of the world grows bigger daily.

Are we ready for forced vaccination (of a vaccine that has not been sufficiently tested) against a disease that was deliberately spread?

What would you do if all banks closed down for an emergency bank holiday, and the supermarkets shelves ran dry? Is this what it will take before people actually sit up and take notice? Perhaps we should prepare for this possibility?

Things are coming to a head, of that I have no doubt, despite Big Medias continued efforts to brainwash us. Before the end of this year there will be rapid economic and health related developments, and they wont be pretty.

What should we all do about it? Many solutions have and will be presented. Most are as useful as digging a big hole in the ground and sticking your head in it…

My angry question is why is man so destructive? But the more relevant question right now is how bad will things be allowed to become before a new “solution” is rammed down our throats by the NWO advocates?

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It’s holiday season down here in NZ. What I failed to realise until we went up to Cardrona was that this means the resorts are absolutely packed with thousands of complete idiots…(imagine everywhere about as busy as a northern hemisphere Christmas)

So after waiting 30 minutes to ride the first lift, we headed out the back of the resort and went for a long hike. Later in the day, with the queues still ridiculous, we came off the mountain and went for a wander through the old Cardrona township.

The South Pacific is a part of the world I have always wanted to visit, and will definitely be doing so in the not too distant future. Before leaving the UK, I watched the first 2 episodes of a great series on the whole South Pacific region, and through the luxury of torrents have been catching up on the rest of the episodes here (BBC Iplayer still hasnt gone international and I havent yet found a way to fool the site in to thinking I am in the UK)
The narrator went to my school too…(yea I know, typical middle England accent…)

Below is an incredible clip from episode 1, well worth downloading the whole thing if you like the look of it…

Another great bit of filming from an earlier BBC documentary:

We got a little fed up with the cold and total lack of insulation in our house so we drove a couple of hours over the mountains to Haast. As you come down out of the mountains it’s like coming in to a new country, with palm trees and a tropical feel to it (including a temperature about 20 degrees warmer than Wanaka) We came out on a huge beach about 15 miles long, with absolutely no one on it at all…epic. There was massive rolling surf, huge oldgrowth trees with the beach covered in knarled piles of bleached drift wood…It was sooo good to wander down the warm beach in bare feet after the freezing temperatures in Wanaka…

I feel very humbled in this place. It has an ancient and weathered feel that I’ve not come across anywhere else, and with all the turmoil going on in the world, it feels a very long way away from it all.

However, with many, many different problems clearly on the horizon I have to doubt that anywhere is really safe from it all…..