All thanks to Roger Douglas & his sick experiment. Gone are the full employment days of the 80s.
The latest benefit statistics shows that since the change of Government: 37,000 more people on welfareA 22% increase in those on a jobseeker benefit16,000 more people who have been on a benefit for over a yearA 30% increase in Maori and Pasifka jobseeker benefit levels15,000 more children living in a benefit dependent householdThe year of…
VALLEY OF ELAH—After local homegrown terrorist David slew Goliath with a fully automatic, high-capacity sling, Philistine activists began calling for common-sense bans on the dangerous weapons of mass destruction.
“Nobody needs a sling that holds five rocks just to go hunting or protect their sheep,” said one Philistine woman with pink hair and several face piercings. “This tragedy could have been avoided if only David were forced to use one of the old bolt-action model slings.”
Investigators believe the shepherd boy, radicalized by religious texts, built up an arsenal of approximately five hollow-point, armor-piercing rocks, “a deadly stockpile.”
“Can you imagine if he had opened fire in a crowded market or around the village well?”
Many Philistines offered “thoughts and prayers” to Dagon, but activists continue to insist “your thoughts and prayers are not enough.”
Source: Gateway Pundit
In 2018, nearly a year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, reports surfaced that piles of food and supplies were left to rot in semi truck trailers, and ended up eaten by rats and other vermin.
This was while San Juan mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz used every opportunity to try to blame Trump, saying that D.C. wasn’t sending enough aid.
CBS reported in 2018: Donated food sent to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria were left to rot in a parking lot of a government facility, CBS News corresondent David Begnaud reported Friday. Additionally, about 10 containers filled with non-perishable supplies sat at the government facility for 11 months.
And this week another warehouse full of US survival supplies was found in Puerto Rico.
A gigantic warehouse was discovered in Puerto Rico this week that was filled with US Survival aid sent there two years…
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Editor’s Note: Ah…the pain caused by the Dark is all too apparent in this article. The video at the end (see the Twiter link) is verbally non-understandable (unless you know Puerto Rican Spanish), but the disgust in the commentary voice is unmistakable!
In the words of a friend, of mine…here we go! Please read/watch and understand our world IS changing due to circumstances such as this…with many more intolerable acts still to surface. Despite knowledge of the inhumane acts committed by the Dark, please know our world is changing in a positive way, let this be a signal for the 99% to be BETTER than they, allowing us all to BE…
InJoy!
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Here it is, folks. Carton after carton of Coleman camp stoves, water, diapers, bottles and nipples…
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Not long ago one (right wing) politician warned before the German Parliament that the bicycle as a means of transport was extremely dangerous – especially for children – and thus ought not be promoted.
“Highly impractical and dangerous”
This of course brought ridicule from the infallible leftists and greens – and yes, even from German centrists who have long become all drugged up on green and “climate protection”.
AfD parliamentarian Dr. Dirk Spaniel told before the Parliament: “Soberly considered, bicycles are highly impractical and dangerous.”
According to Spaniel, a transportation expert, a child transported on a bicycle is exposed to greater danger than in a car. On the Green Party’s vision of a bicycle utopia in Germany and the world, Spaniel mocked: “They want to draw an ideal fairy tale world here with bicycles, which do not exist in this form.”
Twice as likely to die on a bike
As…
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“As closed signs pop up collections are looted purged and or collections moved out of reach of public researchers. As developers and smart technology hyenas move in.”
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“While in Bethesda an office flaming youth group singing. Firemen calling in. Lockheed Martin Marietta. Do you like me I guess. End of the lesson time “ –
Fugazi Do You Like Me 1995.
A VISUAL ESSAY.
To get into space you need a lot of rare metals the more you need the more you drive the market. The engine on its Electron rocket use high-performance electric motors and lithium polymer batteries to drive its turbo pumps. Rare metals drive the space race to get into space to mine more rare metals. And that NZ surrounded in rare metals so much the better. Then again so is Antarctica. There money to be made in this market which will give Lockheed the chance not just to be able to make and sell products but corner the very energy market the space race runs on. Its a Trillion dollar opportunity. Further it offers not…
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Following tension in Iran, in an increasingly lethal game of tit for tat, its being suggested Trump may be only playing brinkmanship. That he has no real intent other than posturing. This maybe true but what Israel’s Saudi (or more accurately the right wing fraction who control Israeli military industrial complex and unfortunately get every day Israeli’s lumped in with a form of globalism which has no more to do with Judaism than Italian Catholics should be assumed instantly to be in the mafia) plan is not so clear. While parties involved in oil, arms and cornering the energy market, may also see an opportunity in the tension to exploit crisis and make a dollar.
Ben’s World looks at a the recent plane crash in Iran to high light this. The cause…
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WHY DID THE WEST COAST REGIONAL COUNCIL ACT AS BRIDGING FINANCE FOR THE 51% SHAREHOLDER OF THE ROLLESTON 1080 FACTORY? – Making a loss in the process it seems. What was wrong with using the bank?
By Carol Sawyer
The West Coast Regional Council made its initial investment in the Rolleston 1080 bait factory, Pest Control Research Ltd, in May, 2013, but did not disclose it until it was exposed by the Greymouth Star 17 months later.
See: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm…
This investment was made despite a 2010 – 2011 survey of homes in Ross, Hokitika, Hari Hari and Whataroa finding 92.5% were against their council being involved with 1080 in any manner. (Greymouth Star, 14 November, 2017)
By 2 September, 2016, the West Coast Regional Council had sunk $2,105,000 into the Rolleston factory! It was still only making prefeed baits and Pindone at this stage, and did not get consent to make 1080 baits until May, 2018.
See: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm…
The West Coast Regional Council has had a 49% share in the business since 2013 with, until 6 July, 2018, the 51% share being held by Malcolm Thomas, who had previously worked for the NZ government entity Landcare Research NZ Ltd.
See: https://www.stuff.co.nz/…/1080-factory-given-west-coast-reg…
(Pest Control Research Ltd at present has three directors – Michael Meehan, who is also CEO of the West Coast Regional Council, Matthew O’Brien, and John Wilson of Wanaka.) See: https://opencorporates.com/companies/nz/4460339
On 29 June, 2018, the West Coast Regional Council bought the 51% share in the factory from Malcolm Thomas, meaning they now owned the factory OUTRIGHT.
As you can see from the above excerpt from the 2018 annual report, the stated intention was to dispose of the newly acquired 51% share at year end ( i.e. a day later, on 30 June, 2018 ?!). However this did not happen and the WCRC sold it on 6 July, 2018, one week later, to Matthew O’Brien of Kiwicare Corporation Ltd.
Why did Council buy it from Malcolm Thomas to sell to Matthew O’Brien, instead of letting the two sort it out themselves? I was told by someone in Council that it was to help out with bridging finance. Surely it isn’t the Regional Council’s job to squander the ratepayers’ money to facilitate some private individual’s business interests? PLUS… the annual report for the year ended 2018 states “Impairment on transfer held for sale – $272,549”. I am not an accountant but it would appear that the ratepayers took a loss of $272,549 over that transaction, for holding the business in its entirety for a week.
Normally if a businessman required bridging finance they would go to the bank. Was this too risky, and if so why were the ratepayers obliged to take the risk and bear the loss?
As regional councils go, $272,549 would generally not be a large amount of money, but one must remember that the West Coast Regional Council has the smallest ratepayer base in the country, with a total West Coast population of 32,000, and only approximately 10,000 ratepayers.
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The “pest control” business has been a disaster financially for the West Coast Regional Council. In the 2018 annual report, the Council’s ‘Vector Control Services’ were $766,046 “over budget”. Add in the seeming $272,549 loss on the PCR Ltd transfer and that comes to $1,038,595! (To put that in perspective that is, in effect, a loss of an average $104 per ratepayer.)
In that year the WCRC declared a deficit of $859,635, instead of a budgeted surplus of $561,171.
Pest Control Research Ltd made a loss for the West Coast Regional Council in this last financial year too, and the investment amount would appear to have taken a bit of a dive (?):
“1080 FACTORY LOSS FLAGGED WITH AUDIT NZ”
by Laura Mills – Greymouth Star, Nov 1st, 2019
Audit New Zealand has flagged the West Coast Regional Council’s loss related to its investment in a 1080 factory at Rolleston. The annual independent auditor’s report has just been released. Auditors said the council had included in its financial statements unaudited information relating to an investment in Pest Control Research Limited Partnership — the 1080 plant. The auditor’s report said the council’s financial statements included the share of Pest Control’s loss of $45,574, and its investment of $943,174. “The associate (Pest Control) is not a public entity and, as such, the AuditorGeneral is not its auditor. At the date of our audit report, the audit of the associate was not completed,” Chantelle Gernetzky said. “There were no satisfactory audit procedures that we could adopt to obtain sufficient evidence to confirm the financial information relating to the associate is fairly reflected.”
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1) Add in the seemingly poor business practices that led to the chemical accident on May 28 last year.
Story here: https://www.facebook.com/carol.sawyer.3511/posts/2376578832622429
In relation to this, I was told the following by someone in the poison business:
“Adequately trained, experienced staff working under properly documented processes and wearing the correct PPE don’t poison themselves or others. I thought long ago that there would be serious consequences if a minimalist, solely profit focused company with no experience, training, procedural documentation or proper handling equipment got into the manufacture of 1080 products.”
We still don’t know the full outcome of this accident:
Story here:
https://www.facebook.com/carol.sawyer.3511/posts/2553849544895356
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2) Add in seemingly poor quality products – baits past their use-by date, baits too soggy to use, and therefore condemned (and presumably buried!)
Story here:
https://www.facebook.com/carol.sawyer.3511/posts/2484237481856563
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3) Add in the fact that another 1080 factory appears to be in the pipeline, further reducing PCR Ltd’s share of the poison cake – Connovation Ltd received consent to manufacture 1080 baits in March, 2019:
Story here:
https://www.facebook.com/carol.sawyer.3511/posts/2398825227064456
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All in all, the pot of gold some misguided West Coast Regional Councillors envisaged from the 1080 factory, Pest Control Research Ltd, has become a bucket of slime. Best get rid of it fast, I’d say!
Here are the annual reports:
West Coast Regional Council Annual Report, July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018
https://www.wcrc.govt.nz/…/Annua…/Annual%20Report%202019.pdf
West Coast Regional Council Annual Report, July 1 2018 to June 30, 2019
https://www.wcrc.govt.nz/…/Annua…/Annual%20Report%202019.pdf
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Why are so many Americans drinking themselves to death? From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
Opioid overdoses may have leveled off last year after soaring over the last ten, but Americans are still dying in droves from another, far more popular substance: alcohol.
According to a series of studies cited by MarketWatch, the number of Americans drinking themselves to death has more than doubled over the last two decades, according to a sobering new report. That far outpaces the rate of population growth during the same period.
Researchers from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism studied the cause of death for Americans aged 16 and up between 1999 and 2017. They determined that while 35,914 deaths were tied to alcohol in 1999, it doubled to 72,558 in 2017. The rate of deaths per 100,000 soared by 50.9% from 16.9 to 25.5.
Definitely sustainable profits …
Most if not all of our councils in NZ are in bed with agrichem. No will whatsoever to look at the facts & ban toxic chemicals. None at all.
By Alan Macleod | MintPress News | January 15, 2020
Without warning, tech giant Google “permanently removed” Iranian government-owned media channel Press TV UK’s YouTube channel Monday night amid increasing American hostility to Iran.
“This attack on the freedom of speech of Press TV’s journalists seems to be part of an anti-Iran purge as the West sets its sights on regime change in Iran,” Press TV said. Its content, in its own words, focuses on “anti-imperialism, anti-racism, and covers aspects of the news which the mainstream corporate media in the United Kingdom have refused to air.”
The London-based outlet had over 28,000 subscribers on its YouTube account at the time of its deletion.
British-Sudanese journalist Ahmed Kaballo accused Google of acting like the “judge jury and executioner” for his employer’s channel, expressing his great disappointment that his journalistic output is now gone and his worry at “what…
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– “…Historically, illegal drugs were being used to destroy sovereign countries, and by now the Philippines’ war on drugs is a regular headline by CIA funded journalists and media networks…In short, the Philippines’ war on drugs is a necessary measure that must be taken before the country plunges completely into another failed state”:
(How Can We Stop Drug Trafficking When It’s The CIA that’s Running the Show)
Historically, illegal drugs were being used to destroy sovereign countries, and by now the Philippines’ war on drugs is a regular headline by CIA funded journalists and media networks, and a constant object for criticism of the Soros’ Open Society Foundation funded pseudo-non-government organizations, for being brutal and violative of human rights.
Those same critics, however, failed to put their money where their mouth is, especially when it comes to helping the Duterte government rehabilitate close to a million drug…
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Great ethics there Lincoln Uni. Why are you even in existence one has to wonder? I think most Unis are bought & paid for these days going by the info on 1080 and funding. It’s the way of corporations. EWR
“An experiment approved by the Lincoln University animal ethics committee saw the collection of 10 dogs from a Christchurch animal shelter that were then fed concentrated doses of poison before being euthanized.”
From tvnz.co.nz
An application from an external organisation was approved for the experiment by Lincoln University in 2010, for “trials assessing the effects of sodium nitrate during its development as a humane alternative to 1080”.
Bait containing sodium nitrate was later registered to kill possums and feral pigs in 2013.
In a statement provided by the university, no further trials approved by the animal ethics committee involved dogs.
The university says it was the responsibility of the applicant to ensure “the procurement, production, maintenance of animals as well as for the work undertaken” complied with the Animal Welfare Act and the university’s code of conduct for use of animals.
The applicant, according to the report, collected 10 dogs from a Christchurch pound to evaluate the risks of dogs eating carcasses as well as specific organs from possums that had ingested the poison.
Dogs were separated into groups, with one group being fed minced possum organs and another group fed entire carcasses.
The dogs were then monitored after the meal to see if they would present signs of sodium nitrate poisoning.
According to the report, these can include “vomiting, excessive thirst, diarrhorrea, heavy panting, the loss of coordination and methaemoglobinaemia (such as shortness of breath, cyanosis, lethargy, loss of consciousness, and bluish colouring of lips, gums, paws and nose)”.
The dogs were later euthanaised by a veterinarian at the end of the seven-day trial.
New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society spokesperson Tara Jackson says the experiment highlights how little impact ethics committees have as “even projects with this callous approach to life can be approved”.
“These experiments happen behind closed doors, and it is no surprise the public is horrified when we expose this kind of cruelty. These poor creatures were taken from a pound, fed poison, and then killed.”
Ms Jackson says her organisation has a waiting list of people willing to re-home dogs used in experiments like this.
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One of my favourite authors … worth a read EWR
by Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally published August 29, 2013
January 17, 2020
The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington—in which Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made his famed “I Have a Dream” speech—has recently won renewed attention from various print and electronic media in the United States. But the more attention given to King’s extraordinary speech, the less we seem to know about King himself, the less aware we are about the serious challenges he was presenting, challenges that remain urgent and ignored to this very day.
The March on Washington took place on 28 August 1963. Despite repeated fear mongering by certain commentators and public officials who predicted there would be violence in the streets—over 250,000 people descended upon Washington D.C. in a massive show of unity and peaceful determination.
On Jan 15, 2020, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, along with Katarina Verrelli, on behalf of herself and others who seek access to vaccine information, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Plaintiffs allege that Defendant Adam Schiff has abused government power and infringed on their free-speech rights.
“Who appointed Congressman Adam Schiff as Censor-in-Chief?” asks AAPS General Counsel. “No one did, and he should not be misusing his position to censor speech on the internet.”
In February and March 2019, Rep. Schiff contacted Google, Facebook, and Amazon, to encourage them to de-platform or discredit what Schiff asserted to be inaccurate information on vaccines. He then posted the letters and press release on the House.gov website.
Within 24 hours of Schiff’s letter to Amazon dated Mar 1, 2019, Amazon removed the popular videos Vaxxed and Shoot ’Em Up: the Truth About Vaccines…
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And it just gets more ridiculous …
Source: Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com
A middle schooler who wore a sweatshirt featuring the words ‘Virginity Rocks’ said administrators threatened him with suspension if he wore it again.
Seventh-grader Londyn Piglowski said he was told by his social studies teacher to turn the hoodie inside out or take it off “or else they would have to take action.”
The Wentzville School District dress code prohibits clothing that promotes “immoral, illegal, sexual or violent behavior,” none of which applies to Piglowski’s sweatshirt.
Piglowski was threatened with suspension if he wore the hoodie at school again.
“I didn’t think this was bad so whenever they told me to take it off I was like why am I taking this off because it’s a positive message?” he said.
Piglowski’s father said that the message should be in line with the school’s sex ed policy…
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By Carol Sawyer
If this IS the case there were TWO people poisoned by 1080 on May 28, 2019, at the Kiwicare Ltd warehouse in Bromley, Christchurch, where, according to news reports, chemicals were being processed for delivery to the main 1080-bait factory, Pest Control Research Ltd, in Rolleston.
On 9 January, 2020, James Harold sent an OIA request to Worksafe ( see below).
On 14 January, 2020, he rang Worksafe to see if they had received it. They confirmed they had and they sent him the email below, (with his OIA request at the end, which I have not included here as it contains his personal details).
James Harold is adamant that at no time did he mention 1080 poison or the Christchurch (Bromley) poisoning to them.
As James’ OIA request asked about a fatality on the Worksafe fatalities register, and the Worksafe response was to ask James if the Bromley incident was the one he meant (which he has since confirmed to them in a reply email), doesn’t a simple deduction mean it would appear the Kiwicare Ltd worker died? ( Not that anything is ever simple with these government departments!)
(See record of fatality below, from the Worksafe Fatalities register – a screenshot with the register headings is attached too, for clarity. Enlarged clips supplied at the end of the article for readability)
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However we also know that a manager was poisoned and survived – see screenshot below of comment made by Sara Leadbetter recently on ‘Ban 1080 – South Island’ Facebook group.
I have since spoken to Sara Leadbetter and she has confirmed her statement. The person still alive is a contractor, not an employee, and is in management at Kiwicare Corporation Ltd (1). I was told he breathed something in and that was the last thing he remembered. He was in a coma, had organ failure, and nearly died. He is now back at work and is still working for Kiwicare in Christchurch.
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See original news report here :
https://www.stuff.co.nz/…/worker-poisoned-at-pest-control-w…
and see post I wrote on this incident on January 10, 2020, here:
https://www.facebook.com/carol.sawyer.3511/posts/2553849544895356
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(1) Kiwicare Ltd’s owner, Matthew O’Brien, is the 51% shareholder of PCR Ltd, the Rolleston factory that makes 1080 baits.
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2) Clips 3-5 are thirds of the second image
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When is black white and white black? When the NZ corporation says so. They’re currently crowing about the great state of the economy … in fact we are in 132 billion dollars debt & growing, but that’s ok, we have an excellent credit rating 
Keep the interest rolling in on that fiat $$$$$$$$ https://commodity.com/debt-clock/newzealand/
Should you still believe the mainstream narrative have a peruse of the following page: https://envirowatchrangitikei.wordpress.com/economics/ & watch the video below the debt counter below. EWR
“On Friday, October 19th 2018, she went for the flu shot and physical. When she got in there, the nurse told her she needed three more shots, the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella), Hepatitis B, and tetanus [TDaP (tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis)]. So in total she was given eight vaccines. She asked the nurse, “Don’t you think that’s a lot to give at one time”? I’m not sure her answer, but they gave them to her. Denise came home and all day Saturday she felt nauseous. Sunday morning she got up, showered, drank her coffee, and posted on Facebook a site about vaccines. She posted this statement about one hour before passing — about how one of your family members could be a statistic.”
From stopmandatoryvaccination.com
We commonly hear of parents who lose their infant or young child to adverse vaccine reactions and death. Adults are also being damaged and killed by vaccines. In this heart-breaking case, Connie Paul recently suffered the loss of her 50 year old daughter, Denise Mullen, because of the vaccines she was required to get for her new job, including the flu shot. What’s also alarming is her daughter, Denise, posted an ominous warning message on Facebook alerting others of the flu vaccine just an hour before her death.
Connie describes her daughter’s devastating story and tragic outcome that occurred 48 hours after receiving eight vaccines.
Connie: My daughter, Denise Mullen, was the most caring person in the world, never judging anyone, and always one to tell you that you are a worthy person. It all started last year in June. My daughter woke up in the night and couldn’t breath. She went to emergency room and was admitted with congestive heart failure and cardiomyopathy, a virus in her heart, and we never found out how she got that. Her heart was only working at 15-20% and the heart function should be around 65%. She had many tests, echocardiograms, was prescribed heart medicine, and changed her lifestyle somewhat to get better. She had been working at her in-law’s business as the bookkeeper and store manager. She had cut her work schedule to a few days and hours a week as she was tired a lot.Denise had a husband, three children, and two grandchildren whom she loved so dearly. She would put them first in everything. She would sacrifice all the time for family including me, her mom. I miss that so much. Her little grandchildren tell everyone, “grandma’s in heaven”. This is heart-breaking for my whole family. Never did I ever think I would lose my only daughter at 50 because a government makes us take poison in our bodies.
Even with a heart condition, Denise did normal things like ride out back on their property in their four-wheeler. They would build a fire and sit out by a creek and enjoy nature. Now that’s all gone. There are places I went with her that I’m not sure I ever want to go there again without her. I am so angry that she had to do these vaccinations and she was totally against them. My grandson and his wife don’t vaccinate their daughter. My family are so against putting poison in our bodies.
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As we embark on a New Year, I have this feverish question: when and how did it start happening that the younger generation is more and more discarding parents and cutting them out of their lives?
Breaking a long tradition of taking a year-end vacation in India, I stayed at home during the past three weeks. While visiting friends and relatives, I was dumbfounded by the outpouring of sad accounts of elderly parents being abused by their own offspring.
I did some quick research – speaking to officials from family welfare agencies and homes for the aged – and was deeply touched by the plight facing senior citizens.
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A young boy in Delhi, India looks pretty comfortable in this posture. Photo by Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee.
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This is plainly true. In much of the developed world, resting is synonymous with sitting. We sit in desk chairs, eat from dining chairs, commute seated in cars or on trains, and then come home to watch Netflix from comfy couches. With brief respites for walking from one chair to another, or short intervals for frenzied exercise, we spend our days mostly sitting. This devotion to placing our backsides in chairs makes us an outlier…
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