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New Zealand passes record suspension of lawmakers over haka

“Are our voices too loud for this house? Is that the reason why we are being silenced? Are our voices shaking the core foundation of this house? The house we had no voice in building ...We will never be silenced and we will never be lost,” she said.

Fucking powerful.

Despite the signing of the treaty in 1840, there were many bloody conflicts between the colonial government and Maori tribes in ensuing years, resulting in the confiscation of large amounts of Maori land. Tensions remain to this day between New Zealand's Indigenous people and the descendants of the Europeans who colonized their country.

Hey nice, journalism with a backbone!

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Help a guy out

The thing that smells like bullshit is "he had every certification under the sun".

Getting certified is not an expression of smarts, but of money / privileged access. Good but poor techs in their 20s are self-taught.

Where did he get the money for a ton of certs, while being unable to afford a car?