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Road to perdition

There’s an entity secretly controlling vast swathes of New Zealand, and it’s not who we thought. It’s not the Government, although it does have some power, and it’s certainly not the councils, because their powers are diminishing. It’s not even, despite what some people believe, the Masons, the United Nations, or Bill Gates with his secret-robot-impregnated Covid vaccines.

The orange cones should have given us the clue. They’re everywhere. Unseen forces sometimes relocate them in the night, but they never actually retreat, they only multiply. Although they’re vaguely shaped like ’s Daleks, they don’t have mechanisms under their skirts enabling them to chase

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