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the first newspaper I thought of when I saw this, this morning; The Herald used to be a pretty good paper back in the day, but it's really just a sad mouthpiece now... The
Signpost is nowhere near as troubled (in any sense) - but the direction 'ain't cool..... (I also thought of how Scientology has
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