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New Trinity campus is healthcare transformed

Dear Minot Community and the Region at Large: This is the final letter in our series about transforming healthcare in western North Dakota and eastern Montana as tomorrow, April 30, 2023, we officially open the Trinity Health Healthcare Campus and Medical District. Our staff has worked tirelessly to plan a smooth and safe transition from the current medical campus to our new home in southwest Minot and now it’s time to put that plan into action. Moving forward, patients seeking healthcare services will visit Trinity Health Hospital or the adjoining Trinity Health Medical ...

Hyperreality and hologram Joe Biden

With his recent Twitter video announcement commencing his reelection campaign, President Joe Biden is now once again being sold to us as a champion of democracy, whose heart bursts with love for freedom and liberty as much as it does for soft serve. He’s a moderate who has no interest in partisan politics dividing our nation over concerns that “aren’t right or left issues.” Yeah, sure, whatever buddy. It came as no surprise to me when newly elected North Dakota Democratic-NPL chair Adam Goldwyn circulated a release reacting to this announcement, declaring, “It’s a great ...

North Dakota Legislature waging class warfare

If little else, the North Dakota Legislature is giving us a classic example of class warfare. Of course, those benefiting from the conflict are quick to deny its existence because it reveals their greed and selfishness. Intelligent observers untouched by the issue have confirmed that there is a longstanding conflict between the wealthy ruling class and the poor. Ruling Class in Control The ruling class is that class which controls the state and owns the means of production, including the land, natural resources (oil), workshops, factories, giant retail business and financial ...

Fifth Estate strikes back against State powers

Ten years ago, the NSA launched a spy satellite into orbit that came with a mission patch dominated by the image of a massive octopus enveloping the Earth in its tentacles, emblazoned with the slogan, “Nothing is beyond our reach.” This satellite had been sent to the heavens in December, but the patch itself had been made available to the public in one of the slides leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden earlier that year. One of the most affecting books I’ve ever read was written by Wikileaks founder and political prisoner Julian Assange called “Cypherpunks: Freedom and the ...

Historically, Jewish residents well treated in ND

In this era of hate and fear, anti-Semitism is on the rise in the United States.  According to the Anti-Defamation League, anti-semitism incidents in the United States rose 36% in 2022.  “This escalation in antisemitism incidents comes just after the ADL reported on American’s highest level of anti-semitic attitudes in decades,” ADL claims. In addition, the ADL claims that the anti-Semitic Goyim Defense League, a crossover with other white supremacist groups, has stepped up its propaganda against Jews from 74 in 2212 to 492 in 2022.  It seems that every generation ...

Freedom and tolerance disappear together

"When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.” I would tell you, dear reader, who this quote is attributed to, but unfortunately its provenance has been in dispute since it first appeared at the end of the 19th century in France. I first discovered it as an epigraph within the pages of Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel, “Children of Dune,” where he attributed it to French Catholic journalist and polemicist Louis Veuillot. ...