The Rosen Report

The White House/Media "Spin" About A GOP Split Is An Attempt To Boost Democrats Morale With Hype-- By Lance Rosen April 28, 2022 Much is being made of the McCarthy/McConnell tapes published by the New York Times book authors, to exploit what some hope is a split in the GOP between Trump loyalists and those who privately revile him. This has been played as a conflict between the "business Republicans" and the White "Christian nationalists". This is the epitome of wishful thinking, denial and delusion, and reflects a catastrophic failure in strategy and approach by the White House and Democratic leadership.  The "American Legislative Exchange Council" is the interface between the GOP Billionaires club (Koch, Mercers, DeVos etal) and the extreme right white Christian nationalists. ALEC is the corporate funded very powerful lobby organization behind everything we see the GOP doing in both their racist/sexist culture wars, and their drive to destroy t...

The Issue of DeSantis Actions Is The Measure Of Our Resistance To Evil-- Lost in the jumble of events is that DeSantis personally caused the deaths by negligent homicide of thousands due to his personal obstruction and sabotage of the scientifically determined Federal guidelines for covid mitigation. This, by the Governor who justified letting Florida's senior citizens die off by referring to his state as "God's waiting room".  He is a self-styled fascist dictator with blood on his hands. He is worse than a gay bashing racist and religious bigot. He is a mass murderer of people in his own state, and is in process of building his Presidential campaign apparatus.  This is why we need to build a bigger and better activist movement to make up for what the Democratic leadership is not doing. Wishing away Trump, hoping he is indicted really is no solution. DeSantis IS the future of the fascist/fundamentalist/ QAnon GOP, funded by billionaires who want to nullify the last 90...

(Photo credit, The Guardian) Senator Rick Scott's 11 PoInt Plan For GOP-- "Straight Outta' Mein Kampf" Part 2, An Addendum I had written a piece a few weeks ago on Senator Rick Scott's so-called 11 point plan. Consider this, my comment on HCR's informative letter on Abraham Lincoln's pro-development, pro- people Tax policy, to be an addendum to my earlier article. https://therosenreport.blogspot.com/2022/03/rep-rick-scotts-r-fla-11-point-plan-for.html ["Pardon me for this seeming diversion, but it strikes me that Rick Scott, DeSantis and the GOP of Florida and Texas etal, are worse than "Culture Warriors."  Any trained person who has done actuarial tables for Insurance companies will be able to calculate fairly accurately the increase in the death rate which Scott's "11 point program" to destroy the social safety net and tax the poor will cause. We are talking about economic genocide.  It is almost identical to the legalized co...

 (Photo credit CNN) Alert-- Swedish Neo-Nazi Anti-Muslim Riots Are Putin's Gambit For Destabilizing Western Adversaries I and others have documented that the extreme racist and neo-fascist hard-right groups in Europe are funded, steered, influenced by Putin's Russian intelligence services. This is a fact. A fact which appears nowhere in CNN's coverage below.  https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/18/europe/sweden-riots-police-quran-burnings-intl/index.html So, right on cue, in the context of Putin's launching of proxy war on NATO, and genocidal targeting of Ukrainian civilians, one of Putin's leading assets in Sweden organizes a public Quran burning in order to start bloody rioting and inflame religious hatred against Muslims. Might anyone put two and two together here? Sweden has announced that they are likely planning to join NATO, along with Finland. Putin's response only days after? Turn loose his  Nazis to destabilize Sweden.  The perpetrator is named Paludan, of...

 I wrote this post 2 years ago today, April of 2020. I'm reposting it unedited to convey the full unfiltered substance of it.  I've gotten used to some my friends either avoiding what I write or refusing to comment. That comes with the territory. But, as with life in general, what we ignore or avoid will come back to bite us in the ass. ["The so called "protests" at the State Capitols to "Reopen the Economy" are not about that. That is the pretext. These are White Power Rallies. They are Trump Campaign MAGA events, now weaponized and mobilized by the mass murdering would be Dictator himself. They will grow, there will be Confederate Flags, Open Carry Weapons, and it will get ugly. There will be racist idiots with signs blaming China, inciting attacks on Asians. They will calling for "Liberty" from oppressive Governors so they can go out and spread a lethal Virus, and will be repeating the murderous lies they have heard from  quack Doctors on F...

  Important Signal Piece Article In "The Atlantic"--  This "Atlantic" article was posted by a Facebook friend, and after reading it I thought it worth sharing. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/?utm_source=facebook  Many of the concepts presented here express my own thoughts about the sheer folly of attempting to effect real political change through social media. Likewise, it provides much food for thought for part 2 of the article I just posted which very few of you will want to read or comment on.  In effect, this article raises the question of whether or not we are all "lab rats" in one big social/ behavioral experiment, being studied, profiled, conditioned, trained, to either do something or do nothing. A technology which began as a means to stay in touch with friends and family, or share experiences, appears to have morphed into a mega-structure of mass based mind control and psychological w...

  (Photo credit, Congressman Brian Schatz The Guardian, Andrew Harnik/EPA) -" Confronting that which we are doing wrong is the first and biggest step toward getting it right" The following is in part my response to the courageous statement by Congressman Brian Schatz (D-HI) of earlier this week, imploring fellow Democrats to "scream from the rooftops" and use tougher language to denounce the GOP's vicious propaganda campaign and obstruction of the Biden Administration, to confront a Party which now acts in flagrant disregard for the national interest. It is a good thing that he said it, and it was a long time in coming. Linked here is the Guardian coverage. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/10/republicans-democrats-us-senator-brian-schatz I have my own take on the situation, which will be more or less what my friends would expect to hear from me. Once again it falls on me to ask the most obvious questions. Why should Congressman Schatz even have to ma...

  Russia's War Atrocities In Bucha... Carried Out By Putin Steered Private Mercenaries "Wagner Group"?  The article linked here is vital background from the Daily Beast,  written back in January before the actual invasion.  I've been covering Wagner Group for two years in "The Rosen Report," as they have been a leading "tip of the spear" for Russian asymmetric warfare operations in Europe, especially Ukraine, and as well in African countries and Syria.  https://www.thedailybeast.com/wagners-rusich-neo-nazi-attack-unit-hints-its-going-back-into-ukraine-undercover Wagner has a long track record of conducting mass atrocities in furtherance of Russian policy. The war crimes being committed today against civilians are, I believe, being committed by them. This is what they are trained for.  They are owned and run by the person known as "Putin's Chef," the now sanctioned Yevgheny Prigozhin. Wagner has been reported to have a 400 man special ...

  This was an off the cuff comment on Professor HCR's briefing this morning, unedited. I'm an Insulin dependent type 2 diabetic, was both a Caregiver and a Health Insurance Broker/Agent for marketing Medicare advantage plans before I retired. I've had to deal with this issue at every level for many years.  I'll tell you all a secret. Endocrinologists who receive samples of Insulin, whether Novolog, Humalog, or other injectables such as long acting Insulins like Lantus are keeping low income patients alive by giving these samples away for free to patients. Patients are forced to make more frequent appointments at higher co-pays $40-$80, depending on tier and plan to see specialists to go in and get their samples. Also Novo-Nordisk, which has a monopoly on production, offers a discount card which Pharmacies accept that allows people to buy Insulin Flex Pens for $25 per month if they are financially disadvantaged. Otherwise it's going to be between $250-$600 per month ...

  Russian Army massacres of civilians are not spontaneous actions by rogue units or poorly trained soldiers. It is part of Putin's strategy of using terror for demoralizing and breaking the Ukranians resistance by conducting the most brutal reprisals, and it is reminiscent of Hitler's policies in Nazi occupied countries during WW II.  The following is a short excerpt from a two year old article I wrote on Hitler's decision to liquidate an entire Czechoslovakian town, Lidice, in retaliation for the Czech partisans assassination of the SS Occupation head, Reinhard Heydrich ["On May 27, 1942, the British SOE, (Special Operations Executive) headed by Sir William Stephenson, committed one of the most costly and reckless blunders of WWII, when he deployed his irregulars in Czechoslovakia to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich,  who served under Himmler as head of the Gestapo, and Chief officer of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.  Along with Adolph Eichmann, Heydrich was th...