The Nursing Home Slumlord Manifesto: In a surreal new lawsuit, New York nursing home owners say they make nearly a billion dollars a year understaffing homes and shortchanging patients.

Last spring, disgraced New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law a simple but sweeping reform that would have required nursing homes to spend a majority of their revenue on patient care. Specifically, the law required nursing home operators to …

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Frontrunning: Bracing For A Surreal Week Ahead

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/this-week-will-be-pivotal-for-ma… The spinmasters and market manipulators will be out in full-force this “pivotal” week during which a barrage of well-massaged economic data and geopolitical theater will be unleashed. This will be a series of strategically programed distractions and deceptions designed …

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Spin (1995) is a surreal exposé of media-constructed reality. Spin is composed of 100% unauthorized satellite footage of the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s; all presuming they’re off camera.

  It’s been probably viewed before but this 1995 documentary, based around the 1992 Presidential election and other events, from Brian Springer, succinctly shows how much manipulation, deception and careful choreographing, aka SPIN, takes place. Also reminds me of the …

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