Smoke and mirrors -- Trump had this WSJ Op-Ed on Ukraine by Kimberley Strassel, with the headline "Smoke and Mirrors" sent to every Republican senator.
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But it's not all smoke and mirrors and performance art.
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"It's all smoke and mirrors," a separate Latino leader said.
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But it's also all fiction; it's all smoke and mirrors.
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"These programs are all just smoke and mirrors," says Torii.
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Only by sleight of hand, using numerical smoke and mirrors.
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In others, people can see through the smoke and mirrors.
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The "personalization" may exist, but it feels like smoke and mirrors.
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But for now, a $4 phone is just smoke and mirrors.
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"Jokerman" is not your standard purple smoke and mirrors music video.
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Static Nails Smoke and Mirrors Manicure, $16, available at Static Nails.
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Here's the smoke and mirrors: Xintong Tiandi didn't exist in 2007.
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These moonbeams can bring miracles along with the smoke and mirrors.
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Unlike Blond(e), though, Ctrl doesn't play with smoke and mirrors.
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A certain amount of smoke and mirrors is to be expected.
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"This is smoke and mirrors," he said of the new documents.
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"It's all a kind of smoke and mirrors," Mr. Alexander said.
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The algorithms for matching at dating websites are mostly smoke and mirrors.
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Even if Kanyon is smoke and mirrors, though, Khishchnik seems real enough.
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He claims there is some smoke and mirrors involved in the process.
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Discounts, rebates and coupons dominate the smoke and mirrors of pharmaceutical sales.
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Trump's "savings," it turns out, were nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
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"She continued: "It's pretty easy to convince people with smoke and mirrors.
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"It all feels like smoke and mirrors," he said of the experience.
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You can be attracted to things that are all smoke and mirrors.
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But shuffling judges around the country might just be smoke and mirrors.
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"It's all smoke and mirrors," Mr. Henry said of the play, now closed.
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How can you differentiate between the smoke and mirrors and the real deal?
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"There is no smoking gun here; only smoke and mirrors," the filing states.
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It may be all smoke and mirrors, but there will be free drinks.
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"It says that the seemingly new direction is smoke and mirrors," said Raymond.
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"This gesture is still smoke and mirrors," Gay Gordon-Byrne, executive director of Repair.
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"I think that's smoke and mirrors; I mean, it's night and day," Nowinski said.
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In true smoke-and-mirrors fashion, opponents just want to talk about bovine flatulence.
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As I am in a good mood I say this is smoke and mirrors.
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God bless him but if you think that's country music…it's smoke and mirrors.
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It was a smoke-and-mirrors effort, several American intelligence officials said later Monday.
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" I guess he's most known for his incredible hard rock cabaret, "Smoke and Mirrors.
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"There is no smoking gun here; only smoke and mirrors," the department's brief stated.
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In a world of political smoke and mirrors, here are some things that definitely happened.
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"You're just making general statements, so it's all smoke and mirrors," one Latino man said.
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Her latest proposal, then, is smoke and mirrors, a red herring—any cliche you like.
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"Smoke and mirrors in marketing is over," Mr. Smith said at a conference last week.
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In both cases, it's not clear how much of their pitch is smoke and mirrors.
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And it looks like, unlike what some theories speculate, that wasn't just more smoke and mirrors.
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Unfortunately, these "services" involve a lot of smoke and mirrors that are designed to bilk startups.
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Related: Is the DEA's plan to let scientists grow their own pot just smoke and mirrors?
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In Philadelphia, the Eagles' owner, Jeffrey Lurie, fell for the Chip Kelly smoke-and-mirrors show.
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It was a typical Tesla event, full of twists, shocks, and plenty of smoke and mirrors.
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"I don't think it's smoke and mirrors to combine humans and machine learning algorithms," he said.
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And that is only the start of the smoke and mirrors surrounding China's aluminium smelter sector.
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Or is it all smoke and mirrors to hide a more Ramona-Sonja competitive frenemies situation?
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This way, Dataiku could prove that what they're doing is more than just smoke and mirrors.
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There may be some statistical smoke and mirrors at work behind this record-breaking production run.
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Key: When we tell you it's improvised, Bijan, there's no tricks or smoke and mirrors here.
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It's understandable if you don't recall anything about that week; it was all smoke and mirrors.
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With that background, know that I am currently drinking Innis & Gunn's Smoke and Mirrors limited-edition beer.
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ABC's "Good Morning America" added to the smoke and mirrors Tuesday morning with an interview of Harrison.
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Put quite simply, the pillars of creating a good fighter are: strength and conditioning, smoke and mirrors.
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Within Arizona's homegrown cannabis community, the smoke and mirrors obscuring Insys's true intentions has hardly gone unnoticed.
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Until Mr. Babchenko's stunt, it had been easy to dismiss this as self-serving smoke and mirrors.
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But this was a night of heavenly smoke and mirrors, and worshiping at the altar of fashion.
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"We have heard of smoke and mirrors and political straw men," Ms. Lever said in a statement.
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"I see this as smoke and mirrors," said Bill Sullivan, a lawyer and mining analyst in Jakarta.
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" He added that Trump's infrastructure proposals look like "a bunch of smoke and mirrors and corporate giveaways.
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Both before and after its announcement, Faraday Future couldn't help but surround the FF91 with smoke and mirrors.
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"It's all smoke and mirrors," the executive said, referring to whether the law will actually make a difference.
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Its also a question of my identity, who am I when you strip away the smoke and mirrors.
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The rest of it, the guarantee of the lastingness of literary fame and legacy, is smoke and mirrors.
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In fact, they seemed temporary and ephemeral, as if the claim they made was only smoke and mirrors.
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Away from the smoke and mirrors of the LME storage system, other visible inventory has also been rising.
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"A lot of people think these numbers are made up … completely done with smoke and mirrors," Cramer said.
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But Ryan said so far, Trump's infrastructure proposal "looks like a bunch of smoke and mirrors and corporate giveaways."
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"There is just as much smoke and mirrors in plus-size fashion as in anything else," Ms. Jenkins said.
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It was all smoke and mirrors and a 30-24-2110 mark the rest of the season proved it.
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And it's not the only smoke-and-mirrors legislation opponents of working families are trying to advance this year.
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Go back to that old Jimmy Breslin essay on power — you know it's a lot of smoke and mirrors.
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And it&aposs a huge cloud, smoke and mirrors, to distract from the fact these people are absolutely treasonous hypocrites.
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"I'm sure it will come off slick with oooohhhss and aaaahhhhsss," the executive told me, "but it's smoke and mirrors."
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He's known to often use smoke and mirrors (and heeled shoes) to trick the public in photos and movie scenes.
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Regardless of who runs for president or how they're covered, the public eventually sees through all the smoke and mirrors.
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Sinosphere BEIJING — Amid the opacity of China's social systems, the clichés can sometimes pile up: Game of smoke and mirrors.
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They even gave a "fiscal responsibility" award to Paul Ryan, whose budget proposals gave smoke and mirrors a bad name.
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If he can dazzle Madson with the smoke and mirrors of his lifestyle, maybe they can live happily ever after.
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"The smoke-and-mirrors politics aren't going to cut it anymore, because people's lives are truly at risk," Sieck said.
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It was aggressively promoted by Instagram influencers — those model/advertiser/guru hybrids whose entire project rests on smoke and mirrors.
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"Charity: water's 100 percent model is largely smoke and mirrors," said Joe Garecht, who runs a fund-raising consulting firm.
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Though she surely had success in real estate, much of Ms. Consolo's professional life, it seems, was smoke and mirrors.
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"The popularity of leaders like him relies on smoke and mirrors: fake news, myths, attacks on dissent," he told me.
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Sure, it might sound more solid than all the mushy behavioral psychology smoke and mirrors you get from most dating apps.
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We have to be wary of misconceptions and lies this month as Neptune clouds our vision with its smoke and mirrors.
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"This is a smoke-and-mirrors operation typical of Venezuela — I'll believe it when I see it," he told the publication.
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"There's been smoke and mirrors in this space, and a lot of buzz," Thor co-founder Giordano Sordoni told The Verge.
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One reason to believe it's not totally smoke and mirrors is that the head of the battery division of Fisker Inc.
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"[F]or all the talk about being honest and upfront, even Sanders ended up delivering mostly smoke and mirrors," Krugman wrote.
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"They want to keep playing this political game, put smoke and mirrors up about what ICE is actually doing," Homan said.
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What is the role of the media if not to press for some semblance of reality amid the smoke and mirrors?
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Nor are they old: here's a piece condemning its recent "personal food computer" as smoke and mirrors that doesn't actually work.
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Touring McKelvey's home was an opportunity to view the wealth behind the smoke and mirrors of the WeWork fiasco up close.
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The elites revel in the fun house of smoke and mirrors, while the masses are confused and terrified about their future.
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Carriers use "smoke and mirrors to trick customers and avoid their legal responsibility," AirHelp air passenger rights expert Johnny Quach said.
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Is this slump in available LME stocks for real or just another false signal emanating from the smoke-and-mirrors financing trade?
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"It's so easy to get lost in the smoke and mirrors of the entertainment business — to believe your own hype," Guarini admits.
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It is a marvel to see the raw talent of these masters up close, without the smoke and mirrors of the cinema.
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The unparalleled liberty this gives you to explore makes the so-called open worlds of other games feel like smoke and mirrors.
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Theranos, and especially Holmes, resorted to all kinds of smoke and mirrors and subterfuge to create the illusion that it was working.
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Often there are so many receipts it can be hard to tell what is hard evidence and what is smoke and mirrors.
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Finally, the defense cautioned members of the jury that the prosecution would be using "smoke and mirrors" to play on their emotions.
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" Matt Sivertsen, a certified financial planner at The Planning Center in Moline, Illinois, said it can be a "little smoke and mirrors.
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In a further touch of smoke and mirrors, Mr Trump's order does not kill WOTUS but merely sends the issue back for review.
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An ICO can seemingly raise $850 million in a few seconds although smart people know that these sums are mostly smoke and mirrors.
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The one supposedly unorthodox aspect of the budget—the promise of $1.5 trillion in infrastructure funding—turns out to be smoke and mirrors.
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" She said that the Kingdom's smoke and mirrors game was "about the future and protecting the internal stability of the House of Saud.
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"You have companies trying to trade off these New York stories," but much of it is just "smoke and mirrors," Mr. Lannon said.
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Sure, this is technically a cheap jump scare, but as mentioned, there are a ton of smoke and mirrors littered across this movie.
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We'll have to wait and see whether this taunt will ultimately leave Senators wondering how much smoke and mirrors their voters will take.
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Simply by just allowing a clinical population to test your product, there&aposs a great deal of smoke and mirrors at that stage.
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While the abundance of sequins might imply a lot of smoke and mirrors, drag is not just about looking pretty and mouthing songs.
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And impersonations are a bit like magic tricks: They look really cool, but more often they amount to just smoke and mirrors (and makeup).
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It's important that all members of Congress continue to challenge the smoke and mirrors proposals Democrats are making and bring the truth to light.
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It probably won't, but this is ... They're all businessmen and they always have been and the idealism has been marketing and smoke and mirrors.
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"It's smoke and mirrors because it's unlikely to be approved," said analyst Sergio Guzman, director of Colombia Risk Analysis, a Bogota-based political risk consultancy.
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Kellogg, who has absorbed more than a few of these kinds of studies, has a word for all of this smoke-and-mirrors stuff: greenwashing.
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Conor McGregor doesn't REALLY want to fight Justin Gaethje ... it's all smoke and mirrors ... so says Tyron Woodley who thinks JG would bust him up!
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" At another point, a protester stood up during the hearing to say the company's promise of 25,000 jobs for the city was "smoke and mirrors.
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But this doesn't seem to be it so far, and most of us don't like all the smoke and mirrors they've used over the years.
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It claimed the monthslong back and forth was filled with "communications breakdowns" and "smoke and mirrors" about how well Yahoo's ad technology could actually function.
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Kicking off in the hallowed halls of Grand Central station, this fight starts with smoke and mirrors, and ends on the steps of the Continental.
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It's almost as if Drake is overcompensating for his own inability to smoke the stage out, literally covering up his shortcomings with smoke and mirrors.
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So minusing anything that we're not seeing, all that smoke and mirrors and the Tempur Cool Breeze Flex Supreme branding does seem to work for them.
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Read More OPEC smoke and mirrors' may be all it needs to boost oil OPEC is due to release its monthly oil market report on Wednesday.
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That was the story of Faraday Future, a company that proved to be virtually all smoke and mirrors, and now serves mostly as a cautionary tale.
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"I think her statements, campaign are smoke and mirrors," said Dick Harpootlian, a Biden campaign surrogate and the former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party.
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"It takes some time to educate staff members and educate their bosses that such issues are mostly smoke and mirrors"—techniques meant to stall the bill.
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"It's all just more smoke and mirrors from a convention about to nominate the least trusted presidential nominee in American history," said RNC spokesman Michael Short.
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So how can you tell the difference between social media's smoke and mirrors and whether your friend is actually choosing not to invite you to things anymore?
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If anyone's going to do her part to cut through the smoke-and-mirrors BS of the gigantic machine that is celebrity dressing, it would be Schumer.
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It's all sort of smoke and mirrors right now, but Facebook at least seems to be making this real much faster than anyone would have ever thought.
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Just as with most of the promises from the "leavers," the promises concerning economic benefits to the U.S. from an unbound UK are also smoke and mirrors.
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By giving him this prime time opportunity to promote his new album, SNL is allowing him to pretend there is something behind all the smoke and mirrors.
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How many people owe their success to exaggerating their talents, grabbing credit when it doesn't belong to them and projecting a potency that's really smoke and mirrors?
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There's no smoke and mirrors, there's no pulling wool over people's eyes—you order hare and bacon and mash and you get hare and bacon and mash.
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It has not been all smoke and mirrors; the percentage of sugar has decreased slightly as well, though rounding makes it difficult to say by how much.
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In the real world, Hitler and Braun died of suicide in 1945, but it seems that in this fictional world, their deaths were all smoke and mirrors.
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"We used to joke that that whole business was smoke and mirrors," said a former employee, who declined to speak on the record, citing continuing business relationships.
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This is a smoke and mirrors technique we often see from married men who want us to forget that they're the ones with a partner in this situation.
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Robert Scott, trade expert at the Economic Policy Institute, summed up Trump's governance on trade more bluntly: "Smoke and mirrors," he said, "and trade policy by press release."
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The smoke and mirrors illusion extends beyond just clothing — many influencers get their hotel and travel paid for too, which can save them quite a bit of money.
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The extent of the first daughter's power is immeasurable because it's pretty much nonexistent and she has just made everyone believe she is powerful through smoke and mirrors.
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His plans are smoke and mirrors, yet when his supporters are confronted with these realities, no matter how credible, they simply dismiss them in favor of his personality.
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" On the lead single, her vocals bend theatrically even by Lady Gaga standards calling out a smoke and mirrors romance, "It wasn't luuhahuuuuhf, it was a perfect illusion.
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If Ms. Alden had seemed perfect for him at Dartmouth, she was more so now: sweet, smart and, in a city brimming with smoke and mirrors, without pretense.
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However, with deceptive Neptune involved, it's possible that a love affair can be too good to be true—but don't be scared to enjoy the smoke and mirrors!
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"The rhetoric around the use of public benefits programs is largely smoke and mirrors," Erin Quinn, a senior staff attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, told Vox.
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Census citizenship question: The Justice Department has dismissed as "smoke and mirrors" the assertions that its request to add the question to the 53 census was politically motivated.
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The Canadian consumer rights group Council of Canadians called it "smoke and mirrors", while Friends of the Earth Europe described CETA as dangerous and said it should be rejected.
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While many companies have been able to get away with poor or unusable codebases, I doubt developers will let future companies get away with so much smoke and mirrors.
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However, it sounds like this was little more than smoke and mirrors, and perhaps a late realisation that it's actually super hard to get a marketplace off the ground.
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"This was a grudging hike - more of the same, with smoke and mirrors from the CBRT (central bank)," Timothy Ash of BlueBay Asset Management said in an emailed note.
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" Those statements prompted Boston University CTE research center co-director Chris Nowinski to tell ESPN that Ellenbogen's comparison between football and bicycle riding was "silly" and "smoke and mirrors.
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This is all about making you feel, and at the end of the day all of these theatrics, and smoke and mirrors, are about one thing: eliciting a reaction.
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As K-Live prepares to open its doors to Singaporeans in two weeks, it remains to be seen if smoke and mirrors — literally — will be enough for audiences here.
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He told me that with their options limited, Republicans might just use "gimmicks" and "smoke and mirrors" in an attempt to cover up the costs of their new policy.
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Like his other policies and proposals, his plan is pure smoke and mirrors — designed to give the illusion of action and progress, while ultimately doing nothing but empowering corporations.
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The illusion of a flattering image is often times a game of smoke and mirrors, one that can play with the psyche and skew the true nature of someone.
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"Mylan is using smoke and mirrors to appear empathic," says John Rother, executive director of the Campaign for Affordable Rx Pricing, a group that advocates for lower drug spending.
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But this was complete hypocrisy — something that was obvious to anyone who looked at the actual content of G.O.P. budget proposals, which gave smoke and mirrors a bad name.
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"[John McLaughlin] hands over the numbers, analysis and cross-tabs, no hocus pocus or smoke and mirrors," said Bill Dal Col, a GOP operative and Forbes's presidential campaign manager.
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Consider it a bit of legislative smoke and mirrors: There was no point in adding that money because it never would have been actually appropriated in the first place.
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To have any sort of lasting impact, you can't just be smoke and mirrors — you must invest time and energy to hone your craft and deliver on your promise.
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What It Is: Innis & Gunn's "Truth-Telling Beer," Smoke and Mirrors Who Tried It: Alex Heigl, PEOPLE Associate Editor Here is a small fact about me: I love to lie.
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Put it this way: for all the talk about being honest and upfront, even Sanders ended up delivering mostly smoke and mirrors — or as Ezra Klein says, puppies and rainbows.
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"The rhetoric around the use of public benefits programs is largely smoke and mirrors," Erin Quinn, a senior staff attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, said in an interview.
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Hollywood is the land of smoke and mirrors — and the top colorists know exactly how to create pale, impactful blond color without subjecting their clients' hair to the aforementioned damage.
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You realize the normality of how it's all run, that it's just a business, and everything you've concocted in your head is all smoke and mirrors: Photoshop and great lighting.
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It might take a while for all of it to amount to something real, but I'd be very surprised if it all turned out to be just smoke and mirrors.
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"While demand for new vehicles is still relatively strong, it's a bit of smoke and mirrors," said Jessica Caldwell, executive director of industry analysis at Edmunds, the car shopping website.
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Economists have already said the economic promises of the Republican tax plan are smoke and mirrors, but adding more cuts to the social safety net amounts to a perfect storm.
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On the other hand, what I'm most interested in is whether the truth can shine through some of the smoke and mirrors that the president and his enablers have established.
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Whatever was precisely written by whom, it's fair to say she's as much a part of the smoke and mirrors of the Tom Waits latter-day persona as Waits himself.
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At times, though, it can seem like little more than smoke and mirrors substituting for serious policymaking, a way of pretending to make progress without actually solving the underlying problem.
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Last year — and for many years now, really — the conversation around Black Friday has focused on the psychological effects of deep "savings" ... and why consumers fall for the smoke and mirrors.
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I had learned, over the course of filming, how the laws we think are in place to protect women are empty promises when you need them most, just smoke and mirrors.
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"This system is all smoke and mirrors," Philippe Martinez, leader of the Communist-backed CGT union, which has long commanded support from government employees and workers at power plants and railways.
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Some blame may lie with the financial sector, which by Graeber's account has ruined everything by filling economies with "smoke and mirrors", and created countless dehumanizing jobs in related "information services".
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And supposing you want to spring for the humane stuff, how do you know which farms are really treating their hens right, and which are just throwing up smoke and mirrors?
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Her research showed that the claim of unmet gas demand was "a lot of smoke and mirrors," said Ms. Mattei, who now works as an attorney at a public policy firm.
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Abortion rights advocates cautioned against viewing the heartbeat bill veto as a significant gain when weighed against the 20-week ban, and accused Kasich of using smoke and mirrors to outlaw abortion.
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Though Holmes claimed that Theranos had created a method of testing that could detect a wide range of medical issues with a single drop of blood, it was all smoke and mirrors.
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It draws upon the belief that the complexity of Washington is smoke and mirrors designed to bamboozle the ordinary citizen; and that the more you know, the less you can be trusted.
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On the public front, the Chinese government engaged in a smoke and mirrors strategy, alluding to a substantial decrease in death sentences and executions in recent years but never disclosing any numbers.
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Turns out it was mostly smoke and mirrors in terms of what appeared in the first-gen product, though Magic Leap has promised more advances are on the way for subsequent releases.
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The Trump smoke-and-mirrors routine hasn't in fact changed much from the tutorials one time mobster lawyer Roy Cohn gave him on the hard-boiled art of how to counter-punch.
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I thought being a poker ace was just a lot of smoke and mirrors, a lot of drinking green goo and being a prick, and I don't doubt it mostly is that.
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England's Hatton by his own admission held his score together with smoke and mirrors on his inward nine but managed a three-under-par 833 on the Bay Hill course in Orlando.
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"This seems to be a lot of smoke and mirrors," said Aaron Stein, author of "Turkey's New Foreign Policy," and director of the Middle East program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
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French unions say Mr. Macron's plan is little more than smoke and mirrors and will benefit private-sector workers at the expense of teachers, railway workers, nurses, and other public-sector employees.
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By ensuring that all NTAs are filed and posted on public dockets on the DOJ website, future administrations won't be able to hide behind this kind of smoke-and-mirrors data reporting.
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Tracking down Future's money is like trying to find a "magician in a room of smoke and mirrors" ... so claims Rocko, who wants a judge to help him secure the rapper's financials.
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" It could be all smoke and mirrors -- what better way to publicly sow doubt about your intentions than to publicly muse about changing them, but in private, stay committed to "no first use.
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Neptune, the planet of glamour (and smoke and mirrors), isn't making tons of shitty aspects this month like it was last month; the public will fall in love with you all over again.
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Read more: MoviePass investors tell horror stories of watching their stakes drop over 99%, with some losing more than $100,723Meanwhile, Farnsworth was trying to play a smoke-and-mirrors game with the market.
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This smoke-and-mirrors maneuvering will increase response times to incidents on the railroad right-of-way and decrease the visible deterrent in major stations, a proven method to fight crime and terrorism.
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"We are a company that is resourceful, skilled and capable, rather than so many companies now that are just smoke and mirrors – that is becoming more and more prevalent these days," she continues.
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While mostly elaborate smoke and mirrors—motion tracking plus wraparound screens and just the right amount of sensory deprivation—virtual reality, as a medium, conveys a sense of being that most mediums don't.
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Sales growth during this economic recovery has been horrible, but there are a few companies that are actually seeing real rising demand and not just boosting profits through smoke and mirrors, according to JPMorgan.
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Jim Stewart, an academic with Trinity College Dublin, said Ireland's financial centre had hosted many of the vehicles involved in the financial crash and that it used "smoke and mirrors" to "camouflage" some activity.
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Instead, Wright seems to have orchestrated an elaborate smoke-and-mirrors campaign, offering private demonstrations to a handful of people — most of whom weren't in a position to fully verify the evidence he provided.
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And ultimately, you shouldn't just blow it all off as hype and smoke and mirrors because there actually are things there that you can see that turn into really important technology trends later on.
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Created by magicians Penn and Teller for their unreleased 1995 video game Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors, the minigame has players drive a bus in real time from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada.
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This should not surprise Elizabeth: "Smoke and Mirrors," a standout episode of Season 1, was about the epochal decision to put her coronation on television, which both magnified the event and made it smaller.
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While the work is easily accessible and visually enjoyable (at the opening, a toddler danced delightedly in front of a wavy, pink figure on-screen), the installation is not just digital smoke and mirrors.
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"He believes that the prosecution is purposely playing games in an effort to deny him a fair trial and trusts that an impartial jury will see through the smoke and mirrors at trial," Balarezo wrote.
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A top official with the doomed Fyre Festival knew the event was a total fraud and tried to cover it up with some social media smoke and mirrors ... according to concertgoers suing the festival honcho.
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The future of consumer AR/VR may be a bit murky for the time being, but these investors are looking to peer through the smoke and mirrors and find the startups that will stand resilient.
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" Burton Richter, an emeritus professor of physical sciences at Stanford, a Nobel Laureate and National Medal of Science winner, is the author of "Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century.
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"Opportunities exist for smoke and mirrors, sleights of hand and confusion on the part of the consumer," said Katherine Klein, head of the Social Impact Initiative at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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The biggest story in tech this week was the Security and Exchange Commission's announcement of fraud charges against Theranos, the smoke-and-mirrors biotech company; its founder, Elizabeth Holmes; and its former president, Ramesh Balwani.
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Yet behind the smoke and mirrors, Russia remains a Potemkin village that hides a police state and an expansionist empire, steeped in systemic corruption and governed by up-to-date techniques of repression and manipulation.
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Yet Ready to Die was finished with smoke and mirrors: DJ Premier gave Big the "Unbelievable" beat for only $5,000, since the budget had been blown and it was the last piece added before mastering.
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To enter these pages is to enter a world of smoke and mirrors, rendered all the more insidious by the realization that this purports to be a world of objective truth, a world of scientific inquiry.
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"Unless there's a total surprise, the likelihood is that the Doha meeting on Sunday between OPEC/non-OPEC will produce something very wishy washy and will be nothing more than smoke and mirrors," one trader said.
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" The Trump effect: "It's kind of typical of Trump's approach to governing where there's a lot of ceremony and smoke and mirrors, and when the dust settles there's not a whole lot that has been done.
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"Unless there's a total surprise, the likelihood is that the Doha meeting on Sunday between OPEC/non OPEC will produce something very wishy washy and will be nothing more than smoke and mirrors," one trader said.
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There are a few reasons to think about the distinction between fiction and nonfiction, not least because so much of American culture today seems to operate on smoke and mirrors, sleight of hand, and outright falsehoods.
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The N.R.A. (not to be confused with the vast majority of gun owners) will turn to its old smoke-and-mirrors standby, arguing that the killer's hate, not his guns and bullets, were the real problem.
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Hanoi remains convinced that China's new charm offensive in the South China Sea is mostly smoke and mirrors—a conclusion strengthened by its recent experiences—and that sooner or later its neighbors will figure it out too.
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She's pissed Guess initially hired Marciano's personal law firm for the probe, and even though Guess has now brought in a new independent firm, Glaser Weil, Kate's still pissed about what she calls "smoke and mirrors" tactics.
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Frozen carbon dioxide, too, is manufactured by the gaping orifices of silver frosted cybernetic machines, the invisible relay, a haunting of smoke and mirrors, except now the earthy vapor is a crude illumination of the carbon source.
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Reporters and Clinton supporters are inundated with one anti-Trump email after the other, complemented by "big" speeches about how "Dangerous Donald" is on foreign policy and Atlantic City speeches on his smoke and mirrors business record.
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Time after time the media bites at his smoke and mirrors and exhausts every possible meaning out of his ridiculous tweets instead of devoting precious time explaining to the public the serious consequences of this tax bill.
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"This is a smoke-and-mirrors operation typical of Venezuela — I'll believe it when I see it," said Steve Hanke, professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University and one of the world's leading experts on hyperinflation.
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Even though Democrats claim that there was a budget surplus at the end of the Clinton administration, it was more smoke and mirrors since the national debt went up in 2000 and has continued to do so.
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That he is now holding the threads of some of the Kremlin's most important operations illustrates the important role of smoke and mirrors in the Kremlin and the tight-knit nature of Putin's real inner circle, analysts said.
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In the end, the NRA believes NRATV became all 'smoke and mirrors' – a vehicle touted by Ackerman for the sole purpose of continuing the flow of millions of dollars of fees which the agency needed to sustain itself.
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"This new scheme will put an end to the 'smoke and mirrors' that has been employed and provide Londoners and Parisians with an honest, accurate and independent evaluation of the emissions of vehicles on our road," Khan said.
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"Kasich is on a mission to make abortion illegal in Ohio, and he's intent on using smoke and mirrors and backdoor politics to do it," Dawn Laguens, a spokeswoman for the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, told Huffington Post.
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The deal does not weigh on Italy's public finances, but Umberto Cherubini, finance professor at Bologna University, dismissed it as "smoke and mirrors for the benefit of public opinion" that would be of little use to the banks.
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She managed to charm investors from Walgreens by giving them a smoke-and-mirrors showcase of her product, and recruited board members like James Mattis (who went on to become a now-former Secretary of Defense), Henry Kissinger.
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Speaking on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund spring meeting in Washington, Portugal's deputy finance minister argued domestic reforms in one of Europe's beleaguered economies should not be dismissed simply as an act of "smoke and mirrors".
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"We just ask Lord that we pray through all of the smoke and mirrors and allow us Lord to see the impossible be done to your honor Lord we ask this in the name of Jesus," he said.
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Instead of a serious, smart investment of real federal resources, this smoke and mirrors plan slashes the federal commitment and it places the burden on cash-strapped state and local governments to raise almost all of the funds.
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Because I think that it's easy to get swept up in a lot of smoke and mirrors, and I realized I finally ... I had an opportunity to be doing the kind of work I wanted to be doing.
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"It's all smoke and mirrors," my friend Cherise, a ghostwriter for a number of these bestselling gurus, told me the following week over tea, her Mission District apartment stuffed with piles of self-help books, CDs, and videos.
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The prevailing theory is actually less complicated and far more troubling than any of that: that the meet-up was yet another clever form of political smoke-and-mirrors designed to distract us from the more important news of the day.
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The villainous alien overlords are completely invisible; it's not even clear at first whether they exist at all, and aren't just a smoke-and-mirrors ploy by power-hungry humans to subjugate a terrified population — let alone whether they're organic beings.
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Still, it'd be nice if Huawei would stick to advertising its phone based on the strength of what it can actually do — which is probably impressive enough, even without fakery — instead of hiding its capabilities behind marketing smoke and mirrors.
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Brandon Phillips is still a very capable defender at second base, but if his late-season resurgence last year turns out to be smoke and mirrors, then he'll just be keeping second base warm for Ozzie Albies' inevitable call-up.
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"Critics of [counter violent extremism] programming assert that they are nothing but smoke and mirrors," says John Horgan, a professor of psychology at Georgia State University and an expert on online radicalization, who was not involved in the ISD study.
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Here are a few suggestions to see yourself more clearly as a leader: It's a little early to tell if Kalanick's commitment to self-awareness and self-improvement is wishful thinking, too little too late, or PR smoke and mirrors.
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"Talent agencies have had the reputation of being all smoke and mirrors for a long time, but we've really tried to arm our clients with data that shows why they should partner with a certain show or talent," Jacobs said.
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Various networks sought the project's rights before Hulu landed them, and while such feeding-frenzy scenarios don't always pan out for the winning bidder, in this case, the appeal of "Little Fires Everywhere" is more than just smoke and mirrors.
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Besides, the suggestion, briefly beloved of the industry, that a designer needs a timeout from the increasingly endless show seasons, which was posited when both Mr. Simons and Ms. Waight Keller left their posts, increasingly seems like smoke and mirrors.
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The Alexa competitor's ability to purchase household items, schedule your day, and answer an array of trivia is actually a bit of "smoke and mirrors" that relies on datasets assembled by underpaid contractors who hope to get permanent positions at Google.
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With the first record I didn't feel like a bona fide songwriter, that I hadn't tapped deep enough, that I was still playing behind an image: the southern gothic belle who's singing murder ballads, there was still a lot of smoke and mirrors.
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The sheer number of seemingly "perfect" celebrities and influencers with their "perfect" skin and "perfect" lives can make you feel insecure, especially when you're young, but it's important that we all remember that it's all just smoke and mirrors — and Instagram filters.
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Those not immersed in the title's ins and outs, however, should be forewarned: "American Gods" might oscillate between light and shadows, between past and present, but in terms of articulating a comprehensible story, it feels like a lot of smoke and mirrors.
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It's not entirely smoke and mirrors, as I suspect the vast majority will eventually ship in some form or another, but it's a very specific approach to E3, in which many really exciting announcements are for things you won't play for some time.
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LA's longstanding history as the capital of the film industry has made it, quite literally, a land of make-believe, one that can often work to the disadvantage of many who place their full trust and faith in its smoke-and-mirrors machine.
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"Not only is the GOP endangering the lives of Americans with their promise to take funding from women's health clinics, but their excuse is based on nothing but smoke and mirrors," American Bridge President Jessica Mackler, said in a statement shared with Refinery29.
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While the dozens of pages rehearsing those old viewpoints may look superficially sound, that part of the opinion is smoke and mirrors, because the 2010 Congress's intention is not relevant to this case — the 2010 law is no longer what is at issue.
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One senior vice president at the school complained in an email that the use of the software company Adobe in advertisements was "smoke and mirrors" because the chain did business with the company but did not have any academic relationship with it.
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"Until there&aposs public offering or other exit, you don&apost really know if that&aposs a real valuation or if it&aposs just smoke and mirrors," Renee Jones, a professor at Boston College Law School who focuses on securities regulation, said.
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From honey-butter-flavored chips to cup noodles that taste like turtle and shark fin to neon udon noodles, there is no shortage of mad scientists and snack companies looking to use the smoke and mirrors of flavor chemistry to heighten our food experience.
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Jakarta-based foreign legal counsel Bill Sullivan described the government approach as a "smoke and mirrors strategy", on the one hand appearing to retain a tough stance on miners for a domestic audience, while being careful to allow them enough room to continue commercial operations.
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"The Saudi government only confirmed what Hasan Minhaj so brilliantly argued---that the crown prince's so-called 'reform agenda' is smoke and mirrors at best, or as is increasingly becoming clear, actually represents a further deterioration of political freedom in the country," Shahbaz says.
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But what Mr. Hilfiger's four-season cycle demonstrates is that when the social-media friendly smoke and mirrors clear, it's still about clothes, and if the clothes aren't very good — aren't original or interesting or desirable — then it doesn't matter how revved up you get.
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Speaking with CNBC's "Street Signs," Steger said Trump's comments on the deal were "smoke and mirrors" as the U.S. president actually "only has legal authority from Congress to renegotiate the NAFTA at this point in time," rather than the bilateral agreement which was announced.
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Talk of a health care vote meanwhile looks like a new case of smoke and mirrors from the White House -- absent any clear sign that differences between moderates and conservatives in the GOP caucus have been narrowed sufficiently to prompt GOP leaders to schedule another floor showdown.
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Unfortunately, the EPA regulatory model provides a smoke and mirrors approach to reducing emissions, and Pennsylvania has been quick to use the opportunity to pretend to advance a clean energy future while doubling down on the production of dirty energy in the form of fracked natural gas.
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"I know everyone says our economy is good right now, but I think it's kind of smoke and mirrors," said Nick Zydmont, a 32-year-old landscaper who lives in the Cleveland suburbs as he watched his children ride their bikes in the driveway on a recent morning.
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Baum interviewed Ehrlichman and others for his 1996 book "Smoke and Mirrors," but said he left out the Ehrlichman comment from the book because it did not fit the narrative style focused on putting the readers in the middle of the backroom discussions themselves, without input from the author.
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"This industry is plagued by a lot of secrecy, and a lot of smoke and mirrors, and we want to be the opposite, and show this is the tool we built, this is what it does," Danny Rogers, CEO and co-founder, told Motherboard in a phone call.
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Usually a mindful star, she is exploited here for her intelligence, and for her distrust, which has always been part of her style: her performances cut through the smoke and mirrors of "acting" to show us something true and brutal about life and the spilled blood of history.
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The end of this week is an incredibly romantic time for you to go on a date, but if it's a first date, be wary of their first impression; there will be a lot of fireworks, but Neptune tends to be smoke and mirrors, so remember to be playful.
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It is neither a profound nor an original observation to suggest that there has been, in the last 10 years or so, a seismic shift in significance away from what happens in full view on the field toward what happens in the smoke and mirrors of the transfer market.
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While last week's Apple keynote in Cupertino, CA, didn't exactly bring the smoke and mirrors of March's event (wherein Oprah and Tim Cook hugged before a standing ovation and I may have shed a tear), there are three new additions to the iPhone family not to be slept on.
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I'm disappointed that The New York Times, which had been consistent in its coverage of the true reality of Trump rather than all the smoke and mirrors, seems to be a part of the act being put on by Trump and his associates to fool the American people.
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I realize there's probably no version of the story where you're able to ditch Clementine, as Telltale's "decisions" are often clever smoke and mirrors with little actual deviation, but the reason they're clever is because I can still feel this wide range of emotions within that space, as evidenced above.
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Failing monopolization, or basic business stuff like "making money," SoftBank can at least keep up the smoke-and-mirrors long enough to do an IPO so it, a startup's founders, and other early investors make a lot of money; later investors, employees, customers, and the public at large get screwed.
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Back in the pilot we got a look at Midge's secret bedtime routine, where she went to sleep fully primped, removed all the smoke and mirrors while Joel slept, woke up with the first ray of dawn to re-primp, and then slipped back into bed with Joel none the wiser.
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"Like a small-town carnival magician who attempts to confuse the audience with smoke and mirrors, Avenatti attempts to somehow justify his conduct by pulling the First Amendment out of his tiny bag of tricks while at the same time pointing his finger at others," Blakely wrote in requesting the order.
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Then again, we can probably agree that the auction house probably sees no benefit in revealing this, since the type of capitalism Sotheby's and other blue-chip auction houses play is a form of smoke and mirrors (just think about the 'Salvator Mundi' that is reputedly by Leonardo da Vinci … yeah, sure).
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Rand Paul, do defect, and the media can keep it's eye on the health care ball without getting swept away in "RUSSIA COMEY TAPES COMEY RUSSIA," no amount of smoke and mirrors and Twitter tantrums from the Tweeter-in-Chief will distract from the AHCA's failure, which would be a black eye on Trump's presidency.
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"The Israeli government and its surrogates are using smoke and mirrors to confuse the public and deceive the international community in order to derail any efforts to revive the peace process, while appropriating more Palestinian land and building new illegal settlements," said Jamal Dajani, director of strategic communications at the Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah's office.
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Millisecond by millisecond, skeptics scanned for evidence of computer imagery, of trickery and fraud — of smoke and mirrors — and, of course, a few thought they found it, even after the ghost appeared in public, shaking hands with Jimmy Kimmel on live TV. By then, however, too much other footage had appeared, and the truth was impossible to deny.
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On Tuesday, Bob McNally, founder and president of energy consulting firm The Rapidan Group, told CNBC any so-called freeze by Saudi Arabia should be considered "smoke and mirrors" because the country will merely be returning to a normal rate of production after helping to push OPEC output up by about 900,000 barrels a day since February.
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Douglas Massey, a professor of sociology at Princeton and the author of "Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Age of Economic Integration" pointed out in an email, for example, that net illegal migration has been zero or negative for eight years, so building walls and increasing border enforcement is addressing a problem that no longer exists.
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And Paul Ryan, the current but departing speaker, is a flimflam man: a fake deficit hawk whose one legislative achievement is a budget-busting tax cut, a fake policy wonk whose budget proposals were always obvious smoke and mirrors, pretending to address the budget deficit but actually just redistributing income from the poor to the rich.
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And that may well be the future for Ataribox: An exciting curio that comes pre-loaded with Atari classics and perhaps also — based on the few specs we do know — streams PC games and online video services to your TV. But one month after the reveal and two announcements in, any possibility of something more than that is merely smoke and mirrors.
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Yet to the growing horror and exasperation of those working for him (whose testimonials are the spine of the documentary), it turned out to be smoke and mirrors, leaving those who bought tickets essentially stranded in a far-away locale with marginal food and tents standing in for the beachfront villas they were promised, creating a "Lord of the Flies"-type melee.
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We won't have to wait long to find out, but countering the potential for more smoke and mirrors is a real tightening in the zinc supply chain in the North American market Although it's dropped out of the headlines, the strike at the CEZ refinery in Canada, North America's second-largest producer of refined zinc, is rumbling on into its fifth month.
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READ: The remains returned by North Korea are "likely American" — but they could take decades to identify "President Trump's presidency is yet again showing a smoke and mirrors foreign policy, aimed at securing the illusion of a win for his self-interest, while American national interest is dealt a major loss," Brian Klass, a political scientist at the London School of Economics, told VICE News.
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It got worse on "Blue Jeans;" Del Rey sounded like she was a ventriloquist singing with a 22011-pound dummy sitting on her chest (the "no, please" at 22014:103 is a particular lowlight): Del Rey's bad showing was, to her biggest critics, a sign that her meteoric rise was undeserved, her sudden popularity a product of smoke and mirrors orchestrated by her label Interscope.
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Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images But in the end, when you take out the fake grass lawn, the cartoon Einstein that joined Benioff and co-founder Parker Harris on stage for the keynote — Einstein is part of Salesforce's latest initiative involving artificial intelligence — and all of the smoke and mirrors, it was ultimately about entertaining and informing customers, and selling Salesforce as a visionary company.
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Prince gave us Purple Rain, Beyonce gave us Lemonade, Ocean gave us Blond(e), and while I'm not saying that Harry needs to present the public with an unparalleled masterpiece in order to legitimise six years of smoke and mirrors, only time will tell whether he is art's most interesting new saviour, or just another ex-boy band member hoping to shrug off his past.
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The less auspicious nations have not done it with smoke and mirrors, either: Northern Ireland beat Ukraine; Wales ran all over Group B; Hungary defeated Austria and tied Portugal; and Ireland capped the final match day by beating Italy, 1-0, on a late goal from Robbie Brady that sent the Irish through and their fans on to a party that does not figure to stop for quite some time.
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Not all of these cars are scheduled to hit production immediately, and for many of them — the Kona, the V60, the Polestar 1 — it's not exactly clear when they might leave Europe or China and come to the US. But it was clear at this year's Geneva Motor Show that the promises being made by car companies around the world about going electric are not just marketing smoke and mirrors.
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The US military budget, meanwhile, declined in real terms from $768 billion in 2010 to $19913 billion in 2015; on its current trajectory, defense spending will soon represent a smaller share of GDP than at any time since the outbreak of World War II. Steps to bolster the American military deterrent in any meaningful way — as opposed to the smoke-and-mirrors "buildup" proposed by President Donald Trump — are politically infeasible, with entitlement spending still a sacred cow and tax increases apparently unfathomable.
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So much so, in fact, that it's pulled me out of retirement on the record label front too and as soon as I've got some time and spare money to put the plans into action there will be around half a dozen labels run with and by friends, a distribution and manufacturing arm called Twelveinchpeople and a vinyl only boutique promo service called Smoke and Mirrors that will handle all our releases and a few from other friends and co-conspirators.
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