"That's a smokescreen," Weaver says of the 6 percent cut.
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Free speech can be less a principle than a smokescreen.
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Many feel the tweetstorm was simply a smokescreen, hiding THE TRUTH.
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"I think it's just a smokescreen for other issues," he says.
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Many fear privatisation would be a smokescreen for enriching his cronies.
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"It's like a smokescreen," Mavhinga says of the current election setup.
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And no, their recent "innovation" smokescreen isn't going to protect them.
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Often, moments like this act as a smokescreen to enable serial harassers.
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Akbar Al Baker told CNBC Tuesday that those allegations were a smokescreen.
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The challenge for the Democrats will be to get behind the smokescreen.
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They have thrown every smokescreen to deflect and distract — videos, guns, etc.
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The desire for religious liberty is not a smokescreen for hypocrisy and bigotry.
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Whether it was because of the smokescreen or not, I will never know.
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Inside Aleppo, tyres were also burnt to create a smokescreen against air strikes.
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It will also be a smokescreen for their easy substitute for clear legislation.
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She said the legal arguments put forward so far amount to a smokescreen.
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That position allows him to use political paralysis in Washington as a smokescreen.
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Trade geeks worry that the focus on national security is a smokescreen for protectionism.
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Right-wing governments say foreign interference is real, while leftists call it a smokescreen.
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The education question is a smokescreen for the real issue for anti-Stratfordianists: class.
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But a legal sale of ivory could also provide a smokescreen for poaching to continue.
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Are their bland photo ops purely a smokescreen for the White House's more insidious actions?
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But Ukrainian officials and some security experts say the ransomware feature was likely a smokescreen.
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Those who see through this smokescreen believe that "America First" actually offers a better way.
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Are these signs you're headed in the right direction, or a smokescreen clouding your judgement?
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The vilification was a "smokescreen" to cover up attacks on local civic organizations, he added.
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The vilification was a "smokescreen" to cover up attacks on local civic organisations, he added.
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Medicaid has hidden far too long under a smokescreen of undisclosed costs and supposed states' rights.
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However, some believe the link between oil prices and sanctions waivers is something of a smokescreen.
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The documents served as a smokescreen of her alleged ownership of valuable properties outside the country.
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CNN's Chris Cillizza says it's just another Trump smokescreen on the (never-ending) Russia questions. 4.
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Its latest press release is just a smokescreen for the damage that it has already done.
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Complaints about diversity at the CFPB represent a smokescreen designed to distract from the real issue.
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Anyone keen on the matter understood it for what it really was: a well-calculated smokescreen.
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King was among the first to see how anti-Zionism was a smokescreen for anti-Semitism.
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Essentially, this refers to partial admissions meant to serve as a smokescreen to obscure something else.
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Soon after, Oculus offered to help provide an undisclosed amount for a new and novel virtual reality game called smokeSCREEN VR. To produce the prototype of smokeSCREEN VR, they selected PreviewLabs, founded by Bernard Francois in Belgium in 2010 and now based in the United States.
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Some Democrats in the state Legislature say that claims of protecting voter integrity are a Republican smokescreen.
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But these technical requirements cannot serve as a smokescreen to prevent the development of competing Android ecosystems.
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Welcher's flawed justifications are a smokescreen to cover Mulvaney's true mission: to destroy the CFPB from within.
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The West sees Russia's talk of fighting terrorism as a smokescreen for supporting Mr Assad's autocratic regime.
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Their constant invocation of coups tends to be a smokescreen for their own flouting of the rules.
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Calls for civility should never be used as a smokescreen for shifting the debate away from injustice.
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But as policies emerge from the smokescreen of campaign politics, a more troublesome pattern is taking shape.
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Some shareholders say that high level changes, including Cryan's exit, could be a smokescreen for bigger problems.
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It's a bit of a smokescreen to say that pending legislation ties Trump's hands in any way.
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This may be a smokescreen if, as some have speculated, the consulate was bugged by Turkish intelligence.
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The "blame video games" tactic is an obvious smokescreen, and no longer a good-faith policy proposal.
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Scruggs's portrayal makes it seem that Richard Jewell's "truth" tagline is a smokescreen for some other idea.
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Although Clinton did not make a final choice until late July, the competition was partly a smokescreen.
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They throw up a smokescreen of busy-ness as an excuse for missing their deadlines and deflecting assignments.
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Or at least, that was the smokescreen used by those who genuinely believed statements like these about Hitler.
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Identity politics are often used as a smokescreen to distract us from this viral culture of wealth extraction.
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Federal prosecutors said Warren's talk of deaths and suffering were a "smokescreen" for his attempt to smuggle migrants.
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The West regards this as a smokescreen for Russia's support for the autocratic regime of Bashar al-Assad.
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The idea that ending this immigration program has anything to do with the economy is a mere smokescreen.
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Still, some analysts say the Olympics may be used as a smokescreen for a company's underlying weak performance.
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Yet the government's efforts to rally around liberal causes has also been a smokescreen for manipulation and malfeasance.
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Opening even a limited legal trade creates a "smokescreen for poachers which is almost impossible to police," says Elliot.
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" Republican Senator Josh Hawley said the report was not a real audit but a "smokescreen disguised as a solution.
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So I was more like I was using my mom as a smokescreen for stuff I was thinking myself.
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Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, called the letter a "smokescreen" and demanded to know why the NYPD won't act sooner.
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It is a smokescreen behind which abortion extremists continue to distort the abortion debate and twist the judicial system.
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It sounds to me like you see this as a smokescreen or cover for these guys on the board.
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Its ostensive reason — that the legitimacy of the CSR payments is under review by the courts — is a smokescreen.
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" • Republicans deemed it a whitewash, with Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri calling it "a smokescreen disguised as a solution.
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" • Republicans deemed it a whitewash, with Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri calling it "a smokescreen disguised as a solution.
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Lima's brother, Luis, however, told local media that he believed the riot was a smokescreen for a state-sponsored assassination.
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Maybe it's all just a smokescreen that's trying to obfuscate a more incriminating image that's gone viral in recent days.
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But traditional beliefs are often used as a smokescreen, campaigners say, when the main driver of the killings is land.
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Expect a seriously powerful smokescreen, upgraded tire spikes, and explosives that can be dropped from the back of the car.
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I would rather not be part of the smokescreen that makes everybody think, 'Eh, it's fine,' because it's not fine.
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But consumer advocates say this is just a smokescreen intended to justify the elimination of rules designed to protect consumers.
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However, Chris says that this is often a smokescreen used to continue hunting as it was done before the ban.
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To many leftists, these criticisms felt like a smokescreen to distract from centrists' unwillingness to confront more fundamental class divides.
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Progressives are wrong to dismiss concerns about electability as just a smokescreen for people unwilling to challenge the status quo.
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"AGC is just a smokescreen for GrainCorp, as far as I'm concerned," said a farmer, who declined to give his name.
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Amidror told reporters a U.S. strike in Syria could be used by Iran as a smokescreen "to do something against Israel".
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Johnson's "entire buffoonish eye-rolling Oh-Boris smokescreen of a persona" was "forged in the fires" of the show, he said.
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Others suggested that the red flag law was just a smokescreen for Democrats to go after and criminalize conservative gun owners.
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An interesting literary device, yet it feels like a smokescreen and leaves you wondering how much more there is to tell.
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In the months leading up to the election, Ms. Conway generously lent her womanhood as a smokescreen to the Trump campaign.
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Washington points to inconsistencies -- EU salad leaves are regularly washed with chlorine -- and says EU rules are a smokescreen for protectionism.
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That's why all of the tough talk we're seeing from the Trump team is likely more of a smokescreen than anything else.
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" Everybody was relieved, including me on one level, but on the other level, I was going, "Oh man, there goes my smokescreen.
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She also made the case that his obsession with the words "radical Islam" was a smokescreen for his own lack of knowledge.
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Clarence Thomas, a Supreme Court justice who faced accusations of sexual misconduct 27 years ago, offered a smokescreen of blustery righteous indignation.
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That allegation looked like a smokescreen to protect Pablo Casado, the new PP leader, who is potentially in far more serious trouble.
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Democrats, instead, are opposing promising reforms to create a smokescreen for something much more nefarious - a partisan takeover of the Federal Reserve.
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Given Obama's record on Russia, one operating theory is that his people needed a smokescreen to obscure just how wrong they were.
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Others questioned whether the episode was a smokescreen intended to draw attention away from the Kavanaugh drama, the other story dominating Washington.
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My worry is electability is a smokescreen for for this sadly common thing, which is not wanting to support a female candidate.
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The women described how the militants had set the upper floors of their homes ablaze to create a smokescreen against coalition aircraft.
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On a tactical level, it gave Islamic State fighters a smokescreen to provide cover from coalition and Iraqi surveillance and air strikes.
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Fontes speculated that the jailbreak could have been arranged as a "smokescreen" for the Anisio Jobim riot, according to the Agencia Brasil report.
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But if there's no action accompanying that truth, then it's merely a smokescreen, big talk to cover up a rotting, self-perpetuating core.
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This case study highlights how the EU repeatedly uses environmental concerns as a smokescreen to protect its own companies and industries from competition.
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"Sometimes a bit of smokescreen, sometimes a bit of quiet, and sometimes a bit of opaqueness might serve us a little bit better."
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"The European Commission is putting up a smokescreen," said EU lawmaker Sven Giegold who sits in the EU parliament's committee on tax evasion.
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When the smokescreen of the claim that Republicans don't like regulation is removed, the stark substantive difference in party preferences becomes much clearer.
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Indeed, if smokeSCREEN VR and those planned to follow are successful, these young voices may eventually be heard across the country and beyond.
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For the most part, oil, gas, and coal companies hide behind the smokescreen that nations need to lead and the companies will follow.
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"(Gay marriage) has functioned as a smokescreen to hide other realities," said Isbel Diaz Torres, an activist for many issues, including LGBT rights.
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In fact, the links made between global terrorism and the drug trade have often turned out to be a smokescreen for government involvement.
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"This was all a smokescreen to cancel a public hearing," Speier said of announcing Manafort's plan to testify while putting off the public hearing.
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"However, prosecutors argued that the defense was using friendship as a smokescreen for corruption carried out by a "greedy doctor" and a "corrupt politician.
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But don't count on that, researchers at FireEye said: Cozy Bear sometimes uses easy-to-catch attacks as a smokescreen for more covert ones.
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Civil servants at the Shaab café in Sulaimaniyah complained Mr Barzani had called the referendum as a smokescreen to hide his government's internal woes.
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And some public health experts have warned that electronic cigarettes are just a smokescreen to get kids addicted to nicotine from an early age.
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" Earlier, Delattre told reporters that the agreement "should not be another smokescreen allowing some to crush Syrian civilians and the opposition in all impunity.
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Advocates brush that legislation aside as a smokescreen because the state already has similar laws in place for people suffering with mental health issues.
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Now, opponents are throwing up a smokescreen of distortions and misinformation as they try to repeal reform and return to gouging consumers and merchants.
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Enrique said he thought the virus might be a "smokescreen" or an excuse by cartel leaders to raise prices, but he was also nervous.
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Meanwhile, independent scientists toiling in their labs were finding other evidence, and several of them told POLITICO that the industry argument is a smokescreen.
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The opposition scoffs that an inept government blames Maduro critics as a smokescreen for rampant crime and lack of maintenance that have Venezuela's infrastructure creaking.
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The policy neutrality issue is a smokescreen to put off any interest rate increases until after the elections (in early November) and year-end holidays.
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RB: And that CrowdStrike's report saying that the DNC was hacked by Russian hackers is a smokescreen covering up the Democrats' own collusion with Ukraine.
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If anything, I didn't go far enough in my earlier argument—"the robots are coming" is not just a smokescreen for management to disappear behind.
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The DOJ is reportedly thinking about an antitrust investigation of Google but Trump's comments today hint that "antitrust" might be a smokescreen for other motives.
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Trump has frequently assailed allegations of possible collusion between his associates and Moscow as a smokescreen intended to compensate for Clinton's unexpected loss in November.
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His comments reinforced questions about whether the President's remarks were a real statement of US policy or simply an attempt to throw up a smokescreen.
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But so long as they position themselves as underdogs, they risk empowering those who seek to use their invented victimhood as a smokescreen for bigotry.
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And with Pelosi having just rubber-stamped McConnell and Trump's $4.6 billion emergency aid package, these freshmen lawmakers see this new effort as a smokescreen.
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Meanwhile, it was churning out a smokescreen that would make James Bond's gadget guru, Q, green with envy (and perhaps also with nausea from the fumes).
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Some houses have been torched, either to create a smokescreen against coalition aircraft bombing Islamic State in support of Iraqi forces, or apparently out of spite.
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"Secretary Ross's directive is nothing more than a smokescreen designed to weaken these protections," said Kate Poole, water program director for the NRDC, in a statement.
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It's a sad truth that whenever British conservatives use the phrase "great country" it's usually just a smokescreen – employing supposedly "British values" to disguise racist rhetoric.
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"You are using First Amendment values as a smokescreen to mask harmful policy decisions that Facebook is making to advance its corporate self-interest," wrote Clarke.
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I think this blank denial from Number 10 today may be a smokescreen because she does not want to influence the outcome of the European elections.
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"You are putting up a smokescreen to ensure there is an advancement of Donald Trump's dirty policies," Markey said, in one of the hearing's most heated exchanges.
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Rarely reluctant to appear before TV cameras or answer a reporter's call, Giuliani has spent nearly a year acting as a sort of human smokescreen for Trump.
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Behind the smokescreen of multi-polar chaos, Putin is ramping up cyber warfare to keep Western powers, including the U.S., from keeping Ukraine from Russian state capture.
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The background plot between Ford and the mysterious Arnold was really just a smokescreen for Ford's larger project of liberating the minds and bodies of the hosts.
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It polls well, and while some versions of the idea are unworkable or a hazy rhetorical smokescreen for total transformation of American society, others are perfectly sensible.
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He is using possible discrimination against Asian-Americans as a smokescreen for his true goal of promoting a colorblind admissions system that will benefit whites the most.
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Google doesn't seem especially interested in surprises this year, which could all be a big smokescreen for some massive reveal none of us could have seen coming.
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Fortunately, Congress saw through the banks' smokescreen and, in one of its most significant actions this year, resisted the big banks' pleas to let them throttle competition.
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It turned out to be another smokescreen to help Trump distract the public from Russia's effort to divide the country and help Trump win the White House.
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Democrats argue that the allegations are a smokescreen designed to shift the focus onto a popular GOP target — Clinton — and undermine Mueller's investigation into the Trump campaign.
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But after the redacted Mueller report was released and Attorney General William Barr seemed to create a smokescreen for President Trump, Warner is now ready to talk.
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That would appear to put to rest a lot of concerns about how there weren't any Americans in the papers, but it's all a smokescreen, or something. Probably.
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Kelly sings of being sexually abused as a child, of having sexual relationships with multiple fans, and of numerous peccadilloes—but it all reads as a calculated smokescreen.
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The car still has a large collection of fully-functioning gadgets, including bulletproof windows, dual machine guns, an ejector seat, a tracking display, a smokescreen, and tire slashers.
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EU ministers held their third debate on the matter in Brussels on Tuesday, with Germany and France warning Poland against using discussions with the Commission as a smokescreen.
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Julien Viard, a digital recruiter for eight years, told Mashable Australia he wrote the ad to challenge the smokescreen, which he sees as a common reoccurrence in job ads.
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To kick off the second half of Train, Olofmeister set up on top of a train on Bombsite B and fired into Na'Vi's smokescreen, whittling down the team's health.
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However, Starboard said on Monday it was "extremely concerned" that any potential sale process may not be genuine, but a smokescreen to distract from the board changes it wants.
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Yet interlocutors charged that calls for a level playing field were just a smokescreen hiding America's true intention of trying to limit China's legitimate goal to pursue high technologies.
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"Poroshenko is very adept at creating this smokescreen of assurances to the West and then fulfilling about 15 percent of them," said John Lough, a researcher at Chatham House.
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But if that tune still ends up saying, "if you're white you're alright" and "if you're black get back," all this talk about racial fluidity will be a smokescreen.
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Dota 2 gets a lot of press about its eye-popping prize pools, but that's often a smokescreen obscuring the deep inequalities that grip the game's global competitive scene.
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It's important to remember that despite the smokescreen the big banks put up, the Durbin Amendment, as debit reform is known, is an incontrovertible success and should be protected.
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But opponents of the law claimed that this was a smokescreen — and the real goal was to crush the plant-based foods that Mississippi farmers perceived as a threat.
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Joshua Block, an ACLU attorney who represents the plaintiffs in the Maryland case, said he was happy the appeals court saw through the government's "smokescreen" to further delay enlistment.
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Such claims have usually been dismissed as a smokescreen to distract from problems at home, but a drone exploded at a Maduro event last year, in an apparent attack.
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Nunes and many conservatives say there's proof in the memo that the FBI is corrupt, and the FBI and Democrats say this is all a smokescreen to protect the president.
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Jordan T. Smith, an assistant Nevada solicitor general, countered at Wednesday&aposs hearing that the state didn&apost put up a "smokescreen" or do anything wrong in getting the drugs.
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Example: The Mueller probe is actually being run by Trump as a smokescreen to cover up an investigation into sex trafficking by Democrats and moviestars, according to some Q believers.
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Borrowers who struggle to repay may "convert the debt into stock" held by the Mafia creditor, often behind the smokescreen of a figurehead administrator, says Michele Riccardi of Crime&tech.
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Waymo has accused Levandowski of setting up Otto as a smokescreen, claiming he had no intention of running his own company and always planned to bring Waymo's secrets to Uber.
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While several of the accused said they would seek help for their "sex addiction," therapists who treat sexual addiction say that claim can be a smokescreen to excuse the inexcusable.
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On the other hand, releasing it at the target location, then trusting the collateral damage and superficial similarities to WannaCry to act as a smokescreen is a pretty good plan.
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Every week between now and Inauguration Day – especially behind the smokescreen of Christmas and New Years – the only thing stopping Russia from deepening its military stranglehold is Putin's own whim.
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Another piece that interests me is how sometimes the "giving back," the generosity of big tech companies or tech billionaires, or whatever it is, can end up being a smokescreen.
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"The gun control lobby and anti-gun politicians are intentionally politicizing the Violence Against Women Act as a smokescreen to push their gun-control agenda," NRA spokesperson Jennifer Baker told NPR.
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It's all part of an elaborate digital smokescreen created by at least one online reputation and SEO company hired to scrub the Rubins' criminal history from the surface of the internet.
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But critics say the environmental features are a smokescreen for the real goal: extracting as much private data as possible from residents of the Canadian city to boost Sidewalk Labs' profits.
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One legislator claimed that the PISA tests, which are organised by the OECD, a club of mainly rich countries, were a "smokescreen" and a "business" paid for by Mr Saavedra's ministry.
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As for the guitars, she and Spencer Fox rip out harsh, fuzzy, clanky power chords as if throwing a smokescreen in front of the frenetic pounding beat hot on their tails.
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Now a new virtual reality game, called smokeSCREEN VR, is being tested to address the challenges that teens face when it comes to social pressures and the use of e-cigarettes.
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According to Dr. Kimberly Hieftje, a research scientist and director of the Play4Real lab, smokeSCREEN VR is the first pilot-tested VR videogame intervention focusing on e-cigarette prevention in teens.
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Bringing it to the community has always been our goal, and we'll partner with the New Haven school system to test smokeSCREEN VR with some of the young people they enlist.
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Most importantly, those who proclaim their intention to want to aid the Haitian people must be honest and transparent about conflicts of interest that turn humanitarian aid into a smokescreen for exploitation.
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I don't think there is any smokescreen that because you cast Scarlett Johansson in a role in a Japanese anime that is now not a Japanese anime but is an international film.
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Believers in the QAnon conspiracy hold that President Trump is a "brilliant four-dimensional chess player" using the Mueller investigation as a smokescreen to root out the murderous, Satanic, pedophilic deep state.
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Efforts in Guatemala to clean up the police have also stalled: arrests for small-scale extortion and drug pushing provide a convenient smokescreen for senior officers suspected of links with organized crime.
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"The president put up a smokescreen behind which he is determined to reform the political system based on a new ideological project," political scientist Vladimir Pastukhov wrote in the Novaya Gazeta newspaper.
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Debates about who is 'electable' (or not) have become a smokescreen for lingering discomfort with what we have still, after 2020 years as a republic, never seen: the election of a woman president.
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Unfortunately, the allegations of Pruitt's personal ethics violations created a smokescreen under which the Trump administration has moved forward in misguided and dangerous policy directions that threaten public health and undermine environmental protection.
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It's time to clear the air of this ideological smokescreen and reckon clearly with what's happening here — powerful fossil fuel incumbents are stifling innovation and racking up costs on our children's credit card.
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This is the smokescreen they use to justify their efforts to deport millions, to keep people out of the country, and, ultimately, to try and remake the racial and ethnic composition of America.
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Maybe so, but the more pessimistic view is that Putin represents a now-entrenched revanchist nationalism that sees the liberal international order as a mere smokescreen for the advancement of Western political agendas.
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Tanzanians' belief in witchcraft dates back centuries as a way of explaining common misfortunes like death, failed harvests and infertility, although this is often a smokescreen for other disputes, such as over land.
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Several regents responded in court docs -- essentially saying Shillinglaw's suit is just a "smokescreen" to hide the truth about the program under Briles ... and they included several damning text messages to prove their point.
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So the podcast's opening revelation that the "S-Town" title is a smokescreen for a something much blunter is a perfect setup for the various bluffs, double bluffs, and unexpected U-turns to come.
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Now it looks like showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have deployed another smokescreen for the highly-anticipated eighth season as part of their Blu-ray audio commentary for Rick and Morty season three.
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Titus (Tituss Burgess) used melodrama and a closetful of exquisite kimonos to distract from his self-consciousness and vulnerability; Jacqueline's (Jane Krakowski) snobbery was largely performative, a smokescreen hiding the insecurity at her core.
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The Obama administration has been a foreign policy disaster, that in many ways has redefined war, hiding behind secrecy and subverting transparency to smokescreen what the United States is doing in the Middle East.
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"Texans have a good ability to see through baloney, to see through a smokescreen, to see through rhetoric and to look to substance," Cruz said at an event in Houston, the state's largest city.
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Cyborg's past has become a smokescreen behind which a segment of the MMA community can hide while openly expressing a lot of their anxieties about women's roles in both the sport and in life.
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A member of the government's economic team contends that Mr Bolsonaro's preoccupation with fighting culture wars serves as a "smokescreen" that allows Mr Guedes and Mr Maia to take the lead on economic legislation.
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While new to America, using gay rights as a smokescreen through which to advocate anti-Muslim policies is a favorite trick of the European far right, and has been for more than a decade.
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But network chief Neville Ray argues that all this 5G talk from the major carriers, especially Verizon, is largely a smokescreen to hide the fact that T-Mobile has caught up with them on 4G.
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While the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries may be able to claim relatively high compliance with its plan to lower output by 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd), this is ultimately just a smokescreen.
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But Russia said on Thursday the United States was using "a verbal smokescreen" to hide its reluctance to fulfill its part of the agreement, including separating what it called moderate opposition units from terrorist groups.
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There are traces of burnt vegetation, consistent with witnesses' reports that the militants started fires that acted as a smokescreen for French fighter jets who arrived on the scene two hours after the ambush began.
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"He uses the process reforms as a smokescreen to try to steer people away from the fact that he is dismantling pro-consumer, pro-competitive and pro-social policies from the previous administration," Sohn said.
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Even boring celebrities like the BFG of political journalism, Andrew Marr, had taken one out to throw a smokescreen up around a story that he had a lovechild (DNA testing subsequently revealed the child wasn't his).
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First move—the howitzers lay down a protective smokescreen behind the first row of buildings on the northern edge of the city, blocking the view from the three- and four-story prefab concrete blocks deeper within.
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While slashing "outdated and redundant federal regulations" may sound prudent on the surface, Rosenberg, a former regulator, says it's often a smokescreen that can be used to block policy measures protecting public health and the environment.
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Additionally, she called for the elimination of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement – a growing call among progressive Democrats – and said "law and order is the smokescreen that bigots hide their hate behind," according to PJ Media.
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Thorin follows a familiar pattern for edgelord commentary: step right up to the edge and walk away, leaving enough ambiguity in place so you can deploy a rhetorical smokescreen when you've "accidentally" gone over the line.
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Some opposition politicians and activists have accused the PSD of using the vote as a smokescreen to divert attention from its leader's legal problems, and its clashes with the European Commission over the rule of law.
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What's more, Avenatti says Greenberg is "attempting to create a smokescreen to distract away from the mountain of evidence" Avenatti claims the Cook County State Attorney has against the singer to prove he abused underage girls.
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"Sometimes it makes sense to fear what's going on in Washington, but sometimes political worries are simply a smokescreen that the shorts use to scare you out of high quality stocks," the "Mad Money " host said.
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He also subjected the Italian judiciary to unprecedented harassment on the grounds that it stood for the intrusion of the state into Italians' liberty, which was in part a smokescreen for avoiding his own judicial woes.
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Rather than reshaping society to accommodate the needs of workers, Harris's plan appears designed to keep more people working for longer, suiting the interests of their employers and using gestures towards community input as a smokescreen.
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But U.S. intelligence agencies later revealed the "hacktivist" group was a smokescreen, and the attack was actually sponsored by Iran, partially in response to sanctions imposed against the country by the U.S. and other international organizations.
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"School safety" is sometimes a smokescreen used by conservatives to avoid talking about gun control—to the point where a Florida commission formed in the wake of the Parkland shooting recommended putting more guns in schools.
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The convention, which opens Monday afternoon, will attract some 50,000 people plus a global audience watching from afar, providing the perfect platform and smokescreen for hack attacks, said Orlando Scott-Cowley, a strategist with cybersecurity firm Mimecast.
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Inside a tent a few hundred yards from the fence, a group of young men rested before donning skeleton masks, heading out to set tires ablaze to create a smokescreen — and then attempting to cross into Israel.
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In recent years, instead of using technology as doctors do to save lives and achieve improved outcomes, some have used it as a smokescreen to try to mislead the public and undermine very basic quality care standards.
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Tech companies go above and beyond to showcase their tolerance for diversity of all kinds—Damore's suit references Google "catering to employees with alternative lifestyles, including furries, polygamy, transgenderism, and plurality"—but this is all a smokescreen.
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Grauer's gorilla, the planet's biggest primate which can weigh up to 400 pounds (180 kgs), is found in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where minerals have been plundered for decades under the smokescreen of conflict and instability.
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This giving serves as a smokescreen on two fronts: in addition to creating a general air of concern about public health, it also advertises Coca-Cola products to children — a practice that Coke has sworn not to do.
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The media has been acting like the opposition party, with its false narrative on Russia nothing but a smokescreen to obscure the potential, and I think real, crimes of the Clintons, the Obama administration and the Democrat leadership.
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Though the government claims that they are only targeting supporters of Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in a Pennsylvania mansion, critics say the purges are a smokescreen for an attack on any critics of the government.
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Because these memes, and the fears that they provoke, are all so tightly connected, "chain migration" is both an ideological concern about America selecting immigrants based on their merit, and a racist smokescreen for fears of demographic change.
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Whether or not you think they created an all-time great gimmick by giving off the appearance they were manufacturing uncanny-valley pop stars in a lab, the prankish collective wielded amazing pop songs beneath the smokescreen of hype.
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Gore, speaking on the sidelines of a 200-nation meeting on global warming in Germany, dismissed Trump's stated willingness to re-engage in the 2015 pact if he won better terms for U.S. taxpayers and businesses as a "smokescreen".
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A particularly vitriolic form of anti-environmental religious thinking, a series of videos entitled "Resisting the green dragon", warns that concern about the planet is a smokescreen for an effort to take over and control the lives of Americans.
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And the fact is that this latest unmasking episode is a smokescreen to distract from the broader issue -- which is that the President of the United States made a completely unfounded and very serious allegation against his immediate predecessor.
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In an effort to create a smokescreen for their smear campaign, they focused solely on those people in their justifications, neglecting to mention the rest of us—who simply hold political views they dislike, or are vocal about antifascism.
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We got the conservative pundit Tuesday in D.C., and he said Trump's tweet storm claiming Amazon is screwing the U.S. Postal Service is a BS smokescreen for his hatred of the Washington Post ... which Bezos bought back in 2013.
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NEWS ANALYSIS JERUSALEM — The "Friday of Tires" protest ended with another nine Palestinians killed along the fence hemming in Gaza despite a smokescreen of burning rubber and a second round of international criticism over Israel's use of lethal force.
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In short, Iran seeks to use a pause in their pursuit of nuclear weapons capabilities to strengthen their conventional military while simultaneously using the JCPOA as a smokescreen to camouflage their continued aggression in Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
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They represent a moment in which this particularly vicious brand of Islamophobia, including the use of pro-gay rhetoric as a smokescreen, can go mainstream and become the defining ideology of the Republican Party for a whole election cycle.
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Waymo claims that Anthony Levandowski, one of Otto's co-founders, stole 22016,22016 confidential files on his way out the door and then founded Otto as a smokescreen that would give Uber plausible deniability to get its hands on Google's intellectual property.
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But whereas they see mainstream Republicans like Paul Ryan or Jeb Bush making those appeals as a smokescreen for unpopular economic policies, they want to pair the appeals with an nationalist economic agenda that is actually popular with these voters.
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The position has ebbed and waned with the price since then, although Gelin may have thrown down a partial smokescreen by rolling part of it to the very end of the Shanghai copper curve, where there are no daily disclosure reports.
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"Behind the smokescreen, we believe that the blockading nations are seeking to isolate and punish Qatar for our independence and to retaliate against us for supporting the true aspirations of people against tyrants and dictators," Meshal bin Hamad al-Thani wrote.
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The company is in the process of "healing and fixing," Chairman Leonard Riggio said on a post-earnings call with analysts, adding that the former CEO's lawsuit was "nothing but a smokescreen in an attempt to extort money from the company".
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He has also said that some days he does not even like playing tennis, although Becker says that could be a smokescreen for dealing with the inevitable spotlight that came his way after he stunned Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon in 2014.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. Both murderers used their knowledge of chemsex—male sex parties, often organized on dating apps, which are fueled by mephedrone, G, and crystal meth—as a pretext and a smokescreen for their gruesome killings.
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"The civilian death toll we've uncovered in just a handful of strikes suggests the shroud of secrecy surrounding the U.S. role in Somalia's war is actually a smokescreen for impunity," Brian Castner, Amnesty International's senior crisis adviser, said in a statement.
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"We are happy that the court saw through the government's smokescreen and rejected its request to further delay the policy allowing transgender people to enlist," Josh Block, senior staff attorney with the ACLU LGBT & HIV Project, said in a statement.
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"The administration's new tax form is a smokescreen designed to conceal paperwork, additional calculations and Trump's broken promise to simplify the tax code," Senator Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement.
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The lesson here is that we shouldn't be surprised when men like C.K. turn out to be misogynistic predators — and we shouldn't get so distracted by the smokescreen of their "feminist" actions that we totally miss their misogyny hiding in plain sight.
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"Title IX is thrown up at times as a smokescreen to prevent candid ways of dealing with some of the longstanding problems that we've had in college sports," said Drexel sport management professor Ellen Staurowsky, a NCAA critic and college sports historian.
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Maduro claimed Trump had asked the right-wing government of Colombia to carry out his killing, an argument critics of the Venezuelan leader said was a smokescreen designed to build support at home amid protests of his government and food and medicine shortages.
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A top Ukrainian police official told Reuters that the extortion demands were likely a smokescreen, echoing working hypotheses from top cyber security firms, who consider NotPetya a "wiper", or tool for destroying data and wiping hard disks clean, that is disguised as ransomware.
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"The civilian death toll we've uncovered in just a handful of strikes suggests the shroud of secrecy surrounding the U.S. role in Somalia's war is actually a smokescreen for impunity," said Brian Castner, Amnesty International's Senior Crisis Advisor on Arms and Military Operations.
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Disney has created an augmented reality app to allow just this, but given the company's core competencies I can't help but wonder if the museum use case is just a smokescreen for another — specifically, the smartification of millions of ordinary story books.
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A couple years ago, when Apple CEO Tim Cook started talking up Apple's services revenue—largely millions of tiny purchases of songs on iTunes and apps in Apple's App Store—critics assumed this was a smokescreen to distract from weakening hardware sales.
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If it isn't, it could provide a smokescreen for Amazon to continue doing business with oil companies, promoting rampant, emissions-heavy consumption, and accelerating planetary crisis for years to come—just behind an elaborate tableau of sustainability initiatives and public relations-generated goodwill.
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"Either Russia has given the U.N. and this council assurances it has proved too weak to deliver on, or it was all a cynical smokescreen designed to divert attention and energy while Russia, Syria and Iran prosecuted the military campaign," she told the council.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump threw up a smokescreen of deflection and confusing counter attacks Thursday as a furor mounted over his staggering comment that he would be open to dirt dug up on his 2020 opponents by foreign powers such as Russia or China.
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In addition to spying and destroying the routers, Chesla warned about the potential of the devices being networked to launch denial-of-service attacks, redirect users to malicious websites, or even launch ransomware (which is sometimes used as a smokescreen to more destructive ends).
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A bigger problem is that by lumping together climate and social policy the proposal appears to confirm one of the main Republican arguments for inaction on global warming: a contention that Democrats are using the issue as a smokescreen for a left-wing economic agenda.
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In another crucial step back from initial plans, on Tuesday the EU Executive led by former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, decided to dismiss a legal procedure that could make tax reforms easier to agree, prompting lawmakers to dub the move as a "smokescreen".
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Ryan Zinke's Department of the Interior is "reviewing" some National Monuments, in what some fear is a smokescreen for an inevitable sell-off of public lands—ignoring the fact that monuments are reviewed, often by conservationists as well as by experts within the federal government, before designation.
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I think there's a great deal of concern that a cruise missile strike on Syria could easily become a smokescreen for a White House that wants to flood the zone on media at a time when they move to remove someone at the Department of Justice.
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Jenny threw up a smokescreen around the truth and then chose to live with this more palatable story, a story that allowed her to sleep, to thrive in her career, to travel around the world interviewing those far less fortunate, spinning their worlds into narrative thread.
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To some — like The New York Times's awards columnist, Kyle Buchanan — Netflix's newfound attention to theatrical distribution is a smokescreen: a case of creating the appearance of an interest in theaters in order to keep a coming release, Alfonso Cuarón's much-anticipated "Roma," in the Oscar race.
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We know what the aim of these games is and demonstrate a willingness to establish a genuinely independent and professional mechanism if you need genuine cooperation rather than a smokescreen for political manipulation and then we will have trust in you -- that trust will then emerge.
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While recent reports say two hackers have launched an onion site to claim the Equifax breach and demand over 600 Bitcoin (roughly $85033 million) in ransom, this could easily be scammers trying to capitalize on the potential leak, or even a calculated smokescreen by a nationstate group.
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All too often, artistic expression — and artistic freedom — has doubled as a kind of smokescreen for self-indulgent behavior: The erotic feelings art and artistic collaboration evokes in (usually) men is so deep-seated, so powerful that they cannot help (they say) but succumb to their urges.
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Nef is poignantly resilient as Bex, a trans woman who, like Lily, projects utmost fierce yasss feminist pride in her public persona; this is a smokescreen concealing a fragile being whose face crumples when the boy she likes uses her for sex but is ashamed to go public.
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He said his biggest worry was that the commission would be used as a smokescreen to justify revoking Obama-era guidance on discipline, which was issued in 2014 to address long-standing concerns that minority students were being disproportionately disciplined and removed from schools compared to their white peers.
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Brian Castner, Amnesty International's Senior Crisis Advisor on Arms and Military Operations, said the civilian death toll in the small number of air strikes the rights group was able to investigate suggested that the "shroud of secrecy surrounding the U.S. role in Somalia's war is actually a smokescreen for impunity".
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" And on the other, from Jamal Abdi, vice president for policy of the National Iranian American Council: "The Trump administration is setting the stage for a war of choice with Iran, with Mike Pompeo offering a smokescreen of diplomacy to distract from the administration's pursuit of Iraq-style regime change.
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From the IRGC's perspective, the US war against ISIS is a smokescreen designed to conceal America's efforts to uproot Iranian influence in the Levant by toppling Iran's longstanding ally, the Assad regime, weakening Lebanese Hezbollah, and destabilizing the region to create a pretext for the return of US forces to Iraq.
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Despite Republican efforts to throw up a smokescreen, despite their complaints that they are being muzzled even as they pose questions, it is clear that the president was putting his own political interests — looking for dirt on Hillary and the Bidens — above national security and using shady henchmen to do it.
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When Mr. Trump says, as he did the other day, that the current government shutdown could last months if not years, I could not avoid the queasy feeling that his insistence on a demonstrably useless border wall is, in fact, a smokescreen — that the shutdown itself is his actual endgame.
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"The NCAA's recent move to permit student athletes to benefit from their name, image and likeness illustrates that the untenable amateurism model is simply a smokescreen used to protect the pockets of the NCAA and its member schools," said Michael Willemin, a partner at Wigdor Law, the firm that is representing Johnson.
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The dirt being kicked up by Nunes fits in with the smokescreen created by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob GoodlatteRobert (Bob) William GoodlatteImmigrant advocacy groups shouldn't be opposing Trump's raids Top Republican releases full transcript of Bruce Ohr interview It's time for Congress to pass an anti-cruelty statute MORE (R-Va.).
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" In response to the letter, a representative for the Church of Scientology said in a statement to PEOPLE, "Leah Remini, Paul Haggis and Mike Rinder have predictably thrown up a reprehensible smokescreen to turn horrific sexual assault and rape allegations made against Haggis by four women into a bigoted attack about their former religion.
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However it is also something of a smokescreen — especially when A) the platform in question is a social network like Facebook (because it's people who keep other people stuck to these types of services); and B) the value derived from the data is retained by the platform regardless of whether the photos themselves travel elsewhere.
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Jewel conceived the album while working in LA, when he realized he missed rain, and the album sounds like it: massive sheets of plummeting synthesizer whoosh, keyboards heard through a smokescreen with delayed reverb, tingly waves of shimmer and squeal, glistening sonic ice sculptures, howling wind, chilled melancholy, little percussive electronic droplets bouncing off the surface.
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On her new album, for instance, there's enough detail about historically black colleges in the Greek victory chant "Roll Call" to suggest she attended an HBC herself, although the Broad and Lombard hint places it in Philadelphia, which isn't home to a single one, a smokescreen typical on on album that gets down to cases even so.
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Echoing criticism from activists and lawyers examining this market, the ILO report aptly states the technological aspect of these platforms is frequently used as a smokescreen to obscure very old and lopsided labor practices:Crowdwork is sometimes treated as a "new" kind of work: a transformation of labour predicated by the development of the Internet and the online platforms that currently support it.
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Barr said Friday that DOJ lawyers are scouring the report and cutting out four types of information ahead of the public release: READ: How Bill Barr turned the Mueller report into a legal defense of Trump But Democrats have complained that the editing process may really be about creating a smokescreen to protect President Trump from anything bad that's in there.
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Trump has frequently assailed allegations of possible collusion between his associates and Moscow as a smokescreen intended to compensate for 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's unexpected loss in November.
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I think that the big picture is that North Korea is using their nuclear weapons and these announcements as a smokescreen to mask an enormous human rights tragedy, and the more we worry about the threat from North Korea it seems the less space we have in our minds and hearts for the ordinary people of North Korea, who are suffering.
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"They won't criticize Russia, but they will destroy one of our most important institutions' reputation, all to try to throw up a smokescreen about what the special investigator, Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE, is trying to do," Smith said.
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Democrats argue the creation of a second investigation would be a smokescreen designed to shift criticism toward 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE, whom Trump has repeatedly blamed for the instigation of the probe.
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"The administration's new tax form is a smokescreen designed to conceal paperwork, additional calculations and Trump's broken promise to simplify the tax code," Senate Finance Committee ranking member Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenWyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Wyden calls for end to political ad targeting on Facebook, Google Ex-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity MORE (D-Ore.) said in a statement.
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Per the Los Angeles Times, wildlife experts say the move is nothing more than a pretext to give the Trump administration the power to bypass laws protecting endangered species and redirect the water to "corporate agribusiness":"Secretary Ross's directive is nothing more than a smokescreen designed to weaken these protections that NMFS's scientists determined are necessary to keep these native fish from going extinct," Kate Poole of the Natural Resources Defense Council said after the statement was issued.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE "is trying to erect a smokescreen in the shape of Reagan's 'welfare queen' so people don't see he's coming after the entire middle and working class," said Rebecca Vallas, managing director of the Center for American Progress's Poverty to Prosperity Program.
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But the recent attacks on national monuments, from President Trump's executive order, to Interior Secretary Ryan ZinkeRyan Keith ZinkeNew policy at Interior's in-house watchdog clamps down on interactions with press Overnight Energy: EPA proposes scrapping limits on coal plant waste | Appointee overseeing federal lands once advocated selling them | EPA lifts Obama-era block on controversial mine Latest appointee overseeing federal public lands once advocated to sell them MORE's hasty and arbitrary review of these magnificent places, to Bishop's slapdash bill to gut the Antiquities Act, are a smokescreen for other uses of these special places entirely.
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But thanks in no small part to the work of Abbas, Alexandrani, Shawkan, and so many others, Sisi's allies and funders in the U.S. and elsewhere don't have the excuse of a smokescreen to hide what is happening in Egypt, which is following countries such as Turkey and China down the same dark hole of media silence with little protest from the U.S. In assigning a dollar value to the U.S.-Egypt strategic relationship, U.S. policymakers now have to ask whether they will allow false news to rewrite reality — and in the process, write press freedom out of reality within one of our close allies.
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