humbug; camouflage; cooch; crock; eye-wash; flubdub; hocus-pocus; spinach; window dressing; misrepresentation; cootch; four flush; hocus pocus; hype; bluff(I. Havkin); whitewash(For weeks, the Kremlin's effective monopoly on television news has been sounding the alarm over Ukraine. Its revolution, they claimed, is the result of an American alliance with Nazis intended to weaken Russia. And still, nearly three-quarters of the population oppose a Russian 'reaction' of any kind, let alone a Russian military occupation like they are now watching unfold in Crimea. The 2008 invasion of Georgia had much broader support, because Georgia is not Ukraine. Ukraine is a nation of Slavs with deep cultural and historical ties to Russia. Most Russians have at least some family or friends living in Ukraine, and the idea of a fratricidal war between the two largest Slavic nations in the world evokes a kind of horror that no Kremlin whitewash can calm. | TIME.com4uzhoj)
smoke and mirrors(Definition: something that seems good but is not real or effective and that is done especially to take attention away from something else that is embarrassing or unpleasant (Merriam-Webster) • The cost of adding multiple Level II chargers could be prohibitive, if the service to the building(s) is already close to being maxed out. I've owned two EV, and likely not again anytime soon. Forget about it. It's all smoke and mirrors. (vancouversun.com)ART Vancouver)
