{"id":45608,"date":"2024-04-30T16:35:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T23:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/?p=45608"},"modified":"2024-05-08T08:15:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T15:15:48","slug":"deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/30\/deception\/","title":{"rendered":"deception"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cFor decades, the fossil fuel industry has known about the economic and climate harms of its products but has deceived the American public to keep collecting more than $600 billion each year in subsidies while raking in record-breaking profits,\u201d Senate Budget Committee Chair\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/sheldon-whitehouse\/\">Sheldon Whitehouse\u00a0<\/a>(D-R.I.) said in a statement. \u201cAs this joint report makes clear, the industry\u2019s outright denial of climate change has evolved into a green-seeming cover for its ongoing covert operation\u2014a campaign of deception, disinformation, and doublespeak waged using dark money, phony front groups, false economics, and relentless exertion of political influence\u2014to block climate progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Disgusting.  Sadly, not surprising.  The corporate greed is just <em>beyond<\/em> !  And Americans pay the price, not just financially but with our very lives, with our health, and the health and lives of all living things on Earth.  How can HBs turn this existence around?  I don&#8217;t see it.  Sometimes I just want to jump planes to try something else <em>because this ain&#8217;t it.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This behavior reeks with memories of the <em>Tobacco<\/em> cases.  Tobacco companies also hid their science and lied about their products.  In that situation, people were sick and dying of cancer, emphysema, etc.  Damages were easy to prove.   With fossil fuel, not so much.  Again I say, HBs pay the price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-the-hill wp-block-embed-the-hill\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/4632665-senate-democrats-oil-companies-pivoted-from-climate-denial-to-deception-disinformation-and-doublespeak\/?email=467cb6399cb7df64551775e431052b43a775c749&#038;emaila=12a6d4d069cd56cfddaa391c24eb7042&#038;emailb=054528e7403871c79f668e49dd3c44b1ec00c7f611bf9388f76bb2324d6ca5f3&#038;utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=4.30.2024%20Business%20%26%20Economy%20AF\">Senate, House Dems: Oil companies pivoted from climate denial to &#8216;deception, disinformation, and doublespeak&#8217;<\/a><\/h4><p>Major oil companies have internally conceded their public vows to reduce planet-warming emissions are incompatible with their business plans, according to a three-year report issued by Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee and the House Oversight Committee. The report, which builds on an Oversight probe that stalled out after Republicans took the House majority, includes&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"639\" height=\"6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/banner3.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45148\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-the-hill wp-block-embed-the-hill\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/4634003-trumps-trial-resumes-five-takeaways\">Trump&#8217;s trial resumes: 5 takeaways from Tuesday&#8217;s proceedings in New York<\/a><\/h4><p>The second week of testimony in former President Trump&#8217;s New York trial got underway Tuesday &#8211; and it was more eventful than expected, encompassing everything from a gag order ruling to new details around Trump&#8217;s alleged affairs. The former president faces 34 felony counts of falsification of business records.<\/p><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/cartoons\/blitts-kvetchbook\/running-gag-trump-speaks\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"835\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sss.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45609\" style=\"width:477px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sss.jpg 646w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sss-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"36\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/banner-1-1024x36.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3453\"\/><\/figure>\n<div><p align=center><font color=\"#FF0000\">Thank you <font color=\"#FF6347\">for reading <font color=\"#FFA500\">today's post. \r\n<font color=\"#FFD700\">Have <font color=\"00FF00\">an <font color=\"40E0D0\">InterStellar <font color=\"800080\">Day! <font color=\"FE09FF\"> ~PrP   <\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor decades, the fossil fuel industry has known about the economic and climate harms of its products but has deceived the American public to keep collecting more than $600 billion each year in subsidies while raking in record-breaking profits,\u201d Senate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/30\/deception\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,28,1978,1888,3,98],"tags":[2353,2350,73,2346,2349,2354,157,2348],"class_list":["post-45608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-consciousness","category-health","category-legal","category-politix","category-science","tag-corporate-greed","tag-deception","tag-donald-trump","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-lying","tag-n-y-supreme-court-judge-juan-merchan","tag-new-york","tag-sen-sheldon-whitehouse-d-r-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}