The Second World War revealed how frightening and deceptive human beings could be particularly in Nazi Germany. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head II: Shooting and Fucking are the Same Thing, BBCiplayer 2021
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:
Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. Genesis 12:10-13
And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?
And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me.
And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.
And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s hands: so he blessed him.
And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. ibid.
Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me.
And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? Where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? Yea, and he shall be blessed.
And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.
And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing. Genesis 27:15-24&29&35
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? Did not I serve with thee for Rachel? Wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. Genesis 29:18-26
Behold the half was not told me. I Kings 10:7
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips. Proverbs 24:28
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Jeremiah 17:9
For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed. [And there is nothing buried that will not be raised.] Gospel of Thomas 1:5
For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. Luke 12:2
And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. II Corinthians 11:14
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians 6:7
Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, II Thessalonians 2:3
For more than 150 years oil and gas has played a critical role in our society, improving human lives, raising standards of living and enabling unprecedented economic growth. Big Oil vs The World I, dude, BBC 2022
More than 40 years ago, oil industry scientists warned that burning fossil fuels would change climate change. ibid. caption
This is the story of how Big Oil went on to fool the world. ibid.
This campaign of denial bought the industry thirty-plus extra years of profit at the expense of the planet. ibid. dude
Exxon: By the ’90s they were the kingpins of denial. But we had no idea that they actually knew the science. ibid. curator
Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate: Sharp Cut in Burning of Fossil Fuels is Urged to Battle Shift in Climate. ibid. The New York Times June 24 1988
The Global Climate Coalition is seeding doubt everywhere. Sort of fogging the air with these counter-arguments. ibid.
They made a deeply unethical decision. Big Oil vs The World II, Al Gore
In 1998 there was this meeting in Washington DC. It’s convened by the American Petroleum Institute. Exxon is in the room, Chevron …they are hatching plan to stop people worrying about climate change … A wide and concerted effort to install uncertainty around climate science. ibid.
The new millennium began with a historic US presidential elections. Both candidates pledged to tackle climate change. ibid.
Bush won the contest having promised to introduce a national limit on America’s carbon dioxide emissions. ibid.
Vice President Dick Cheney had previously headed Halliburton, one of the world’s largest oil-service operations. ibid.
Five months into his presidency, George Bush had adopted the oil industry line of emphasising the uncertainty of climate science. ibid.
‘History’s biggest merger … Exxon Mobile will be the biggest oil company in the world. 123,000 employees.’ ibid. news
‘Exxon was a ringleader. And they were at the centre of the campaigns that were around in the late ’90s, early 2000 to stall climate policy.’ ibid. Kert Davies
‘Exxon Mobile tried to control the discussion in the United States.’ ibid. old boy
Exxon Mobile continued to promote doubt and uncertainty about climate science. ibid.
As the science and the warnings became more urgent, some of the fossil fuel industry’s most reliable allies started having doubts. ibid.
BP was now making record profits from oil and gas. ibid.
But the scientific warnings were becoming ever more urgent. ibid.
The Koch brothers poured money into to the effort to kill the bill. ibid.
It’s a hoax. Big Oil vs The World III, Trump
More than 40 years ago, oil industry scientists warned that burning fossil fuels would cause climate change. ibid. Caption
There are massive fracking booms happening in Texas, North Dekota … Pennsylvania … ibid. news
After years of further research the industry perfected a method of fracturing rock and horizontal drilling – fracking. ibid.
ExxonMobile became America’s biggest gas producer. ibid.