"Marty Hoffert was a scientist working at Exxon Mobil Corporation in 1989, the first researchers to build a computer model looking at the effects of man-made carbon emissions on the climate.

His results were startling. Man-made carbon dioxide was killing the very planet.

The first action was to set up the purposely misnamed Global Climate Coalition. An organization funded by oil companies around the world to aggressively lobby politicians and media.

An organization that was in essence, pro-climate change.

Next came another ironically named organization called the Information Council on the Environment. This beauty of a non-profit had the stated goal to “reposition global warming as theory (not fact).”

They targeted “older, lesser educated males from larger households who are not typically information seekers” as well as “younger, low-income women.”

Does that group sound familiar? It’s the modern GOP’s most fervent supporters.... "

Good article !

I have seen at least three video's where the victim was shot without provoking police. I understand your angle but think you should re-consider "All" as that is certainly not true. Examples are good but the data are there to make a statistical argument.

> anything to do with racism.

Interesting. Would you take it further and say the history of racism (and slavery, etc) in America has no effect on today's black person in the US? Just trying to understand where the common ground may be.

I don't know what is gained by resurrecting the ghosts of racism after decades of civil rights progress, to me it seems like an obvious political fabrication which profile is raised before the elections and soon forgotten.

I've heard BLM leaders complain that their cause has been cynically exploited for political gain. Some of them are sincere and i feel bad that such powerful movement was not used to target e.g. poverty, drug addiction or prevalent black-on-black violence but instead turned against police who protect these poor communities from themselves.

The last thing they need is reinforcing victim mentality, which BLM movement actively promotes.

Again, you're making subjective determinations based on a small input and declaring that anybody with another opinion is lying. You can make the argument that a given incident was justified or not, but it doesn't follow that desire for change is founded on lies. There is a gigantic wealth of input on this topic, and individual videos of police violence, even if you somehow think every single instance is justified, is still only one part of the picture, first-hand experience and data analysis being just two major examples of other input. I'm not saying this other input proves anything - just, again, that it is unreasonable to assert that the entirety, or even the majority, of the desire for change is based on lies.

I have also seen many videos that were, as you put it, engineered for outrage. However, I think any claim that "all" were justified is demonstrably untrue, and there are plenty of videos where unarmed or unprovoked shootings occurred (ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRMYVFmEmx8).

> ... and poor health in Floyd case

I enocurage you to watch the entire video if you have not. Keeping your knee on someone's neck long after they have lost conciousness will always present a health risk. Can you explain the scenario where you would maintain a choke hold after a person has lost consciousness and not expect harm to the individual?

> Some of them are sincere and i feel bad that such powerful movement was not used

The movement is in its youth and finding its legs, after a likely unexpected swell of support (financial and otherwise). Time will tell if it has a lasting impact that many hope, but I beleive it is too early to predict what its outcome will be either way.

Ultimately I fail to see the conspiracy claim. "The election was a fraud" is a conspiracy claim, because it asserts a small group of actors manipulated the outcome of the election (i.e. that they conspired) in a specific way. "Racism persists in a systemic way" in America is more general claim made by a wide variety of individuals and there's no singlular claim as far as I can tell?

2. This video (and many like it) are to refute YOUR claim that ALL shootings of blacks by police are provoked. But perhaps a better angle would be videos of blacks being stopped for no reason and harassed? there are many of those.

3. Why did you avoid addressing the floyd comment or the FBI claims which seem to more directly lead our conversation?

I agree that people don’t give cops in stressful situations the benefit of the doubt nearly enough. I also don’t believe that most cops are bad or racist. But i do believe systemic racism (historic and current) exists amd explains a variety of phenomena better than competing theories (which are?).