Socialist Smokescreens: Using Bogus Science to Enact Ideological Wishes

First, it was the bogus "nuclear winter" the KGB came up with that was successful beyond their wildest dreams according to Comrade J, about the highest defector ever from that outfit--Sergei Tretyakov. I remember how controversial was the proposal to install nuclear bombs in Europe. So the KGB came up with a scheme to thwart its implementation that was nearly successful, except for the wonderful intransigence of Ronald Reagan.

The parallels are simply eerie:

"The KGB was responsible for creating the entire nuclear winter story to stop the Pershing missiles."^[1] Tretyakov says that from 1979 the KGB wanted to prevent the United States from deploying the missiles in Western Europe and that, directed by Yuri Andropov, they used the Soviet Peace Committee, a government organization, to organize and finance demonstrations in Europe against US bases.^[1][12][13] Misinformation based on a faked "doomsday report" by the Soviet Academy of Sciences about the effect of nuclear war on climate was distributed to peace groups, the environmental movement and the journal Ambio

,^[1] which carried a key article on the topic in 1982.^[14]

Sound familiar? Now we have these present-day greenies, whom I consider socialists, trying to thwart capitalism and economic growth. It's not fair, after all, to have the poor parts of the world in comparison with the rich parts. Equality, doncha know. These watermelons are green on the outside and red on the inside.

We have the left-ward drift of organizations like the UN. When the IPCC, charged by the United Nations to monitor global warming, acts more like the KGB than a disinterested overseeing body, one is left incredulous.