We have entered a new phase in the food crisis. Now that Ukraine exports are suspended and the Southern Hemisphere is entering a year without a summer at the same time Europe's chemical plants shut we find our world without the proper amount of grain or farm inputs to feed out planet. Now what, but where first?

Col. Prouty spent 9 of his 23-year military career in the Pentagon (1955-1964): 2 years with the Secretary of Defense, 2 years with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and 5 years with Headquarters, U.S. Air Force. In 1955 he was appointed the first “Focal Point” officer between the CIA and the Air Force for Clandestine Operations per National Security Council Directive 5412. He was Briefing Officer for the Secretary of Defense (1960-1961), and for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is impossible to think of an area of our modern-day lives that is not affected by the oil industry. The story of oil is the story of the modern world. And this is the story of those who helped shape that world, and how the oil-igarchy they created is on the verge of monopolizing life itself.

Documenting all the strangeness of the New York City Emergency Broadcast PSA’s and advertisements for tap water by the New York City Mayor Eric Adams.