This photo-blog records my firsthand survival and documentation of Hurricane Helene from downtown Marshall. It exposes Big Oil’s corporate propaganda—proving they weaponized economic fears about jobs while knowing climate change would have catastrophic economic impacts worldwide. This article breaks down how Western North Carolina has paid the price.

From the Age of Reason to the corporate takeover of American democracy "Next!" illustrated by Udo Keppler for Puck magazine 1904, depicts Standard Oil as an octopus gripping the Capital and reaching for the White House. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. John Adams The Scientific Revolution with its methodology of following evidence to logical conclusio