Oil company murdered family. A friend of mine bought a car from an old lady. She said she was selling because she was moving out of the country. Her son a Geologist, daughter in law, and baby were found murdered. She said they were killed because her son refused to falsify oil survey findings. He son called her and told her he was in fear for his life. He and his family were killed shortly thereafter. She was so upset that she was becoming a missionary assistant and moving to the Philippines. Here are some clips that prove what she is saying. These clips are not directly related, but it shows how inventors are murdered or suppressed.

Geoff Lawton on the use of swales (shallow ditches) for passive water harvesting for individual farms in hot and dry climates. The genius is that it keeps water from evaporating, by storing it under ground, moving slowly through the soil, and keeping it available for extended periods of time. As much of Third World agriculture is still rain fed, this is a low cost alternative to huge government dams that need a lot of maintenance and create risks in dam failure. Where large irrigation dams disrupt people, the ecology, and cost millions to build, small on-farm water harvesting ditches like these can be put in place on any farm, whithout disrupting the area around it.
