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The Namibian government announced on Wednesday that it will expropriate a select number of white-owned farms to accelerate its efforts at redistributing property to landless blacks. "The land possession pattern in our country has been designed by colonialism to benefit a small group of minority settlers, at the expense of the majority," Prime Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab said in an address to the nation aired on state television. "Our young nation still struggles to bring about balance and undo the effects of the unjust land redistribution." Most of the wealth in this southern African country remains in the hands of whites...

http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/display/inn_news/news2.txt “This is such an important issue that everone should read this." Andy Martin, Editor, Siskiyou Daily News. February 16, 2003 http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/display/inn_news/news2.txt What caused salmon deathss? The Klamath Basin issue on the California-Oregon border, where water was held back from more than 1,400 farmers and ranchers in 2001, made national news. The water had been shut off when a court ruling based on the Endangered Species Act (ESA) forced farmers and ranchers to do without their irrigation water to protect sucker fish and threatened coho salmon. The water was eventually restored in 2002 after it was determined that the shutoff...