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I was evicted because of security clampdown for the Beijing Olympics Jane Macartney in Beijing I will miss the tree-lined alley in the heart of Beijing that has been my home for three years. But the security clampdown for the Beijing Olympics has edged into even this narrow lane. It was always clear that the Olympics would disrupt the lives of the people of Beijing, that security would be intense and the rules and regulations deeply intrusive. But it's always a surprise when this happens to you. The underlying factor in all this is fear. Fear pervades the system in...

Free Hugs star a 'security By Andrew Ramadge November 26, 2007 09:57am FREE Hugs campaigner Juan Mann has been threatened with eviction after opening his Sydney home to strangers in a bid to "prove the world isn't such a bad place". The star of the Free Hugs Campaign video, which has been played more than 20 million times on YouTube, posted an invitation to his Newtown home on the internet last month. "We still have this constant fear that strangers are dangerous and that putting your address online means people are going to come to your house and trash the...

- snip - Clementine was evicted from its church and rectory when a tax buyer, John W. Scott of Champaign, took possession after paying back property taxes and penalties totaling $8,710. The church disputes the eviction because it is a tax-exempt religious organization. - snip - Ownership of the property at 1016 Percy Ave. and 2075 N. 11th St. was transferred from the national Presbyterian Church to the local congregation in October 2003, according to the church’s pastor, Dennis Farmer. - snip - But it wasn’t until after the tax sale was approved in July that the church was able...

Published: 08/09/07, 10:11 AM More Eviction Notices in Hevron by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) On the heels of the forced eviction of two Jewish families from Hevron’s Shalhevet neighborhood – four more Hevron families living in the area have received eviction notices. In response to a petition by Peace Now, Israel’s Civil Administration has issued expulsion orders against four Jewish-held storefronts in the “triangle” marketplace area of the city, located in close proximity to the area where two Jewish families were expelled by the IDF on Tuesday. Like the wholesale market, the triangle marketplace was built by Hevron’s Arabs on top...

North Korea demands "thorough investigation" into treatment of diplomats in Finland The Associated PressPublished: February 25, 2007 HELSINKI, Finland: North Korea has demanded an investigation into the treatment by Finnish police of two of its diplomats, after they were evicted from a train because they allegedly failed to produce travel documents, officials said Sunday. Finnish police told the Foreign Ministry that the two men — en route from Moscow to Helsinki on Feb. 13 — had not produced train tickets, identification papers or any documents indicating they were diplomats, ministry spokeswoman Tiina Myllyntausta said. "North Korea has requested a thorough...

CACHAN, France -- For dozens of illegal immigrant families, a gymnasium outside Paris has become a temporary home. They sleep shoulder-to-shoulder, their dingy mattresses piled high with necessities and small treasures: cooking pans, diapers, stuffed animals. The families, mostly Africans, were evicted from France's largest squat on Aug. 17. Riot police stormed the building _ an abandoned dormitory at a prestigious university _ and forced out more than 500 people. Nearly 30 illegal immigrants were put in detention centers. About 200 went to the cramped, dank gymnasium. The mass eviction has become a symbol of France's tougher new immigration policy,...

HALTOM CITY -- Late last month, Quang Nguyen received word that she was being evicted from her government-subsidized apartment.She had been accused of hitting a maintenance man in the head as he was bent over working on a water pipe.But Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant who doesn't speak English, says it never happened.She is 101 years old.“I did not do that,” Nguyen said Thursday morning, through an interpreter. “I did not touch him. I did not do anything to him.”Sitting in a kitchen chair inside her tiny apartment, Nguyen said she is afraid of what might happen to her. She said...

We need YOU to drive your RV, pitch your tents, and take a stand against eminent domain abuse by camping out at the Halper Farm until the moment of eviction. We hope it will be like Valley Forge without the frostbite and Woodstock without the mud. We have received word that the government plans to send over a large number of well armed police officers to evict this family from what is rightfully theirs. We must draw a line in the sand and say: NO MORE! We must defend our constitutional right to own property. If this event isn't worthy...

ANTIOCH, Calif. - A man who was evicted from the house he rented for years allegedly took revenge on his landlords by dumping the home's hoarded contents _ five-gallon buckets of cookies, canned food, old batteries and puzzle pieces _ on the front lawn and in the backyard. The homeowner, Ann Stevenson, said she rented the house to Lloyd Annesley and his partner, Margaret McCoy, with a subsidized rent as a favor to the longtime family friends. After McCoy died, Annesley learned he would have to move and his relatives helped him dump the debris before they abandoned the property...

CELEB Big Brother prat George Galloway is today exposed in his revolting true colours — fawning before Saddam Hussein’s murderous son Uday. An astonishing video shown in part on the Sun TV Bulletin depicts Galloway, 51, laughing and joking with the evil psychopath during a 20-minute meeting in an Iraqi palace. The Respect party MP, who Sun readers can boot off the Channel 4 show tonight, has sickened viewers with his antics in the BB house. Galloway’s crawling around the tyrannical old Iraqi regime was even more disgusting. He famously met dictator Saddam in 1994 and told him: “Sir, allow...

George Galloway tonight became the fourth person to be evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house as he admitted he had failed in his aims during almost two weeks of reality TV. The Respect MP attracted 64.7% of the public vote after being nominated alongside fake celebrity Chantelle Houghton and US basketball star Dennis Rodman. As he emerged from the house, a smiling Mr Galloway was met with boos and cheers from the crowd who gathered for tonight's double eviction.

A liberal lawyer in Los Angeles is threatening to throw nearly three dozen homeless center residents back on the streets because of something he finds indefensible: The center's founder is a Republican and voted for President Bush.

Homeless victims of South Africa's great eviction (Filed: 29/09/2005) A million black workers have been thrown off white-owned farms since apartheid. David Blair reports on the threat of a Zimbabwe-style backlash Almost a million black workers have been evicted from South Africa's farms since the advent of the "rainbow" nation's new democracy, more than during the last decade of apartheid. A new survey has disclosed the huge scale of an enforced upheaval sweeping the country, with 942,303 farm workers and dependants evicted in the 10 years after the transition to black rule in 1994. In the previous decade, when apartheid...

Threatened with eviction at gunpoint, the Big Easy holdouts are now hailed as heroes By Toby Harnden in New Orleans (Filed: 18/09/2005)A Starving Pit Bull Attacks A Bull Beside The New Orleans Bayou Just days since they were being urged, sometimes at gunpoint, to leave their homes, the hardy band of residents who sat tight in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are now being encouraged to stay put and help to restart the city. In a remarkable U-turn, the authorities - who had previously reviled, goaded and even threatened force against the few hundred remaining "holdouts" - are hailing them...

Riverside County is telling a man in Thousand Palms he has to leave his home, which happens to be underground. It may not look like much, but for Joel Hinz, it's home. And it is an extraordinary one at that. Tired of feeling homeless, Joel decided to build his own and he went underground to do it. This 250 square foot desert dwelling has stairs, shelves, support beams. It even has a patio. “Everybody's impressed when they come here,” Hinz told us. “It just evolved over time I just thought no big thing, if anything of it.” Joel was working...

I think you stupud amerikans deserved this for a long time. Ever since you settled down in other peoples property you have been commiting ethnic cleansing and genocide against people just because they weren't white or as savy as you are. What ever to private property rights for the original inhabitants of the land? In Sweeden we don't do things like that. You forced them out at gunpoint and now you whine about Walmart taking away your homes for it's own benefit the same way. I hope you lose your land and live in the streets and die you fat...

Landlord Tosses Tear Gas Grenade in House 1 hour, 19 minutes ago Strange News - AP LANETT, Ala. - A landlord in an eviction dispute with a tenant allegedly broke windows at his rental property and threw a tear gas grenade into the residence, police said. Joseph Hammock, 69, of West Point, Ga., was taken into custody early Wednesday after a 1:30 a.m. dispute at the Lanett rental property. Police said the tenant was not injured. Officers arrested Hammock near his Georgia home on an unrelated arson charge and took him to Troup County Jail, said Lanett Police Chief Ron...

Police and soldiers Monday evening surprised a tiny community in Samaria and destroyed two trailer homes in a violent clash of stone throwing and gunshots with residents. More than 500 security troops destroyed Givat Shalhevet, near Shechem and associated with the nearby community of Yitzhar. Police arrested 19 residents and protesters, including one woman who suffered a fractured hip and was hospitalized. "I have been in all the evacuations here, but I've never seen anything as brutal," said Yitzhar's administrator Tzvi Berenstock. Police said the operation was kept secret, unlike previous attempts to dismantle the community which has been a...

When Jerald R. Klein, a Manhattan housing court judge, got a call from a reporter yesterday morning, he had no idea why he was being bothered at home on the weekend. He did not know that his face was all over eBay. He did not know that he was for sale. "What are you talking about?" he said. "Yes, I am a housing court judge. But I'm not for sale." According to a posting on eBay, an online auction house, the 55-year-old judge would go to the highest bidder. After four days, the best offer was $127.50. The eBay advertisement,...

Outrage over Pale Male's evictionHawk tries to rebuild Thursday, December 9, 2004 Posted: 9:50 AM EST (1450 GMT) NEW YORK (Reuters) -- He was a movie star who resided on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side, drawing a devoted crowd of followers who gathered daily to catch a glimpse of him...

CHARLESTON -- Only one of every four former West Virginia welfare recipients whose benefits have run out because of a five-year limit have been able to get a job. And more than half those who are working have only been able to find part time work, accordi ng to a study prepared by WVU researchers and presented Sunday to lawmakers during interim meetings. The average ex-welfare family earned $6,120 last year -- only one-third the poverty level for a family of four. They were twice as likely to have been evicted from their homes, run out of food or had...

A Baltimore County woman returned home from the hospital to find she had no home left. Her apartment complex tossed out everything she owned and locked her out, WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team reporter Barry Simms reported. When the 11 News I-Team first spoke with Juanita Pinchback more than a 1½ years ago, she said she was wrongly evicted and had documents to prove it. Now a judge agrees with her. "Landlords can't just get away with this type of stuff," she said. Pinchback lived in a Woodlawn townhouse in the Heraldry Square Townhouses development. But in May 2002 -- on...

Dorothy LaFortune has to be out of her home on Graham Street in Biddeford by 1345 hrs. today... or else! It seems that the Town siezed her home for $27,000 in back taxes and sewer fees in May of 2002, and sold it to a Portland man for $80,000. Pretty good deal for Biddeford. Trouble is, Ms. LaFortune is not cooperating, it seems - and the "Mutual Defense Pact Militia" has threatened to intervene, with force if need be, to protect her from eviction. The school accross the street has been closed for the day, and neigbors are a bit...

Al-Muhajiroun, the extremist Muslim group that used the second anniversary of the September 11 atrocities last week to praise the "Magnificent 19" hijackers, is facing eviction from its London offices. The landlord of the business centre in Tottenham, north London, where al-Muhajiroun has rented premises since December 2001, said yesterday it had begun legal action to evict the organisation. The Workplace Group, which owns business property across London, acted after al-Muhajiroun praised the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington as "a good deed". The company said the offices had been rented by Anjem Choudary, a chief spokesman for al-Muhajiroun,...

Thousands of Palestinian have been evicted from their homes in Baghdad since the fall of Saddam Hussein, who gave them asylum and cheap rents, the United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday. Kris Janowski, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said around 800 families or about 4,000 people have been ordered out of their homes by landlords in Baghdad since May. Two hundred more families have been given notice to quit their apartments when their children finish their high school exams later this month. Janowski told reporters the Palestinians are camping in tents provided by the UN agency. "However,...

Excerpt - Life has been tough for Roger Clinton since his big brother left the White House. Bill Clinton's 45-year-old half brother, who last year pleaded guilty to reckless driving after being charged with drunken driving and disturbing the peace, and was investigated by Congress for collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars to procure presidential pardons and other favors, is now facing foreclosure on his house in Torrance, Calif. [snip]

The dead woman's family congregated Tuesday around her angry and tearful mother where yellow police tape rounded the corner of Rosewood Avenue and Poquito Street. "They killed my baby," Brenda Elendu screamed to anyone who would listen. "They could have shot her in the leg. She was a mental patient. They didn't have to kill that child." Across the intersection and down the block, Austin police told reporters that Elendu's daughter, Sophia King, gave officers no choice but to draw their guns when they saw her wielding a knife as she stood over a person who was on the ground....

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<p>The Palestine Liberation Organization said yesterday it has been forced to leave its D.C. offices at the same time support is building in Congress for a bill that would force the organization out of the United States.</p> <p>Congressional leaders visited the White House yesterday to urge President Bush to stand by the Jewish state and ease up on calls for Israel to end a bloody military incursion into the West Bank.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — The Palestine Liberation Organization has been evicted from its downtown Washington office for failure to pay rent.</p> <p>Hassan Abdel Rahman, the PLO's chief representative in Washington, confirmed the eviction Thursday and said the reasons were political.</p> <p>He acknowledged that rental payments had been in arrears but said similar problems in the past had been resolved amicably with the landlord. This time, he said, the landlord would not negotiate.</p>