Obama administration wants Cuba to play ball with the IMF and World Bank before lifting embargo In his first official visit to Latin America, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday the White House wants the region to play a more active role in organizations such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund and ruled out lifting the embargo on Cuba Barack Obama's team prepare etiquette and gifts for President's meeting with Queen Top advisers to Barack Obama are rehearsing the etiquette and debating what gifts the President will give to Queen Elizabeth when he meets the British monarch in London Luke Rudkowski Arrested for Attempting to Question Mayor Bloomberg WeAreChange founder and activist Luke Rudkowski was arrested at the Hilton Hotel on Manhattan today for attempting to question New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg about his refusal to pay for the health care of 9/11 first responders 03-29-2009: Environmentalists Claim Earth Hour A Huge Success "The world said yes to climate action, now governments must follow," the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said Sunday, a day after hundreds of millions of people worldwide followed its call to turn off lights for a full hour. 03-29-2009: Obama’s Involvement In Chicago Climate Exchange The “privately-owned” Chicago Climate Exchange is heavily influenced by Obama cohorts Al Gore and Maurice Strong. Jim Tucker: Bilderberg To Meet In Greece Israeli Scientists Develop Smart Dew To Track People Greek Jews 'shocked' after Holocaust denier is acquitted by Athens Appeals court The Greek Jewish community said Friday it was “shocked” after neo-Nazi militant Kostas Plevris, who wrote a book denying the Holocaust and containing offensive references to Jews, was acquitted by an Appeals court in Athens Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told' But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story Typical ignorant Zionist tries to debate Ryan Dawson France calls Gaza 'open-air prison' France has warned that the Gaza Strip cannot remain an 'open-air prison' forever, urging Israel to lift the blockade on the territory Jewish writer raises a storm in America with his report from a 'tolerant' Iran The newspaper, and Cohen in particular, has been accused of being too critical of Israel and an apologist for Iran and its leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Cohen's column was written from Iran about the country's small Jewish minority. His piece acknowledged the difficulties the group experienced and portrayed them as part of an Iranian society that he said was more tolerant, democratic and sophisticated than many American critics allowed Brazil builds walls around Rio de Janeiro slums Officials say the wall is to protect the remaining native forest but critics fear the move could be seen as discriminatory and become a blemish symbolizing Brazil's deep divisions between rich and poor Israel planned to kill Erdogan: Report Turkish media sources detail information implicating the Israeli Mossad in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. An e-mail found on a personal computer belonging to one of the members of the underground Ergenekon organization exposed Mossad's role in the failed assassination efforts against Erdogan, Turkish media outlets reported on Friday