Mount Sinabung erupts again. Strongest eruption yet. Sinabung is near Lake Toba, a volcanic crater that once produced a near-ELE (extinction level event).
Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga dies at 82. "Picconatore" began breathing spontaneously with assistance bedore he died. In 2007,Cossiga wrote: "all of the democratic circles of America and of Europe, especially those of the Italian centre-left, now know well that the disastrous attack was planned and realized by the American CIA and Mossad with the help of the Zionist world in order to place the blame on Arabic Countries and to persuade the Western powers to intervene in Iraq and Afghanistan".
International Friends of Israel launched. The following have just loaded their pockets with plenty of shekels: former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar, former member of the British Parliament David Trimble, Peru's former president Alejandro Toledo, former president of the Italian Senate Marcello Pera, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton and British historian Andrew Roberts. Surprise, surprise, Trimble is one of the international observers on Israel's Gaza flotilla investigation panel.
Obama urges liberals to keep up the fight. The only fight we're going to keep up Obama is to get your lame ass out of office and packing it back to Chicago in 2012!