The most serious failures connected to the events of 9/11 are not those of US intelligence agencies, airport security services, NORAD and the like. Rather the deepest and darkest of the failures to protect us for those enemies that menace us most lie with journalists, mainstream media outlets, professors and the universities that employ us. It is we who have in the vast majority of cases chosen to abandon our skepticism and with it our professional ethics and responsibilities. By and large our professional class and caste continue to respond to the events of 9/11 in ways that are expedient rather than wise. As I see it, therefore, it is a mass treason of the intellectuals that constitutes the most significant underlying condition resulting in the continuing fraud known as the War on Terror. The War on Terror continues to be packaged, promoted and sold to the public in the most aggressive campaign of psychological warfare ever mounted. How many of us are complicit with our silence in this black psyop, the key enabling factor in the ongoing aggressive wars justified in the name of an unfounded and unproven official conspiracy theory of 9/11?………
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After 8 years of wondering how it’s possible that W got elected – twice! – I came to the unlikely realization that we owe the man a debt of gratitude. The obvious reason is that without an administration of such profound stupidity, Mr. Obama would have been unlikely to even make it onto the Democratic ticket, let alone get elected.

However, there is a less obvious side effect to the Bush years; he made us fall in love with our own country. For 8 years we thanked our lucky stars, patted ourselves on the back and basked in the warm glow of hearing liberal Americans, again and again, utter the statement “I’m moving to Canada”.
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The Detroit News reports that President Bush has announced Friday morning a $13.4 billion bailout for General Motors and Chrysler.

The structure of the bailout is different from that of the financial sector’s recent $700 billion bailout, in that it is in the form of a short-term loan, with apparent strict conditions. 

The 3-year loan calls for another $4 billion in February, bringing the total to $17.3 billion.
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On a current trip to Iraq, US President George Bush hailed progress in the war that will ultimately define his presidency. A war in which 4,209 soldiers have perished and over $500 billion worth of taxpayers money spent. He also got a size-10 reminder of his unpopularity when a journalist threw both shoes at him, barely missing his head. The video can be seen here: