George H. Bush (left of clock) with the Skull and Crossbones group at Yale University, New Haven, CT circa 1947.
GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA
THE LEGEND OF SKULL AND BONES
Sometime in the early 1830's, a Yale student named William H. Russell, the future valedictorian of the class of 1833, travelled to Germany to study for a year. Russell came from an inordinately wealthy family that ran one of America’s most despicable business organizations of the nineteenth century...
Russell would later become a member of the Connecticut state legislature, a general in the Connecticut National Guard, and the founder of the Collegiate and Commercial Institute in New Haven.
While in Germany, Russell befriended the leader of an insidious German secret society that hailed the death’s head as its logo. Russell soon became caught up in this group, itself a sinister outgrowth of the notorious eighteenth century society...
William Huntington Russell
When Russell returned to the United States, he found an atmosphere so 'Anti-Masonic' that even his beloved 'Phi-Beta-Kappa', the honour society, had been unceremoniously stripped of its secrecy. Incensed, Russell rounded up a group of the most promising students in his class including Alphonso Taft, the future secretary of war, attorney general, minister to Austria, ambassador to Russia, and father of future president 'William-Howard-Taft' and out of vengeance constructed the most powerful secret society the United States has ever known. The men called their organization the BROTHERHOOD OF DEATH,
or, more informally,
THE ORDER OF SKULL AND BONES.
They adopted the numerological symbol 322 because their group was the second chapter of the German organization and founded in 1832. They worshipped the goddess Eulogia, celebrated pirates, and plotted an underground conspiracy to dominate the world.
THE FIRST OPIUM WAR
FAST-FORWARD 170 YEARS
Skull and Bones has curled its tentacles into every corner of American society. This tiny club has set up networks that have thrust three members into the most powerful political position in the world and the group’s influence is only increasing. The 2004 presidential election might showcase the first time each ticket has been led by a 'Bonesman'.
The secret society is now, as one historian admonishes, 'an-international-mafia', unregulated and all but unknown.
In its quest to create a 'New-World-Order' that restricts individual freedoms and places ultimate power solely in the hands of a small cult of wealthy, prominent families, 'Skull-and-Bones' has already succeeded in infiltrating nearly every major research, policy, financial, media, and government institution in the country.
The windowless tomb of Skull&Bones on the Yale campus.
SKULL AND BONES, IN FACT, HAS BEEN RUNNING THE UNITED STATES FOR YEARS
Skull and Bones cultivates its talent by selecting members from the junior class at Yale University, a school known for its strange, 'Gothic-elitism' and its rigid devotion to the past. The society screens its candidates carefully, favouring Protestants and, now, white Catholics, with special affection for the children of wealthy East Coast Skull and Bones members.
Skull and Bones has been dominated by about two dozen of the country’s most prominent families, BUSH, BUNDY, HARRIMAN, LORD, PHELPS, ROCKEFELLER, TAFT, and WHITNEY among them, who are encouraged by the society to intermarry so that its power is consolidated. In fact, Skull and Bones forces members to confess their entire sexual histories so that the club, as a eugenics overlord, can determine whether a new BONESMAN will be fit to mingle with the bloodlines of the powerful Skull and Bones dynasties. A rebel will not make Skull and Bones, nor will anyone whose background in any way indicates that he will not sacrifice for the greater good of the larger organization.
As soon as initiates are allowed into the TOMB, a dark, windowless crypt in New Haven with a roof that serves as a landing pad for the society’s private helicopter, they are sworn to silence and told they must forever deny that they are members of this organization.
During initiation, which involves ritualistic psychological conditioning, the juniors wrestle in mud and are physically beaten. This stage of the ceremony represents their 'death' to the world as they have known it. They then lie naked in coffins, masturbate, and reveal to the society their innermost sexual secrets.
After this cleansing, the 'Bonesmen' give the initiates robes to represent their new identities as individuals with a higher purpose.
The society anoints the initiate with a new name, symbolising his rebirth and rechristening as 'Knight-X', a member of the Order. It is during this initiation that the new members are introduced to the artefacts in the tomb, among them Nazi memorabilia, including a set of Hitler’s 'silverware', (dozens of skulls), and an assortment of decorative tchotchkes, coffins, skeletons, and innards. They are also introduced to THE BONES WHORE, the tomb’s only 'full-time-resident', who helps to ensure that the Bonesmen leave the tomb more mature than when they entered.
Members of Skull and Bones must make some sacrifices to the society and they are threatened with blackmail so that they remain loyal, but they are remunerated with honours and rewards, including a graduation gift of $15,000 and a wedding gift of a tall grandfather clock. Though they must tithe their estates to the society, each member is guaranteed financial security for life. In this way, Bones can ensure that no member will feel the need to sell the secrets of the society in order to make a living and it works.
PROMINENT BONESMEN
Other prominent Bonesmen include James L. Buckley (U.S. Senator), William F. Buckley (columnist), John Chafee (U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Navy), John Sherman Cooper (U.S. Senator and member of the Warren Commission), John Daniels (founder of Archer Daniels Midland), Paul Giamatti (actor), Pierre Jay (first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York), John Kerry (U.S. Senator), Winston Lord (Chairman of Council on Foreign Relations), Henry Luce (Time-Life), Archibald MacLeish (poet), David McCullough (historian), William Huntington Russell (Connecticut State Legislator), Amos Alonzo Stagg (famous football coach), Harold Stanley (founder of Morgan Stanley), Potter Stewart (U.S. Supreme Court justice), Alphonso Taft (Secretary of War and father of William Howard Taft), Robert A. Taft (U.S. Senator), Morrison R. Waite (U.S. Supreme Court justice), James Whitmore (actor), William Collins Whitney (U.S. Secretary of the Navy) and many others.
NO ONE HAS PUBLICLY BREATHED A WORD ABOUT HIS SKULL AND BONES MEMBERSHIP, EVER.
Bonesmen are automatically offered jobs at the many investment banks and law firms dominated by their secret society brothers. They are also given exclusive access to the Skull and Bones island, a lush retreat built for millionaires, with a lavish mansion and a bevy of women at the members' disposal.
The influence of the CABAL begins at Yale, where Skull and Bones has appropriated university funds for its own use, leaving the school virtually impoverished. Skull and Bones’ corporate shell, the 'Russell-Trust-Association', owns nearly all of the university’s real estate, as well as most of the land in Connecticut. Skull and Bones has controlled Yale’s faculty and campus publications so that students cannot speak openly about it.
The campus’s only 'anti-society-publication', The Iconoclast, a student paper published once on October 13, 1873, stated...
Wolf's Head New Hall
Architect: Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
(designed circa 1924)
[further reading] Antecedents@Wolf's Head (secret society)
The year in the tomb at Yale instils, within members, an unwavering loyalty to Skull and Bones. Members have been known to stab their Skull and Bones pins into their skin to keep them in place during swimming or bathing. The knights, as the student members are called, learn quickly that their allegiance to the society must supersede all else, family, friendships, country, God. They are taught that once they get out into the world, they are expected to reach positions of prominence so that they can further elevate the society’s status and help promote the standing of their fellow Bonesmen. This purpose has driven Bonesmen to ascend to the top levels of so many fields that, as one historian observes... "at any one time THE ORDER can call on members in any area of American society to do what has to be done".
Several Bonesmen have been senators, congressmen, Supreme Court justices, and Cabinet officials.
There is a BONES CELL in the CIA, which uses the society as a recruiting ground because the members are so obviously adept at keeping secrets. Society members dominate financial institutions such as J.P.MORGAN, MORGAN STANLEY DEAN WITTER, and BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN, where at one time more than a third of the partners were Bonesmen. Through these companies, Skull and Bones provided financial backing to ADOLPH HITLER because the society then followed a NAZI and now, follows a NEO-NAZI DOCTRINE. At least a dozen Bonesmen have been linked to the Federal Reserve, including the first chairman of the New York Federal Reserve.
Skull and Bones members control the wealth of the ROCKEFELLER, CARNEGIE, and FORD families.
SKULL AND BONES HAS ALSO TAKEN STEPS TO CONTROL THE AMERICAN MEDIA
Two of its members founded the law firm that represents the NEW YORK TIMES. Plans for both TIME and NEWSWEEK magazines were hatched in the Skull and Bones tomb. The society has controlled publishing houses such as Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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In the 1880's, Skull and Bones created the AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, the AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, and the AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION so that the society could ensure that history would be written under its terms and promote its objectives. The society then installed its own members as the presidents of these associations.
Under the society’s direction, Bonesmen developed and dropped the nuclear bomb and choreographed the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Skull and Bones members had ties to Watergate and the Kennedy assassination.
They control the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission so that they can push their own political agenda.
Skull and Bones government officials have used the number 322 as codes for highly classified diplomatic assignments. The society discriminates against minorities and fought for slavery. Indeed, eight out of twelve of Yale’s residential colleges are named for slave owners while none are named for abolitionists. The society encourages misogyny, it did not admit women until the 1990's because members did not believe women were capable of handling the Skull and Bones experience and because they said they feared incidents of date rape. This society also encourages grave robbing. Deep within the bowels of the tomb are the stolen skulls of the Apache chief GERONIMO, PANCHO VILLA, and former president MARTIN VAN BUREN.
Finally, the society has taken measures to ensure that the secrets of Skull and Bones slip ungraspable, like sand through open fingers. Journalist Ron Rosenbaum, who wrote a long but not probing article about the society in the 1970's, claimed that a source warned him not to get too close. "What bank do you have your checking account at?" this party asked me, in the middle of a discussion of the Mithraic aspects of the Bones ritual. I named the bank. "Aha", said the party, There are three Bonesmen on the board. You’ll never have a line of credit again. They’ll tap your phone. They’ll. . ."
. . .The source continued, "The alumni still care. Don’t laugh. They don’t like people tampering and prying. The power of Bones is incredible. They’ve got their hands on every lever of power in the country. You’ll see, it’s like trying to look into the Mafia".
In the 1980's, a man known only as Steve had contracts to write two books on the society, using documents and photographs he had acquired from the Bones crypt. But Skull and Bones found out about Steve. Society members broke into his apartment, stole the documents, harassed the would be author and scared him into hiding, where he has remained ever since. The books were never completed.
In Universal Pictures' thriller, THE SKULLS (2000), an aspiring journalist is writing a profile of the society for the New York Times. When he sneaks into the tomb, the Skulls murder him. The real Skull and Bones tomb displays a bloody knife in a glass case. It is said that when a Bonesman stole documents and threatened to publish society secrets if the members did not pay him a determined amount of money, they used that knife to kill him. This, then, is the legend of Skull and Bones.
It is astonishing that so many people continue to believe, even in 'twenty-first-century' America, that a tiny college club wields such an enormous amount of influence on the world’s only superpower. The breadth of clout ascribed to this organization is practically as wide ranging as the leverage of the satirical secret society the Stonecutters, introduced in an episode of The Simpsons.
THE STONECUTTERS THEME SONG INCLUDED THE LYRICS...
Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do, We do.
Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?
We do, We do.
Certainly, Skull and Bones does cross boundaries in order to attempt to stay out of the public spotlight. When I wrote an article about the society for the Atlantic Monthly in May 2000, an older Bonesman said to me, "If it’s not portrayed positively, I’m sending a couple of my friends after you".
After the article was published, I received a telephone call at my office from a fellow journalist, who is a member of Skull and Bones. He scolded me for writing the article. "Writing that article was not an ethical or honourable way to make a decent living in journalism", he condescended and then asked me how much I had been paid for the story. When I refused to answer, he hung up. Fifteen minutes later, he called back.
"I have just gotten off the phone with our people".
"Your people?" I snickered.
"Yes. Our people", He told me that the society demanded to know where I got my information.
"I’ve never been in the tomb and I did nothing illegal in the process of reporting this article", I replied.
"Then you must have gotten something from one of us. Tell me whom you spoke to. We just want to talk to them", he wheedled.
"I don’t reveal my sources", Then he got angry. He screamed at me for a while about how dishonourable I was for writing the article.
"A lot of people are very despondent over this", he yelled. "Fifteen Yale juniors are very, very upset".
I thanked him for telling me his concerns.
"There are a lot of us at newspapers and at political journalism institutions", he coldly hissed. "Good luck with your career", and he slammed down the phone.
Skull and Bones, particularly in recent years, has managed to pervade both popular and political culture. In the 1992 race for the Republican presidential nomination, PAT BUCHANAN accused PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH of running 'A-SKULL-AND-BONES-PRESIDENCY'. In 1993, during Jeb Bush’s Florida gubernatorial campaign, one of his constituents asked him, "You’re familiar with the Skull and Crossbones Society?" When Bush responded, "Yeah, I’ve heard about it", the constituent persisted, "Well, can you tell the people here what your family membership in that is? Isn’t your aim to take control of the United States?"
In January 2001, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd used Skull and Bones in a simile, "When W. met the press with his choice for attorney general, John Ashcroft, before Christmas, he vividly showed how important it is to him that his White House be as 'leak-proof' as the Skull & Bones tomb". That was less than a year after the Universal Pictures film introduced the secret society to a new demographic, perhaps uninitiated into the doctrines of 'modern-day-conspiracy-theory'. Not long before the movie was previewed in theatres and, perhaps in anticipation of the election of George W. Bush, a letter was distributed to members from Skull and Bones headquarters.
THE MEMO READ
"In view of the political happenings in the barbarian world, I feel compelled to remind all of the tradition of privacy and confidentiality essential to the well-being of our Order and strongly urge stout resistance to the seductions and blandishments of the Fourth Estate".
This vow of silence remains the society’s most important rule. Bonesmen have been exceedingly careful not to break this code of secrecy, and have kept specific details about the organisation out of the press. Indeed, given the unusual, strict written reminder to stay silent, members of Skull and Bones may well refuse to speak to any member of the media ever again.
But they have already spoken to me. When? Over the past three years. Why? Perhaps because I am a member of one of Skull and Bones’ kindred Yale secret societies. Perhaps because some of them are tired of the Skull and Bones legend, of the claims of conspiracy theorists and some of their fellow Bonesmen. What follows, then, is the truth about Skull and Bones. And if this truth does not contain all of the conspiratorial elements that the Skull and Bones legend projects, it is perhaps all the more interesting for that fact. The story of Skull and Bones is not just the story of a remarkable secret society, but a remarkable society of secrets, some with basis in truth, some nothing but fog. Much of the way we understand the world of power involves myriad assumptions of connection and control, of cause and effect, and of coincidence that surely cannot be coincidence.
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LIST OF SKULL AND BONES MEMBERS
By Eric Samuelson, J.D.
I am presently researching a biography on David Rockefeller.
An overview of the book will soon be sent to a New York City agent for circulation among all the major publishing houses. Among the topics that will be covered is the role of British USA Round Table member Rep. Wayne Hays (Demo-Ohio) in "killing" the Reece Committee investigation of tax-exempt foundations, the disappearance of the research on the Rockefeller-funded Kinsey studies and the "disposal" threats made to Reece Investigator Norman Dodd by a lobbyist for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
In 1986, Hoover scholar Antony C. Sutton published his "magnum opus".
AMERICA'S SECRET ESTABLISHMENT
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ORDER OF SKULL AND BONES.
In his preface Sutton said he had been given an eight-inch batch of documents which was "nothing less than the membership lists of an American secret society. Glancing through the sheets it was more than obvious — this was no ordinary group. The names spelled Power with a capital P." Throughout the book Sutton hinted at even deeper revelations he would make in books to come. However, the full list never was published by Sutton. In making inquiries of those who knew Sutton, I was told that he had become exiled in his own country. For months I searched the Web looking for a list of the members of Skull and Bones. At long last, a notebook was given to me which required the use of a magnifying glass to make out the names. So, the following semi-final list is about 97% accurate. It opens the door to the Bones realm at a time that one of their own is now hitting the campaign trail for the Republican presidential nomination.
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THE ULTIMATE WEAPON IS AN EDUCATED MIND
QUESTION EVERYTHING
HAVE A NICE DAY
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