Im not a conspiracy Theorist at all..but i thought i would drop something for lucky..since he's interested..

Skull And Bones
Unbelievable as it sounds, there is a fraternity at Yale established in 1832 called the Skull & Bones society. Many prominent Americans belong to it, including George Bush Jr. and Sr. Their membership is publicly acknowledged. You can even read about it in back issues of the Yale Alumni Magazine. You can find the many references with a google search using the site:www.yalealumnimagazine.com skull bones search option. Even 60 Minutes did a documentary on it.

For those unfamiliar with fraternity initiation rituals, the initiation rites of the Skull & Bones society are shocking. Even for those that are familiar, the rituals seem too bizarre to believe, especially in a fraternity for the upper crust. However, they even been filmed by secret infrared camera. You can even see a small clip from the ABC news video.

As did every member of the Yale Skull & Bones fraternity, Bush Jr. and Bush Sr.:

Publicly sold their souls to Satan. Bush Jr. may have considered it a joke, but it is still a sick joke.
Publicly masturbated in a coffin in view of the other members of the fraternity.
Swore allegiance to Satan while touching a human skull.
Bowed before a man dressed as Satan.
Permitted a man to press a human femur (thigh bone) into his anus.
Publicly confessed the entire catalog of his lifelong sexual fantasies.
Chanted the mantra:
“The Hangman equals Death.
The devil equals death.
Death equals Death.”
~ George W. Bush
Lewis Alper, an Evangelical Christian, discusses the religious blasphemy of the initiation ceremony, and Bush's refusal, even late in life, after he was saved, to repudiate his pledge of allegiance to Satan.

This all seems utterly preposterous unless you lived in a frat house like I did and know something of how these rituals can evolve into further and further daring. Skull & Bones is definitely out there in right field, but it is not that much further out than what happened at UBC fraternities in the 60's — e.g. walking naked with a marshmallow in the crack of the pledge's butt then having to eat it, or the limp biscuit, a circle jerk with the last guy to come having to eat the semen-covered biscuit.

One could argue no one believes in the devil, so it was all a harmless but daring prank. However, Bush at least publicly professes to believe in the fundamentalist Christian notions of God and Satan, so the ceremony would have been daring and perhaps even frightening for him.

However Skull & Bones is much more sinister than attempts to eBay the initiate's soul to the devil. Its members conspire to promote each other into positions of high office. That is the primary function of the order. This is the issue that the books about Skull & Bones primarily address. Bush has appointed 10 members of Skull & Bones to high posts in his administration, including Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum Jr. and SEC chief Bill Donaldson.

Bush Jr. also belongs to a fruitcake group called the Bohemian Grove. They are wealthy people who meet once a year to perform a mock human sacrifice to a 40 foot owl statue accompanied by Wagnerian opera and flames. There are allegations of sexual abuse, but no charges. There is even a poor quality video of the event, and here is a longer one.

Members of this kinky fraternity include: Senator Kerry, Senator Boren, Senator Jonathan Bingham, Senator John Chaffee (Former Navy Secretary and on the Senate Intelligence Committee), Senator John Heinz (ketchup), Henry Luce (Time Life), Henry Stimson (Mr. Pearl Harbour), George Bush Sr., Jeb Bush, Dean Acheson, Rutherford B. Hayes, William F. Buckley, Jr., McGeorge Bundy, Thomas Daniels (ADM), Dino Pionzio CIA deputy chief of station in Chile during the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende), etc.

There is a ton of material available on the net about Skull & Bones. Just go to google and ask for Yale skull bones Bush. For added fun, add the word Louima the Haitian the New York cops anally raped with a broom. The initiation ceremony has an ad lib segment like the entertainment scene in the opera Die Fledermaus.

Take it all with a large grain of salt. When the truth is so bizarre, it is hard to tell when people are embellishing it.
Source..http://mindprod.com/politics/bushbo...bones.html#TOMB

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From 2004


(CBS) As opposite as George Bush and John Kerry may seem to be, they do share a common secret - one they've shared for decades, and one they will not share with the electorate.

The secret: details of their membership in Skull and Bones, the elite Yale University society whose members include some of the most powerful men of the 20th century.

Bonesmen, as they're called, are forbidden to reveal what goes on in their inner sanctum, the windowless building on the Yale campus that is called the Tomb.

When 60 Minutes first reported on Skull & Bones last October, conspiracy theorists, who see Skull and Bones behind just about everything that goes wrong, and even right, in the world, were relishing the unthinkable - the possibility of two Bonesman fighting it out for the presidency.

Over the years, Bones has included presidents, cabinet officers, spies, Supreme Court justices, captains of industry, and often their sons and lately their daughters, a social and political network like no other.

And to a man and women, they'd responded to questions with utter silence until an enterprising Yale graduate, Alexandra Robbins, managed to penetrate the wall of silence in her book, “Secrets of the Tomb,” reports CBS News Correspondent Morley Safer.
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"I spoke with about 100 members of Skull and Bones and they were members who were tired of the secrecy, and that's why they were willing to talk to me,” says Robbins. “But probably twice that number hung up on me, harassed me, or threatened me.”

Secret or not, Skull and Bones is as essential to Yale as the Whiffenpoofs, the tables down at a pub called Mory's, and the Yale mascot - that ever-slobbering bulldog.

Skull and Bones, with all its ritual and macabre relics, was founded in 1832 as a new world version of secret student societies that were common in Germany at the time. Since then, it has chosen or "tapped" only 15 senior students a year who become patriarchs when they graduate -- lifetime members of the ultimate old boys' club.

“Skull and Bones is so tiny. That's what makes this staggering,” says Robbins. “There are only 15 people a year, which means there are about 800 living members at any one time.”

But a lot of Bonesmen have gone on to positions of great power, which Robbins says is the main purpose of this secret society: to get as many members as possible into positions of power.

“They do have many individuals in influential positions,” says Robbins. “And that's why this is something that we need to know about.”

President Bush has tapped five fellow Bonesmen to join his administration. Most recently, he selected William Donaldson, Skull and Bones 1953, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Like the President, he's taken the Bones oath of silence.
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Ron Rosenbaum, author and columnist for the New York Observer, has become obsessed with cracking that code of secrecy.

“I think there is a deep and legitimate distrust in America for power and privilege that are cloaked in secrecy. It's not supposed to be the way we do things,” says Rosenbaum. “We're supposed to do things out in the open in America. And so that any society or institution that hints that there is something hidden is, I think, a legitimate subject for investigation.”

His investigation is a 30-year obsession dating back to his days as a Yale classmate of George W. Bush. Rosenbaum, a self-described undergraduate nerd, was certainly not a contender for Bones. But he was fascinated by its weirdness.

“It's this sepulchral, tomblike, windowless, granite, sandstone bulk that you can't miss. And I lived next to it,” says Rosenbaum. “I had passed it all the time. And during the initiation rites, you could hear strange cries and whispers coming from the Skull and Bones tomb.”

Despite a lifetime of attempts to get inside, the best Rosenbaum could do was hide out on the ledge of a nearby building a few years ago to videotape a nocturnal initiation ceremony in the Tomb's courtyard.

“A woman holds a knife and pretends to slash the throat of another person lying down before them, and there's screaming and yelling at the neophytes,” he says.

Robbins says the cast of the initiation ritual is right out of Harry Potter meets Dracula: “There is a devil, a Don Quixote and a Pope who has one foot sheathed in a white monogrammed slipper resting on a stone skull. The initiates are led into the room one at a time. And once an initiate is inside, the Bonesmen shriek at him. Finally, the Bonesman is shoved to his knees in front of Don Quixote as the shrieking crowd falls silent. And Don Quixote lifts his sword and taps the Bonesman on his left shoulder and says, ‘By order of our order, I dub thee knight of Euloga.’"

It’s a lot of mumbo-jumbo, says Robbins, but it means a lot to the people who are in it.

“Prescott Bush, George W's grandfather, and a band of Bonesmen, robbed the grave of Geronimo, took the skull and some personal relics of the Apache chief and brought them back to the tomb,” says Robbins. “There is still a glass case, Bonesmen tell me, within the tomb that displays a skull that they all refer to as Geronimo.”

“The preoccupation with bones, mortality, with coffins, lying in coffins, standing around coffins, all this sort of thing I think is designed to give them the sense that, and it's very true, life is short,” says Rosenbaum. “You can spend it, if you have a privileged background, enjoying yourself, contributing nothing, or you can spend it making a contribution.”

And plenty of Bonesmen have made a contribution, from William Howard Taft, the 27th President; Henry Luce, the founder of Time Magazine; and W. Averell Harriman, the diplomat and confidant of U.S. presidents.

“What's important about the undergraduate years of Skull and Bones, as opposed to fraternities, is that it imbues them with a kind of mission for moral leadership,” says Rosenbaum. “And it's something that they may ignore for 30 years of their life, as George W. Bush seemed to successfully ignore it for quite a long time. But he came back to it.”

Mr. Bush, like his father and grandfather before him, has refused to talk openly about Skull and Bones. But as a Bonesman, he was required to reveal his innermost secrets to his fellow Bones initiates.

“They're supposed to recount their entire sexual histories in sort of a dim, a dimly-lit cozy room. The other 14 members are sitting on plush couches, and the lights are dimmed,” says Robbins. “And there's a fire roaring. And the, this activity is supposed to last anywhere from between one to three hours.”
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What’s the point of this?

”I believe the point of the year in the tomb is to forge such a strong bond between these 15 new members that after they graduate, for them to betray Skull and Bones would mean they'd have to betray their 14 closest friends,” says Robbins.

One can't help but make certain comparisons with the mafia, for example. Secret society, bonding, stakes may be a little higher in one than the other. But everybody knows everything about everybody, which is a form of protection.

“I think Skull and Bones has had slightly more success than the mafia in the sense that the leaders of the five families are all doing 100 years in jail, and the leaders of the Skull and Bones families are doing four and eight years in the White House,” says Rosenbaum.

Bones is not restricted to the Republican Party. Yet another Bonesman has his eye on the Oval Office: Senator John Kerry, Democrat, Skull & Bones 1966.

“It is fascinating isn't it? I mean, again, all the people say, ‘Oh, these societies don't matter. The Eastern Establishment is in decline.’ And you could not find two more quintessential Eastern establishment, privileged guys,” says Rosenbaum. “I remember when I was a nerdy scholarship student in the reserve book room at, at the Yale Library, and John Kerry, who at that point styled himself ‘John F. Kerry’ would walk in.”

“There was always a little buzz,” adds Rosenbaum. “Because even then he was seen to be destined for higher things. He was head of the Yale Political Union, and a tap for Skull and Bones was seen as the natural sequel to that.”

David Brooks, a conservative commentator who has published a book on the social dynamics of the upwardly mobile, says that while Skull & Bones may be elite and secret, it's anything but exciting.

“My view of secret societies is they're like the first class cabin in airplanes. They're really impressive until you get into them, and then once you're there they're a little dull. So you hear all these conspiracy theories about Skull and Bones,” says Brooks.

“And to me, to be in one of these organizations, you have to have an incredibly high tolerance for tedium 'cause you're sittin' around talking, talking, and talking. You're not running the world, you're just gassing.”

Gassing or not, the best-connected white man's club in America has moved reluctantly into the 21st Century.

“Skull and Bones narrowly endorsed admitting women,” says Robbins. “The day before these women were supposed to be initiated, a group of Bonesmen, including William F. Buckley, obtained a court order to block the initiation claiming that letting women into the tomb would lead to date rape. Again more legal wrangling; finally it came down to another vote and women were admitted and initiated.”

But Skull & Bones now has women, and it’s become more multicultural.

“It has gays who got the SAT scores, it's got the gays who got the straight A's,” says Brooks. “It's got the blacks who are the president of the right associations. It's different criteria. More multicultural, but it's still an elite, selective institution.”

On balance, it may be bizarre, but on a certain perspective, does it provide something of value?

“You take these young strivers, you put them in this weird castle. They spill their guts with each other, fine. But they learn something beyond themselves. They learn a commitment to each other, they learn a commitment to the community,” says Brooks. “And maybe they inherit some of those old ideals of public service that are missing in a lot of other parts of the country.”

And is that relationship, in some cases, stronger than family or faith?

“Absolutely,” says Robbins. “You know, they say, they say the motto at Yale is, ‘For God, for country, and for Yale.’ At Bones, I would think it's ‘For Bones.'”


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Skull and Bones
aka The Order
Depending on whom you talk to, there are anywhere from one to several thousand "secret" organizations with a "secret" agenda to rule the world via a vast conspiracy. The vast majority of these claims would appear, on the face of it, to have as much credence as the notion that the world is flat. But then, some people still believe that.
However, the fact that there are a lot of stupid people out there believing stupid things doesn't necessarily mean that all such claims are untrue.

After all, even quite sane people can harbor serious doubts about the lone gunman theory in the Kennedy Assassinations. Watergate appeared to be ridiculous at first glance. The existence of American Concentration Camps is well-documented. Fluoridation is a legitimate topic of scientific debate. The CIA really did dose unsuspecting civilians with LSD as part of their Mind Control program. And the U.S. military really conducted radioactive experiments on civilian medical patients as part of the Atomic Bomb program.

So when the conspiratorial mind turns to secret societies, each claim deserves a reasonable examination with an open mind.

Which leads us to our real topic for today: What the FUCK is the deal with Skull and Bones?

While there are centuries worth of rumors to sift through concerning Freemasonry, the Illuminati, the Knights Templar, etc., etc., Skull and Bones is a relatively young organization that only achieved national prominence with the rise of George HW Bush.

According to the official story, Skull and Bones was founded on the campus of Yale University in 1832.

Skull and Bones was a direct offshoot of a German craze for conspiratorial muck that same year, a social phenomenon which would directly lead to the rise of such groups as the Ordo Templi Orientis and the Golden Dawn, groups which apparently drew on existing Masonic traditions to create a worldview in which ritual magic and deep confusion were considered paths to enlightenment and power.

As a student's secret society at Yale, Skull and Bones had access to a pool of great, if impressionable, intellects over the years (as well as a few doofuses who enjoyed fortunate family connections). The known and alleged list of Bonesmen includes (but is not limited to):

Sen. Prescott Bush (father to George H.W.)
President George HW Bush
President George W Bush
President William H. Taft
Sen. John Kerry
Sen. David Boren
Sen. John Heinz
Author Archibald McLeish
Rhodes scholar Robert McCallum
Super-wealthy venture capitalist William Draper
DCI Richard Helms
William F. Buckley
SEC chairman William Donaldson
TIME magazine publisher Henry Luce
W. Averell Harriman
As is probably apparent, the list is a lot less impressive than a list of Masonic initiates, just for instance, which includes George Washington, Gen. Douglas McArthur, Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Duke Ellington, J. Edgar Hoover, Benjamin Franklin and Honus Wagner, whose face adorns the world's most valuable baseball card.

On the one hand, the lack of truly distinguished personae on the Skull and Bones roster kind of detracts from the paranoia-fueled fear that this conspiracy might end up ruling the world. On the other hand, it's a lot easier to swallow the claim that these underachievers would get caught up in the sort of clunky "mind control cult lite" offered up by Skull and Bones. Certainly, the fact that the Bush dynasty is again running the country begs for some sort of ulterior explanation.

And when push comes to shove, of course, being U.S. president is pretty much like ruling the world, at least in the minds of many recent Oval Office occupants. Even a president whose intellectual acumen is the subject of late-night TV comedy monologues is still an amazingly powerful guy.

Super-hot-babe journalist Alexandra Robbins wrote a book on Skull and Bones in which she delved into the group's kinky secrets, just like in the movies! She described the group's initiation ritual to CBS News thusly:


There is a devil, a Don Quixote and a Pope who has one foot sheathed in a white monogrammed slipper resting on a stone skull. The initiates are led into the room one at a time. And once an initiate is inside, the Bonesmen shriek at him. Finally, the Bonesman is shoved to his knees in front of Don Quixote as the shrieking crowd falls silent. And Don Quixote lifts his sword and taps the Bonesman on his left shoulder and says, 'By order of our order, I dub thee knight of Euloga.'
According to Robbins, the Bonesmen take on secret and occultish names such as Magog and Boaz. Robbins claims Magog was the name traditionally given to the member with the most sexual experience, such as (incredibly) Bush Sr. In a telling anecdote related for the Atlantic Monthly, Robbins wrote:

George W. was not assigned a name but invited to choose one. According to one report, nothing came to mind, so he was given the name Temporary, which, it is said, he never bothered to replace; Temporary is how Bush's fellow Bonesmen know him today.
Sigh...
Bonesmen are selected according to top secret criteria, or who their parents are. As Yale undergraduates, they are first introduced to the group via "the tap," in which a Bonesman walks up behind the student and taps him on the shoulder, asking "Skull and Bones, accept or reject?" The correct answer is "accept."

From there, the new recruit is whisked off for a series of initiations and rituals which involve such intellectually rich endeavors as describing your entire sexual history in detail, masturbating in tombs and swearing to keep your mouth shut about having done all this dumb shit. The latter principle is endlessly reinforced with mind games such as showing new recruits a staged "murder" and ordering them to keep their silence. (Some of these rituals may have been modified with the group's very recent decision, under heavy pressure, to admit women, gays and people of color.)

The name "Skull and Bones" came from a claim that the group had the skull of Geronimo in its secret crypt headquarters. After a vigorous protest by Native Americans, the Bonesmen coughed up a skull which turned out not to be Geronimo. Needless to say, this didn't really satisfy anyone, but it was eventually dropped. It's entirely unclear why a club of privileged white males who want to rule the world would even WANT to have the skull of Geronimo in its possession, but I guess that's why they call it a "secret" society.

Despite the juvenile nature of all this shit, it's not a small thing to be a Bonesman. George W. Bush had much of his so-called business career underwritten by his extremely wealthy Bonesmen colleagues, and he made a lot of money despite the the fact his companies had a tendency to collapse. On the other hand, the secret society doesn't seem to be doing John Kerry a lot of good.

From the conspiracy lover's point of view, about the only upside to Skull and Bones is that it's indisputably real. But it's not a good reflection on a top-secret cabal when there is ample and even copious evidence demonstrating its existence and describing its most intimate rituals.

Still, if the Bonesmen make for a piss-poor world-dominating conspiracy, the club would at least make a great movie, right? Well, no. Consider rotundly insightful film critic Robert Ebert's take on "The Skulls," a 2000 movie directly based on the group's lore:


I would give a great deal to be able to see "The Skulls" on opening night in New Haven, Conn., in a movie theater full of Yale students, with gales of laughter rolling at the screen. It isn't a comedy, but that won't stop anyone. (...) It's so ludicrous in so many different ways it achieves a kind of forlorn grandeur. It's in a category by itself.
Ludicrous? Forlorn grandeur? Sounds like the filmmakers got it just about right...

Timeline
1832 Skull and Bones founded, Yale College.
1832 Co-founder Alonso Taft initiated, grandfather of U.S. President W.H. Taft.
1878 William Howard Taft, future U.S. President, initiated.
1909 Geronimo buried at Ft. Still, Oklahoma.
1913 Averell Harriman initiated.
1915 Archibald MacLeish initiated.
1917 Prescott Sheldon Bush initiated, father of George HW Bush.
May 1918 Prescott Bush and other bonesmen purportedly loot the skull of Geronimo from his grave, in late May.
1920 Henry Luce, founder of Time magazine, initiated.
1948 George HW Bush initiated.
1968 George W Bush initiated.
1986 Apache chief Ned Anderson asks the FBI to investigate Skull and Bones' claim to possession of Geronimo's skull, and to repatriate it if necessary.
Sep 1986 Ned Anderson meets with Jonathan Bush, George HW Bush's brother.
1988 Washington Post article: "Skull for Scandal: Did Bush's Father Rob Geronimo's Grave?"
30 Jul 2000 During an interview with TIME magazine, Texas governor George W Bush reveals:
TIME: Did you have any qualms, say, about joining an elite secret club like Bones?
BUSH: No qualms at all. I was honored. I was fairly nonchalant. I didn't view it as a great heritage thing. I didn't take it all that seriously.
TIME: Demystify it a bit for those who might think it's a cross between a Masonic Lodge and the Trilateral Commission. Did your father show up for your initiation, like your grandfather showed up for his?
BUSH: Without revealing all the great secrets? I got a few of my old club mates who could demystify it right off the bat. My dad didn't tap me. Someone a year ahead of me tapped me. There was an entry celebration. I can't remember whether my dad showed up or not. I don't think so.

6 Oct 2002 CBS 60 Minutes runs a piece on Skull and Bones.
31 Aug 2003 On Meet the Press, interviewer Tim Russert asks senator John Kerry about he and President Bush's membership:
RUSSERT: You both were members of Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale. What does that tell us?
KERRY: Uh, not much, 'cause it's a secret. [Laughs.]
RUSSERT: Is there a secret handshake? Is there a secret code?
KERRY: I wish there were something secret I could manifest...
RUSSERT: 322 -- a secret number?
KERRY: There are all kinds of secrets, Tim. But one thing that's not a secret: I disagree with this President's direction that he's taking the country. We can do a better job, and I intend to do it.
RUSSERT: And we'll be watching. Be safe on the campaign trail. John Kerry, thanks for joining us. And we'll be right back.

8 Feb 2004 On Meet the Press, interviewer Tim Russert asks President Bush about he and Democratic senator John Kerry's membership:
RUSSERT: You were both in Skull and Bones, the secret society.
BUSH: It's so secret we can't talk about it.
RUSSERT: What does that mean for America? The conspiracy theorists are going to go wild.
BUSH: I'm sure they are. I don't know. I haven't seen the webpage yet. [Laughs.]
RUSSERT: Number 322.

6 May 2004 Radio commentator Rush Limbaugh dismisses the photos taken of naked prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, saying: "This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation."

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Pretty shocking stuff.

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