Anyway, there wasn't a thread on Skull And Bones, so here we go. Basically their membership roster reads like a who's who of the American investment banking and intelligence community. For more background info, check out this book and this site.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)
oo-ee-oo.
― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)
It will jam the collective mental circuits of paranoid America, who will then be ripe for re-programming by us rationals.
― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)
According to the Democracy Now interview (there's a stream available on their site. link upthread), they do allow women in. Apparently it was very controversial and that Bush I was against it.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― aleksandr supertramp (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― the river fleet, Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― the river fleet, Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)
Kissinger is apparently way into watersports, by the way.
― andy, Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)
Kate my friends and I went drinking in the Freemasons Arms over Christmas and got them to invite us to their lock-in and made friends with them got them to give us and everything. But then it all went a bit wrong when my friend decided to take offence at something one of them said and it almost developed into a full-on FITE. If I stop posting for a while, avenge my death.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)
x-post, Matt, the Freemasons Arms is GRATE!!! Joe and I went there just before Xmas, and some actual FREEMASONS came in. This was confirmed by the Freemason tourguide! (not actually a mason.)
― the river fleet, Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― the river fleet, Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― the river fleet, Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)
Apparently they only perform Charitable Acts these days, and also there are supposedly lots of them living in that huge sinister looking temple type thing.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)
Damn, I want to be a Freemason.
― the river fleet, Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― Gothbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)
And spank each other on the bottom with huge wooden paddles.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― the river fleet, Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 January 2004 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)
Do they theorise because they DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW or are they propegating the wacky lies to divert from their successful ruse that they are not actually Freemasons?
I felt like I was killing a puppy when I had to tell my mum's book group last night that the Priory of Sion was actually a 20th century Hoax.
― the river fleet, Friday, 23 January 2004 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)
If you think that college secret societies are paranoid creepy bullshit then you have obviously never attended a large university, especially not one down south. Those membership requirements listed above seem pretty familiar.
I am unsurprised at the Kerry revelation and what's worse is I don't care. I honestly can not spare another minute of my life thinking about this horseshit and frankly whoever runs this country is so out of my scope I'm wondering why I even bother. Every single nominee is a jackass and a snake and I wouldn't want to spend more than a minute in the same room with any of them. Thank you NPR.
Can you tell I haven't had any caffeine yet?
― TOMBOT, Friday, 23 January 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― the river fleet, Friday, 23 January 2004 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Friday, 23 January 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 23 January 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― the river fleet, Friday, 23 January 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)
It's obvious? Maybe it's just a matter of not having money or a dick.
Or being one.
― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 23 January 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)
(I saw it for free at a screening, and still feel duped.)
― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 23 January 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 22 August 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabiscothingy, Sunday, 22 August 2004 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― nabiscothingy, Sunday, 22 August 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)
One of the Bush family's most macabre crimes is squirming in the light again, thanks to an 88-year-old letter discovered in the bowels of Yale University.
In 1918, Prescott Bush reportedly raided the actual grave of Apache warrior Geronimo.
The Indian hero was buried at the Apache Indian Prisoner of War Cemetery.
Bush, like his son George and grandson George W. after him -- along with a substantial percentage of America's political, corporate and media elite -- was a member of "The Order" known as Skull and Bones.
Stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, during World War I with other Bonesmen, young Prescott and his gang dug up the gravesite of the legendary Indian fighter and took the bones back to the Order's headquarters at Yale.
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Ever since the grave was raided, Apache survivors have been horrified by the stories of what happened to their warrior's remains.
Skull and Bones has long been the "finishing school" for the Bush men -- along with other elites such as John Kerry, John Negroponte, William Howard Taft and dozens of congressmen and senators along with heads of the major corporations, the GOP and U.S. Treasury. Only 15 new seniors are "tapped" each year and then subjected to brutal hazing and bizarre rituals designed to make the Bonesmen both intensely loyal to the Order and subject to sexual blackmail.
One long-rumored ritual requires the new Bonesman -- known in the Order as a "knight" -- to do something obscene to Geronimo's skull. Using the actual human remains of a beloved American Indian historical figure for a secret society's hazing rituals shows just how the Skull and Bones men see the world they are trained to control.
Today the grave-robbing story has been verified by the wire services and cable news channels, after Yale Alumni Magazine published the details of the damning letter in the new issue.
"For decades, it has been the most controversial and sordid of all the mysteries surrounding Yale's best-known secret society. The story was widely rumored but, despite the efforts of reporters and historians and the public complaints of Apache leaders in the 1980s, never verified," the Yale magazine reported.
"A former senior editor of the Yale Alumni Magazine has now discovered the only known contemporary evidence: a reference in private correspondence from one senior Bonesman to another."
The letter reads, in part: "The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible, exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club & the K -- t [Knight] Haffner, is now safe inside the T -- [Tomb] together with his well worn femurs[,] bit & saddle horn."
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)
Not very?
― Dan (YMMV) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)
great sourcing there!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)
"Even better - while he's still using it!"
And when would that be?
OBVIOUS JOKE ALERT LEVEL GREEN - YOU MAY RETURN TO YOUR HOMES
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/09/geronimo.bones.ap/index.html
― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)
― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)
"In 2020, Skull and Bones had its first entirely nonwhite class... Many of the Societies now have only one or two students each year who aren’t from historically marginalized groups." @rosehorowitch on students' politics vs. their own staggering privilege. https://t.co/GZhGAZxQPV— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) January 11, 2024
― jaymc, Thursday, 11 January 2024 19:04 (two years ago)