Chapter 3: THE BROTHERHOOD OF DEATH
"We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September 11, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty."
-- George W. Bush speaking before the UN General Assembly 11/10/2001
"Conspirators are successful because the moral citizen cannot accept the conclusion that other individuals would actually wish to create incredibly destructive acts against their fellow citizens."
-- Ralph Epperson (the Unseen Hand).
"Some of the biggest men in the U.S. in the fields of commerce and manufacturing know that there is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
-- President Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the USA
THE HEGELIAN DIALECTIC
The philosophical and political roots of the 9/11 conspiracy do not have their source in Afghanistan or from within the inner sanctum of al-Qaeda or the current Bush administration, but instead can be traced backwards in time, to Berlin, Germany, and the year 1823.
It was in 1823 that Hegel, the great German philosopher and political scientist, proposed his dialectic (1), an idea that spread like a virus from the University of Berlin, to Yale college -- the alma matter of George W. Bush, his father, George H.W. Bush, and grand-father, Prescott Bush.
Hegel proposed and developed the concept of "Controlled Conflict." Hegel argued "that all historical events emerge from a conflict between opposing forces" and that change is a product of conflict between two opposing forces that produced such change. However, by creating. manipulating and controlling that conflict, Hegel proposed, it was possible to create a specific end result: "Conflict produces change, and controlled conflict produces controlled change." The controlled change is referred to as a "synthesis" such that in the end. both opposing forces undergo change and cease to exist except as an altered state (1).
By understanding and putting this principle to work. Hegel argued. one could create a specific end result and shape world history, simply by creating and managing a controlled conflict between opposing parties and opposing states.
Hegel also believed the state to be representative of the Divine Will. He argued that the end result of a controlled conflict was a product of reason and Divine Will, and had little or nothing to do with the will of the masses whose purpose was simply to obey.
Hegel's views were also consistent with and incorporated the theology of Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism.
Luther preached that the true Christian owes absolute authority to the State (2). It is not for the people to decide what is right or wrong. but merely to obey.
Adolf Hitler deeply admired Luther, and considered the Protestants to be "submissive as dogs, and they sweat with embarrassment when you talk to them."
When the German peasants revolted against the state in 1525, Luther advised the princes to act ruthlessly against these "mad dogs."
Luther's brand of Protestantism considered the state to be a representative of the will of God on earth. Thus the Protestant Church in Germany has always stood up for the advancement of German nationalism and the interests of the state. Since its inception Protestant pastors have always stood solidly behind the King, the Junkers, and the Army, until 1918 when the King was overthrown: an event which made the Weimar Republic an enemy of the Protestant Church (3).
Thus, the German Protestant Church, being nationalistic, antidemocratic, and a willing instrument of the state, was easy to Nazify. though there was also opposition (3 -- pp 326-327).
Adolf Hitler considered Luther to be "one of my spiritual ancestors. I have sought to carry out the ideas of this man of God. to the smallest detail." Indeed. both Hitler and Luther believed the state to be the personification of divine will, and both men condemned the Jews "and their lies."
"Throughout the history of Germany," Luther once said, "the Jews have exploited and sought to enslave honest Germans. While Germans toiled, the Jews fleece us of our money and goods and then sit around the stove and fart."
Hitler also agreed with Luther's solution to "the Jewish problem." According to Luther (2): "First set fire to their synagogues ... raze and destroy their schools ... take away their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which adultery, lies, and sex with children is taught. Forbid that Rabbis be allowed to teach. Take away their cash and silver. Let whosoever throw brimstone and pitch upon them and let them be driven like mad dogs from the land."
To destroy the Jews, would also be in keeping with the Nazi's version of eugenics: the extermination of a dangerous "subhuman" race.
Hitler celebrated Luther's birth date by unleashing his storm troopers on November 9 and 10, 1938. The Nazis, funded by bankers, industrialists, Standard Oil and Prescott Bush and associates (4) destroyed Jewish business, and set fire to their synagogues and schools -- the so called Kristallnacht (3,5,6): "The Night of Broken Glass."
Though it is true that almost half of the Protestant clergy and leadership initially opposed Hitler's attempts to Nazify the Protestant church (3), Nazi ideology is deeply rooted in Lutherism and Hegelian thought. Both Luther (2) and Hegel (1) saw the state as being an instrument of God.
As explained by Hegel (1): "The march of God in history is the cause of the existence of states, their foundation is the power of Reason realizing itself as will. Every state, whatever it be, participates in the Divine essence. The State is not the work of human art, only Reason could produce it."
Because the State is also God and a representative of absolute pure reason, it is the absolute duty of all citizens to serve God and Reason by serving the State. Democracy, individualism, morality, the will of the masses are irrelevant. According to Hegel, the individual can only find freedom through worship and utter obedience to the State (1).
Hitler believed that he had been chosen by "divine providence" to lead the state (3.5.6.7). Believing himself to have been chosen by God. and that he was acting as an instrument of God. Hitler-and his Nazi followers who shared these beliefs -- also believed that the Nazi state should act according to Hitler's will. and Hitler's will alone.
As summed up by Rudolf Hess: "Hitler is Germany and Germany is Hitler!"
"The individual is nothing."
-- Adolf Hitler.
"If men were given complete liberty of action, they would immediately behave like apes. Slacken the reins of authority, give more liberty to the individual, and you are driving the people along the road to decadence."
-- Adolf Hitler (7).
The philosophies of Hegel (1), Luther (2), and Hitler (7), in equating the state with Divine Will, also promotes the goal of annihilating all individuality. The individual is nothing. The individual has no rights. Morality consists solely in obedience to the state which is a manifestation of the Divine essence and the power of reason.
Democracy, therefore, is the antithesis of Hegelian thought.
As summed up by Hegel (1): "All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. For truth is the unity of the universal and subjective will: and the Universal is found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on earth."
Likewise, according to Hegel, the synthesis resulting from the conflict between opposing forces and opposing states (thesis vs anti-thesis) represents the "march of God through history."
However, because God and the Divine essence is also a manifestation of reason. the use of reason to manipulate and create a controlled conflict (between "thesis" and "anti-thesis") could therefore result in the creation of a new state (Synthesis): A new world order that is divinely inspired and governed by an all powerful intellectual elite.
In the 1990s, George H.W. Bush. repeatedly announced and called for a "New World Order."
THE NEW WORLD ORDER
Paradoxical as it may seem, Hegel's philosophy not only provided a theoretical basis that supported Germany's Protestant religion and the most conservative and rabidly nationalist of German political movements during the 19th century, but opposing revolutionary movements of the 20th century: Marxism (8) and the rise of Nazism and Adolf Hitler (9).
Broadly considered, Hegelians can be divided into two seemingly oppositional camps: the right-wing Hegelians who promoted German/Prussian militarism and spawned Baron von Bismarck and later Adolf Hitler (9), and the left-wing Hegelians (the "scientific socialists") who provided the philosophical foundations that gave rise to Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and thus Marxism/Communism (8).
Be it Nazi or Communist, regardless of their right- or leftward leanings, these Hegelians all share the same unifying beliefs: The supremacy of an all powerful state, the total insignificance of individuality, contempt for democracy, and the desire to create a New World Order -- a singular all powerful government which would rule the world (7,8,9).
THESIS VS ANTI-THESIS =SYNTHESIS
The existence of these two opposing Hegelian-political/governmental organizations, is also Hegelian. The Hegelian dialectic envisions the participation of two opposing parties (thesis vs antithesis) who are then guided and manipulated into engaging in a controlled conflict (1). The result of this conflict between thesis and anti-thesis, is synthesis: change in the form of increased wealth, increased power, and the concentration of this power and wealth in the hands of a divinely elected elite who control the state; i.e. a New World Order.
At the turn of the 19th century, the major national powers of the world were ruled by Kings or democratically elected governments whose economies were capitalistic. Communism was as yet, a theory.
The first world war was not fought between communists and capitalists, but between kings and kings (e.g., Germany against Russia), and between kings and democratically elected governments (i.e. Germany against France, Britain and America).
As the first world war neared to a close. it became apparent that the democratic states would triumph and that the Kings of Germany and Russia would be exiled and deposed.
War and conflict is good for business. at least for those lending money or selling oil and weapons. But if the kings were deposed and replaced by democratically-elected governments, wars and thus controlled conflict. among the major powers might well become obsolete.
As the first world war drew to a close, an American bank, with direct ties to Prescott Bush and George Walker (Bush's future father-in-law), began providing loans. funds, and other assistance to Communist terrorists and Bolshevik revolutionaries who were striving to overthrow the Russian Zsar (10). In 1917, the Bolsheviks took power in Russia, and the "red terror" began. Millions of Russians were murdered by terrorists who were financed by Standard Oil and a New York investment bank. Guaranty Trust (10).
The communist government of the new Soviet Union would now be in conflict with the democratic West. as the stated goals of both were world dominion: i.e. a communist world (Thesis). or a democratic world (Anti-Thesis). Those who would finance and thus control the coming conflict, would be bankers, oil companies, and arm's merchants, and in return they would be the recipients of incredible wealth, i.e. synthesis.
With the defeat of Germany, World War I came to an end. However, although Germany's king was deposed and exiled and a democratic government was installed in his place (the Weimar Republic), the controlled conflict within Germany had just begun. Nationalists, Nazis, and monarchists battled with the Communists and the democratically elected government in order to install their own regimes in its place (3,5,6,7).
The German communists advocated the creation of a Soviet Socialist state aligned with and eventually to become a satellite of Soviet Russia. The Hitler wing of the Nationalist movement instead promised to destroy both the Weimar Republic and the German Communists. As detailed in Hitler's Mein Kampf, he also promised to destroy Communist Russia which would become, instead, a Nazi slave state (3,5,7).
The Nazis and Russian Communists not only shared the same fascist Hegelian roots but were propped up financially by some of the same individuals and organizations (10,11), including the alumni of a Yale secret society, "The Brotherhood of Death" (also known as "Skull and Bones"), e.g., the Bush family and their associates in the oil and banking industries.
Hitler and his Nazis began receiving tens of thousands of dollars from individuals, banks and business associated with Bush- Harriman and Standard Oil, as early as 1923 (12). By the late I920s until he came to power, Hitler and his Nazis were receiving millions of dollars in payments (12) -- money and assistance which kept pouring in even after Hitler declared war on Russia and America (12,13).
From the perspective of bankers and arm's merchants, there is no contradiction in providing funds to and doing business with opposing groups, organizations, or states. If both could be guided into conflict, both would require loans to buy weapons, which would trigger an arm's race, and eventually, war. And war is good for banks, oil companies, and arm's merchants.
This strategy also has Hegelian roots.
Thesis and anti-thesis = controlled conflict between opposing states: Nazi Germany vs Communist Russia. for the purposes of creating a synthesis.
Synthesis: The creation of new wealth for bankers, the armaments industry. and the financial backers of the Nazi and Communists regimes. and the creation of a "New World Order."
THE NEW WORLD ORDER: A WORLD OF SLAVES
During the 1930s and early 1940s, the Bush family and their associates (Harriman, Rockefeller), were betting on the Nazis as were a number of other influential Americans, such as Joe Kennedy (14) and newspaper magnate William Randolf Hearst (15). Some of these men not only openly supported the Nazis, but were predicting the death of democracy (as well as Communism) and advocating a Nazi form of government for the United States.
In the 1930s and 1940s, it seemed to many that Hitler and his Nazis would finally deliver the Hegelian promise of a New World Order, ruled over by a divinely inspired and a divinely chosen, business- friendly, powerful elite (3,4).
"My presence on earth is providential. I owe it to a superior will."
-- Adolf Hitler.
Power, however, requires money. Money can be borrowed, stolen, or earned. To make the most money requires the elimination of competitors. As summed up by John D. Rockefeller: "Competition is a sin."
It was in fact the goal of the SS, also known as "The Order" and the "Brotherhood of Death" to gain monopolistic control over all forms of German industry and commerce and to employ, as slave labor, the conquered peoples of other countries (6,7) -- slaves who would be kept ignorant, impoverished, unhealthy, and uneducated. As pontificated by Hitler (7):
"What will the social order of the future be like? Comrade, I will tell you. There will be a class of overlords, after them the rank and file of the party members in hierarchical order, and then the great mass of anonymous followers, servants and workers in perpetuity, and beneath them again all the conquered foreign races, the modern slaves. And over and above all these will reign a new and exalted nobility of whom I cannot speak."
"In order to retain our domination over the people in the territories we have conquered ... we must therefore ...deprive them of any form of State organization and consequently, keep them on as Iowa cultural level as possible."
"The ideal solution would be to teach this people an elementary kind of mimicry. No special books for them! The radio will be enough to give them the essential information. Of music, they can have as much as they want. They can practice listening to the tap running. I'm against entrusting them with any work that calls for the least mental effort."
"To teach the Russians. the Ukrainians and the Kirghiz to read and write will eventually be to our own disadvantage; education will give the more intelligent among them an opportunity to study history, to acquire an historical sense and, hence, to develop political ideas which cannot but be harmful to our interests."
"A loud-speaker should be installed in each village, to provide them with odd items of news and. above all. to afford distraction. What possible use to them would a knowledge of politics or economics be? There is also no point in broadcasting any stories of their past history. All the villagers require is music, music and plenty of it. Cheerful music is a great incentive to hard work; give them plenty of opportunities to dance, and the villagers will be grateful to us."
"In the field of public health, there is no need whatsoever to extend to the subject races the benefits of our own knowledge. This would result only in an enormous increase in local populations. and I absolutely forbid the organization of any sort of hygiene or cleanliness crusades in these territories. Dentistry, too. should remain a closed book for them."
"Compulsory vaccination will be confined to Germans alone. and the doctors in the German colonies will be there solely for the purpose of looking after the German colonists. We must even try to stifle any desire for such things, by persuading them that vaccination and the like are really most dangerous!"
"I recently read an article from the pen of some Herr Doktor advocating the prohibition of the sale in the occupied territories of contraceptives. If any criminal lunatic should really try to introduce this measure. I'd soon have his head off! In view of the extraordinary fertility of the local inhabitants, we should be only too pleased to encourage the women and the girls to practice the arts of contraception at all times. Far from prohibiting the sale of contraceptives, therefore, we should do our utmost to encourage it."
"The local population must be given no facilities for higher education. Instruction in geography can be restricted to one single sentence: The Capital of the Reich is Berlin, a city which everyone should try to visit once in his lifetime. There is no need to teach them much more than, say, the meaning of the various road-signs. Jodl is quite right when he says that notices in the Ukrainian language 'Beware of the Trains' are superfluous; what on earth does it matter if one or two more locals get run over by the trains?"
"As for the ridiculous hundred million Slavs, we will mould the best of them to the shape that suits us, and we will isolate the rest of them in their own pig-styes; and anyone who talks about cherishing the local inhabitant and civilizing him, goes straight off into a concentration camp!"
When Adolf Hitler spoke of a "New World Order," he envisioned a world of slaves ruled over by the Nazi elite: "The Brotherhood of Death," his SS, the high ranking membership of which consisted almost exclusively of aristocrats and the kings of industry and commerce (6,7).
"Thanks to its method of recruiting, the SS will be a nursery of rulers. In a hundred years' time from now, we'll control this whole empire without having to rack our brains to know where to find the proper men."
-- Adolf Hitler (7).
The need for the Superman is, in its most imperative aspect, a political one. We have been driven to Proletarian Democracy by the failure of all the alternative systems; for these depended on the existence of Supermen acting as despots or oligarchs; and not only were these Supermen not always or even often forthcoming at the right moment and in an eligible social position, but when they were forthcoming they could not, except for a short time and by morally suicidal coercive methods, impose superhumanity on those whom they governed; so, by mere force of “human nature,” government by consent of the governed has supplanted the old plan of governing the citizen as a public-schoolboy is governed....
At all events Australia and Canada, which are virtually protected democratic republics, and France and the United States, which are avowedly independent democratic republics, are neither healthy, wealthy, nor wise; and they would be worse instead of better if their popular ministers were not experts in the art of dodging popular enthusiasms and duping popular ignorance....
The only fundamental and possible Socialism is the socialization of the selective breeding of Man: in other terms, of human evolution. We must eliminate the Yahoo, or his vote will wreck the commonwealth....
That may mean that we must establish a State Department of Evolution, with a seat in the Cabinet for its chief, and a revenue to defray the cost of direct State experiments, and provide inducements to private persons to achieve successful results. It may mean a private society or a chartered company for the improvement of human live stock. But for the present it is far more likely to mean a blatant repudiation of such proposals as indecent and immoral, with, nevertheless, a general secret pushing of the human will in the repudiated direction; so that all sorts of institutions and public authorities will under some pretext or other feel their way furtively towards the Superman. Mr. Graham Wallas has already ventured to suggest, as Chairman of the School Management Committee of the London School Board, that the accepted policy of the Sterilization of the Schoolmistress, however administratively convenient, is open to criticism from the national stock-breeding point of view; and this is as good an example as any of the way in which the drift towards the Superman may operate in spite of all our hypocrisies....
Even a joint stock human stud farm (piously disguised as a reformed Foundling Hospital or something of that sort) might well, under proper inspection and regulation, produce better results than our present reliance on promiscuous marriage. It may be objected that when an ordinary contractor produces stores for sale to the Government, and the Government rejects them as not up to the required standard, the condemned goods are either sold for what they will fetch or else scrapped: that is, treated as waste material; whereas if the goods consisted of human beings, all that could be done would be to let them loose or send them to the nearest workhouse. But there is nothing new in private enterprise throwing its human refuse on the cheap labor market and the workhouse; and the refuse of the new industry would presumably be better bred than the staple product of ordinary poverty....
It will have to be handled by statesmen with character enough to tell our democracy and plutocracy that statecraft does not consist in flattering their follies or applying their suburban standards of propriety to the affairs of four continents. The matter must be taken up either by the State or by some organization strong enough to impose respect upon the State....
Let those who think the whole conception of intelligent breeding absurd and scandalous ask themselves why George IV was not allowed to choose his own wife whilst any tinker could marry whom he pleased? Simply because it did not matter a rap politically whom the tinker married, whereas it mattered very much whom the king married. The way in which all considerations of the king’s personal rights, of the claims of the heart, of the sanctity of the marriage oath, and of romantic morality crumpled up before this political need shews how negligible all these apparently irresistible prejudices are when they come into conflict with the demand for quality in our rulers. We learn the same lesson from the case of the soldier, whose marriage, when it is permitted at all, is despotically controlled with a view solely to military efficiency....
On the other hand a sense of the social importance of the tinker’s marriage has been steadily growing. We have made a public matter of his wife’s health in the month after her confinement. We have taken the minds of his children out of his hands and put them into those of our State schoolmaster. We shall presently make their bodily nourishment independent of him. But they are still riff-raff; and to hand the country over to riff-raff is national suicide, since riff-raff can neither govern nor will let anyone else govern except the highest bidder of bread and circuses. There is no public enthusiast alive of twenty years’ practical democratic experience who believes in the political adequacy of the electorate or of the bodies it elects. The overthrow of the aristocrat has created the necessity for the Superman. Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves and desires a pedigree....
A conference on the subject is the next step needed. It will be attended by men and women who, no longer believing that they can live for ever, are seeking for some immortal work into which they can build the best of themselves before their refuse is thrown into that arch dust destructor, the cremation furnace.
-- Man and Superman, by George Bernard Shaw
When the newly elected George H.W. Bush (and his administration) took office in 1988 and repeatedly spoke of "a new world order," and when, twelve years later, his son, President George W. Bush (and his administration) spoke the same words, these men were not addressing the American public. They were speaking to the same brotherhood which brought Hitler to power, "the Brotherhood of Death."
IT ALL BEGINS AT YALE: SKULL & BONES
In 1823, Samuel Russell, a child of the Wall Street banking establishment, founded "Russell & Company" the largest opium smuggling operation in the world. Russell and Company was based in Connecticut, and in addition to Chinese tea and silk, specialized in acquiring opium in Turkey and smuggling it to China (16).
In 1830, Russell and Company bought out their primary competitor, the Perkins (Boston) syndicate and thus established Connecticut as the epi-center of the illegal opium trade. Because of the incredible wealth generated. and through his connections to Wall Street. Russell's company (and thus Connecticut) became an epicenter of illegal and secret political power ( 16).
The grandfather of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Warren Delano. Jr.. served as Chief of Operations, at Russell and Company. and later became a partner (16).
In 1831. William Huntington Russell. half-brother to Samuel. left the United States and Yale college, to spend a year studying in Germany (17). Germany was in a fever. the epi-center of "new ideas" and a scientific revolution in psychology, philosophy, and educational reform. In the new Germany. children were being educated according to the "scientific method." They were taught what to think and how to think it, as well as total obedience to the state.
William Huntington Russell wanted to learn first hand. "The "Scientific Method" and the ideas and philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel held the Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin from 1817 until his death in 1831.
In Germany, the scientific method. and the Hegelian dialectic were being applied to every aspect of human endeavor: through reason and the application of the scientific method. it was possible to create a pre-determined synthesis and thus the most desirable predetermined outcomes (1).
Russell was particularly impressed with the concept of "thesis versus anti-thesis" and Hegel's historical dialectic: the state is absolute. individuals are granted their freedoms based on their obedience to the state. controlled conflict, by an intellectual elite, can produce a pre-determined outcome.
Russell, being a child of the Wall Street banking elite, quickly realized the implications. Hegel's philosophy and the "Scientific Method" could be applied to banking: Through controlled conflict, it was possible to create a synthesis in the form of incredible financial wealth. Those engaged in this conflict would require financing. Controlled conflict, when conducted in secret, would be good for business.
Indeed, secrecy is mandated when the dialectic is applied to the creation of "opposing forces" who are to be manipulated into engaging in a "controlled conflict." Secrecy is also necessitated so that the opposing forces do not realize that the same banks are providing funds to both of those in conflict.
Of course, William Huntington Russell was not the first to realize the necessity of secrecy for the purposes of applying Hegel's dialectic to banking and commerce. Banking requires secrecy, particularly when it comes to laundering incredible sums of money acquired through criminal enterprise and the drug trade.
Long before he arrived in Germany, Russell had learned the value of secrecy. What he wanted was to learn first hand was the Hegelian scientific method. So, it is not surprising that after he enrolled at the University of Berlin, Russell became a member of a secret society which also incorporated Hegelian ideas.
Russell joined the secret order of "Skull and Bones" (17). The membership of the Berlin order of Skull and Bones came from the privileged class, the aristocracy, and the families of bankers and the moneyed elite. Russell fit fight in and formed a warm and close relationship with many of its members.
When it came time for his to return to America and Yale college, Russell sought and obtained permission to form an American chapter of the secret German Society of Skull and Bones: chapter 322, The Brotherhood of Death (17,18).
Russell returned to the United States and Yale College in 1832. Russell, along with his very close friend, Alphonso Taft (the father of William Howard Taft who became President of the U.S. and then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court), and 13 other children of the Wall Street elite, established and became the founding members of "The Order of Scull and Bones," later changed to "The Order of Skull and Bones."
The Order of Skull and Bones was to be a super secret society for the elite children of the Anglo-American Wall Street banking establishment (17,18). Its purpose: To generate incredible wealth and power for its members.
Presumably, the Order of Skull and Bones exists only at Yale. As detailed in Antony C. Sutton's superbly researched 1986 text, America's Secret Establishment (17): "Those on the inside know it as The Order. Others have known it for more than 150 years as Chapter 322 of a German secret society. More formally, for legal purposes. The Order was incorporated as The Russell Trust in 1856. It was also once known as the 'Brotherhood of Death.' Those who make light of it. or want to make fun of it, call it 'Skull & Bones', or just plain 'Bones'."
The Order of Skull and Bones, however, is certainly not a college fraternity fun-house. Rather, the purpose of Skull and Bones is the application of skull duggery, piracy, and the scientific method to the creation of power, wealth, and the inducement of controlled conflict between opposing individuals, businesses, and states.
The Order of Skull and Bones is also geared to promote the mutual success of its members in the post-collegiate world. Hence, only those of the incoming senior class become members (17,18) and membership is retained for life.
Each year fifteen juniors are selected by the graduating seniors to be initiated into next year's group. New members are reportedly given a large sum of money, and a clock -- the significance of which is to remind them that the Order of Skull and Bones is timeless.
As detailed by Antony Sutton (17) it is the "timeless" nature of this secret brotherhood which provides it with continuity and thus the capacity to build up both vertical and horizontal "chains of influence." These multi-generational chains of influence ensure the success of its members in their varied schemes. be it drug smuggling or the creation and financing of controlled conflict for the purposes of acquiring power and incredible wealth.
Prescott Bush, George H.W. Bush. and his son, George W. Bush, are alumni of Yale and members of Skull and Bones (17,19).
THE BROTHERHOOD OF DEATH
After its founding. Russell and friends hoisted a pirate flag as a symbol and talisman of their brotherhood. The pirate flag has an obvious meaning: death. Pirates are terrorists, murderers, marauders, cutthroats and thieves, answerable to no one, above the law, and without morals and scruples.
Soon after its establishment at Yale, the Order of Skull and Bones began to develop an unsavory reputation (17).
In October of 1876, an investigative article on The Order, appeared in Volume 1, Number 1, of "The Iconoclast." The Iconoclast was published off campus, in New Haven, "because the college press is closed to those who dare to openly mention 'Bones'."
The Iconoclast reported evidence of Satanism, i.e. walls covered in black, and in room 322, the "sanctum sanctorium of the temple ...[was] furnished in red velvet...[ with] a pentagram on the wall... and in the hall ....pictures of the founders of Bones at Yale, and of members of the Society in Germany, when the chapter was established here in 1832."
The Iconoclast goes on to report that "Out of every class Skull and Bones takes its men. They have gone out into the world and have become in many instances, leaders in society. No doubt they are worthy men in themselves, but the many, whom they looked down upon while in college, cannot so far forget as to give money freely into their hands. Bones men care far more for their society than they do for the college."
"At first the society held its meetings in hired halls; in 1856, the 'tomb,' a vine-covered, windowless, brown-stone hall was built. This is where they hold their strange, occultist initiation rites and meet each Thursday and Sunday."
"Year by year the deadly evil is growing," The Iconoclast warned. "The society was never as obnoxious as it is today. Never before has it shown such arrogance and self-fancied superiority. It grasps ... and endeavors to rule. It clutches at power with the silence of conscious guilt ... a society guilty of serious and far-reaching crimes."
An uninvited "guest" to the tomb reported seeing: "On the west wall, an old engraving representing an open burial vault, in which, on a stone slab, rest four human skulls, grouped about a fools cap and bells, an open book, several mathematical instruments, a beggar's script, and a royal crown (17,18). On the arched wall above the vault are the explanatory words, in Roman letters, 'We War Der Thor, Wer Weiser, Wer Bettler Oder, Kaiser?' and below the vault is engraved, in German characters, the sentence; 'Ob Arm, Ob Beich, im Tode gleich.'"
The English translation of the German words reads as follows: '"Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death."
And what does that mean?
There are no morals. There is no right or wrong. The ends justify the means. Everything ends the same, "in death."
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For the next 30 years after its founding. various members of The Order of Skull and Bones made a pilgrimage to Germany and the University of Berlin (17). The University of Berlin was Ground Zero for the study of Hegelian principles and the "scientific method" as applied to business, government, education. psychology. and the acquisition of power and wealth.
In Germany, the state had taken complete responsibility for the education of children. The purpose of a German education was to mold the character and thinking of all German citizens and to make them obedient to the German state (1).
These Hegelian principles were absorbed by the visiting Bonesman. three of which. upon returning to America, applied these principles at home (17).
Timothy Dwight (class of 1849) became Professor in the Yale Divinity School and then 12th President of Yale University.
Daniel Coit Gilman (class of 1852) became the first President of the University of California. first President of the Johns Hopkins University and first President of the Carnegie Institution.
Andrew Dickson White (class of 1853) became the first President of Cornell University.
For these three "Bonesmen," a university education was the key to shaping the thoughts, prejudices, and ideas of future generations and training those who would someday become the future leaders of America. Of course. these noble "Bonesmen" had no interest in providing a university education to the masses. A university education was only for the children of the rich and powerful; men who would seek to fulfill the Hegelian dialectic and the eventual creation of a New World Order which would be ruled over by the moneyed elite.
NEW WORLD ORDER: CIVIL WAR & THE MONEYED ELITE
Although, most certainly, the founding of colleges and universities is to be commended in the most laudatory of terms, not all "Bonesmen" were interested in improving the lot of mankind. Education would be a form of thought control and mankind would serve only one purpose: to engage in controlled conflict, to help create a New World Order, and to thus make the Bonesmen and their banker and business friends very powerful and very rich.
The American civil war offered the Bonesmen and their associates in banking, the first opportunity, in America, to fund controlled conflict. The resulting "synthesis" would include the erosion of democracy at the local level ("states rights"), the elimination of state-chartered "Free Banking" and the establishment of centralized "national" banking and thus the establishment of a few private "national" banks that could be owned and controlled by a handful of families.
From the outset of the American civil war, these private national banks (as well as the "Free" banks), loaned money to both the Union and the Confederacy (20). Many of these bankers also funded and equipped "bushwakers," "death squads," and private militias whose specialties included the torture and assassination of Union or Confederate sympathizers. Neighbors were sometimes "slain before the eyes of their wives and children," some were killed for "fun" (21). Not uncommonly these "death squads" would pick "off neighbors one by one," ambushing and assassinating suspected enemies, and spreading terror. Every man, armed or unarmed, was fair game. Men were shot down in their fields, on their doorsteps, while on the road. Men taken captive were scalped, beheaded, castrated, and mutilated. Crops, homes and entire towns were burned (21).
The owners of these banks, these merchants of death, essentially funded the war and the many competing death squads in order to reap the incredible, staggering profits. Indeed, by the end of the war, over $6.6 billion dollars in direct costs (that is, in 1860s dollars) had been consumed by the civil war and the government of the Union and Confederacy (20).
War and terror were good business. The merchants of death made incredible fortunes.
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln identified this moneyed elite. as the enemies of mankind and the enemies of the United States of America:
"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy. more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces. as public enemies. all who question its methods or throw Light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies. the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two. the one at my rear is my greatest foe ... corporations have been enthroned. and an era of corruption in high places will follow. and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed."
-- Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson was of the same opinion: "I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs."
In 1863, after a failed attempt to bring the banks under centralized government control. President Lincoln and Congress took the advice of his Secretary of the Treasury and the northern banking establishment. and created a national banking system and a uniform national currency to be issued only by "national banks" (20).
The National Banking Act of 1863 and a subsequent law passed in 1865 (which levied a 10-percent tax on State banks) put the free banks out of existence. The control of the national banks was put squarely into the hands of the members of the order of Skull and Bones (20).
It wasn't just banking but money which was put under the control of a handful of individuals. National Bank Notes were printed by private bank note companies under contract to the Federal government.
The Guaranty Trust Company was one of the national banks which emerged during the war between the states. The Guaranty Trust Company, established in 1864, was controlled almost entirely by families whose sons were, or would soon become, members of Skull and Bones: Vanderbilt, Whitney, and Harriman (17,22).
THE BROTHERHOOD OF SHIPPING & BANKING: HITLER'S ANGELS
The concept of a bank is quite simple. Money is deposited in the bank for safekeeping, and the bank may pay a small interest fee to depositors in return. This same money is loaned to businesses, governments, and men of means, at a high rate of interest. This same money can be loaned to those who own the banks, at a 0% interest rate, and the loans may even be "forgiven."
A bank is a risk-free money-making machine for those who own the bank. If anyone defaults on a loan, and if the bank goes bankrupt, only the depositors lose money.
With the incredible amounts of money flowing into the coffers of the Guaranty Trust Company, the Harriman family was able to finance and buy the bankrupt Union Pacific Railroad, as well as create the W. A. Harriman investment firm.
Bert Walker (the maternal great-grand-father to the current George Walker Bush clan) was one of Harriman's principal partners. Bert Walker had sought and lost the Republican presidential nomination, but in so doing, had established himself as a member of the Republican power-elite (23). Bert Walker and then later, his son, George Walker, were not only partners with the Harrimans, but, due to their Republican credentials, were well situated to influence the administrations of successive Republican presidents.
The Harrimans were also partners with the Rockefellers. The Harriman railroad shipped the oil pumped out of the ground by John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil.
Samuel P. Bush -- the father of Prescott, was also in business with the Harriman-Walker-Rockefeller clique. Samuel P. Bush, owned Buckeye Steel Castings Co. which manufactured parts for the Harriman railroad company (23).
It is men likes these, if not these very men, who Lincoln referred to as "The money powers [who] prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity ...until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few. and the Republic is destroyed."
TRADING WITH THE ENEMY
In the 1930s, Bush, Harriman, and Rockefeller, established themselves as enemies of democracy by going into business with Hitler, and by importing Nazism to the United States. As detailed in chapter 2. it is because Bush was still in business with the Nazis after Hitler declared war on the U.S., that several of his companies. including the Hamburg-Amerika shipping line. was confiscated by the government of the United States.
History was repeating itself, for at the close of the first world war, and Germany's defeat. the Hamburg-Amerika's commercial shipping fleet was first confiscated by the American government in 1919 -- part of the spoils of war.
In 1920. the Harrimans became the new owners of Hamburg- Amerika. The Harrimans also obtained the exclusive right to 50% of all shipping business that originated in Hamburg and 100% control of all activities of the Hamburg line that originated in the United States.
In 1931, Harriman & Co. merged with Brown Brothers to become one of the biggest investment banks in the world. Prescott Bush became a senior partner in the new firm. That same year. George Walker began running the North American operations of the Hamburg-Amerika shipping line under the auspices of Walker's American Shipping & Commerce. which in turn was controlled by a holding company called the Harriman Fifteen. Averell Harriman. George Walker. and Prescott Bush were the directors of this holding company and thus the owners of the Hamburg-Amerika line (4,23).
Three years later. U.S. government investigators determined that several of the directors of the Hamburg-Amerika line. were major contributors to the Nazi Party. These men, it was determined, had provided a wealth of funds to Hitler for his 1932 election campaign (12). Prescott Bush was one of these men. Prescott Bush was financing Nazi terrorism as a means of destabilizing Germany's democratic government and catapulting Hitler to power.
Prescott Bush and one of the companies that he directed, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, was identified by the U.S. embassy in Berlin as providing the funds to support Hitler's "costly election campaigns" and "the cost of maintaining a private army of 300,000 to 400,000 men." It was these men who spread terror throughout Germany.
As detailed by Tarpley and Chaitkin (24) "The American embassy also reported that the Hamburg-Amerika Line was purchasing and distributing propaganda attacks against the German government, for attempting this last-minute crackdown on Hitler's forces."
After Hitler came to power, the Hamburg-Amerika Line also began financing Nazi propaganda and subsidizing pro-Nazi newspapers here in the U.S. The purpose of this propaganda was clear. The Bonesmen were not just seeking to support Nazi Germany, but were seeking to undermine the constitutional government of the United States (4,24). The Bonesmen were sworn enemies of democracy.