If, as appears likely, John Kerry becomes the Democratic presidential nominee (which I predicted well over a year ago), these United States will have the unique opportunity to choose between two alumni of the infamous Yale-based Skull & Bones secret society. Occasionally referred to as the Brotherhood of Death or the Knights of Eulogia, the significance of both candidates coming from the same extremely small elite society has mostly been downplayed by the major media. The most recent op-ed piece about it in the “New York Times” more or less deemed the fact innocuous.
Taking a moment to put aside the conspiracy theories about the infamous society—which according to its own bylaws is dedicated to the acquisition of power and influence for its members (three presidents, a Supreme Court Justice, a handful of secretaries of Defense and State, dozens of senators, 15-odd ambassadors, the presidents of Time, Morgan Stanley and Boeing and innumerable CIA agents). It is in possession of the disinterred skull of Geronimo (allegedly dug up by W’s grandfather, Prescott), has innumerable ties to the Nazi Party (Union Banking Corp., run entirely by Skull & Bones members and headed up by Prescott Bush, was seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act in 1942) and the Eugenics movement (Averell Harriman, Skull & Bones member, governor of New York and Ambassador to the Soviet Union, sponsored the 1932 Eugenics conference at his estate and personally arranged for Nazi scientists to attend) and a long complicated history of opium smuggling (see the Russell Trust Company)—the simple fact remains that the upcoming presidential contest will be the most un-democratic in history.
A brief analysis of some of the numbers involved will prove my point. There are currently about 800 living Skull & Bones members. Only 15 are “tapped” each year for membership. The current population of the United States is nearly 300,000,000. (I round for convenience.) Now if you take away the S&B members who are too young to constitutionally become president, you are left with 590 existent members. A similar winnowing of the US population (assuming that women and minorities over the age of 35 are fairly included) leaves us with a roughly 100,000,000 presidential hopefuls. Through the arcane magic of long division it becomes apparent that this year’s contenders will be drawn from an electoral pool of .0000059 percent of the population. That’s 5.9 hundred thousandth of one percent. Here’s another illustration:
Pretend with me, if you will, that each and every able-bodied American over the age of 35 is not only eligible to become president, but by God, in this land of equal opportunity, has an equal chance to aspire to the highest echelons of power. If one was to randomly draw two contenders from this pool, the chance of two people from Skull & Bones being selected is one in 287,769,781,294.
Now after you have been struck by lightning twice or have won the lottery, hit the trifecta at Emerald Downs, cleaned out the bingo parlor and won 15 scratch tickets on the same day, you might start to understand the statistical improbability of this occurring by chance. Instead we are faced with different “flavors” of elite overlords. Now, undoubtedly Kerry would be a better president than Bush, a rabid monkey suffering from syphilis could hardly be worse, but the numbers for Kerry do not bode well for the general public either.
Everyone knows Bush’s numbers: a 500,000 vote loss in the general election and a victory by one vote in the Supreme court; 3,000,000 jobs lost—the first net loss in jobs since the Great Depression; 500 soldiers killed and over 15,000 injured in Iraq; and at least 20,000 Iraqi dead (not to mention the nearly 100,000 veterans suffering from Gulf War Syndrome). His budget increases the national debt by $500,000,000,000; another $500,000,000,000 will be spent on the military (I am including costs of his dirty, dirty wars).
And what of Kerry? His big number seems to be seven. That’s the total number of bills he has had passed in his 35 years in Congress. That’s not a lot. In fact, it’s only .2 bills per year. He is most noted for serving on investigatory panels, like the Iran-Contra hearings, which, while determining that the CIA indeed was flying cocaine into the country to pay for weapons for countries and organizations specifically designated as illegal, only managed to convict five people—all of whom were subsequently pardoned. That leaves zero. Zero people were fired from the government for running coke.
That also coincides with the number people fired for the attacks on 9/11. Zero. Not the INS agent who let the “terrorists” in, not the FAA administrator who neglected to contact the Air Force, not even the ticket clerk at the United desk. Zero is also the number of billionaires (officially) that have ever been elected president. If Kerry wins he would be the very first. Unofficially, the Bush family is rumored to have at least a billion dollars. There are 221 billionaires in the US. A contest between two billionaires would thus comprise an even smaller electoral pool than that of Skull & Bones. It would be interesting to find out how many Skull & Bones members are also billionaires. Wouldn’t it be funny if the only two Skull & Bones billionaires just “happened” to be the two candidates for president? What a coinkydink!
Remember, numbers do not lie… politicians do.
Love, Eva
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