http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXQhR24IpGw&feature=relmfu

Who are the world’s Élite? They are an amorphous number of individuals from around the world. They are the people who have influence and the power to affect the operations of leading institutions. They are the people who are invited to Bilderberg meetings, to World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, Switzerland. They are the people of the Trilateral Commission, the members of the CFR. They compose the Brotherhood of Central Bankers around the world. They head the great world-spanning corporations. Typically, the Élite are the world’s top bankers and politicians. What they have in common is the desire to perpetuate their wealth, influence and power, which means that they quite naturally agree (without even having to acknowledge their agreement)… - Hugo Salinas Price (Multi-billionaire).

"The Illuminati" is used to refer to globalists and several groups of importance or continued influence in the modern world.

The globalists are a group of like minded individuals, groups, international financiers and hereditary land-owning families of Britain and Europe which over the years have formed alliances to create a self-regenerating power structures based on self-interest. They share an oligarchic, monopolistic, neofeudal mindset and a common goal of world domination through global government to control everything and everyone.

The Illuminati, translated as the people of the light, refers to a radical group in Bavaria founded in 1776, which gave rise to other countries also forming Illuminati groups. The Bavarian Illuminati, as well as its offshoot groups, was a secret society, to which many politicians and intellectuals were drawn. The Illuminati developed close ties with The Society of Masons.

Illuminati groups from Europe were some of the more advanced thinkers of the time period, reflecting humanism philosophy emerging at the time. They were opposed to power exerted by churches and by the nobility. The organization, as a secret society, was illegal. During its early years, this secret society may have had as many as 10 branches in Europe and 2000 members drawn from the intellectuals in Europe. According to historical sources, the Illuminati fell apart by 1795.

tl;dr: "Illuminati" is thrown around like it means something, when all it means is "the powers that be" (i.e,. the people at the top of the grand pyramid scheme of power - the people that don't ever have anyone tell them "no.")

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Not unknown, just never reported on. We know who they are, they just never get any scrutiny because they own everything.

http://redd.it/xizfd

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Banking families.

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(Trying to sound like a racist bigot here)> is that why I hear many conspiracy theorists say Jews run the world (banks, media etc)?

Don't fall into this trap. The Jews were blamed for the Mongol invasions of Europe in the 13th Century and damn near everything before and since then.

Zionists are not Jews. Zionists are atheists or possible satan-worshippers pretending to be jews.

Israel was paid for by the Rothschilds who are Zionists and head of the illuminati. The Rothschilds control Mossad, the Israeli CIA, which is responsible for 9/11 and 7/7. They are also tied to the bombings in Syria, Bulgaria, and are running security in London right now.

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Georgia Guidestones

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In order to reach 500M people, 91% of Earth's population must die. That's more than genocide, that's near extinction.

"Guiding reproduction" is eugenics.

"Rule with tempered reason" means fascism, suppression of emotion, and elimination of culture.

"Protect people with fair laws and just courts" could be good or it could be big brother.

"World court" means new world order. Who will control that?

There's a lot wrong with those commandments.

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Conspiracy theorists are people who figure out the system is screwing them.

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Watch Thrive or Zeistgeist: Moving Forward for the solution.

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There's a big difference between Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist: Moving Forward.

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Zietgiest: Addendum is really good as well

I consider myself an anarchist and am also invested in conspiracy theories. most of the people in the community that i know either don't care or don't believe most conspiracies. from my experience you'll find conspiracy theorists that are anarchists but not vice versa. it happens but i truly feel like its a rare thing.

That makes little to less than little sense.

how so? a square is not a rectangle but a rectangle is a square. same principal.

Israel is a project of the Rothschilds who are (obviously) Zionists and have a history of manipulating nations for personal enrichment.

Their profiteering from the Napoleonic Wars is the classic example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family#The_Napoleonic_Wars

"Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws." -Mayer Amschel Rothschild

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And why does the illuminati agenda seem to be secular or even ant-religious?

Because it's usually ultra-Christian nutjobs who come up with this shit.

According to David Duke, yeah.

Also, note: "mafia" is a synonym of "family" (so you kind of just said "family families")

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Their agenda is clearly stated on the Georgia Guidestones

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Do you know anyone else who would pay $13M in cash, stay anonymous, and place astrological granite stones on Ley Lines to express a world-wide agenda?

Rich eccentrics have built follies for centuries, and there's no such thing as "Ley Lines".

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Wanker.

Ley lines definitely exist. Check the patterns of ancient pyramids all along the world they group up into a grid across the planet with the center of the grid at the great pyramids of giza. Look it up.

I have already seen this in the past numerous times and have failed to be sufficiently convinced by those individual's claims.

Additionally, there is nothing distinguishing concerning these lines between sites in any case. Certainly no mysterious energy flows between them, which is often the allegation.

Someone 's agenda is clearly stated on the Georgia guide stones.

You even said yourself they were anonymous.

Someone's dream for humanity, not agenda.

They sound like a nature-lover to me.

You are correct.

There are people who call themselves the ancient order of the grand lodge of the illuminati or something along those lines. They are not what most people mean when they refer to the illuminati. The term usually refers to the .001%.

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The illuminati are hereditary "aristocracy". They are the upper echelons of masonic lodges in europe.

Keepers of the Light?

Georgia Guidestones

I have already seen this in the past numerous times and have failed to be sufficiently convinced by those individual's claims.

Additionally, there is nothing distinguishing concerning these lines between sites in any case. Certainly no mysterious energy flows between them, which is often the allegation.