The Illuminati have been defined as a secret organization of enlightened people who possess superior knowledge who are powerful and influential. They supposedly have enormous power, wealth and resources and their ultimate desire is to control the world. The Illuminati have been referred to as "international bankers" by various sources (the Rockafellers and Rothschilds being a part of that group.) The trail of the Illuminati is money: the people who stood to gain the most profit had a vested interest in the way certain situations turned out.
These are the fellows who met on Jekyll Island in 1913 and gave us income tax (a scam.) They are the owners of the Federal Reserve (a private bank, another scam) as well as big banks. They manipulate money markets with calculated understanding of how the markets will react before they change (the Great Depression.) They own major industry (companies such as Monsanto, DuPont,) and make huge profits when a country has to buy their products during wartime. Being wealthy, they own major media outlets, filter almost all of the news you see on TV and give stories spin to align with their own sociopolitical/socioeconomic agendas. They own Big Pharma and have influence on the psychiatric boards that invent mental illness in order to push profit. Big Pharma makes anti-depressants, which are psychotic-inducing, chemically lobotomizing drugs, although the Illuminati who own major media and Big Pharma would have us believe that the people who went insane on their medications were already that way and the drug was just treating the individuals. (cchr a watchdog organization that has more data on the pseudoscience of psychiatry and their drugs.) They are the real people responsible for the false flag op. of 9/11, fabricating the Tonkin Incident, allowing Pearl Harbor & assassinating Lincoln/JFK.
"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." —David Rockefeller
"I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do 'create' money, and they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of the government and hold in the hollow of their hands, the destiny of the people." -Reginald McKenna | chancellor of the exchequer
"The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen....At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties." John Hylan, Mayor of NY 1927
"The (Great) depression was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence... The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as the rulers of us all." Louis McFadden | chairman of the house banking committee
"I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply." Nathan Rothschild | banker 1820
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print....We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." john swinton | managing editor, new york times 1880