I have always felt that people who believed in the illuminati were a little batty.
Now, that is not to say that I don't believe that there are people behind the scenes manipulating events and controlling money. Of course there are. I just don't believe that they are part of a single conspiracy, or belong to a "new world order" or any other type of group. I think they are power brokers who, for the most part, are looking out for themselves. I believe they probably form alliances from time to time. It is like a huge monopoly game, and they have the good properties.
People love to look for patterns and love to look for conspiracies. But I know, from experience, that there are no common threads among all this stuff except that we are humans and have human frailities and human appetites and are prone to demonstrate greed and avarice whenever it meets our individual needs.
I can go along with some of the illuminati stuff, but they lose me when they talk about infiltrating the media, etc., and for example:
"David Icke, who has researched the Illuminati for decades, claims that the top Illuminati bloodlines are shape shifting reptilians, aliens not from space, but from another dimension, and that THEY actually are the Anunnaki "Gods". According to him, they are the ones in charge of the secret societies. Those entities have the ability to shape shift into human form, and he says he has hundreds of witnesses who have seen them shape shift back into reptilian form." (taken from
http://www.illuminati-news.com/moriah.htm)
Now, I have had bosses who I swear could shape shift (LOL) but this is really not true. If it is, then God help us.