AKA Freemasonry and Secret Society: a brotherhood of Antichrist that has a silent powerful force in the society. Heard it on Angels and Demons movie, semi-portrayed on Eyes Wide Shut and National Treasure:, said Saddam Hussein, George Bush, Barrack Obama, Pat Robertson (OMG) and Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Michael Jackson (until early 90's) were members. Anybody heard about it? Is there such a thing as Illuminati?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_Freemasons
http://www.sjgames.com/illuminati/50awful.html

Many people want to say the Illuminati is not for real but it is. You have to be a 33+ degree mason before you know anything about their involvement in the illuminate. Plus many people do not believe it exists because the people that try to get others to believe it go way out with some of the stories to the point they are unbelieveable. Like sacrificing animals at Bohemian Grove.

There is TONS of information on the internet on the illuminate but you have to figure out what fits together and what is exaggerated or too outrageous.

Here are some links you can start with.

http://www.illuminati-news.com/moriah.htm#2

http://www.masonicinfo.com/illuminati.htm

I don't know how far fetched these sites get but they seem to cover the basics

Your second link seems to cover many of the things that make people not believe they are real.
Most people do not want to believe there are people or an organization with that much power that controls us without our even realizing it.
Maybe not or maybe people need to open their eyes and look around more?

What was it said about the devil, his greatest deception was to convince the world he doesn't exist and the same might be said of the illuminati, someone has gone to a great deal of trouble to convince us they don't exist