Again we saw an admission that 'yes - the illuminati does exist... but your a kook to talk about it... the guys running the show mean you no harm... don't have nightmares children...'.

And yet again we saw the same usual links to the same old guilt by association stereotypes - 'New-age guru David Icke believes in the Illuminati - and he says that they are shape shifting lizards... the far right have embraced the conspiracy theories - and they are all evil hate criminals for doing so'.

And what hit piece would be complete without the good old 'anti-Semitic' charge so popular with the anti-anti-new world order movement?

What is a dumbed down 'sheeple person' to believe.  To all those who have swallowed such tripe through the media, I can see why you find those such as myself and others crazy.

This kind of journalism is mostly done for its popularity response from the public - i.e. its entertainment value rather than its informative potential.

Basically it is quicker and easier to do a hit piece than it is to really get into the nitty-gritty detail.

The writer(s) did attempt to go into some detail, but again it was the usual stuff about Adam Weishaupt and the 'Bavarian Illuminati' founded in 1776.

My own personal stance on this is that the 'Bavarian Illuminati' - although elite - did not entirely embody the Illuminati network.  

Weishaupt's organisation was only one branch and it is only the grandness of the title that causes this false myth - which the article in question did little to dispel.