"After lengthy negotiations between Weishaupt [Illuminati] and members of Masonry, an agreement was reached on December 20, 1781 to combine the two orders." (Source: The New World Order by William T. Still, pg.82) "...all this is very much more serious than you think...The conspiracy which is being woven is so well thought out that it will be...impossible for the Monarchy and the Church to escape it." (Compte de Virieu, a Mason who attended the secret meeting) His biographer later wrote that from that point onward: "...the Compte de Virieu could only speak of Freemasonry with horror." (Source: The New World Order by William T. Still, pg.82, quoting World Revolution, by Nesta Webster pg.31)

"... the international Echelon spy system, whose existence was acknowledged by officials in 2000, is capable of "hoovering up" millions of phone calls, faxes and emails a minute. The system's super-powerful voice recognition capability enables it to filter billions of international communications for whatever key words or word patterns are programmed in."