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Alex Jones
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Born
Alexander Jones

(1974-02-11) February 11, 1974 (age 50)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation(s)Radio host, television host, film producer
Known forAdvocacy of conspiracy theories, anti-globalism, National sovereignty
WebsiteInfoWars.com
PrisonPlanet.com
InfoWars.net
PrisonPlanet.tv
The Jones Report
TruthNews.us
ObamaDeception.net

Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American[1] talk radio host, and documentary filmmaker. His syndicated news/talk show The Alex Jones Show airs via the Genesis Communication Network on over 60 AM, FM, and shortwave radio stations across the United States and on the Internet.[2] Various observers have referred to him as a conspiracy theorist.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Life

Jones was born in Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas,[9] and grew up in the suburb of Rockwall.[10] He graduated from Anderson High School in northwest Austin, Texas in 1993.

He began his career in Austin with a live, call-in format cable access television program. In 1996, Jones switched format to KJFK, hosting a show named The Final Edition.[11] In 1997, he released his first documentary film, America Destroyed By Design.[12]

In 1998, Jones spearheaded an effort to rebuild the David Koresh-led Branch Davidian compound/church near Waco, Texas. He often featured the project on his cable access program and claimed that Koresh and his followers were peaceful people who were murdered by Attorney General Janet Reno and the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) in the infamous Waco Siege.[13]

In 1999, he tied with Shannon Burke for that year's "Best Austin Talk Radio Host" poll as voted by The Austin Chronicle readers.[14] Later that year, he was fired from KJFK-FM. According to the station's operations manager, Jones was fired because his viewpoints made the show hard to sell to advertisers and he refused to broaden his topics.[11] Jones argued: "It was purely political, and it came down from on high," and, "I was told 11 weeks ago to lay off Clinton, to lay off all these politicians, to not talk about rebuilding the church, to stop bashing the Marines, A to Z."[15]

In early 2000 Jones was one of seven Republican candidates for state representative in Texas House District 48, an open seat swing district based in Austin, Texas. In a January 4, 2000 Austin American Statesman story Jones stated that he was running, "to be a watchdog on the inside." He aborted his campaign, however, and withdrew before the March primary when polls indicated he had little chance of winning. Democrat Ann Kitchen won the seat in the November election.[16]

In July 2000, a group of Austin Community Access Center (ACAC) programmers claimed that Jones used legal proceedings and ACAC policy to intimidate them or get their shows thrown off the air. The programmers made their views known via radio broadcast and websites.[17] Also in 2000, Jones and assistant Mike Hanson infiltrated Bohemian Grove and filmed the opening weekend ceremony, known as the Cremation of Care, claiming it to be mock child sacrifice in front of a 40' stone owl.

On June 8, 2006, while on his way to cover a meeting of the Bilderberg group in Ottawa, Canada, Jones was stopped and detained at the Ottawa airport by Canadian authorities who confiscated his passport, camera equipment, and most of his belongings. He was later released without charge. Jones said regarding the reason for his arrest, "I want to say, on the record, it takes two to tango. I could have handled it better."[18]

On September 8, 2007 he was arrested while protesting at Sixth Avenue and Forty-Eighth Street in New York City. He was charged with operating a bullhorn without a permit. Two others were also cited for disorderly conduct when his group crashed a live television show featuring Geraldo Rivera. In an article, one of Jones's fellow protesters said "It was ... guerilla information warfare."[19]

Media

Actor

Jones has appeared in two Richard Linklater movies as an actor: Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006).

The Alex Jones Show

The Alex Jones Show radio program is broadcast live from Emmis Communications' KLBJ Radio in Austin, Texas, on weekdays from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. CT and on Sundays from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. CT. The program is syndicated nationally in association with Genesis Communications Network[2] to more than 60 AM and FM radio stations in the United States and to WWCR Radio Shortwave. The program, including the last hour of the weekday broadcasts, is webcast and repeated at his Internet web sites.[20]

Filmography

Jones has created a series of videos about the New World Order or totalitarian world government, based on what he considers as the erosion of U.S. national sovereignty and its civil liberties, as well as the misuse of government power, corporate deception and cohesion between disparate power structures. His films are often encompased around conspiracy theories. In giving alternative interpretations of various current and historic events, his films are original and unique in content.

Executive producer

  • Loose Change: Final Cut by Dylan Avery (2007) (Video)

Producer

Note: Alex Jones' videos can be viewed on video hosting sites like Google Video and Youtube. Furthermore, in many of his videos, Alex Jones personally supports viewers to make copies his videos and get them out to "educate" the public.

Alex Jones refers to his videos as documentaries, however they are often heavily opinionated and promote controversial views which Jones argues are not extensively or fairly covered by the "corporate media".

  • America: Destroyed by Design (1998) (Video)
  • Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove (2000) (Video)

Investigates Bohemian Grove, a location where many of our high government officials and presidents have visited. The film raises the question whether our elected officials are part of "secret elites".

  • Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State (2005) (Video)

Highlights protesters and police security at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City and traces suspicious evidence suggesting 9/11 was a conspiracy by the military industrial complex and "global elites". The ultimate purpose of which is to bring in totalitarian world government.

  • Order of Death, The (2005) (Video)

Written around the rumors surrounding the activities taking place inside Bohemian Grove and attended by many high-ranking elite officials in our government. Although the video could not prove wrongdoing, it raises the suspicion that our government makes decisions in secret away from public scrutiny.

  • TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism (2006) (Video)

Claims that terrorism is really a false flag operation that creates a fictional enemy, designed to introduce fear in order to control the people and invade their privacy. Historic examples used includes how Hitler used fictional scapegoats in order to invade Poland and start WW II. How Gulf of Tonkin Incident and USS Liberty Incident were created to make excuses to invade countries. The movie goes to great length to present evidence that 7 July 2005 London bombings was a British government backed operation to justify the war on terror and that the official stories is a coverup. The movie alledges that the purpose of all these terror attacks is to manipulate the population to accept total government control and police state in order to gain "security". Various excerpts from Edward Bernays's works is referenced by Jones to suggest that forms of manipulation or propaganda is used to manage the people against their knowledge and determine their destiny by use of social engineering.

  • TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism -- Second Edition (2007) (Video)-Extended version with 17 minutes of new footage
  • Endgame 1.5 (2007) (Video)

Gives historical events where bankers and "power brokers" have attempted to establish global governemnt. Discusses the likely agenda of the secretive Bilderberg Group and the ultimate cost to humanity. Although unable to obtain much details on Bilderberg agenda, Jim Tucker explains that "evil is done under cover of darkness, good works is done under sunshine". In essence, the elite's influence permiates our government and their money powers bank rolls our economy. European Union and NAFTA are the first steps to total take over of countries by commercial interest. The movie explains, to sell their policies to the public, elites expolit our fears of terrorism, climate change and uses our elected officers as PR puppets. The movie attacks that Trans-Texas Corridor is erected to further decrease national soverienty and bind us to Mexico. The road tolls collection be used to fund additional infrustructural aquisitions by powerful corporate elites. The involved companies also bought newspaper publishers along the NAFTA Super Highway to silence public opposition to the tolled highways. To further reduce public involvement in policy making, Federal government is passing laws to give itself "dictatorial powers", strip state of constitutional sovereignty and groomed to serve elitist interests despite heavy opposition. Power hungry governments may in the future as they have in the past exterminate their poulation. In past history "the state is the number one caude of unnatural death" and we may be going back to the "dark ages". Near the end of the film, Jones attacks the eugenics who uses the scientific study of social darwinism as a reason for "forced sterilization", one child policy and even inspired Nazi Germany's Holocaust. Jones also calls peak oil a fraud designed to increase oil prices.

  • Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement (2007) (Video)
  • Fabled Enemies by Jason Bermas (2008) (Video)
  • 9/11 Chronicles, The: Part 1, Truth Rising (2008) (Video)
  • The Obama Deception (2009) (Video)

Released just two months after Obama's inauguration, the video received over 1 million views on youtube.com in the first three weeks after release. The film highlights the sad "truth" that Obama's "real agenda" is the "complete opposite" of what he promised during the campaign. The film claims Wall Street engineered the financial collapse in order to "repo the country" and that Obama is just a front man used by "the elite" to serve their agenda. It details how Obama has broken his campaign promises by sending more troops to Afghanistan, appointed numerous "finance oligarchs" and lobbyists to high government positions, reauthorized the Patriot Act first enacted by the Bush administration, and wants to create a "civilian national security force" to further militarize the country. The film makes a controversial comparison between Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler.

Director

  • Police State 2000 (1999) (Video)
  • America: Wake Up (or Waco) (2000) (Video)
  • Police State 2: The Takeover (2000) (Video)
  • Best of Alex Jones, The (2000) (Video)
  • Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports: Exposed (2001) (Video)-Interview of commodity-trading advisor Walter Burien
  • 911: The Road to Tyranny (2002) (Video)
  • Masters of Terror, The: Exposed (2002) (Video)
  • Police State 3: Total Enslavement (2003) (Video)
  • Matrix of Evil: Exposed (2003) (Video)
  • Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11 (2003) (Video)
  • American Dictators (2004) (Television)-Examines the major presidential candidates of 2004
  • InfoWars: Music from the Films of Alex Jones by Graham Reynolds & the Golden Arm Trio (2007) (CD)
  • The Obama Deception (2009) (Video)

Actor

Publications

Publisher

  • Order Out of Chaos: Elite Sponsored Terrorism and the New World Order by Paul Joseph Watson (2003)

Author

  • 9-11: Descent Into Tyranny (2002)

References

  1. ^ Rosell, Rich, Dark days, the Alex Jones interview, digitallyobsessed.com, 27 November 2006, retrieved 27 August 2008
  2. ^ a b PACT Channel 10 Programming Schedule Accessed 26 April 2006.
  3. ^ Kelley, Mike (April 17, 1999). "Alex Jones: preaching the conspiracy gospel at a station near you". Austin American-Statesman (TX). p. A13. Archived from the original (Reprint) on 1999-05-17. Retrieved 2008-05-20. It's certainly not difficult to lay the label of conspiracy theorist on him. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1999-05-08 suggested (help)
  4. ^ Black, Louis (2000-07-14). "Unknown Title". Page Two. Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-05-20. Jones is an articulate, sometimes hypnotic, often just annoying conspiracy theorist.
  5. ^ Nichols, Lee (2000-07-14). "Alex Jones: Conspiracy Victim or Evil Mastermind?". Media Clips. Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-05-20. Alex Jones is no stranger to conspiracy theories.
  6. ^ Duggan, Paul (2001-10-26). "Austin Hears the Music And Another New Reality; In Texas Cultural Center, People Prepare to Fight Terror" (Fee required). Washington Post. p. A22. Retrieved 2008-05-20. [His cable show] has made the exuberant, 27-year-old conspiracy theorist a minor celebrity in Austin.
  7. ^ Author Unknown (2003-01-24). "Questions and answers: Local activist Alex Jones talks about surveillance, movies" (FAQ). University of Texas at Austin: The Daily Texan. Retrieved 2008-05-20. This week, Q&A returns with Austin's favorite activist/conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  8. ^ "Conspiracy Files: 9/11 - Q&A: What really happened" (FAQ). BBC News. 2007-02-16. Retrieved 2008-05-19. Leading conspiracy theorist and broadcaster Alex Jones of infowars.com argues that ...
  9. ^ Jones, Alex. Coast to Coast AM. January 27, 2007.
  10. ^ Jones, Alex. The Alex Jones Radio Show. February 6, 2006.
  11. ^ a b Nichols, Lee (December 10, 1999). "Psst, It's a Conspiracy: KJFK Gives Alex Jones the Boot Media Clips". The Austin Chronicle.
  12. ^ Jones, Alex (2006-02-23). "The Port Sell-Out and the Dismantling of America". PrisonPlanet.com. Retrieved 2007-08-14. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  13. ^ The Austin Chronicle: News: Media Clips: Alex Jones Gets the Boot from KJFK-FM
  14. ^ Best of Austin 1999 Readers Poll, 1999, retrieved 2007-08-14
  15. ^ Nichols, Lee (December 10, 1999). "Psst, It's a Conspiracy: KJFK Gives Alex Jones the Boot Media Clips". The Austin Chronicle.
  16. ^ A Man on the Hot Seat | Texas Weekly
  17. ^ http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=77932
  18. ^ Payton, Laura (2006-06-08). "Bilderberg-bound filmmaker held at airport". The Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2007-08-13. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  19. ^ Grace, Melissa (2007-09-09). "Filmmaker arrested during city protest". Retrieved 2007-09-10. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  20. ^ [1] The Alex Jones Show
  21. ^ "Cast of "A Scanner Darkly" at IMDB".

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