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Jones appears with a caption for his website prisonplanet.com

Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American radio host, social critic and filmmaker. He is best known for questioning the official accounts of the September 11th terrorist attacks, [1] his exposé of Bohemian Grove, [2] and his regular bulletins on the New World Order.

Biography

Originally from Rockwall, Texas, Jones began his career in Austin with a live call-in format cable access television program.

His accusations against the United Nations, the United States federal government, shadowy secret societies and multinational corporations eventually led him to produce a similar, nationally syndicated radio show. His show is broadcast via Internet radio through the Genesis Communications Network. Jones still broadcasts his show, InfoWars, on public access television in Austin[3] He initially appeared on KJFK-FM in Austin until he was fired in late 1999 when the station was bought by a conglomerate [4].

In 1996, Jones switched format to KJFK, hosting a show named The Final Edition [4].

In 1999, he won that year's "Best of Austin" poll as radio host, voted by Austin Chronicle readers. The same year, he was fired from his KJFK show when the station was bought by a conglomerate, since he did not "broaden" (the Statesman's word) his topics. Jones argued that, "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." [4].

In 2000, Jones and his assistant infiltrated the annual gathering of the Bohemian Club.

In June 2001, Jones launched Prisonplanet.com. The same month on the 25th, he warned that a imminent and large attack was going to be directed against Manhattan and probably blamed on Bin Laden [5].

During the 2004 election Republican National Convention in New York, he was present at collected footage for his film Martial Law: 9/11 Rise of the Police State.

In 2005, he released another film, Martial Law: 9/11 Rise of the Police State.

Controversy

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Alex Jones on the right and Charlie Sheen on the left.

On February 19, 2006, Jones made a short presentation where he argued a coverup in the Dick Cheney hunting incident. He named it "Scientific proof Cheney's shooting story a lie" [6]

On March 20, he had Charlie Sheen as a guest on his talk show. The interview received mainstream madeia coverage and commentary by CNN Showbiz Tonight, Fox News' Hannity & Colmes and the Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC). al-Jazeera stated that it "provoked a media storm" [7].

On June 8, Jones was stopped at the Canadian border and interrogated for 15 hours while on his way to cover the annual meeting of the Bilderberg group [8] at Kanata (near Ottawa), Ontario. Jones reported that he was not the only person detained prior to the conference, saying other political and social activists were similarly restrained [9].

The weekend of June 24-25, Jones organized the "9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda Symposium" in Los Angeles, California [10] (a.k.a. "L.A. 9/11 Truth Conference"). Charlie Sheen addressed the audience and introduced Jones [11].

Videos

Jones has produced a series of videos about the emergence of a totalitarian world government, erosion of civil liberties and U.S. national sovereignty, the misuse of government power, corporate deception, and cohesion between disparate power structures. He allows his listeners to freely distribute VHS and DVD copies of his films, as well as via the Internet.

  • America Destroyed By Design (1997): Jones' first documentary film from the mid-90s. He travels the country and discusses how he feels the sovereignty of the US is being subordinated to global interests.
  • America Wake Up (Or Waco) (2000): documents the 1993 Waco incident with the Branch Davidians.
  • Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports Exposed (2000): Jones interviews Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) Walter Burien.
  • Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove (2000): Jones and his assistant infiltrated the annual gathering of the Bohemian Club. He was aided by a team of British filmmakers working for Channel 4. Footage was later shown in the U.K. as part three in a four-part documentary, The Secret Rulers of the World. One of the filmmakers, Jon Ronson, subsequently documented the experience in his book, Them: Adventures with Extremists.
  • Police State 2000 (2000): the first of a 3-part series. Jones focusess on the alleged militarization of American law enforcement with footage of training drills.
  • Police State 2: The Takeover (2000): Follows Jones' claim that the American people are too accepting of a highly controlled society.
  • 9-11: The Road to Tyranny (2002)
  • Masters of Terror (2002): Jones explains why he feels the elite are using manufactured terrorism to get the population to go along with pre-planned wars in an effort to grab the world's remaining natural resources.
  • Police State 3: Total Enslavement (2003): the rise of Homeland Security, Patriot Acts 1 and 2, the Total Information Awareness Network, Follows accusations of government-run white slavery rings, and the new prison surveillance economy.
  • Matrix of Evil (2003): a collection of footage from speeches and conversations with Alex Jones, Congressman Ron Paul, Colonel Craig Roberts, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and activist Frank Morales. [9]
  • American Dictators: Documenting The Staged 2004 Election (2004): Jones presents information about the major candidates in the 2004 presidential race.
  • Martial Law: 9/11 Rise of the Police State (2005): Jones shows what he believes are signs of a growing police state
  • The Order of Death (2005): Jones claims that the Bohemian Grove, Freemasonry, and the Illuminati are secretly ruling most of the world by proxy.
  • TerrorStorm (2006): Jones announced the title for his next film on his May 12, 2006 radio show. The film premiered on Saturday June 24th, 2006 at the Sheraton in Downtown Los Angeles at the 911 Scholars for Truth Symposium.

Jones has also appeared in two movies:

Media appearances

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Alex Jones with William Rodriguez at
the 9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda Symposium.

He has been featured as a prominent figure in the 9/11 Truth Movement in such publications as the New York Times [12], Vanity Fair and Popular Mechanics[13].

He has appeared on MTV, CNN, CBC and is a frequent guest on Coast to Coast AM [14].

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Showbiz Tonight", CNN, March 23, 2006
  2. ^ http://www.infowars.com/bg1.html
  3. ^ PACT Channel 10 Programming Schedule. Accessed 26 April, 2006
  4. ^ a b c Nichols, Lee. "Psst, It's a Conspiracy: KJFK Gives Alex Jones the Boot Media Clips", The Austin Chronicle, December 10, 1999 Cite error: The named reference "austinchronicle" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  5. ^ a b http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8184253307321536024&q=alex+warns Cite error: The named reference "alexwarns" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  6. ^ [1]
  7. ^ http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CDCC04E2-8DE8-4625-B380-DD74EC0F3AC9.htm
  8. ^ [2] [3]
  9. ^ [4]
  10. ^ [5]
  11. ^ [6]
  12. ^ [7], [8]
  13. ^ http://www.americanscholarssymposium.org/media/press_release_061606.htm
  14. ^ http://www.americanscholarssymposium.org/media/press_release_061606.htm

External links

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