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Alex Jones
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Born
Alexander Emerick 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

Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American paleoconservative[1] talk radio host[2] and documentary filmmaker. His nationally 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, as well as having a large internet based audience. [3] Jones has been referred to as a conspiracy theorist by mainstream media outlets,[4][5][6][7][8][9] while Russia Today has referred to him as an investigative journalist.[10]

Biography

Jones was born in Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas,[11] and grew up in the suburb of Rockwall.[12] He graduated from Anderson High School in northwest Austin, Texas in 1993 and briefly attended Austin Community College. 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.[13] In 1997, he released his first documentary film, America Destroyed By Design.[14]

In 1998, Jones spearheaded the 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.[15]

In 1999, he tied with Shannon Burke for that year's "Best Austin Talk Radio Host" poll as voted by The Austin Chronicle readers.[16] 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 stop discussing certain topics.[13] 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."[17]

In early 2000 Jones was one of seven Republican candidates for state representative in Texas House District 48, a swing district based in Austin, Texas. Jones, however, aborted his campaign and withdrew before the March primary. Democrat Ann Kitchen won the seat in the November election.[18]

Also in 2000, Jones and assistant Mike Hanson infiltrated the Bohemian Grove and filmed the opening weekend ceremony, known as the Cremation of Care, a mock human sacrifice in front of a 40' stone owl. Jones identifies this as the worship of Moloch because of the mock child sacrifice by fire and not the statue, whose true identity is shrouded in mystery.

On June 8, 2006, while he was 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.[19] On September 8, 2007 Jones was arrested while protesting at Sixth Avenue and Forty-Eighth Street in New York, NY. He was charged with operating a bullhorn without a permit. In addition two others were cited for disorderly conduct when his group crashed a live TV show featuring Geraldo Rivera. One of Jones's fellow protesters said "It was ... guerrilla information warfare."[20] Jones has appeared in two Richard Linklater movies as an actor: Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006).

Media productions

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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[3] 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.[21]

Websites

Jones launched his first website, PrisonPlanet.com, in 2001 which is now part of a network of sites including:

  • Alex Jones' InfoWars.com[22]
  • Alex Jones' InfoWars.net[23]
  • Alex Jones' InfoWarsNetwork.com[24]
  • Alex Jones' InfoWarsNews: Newsgroup[25]
  • Alex Jones' JonesReport.com[26]
  • Alex Jones' PrisonPlanet.com: Forum[27]
  • Alex Jones' PrisonPlanet.com[28]
  • Alex Jones' PrisonPlanet.tv[29]
  • Alex Jones' TruthNews.us[30]
  • EndgameTheMovie.com[31]

The sites include audio (and some video) recordings of past interviews with guests of his show including Aimee Allen, Dylan Avery, David Ray Griffin, David Icke, Professor Steven E. Jones, Jim Marrs, Congressman Ron Paul, Jeff Rense, Mike Rivero, William Rodriguez, Aaron Russo, David Mayer de Rothschild, David Shayler and Webster Tarpley.[32][33] Notable interviews include:

Films

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. Jones continually stresses that the media has begun admitting that an anti-democratic world government is currently being created.[42]

Executive Producer
  • Loose Change: Final Cut by Dylan Avery (2007) (Video)
Producer
  • 9/11 Chronicles, The: Part 1, Truth Rising (2008) (Video): How 9/11 first responders, activists and groups[43] including WeAreChange and Mark Dice developed, and their confrontations with politicians and interviews with celebrities such as Rosie O'Donnell, Martin Sheen and Jesse Ventura
  • America: Destroyed by Design (1998) (Video): How global Corporatism is eroding U.S. national sovereignty
  • Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove (2000) (Video): Exposes the secret Bohemian Grove retreat of global corporatists
  • Endgame 1.5 (2007) (Video)
  • Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement (2007) (Video): Erosion of U.S. sovereignty by the Bilderberg Group
  • Fabled Enemies by Jason Bermas (2008) (Video): How a vast intelligence network was able to accomplish the 9/11 terrorist attacks
  • Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State (2005) (Video): How the police state is expanding
  • Order of Death, The (2005) (Video): How secret societies including the Bohemian Grove, Freemasonry and the Illuminati are covertly ruling the world by proxy
  • TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism (2006) (Video): How the 7/7 terrorist attack and others were induced by governments
  • TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism -- Second Edition (2007) (Video): Extended version with 17 minutes of new information
Director
  • 911: The Road to Tyranny (2002) (Video): How terrorist attacks of the 20th and 21st centuries including those of 9/11 were orchestrated
  • American Dictators (2004) (Television): Examines the major presidential candidates of 2004
  • Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports: Exposed (2001) (Video): Interview of commodity-trading advisor Walter Burien
  • Masters of Terror, The: Exposed (2002) (Video): How global corporatists manufacture terrorism to grab natural resources
  • Police State 2: The Takeover (2000) (Video): Acceptance by Americans of increased governmental power
  • Police State 2000 (1999) (Video): Militarization of U.S. law-enforcement agencies
  • Police State 3: Total Enslavement (2003) (Video): Examines governmental control and propaganda in the War on Terror including the Department of Homeland Security, the Information Awareness Office and the USA PATRIOT Act of October 2001
Actor
  • Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11 (2003) (Video)
  • America: Wake Up (or Waco) (2000) (Video): The destruction and rebuilding of the Branch Davidian church
  • American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2007) (Film)
  • Best of Alex Jones, The (2000) (Video)
  • InfoWars: Music from the Films of Alex Jones by Graham Reynolds & the Golden Arm Trio (2007) (CD)
  • Matrix of Evil: Exposed (2003) (Video): Experts including U.S. Reps. Cynthia McKinney and Ron Paul, Lt. Col. Craig Roberts, and activist Frank Morales discuss the combined effect of governmental control and global corporatism
  • Scanner Darkly, A by Richard Linklater (2006) (Film) [44]
  • Waking Life by Richard Linklater (2001) (Film)

Books

Publisher
  • Order Out of Chaos: Elite Sponsored Terrorism and the New World Order by Paul Joseph Watson (2003) (Book)
Writer
  • 9-11: Descent Into Tyranny (2002) (Book)

Media appearances

Jones has been featured as a prominent figure of the 9/11 Truth Movement in television, newspapers, radio, magazines and videos including:

Criticism

In July 2000, a group of ACAC (Austin Community Access Center) programmers alleged that their freedom -- specifically, their right to free speech and to disagree with Jones -- was threatened, by what they called Jones' heavy-handed tactics. The programmers' allegations -- which they made public by both broadcasting them on ACAC shows and posting them on Web pages -- were that Jones used both ACAC policy and legal maneuvers to intimidate them or get them thrown off the air. [53]

References

  1. ^ Rosell, Rich, Dark days, the Alex Jones interview, digitallyobsessed.com, 27 November 2006, retrieved 27 August 2008
  2. ^ Jones, Alex. The Alex Jones Show. August 28, 2006.
  3. ^ a b PACT Channel 10 Programming Schedule. Accessed 26 April 2006.
  4. ^ . Austin American-Statesman (TX). April 17, 1999. p. A13. It's certainly not difficult to lay the label of conspiracy theorist on him. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1999-05-08 suggested (help); |archive-url= requires |url= (help); |format= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |maxdocs= ignored (help)
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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)
  9. ^ "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 ...
  10. ^ http://www.russiatoday.com/guests/detail/1511
  11. ^ Jones, Alex. Coast to Coast AM. January 27, 2007.
  12. ^ Jones, Alex. The Alex Jones Radio Show. February 6, 2006.
  13. ^ a b Nichols, Lee (December 10, 1999). "Psst, It's a Conspiracy: KJFK Gives Alex Jones the Boot Media Clips". {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |Publisher= ignored (|publisher= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ 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)
  15. ^ The Austin Chronicle: News: Media Clips: Alex Jones Gets the Boot from KJFK-FM
  16. ^ Best of Austin 1999 Readers Poll, 1999, retrieved 2007-08-14
  17. ^ Nichols, Lee (December 10, 1999). "Psst, It's a Conspiracy: KJFK Gives Alex Jones the Boot Media Clips". {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |Publisher= ignored (|publisher= suggested) (help)
  18. ^ A Man on the Hot Seat | Texas Weekly
  19. ^ 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)
  20. ^ 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)
  21. ^ [1] The Alex Jones Show
  22. ^ InfoWars.com
  23. ^ InfoWars.net
  24. ^ InfoWarsNetwork.com
  25. ^ InfoWarsNews: Newsgroup
  26. ^ JonesReport.com
  27. ^ PrisonPlanet.com: Forum
  28. ^ PrisonPlanet.com
  29. ^ PrisonPlanet.tv
  30. ^ TruthNews.us
  31. ^ EndgameTheMovie.com
  32. ^ Alex Jones' Prison Planet.tv: Fighting the Orwellian Police State
  33. ^ Alex Jones' Prison Planet.tv: Fighting The Orwellian Police State
  34. ^ "Willie Nelson: I Question Official Sept. 11 Story". AP. Austin: FOX News. 2008-02-05. Retrieved 2008-05-20.
  35. ^ Alex Jones Interviews Charlie Sheen
  36. ^ CNN: Charlie Sheen Questions Official 9/11 Explanations
  37. ^ Fox News Channel: Charlie Sheen Comments on 9/11 Spark Outrage
  38. ^ Oregon Commentator: Jimmy Kimmel: Zionist Racist
  39. ^ Ventura says he regrets initial acceptance of 9/11 explanations
  40. ^ Ventura wrestles with what really happened on 9/11
  41. ^ Ventura tells 9/11-truther that WTC collapse resembled a 'controlled demolition'
  42. ^ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7a03e5b6-c541-11dd-b516-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
  43. ^ "Truth Rising promotional article".
  44. ^ "Cast of "A Scanner Darkly" at IMDB".
  45. ^ prisonplanet.tv
  46. ^ "Alex Jones discusses 9/11 on the Alan Colmes show". PrisonPlanet.com. 2006-04-02. Retrieved 2008-08-14. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  47. ^ Feuer, Alan (June 5, 2006), "500 Conspiracy Buffs Meet To Seek the Truth of 9/11", New York Times, pp. Section B, Page 1, Column 1 {{citation}}: Check |author-link= value (help); External link in |author-link= (help)
  48. ^ Debunking the 9/11 Myths: Special Report - Popular Mechanics
  49. ^ RussiaToday: Interview with Alex Jones on 2008-08-27 03:47
  50. ^ September 20, 1999
  51. ^ September 20, 1999
  52. ^ WorldNetDaily – February 15, 1999 -- Fear and loathing in Kingsville, Texas
  53. ^ http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=77932
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