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Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American documentary film producer, journalist and radio and television host from Austin, Texas. He is of mixed British, German, Native American and Swiss ancestry.

Jones believes many governments and some major corporations are in collaboration to create a New World Order. The New World Order, according to Jones, is a group of powerful figures that wishes to abolish civil liberties and enslave all humankind for their benefit. He is often characterized by his critics as a conspiracy theorist, though Jones and his supporters reject this label and refer to him as an independent investigative journalist. He is also notable for questioning the official accounts of the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Background

Originally from Rockwall, Texas, Jones began his career in Austin with a live call-in format cable access television program. Accompanied by his animated gesticulations and emotionally-charged speaking style, 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 on public access television in Austin. He initially appeared on KJFK-FM in Austin until he was fired.

Alex Jones is an outspoken advocate of minimalism in government and extensive individual liberties, and is vehemently opposed to crony capitalism and institutions furthering these causes.

With a minimal amount of digging into the archives of the Alex Jones network of websites one can easily ascertain that Alex Jones has a personal agenda, as well. Many references can be found to broad assertions and accusations pointing to the complicity of the Jew in the catapulting of the New World Order. In fact, Jews are slammed regularly on the infowars site, both historically and in a current perspective. Christianity, on the other hand, is exulted as the root of all innocence and good. Homosexuals are similarly branded as examples of evil in the general scheme of things. Very little investigation, will also reveal, Jones's outlook on certain environmental issues, issues concerning global warming and human overpopulation, are ridiculed and personalized to suit Jones's view. Jones's anti-abortion stance can be found as well, through-out his articles.

As an investigative journalist, he is among the most well-known conspiracy investigators in the field. His daily radio show has featured interviews with numerous government officials, scholars and celebrities, including Ron Paul, physics professor Steven E. Jones, Ray McGovern, former CIA Analyst Greg Palast, former Assistant of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, Paul Craig Roberts, Bev Harris, David Ray Griffin, Larry Pratt, billionaire philanthropist Jimmy Walter, Dean Haglund, former German Defense Minister Andreas von Bülow, Charlie Sheen, former head of the star wars program under Presidents Ford and Carter Robert M. Bowman, former Chief Economist for the Department of Labor Morgan Reynolds, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Ed Asner.

He is something of an offbeat local celebrity in his hometown of Austin. Jones has appeared in Richard Linklater's feature film Waking Life as himself, spouting his trademark firebrand rhetoric. He has also been featured on Fox News's Alan Colmes's The Alan Colmes show, CNN's showbiz tonight, MTV, Good Morning America, 20/20 Downtown, 60 Minutes, The Discovery Channel, A&E, Channel 4 (UK), Trio, CMT's Most Shocking, Court TV, C-Span and SKY Television. Jones is occasionally interviewed by George Noory on his nationally syndicated Coast to Coast AM talk show. Since first appearing on Coast to Coast AM, Jones has participated in round table discussions normally consisting of three other guests.

Jones is married to Violet Nichols.

Themes in Jones' work

Jones portrays a trend towards global hegemony. He reports and editorializes on such themes as erosion of civil liberties, increasing governmental scope and powers, homogenization of global standards, and expansion of trade zones, as well as corruption and influence peddling in U.S. and multinational corporations. His indictment of media conglomerates includes conflict of interest and collusion with these other organizations. Jones frequently focuses on international cooperation between armed forces, arms trade, and the military-industrial complex. He is suspicious of international, federal, state, and local governments, as well as large businesses, the military, and corporate-owned media outlets. Jones accuses these organizations of engineering atrocities in the guise of terrorist attacks, then using this threat to convince citizens to accept fewer civil liberties in favor of increased security. Jones believes the September 11, 2001 attacks fit this pattern.

Additionally, Jones reports and editorializes on growing concerns about the motives and potential abuse of new technologies, such as Verichip, ID Cards, RFID, and new vaccines, as well as legislation including the Patriot Act.

Jones collectively and loosely identifies those ultimately responsible as the globalists, who, in Jones' opinion, are a powerful elite who seek a worldwide corporate fascist, totalitarian regime, supported by police state agendas, intrusive technologies and eugenics. They seek to attain dominance over nation states, reducing them to little more than ineffectual trading zones. It is a term that perhaps could be used interchangeably with the Illuminati, although this is often unclear.

Jones asserts that the will of the globalists is being gradually implemented through compartmentalized structures where different branches of an organization are unaware of what the other branches are doing and of the true intentions of their work.

Jones regularly claims to simply provide a coherent explanation for current events reported in sources such as the Associated Press, and cites major news stories as support for his theories. Persecution and exclusion of this global conspiracy from new outlets are recurring themes.

Documentary films

Alex Jones has produced a series of videos. Major themes of Jones' work include the emergence of a totalitarian world government, political intrigue, erosion of civil liberties and U.S. national sovereignty, the misuse of government power, corporate deception, government corruption, 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)

A video by Jones that documents the 1993 Waco incident with the Branch Davidians, as well as the cover up that he claims followed it.

Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports Exposed (2000)

A video by Jones in which he interviews Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) Walter Burien, who alleges that the majority (70%-85%) of stocks and insurance funds are owned by the federal, state and local government through investment fund participation. According to Burien CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Financial Report), only one-third of government's gross income is tax income, with the remaining two-thirds generated from non-tax income in the forms of investment and enterprise.

Jones claims that selectively-created budget reports are presented to the public shows the use of tax money, while CAFR lists the tax income plus other income streams.

The Annual Financial Report accounting structure for government started in 1946 through a private group called Government Financial Officers Association, and then was Federally mandated for all local governments in the U.S. The video also includes an interview with former IRS special agent Joe Banister.

Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove (2000)

In Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove, Jones and his assistant infiltrated the annual secret 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.

While in the Grove, Jones used a hidden camera to record—among other things—the Cremation of Care ritual, in which some of the most powerful men in the world gather before a 40-foot stone resembling a huge owl (Moloch), and burn a human-like dummy in effigy of "dull care." They then proceed to "read the sign" within its ashes.

Police State 2000 (2000)

The first of a 3-part series; Police State 2000 has Jones focusing on the growing militarization of American law enforcement with footage of training drills, an apparent attack drill by Special Forces on south Texas towns called Operation: Urban Warrior, and concentration camps.

Police State 2: The Takeover (2000)

The Takeover focuses on what Jones likes to call the "Problem-Reaction-Solution" paradigm (Hegelian Dialectic) that he feels is being used by the government to terrorize the American people into accepting a highly controlled and oppressive society.

9-11: The Road to Tyranny (2002)

Considered by Jones to be his most popular documentary, 9-11: The Road to Tyranny was released to video months after September 11th. Jones has indicated that many of his arguments have since appeared elsewhere, including Fahrenheit 9/11.

The film purports to document how the Problem Reaction Solution stratagem has been deployed throughout written history by the status quo powers in order to strengthen their power. Jones compares his interpretations of historical situations starting with Burning of Rome and leading through history, to the 9/11 attacks. He concludes by presenting a worst-case scenario which he believes will occur if people do not heed his warnings. It includes quotes from former U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Benton K. Partin and a telephone interview on Jones' radio show with David Schippers.

Masters of Terror (2002)

In what appears to be a sequel of 9-11: The Road to Tyranny, 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, consolidate wealth and destroy the middle class.

Police State 3: Total Enslavement (2003)

Jones' third installment in his Police State series. The film documents the rise of Homeland Security, Patriot Acts 1 and 2, the Total Information Awareness Network, government-run white slavery rings, the new prison surveillance economy and more.

Matrix of Evil (2003)

Matrix of Evil is a collection of footage from speeches and conversations with Alex Jones, Congressman Ron Paul, Colonel Craig Roberts, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and activist Frank Morales. A preview trailer is available on his web site.

American Dictators: Documenting The Staged 2004 Election (2004)

In American Dictators, Jones presents information about the major candidates in the 2004 presidential race. Alex mentions that Bush and Kerry are actually cousins (see http://www.familyforest.com/Kerry_Bush_Closer_Cousins.html) who were in Skull and Bones together, among other things. This film was released in Fall of 2004.

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

Martial Law: 9/11 Rise of the Police State was filmed primarily during the Republican Party's 2004 National Convention in New York City. The Republican Party's choice to hold the event there drew both strong praise and strong criticism. Alex Jones' clear intent was that the people who were truly guilty of planning and carrying out the events of September 11, 2001 were coming back to the scene of the crime. In the film, Jones shows what he believes are signs of a growing police state: constant surveillance, a defined military presence, a militarized civilian police force, mass roundups and arrests of protesters, detention in a makeshift facility laden with asbestos which one interviewee called a "concentration camp", and threats of arrest for constitutionally legal activities. Many different views are presented, including one semi-humorous confrontation with a group of American communists. One man appears to be agitating, while another man responds to Jones' insistence that he was recording all peoples' views with: "you're very biased... you probably work for Fox". The film is available for viewing on Jones' Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.com websites, and it has become a popular download on file sharing networks.

The Order of Death (2005)

Jones' latest film was released in October 2005. This film focuses on the Bohemian Grove, Freemasonry, the Illuminati and other occult orders, plus their actions, members, propaganda tactics, homosexual tendencies, etc. He made this film to "celebrate the five year anniversary of his historic infiltration of the Bohemian Grove, the occult playground of the global elite".

Interviews

Internet presence

Jones has an extensive network of web sites. His main site is infowars.com (a portmanteau of "information wars"), run and updated daily by his wife Violet Jones. He also enlists the help of Paul Joseph Watson to gather news and run a site called prisonplanet.com. Watson also runs propagandamatrix.com, which mirrors much of the same content. In April 2004, Jones and Watson debuted prisonplanet.tv, a low-cost subscription service aimed to help financially subsidize the bandwidth for all the free content being offered on other web sites. He offers unlimited access to all his documentary films, radio interview archives, clips from his cable access television show and access to digital versions of books he and Watson have written. Watson's brother runs infowars.net and also infowarsnetwork.com; a hosting service. Another site in Jones' Internet arsenal that is not updated as frequently is jonesreport.com (a take off of the Drudge Report). In the Summer of 2004, an independent site called SearchInfowars.com appeared designed to help listeners search through the massive amount of information Jones puts out through his network of web sites. His movies are available free on many sites on the net, including the Internet Archive . He said he doesn't mind, as long as links to his sites (for example to infowars, prisonplanet, americans against arnold etc...) aren't edited out.

Americans Against Arnold

In the Fall of 2004, Jones formed Americans Against Arnold; a group dedicated to opposing Arnold Schwarzenegger, who Jones strongly feels is being primed by powerful people in the world to be the next President of the United States. Jones says Americans Against Arnold began as a counter to the Amend For Arnold group that also began in 2004 and is seeking to amend the United States Constitution so Schwarzenegger can run for President. The site got some mainstream press almost immediately with mentions on CNN and in print media such as USA Today. He plans on running radio and television ads.

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