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Template:911tm Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11 1974) is an American radio host and filmmaker who is best known for his work in promotion of conspiracy theories.

History

Jones was born in Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in the suburb of Rockwall. 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. In 1997, he released his first documentary film, America Destroyed By Design

In 1999, he won that year's "Best of Austin" poll as radio host, voted by The Austin Chronicle readers. 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. 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."

In 2000, Jones and assistant Mike Hanson infiltrated the Bohemian Club and filmed the opening weekend ceremony, known as the Cremation of Care, which he says has Druidic and Pagan backgrounds. His footage can be viewed in his documentary "Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove." A different - and less conspiratorial - interpretation of the ceremony was reported by their fellow trespasser, the British journalist Jon Ronson in his book Them: Adventures with Extremists and documentary series Secret Rulers of the World.

On July 1,2002, Jones started the Save The Bill of Rights Campaign to repeal the Patriot Act. Further in 2002, Jones released 9-11: The Road to Tyranny. In 2005, he released another film, Martial Law: 9/11 Rise of the Police State.

On June 8, 2006, Jones was stopped and detained at the Canadian border while on his way to cover a meeting of the Bilderberg group in Ottawa. Jones has appeared in two Richard Linklater movies as an actor: Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006).

Alex Jones Show

Jones can be heard on Emmis Communications' KLBJ 590 AM in Austin every Sunday afternoon from 4-6pm. This show is being nationally syndicated and is associated with Genesis Communications Network.

Notable guests have included:

Regular guests have included Dylan Avery, William Rodriguez , Professor Steven Jones , Aaron Russo, David Ray Griffin, Jeff Rense, David Icke, Jim Marrs, Mike Rivero, Webster Tarpley, David Shayler

On March 20, 2006, he had Charlie Sheen as a guest on his talk show. The interview received mainstream media coverage and commentary by CNN Showbiz Tonight Fox News' Hannity & Colmes and Jimmy Kimmel Live. Al-Jazeera stated that it "provoked a media storm."

Views

Alex Jones describes himself as an ex Paleo-conservative. His philosophy has strong libertarian and constitutionalist strands. He is against globalization. Jones is a strong opponent of the Neo-Conservative movement, which he considers to dominate the current Bush administration. He asserts that there is a “phony left/right paradigm” in American politics that hides a fundamental "unity of agenda", which is promoted by the "elites" who, according to Jones, hold political control over the world. These "elites" are claimed to be behind a plan for a global government that will condemn all of humanity to a capitalist gulag, which he describes as a "global plantation" or "prison planet". In the United States he has stated that this "gulag" will be enforced by martial law. Jones is also skeptical of human causes of global warming and the "War on Terror", claiming they are hoaxes perpetrated by "globalist elements" to advance the aim of a world government.

Alex Jones claims that "elements" within the United States government are promoting this aim by weakening national sovereignty, using International Institutions such as the World Bank. Jones often refers to the international institutions, the military industrial complex and the Illuminati as globalist forces.

The March, 2007 issue of HUSTLER Magazine features an interview with Jones about 9-11, in an article entitled 'Was 9-11 An Inside job?'.

Communism

In Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State, Jones claims that Communism was a plot by international banks in the early 1900s to oppress the Russian serfs. He further claims that Communists in the West today are funded by corporations. Although the claim about international banks is considered implausible by most historians, this corporate funding was researched and documented extensively by the late Professor Antony Sutton, and has been acknowledged by academic figures such as Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski and Professor Richard Pipes.

John Birch Society

Jones has expressed solidarity with the John Birch Society, whose mission is "Less Government, More Responsibility, and — With God's Help — a Better World." The John Birch Society is against a unified world government and is rooted in Judeo-Christian principles. More insightful may be the John Birch Society's stated opposition to what it describes as collectivism.

From his site infowars.com: “In the battle against the New World Order, Alex Jones could aptly be described as a brash, young Patrol Torpedo boat commander....John McManus, the President of the John Birch Society, could just as aptly be described as a battle hardened Fleet Admiral....On April 27th, via "The Alex Jones Show", the PT Boat Commander and the Fleet Admiral finally met, and discovered that they are in the same Navy, taking orders from the same God, and fighting the same war against a common enemy”

During that same interview Jones told him: "I want to work with you guys, to see you grow."
McManus replied that he was: "looking forward to seeing the relationship continue".

Attack on the USS Liberty

In Terror Storm, Jones gives his summarized analysis of the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967 :

“In a nutshell, this is what happened. President Johnson had personal control over the ship, parked it in the Mediterranean, made a backroom deal with Israel to attack it, with an order to kill all aboard. Then the attack on the ship was to be blamed on Egypt, the US would enter the war, and take over the entire Middle East.”

Media appearances

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

He is a frequent guest of George Noory on Coast to Coast AM, and has appeared on CBC, Fox News Channel, Washington Post, WorldNetDaily, USA Today, San Antonio Express-News, Austin American-Statesman, Austin Chronicle, The Alan Colmes Show and C-SPAN.

Websites

In June 2001, Jones launched Prisonplanet.com. He also has the following websites: Infowars.com; Prisonplanet.tv (subscriber based); Jonesreport.com; and Martiallaw911.info.

These are a network of websites, whose main site is infowars.com. In April 2004, Jones debuted prisonplanet.tv, which provides access to his documentary films, radio interview archives, clips from his cable access television show, and digital versions of books he has written. His affiliates run infowars.net and infowarsnetwork.com, a hosting service. Jones also maintains jonesreport.com (a take on the Drudge Report). As of July 2007, some advertisers on Jones' site include "Enerhealth Botanicals" (Organic and Health Food Products), Blacklistedherb.com ("Miracle" Herb), Researchedherbs.com (Herbal Remedies), Unveillingthem.com ("The Message of his Kingdom"), EFoodsdirect.com (Emergency Food Ration Packs), and Berkey Water Purification Systems.

  • prisonplanet.com
  • infowars.com
  • infowars.net
  • prisonplanet.tv
  • propagandamatrix.com
  • jonesreport.com
  • martiallaw911.info
  • arnoldexposed.com

Videos

Jones has produced a series of videos about what he believes is the emergence of a totalitarian world government, the erosion of the United States' national sovereignty and its civil liberties, the misuse of government power, corporate deception, and cohesion between disparate power structures. Jones has said that he is working on a new movie which will explain what he terms the New World Order

America Destroyed By Design (1997) Jones' first documentary-style film. He travels the United States and discusses how he feels the country's sovereignty is being subordinated to global interests.
America Wake Up (Or Waco) (2000) About the 1993 Waco Siege 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) About Jones' and cameraman Mike Hanson's July 15, 2000 infiltration of the annual gathering of the Bohemian Club's Bohemian Grove compound and their capture of the "Cremation of Care" ceremony.
Police State 2000 (2000) First in a three-part series. Jones focuses on alleged militarization of American law enforcement with footage of training drills.
Police State 2: The Takeover (2000) Second in a three-part series. Jones says that the American people are too accepting of a highly controlled society.
9-11: The Road to Tyranny (2002) Jones says that most major 20th and 21st century terrorist attacks were orchestrated by governments, including the September 11, 2001 attacks. Jones says these attacks were designed to stir up war, and get the people to accept the erosion of their liberty.
Masters of Terror (2002) Jones explains why he believes 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) Last in a three-part series. Jones covers the creation of the United States Department of Homeland Security, the USA PATRIOT Act and the Total Information Awareness Network. Jones also accuses the US government of running white slavery rings.
Matrix of Evil (2003) A collection of footage of speeches and conversations with Alex Jones, Congressman Ron Paul, Colonel Craig Roberts, former US representative Cynthia McKinney and activist Frank Morales.
American Dictators: Documenting The Staged 2004 Election (2004) About the major candidates in the United States presidential election, 2004.
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) Follow-up to Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove. Jones says that the Bohemian Grove, Freemasonry, and the Illuminati are secretly ruling most of the world by proxy.
TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism (2006) Jones covers what he believes are terrorist attacks induced by governments throughout history, most particularly the 7 July 2005 London bombings.
Terrorstorm: Final Cut Special Edition, Re-Mixed + Re-Mastered (2007) This edition has more than 17 minutes of new documentation.
Endgame (to be released October 2007) Jones covers what he believes to be the gradual erosion of national sovereignty in favor of a one world government. Also expected to be covered in-depth in this film are groups that Jones claims are ushering in world government, such as the Bilderberg Group. In July 2007 Jones said in his radio show, that the film would also focus on eugenics.

See also

References

  1. Jones, Alex. Coast to Coast AM. January 27 2007.
  2. Jones, Alex. The Alex Jones Radio Show. February 6 2006.
  3. Nichols, Lee (December 10, 1999). "Psst, It's a Conspiracy: KJFK Gives Alex Jones the Boot Media Clips". {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |Publisher= ignored (|publisher= suggested) (help)
  4. SAVE THE BILL OF RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
  6. PACT Channel 10 Programming Schedule. Accessed 26 April, 2006.
  7. [http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ExCIA_analyst_Forged_yellowcake_memo_leads_0430.html.
  8. "Top Global Warming Advocate: Jupiter & Saturn Closer To Sun Than Earth". Prison Planet. 2007-07-09. Retrieved 2007-07-10. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. "Cindy Sheehan: Twin Towers' Collapse Looked Like Controlled Demolition". Prison Planet. 2007-05-31. Retrieved 2007-05-31. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. http://www.prisonplanet.tv/audio.html
  11. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CDCC04E2-8DE8-4625-B380-DD74EC0F3AC9.htm
  12. America Destroyed By Design]10th minute
  13. America Destroyed By Design 27,28,29,36,37,39th minute
  16. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era (New York: Viking Press;1970)
  17. Richard Pipes, Survival Is Not Enough: Soviet Realities and America's Future (Simon & Schuster;1984)
  18. "Alex Jones Interviews John McManus". Infowars. Retrieved 2007-06-18. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  19. Jones, Alex. "http://www.iamthewitness.com/AlexJones-TerrorStorm-USS-Liberty.mp3". Infowars. Retrieved 2007-06-18. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); External link in |title= (help)
  20. , ,Feuer, Alan. "500 Conspiracy Buffs Meet To Seek the Truth of 9/11." 'The New York Times.' 6/5/2006. p. B1
  21. http://www.americanscholarssymposium.org/media/press_release_061606.htm
  22. Washington Post Friday, October 26, 2001; Page A22
  23. February 15, 1999
  24. September 20 1999
  25. September 20 1999
  26. January 26 1999, February 7 1999
  27. 27 November 1999
  28. http://prisonplanet.tv/articles/september2004/030904alexoncspan.htm

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