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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.

Biography

Template:911tm 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 Grove and filmed the opening weekend ceremony, known as the Cremation of Care, a mock human sacrifice, 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).

Media productions

Alex Jones Show

The "Alex Jones Show" is a radio show aired 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."\

Websites

In June 2001, Jones launched Prisonplanet.com. He also maintains a network of related websites, whose main site is infowars.com. In April 2004, Jones debuted prisonplanet.tv, a subscription-based site 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).

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.

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.

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. , ,Feuer, Alan. "500 Conspiracy Buffs Meet To Seek the Truth of 9/11." 'The New York Times.' 6/5/2006. p. B1
  13. http://www.americanscholarssymposium.org/media/press_release_061606.htm
  14. Washington Post Friday, October 26, 2001; Page A22
  15. February 15, 1999
  16. September 20 1999
  17. September 20 1999
  18. January 26 1999
  19. February 7 1999
  20. April 17, 1999
  21. 27 November 1999
  22. http://prisonplanet.tv/articles/september2004/030904alexoncspan.htm

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