Alex Jones
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Born | Alexander Emerick Jones February 11, 1974 |
Occupation(s) | Radio host, television host, film producer |
Spouse | Violet Nichols |
Website | InfoWars.com PrisonPlanet.com InfoWars.net PrisonPlanet.tv The Jones Report |
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
Jones was born in Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas,[1] and grew up in the suburb of Rockwall.[2] He graduated from Anderson High School in northwest Austin, Texas in 1993 and briefly attended Austin Community College.
His father was a dentist with Castle Dental and encouraged him to begin 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.[3] In 1997, he released his first documentary-style film, America Destroyed By Design.[4]
In 1999, he tied with Shannon Burke for that year's "Best Austin Talk Radio Host" poll as voted by The Austin Chronicle readers.[5] 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.[3] 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."[3]
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 the film "Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove."
On July 1,2002, Jones started the Save The Bill of Rights Campaign to repeal the Patriot Act. Also 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, 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.[6]
On Saturday, 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.[7]
Jones has appeared in two Richard Linklater movies as an actor: Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006).
Jones is also the main figure in a History Channel documentary titled The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction which attempts to debunk ideas that 9/11 was an inside job.
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. The show is nationally syndicated and is associated with Genesis Communications Network.[8]
Notable guests have included:
- Norman Baker MP (Liberal Democrat)
- Charlie Sheen Actor
- Christine Ebersole Actress
- Matthew Bellamy (lead singer of the British band Muse)
- Pat Buchanan (Author and former Presidential Candidate)
- Michael Badnarik, former Libertarian Party presidential candidate
- Andreas von Bülow, former state-secretary in the German Federal Ministry of Defence (1976-1980) and Minister for Research and Technology (1980-1982)and author
- Noam Chomsky (MIT linguistics professor)
- Warren Cuccurullo (ex Duran Duran guitarist)
- George Galloway MP (Respect)
- David Lynch (Movie Director)
- Ray McGovern, former chair of the National Intelligence Estimates [9]
- Cynthia McKinney, former Georgia Democratic Congresswoman and political activist
- Michael Meacher MP (Labour)
- Craig Murray, former British Ambassador
- Andrew Napolitano
- Greg Palast (BBC)
- Ron Paul, Texas Republican Congressman and presidential candidate
- Scott Ritter (United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq)
- David Mayer de Rothschild (Environmentalist)
- Cindy Sheehan (anti-war activist)
- Joseph Stiglitz (Economist,Former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank)
- Gore Vidal (author)
- William Rodriguez (was at the North Tower of the World Trade Center, pulled several people to safety during the September 11, 2001 attacks)
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, and David Shayler. [10]
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.
Websites
In June 2001, Jones launched Prisonplanet.com. He also maintains a network of related websites, with a central site at Infowars.com. In April, Jones debuted Prisonplanet.tv, a subscription-based site which provides access to his 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, based on the erosion of the national sovereignty and its civil liberties, as well as the misuse of government power, corporate deception, and cohesion between disparate power. 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 Information Awareness Office. 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 2004 United States presidential election. |
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. |
End Game: Blueprint for Global Enslavement [11] (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,[12] Vanity Fair, and Popular Mechanics.[13]
In September 2007, he was part of the History Channel Documentary 9/11 Fact or Fiction. The show was about debunking 9/11 myths. He compared himself to Galileo,[citation needed] who was persecuted for supporting the heliocentric view of the solar system.
He is a frequent guest of George Noory on Coast to Coast AM, and has appeared on CBC, Fox News Channel, Washington Post, WorldNetDaily,[14] USA Today,[15] San Antonio Express-News,[16] Austin American-Statesman, The Alan Colmes Show,[17] and C-SPAN.[18]
See also
- Mark Dice
- James Fetzer
- David Ray Griffin
- Steven E. Jones
- Jim Marrs
- Jeff Rense
- Aaron Russo
- Webster Tarpley
- Loose Change
References
- ^ Jones, Alex. Coast to Coast AM. January 27 2007.
- ^ Jones, Alex. The Alex Jones Radio Show. February 6 2006.
- ^ a b c Nichols, Lee (December 10, 1999). "Psst, It's a Conspiracy: KJFK Gives Alex Jones the Boot Media Clips".
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- ^ Alex Jones Presents End Game: Live at the Alamo Drafthouse, Austin
- ^ Feuer, Alan (June 5th), "500 Conspiracy Buffs Meet To Seek the Truth of 9/11", New York Times, pp. Section B, Page 1, Column 1
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- ^ WorldNetDaily - February 15, 1999 -- Fear and loathing in Kingsville, Texas
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- ^ "Alex Jones discusses 9/11 on the Alan Colmes show". PrisonPlanet.com. 2006-04-02. Retrieved 2007-08-14.
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External links
Official
- Paul Joseph Watson's Propaganda Matrix.
- Alex Jones' Infowars.com
- Alex Jones' Infowars.net
- Alex Jones' PrisonPlanet.com
- Alex Jones' Jones report
- Alex Jones' PrisonPlanet.tv
Other
- Template:MySpace
- Alex Jones at IMDb
- Alex Jones at AllMovie
- Infowars.tv - UK based Alex Jones support site
- The Genesis Communications Network - Alex Jones Show
- KLBJ AM 590 Biography
- Archive of The Alex Jones Show
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- Living people