Alex Jones (radio)

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Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American radio host, political conspiracy theorist,^[1] and filmmaker. He is best known for questioning the standard accounts of the September 11th terrorist attacks,^[2] his unauthorised filming of the opening ceremony of an annual gathering at the Bohemian Grove,^[3] and his regular bulletins on the "New World Order". Jones claims to spend at least 4 to 5 hours a day contemplating how to defeat the "One World Order".^[4]

1 Views
2 Career
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Views

Alex Jones claims that certain elements of the United States Government are intent on weakening the United States and its sovereignty. These elements, he believes, are "paid off" in an effort to shift the balance of power toward the European continent,^[5] which is in turn under the control of the World Bank, beyond the scope of nation states.^[6] Jones refers to the World Bank and their "minions" as Globalist forces, military industrial complex or the Illuminati.^[7]

[edit] Career

Jones with a caption for his website prisonplanet.com

Originally from Rockwall, Texas (a suburb of Dallas), Jones 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.^[8] 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 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."

Alex started his radio career in 1996 on Austin's talk station KJFK 98.9 FM. His shows were picked up on shortwave as far back as 1997 as "The Alex Jones Show" on Republic Radio. Jones is still on WWCR Nashville shortwave and www.GCNlive.com as of late 2006. He also appears on prisonplanet.tv with regular reports, as well as his Austin access TV show. Jones can be heard on Emmis Communications' powerful KLBJ 590 AM in Austin every Sunday afternoon from 4-6pm. This show is being nationally syndicated. ^[9]

In 2000, Jones and an assistant infiltrated the Bohemian Club and filmed the opening weekend ceremony, known as the Cremation of Care, which Alex claims has Druidic and Pagan backgrounds. His footage can be viewed in his documentary "Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove."

In June 2001, Jones launched Prisonplanet.com.

In July 1, 2002, Jones started the Save The Bill of Rights Campaign to repeal the Patriot Act.^[10] 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.

Charlie Sheen on the left and Alex Jones on the right.

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."^[11]

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.^[12] On June 24-25, 2006, Jones organized the "9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda Symposium" in Los Angeles, California.^[13] Charlie Sheen addressed the audience and introduced Jones.^[14]

On August 10, 2006, Alex Jones predicted "a massive staged false flag terror attack, blamed on Hezbollah or Al-Qaeda, that will light the blue touch paper for World War Three...before the end of October unless a gargantuan effort to prevent it is launched."^[15] On August 16, 2006, Fox News reported on his warning and mentioned his pre-9/11 warning. Jones commended the attention and proclaimed that the new awareness this causes might hopefully have the effect of the staged attacks not taking place.^[16]

[edit] Websites

Jones runs a network of websites. His main site is infowars.com. In April 2004, Jones debuted prisonplanet.tv. He offers members inexpensive access to all his documentary films, radio interview archives, clips from his cable access television show and access to 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).

[edit] 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. He allows his movies to be to freely distributed on VHS and DVD, as well as via the Internet. Jones has said that he is working on a new movie which will explain the New World Order

	America Destroyed By Design (1997)	Jones' first documentary 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)	Documents the 1993 Waco 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)	Documents Jones' and cameraman Mike Hanson's July 15, 2000 trespass at the annual gathering of the Bohemian Club on the Club's posted private property known as Bohemian Grove and their capture of the Cremation of Care ritual.
	Police State 2000 (2000)	First in a three-part series. Jones focuses on the alleged militarization of American law enforcement with footage of training drills.
	Police State 2: The Takeover (2000)	Second in a three-part series. Jones claims that the American people are too accepting of a highly controlled society.
	9-11: The Road to Tyranny (2002)	Jones claims that all major 20th and 21st century terrorist attacks were orchestrated by governments, including the September 11, 2001 attacks. Jones claims these attacks were designed to stir up war.
	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)	Jones presents information 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 documentary to Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove. Jones claims that the Bohemian Grove, Freemasonry, and the Illuminati are secretly ruling most of the world by proxy.
	TerrorStorm (2006)	Jones covers what he believes are terrorist attacks induced by governments throughout history.