Saturday, 18 July 2009

Alex Jones – Where I Stand!

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Alex temporarily puts the news aside and takes a moment to reflect on the bigger picture.




Alex Jones (radio host)

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For other persons of the same name, see Alex Jones.
Alex Jones

BornAlexander Jones
February 11, 1974 (age 35)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
OccupationRadio host, television host, film producer
Known forAdvocacy of: conspiracy theories, including NWO theories; anti-globalism; national sovereignty
Website
InfoWars.com

Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American paleoconservative[1] talk radio host and filmmaker. His syndicated news/talk show The Alex Jones Show airs via the Genesis Communication Network on over 60 AM, FM, and shortwave radio stations across the United States and on the Internet.[2] Mainstream news sources have referred to him as aconspiracy theorist.[3][4][5][6][7]

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[edit]Life

Jones was born in Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas,[8] and grew up in the suburb of Rockwall. His father was a dentist.[9] He graduated fromAnderson High School in northwest Austin, Texas in 1993.

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.[10] In 1997, he released his first documentary film, America Destroyed By Design[citation needed] In 1998, Jones spearheaded an effort to build a memorial for the members who died at the David Koresh-led Branch Davidian compound/church near Waco, Texas, including the ATF officers who died. He often featured the project on his cable access program and claimed that Koresh and his followers were peaceful people who were murdered by Attorney General Janet Reno and the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) in the infamous Waco Siege.[11]

In 1999, he tied with Shannon Burke for that year's "Best Austin Talk Radio Host" poll as voted by The Austin Chronicle readers.[12] 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.[10] 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."[13]

In early 2000 Jones was one of seven Republican candidates for state representative in Texas House District 48, an open seat swing district based in Austin, Texas. In a January 4, 2000 Austin American-Statesman story Jones stated that he was running, "to be a watchdog on the inside." He aborted his campaign, however, and withdrew before the March primary when polls indicated he had little chance of winning.Democrat Ann Kitchen won the seat in the November election.[14]

In July 2000, a group of Austin Community Access Center (ACAC) programmers claimed that Jones used legal proceedings and ACAC policy to intimidate them or get their shows thrown off the air. The programmers made their views known via radio broadcast and websites.[15] Also in 2000, Jones and assistant Mike Hanson infiltrated Bohemian Grove and filmed the opening weekend ceremony, known as the Cremation of Care, claiming it to be mock child sacrifice in front of a 40 foot tall stone owl.

On June 8, 2006, while 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 without charge. Jones said regarding the reason for his arrest, "I want to say, on the record, it takes two to tango. I could have handled it better."[16]

On September 8, 2007 he was arrested while protesting at Sixth Avenue and Forty-Eighth Street in New York City. He was charged with operating a bullhorn without a permit. Two others were also cited for disorderly conduct when his group crashed a live television show featuringGeraldo Rivera. In an article, one of Jones's fellow protesters said "It was ... guerilla information warfare."[17]

[edit]Media

[edit]Actor

Jones has appeared in two Richard Linklater movies as an actor: Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006).

[edit]The Alex Jones Show

The Alex Jones Show radio program is syndicated nationally in association with Genesis Communications Network to more than 60 AM and FM radio stations in the United States and to WWCR Radio Shortwave. Live show hours are weekdays 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. CST and Sundays from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. CST. The Sunday show also airs via Emmis Communications' KLBJ Radio. All shows also webcast live via his web sites and are re-broadcast on the same streams outside of show hours.[18][19]

[edit]Filmography

Jones has created a series of videos about what he and others term, "the New World Order" or "totalitarian world government", based on what he considers as the erosion of U.S. national sovereignty and its civil liberties, as well as the misuse of government power, corporate deception and cohesion between disparate power structures. His films often provide alternative interpretations of various current and historic events.

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[edit]Producer

  • America: Destroyed by Design (1998) (Video)

Alex investigates the Long Beach Naval Shipyard closure and speaks to the Mayor of Adelanto about imported Chinese goods produced by slave labour. He visits several US National parks under UNESCO jurisdiction and questions tourists and park officials about entry fees, restricted travel and land use. He interviews Oklahoma residents about the Oklahoma City bombing. In Texas he protests the introduction of fingerprint requirements for obtaining a driving license.[citation needed]

  • America Wake Up or Waco (2000) (Video)

Investigates the events of the Waco siege and its aftermath. Documents the construction by volunteers of a new church on the site where the existing compound had burnt down.[citation needed]

  • Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove (2000) (Video)

Investigates Bohemian Grove, a location where many of the elite including past and future presidents have visited. The documentary raises the question of whether they subscribe to occult beliefs.[citation needed]

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

Highlights protesters and police security at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City and claims that 9/11 was a conspiracy by the military industrial complex and "global elites". The ultimate purpose of which is to bring in totalitarian world government.[citation needed]

  • Order of Death, The (2005) (Video)

Written around the rumors surrounding the activities taking place inside Bohemian Grove and attended by many high-ranking elite officials in government.[citation needed]

  • TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism (2006) (Video)

Looks at false flag operations and claims that the 7 July 2005 London bombings and September 11 attacks were such operations.[citation needed]

  • TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism—Second Edition (2007) (Video)-Extended version with 17 minutes of new footage[citation needed]
  • Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement (2007) (Video)

Claims that bankers and "power brokers" have attempted to establish global government. Makes suggestions regarding the agenda of the secretive Bilderberg Group. The movie contends that to sell their policies to the public, elites exploit fears of terrorism and climate change, and use elected officers as PR puppets. The movie predicts that the Trans-Texas Corridor will be erected to further decrease national sovereignty of the USA. Jones goes on to suggest that the he road toll collection is used to fund additional infrastructural acquisitions by powerful corporations, including companies buying newspaper publishers along the NAFTA Superhighway to silence public opposition to the tolled highways. Jones also calls peak oil a fraud designed to increase oil prices.[citation needed]

  • Endgame 1.5 (2007) (Video)

Extended interviews of smaller segments found in the Endgame documentary.[citation needed]

  • Fabled Enemies by Jason Bermas (2008) (Video)

The 9/11 hijacker's links to the FBI are detailed as well as intelligence involvement by elements of the Pakistani and Israeli governments.

  • 9/11 Chronicles, The: Part 1, Truth Rising (2008) (Video)

Follows activists campaigning for 9/11 truth and compensation for first responders on September 11 who were advised by the EPA that the air was safe to breathe. Footage recorded by activists includes police intimidation while displaying banners, confronting public figures during election campaigns and protesting outside a live broadcast of a show hosted by Geraldo Rivera.[citation needed]

  • The Obama Deception (2009) (Video)

The film claims Obama's real agenda is the opposite of what he promised during the campaign. The film claims Wall Street engineered the financial collapse in order to "repo the country" and that Obama is a front-man used by "the elite" to serve their agenda. It claims Obama has broken his campaign promises by sending more troops to Afghanistan, appointed numerous "finance oligarchs" and lobbyists to high government positions, reauthorized the Patriot Act first enacted by the Bush administration, and wants to create a "civilian national security force" to further militarize the country. The film makes a controversial comparison between Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler.[citation needed]

  • Reflections and Warnings: An Interview with Aaron Russo (2009) (Video)

The final interview with filmmaker and music promoter Aaron Russo.[citation needed]

  • Invisible Empire (2010) (Video)

Directed by Jason Bermas. Currently under production.

[edit]Director

  • Police State 2000 (1999) (Video)
  • America: Wake Up (or Waco) (2000) (Video)
  • Police State 2: The Takeover (2000) (Video)
  • Best of Alex Jones, The (2000) (Video)
  • Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports: Exposed (2001) (Video)
  • 911: The Road to Tyranny (2002) (Video)
  • Masters of Terror, The: Exposed (2002) (Video)
  • Police State 3: Total Enslavement (2003) (Video)
  • Matrix of Evil: Exposed (2003) (Video)
  • Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11 (2003) (Video)
  • American Dictators: Documenting the Staged Election of 2004 (2004) (Video)
  • InfoWars: Music from the Films of Alex Jones by Graham Reynolds & the Golden Arm Trio (2007) (CD)
  • Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement (2007)(Video)
  • The Obama Deception (2009) (Video)

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[edit]Publications

[edit]Publisher

  • Order Out of Chaos: Elite Sponsored Terrorism and the New World Order by Paul Joseph Watson (2003)

[edit]Author

  • 9-11: Descent Into Tyranny (2002)
  • The Answer to 1984 is 1776 (2009) (Not Released)

[edit]References

  1. ^ Rosell, Rich, Dark days, the Alex Jones interview, digitallyobsessed.com, 27 November 2006, retrieved 27 August 2008
  2. ^ PACT Channel 10 Programming Schedule Accessed 26 April 2006.
  3. ^ Black, Louis (2000-07-14). "Unknown Title". Page Two (Austin Chronicle). Retrieved on 2008-05-20. "Jones is an articulate, sometimes hypnotic, often just annoying conspiracy theorist."
  4. ^ Nichols, Lee (2000-07-14). "Alex Jones: Conspiracy Victim or Evil Mastermind?". Media Clips (Austin Chronicle). Retrieved on 2008-05-20. "Alex Jones is no stranger to conspiracy theories."
  5. ^ Duggan, Paul (2001-10-26). "Austin Hears the Music And Another New Reality; In Texas Cultural Center, People Prepare to Fight Terror" (Fee required).Washington Post. p. A22. Retrieved on 2008-05-20. "[His cable show] has made the exuberant, 27-year-old conspiracy theorist a minor celebrity in Austin."
  6. ^ Author Unknown (2003-01-24). "Questions and answers: Local activist Alex Jones talks about surveillance, movies" (FAQ). University of Texas at Austin: The Daily Texan. Retrieved on 2008-05-20. "This week, Q&A returns with Austin's favorite activist/conspiracy theorist Alex Jones."
  7. ^ "Conspiracy Files: 9/11 - Q&A: What really happened" (FAQ). BBC News. 2007-02-16. Retrieved on 2008-05-19. "Leading conspiracy theorist and broadcaster Alex Jones of infowars.com argues that ..."
  8. ^ Jones, Alex. Coast to Coast AM. January 27, 2007.
  9. ^ Jones, Alex. The Alex Jones Radio Show. February 6, 2006.
  10. ^ a b Nichols, Lee (December 10, 1999). "Psst, It's a Conspiracy: KJFK Gives Alex Jones the Boot Media Clips". The Austin Chronicle.
  11. ^ The Austin Chronicle: News: Media Clips: Alex Jones Gets the Boot from KJFK-FM
  12. ^ Best of Austin 1999 Readers Poll, 1999, retrieved on 2007-08-14
  13. ^ Nichols, Lee (December 10, 1999). "Psst, It's a Conspiracy: KJFK Gives Alex Jones the Boot Media Clips". The Austin Chronicle.
  14. ^ A Man on the Hot Seat | Texas Weekly
  15. ^ http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=77932
  16. ^ Payton, Laura (2006-06-08). "Bilderberg-bound filmmaker held at airport". The Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved on 2007-08-13.
  17. ^ Grace, Melissa; Xana O'Neill (2007-09-09). "Filmmaker arrested during city protest". Retrieved on 2007-09-10.
  18. ^ http://www.gcnlive.com/schedule.php
  19. ^ http://www.590klbj.com/hosts-local/Story.aspx?ID=1017549
  20. ^ "Cast of "A Scanner Darkly" at IMDB".
  21. ^ Movie Review New World Order The New York Times May 26, 2009

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