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[[Image:Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's marble sculpture 'Ugolino and his Sons', Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's marble sculpture 'Ugolino and his Sons', Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
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'''Alexander Emerick Jones''' (born [[February 11]] [[1974]]) is a [[United States|American]] [[Talk radio|radio host]] and filmmaker who is best known for his work in promotion of [[9/11 conspiracy theories]].
==History==
Jones was born in [[Parkland Memorial Hospital|Parkland Hospital]] in [[Dallas, Texas]],<ref>Jones, Alex. ''[[Coast to Coast AM]]''. [[January 27]] [[2007]].</ref> and grew up in the suburb of [[Rockwall, Texas|Rockwall, Texas]].<ref>Jones, Alex. ''The Alex Jones Radio Show''. [[February 6]] [[2006]].</ref> He began his career in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]] with a live, call-in format [[public-access television|cable access television]] program. In 1996, Jones switched format to [[KJFK]], hosting a show named ''The Final Edition''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nichols|first=Lee|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/1999-12-10/pols_media.html |title=Psst, It's a Conspiracy: KJFK Gives Alex Jones the Boot Media Clips|Publisher= [[The Austin Chronicle]]|date=[[December 10]], [[1999]]}}</ref> In 1997, he released his first documentary film, ''America Destroyed By Design''


'''Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux''' ([[May 11]], [[1827]], [[Valenciennes]] –[[October 12]], [[1875]], [[Courbevoie]]) was a French sculptor and painter. His early studies were under [[François Rude]]. Carpeaux won the [[Prix de Rome]] in [[1854]], and moving to [[Rome]] to find inspiration, he there studied the works of [[Michelangelo Buonarroti|Michelangelo]], [[Donatello]] and [[Andrea del Verrocchio|Verrocchio]]. Staying in Rome from [[1854]] to [[1861]], he obtained a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he joined with the great principles of [[baroque art]]. In [[1861]] he made a bust of [[Mathilde Bonaparte|Princess Mathilde]], and this later brought him several commissions from [[Napoleon III]]. He worked at the pavilion of [[Flora (goddess)|Flora]], and the [[Opéra Garnier]]. His group La Danse (the Dance, [[1869]]), situated on the right side of the façade, was criticised as an offence to common decency.
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."


He never managed to finish his last work, the famous Fountain of the Four Parts of the Earth, on the Place Camille Jullian. He did finish the terrestrial globe, supported by the four figures of [[Asia]], [[Europe]], [[North America|America]] and [[Africa]], and it was [[Emmanuel Frémiet]] who completed the work by adding the eight leaping horses, the tortoises and the dolphins of the basin.
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]]''.


== Sculptures by Carpeaux ==
On [[July 1]],[[2002]], Jones started the ''Save The Bill of Rights Campaign'' to repeal the [[Patriot Act]].<ref>[http://www.infowars.com/resolution_resist_tyranny.html SAVE THE BILL OF RIGHTS CAMPAIGN]</ref> 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''.


* Ugolin et ses fils - [[Ugolino della Gherardesca|Ugolino]] and his Sons (1861, in the permanent collection of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]])[[http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000009025.html]] with versions in other museums including the [[Musée d'Orsay]]
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]].<ref>[http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=f67cbe75-4eed-4daf-877e-189e52d1f33c&k=12919] </ref>
* The Dance (commissioned for the [[Palais Garnier|Opera Garnier]])
Jones has appeared in two [[Richard Linklater]] movies as an [[actor]]: ''[[Waking Life]]'' (2001) and ''[[A Scanner Darkly (film)|A Scanner Darkly]]'' (2006).
* Jeune pêcheur à la coquille - [[Naples|Neapolitan]] Fisherboy - in the [[Louvre]], [[Paris]] [[http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000034255.html]]
* Girl with Shell
* [[Antoine Watteau]] monument, [[Valenciennes]]


==Neapolitan Fisherboy==
==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.<ref>[http://www.austinpact.org/programming/channel10.php PACT Channel 10 Programming Schedule]. Accessed [[26 April]], 2006.</ref>


Carpeaux submitted a plaster version of ''Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille'', the Neapolitan Fisherboy, to the [[French Academy]] while a student in [[Rome]]. He carved the marble version several years later, showing it in the Salon exhibition of 1863. It was purchased for [[Napoleon III]]'s empress, [[Eugénie de Montijo|Eugènie]]. The statue of the young smiling boy was very popular, and Carpeaux created a number of reproductions and variations in marble and bronze. There is a copy, for instance, in the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the [[National Gallery of Art]] in [[Washington D.C.]]
Notable guests have included:


Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study.
*[[Greg Palast]] (BBC)
*[[Matthew Bellamy]] (lead singer of the british band [[Muse (band)|Muse]])
*[[Scott Ritter]] (United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq)
*Former British Ambassador [[Craig Murray]]
*Former chair of the National Intelligence Estimates [[Ray McGovern]]<ref>[http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ExCIA_analyst_Forged_yellowcake_memo_leads_0430.html.</ref>
*Texas Republican Congressman and presidential candidate [[Ron Paul]]
*Former Georgia Democratic Congresswoman and political activist [[Cynthia Mckinney]]
*[[Norman Baker]] MP (Liberal Democrat)
*[[Michael Meacher]] MP (Labour)
*[[George Galloway]] MP (Labour)
*Former German Defense Minister & Head of German Secret Service [[Andreas von Bülow]]
*[[Gore Vidal]] (author)
*[[David Lynch]] (Movie Director)
*[[Daniel Obachike]] (7/7 Bus Bomb Survivor)
*[[Joseph Stiglitz]] (Economist)
*[[Cindy Sheehan]] (anti-war activist) <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/310507cindysheehan.htm
|title=Cindy Sheehan: Twin Towers' Collapse Looked Like Controlled Demolition |date=[[2007-05-31]] |publisher=Prison Planet |accessdate=2007-05-31}}</ref>
Regular guests have included [[Dylan Avery]], [[William Rodriguez]] , Professor [[Steven Jones]] , [[Aaron Russo]], [[David Ray Griffin]], [[Jeff Rense]], [[David Icke]], [[Mike Rivero]], [[Webster Tarpley]], [[David Shayler]]<ref>http://www.prisonplanet.tv/audio.html</ref>


Carpeaux sought real life subjects in the streets and broke with the classical tradition. The Neapolitan Fisherboy's body is carved in intimate detail and shows an intricately balanced pose. Carpeaux claimed that he based the Neapolitan Fisherboy on a boy he had seen during a trip to [[Naples]].
<!-- Unsourced image removed: [[Image:Alexjones.jpg|left|250px|thumb|[[Charlie Sheen]] on the left and '''Alex Jones''' on the right.|left]] -->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."<ref>http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CDCC04E2-8DE8-4625-B380-DD74EC0F3AC9.htm</ref>

==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 [[George W. Bush administration|Bush administration]]. He claims 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 [[global warming]] and the "[[War on Terrorism|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,<ref name="Destroyed ">America Destroyed By Design][http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=752164569558662424 10th minute]</ref> using International Institutions such as the [[World Bank]].<ref>America Destroyed By Design [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=752164569558662424 27,28,29,36,37,39th minute]</ref> Jones often refers to the international institutions, the [[military industrial complex]] and the ''[[Illuminati]]'' <ref>[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6394476084105968174&q=Alex+Jones]</ref>as [[Globalization|globalist]] forces.

On [[August 10]], [[2006]], Alex Jones received wide news coverage by predicting "a massive staged [[false flag]] terror attack, blamed on [[Hezbollah]] or [[Al-Qaeda]], that will light the blue touch paper for [[World War Three]]“ would happen “before the end of October unless a gargantuan effort to prevent it is launched." Jones stated his hope that a greater public awareness could prevent [[false flag]] attacks.<ref>http://prisonplanet.com/articles/August2006/150806_b_FOX.htm</ref> No attacks occurred, although Jones did take back his prediction citing public awareness.

The [http://911blogger.com/node/5437?page=2 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. <ref>[http://youtube.com/watch?v=4NDMpZC_WPc]</ref>

==Media appearances==
He has been featured as a prominent figure of the [[9/11 Truth Movement]] in such publications as ''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref>[http://www.americanscholarssymposium.org/media/press_release_061606.htm], [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10C10FF3F550C768CDDAF0894DE404482],Feuer, Alan. "500 Conspiracy Buffs Meet To Seek the Truth of 9/11." 'The New York Times.' 6/5/2006. p. B1</ref> ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' and ''[[Popular Mechanics]]''.<ref name="press">http://www.americanscholarssymposium.org/media/press_release_061606.htm</ref>

He is a frequent guest of [[George Noory]] on ''[[Coast to Coast AM]]'', and has appeared on [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]], [[Fox News Channel]], [[Washington Post]],<ref>[[Washington Post]] [http://www.infowars.com/Alex_articles/wp_anthrax.html Friday, October 26, 2001; Page A22]</ref> [[WorldNetDaily]],<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=16967 February 15, 1999]</ref> [[USA Today]],<ref>[http://www.infowars.com/clippings/USAtdy.JPG September 20 1999]</ref> [[San Antonio Express-News]],<ref>[http://www.infowars.com/clippings/saenpg1.JPG September 20 1999]</ref> [[Austin American-Statesman]],<ref>[http://www.infowars.com/clippings/1cmppg1.JPG January 26 1999], [http://www.infowars.com/clippings/2cmp.JPG February 7 1999]</ref> [[Austin Chronicle]],<ref>[http://www.infowars.com/clippings/Alexchron.JPG 27 November 1999]</ref> [[Alan Colmes|The Alan Colmes Show]]{{Fact|date=February 2007}} and [[C-SPAN]].<ref>http://prisonplanet.tv/articles/september2004/030904alexoncspan.htm</ref>

==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 film]]s, 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]]).

*prisonplanet.com [http://www.prisonplanet.com]
*infowars.com [http://www.infowars.com]
*infowars.net [http://www.infowars.net]
*prisonplanet.tv [http://www.prisonplanet.tv]
*propagandamatrix.com [http://propagandamatrix.com]
*jonesreport.com [http://www.jonesreport.com]
*martiallaw911.com [http://www.martiallaw911.info]
*arnoldexposed.com [http://www.arnoldexposed.com]

==Videos==
Jones has produced a series of videos about what he believes is the emergence of a [[totalitarianism|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 (conspiracy)|New World Order]]

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|[[Image:America Destroyed by Design-video.gif|55px]]
|'''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.

|-
|[[Image:America wake up.jpg|55px]]
|'''America Wake Up (Or Waco)''' (2000)
|About the 1993 [[Waco, Texas|Waco]] incident with the [[Branch Davidian]]s.
|-
|[[Image:Cafre.jpg|55px]]
|'''Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports Exposed''' (2000)
|Jones interviews Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) [[Walter Burien]].
|-
|[[Image:Dark secrets inside grove.gif|55px]]
|'''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.
|-
|[[Image:Police state 2000.jpg|55px]]
|'''Police State 2000''' (2000)
|First in a three-part series. Jones focuses on alleged militarization of American law enforcement with footage of training drills.
|-
|[[Image:Police state 2.jpg|55px]]
|'''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.
|-
|[[Image:Roadtotyrannydvdcover.jpg|55px]]
|'''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.
|-
|[[Image:Masters of terror.jpg|55px]]
|'''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.
|-
|[[Image:Police state 3.gif|55px]]
|'''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|Total Information Awareness Network]]. Jones also accuses the US government of running [[white slavery]] rings.
|-
|[[Image:Matrix of evil cover.gif|55px]]
|'''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]].
|-
|[[Image:American dictators.jpg|55px]]
|'''American Dictators: Documenting The Staged 2004 Election''' (2004)
|About the major candidates in the [[United States presidential election, 2004]].
|-
|[[Image:Martiallawdvd.png|55px]]
|'''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.
|-
|[[Image:Terrorstormdvd.jpg|55px]]
|'''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]].
|-
|
|'''End Game''' {{Fact|date=May 2007}} (to be released August 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]].
|-
|}

[[Image:1129.jpg|right|260px|thumb|Alex Jones' cameo in [[A Scanner Darkly (film)|A Scanner Darkly]]]]

==See also==
*[[James Fetzer]]
*[[Max Keiser]]
*[[Jim Marrs]]
*[[Jeff Rense]]
*[[Aaron Russo]]
*[[Webster Tarpley]]
*[[Mark Dice]]
*[[Loose Change]]

==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
'''Official'''

*[http://www.propagandamatrix.com/index.html Paul Joseph Watson's Propaganda Matrix.]
*[http://infowars.com Alex Jones' Infowars.com]
*[http://www.infowars.net Alex Jones' Infowars.net]
*[http://prisonplanet.com Alex Jones' PrisonPlanet.com]
*[http://www.martiallaw911.info Alex Jones' Martial Law 9-11: Rise of the Police State] - Promotional site for the documentary
*[http://www.jonesreport.com Alex Jones' Jones report]
*[http://prisonplanet.tv Alex Jones' PrisonPlanet.tv]
'''Other'''
*[http://www.myspace.com/alex_infowarrior Alex Jones' MySpace]
*{{imdb name|1093953|Alex Jones}}
*{{allmovie|2:141955|Alex Jones}}
*[http://www.infowars.tv Inforwars.tv] - UK based Alex Jones support site
*[http://www.gcnlive.com/samplalex.htm The Genesis Communications Network - Alex Jones Show]
*[http://www.590klbj.com/Bios/Alex_Jones.aspx KLBJ AM 590 Biography]

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*[http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=rs_display_res&critere=jean+baptiste+carpeaux&operator=AND&nbToDisplay=5&langue=fr A page on the official Louvre site giving access to some of Carpeaux's works (French language only)]
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*[http://www.studiolo.org/MMA-Ugolino/Ugolino.htm A page analysing Carpeaux's ''Ugolino'', with numerous illustrations]
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's marble sculpture 'Ugolino and his Sons', Metropolitan Museum of Art
La Danse (The Dance), Opera Garnier in Paris
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (May 11, 1827, Valenciennes –October 12, 1875, Courbevoie) was a French sculptor and painter. His early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of Michelangelo, Donatello and Verrocchio. Staying in Rome from 1854 to 1861, he obtained a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he joined with the great principles of baroque art. In 1861 he made a bust of Princess Mathilde, and this later brought him several commissions from Napoleon III. He worked at the pavilion of Flora, and the Opéra Garnier. His group La Danse (the Dance, 1869), situated on the right side of the façade, was criticised as an offence to common decency.

He never managed to finish his last work, the famous Fountain of the Four Parts of the Earth, on the Place Camille Jullian. He did finish the terrestrial globe, supported by the four figures of Asia, Europe, America and Africa, and it was Emmanuel Frémiet who completed the work by adding the eight leaping horses, the tortoises and the dolphins of the basin.

Sculptures by Carpeaux

Neapolitan Fisherboy

Carpeaux submitted a plaster version of Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille, the Neapolitan Fisherboy, to the French Academy while a student in Rome. He carved the marble version several years later, showing it in the Salon exhibition of 1863. It was purchased for Napoleon III's empress, Eugènie. The statue of the young smiling boy was very popular, and Carpeaux created a number of reproductions and variations in marble and bronze. There is a copy, for instance, in the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study.

Carpeaux sought real life subjects in the streets and broke with the classical tradition. The Neapolitan Fisherboy's body is carved in intimate detail and shows an intricately balanced pose. Carpeaux claimed that he based the Neapolitan Fisherboy on a boy he had seen during a trip to Naples.

External links

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