Alex Jones

Alex Jones
Alex Jones
	Jones in 2017
Born	Alexander Emric Jones; February 11, 1974 (age 44); Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Residence	Austin, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Radio host, film producer
Known for	Various conspiracy theories
Notable work	Infowars; The Alex Jones Show;
Spouse(s)	Kelly Jones (div. 2015)
Children	3
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Alexander Emric Jones (born February 11, 1974)^[1]^[2]^[3] is an American radio show host and conspiracy theorist.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] He hosts The Alex Jones Show from Austin, Texas, which airs on the Genesis Communications Network^[9] across the United States and online.^[10] Jones runs a website, Infowars.com, devoted to conspiracy theories and fake news.^[11]^[12]^[13]

Jones has been the center of many controversies, including his promotion of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories,^[14] and his aggressive opposition to gun control in a debate with Piers Morgan.^[15]^[16]He has accused the US government of being involved in the Oklahoma City bombing,^[17] the September 11 attacks,^[18] and the filming of fake Moon landings to hide NASA‘s secret technology.^[19]^[20]^[21]

He has claimed that several governments and big business have colluded to create a “New World Order” through “manufactured economic crises, sophisticated surveillance tech and—above all—inside-job terror attacks that fuel exploitable hysteria”.^[22] Jones has described himself as a libertarian and paleoconservative,^[23]^[24] and has been described by others as conservative, right-wing, alt-right^[25] and far-right.^[26]^[27]

New York magazine described Jones as “America’s leading conspiracy theorist”,^[28] and the Southern Poverty Law Center describes him as “the most prolific conspiracy theorist in contemporary America”.^[29] When asked about such labels, Jones said that he is “proud to be listed as a thought criminal against Big Brother“.^[28] In addition to Infowars, Jones also operates the websites NewsWars and PrisonPlanet.

Early life

Jones was born in 1974 in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in the Dallas suburb of Rockwall and the city of Austin, Texas. His father is a dentist^[30] and his mother a homemaker.^[17] In his video podcasts, he reports he is of Irish,^[31] German, Welsh, mostly English, and partially Native American descent. He was a lineman on his high school’s football team and graduated from Anderson High School in Austin in 1993.^[17] As a teenager, he read conservative journalist and conspiracy theorist Gary Allen‘s anti-Semitic book None Dare Call It Conspiracy,^[32] which had a profound influence on him and which he calls “the easiest-to-read primer on The New World Order”.^[33] After high school, Jones briefly attended Austin Community College but dropped out.^[34]

Career

Jones began his career in Austin with a live, call-in format public-access cable television program.^[35] In 1996, Jones switched format to radio, hosting a show named The Final Edition on KJFK (98.9 FM).^[36] Ron Paul was running for Congress and was a guest on his show several times.^[37] In his early shows, Jones frequently talked about his belief that the United States government was behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing,^[38] using the incident to put down^{[clarification needed]} a growing “states’ rights movement”.^[39]^{[dubious – discuss]}In 1998, he released his first film, America Destroyed By Design.

In 1998, Jones organized a successful effort to build a new Branch Davidian church, as a memorial to those who died during the 1993 fire that ended the government’s siege of the original Branch Davidian complex near Waco, Texas.^[40] He often featured the project on his public-access television program and claimed that David Koresh and his followers were peaceful people who were murdered by Attorney General Janet Reno and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms during the siege.^[36] In the same year, he was removed from a George W. Bush rally at Bayport Industrial District, Texas. Jones interrupted governor Bush’s speech, demanding that the Federal Reserve and Council on Foreign Relations be abolished. Journalist David Weigel, reporting on the incident, said Jones “seemed to launch into public events as if flung from another universe.”^[41]

In 1999, Jones tied with Shannon Burke for that year’s “Best Austin Talk Radio Host” poll, as voted by The Austin Chronicle readers.^[42] Later that year, he was fired from KJFK-FM for refusing to broaden his topics. His views were making the show hard to sell to advertisers, according to the station’s operations manager.^[36] Jones stated:

It was purely political, and it came down from on high … I was told 11 weeks ago to lay off [Bill] Clinton, to lay off all these politicians, to not talk about rebuilding the church, to stop bashing the Marines, A to Z.^[36]

He began broadcasting his show by Internet connection from his home.^[38] In early 2000, Jones was one of seven Republican candidates for state representative in Texas House District 48, an open swing district based in Austin, Texas. Jones stated that he was running “to be a watchdog on the inside”^[43] but withdrew from the race after a couple of weeks. In July, 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.^[44]

In 2001, his show was syndicated on approximately 100 stations.^[38] After the 9/11 attack, Jones began to speak of a conspiracy by the Bush administration as being behind the attack,^[8] which caused a number of the stations that had previously carried him to drop his program, according to Will Bunch.^[45]

Jones at a protest in Dallas in 2014

On June 8, 2006, while on his way to cover a meeting of the Bilderberg Group in Ottawa, 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 allowed to enter Canada lawfully. Jones said about the reason for his immigration hold, “I want to say, on the record, it takes two to tango. I could have handled it better.”^[46]

On September 8, 2007, he was arrested while protesting at 6th Avenue and 48th Street in New York City. He was charged with operating a megaphone without a permit. Two others were also cited for disorderly conduct when his group crashed a live television show featuring Geraldo Rivera. In an article, one of Jones’ fellow protesters said, “It was … guerrilla information warfare.”^[47]

On June 6, 2013, Jones addressed international media for the annual Bilderberg conference in Watford, England.^[48]^[49] He gave an hour-long speech^[50] to around 2,000 protesters in the grounds of The Grove hotel,^[51] where he was “rapturously welcomed”, “surrounded by cameras and peppered with questions”.^[52]

On July 21, 2016, following the 2016 Republican National Convention, Jones and Roger Stone began plotting the removal of Ted Cruz from his Senate seat after he failed to endorse Donald Trump as the Republican presidential candidate,^[53]^[54] with potential challengers Katrina Pierson and Dan Patrick mooted as replacements in the upcoming Texas election for Senate in 2018.^[55]

On July 6, 2017, alongside Paul Joseph Watson, Jones began hosting a contest to create the best “CNN Meme”, in which the winner would receive $20,000. The contest was created in response to CNN releasing an article regarding a controversial Reddit user that had created a pro-Trump, anti-CNN meme.^[56]^[57]

On January 23, 2018, it was announced that Jones would be working with New York Times best-selling author Neil Strauss on his upcoming book, titled ‘The Secret History of the Modern World & the War for the Future’.^[58]^[59]^[60]

Sexual harassment and antisemitism claims

In February 2018, Jones was accused by two former employees of antisemitism, anti-black racism and sexual harassment of males and females. Jones denied the allegations.^[61]^[62]^[63]

Two former employees at Infowars filed separate complaints against Jones.^[64]

Radio, websites and mail-order business

The Alex Jones Show is broadcast nationally by the Genesis Communications Network to more than 90 AM and FM radio stations in the United States,^[65] including WWCR, a shortwave radio station.^[66] The Sunday show also airs on KLBJ. In 2010, the show attracted around 2 million listeners each week.^[67]

According to journalist Will Bunch, a senior fellow at Media Matters for America,^[68]^[69] the show has a demographic heavier in younger viewers than other conservative pundits due to Jones’s “highly conspiratorial tone and Web-oriented approach”. Bunch has also stated that Jones “feed[s] on the deepest paranoia”.^[45] According to Alexander Zaitchik of Rolling Stone magazine, in 2011 he had a larger on-line audience than Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh combined.^[38]

Infowars

Infowars.com logo

Jones is the Publisher and Director of the website Infowars.com.^[70] The Infowars website receives approximately 10 million monthly visits, making it more popular than some mainstream news websites such as The Economist and Newsweek.^[71]^[72]

NewsWars

In August 2017, Jones announced the launch of NewsWars.com, a site Jones said was intended to battle news that he considers to be fake news.^[73]

PrisonPlanet

Alex Jones also operates PrisonPlanet.com.^[74]

Consumer products

A 2017 piece for German magazine Der Spiegel by Veit Medick indicated that two-thirds of Jones’ funds derive from sales of a successful range of his own products. These products are marketed through the Infowars website and through advertising spots on Jones’ show. They include dietary supplements, toothpaste, bulletproof vests and “brain pills” “appealing to those who believes Armageddon is near”, according to Medick.^[75]

In August 2017, Californian medical company Labdoor, Inc reported on tests applied to six of Jones’ dietary supplement products. These included a product named ‘Survival Shield’, which was found by Labdoor to contain only iodine, and a product named ‘Oxy-Powder’, which comprised a compound of magnesium oxide and citric acid; common ingredients in dietary supplements. Labdoor indicated no evidence of prohibited or harmful substances, but cast doubt on Infowars’ marketing claims for these products, and asserted that the quantity of the ingredients in certain products would be “too low to be appropriately effective”.^[76]^[77]^[78]

On a segment of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver stated that Jones spends “nearly a quarter” of his on-air time promoting products sold on his website, many of which are purported solutions to medical and economic problems claimed to be caused by the conspiracy theories described on his show.^[79]^[80]

Views

Jones during a 9/11 Truth movement event on September 11, 2007, in Manhattan

Mainstream sources have described Jones as a conservative,^[81] far-right,^[82] alt-right,^[83] and a conspiracy theorist.^[84]^[85]^[86]^[87] Jones has described himself as a libertarian^[23] and a paleoconservative.^[24] He has frequently supported Donald Trump and consistently denounced Hillary Clinton^[88] and Barack Obama.^[89]

Gun rights

Jones is a vocal gun rights advocate.^[90]^[91] MTV have labeled him a “staunch Second Amendment supporter”,^[92] while The Telegraph have called him a “gun-nut”.^[93] He has been widely quoted in international media for claiming, in a debate with Piers Morgan, that “1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms”.^[94]^[95] Jones was referencing the American Revolutionary War in relation to theoretical gun control measures taken by the government. He has been reported to own around 50 firearms.^[96]

Vaccines

Jones is well-known and widely reported in media for both his opposition to vaccines,^[97] and his views on vaccine controversies.^[98]^[99] On June 16, 2017, Vox covered his claim that the introduction of Julia, an autistic Sesame StreetMuppet, was “designed to normalize autism, a disorder caused by vaccines.”^[100] On November 20, 2017, The New Yorker quoted Jones as claiming Infowars was “defending people’s right to not be forcibly infected with vaccines”.^[101] ThinkProgress have declared that he “continues to endanger children by convincing their parents that vaccines are dangerous.”^[102] Jones has specifically disputed the safety and effectiveness of MMR vaccines.^[103]

Weather weapons

Mother Jones has claimed that Jones is a believer in weather weapons,^[104] and Salon has covered his claim “that the president has access to weather weapons capable of not only creating tornadoes but also moving them around, on demand.”^[105] His belief in weather warfare has been widely reported by mainstream media.^[106]^[107]^[108] He has claimed that Hurricane Irma may have been geo-engineered.^[109]

White genocide

Jones frequently promotes the white genocide conspiracy theory.^[110] Media Matters covered his claim that NFL players protesting during the national anthem were “kneeling to white genocide” and violence against whites,^[111] which the SPLC featured in their headlines review.^[112] On October 2, 2017, Jones claimed that Democrats and communists were plotting imminent “white genocide” attacks.^[113] His reporting and public views on the topic have received support and coverage from white nationalist publications and groups, such as AltRight.com and the New Zealand National Front.^[114]^[115]

Controversies

Jones has been the center of many controversies, such as the one surrounding his actions and statements about gun control after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. He has accused the United States government of being involved in the Oklahoma City bombing^[17] and the September 11 attacks.^[16] In 2009, Jones claimed that a convicted con man’s scheme to take over a long-vacant, would-be for-profit prison in Hardin, Montana was part of a FEMA plot to detain US citizens in concentration camps.^[116] Jones was in a “media crossfire” in 2011, which included criticism by Rush Limbaugh, when the news spread that Jared Lee Loughner, the perpetrator of the 2011 Tucson shooting, had been “a fan” of the 9/11 conspiracy film Loose Change of which Jones had been an executive producer.^[117] His website Infowars.com has been described as a fake news website and has been accused of spreading conspiracy theories.^[11]^[12]^[118]^[13]^[119]^[120]

Khan Shaykhun chemical attack

In April 2017, Jones was criticized for claiming that the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack was a hoax and a “false flag“.^[121]^[122] Jones stated that the attack was potentially carried out by civil defense group White Helmets, which he claims are an Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist front financed by George Soros.^[123]^[124]

School shootings

Jones has been widely criticized for propagating conspiracy theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting being false flag operations engineered by gun control advocates. In particular, he has stated that “no one died” in Sandy Hook and that Stoneman Douglas survivor David Hogg was a crisis actor.^[125]^[126] Claims made in support of these theories have been proven false.^[127]^[128]

In March 2018, six families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as well as an FBI agent who responded to the attack filed a defamation lawsuit against Jones for his role in spreading conspiracy theories about the shooting.^[129]^[130]^[131]^[132]

Legal action

In February 2017, the lawyers of James Alefantis, owner of Comet Ping Pong pizzeria, sent Jones a letter demanding an apology and retraction for his role in pushing the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. Under Texas law, Jones was given a month to comply or be subject to a libel suit.^[133] In March 2017, Alex Jones apologized to Alefantis for promulgating the conspiracy theory and retracted his allegations.^[134]

In April 2017, the Chobani yogurt company filed a lawsuit against Jones for his article that claims that the company’s factory in Idaho, which employs refugees, was connected to a 2016 child sexual assault and a rise in tuberculosis cases.^[135] As a result of the lawsuit, Jones issued an apology and retraction of his allegations in May 2017.^[136]

In March 2018, Brennan Gilmore, who shared a video he captured of a car hitting anti-racism protesters at the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, filed a lawsuit^[137] against Jones and six others. According to the lawsuit, Jones said that Gilmore was acting as part of a false flag operation conducted by disgruntled government “deep state” employees in furtherance of a coup against President Trump.^[138] Gilmore alleges he has been receiving death threats from Jones’ audience.^[138]

Relationship with Donald Trump

In December 2015, Jones initially “formed a bond” with Donald Trump, after the presidential candidate appeared on The Alex Jones Show, claiming that Jones had an “amazing reputation”.^[104] During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton criticized Trump for his ties to Jones.^[139]^[140] Jones said that Trump called him on the day after the election to thank him for his help in the campaign.^[141] Since Trump took office, it has been claimed Jones communicates with the President through aides, something which Chief of Staff John Kelly had reportedly tried to block.^[142]^[143] In June 2017, journalist and commentator Bill Moyers wrote that Trump and Jones explicitly “operate as a tag team”.^[144]

Television shows and interviews

In January 2013, Jones was invited to speak on Piers Morgan‘s show after promoting an online petition to deport Morgan because of his support of gun control laws.^[145] The interview turned into “a one-person shoutfest, as Jones riffed about guns, oppressive government, the flag, his ancestors’ role in Texan independence, and what flag Morgan would have on his tights if they wrestled.”^[145] The event drew widespread coverage,^[145] and according to The Huffington Post, Morgan and others such as Glenn Beck “agreed that Jones was a terrible spokesman for gun rights”.^[146] Jones’s appearance on the show was a top trending Twitter topic the following morning.^[147]

On June 9, 2013, Jones appeared as a guest on the BBC‘s television show Sunday Politics, during a discussion about conspiracy theories surrounding the Bilderberg Group meetings with presenter Andrew Neil and journalist David Aaronovitch. A critic of such theories, Aaronovitch implied that, since Jones had not been killed for exposing conspiracies, they either do not exist or that Jones is a part of them himself. Jones began shouting and interrupting, and Andrew Neil ended the interview, describing Jones as “an idiot”^[148] and “the worst person I’ve ever interviewed”.^[149]^[150] According to Neil on Twitter, Jones was still shouting until he knew that he was off-air.^[148]^[149]

Social media restrictions

On July 27, 2018, Facebook suspended Jones’s profile for 30 days, and also removed four videos he posted, saying they violated Facebook’s standards against hate speech and bullying. YouTube also removed the same videos and issued a “strike” against the Infowars channel.^[151]^[152] On August 5, 2018, Apple removed five Infowars podcasts from their podcast app.^[153] On August 6, 2018, Facebook removed four pages of social media accounts related to Alex Jones, stating “More content from the same pages has been reported to us – upon review, we have taken it down for glorifying violence, which violates our graphic violence policy, and using dehumanising language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies.”^[154] YouTube later removed the InfoWars channel the same day.^[155]

Personal life

Jones has three children with ex-wife Kelly Jones. The couple divorced in March 2015.^[156] In 2017, Kelly sought sole or joint custody of their children due to Alex’s behavior. She claimed “he’s not a stable person” and “I’m concerned that he is engaged in felonious behavior, threatening a member of Congress” (Adam Schiff). Alex’s attorney responded by claiming that “he’s playing a character” and describing him as a “performance artist“.^[157]^[158] In court, Jones denied playing a character and he called his show “the most bona fide, hard-core, real McCoy thing there is, and everybody knows it.”^[159] The court awarded Kelly the power to decide where their children live.^[160]

His son, Rex Jones, has worked for Infowars, receiving media attention for a video which was critical of gun control and BuzzFeed News.^[161] Jones has credited Rex for convincing him to support Donald Trump as a presidential candidate, in what New Matilda described as a “surprisingly touching confession”.^[162]

Media

Films

Jones and filmgoers at the première of A Scanner Darkly in which Jones has a cameo^[38]

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2001	Waking Life	Man in Car with PA	Cameo
2006	A Scanner Darkly	Preacher	Minor Role
2007	Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement	Himself	Documentary
2007	Loose Change
2009	The Obama Deception: The Mask Comes Off

Author

Year	Book	Publisher
2002	9-11: Descent Into Tyranny	Progressive Press
2008	The Answer to 1984 Is 1776	The Disinformation Company
TBC	The Secret History of the Modern World & the War for the Future	TBC

Film subject

Year	Film	Notes
2001	Waking Life	by Richard Linklater
2003	Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11	by Stephen Marshall
2009	New World Order	by Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel
2010	The Fall of America and the Western World	by Brian Kraft

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones

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Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2000	142267(1)	142456	142434	142751	142388	142591	142278	142514	142518	142622	142962	143248
2001	143800	143701	143924	143569	143318	143357	143654	143284	143989	144086	144240	144305
2002	143883	144653	144481	144725	144938	144808	144803	145009	145552	145314	145041	145066
2003	145937(1)	146100	146022	146474	146500	147056	146485	146445	146530	146716	147000	146729
2004	146842(1)	146709	146944	146850	147065	147460	147692	147564	147415	147793	148162	148059
2005	148029(1)	148364	148391	148926	149261	149238	149432	149779	149954	150001	150065	150030
2006	150214(1)	150641	150813	150881	151069	151354	151377	151716	151662	152041	152406	152732
2007	153144(1)	152983	153051	152435	152670	153041	153054	152749	153414	153183	153835	153918
2008	154063(1)	153653	153908	153769	154303	154313	154469	154641	154570	154876	154639	154655
2009	154210(1)	154538	154133	154509	154747	154716	154502	154307	153827	153784	153878	153111
2010	153484(1)	153694	153954	154622	154091	153616	153691	154086	153975	153635	154125	153650
2011	153263(1)	153214	153376	153543	153479	153346	153288	153760	154131	153961	154128	153995
2012	154381(1)	154671	154749	154545	154866	155083	154948	154763	155160	155554	155338	155628
2013	155763(1)	155312	155005	155394	155536	155749	155599	155605	155687	154673	155265	155182
2014	155357(1)	155526	156108	155404	155564	155742	156011	156124	156019	156383	156455	156301
2015	157063(1)	156734	156754	157051	157449	157071	157035	157132	156700	157138	157435	158043
2016	158387(1)	158811	159253	158919	158512	158976	159207	159514	159734	159700	159544	159736
2017	159718(1)	159997	160235	160181	159729	160214	160467	160598	161082	160371	160533	160597
2018	161115(1)	161921	161763	161527	161539	162140	162245
1 : Data affected by changes in population controls.

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2008	146378(1)	146156	146086	146132	145908	145737	145532	145203	145076	144802	144100	143369
2009	142152(1)	141640	140707	140656	140248	140009	139901	139492	138818	138432	138659	138013
2010	138438(1)	138581	138751	139297	139241	139141	139179	139438	139396	139119	139044	139301
2011	139250(1)	139394	139639	139586	139624	139384	139524	139942	140183	140368	140826	140902
2012	141584(1)	141858	142036	141899	142206	142391	142292	142291	143044	143431	143333	143330
2013	143292(1)	143362	143316	143635	143882	143999	144264	144326	144418	143537	144479	144778
2014	145122(1)	145161	145673	145680	145825	146267	146401	146522	146752	147411	147391	147597
2015	148113(1)	148100	148175	148505	148788	148806	148830	149136	148810	149254	149486	150135
2016	150576(1)	151005	151229	150978	151048	151164	151484	151687	151815	151939	152126	152233
2017	152076(1)	152511	153064	153161	152892	153250	153511	153471	154324	153846	153917	154021
2018	154430(1)	155215	155178	155181	155474	155576	155965
1 : Data affected by changes in population controls.

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2008	78554	79156	79087	79429	79102	79314	79395	79466	79790	79736	80189	80380
2009	80529	80374	80953	80762	80705	80938	81367	81780	82495	82766	82865	83813
2010	83349	83304	83206	82707	83409	84075	84199	84014	84347	84895	84590	85240
2011	85441	85637	85623	85603	85834	86144	86383	86111	85940	86308	86312	86589
2012	87888	87765	87855	88239	88100	88073	88405	88803	88613	88429	88836	88722
2013	88900	89516	89990	89780	89827	89803	90156	90355	90481	91708	91302	91563
2014	91557	91559	91150	92036	92058	92072	92012	92105	92428	92274	92390	92726
2015	92660	93165	93326	93214	93006	93592	93841	93963	94625	94403	94312	93893
2016	94010	93766	93515	94049	94662	94421	94413	94340	94357	94621	94996	95006
2017	94364	94248	94179	94407	95038	94743	94684	94759	94480	95395	95416	95512
2018	95665	95012	95335	95745	95915	95502	95598

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2000	67.3	67.3	67.3	67.3	67.1	67.1	66.9	66.9	66.9	66.8	66.9	67.0
2001	67.2	67.1	67.2	66.9	66.7	66.7	66.8	66.5	66.8	66.7	66.7	66.7
2002	66.5	66.8	66.6	66.7	66.7	66.6	66.5	66.6	66.7	66.6	66.4	66.3
2003	66.4	66.4	66.3	66.4	66.4	66.5	66.2	66.1	66.1	66.1	66.1	65.9
2004	66.1	66.0	66.0	65.9	66.0	66.1	66.1	66.0	65.8	65.9	66.0	65.9
2005	65.8	65.9	65.9	66.1	66.1	66.1	66.1	66.2	66.1	66.1	66.0	66.0
2006	66.0	66.1	66.2	66.1	66.1	66.2	66.1	66.2	66.1	66.2	66.3	66.4
2007	66.4	66.3	66.2	65.9	66.0	66.0	66.0	65.8	66.0	65.8	66.0	66.0
2008	66.2	66.0	66.1	65.9	66.1	66.1	66.1	66.1	66.0	66.0	65.9	65.8
2009	65.7	65.8	65.6	65.7	65.7	65.7	65.5	65.4	65.1	65.0	65.0	64.6
2010	64.8	64.9	64.9	65.2	64.9	64.6	64.6	64.7	64.6	64.4	64.6	64.3
2011	64.2	64.1	64.2	64.2	64.1	64.0	64.0	64.1	64.2	64.1	64.1	64.0
2012	63.7	63.8	63.8	63.7	63.7	63.8	63.7	63.5	63.6	63.8	63.6	63.7
2013	63.7	63.4	63.3	63.4	63.4	63.4	63.3	63.3	63.2	62.8	63.0	62.9
2014	62.9	62.9	63.1	62.8	62.8	62.8	62.9	62.9	62.8	62.9	62.9	62.8
2015	62.9	62.7	62.7	62.8	62.9	62.7	62.6	62.6	62.3	62.5	62.5	62.7
2016	62.8	62.9	63.0	62.8	62.6	62.7	62.8	62.8	62.9	62.8	62.7	62.7
2017	62.9	62.9	63.0	62.9	62.7	62.8	62.9	62.9	63.0	62.7	62.7	62.7
2018	62.7	63.0	62.9	62.8	62.7	62.9	62.9

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2008	9.2	9.0	9.1	9.2	9.7	10.1	10.5	10.8	11.0	11.8	12.6	13.6
2009	14.2	15.2	15.8	15.9	16.5	16.5	16.4	16.7	16.7	17.1	17.1	17.1
2010	16.7	17.0	17.1	17.1	16.6	16.4	16.4	16.5	16.8	16.6	16.9	16.6
2011	16.2	16.0	15.9	16.1	15.8	16.1	15.9	16.1	16.4	15.8	15.5	15.2
2012	15.2	15.0	14.5	14.6	14.7	14.8	14.8	14.6	14.8	14.4	14.4	14.4
2013	14.6	14.4	13.8	14.0	13.8	14.2	13.8	13.6	13.5	13.6	13.1	13.1
2014	12.7	12.7	12.7	12.3	12.1	12.0	12.1	11.9	11.7	11.5	11.4	11.2
2015	11.3	11.0	10.9	10.9	10.8	10.4	10.3	10.2	10.0	9.8	9.9	9.9
2016	9.9	9.7	9.8	9.8	9.8	9.5	9.7	9.6	9.7	9.6	9.3	9.1
2017	9.4	9.2	8.8	8.6	8.4	8.5	8.5	8.6	8.3	8.0	8.0	8.1
2018	8.2	8.2	8.0	7.8	7.6	7.8	7.5

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Category	July 2017	May 2018	June 2018	July 2018	Change from: June 2018- July 2018
Employment status
Civilian noninstitutional population	255,151	257,454	257,642	257,843	201
Civilian labor force	160,467	161,539	162,140	162,245	105
Participation rate	62.9	62.7	62.9	62.9	0.0
Employed	153,511	155,474	155,576	155,965	389
Employment-population ratio	60.2	60.4	60.4	60.5	0.1
Unemployed	6,956	6,065	6,564	6,280	-284
Unemployment rate	4.3	3.8	4.0	3.9	-0.1
Not in labor force	94,684	95,915	95,502	95,598	96

Unemployment rates
Total, 16 years and over	4.3	3.8	4.0	3.9	-0.1
Adult men (20 years and over)	4.0	3.5	3.7	3.4	-0.3
Adult women (20 years and over)	4.0	3.3	3.7	3.7	0.0
Teenagers (16 to 19 years)	13.3	12.8	12.6	13.1	0.5
White	3.7	3.5	3.5	3.4	-0.1
Black or African American	7.4	5.9	6.5	6.6	0.1
Asian	3.8	2.1	3.2	3.1	-0.1
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity	5.1	4.9	4.6	4.5	-0.1

Total, 25 years and over	3.6	3.0	3.3	3.2	-0.1
Less than a high school diploma	7.0	5.4	5.5	5.1	-0.4
High school graduates, no college	4.5	3.9	4.2	4.0	-0.2
Some college or associate degree	3.7	3.2	3.3	3.2	-0.1
Bachelor’s degree and higher	2.3	2.0	2.3	2.2	-0.1

Reason for unemployment
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs	3,357	2,854	3,065	3,017	-48
Job leavers	760	852	811	844	33
Reentrants	2,086	1,882	2,086	1,799	-287
New entrants	697	571	578	591	13

Duration of unemployment
Less than 5 weeks	2,135	2,034	2,227	2,091	-136
5 to 14 weeks	2,006	1,945	1,882	1,820	-62
15 to 26 weeks	1,022	977	836	971	135
27 weeks and over	1,757	1,189	1,478	1,435	-43

Employed persons at work part time
Part time for economic reasons	5,236	4,948	4,743	4,567	-176
Slack work or business conditions	3,148	3,004	3,042	2,877	-165
Could only find part-time work	1,734	1,480	1,447	1,431	-16
Part time for noneconomic reasons	21,311	21,095	21,304	21,532	228

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)
Marginally attached to the labor force	1,629	1,455	1,437	1,498	–
Discouraged workers	536	378	359	512	–
– Over-the-month changes are not displayed for not seasonally adjusted data. NOTE: Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

Category	July 2017	May 2018	June 2018(P)	July 2018(P)
EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY (Over-the-month change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	190	268	248	157
Total private	188	260	234	170
Goods-producing	-8	56	52	52
Mining and logging	2	3	6	-4
Construction	-6	30	13	19
Manufacturing	-4	23	33	37
Durable goods(1)	-12	14	30	32
Motor vehicles and parts	-24.6	-6.8	11.1	5.9
Nondurable goods	8	9	3	5
Private service-providing	196	204	182	118
Wholesale trade	6.6	9.0	8.0	12.3
Retail trade	-1.0	29.1	-20.2	7.1
Transportation and warehousing	3.7	15.8	18.9	-1.3
Utilities	-0.7	-1.7	-0.3	-2.8
Information	-3	3	1	0
Financial activities	13	12	10	-5
Professional and business services(1)	53	49	43	51
Temporary help services	13.1	-0.7	-7.5	27.9
Education and health services(1)	57	42	69	22
Health care and social assistance	48.9	35.9	37.2	33.5
Leisure and hospitality	63	35	34	40
Other services	5	11	18	-5
Government	2	8	14	-13

(3-month average change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	195	199	230	224
Total private	191	196	223	221

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES(2)
Total nonfarm women employees	49.5	49.6	49.7	49.7
Total private women employees	48.1	48.2	48.3	48.3
Total private production and nonsupervisory employees	82.4	82.4	82.4	82.4

HOURS AND EARNINGS ALL EMPLOYEES
Total private
Average weekly hours	34.4	34.5	34.6	34.5
Average hourly earnings	$26.34	$26.94	$26.98	$27.05
Average weekly earnings	$906.10	$929.43	$933.51	$933.23
Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)(3)	107.4	109.4	110.0	109.8
Over-the-month percent change	0.1	0.2	0.5	-0.2
Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)(4)	135.3	141.0	141.8	142.0
Over-the-month percent change	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.1

DIFFUSION INDEX (Over 1-month span)(5)
Total private (258 industries)	64.5	70.2	67.4	64.0
Manufacturing (76 industries)	60.5	69.1	67.8	65.1
Footnotes (1) Includes other industries, not shown separately. (2) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries. (3) The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding annual average aggregate hours. (4) The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. (5) Figures are the percent of industries with employment increasing plus one-half of the industries with unchanged employment, where 50 percent indicates an equal balance between industries with increasing and decreasing employment. (P) Preliminary
NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2017 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

Alex Jones
Jones in 2017
Born	Alexander Emric Jones February 11, 1974 (age 44) Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Residence	Austin, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Radio host, film producer
Known for	Various conspiracy theories
Notable work	Infowars The Alex Jones Show
Spouse(s)	Kelly Jones (div. 2015)
Children	3
Signature

Sardar Qasem Soleimani

Native name	قاسم سلیمانی
Nickname(s)	“Haj Qasem” (among supporters)^[1] “The Shadow Commander” (in the West)^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]
Born	11 March 1957 (age 61) Qanat-e Malek, Kerman, Imperial State of Iran
Allegiance	Iran
Service/branch	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Years of service	1979–present
Rank	Major general
Unit	Quds Force
Commands held	41st Tharallah Division of Kerman Quds Force
Battles/wars	show See battles
Awards	Fath Medal of Honor (3)^[14]

Quds Force سپاه قدس

Active	1980–present
Country	Iran
Branch	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Type	Special operations force
Role	Special operations
Size	Classified (estimate: 15,000)
Engagements	Iran–Iraq War 1982 Lebanon War Bosnian War South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000) Battle for Herat Balochistan conflict Iran–PJAK conflict Syrian Civil War 2014 Northern Iraq offensive Military intervention against ISIL Siege of Amirli Liberation of Jurf Al Sakhar Battle of Baiji Liberation of Tikrit
Commanders
Commander	Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani

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