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Insider Threats? Re: What if my hypothesis regarding Snowden is correct?
by Wilfred L. Guerin 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

Thomas ANGLIN Kelley, FBI GC, scheduled for spring recess appointment as FBI Director & already papered by Trump was killed first week of april 2017 to prevent that. Did 9/11 official story. Patrick W. Kelley, FBI OIC, "FBI Office of Oversights", runs 7,000 front CI organizations, most are themed shells like "Klan-Destine" and "Secret Enclave" or "religious" covers used for infiltration. Position authorizes "otherwise illegal activities" and provides "Oversights". Florence Nakakuni Kelley, imperial white supremacist, wife of Patrick W. Kelley, US District Attorney Pacific, including most of the federal court authorizations after US business hours; facilitated laundering and illegal wiretap facility Guam & Hawaii (& Japan) + processing covered by Hawaii National Guard, proxied laundering by ficticious "Kingdom" and papered events including Snowden, Greenwald, 9/11, etc. Clarence M. Kelley, pulled back from FBI to Kansas City police 1961 by Mark Felt prior positioning of JFK..Nixon, then put in as FBI Director after noone else signed up. James Kelley, did JFK as Secret Service operations director, father of {Thomas Patrick Colleen Tom DavidJ Steve Gary} Kelley. Colleen M. Kelley, 1974 NTEU >> OPM .gov "pigs in the system" staffing / positioning for ALL federal jobs. Deforest Kelley, 1940s Navy propaganda specialist, well known for "how-to" videos across all military branches, especially social etiquite and homosexual activity. Star-Trek "Doc" as navy counter-intelligence propaganda. Also gunsmoke / "OK Coral". Alexander W. Joel, "Civil Liberties" @ DNI, coordinated & ran most of the civil liberties ploys including torture poland, "battery-water-board-meetings" (still happening @ oDNI office), and everything you heard about in the news. > > > Jill Kelley > > David J. Kelley > > Sean M. Joyce > > Vida G. Bottom > > Gordon M. Snow > > Kelley[]... > > > On Sunday, June 18, 2017, Wilfred L. Guerin wrote: > >> Nakakuni-Kelley, us-da pacific, husband Patrick-Kelley runs FBI >> "Oversights" "OIC", aunt/uncle of Jill Kelley; FBI Vida Bottom insider >> threat expert was sent to HNL to manage Snowden after CIA/NSA Japan. Same >> unit (Gordon Snow, Sean Joyce, Alexander Joel, Bottom, Nakakuni, 50+ >> Kelley) run ALL of the "Civil Liberties" CI events since 1990s. Includes >> torture @ poland, #Anonymous, y2k mess, snowden & derived, and of course >> the DIA (& NATO) units pre-staging a lot of it. "Oversights": Managed! see >> also "Enterprise Organization" & oDNI "FBI Oversight" disclosure >> exceptions. "civil liberties" >> >> On Sunday, June 18, 2017, Steve Kinney <admin(a)pilobilus.net> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 06/18/2017 04:18 PM, Wilfred L. Guerin wrote: >>> > "Snowed-In @ Moskow" "David Miranda Writes" "Manning the Deck" FBI CI >>> > 101. Same DIA + FBI unit managed and papered those stupid staged events >>> > and hundreds more. "Reality Winner"??? >>> >>> To date I have seen no indications that Manning was set up. In terms of >>> impact, Snowden and (especially) Winner could be said to have advanced >>> IC agendas and objectives. Manning not so much: Those leaks caused >>> numerous diplomatic incidents with the U.S. a clear loser, and got U.S. >>> forces kicked out of Iraq for quite a while. >>> >>> The timing of the PRISM release to remove Manning's trial from the news >>> is also an indicator of sorts. >>> >>> :o) >>> >>> g2s >> >> >>> > To date I have seen no indications that >>> > Manning was set up. >>> >>> Adrian Llamo set him up. A database hacker with a debt to credit card >>> companies as restitution for a hack bust >>> >>> Rr >>> >> and Barrett Brown's girlfriend... > > On Sunday, June 18, 2017, Steve Kinney <admin(a)pilobilus.net >>> > <mailto:admin@pilobilus.net>> wrote: >>> > >>> > On 06/18/2017 02:24 AM, Ryan Carboni wrote: >>> > >>> > > The hypothesis being that Snowden is at least a triple agent. Ali >>> > > Mohammed provided material support to Al Qaeda, but that was >>> > because he >>> > > betrayed both the Army and Al Qaeda for the CIA. His sentencing >>> > has been >>> > > on hold for a long time, and it is interesting no one asks >>> questions >>> > > about it. >>> > >>> > My guess is that Snowden was an unwitting agent, spotted early by >>> the >>> > insider threat program and selected for use in a limited hangout. >>> If >>> > so, he was exposed to scripted events in the workplace to draw his >>> > attention to specific programs, and given e-z access to selected >>> > documents related to those programs. In the network age, >>> censorship >>> > ranges from difficult to impossible depending on the context; >>> getting >>> > ahead of an adversary and dominating the messaging on a given >>> topic has >>> > gained a new importance. I think the Snowden Affair may be an >>> example. >>> > >>> > Glenn Greenwald's behavior, selecting a few of Snowden's documents >>> to >>> > publish and burying the rest, is consistent with this model. So >>> too is >>> > his initiative in pushing the publication date of the (partially >>> > falsified) PRISM pages back to coincide with the first day of the >>> > Manning trial, knocking it all the way out of the news. >>> > >>> > The huge controversy following the release of the first few Snowden >>> > documents produced what results? It seems that the intel guys won >>> every >>> > engagement, even setting a precedent that senior U.S. intelligence >>> > officials are allowed to lie to Congressional committees under >>> oath with >>> > no penalty of any kind. The way it all went down suggests to me >>> that >>> > the intel guise had a long lead time to select and prepare for >>> specific >>> > challenges. >>> > >>> > > Snowden's revelations increased the amount of encryption. >>> > >>> > The only place I saw that happen was a significant bump in the use >>> of >>> > SSL by a wider range of website operators. Given that the SSL key >>> > signing protocol is deeply flawed and the NSA is uniquely well >>> > positioned to conduct MITM attacks negating that particular form of >>> > encryption, no harm done. The result is an increase in end users' >>> > "false sense of" security - and a small net gain in "national >>> security" >>> > in the sense of making access to network traffic a little harder >>> for >>> > foreign intel and private sector criminal enterprises. >>> > >>> > A casual observer might believe that the Snowden docs caused >>> significant >>> > harm to U.S. interests, most notably when it was revealed the >>> Angela >>> > Merkel's phones were tapped - but those particular documents came >>> from >>> > an as yet unknown source, probably located in Germany. >>> > >>> > I don't "believe" a word of the above analysis. But I do consider >>> it >>> > more likely than the alternatives I have seen. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >>>

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Re: <nettime> Hungary: new NGO law passed
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Jun '17

18 Jun '17

On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 08:56:46PM +0200, János Sugár wrote: > The Hungarian Parliament passed a new law on non-governmental > organizations today, which is widely thought to attack civil > society in Hungary and has been criticized by the European > Commission. The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (TASZ) said it will > apply civil disobedience. Your plug does not mention the rather public (but only for those following the Hungarian debate) stoush between Orban and George Soros. George Soros is widely thought to attack civil society in Hungary and many other countries around the world via the NGO's in the respective countries that he financies through his Open Societies Foundation (may not be exact name sorry). We in the West are well trained in "shouting down" any action which "does not match Western values" which we are well indoctrinated in - "democracy" (for some would say strange values of 'democracy') - open societies (for those who still believe in "democracy" and the endless march of internationalism) - the ultimate sanctity of NGO's that have no transparency about their funding, nor their intentions, and notwithstanding their actions which may well be directly opposed to the interests of the majority in a given country - e.g. the conservative "we don't want unlimited refugees from countries where no real vetting can occur" that is just recently begun to be prosecuted by the UN, e.g.: http://www.barenakedislam.com/2017/06/09/do-it-european-union-threatens-leg… http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/817289/poland-fight-eu-penalty-european… http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260392/muslim-madness-merkel-daniel-greenfi… How's the European Unity working for ya anyway?: http://journal-neo.org/2017/06/04/europe-of-two-speeds-implies-there-s-infe… We speak rather arrogantly in the West, treating Liberalism as unassailably good, yet the superficiality of our MSM driven discourse rarely acknowledges that the desire for a conservative community is not only a natural and acceptable desire, and widespread across the world, but does not mean that those who express such desires are bigots, and most fundamentally, the hypocritical ignoring of the facts that "global homogeneity" is the opposite of "preserving diversity", that if you don't stand for something, you fall for anything. For too often, a thread, a position, a "certainty" is presented with no heed whatsoever to genuine and real concerns to the contrary. Such gets tiresome.

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Re: What if my hypothesis regarding Snowden is correct?
by g2s 18 Jun '17

18 Jun '17

Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message --------From: Steve Kinney <admin(a)pilobilus.net> Date: 6/18/17 1:24 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Cc: cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: What if my hypothesis regarding Snowden is correct? On 06/18/2017 04:18 PM, Wilfred L. Guerin wrote: > "Snowed-In @ Moskow" "David Miranda Writes" "Manning the Deck" FBI CI > 101. Same DIA + FBI unit managed and papered those stupid staged events > and hundreds more. "Reality Winner"??? > To date I have seen no indications that > Manning was set up. Adrian Llamo set him up. A database hacker with a debt to credit card companies as restitution for a hack bust Rr In terms of impact, Snowden and (especially) Winner could be said to have advanced IC agendas and objectives. Manning not so much: Those leaks caused numerous diplomatic incidents with the U.S. a clear loser, and got U.S. forces kicked out of Iraq for quite a while. The timing of the PRISM release to remove Manning's trial from the news is also an indicator of sorts. :o) > On Sunday, June 18, 2017, Steve Kinney <admin(a)pilobilus.net > <mailto:admin@pilobilus.net>> wrote: > > On 06/18/2017 02:24 AM, Ryan Carboni wrote: > > > The hypothesis being that Snowden is at least a triple agent. Ali > > Mohammed provided material support to Al Qaeda, but that was > because he > > betrayed both the Army and Al Qaeda for the CIA. His sentencing > has been > > on hold for a long time, and it is interesting no one asks questions > > about it. > > My guess is that Snowden was an unwitting agent, spotted early by the > insider threat program and selected for use in a limited hangout. If > so, he was exposed to scripted events in the workplace to draw his > attention to specific programs, and given e-z access to selected > documents related to those programs. In the network age, censorship > ranges from difficult to impossible depending on the context; getting > ahead of an adversary and dominating the messaging on a given topic has > gained a new importance. I think the Snowden Affair may be an example. > > Glenn Greenwald's behavior, selecting a few of Snowden's documents to > publish and burying the rest, is consistent with this model. So too is > his initiative in pushing the publication date of the (partially > falsified) PRISM pages back to coincide with the first day of the > Manning trial, knocking it all the way out of the news. > > The huge controversy following the release of the first few Snowden > documents produced what results? It seems that the intel guys won every > engagement, even setting a precedent that senior U.S. intelligence > officials are allowed to lie to Congressional committees under oath with > no penalty of any kind. The way it all went down suggests to me that > the intel guise had a long lead time to select and prepare for specific > challenges. > > > Snowden's revelations increased the amount of encryption. > > The only place I saw that happen was a significant bump in the use of > SSL by a wider range of website operators. Given that the SSL key > signing protocol is deeply flawed and the NSA is uniquely well > positioned to conduct MITM attacks negating that particular form of > encryption, no harm done. The result is an increase in end users' > "false sense of" security - and a small net gain in "national security" > in the sense of making access to network traffic a little harder for > foreign intel and private sector criminal enterprises. > > A casual observer might believe that the Snowden docs caused significant > harm to U.S. interests, most notably when it was revealed the Angela > Merkel's phones were tapped - but those particular documents came from > an as yet unknown source, probably located in Germany. > > I don't "believe" a word of the above analysis. But I do consider it > more likely than the alternatives I have seen. > > > > > > >

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Re: What if my hypothesis regarding Snowden is correct?
by Steve Kinney 18 Jun '17

18 Jun '17

On 06/18/2017 04:18 PM, Wilfred L. Guerin wrote: > "Snowed-In @ Moskow" "David Miranda Writes" "Manning the Deck" FBI CI > 101. Same DIA + FBI unit managed and papered those stupid staged events > and hundreds more. "Reality Winner"??? To date I have seen no indications that Manning was set up. In terms of impact, Snowden and (especially) Winner could be said to have advanced IC agendas and objectives. Manning not so much: Those leaks caused numerous diplomatic incidents with the U.S. a clear loser, and got U.S. forces kicked out of Iraq for quite a while. The timing of the PRISM release to remove Manning's trial from the news is also an indicator of sorts. :o) > On Sunday, June 18, 2017, Steve Kinney <admin(a)pilobilus.net > <mailto:admin@pilobilus.net>> wrote: > > On 06/18/2017 02:24 AM, Ryan Carboni wrote: > > > The hypothesis being that Snowden is at least a triple agent. Ali > > Mohammed provided material support to Al Qaeda, but that was > because he > > betrayed both the Army and Al Qaeda for the CIA. His sentencing > has been > > on hold for a long time, and it is interesting no one asks questions > > about it. > > My guess is that Snowden was an unwitting agent, spotted early by the > insider threat program and selected for use in a limited hangout. If > so, he was exposed to scripted events in the workplace to draw his > attention to specific programs, and given e-z access to selected > documents related to those programs. In the network age, censorship > ranges from difficult to impossible depending on the context; getting > ahead of an adversary and dominating the messaging on a given topic has > gained a new importance. I think the Snowden Affair may be an example. > > Glenn Greenwald's behavior, selecting a few of Snowden's documents to > publish and burying the rest, is consistent with this model. So too is > his initiative in pushing the publication date of the (partially > falsified) PRISM pages back to coincide with the first day of the > Manning trial, knocking it all the way out of the news. > > The huge controversy following the release of the first few Snowden > documents produced what results? It seems that the intel guys won every > engagement, even setting a precedent that senior U.S. intelligence > officials are allowed to lie to Congressional committees under oath with > no penalty of any kind. The way it all went down suggests to me that > the intel guise had a long lead time to select and prepare for specific > challenges. > > > Snowden's revelations increased the amount of encryption. > > The only place I saw that happen was a significant bump in the use of > SSL by a wider range of website operators. Given that the SSL key > signing protocol is deeply flawed and the NSA is uniquely well > positioned to conduct MITM attacks negating that particular form of > encryption, no harm done. The result is an increase in end users' > "false sense of" security - and a small net gain in "national security" > in the sense of making access to network traffic a little harder for > foreign intel and private sector criminal enterprises. > > A casual observer might believe that the Snowden docs caused significant > harm to U.S. interests, most notably when it was revealed the Angela > Merkel's phones were tapped - but those particular documents came from > an as yet unknown source, probably located in Germany. > > I don't "believe" a word of the above analysis. But I do consider it > more likely than the alternatives I have seen. > > > > > > >

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What if my hypothesis regarding Snowden is correct?
by Ryan Carboni 18 Jun '17

18 Jun '17

The hypothesis being that Snowden is at least a triple agent. Ali Mohammed provided material support to Al Qaeda, but that was because he betrayed both the Army and Al Qaeda for the CIA. His sentencing has been on hold for a long time, and it is interesting no one asks questions about it. If one was to look for information about my hypothesis, what would one find? https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/ The implants are configured to communicate via HTTPS with the webserver of a cover domain; each operation utilizing these implants has a separate cover domain and the infrastructure can handle any number of cover domains. Each cover domain resolves to an IP address that is located at a commercial VPS (Virtual Private Server) provider. The public-facing server forwards all incoming traffic via a VPN to a 'Blot' server that handles actual connection requests from clients. It is setup for optional SSL client authentication: if a client sends a valid client certificate (only implants can do that), the connection is forwarded to the 'Honeycomb' toolserver that communicates with the implant; if a valid certificate is missing (which is the case if someone tries to open the cover domain website by accident), the traffic is forwarded to a cover server that delivers an unsuspicious looking website. --- Snowden's revelations increased the amount of encryption. However the NSA already collects a great amount of information through other means. For reasons unknown, much of the Snowden documents are classified at Talent Keyhole, which is explained at ( http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-us-classification-system.html ). Although overclassification is typical, afterall, many of the "secret" paragraphs are really FOUO because they are used in the private sector already ( https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3546567-10th-Anniversary-Edition-EP… ), the thing is that this implies the NSA collects data through means unhindered by encryption. Which makes "Practical-Titled Attack on AES-128 Using Chosen-Text Relations" all the more concerning. Why mock side channel cryptanalysis? Furthermore, Github has made accidentally publishing your shared secret very easy. https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=remove+password&type=Commits&ref… Many cases where AWS refunds thousands of dollars of fraud because someone accidentally publishes a Github key. To think that could be millions of dollars a week. Just refunding fraud. Naturally official CIA documentation would not suggest committing a crime, that would be like putting login settings to the production database into the tutorial ( https://np.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6ez8ag/accidentally_dest… ). Interestingly, insecure defaults imperil national security: https://theintercept.com/2017/05/11/nyu-accidentally-exposed-military-code-… . Regardless, you can still troll the NSA. They couldn't even design the Clipper chip correctly. Anyway, this modified limited hangout phrase is some really high level linguistics. Really complex, seems to intentionally prevent the reader from seeing patterns.

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Re: [Cryptography] 1984! US Senate Launches Forfeiture and Crypto / Cash / Assets / Prepaid War
by grarpamp 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

>> https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6hbis7/us_congress_going_full_198… >> https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/6hbhnp/americans_heads_up_congr… >> https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/6hccra/senate_bill_s_1241_is_a… >> https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1241/text >> http://www.article78againstnydfs.com/advocacy.php >> https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members >> https://cohesionsoftware.github.io/ >> With an *****average age of 73*****, the 4 Senators that cosponsored >> this bill are: > As having a degree in maths and stats, would that be the mean, the median, > or the mode? There is no such thing as "average". Umm sooo... Governments around the world trying their hardest to shutdown amazing cool nascent technologies that many of you cryptographers develop, thus have a personal interest in seeing prosper... such as Decentralized Digital Currencies... and the only thing you muster to say is... "What's average" and walk away from the table when the life of your offspring becomes political?!?! Yeah, that's average. If you put even far less than 1/100 of the time spent researching, coding, debugging your offspring... into supporting it politically... it might actually survive past the age of 10. If not, it won't. That's child abuse. # "Donations" - Finance, Securities, Investment, Insurance, Real Estate, Lawyers Grassley https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?type=C&cid=n00001758… Feinstein https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?type=C&cid=n00007364… Cornyn https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?type=C&cid=n00024852… Whitehouse https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?type=C&cid=n00027533… These people and entities are lost, scared, lack understanding, and see only one path... reactionary against. Reach out and give them community, philosophy, alternative directions, the whole deal. https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/member-lookup.php https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials/ Or as some have done regarding crypto messaging like Signal, simply show them how to accept / hide crypto donations to the point that hobbling Digital Currencies would prevent certain of their own uses.

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[WAR] Ukraine speaks to Donbass republics
by Zenaan Harkness 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

Some know well that Ukraine is currently run by a bunch of dastardly rebels who have no respect for their own population, let alone other humans such as the grandmother in the event below. Yes, Ukraine is a failed state. Yes it's another class act by the CIA and the Bilderberger cabal. It's hard to not be moved by such sad facts: Ukrainian sniper kills 78-year-old grandmother in broad daylight: http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/06/ukrainian-sniper-kills-78-year-old.html I spose we're sposed to say "rah rah USA, go CIA!" or something... Same with Libyia, Iraq, Syria, Afganistan, Yugoslavia, Somalia ... "rah rah CIA, go go USA". At least the USA has achieved global hegemonic power and control and a currency so stable it'll be another 100 years before the next "great depression" . . .

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ICC, the "International Criminal Court" - upstanding, high morals, Rainbow World Order
by Zenaan Harkness 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

We know with certainty that the One World/ New World Order institutions such as World Bank, IMF, ICC, WHO, BIS and the rest, are exceptionally "high moral ground", upstanding global citizens seeking to uplift humanity into a new age of universal rainbows for everyone, where love prevails the world over. So we can take it as given that the ICC's pursuits and declarations are nothing but "the gospel truth" in this world of heinous lies, grotesque "diplomacy" and vile "democracy". Just as well we have these breaths of fresh air to uplift our spirits. http://www.pravdareport.com/news/world/15-06-2017/137988-saif_al_islam-0/ International Criminal Court calls for arrest of Saif al-Islam al-Qathafi (We still see e.g. in Australia every few months, some less than informed, however well meaning, citizen grasping at some foreign (external) entity for "justice" - in the evidently naieve belief that since we are getting scr#w#d over at home, the one world government entities simply -must- be better and more likely to deliver justice to just us lowly serfs. As a good friend explained to me many years ago: "the authority you go to, is the authority you give power to", and thus anarchists are on one of the most useful and potentially fruitful paths for a human to purse - that authority which exists within one's own being, is the first and primary authority one might consider worthy of consulting on all matters whatsoever. And if we want separation of powers as much as possible, to do our best shot at handling the sociopaths who lust for power, then bringing to heel those authorities which -are- in our "back yard" is surely the first priority when dealing with external authorities. Problem: "local"/national authorities are running amok. Reaction: "OMG, we need another external authority solution!" Solution: <IMF and BIS owners rubbing their money grubbing hands in glee> "My my, yes you do have a problem, well, this hear one world bank/govt/police/military/currency/courts new world order will solve --all-- your problems dear serf!"

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[RUS] Putin offers Comey asylum on same basis as Snowden
by Zenaan Harkness 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

Since VV Putin is such a dry, humourless, calculating communist dictator with no principles, a hatred for his country and people and a thirst for global chaos and terrorism, surely we can take this one as fact. Or perhaps the daily MSM shirtshow has me ever so mildly confused? At least Russia treats human rights refugees with respect... and perhaps Comey is next on the USA's-most-wanted-soon-to-be-holed-up- at-the-ends-of-the-earth-known-as-Russia list? 10 Vladimir Putin classics from this year’s marathon Q & A http://theduran.com/10-vladimir-putin-classics-from-this-years-marathon-q-a/ 1. Asylum for Comey ... And a little reminder of why you MUST not go anywhere near Russian women: 5 reasons you should NEVER marry a Russian woman http://russiafeed.com/5-reasons-you-should-never-marry-a-russian-woman/ (Although they did miss the true number 1 on that list: 1. Goldilocks wields an AK-47 and will kick your neighbour's arse to kingdom come in a hail of 7.62×39mm cartridges fired off at 600 rounds a minute since she forgot to set it from auto back to semi-auto when she was practising at the range this morning, should the pesky neighbour so much as THINK about harassing you, her devoted husband. )

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InfoWars Alex Jones: Preaching the conspiracy gospel at a station near you
by grarpamp 16 Jun '17

16 Jun '17

https://web.archive.org/web/19990508133342/http://www.infowars.com:80/alex_… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJFi9ky01D0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9HGfRrfv-Q Alex Jones: Preaching the conspiracy gospel at a station near you By Mike Kelley American-Statesman Staff Local radio host Alex Jones Published: April 17, 1999 Ask Alex Jones what he thinks about being called one of the "black-helicopter people," and he says, "We were kooks to talk about black helicopters years ago. We were weirdos. And now, it's `Oh yeah, black helicopters are real and they're going to help.' " Jones, at age 25, is perhaps the best-known and most talked-about local proponent of the notion of a coming New World Order in which individual liberties are subjugated by government, itself controlled by global corporations. He puts his views on pyrotechnic display through programs on the local-access Austin Community Television twice weekly, FM radio station KJFK 98.9 six nights a week, and his Internet site, www.InfoWars.com. On television, he exudes so much energy that a viewer might almost expect bits of flesh to start flying from the screen. In person, he is no less passionate, but much more low-key, losing his arm-waving studio demeanor. Instead, his eyes flick about as he looks for just the right analogy to make his point. A Jones critic, on the Internet, calls him "Austin's leading conspiracy theorist. He advocates the usual mix of laughable conspiracy paranoia, from the Federal Reserve and the Rockefellers to the Council on Foreign Relations and the UN. He's gained quite an audience, if for no other reason than he's passionate about his beliefs. When Alex gets a good head of steam, he's pretty entertaining to watch." It's certainly not difficult to lay the label of conspiracy theorist on him. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, he says, is building hundreds of concentration camps on military bases with separate areas for men, women and women with children. More truth, according to Alex Jones: At the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, federal agents with breathing gear went in to kill the people inside so there would be no witnesses to the truth of how that standoff really began. "It's not really a conspiracy theory," Jones says. "It's simply trying to look at a different side of reality, and I can say with total certainty that my reality is a lot closer to what's happening on this planet today than what the general public is being fed." Jones grew up in Dallas. His family -- both of his parents went to the University of Texas, he says -- moved to Austin when he was a teen-ager, and he finished his last two years of public education at Anderson High School. He went to Austin Community College for a while, he says, but found it boring. His antipathy for and fear of big government, he says, stems from family problems with the IRS. "My dad (a dentist) is the most decent, Dudley Doo-Right person. He'll stop and fix people's tires. And I watched the IRS rake him over the coals twice and steal all his money. My grandparents, who are in their 70s, live in South Austin. The IRS tried to steal their house. It's criminal. That's where the venom comes from with me," he says. And yes, there are helicopters in his life. In the months after he did a radio broadcast about STAR Flight medical helicopters being used for law enforcement, he says, low-flying helicopters harassed him in his car and his mother, girlfriend and ACTV producer Mike Hanson in their homes. As for the military's recent, urban-warfare training in South Texas cities and other places in the country, Jones says he doesn't believe that is aimed at "real terrorists." He has seen, he says, "a real willingness in this country to actually sponsor terrorists. . . . Texas Monthly gave a 1998 Bum Steer award to the FBI for creating a Klan group." Why more people don't see things the way he does, Jones says, is, "One, it's scary. Two, a lot of people are nice and they just want to live their lives and they think things are good and the government is trying to fix the problems. It's like a rat doesn't question the parameters of the maze. It just accepts the walls and the contours and makes decisions within that system."

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