Site update: 25th July 2001
New material added. Information about Jon's upcoming talks at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Doclands film festival in Dublin and a review of Jon's book in Australia's The Age.
 
Site update: 20th July 2001
If you're in need of an Alex Jones fix you can see him penetrate Bohemian Grove in two video extracts from the 'The Satanic Shadowy Elite?' episode of Jon's Secret Rulers of the World series.
 
You can view Mark Bennett's photos of Jon's recent 'Conspiracy Culture' talk at the Strange Attractor website.
 
Site update: 16th July 2001
If you were unable to see Jon at the Strange Attractor event in London last Tues (we had to turn people away in droves) you can catch him this Wednesday 18th at the Skeptics in the pub event, see the talks section for more info.
 
Site update: 22th June 2001
Jon's favourite review of his book THEM: Adventures with Extremists was writen by Brian Appleyard in the New Statesman, we've added the review in full to the site. We've also added a review of the book from the Irish Independent.
 
News update: 22th June 2001
Jon is the main speaker at this upcoming London event.
 
Strange Attractor, Tues 10th July
Tim McVeigh's Co-Conspirators
Jon Ronson will discuss his experiences researching his book Them: Adventures with Extremists and TV series The Secret Rulers of the World, with particular focus on the Oklahoma City Bombing. Was Timothy Mcveigh assisted in his actions? Footage will illustrate the talk.
 
Film: Highlights from The Best of Alex Jones, America's No.1 conspiracy TV and radio star! See him confront Janet Reno, George Bush and the FBI on his mission to single-handedly expose the evils of the New World Order.
 
Panel: Jon Ronson, David Barrett (author of Secret Societies and ex-GCHQ staffer) and Ken Hollings (Bizarre, The Wire) will discuss whether a little paranoia might be good for you. Chaired by Mark Pilkington from Fortean Times.
 
7.30pm, Horse Hospital, The Colonnade, behind Russell Sq tube, London
 
Advanced booking on: 020 7833 3644.
More info: www.strangeattractor.co.uk
 
Site update: 10th June 2001
We've added Jon's talks schedule for June through to August to the site. You can chat with Jon online this week at The Guardian website on Friday 15th June at 2pm.
 
Site update: 30th May 2001
We've added David V Barrett's review of Jon's book THEM: Adventures with Extremists which recently appeared in The Independent.
 
Jon's taking a well earned break after a hectic two month schedule promoting both his book and Channel 4 TV series. In the pipeline is a documentary about Jonathan King and the release of his book THEM: Adventures with Extremists in the US during October.
 
Site update: 21st May 2001
We've added a link to the live chat Jon did after the Bohemian Grove episode of the Secret Rulers of the World.
 
News update: 21st May 2001
The fifth and final programme of Jon's Channel 4 series The Secret Rulers of the World is called, The Bilderberg Group and is due for broadcast on Sunday 27th May at 8pm and repeated at 4:40am.
 
Jon Ronson investigates the mysterious Bilderberg Group. Could this elite circle, said to include Peter Mandelson, Denis Healey and Henry Kissinger, really be ruling the world? In Washington DC Jon meets the portly Big Jim Tucker, regarded by the anti-Bilderberg crowd as a heroic trailblazer.
 
Jim has discovered the location of the next Bilderberg Group meeting and Jon joins him in a quest for the truth, which leads to confrontations with unwelcoming security guards and a leisurely car chase. Will they get to the bottom of the Bilderberg enigma?
 
News update: 14th May 2001
The fourth programme of Jon's Channel 4 series The Secret Rulers of the World is called, The Satanic Shadowy Elite? and is due for broadcast on Sunday 20th May at 9pm.
 
Could it be that some of the elite leaders of the world - the bankers, the politicians, the media fat cats, even former presidents of the United States - are all in cahoots to deliver a New World Order, a clique with supreme force promising destruction for all those who dare to oppose it?
 
According to some people, every year in a leafy outpost in Northern California called Bohemian Grove, a mysterious ritual takes place that is attended by some of the most powerful people on the planet...
 
Jon Ronson follows Alex Jones, a hugely popular 26-year-old talk show host from Austin, Texas, in his attempts to discover the truth behind these bizarre goings on. Is the ritual, which includes the burning of an effigy to a strange owl-like totem pole, really as sinister as some would have it, or is it just a harmless symbol of renewal?
 
You can chat to Jon after the programme at the Channel 4 website.
 
Site update: 12th May 2001
We've added some information about several forthcoming talks at the end of May. more
 
News update: 7th May 2001
The third programme of Jon's Channel 4 series The Secret Rulers of the World is called, April 19: The Oklahoma Bomb and is due for broadcast on Sunday 13th May at 9pm.
 
Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber, was a conspiracy theorist. He believed that a shadowy elite secretly controls the governments of the world, conspiring to establish a genocidal New World Order. Ronson goes in search of the truth about the Oklahoma bombing. Along the way he meets terrorists on the run, eccentric strip-club owners, conspiracy theorists, elevator engineers, and ends up in the mysterious Elohim City, a bizarre survivalist compound in Oklahoma that might hold they key to the mystery. McVeigh's is due to be executed on May 16 2001. (UPDATE: The US attorney-general announced on Friday 11th May that McVeigh's execution would be delayed by a month after it emerged that thousands of documents had been mistakenly withheld from McVeigh's defence lawyers by the FBI.)
 
We've added links to a series of related texts to the Secret Rulers of the World section, covering Timothy McVeigh, David Icke, Bohemian Grove and the Bilderberg Group. more
 
Site update: 2nd May 2001
We've added a thirty three minute Real Video interview Jon did for relaxwithabook.com recently. He talks about many of the topics covered in his book THEM: Adventures with Extremists and his current Channel 4 series including: Omar Bakri Mohammed, Tony Kaye, David Icke, the Ku Klux Klan, the Bilderberg Group and Bohemian Grove. more
 
News update: 30th April 2001
Over the next two weeks Jon's making several public appearances to promote his book Them: Adventures with Extremists. more
 
The second programme of Jon's Channel 4 series The Secret Rulers of the World is called, David Icke the Lizards and the Jews and is due for broadcast on Sunday 6th May at 8pm. In it Jon encounters one of Britain's most infamous media figures, David Icke, on a lecture tour that takes the ex-sports broadcaster and self-proclaimed "Son of God" headlong into controversy.
 
Icke has resurrected his career and now lectures to packed houses around the world. He claims that the ruling elite are genetically descended from a race of 12-foot, blood-drinking, shape-shifting lizards...
 
But when Icke says 'lizards' does he actually mean 'lizards'? Or does he, as a powerful coalition of prominent Jewish groups claim, mean Jews; an accusation which Icke denies adamantly? The programme provides a fascinating insight into extremists - and how the public responds to them.
 
Site update: 28th April 2001
Weve added a search facility to the site and a review of Jon's book from The Irish Times.
 
News update: 27th April 2001
There's an interview with Jon about his series The Secret Rulers of the World in the next edition of Bizarre magazine which goes on sale from 1st May.
 
Site update: 26th April 2001
The new site design was launched on 26th April 2001. Launch contents include extracts from Ronson's new book THEM: Adventures with Extremists, as well as reviews, video clips and information about public appearances to promote the book and his upcoming Channel 4 five part series The Secret Rulers of the World which starts in May 2001. You can chat to Jon live on the Channel 4 website on 20th May after the Bohemian Grove edition of The Secret Rulers of the World has aired.
 
The first programme in the series, The Legend of Ruby Ridge, will air on Sunday 29th April. Ronson tells the story of the infamous killings at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Aided by the candid and moving recollections of Rachel Weaver and her father Randy, he examines how this seminal incident shaped the course of the American Militia movement, the Waco siege, and possibly even the Oklahoma bombing. more

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