Jeff Rense

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Jeff Rense is an American conspiracy theorist and the host of the Jeff Rense program, broadcast on radio and on the Internet.

Rense's radio program and website (see below) cover such subjects as UFO reports, paranormal phenomena, conspiracy theories, reports of new diseases, and a wide variety of other topics. Jeff Rense leans towards a populist approach regarding politics and media.

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[edit] Biographical information

Rense lives in southern Oregon. He has two brothers, one of whom is journalist Rip Rense. His stepmother, New York socialite and editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest Magazine, is Paige Rense. His father, now deceased, was sports journalist Arthur F. Rense (1917-1990).

[edit] About his show

The Jeff Rense program show is broadcast over radio networks, satellite and the internet five times a week, Monday to Friday, 3am-6am GMT, 7pm-10pm PST and has featured in the 2001 list of top 100 radio hosts in Talkers magazine. In September, 2004, due to the increase in the cost of bandwidth, Rense began to charge internet listeners a monthly fee of $5.95 USD or a yearly fee of $54.95 USD in order to access his radio archives. It is still free to listen to the distribution of his current live shows via an 8bit stream.

A popular subject with Rense is the theory that the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 were actually orchestrated by the CIA/Mossad and not (at least exclusively) by Islamic fundamentalists. The theory is that the September 11 attacks were a sinister coup designed to give the establishment the political leverage necessary in order to pursue a corrupt global agenda. Rense gives a great deal of airtime to this subject in particular.

His website, Rense.com, is frequently mentioned as an example of a conspiracy website.[1][2]

[edit] Previous guests

The majority of the interviewees on the Jeff Rense show are occasional guests. His regular guests appear about once or twice a month. Regular guests on his show include, amongst others: Brad Steiger, who's an expert on the paranormal; conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Barry Chamish; Tim Rifat, a geopolitical analyst; Jim Marrs; David Icke; expert on disease, Patricia Doyle; Charles R Smith, a geopolitical military analyst; George Filer, Peter Davenport and Brian Vike, all three of whom are experts in ufology. Political extremist and perennial Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche is also a frequent guest.

Endorsements from Rense appear on the covers of Steiger's books.[3][4]

[edit] Criticism

By virtue of his non-conventional views, Jeff Rense has often courted controversy. Rense has been accused of racism, anti-Semitism[5] and Holocaust denial, though he claims he is actually pro-Jewish yet anti-Zionist. He believes that Zionists are "in control of the world" through their dominance of central banking and global finance. Rense claims that the ultimate goal of the Zionist illuminati is to bring in a "New World Order" - a system of government in which all nation states are dissolved and replaced by an undemocratic, global government. Some of his guests have criticized the Jewish religion, and have allegedly repeated false quotes from the Jewish Talmud. He has also given airtime to Holocaust deniers such as Ernst Zündel and Mark Weber, and backs theories that the Holocaust has been greatly exaggerated and used in various ways by "Jewish supremacists" for political power and that "Jewish financiers and bankers were ultimately responsible for hostility towards Jews."

His website once contained reprints from the conspiratorial Spotlight magazine, known anti-Semitic forgeries such as the A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century, and Holocaust denial material reprinted from the Institute for Historical Review, which the journal History Teacher called "shockingly racist and anti-Semitic". [6]

He justifies this by claiming he is defending free speech and does not necessarily support all of what his guests have to say, and states that he is anti-Zionist rather than anti-Semitic. Jeff Rense has interviewed many non-whites and Jews on his show including conspiracy theorist Barry Chamish and also advertised the Neturei Karta affiliate Jews Against Zionism. Rense and several of his guests and columnists claim to have been victims of death threats and intimidation from critics that he considers "Zionists." [7][8][9]

Additionally, there is much contention between Rense and researchers Victor Thorn and Lisa Guiliani of the World Independent News Group, mainly because of his refusal to take some of his guests (particularly Alex Jones and Greg Szymanski) to task for their sensationalism and monopolization (specifically by refusing to mention other, non-affiliated groups and individuals such as WING, they cite, amongst other proofs, censorship and his refusal to report on various rallies, some of which were rather large, numbering in 250,000 participants in front of the White House lawn, which would show how widespread, and thus credible, the movement and its basic position is).[10] Also in the case of Zionism, they complain that Rense delivers scant information on the subject, and buries it under tabloid-style material concerning the paranormal. They claim that he does not make any clear stance on this or related issues, such as the holocaust.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "Toutatis threatens totally", Skeptical Inquirer, July-August, 2004, by Robert Sheaffer, at FindArticles.com
  2. ^ "Tony Blair's message", by Nat Hentoff, The Washington Times, July 27, 2003
  3. ^ Christmas Miracles: Inspirational Stories of True Holiday Magic by Brad Steiger, Sherry Hansen Steiger, ISBN 1580625525
  4. ^ Animal Miracles: Inspirational and Heroic True Stories by Brad Steiger, Sherry Hansen Steiger, ISBN 1580624758
  5. ^ Among those making this accusation: Art Bell (March 5, 2005), Paul Kimball, The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.
  6. ^ History Teacher, Vol 28, No.4, p 526
  7. ^ "Zionist Terrorist Attacks On Rense.com", December 12, 2005, Rense.com
  8. ^ "Death Threats Hit Prominent Political Columnists", by Todd Brendan Fahey, December 12, 2005, Rense.com
  9. ^ "Zionist Thugs Threaten Another Rense.com Writer And Program Guest", by Jim Mortellaro, January 26, 2006, Rense.com
  10. ^ "Jeff Rense: A Reinvention of What?", by Lisa Guliani, WING TV

[edit] References

  • Silva, Veronica C. "Cyberspace: Host to Host". BusinessWorld (Philippines). 4 September 1997. p. 18.

[edit] External links

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