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Jeff Rense is an American conspiracy theorist and radio talk-show host of the Jeff Rense Program, broadcast on US satellite radio via GCN and worldwide via Internet radio. [1]

Rense's radio program and website, Rense.com [2]cover subjects such as UFO reporting, paranormal phenomena, conspiracy theories, tracking of new diseases & possible resultant pandemics, unusual environmental concerns (see chemtrails), possible evidence of advanced ancient technology, geopolitical developments and emergent energy technologies, complementary and alternative medicine among other subjects. Rense tends to lean towards a populist approach regarding politics and the mainstream media. Neither Rense nor his show subscribe to any one political standpoint and many of his views can therefore be interpreted as simultaneously left and right leaning.[citation needed]

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[edit] Biographical information

Rense hails from a family of writers and journalists. He has two brothers, one of whom is journalist Rip Rense, longtime reporter for the Los Angeles Times [3]. His stepmother, New York socialite Paige Rense, is editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest and founder of the Arthur Rense Prize poetry award [1]. His father Arthur Rense was a sports journalist for the Los Angeles Daily News [2] and director of public relations for Howard R. Hughes' Summa Corporation [4] His second brother Kirk lives in Irvine, California [4].

Not very much has been revealed about Rense's early years apart from a few admissions on his own show regarding an early Sci-fi and UFO inclination as well as a strong enthusiasm for sports, particularly volleyball. Rense has admitted to being active in the local Santa Barbara volleyball scene in younger years. In addition he has often admitted to working as a grade school teacher, although it is unclear as to whether this was before or after his tenure in news broadcasting. By his own admission, Rense worked as a television news producer and anchor for a handful of network affiliates in the Northwest by the early-to mid 1980s, including Oregon NBC affiliate KOBI-TV. [3] By the late-1980s however, Rense became "disillusioned" with TV broadcasting and decided to leave the business altogether. He has often stated on his show that this was in no small part due to what he perceived to be an ever increasing superficiality and cynicism of news broadcasting.[4] After what he refers to as "walking away" from a twelve year TV career, [5] Rense returned to Santa Barbara and opened several "All About Pets" stores. By the early-1990s, he had sold all three of his pet store outlets. [6]

[edit] About the show

Rense first tried his hand at radio while an education major at the University of California Santa Barbara. Sometime in 1994 Rense decided to self-finance his own radio show [7] and approached Santa Barbara radio station KTMS with his idea for a talk-radio show. [8] The Jeff Rense program was originally known as "End of the line with Jeff Rense" and ran under that name for close to four years. Around 1997 the show was renamed "Sightings on the Radio" when the show was acquired by Premiere Radio Networks and received a special licensing agreement via CBS Paramount's Henry Winkler ('the Fonz'), at the time crosspromoting the Sci-Fi channel TV show 'Sightings'. A few years ago the show was finally renamed the "Jeff Rense Program".

The show is live-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. Before 2004 the show had been archived for free in low-resolution 8-bit real media format hosted by Yahoo, with show archives dating back to 1997. 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 8 bit stream.

[edit] Show topics & previous guests

A recurring subject on the Rense show is a general mistrust of the establishment, and the theory that the attacks on the New York World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 were orchestrated by Neoconservative elements within the US Government, the CIA and the Israeli Mossad, and not exclusively by Islamic fundamentalists, as is the commonly held view. Rense's view is based on the premise that the attacks were part of an on-going coup designed to provide the Bush Administration with the social, political and economic leverage necessary to more aggressively pursue what he views as a "corrupt global agenda", on behalf of a "Global Elite" --in addition to initiating a system of control in the USA itself via anti-terrorist measures such as the USA Patriot Act, the Homeland Security Act and the Military Commissions Act. Rense has devoted a great deal of airtime and website space to this controversial subject.

Regular guests include Historian Webster Griffin Tarpley; Brad Steiger, an expert on the paranormal; radio talk show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones; Israeli journalist Barry Chamish; Tim Rifat, a geopolitical analyst; authors Jim Marrs and David Icke; Charles R Smith, a geopolitical military analyst; George Filer, Peter Davenport and Brian Vike, all three from the field of ufology. Perennial Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche has also been a frequent guest. The show has also featured mainstream left-wing critics of the Bush administration such as congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and journalist Greg Palast.

Other recurring topics on the show are health and vegetarianism. Rense has interviewed a number of vegan/vegetarian authors such as John Robbins, Joanne Stepaniek [9] and Gail Davis [10]. He has also interviewed various vegan M.D.'s such as Dr. Michael Klaper [11], Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Michael Greger [12] and Dr. T. Colin Campbell as well as lipid and excitotoxicity experts such as Dr. Udo Erasmus and Dr. Russell Blaylock [13]. Rense has also covered public health and epidemiological issues such as BSE and Mad Cow disease with authors Howard Lyman, Robert Cohen and Patricia Doyle, among others.

For several years the Jeff Rense Program also ran a monthly feature on natural health with the controversial alternative cancer therapy proponent Dr. Lorraine Day. The show has also covered the subject of animal rights with guests such as Bruce Friedrich and Alex Hershaft of PETA as well as former George W. Bush speechwriter turned animal rights advocate Matthew Scully.

[edit] Website

Rense.com is managed by Rense himself and his webmaster James Neff, who also supplies artwork for many of the site's splash screens. [14] Rense.com is frequently mentioned as typical example of a conspiracy theory website and is even viewed as a disinformation channel by some critics. The US State Department has listed Rense.com as the top disinformation site [15]. The webmaster of Rense.com has published a rebuttal of sorts to that claim, [16] using the state department's own criteria in comparison with the Watergate cover-up.

[edit] Alleged Anti-Semitism

Rense has been accused of anti-Semitism[5] and Holocaust denial, though he claims only to be anti-Zionist. He believes that Zionists are "in control of the world" and trying to "control civilized society" in order to bring in a "New World Order". His guests have allegedly criticized Jews and allegedly repeated quotes from the Talmud that have been perceived by some as "anti-semitic". Rense has occasionally given airtime to individuals accused of being 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."

He justifies this by claiming he is supporting freedom of expression and does not necessarily personally support all of what his guests have to say; emphatically stating that he is anti-Zionist rather than anti-Semitic. He has also indicated that Zionists are "in control of the world" through their dominance of central banking and global finance and the mainstream Media. Rense claims that the ultimate goal of the "Zionist Illuminati" is to bring about a "New World Order" - a repressive system of social control in which all nation states are to be dissolved and replaced by a totalitarian, global government.

Rense and several of his guests and columnists state that they have been targets of death threats and intimidation from detractors that he believes may be Zionists. [6][7][8].

[edit] Books

Rense has authored the 1997 book "AIDS Exposed" (BioAlert press, ISBN 096489890X). [17]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ James B., Meigs (2006). The Conspiracy Industry. Popular Mechanics. Hearst Communications, Inc.. Retrieved on 2007-02-14.
  2. ^ About The Show - Jeff Rense Program. Jeff Rense.
  3. ^ BroadcastTalk.Com: Jeff Rense hosts Sightings. Broadcast America.
  4. ^ a b "Arthur F. Rense, Public Relations Executive, 74", New York Times, January 5, 1991.
  5. ^ Among those making this accusation: Art Bell (March 5, 2005), Paul Kimball, The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.
  6. ^ "Zionist Terrorist Attacks On Rense.com", December 12, 2005, Rense.com
  7. ^ "Death Threats Hit Prominent Political Columnists", by Todd Brendan Fahey, December 12, 2005, Rense.com
  8. ^ "Zionist Thugs Threaten Another Rense.com Writer And Program Guest", by Jim Mortellaro, January 26, 2006, Rense.com

[edit] References

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

[edit] External links

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