Jeff Rense

Jeff Rense is a former television news anchorman who lives in Santa Barbara, California. He is a popular conspiracy theorist and is the host of the Jeff Rense program, broadcast on terrestrial radio and on the Internet.

Rense originally became famous in the 90's with the program "Sightings". His radio program and website (see below) cover such subjects as UFO reports, paranormal phenomena, conspiracy theories, reports of new diseases and a plethora of other material rarely covered by the mainstream media. Jeff Rense leans towards a populist approach regarding politics and media. He does not subscribe to any conventional political standpoint and many of his views are simultaneously left and right leaning.

Rense has two brothers, one of whom is journalist Rip Rense. His step mother, 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). Jeff Rense is also a vegan and his favorite musician is Mario Lanza.

About his show

The Jeff Rense show is broadcast over terrestrial 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 popularity of his radio show and the resultant 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, however, still free to listen to distribution of his current shows live via an 8bit stream.

Mistrust of the establishment is a common theme on his radio show and website. Rense will often run articles which purport, for example, that HIV was created in laboratories by the CIA or some other governmental organization in order to reduce the global population as well as to enrich the pharmaceutical corporations. The subjects of the Illuminati and New World Order are often covered on his show and Rense believes that a secret government is in place in order to keep humanity in a position of servitude. He is often very critical of the establishment and of the US government in particular. Many of the guests on his show suggest that extra-terrestrials play a pivotal role within the secret government.

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.

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, an expert on the paranormal; conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Barry Chamish; Tim Rifat, a geopolitical analyst; Jim Marrs; expert on disease, Patricia Doyle Phd; Charles R Smith, a geopolitical military analyst; George Filer, Peter Davenport and Brian Vike, all three of whom are experts in ufology.

Criticism

By virtue of his non-conventional views, Jeff Rense has often courted controversy. Rense has been accused of racism, anti-Semitism 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 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". (History Teacher, Vol 28, No.4, p 526)

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 alternative medicine advocate "Adam", who is of African-American descent. He has 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." ^*

References

Among those making this accusation: Art Bell (March 5, 2005), Paul Kimball, The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.

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