Jeff Rense

Template:911tmJeff Rense is an American investigative journalist and host of the Jeff Rense Program, broadcast on radio and world-wide on the Internet.

Rense's radio program and website, Rense.com (see also: http://www.rense.com/aboutnew1.htm ) cover such widely diverse topics as up-to-date UFO reporting, paranormal phenomena, conspiracy "theories", tracking of new diseases & possible resultant pandemics, unusual environmental concerns (see chemtrails), compelling evidence of highly advanced ancient technology, under-reported geopolitical developments and emergent energy technologies, to name a few. Mr Rense tends to lean towards a populist approach regarding politics and the mainstream media.

Biographical information

Rense lives in southern Oregon. He has two brothers, one of whom is journalist Rip Rense, longtime reporter for the Los Angeles Times [1]. His second brother Kirk lives in Irvine, California [2]. His stepmother, Paige Rense, is editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest and founder of the Arthur Rense Prize poetry award [3]. His father Arthur F. Rense (1917-1990) was a sports journalist for the Los Angeles Daily News [4] and director of public relations for Howard R. Hughes' Summa Corporation [5].

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. He has also 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 1980's, including Oregon NBC affiliate KOBI-TV. By the late 1980's however, Rense became "disillusioned" with TV news and decided to leave the business altogether. After walking away from his TV career path, 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]

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 and approached Santa Barbara radio station KTMS with his idea for a talk-radio show. [7] 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 complete show archives running all the way 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.

Show topics & previous guests

A popular subject with Rense and his world-wide audience is the theory that the attacks on the New York World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 were actually orchestrated by Neocon elements within the US Government, the CIA and the Israeli Mossad, and not exclusively by Islamic fundamentalists, as the US mainstream media still purports. Rense's view asserts that the attacks were the leading edge of an on-going coup designed to provide the Bush Administration with the social, political and economic leverage necessary to more aggressively pursue a "corrupt global agenda", on behalf of a "Global Elite" --in addition to initiating a repressive system of control in the USA Itself (See the so-called 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, among others: Historian Webster Griffin Tarpley; Brad Steiger, an expert on the paranormal; American patriot & talk-show host Alex Jones, Israeli journalist Barry Chamish; Tim Rifat, a geopolitical analyst; Jim Marrs; David Icke; Charles R Smith, a geopolitical military analyst; George Filer, Peter Davenport and Brian Vike, all three of whom are widely recognized and well-regarded experts in ufology. Perennial Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche has also been a major guest. Endorsements from Rense appear on the covers of Steiger's books.

Other recurring topics on the Jeff Rense Show is health, veganism and vegetarianism. Rense has interviewed a variety of guests on a wide range of health-related topics over the years, including vegan authors such as John Robbins, Joanne Stepaniek [8] and Gail Davis [9]. He has also interviewed a variety of vegan M.D.'s, doctors and health experts such as Dr. Michael Klaper [10], Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Michael Greger [11] and Dr. T. Colin Campbell, lipid experts such as Dr. Udo Erasmus as well as excitotoxicity experts such as Dr. Russell Blaylock [12]. Rense has also covered public health and epidemiological issues such as BSE and Mad Cow disease with author Howard Lyman and Robert Cohen as well as other epidemiological issues with disease expert Patricia Doyle, among others.

For several years the Jeff Rense Program also ran a popular 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.

Website

His website, Rense.com, is frequently targeted by his detractors as a prime example of a "conspiracy theory" and disinformation website. In fact, the US State Department has top-listed Rense.com after this fashion; see this link from Rense.com itself, featuring a rebuttal of this stance: http://www.rense.com/general67/commn.htm ri[1][2]]. The site is managed by Rense and his webmaster, James Neff, who also supplies artwork for many of the site's splash screens [13].

As of 09 Feb 07, his website has been unavailable from Japan, the UK, Scandinavia, and the United States for as yet unexplained reasons.

Controversy

Some feel that Rense is unequalled in the prodigious range of material he covers. His supporters claim there is no program or site which comes close to presenting the total panorama of news and information he does. Others have accused him of racism and antisemitism for his reporting on 'taboo' subjects during which he has given airtime to scholars and researchers who are skeptical about the Holocaust as it is commonly held. Some of those guests subscribe to theories that the Holocaust has been either fabricated or exaggerated and used in various ways by "Zionist Jewish supremacists" for political power. Others, including some Jewish scholars, have stated that Zionist Jewish financiers and bankers were ultimately responsible for the suffering of Europe's Jews in WWII...and continue a clever policy of use and manipulation of Jews and Judaism to this day. Meanwhile, other guests have also intensely criticized Catholicism and all organized religions as ultimately being tools of control, oppression and unlimited financial gain and control. His website once also contained reprints from Spotlight magazine of a controversial document entitled "A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century" and Holocaust skepticism material reprinted from the Institute for Historical Review, which the journal History Teacher called "shockingly racist and anti-Semitic".

As of this writing, the Rense program is not broadcast on any American radio stations. According to Rense's webmaster, James Neff, "It is extremely difficult for Jeff to get his show on local affiliates -- we are hounded by several Zionist intimidation groups which contact these stations and scare the hell out of them with threats of both violence and economic boycotts..

Books

Rense has authored the book AIDS Exposed (1996). Amazon.com has listed the book's publisher as BioAlert press [14]. A write-up in a local Oregon weekly had this to say about Rense's work on the book: [15]

"As a journalist and private citizen, he became aware of the misinformation and propaganda surrounding the worldwide AIDS epidemic. Devoting three years of his life to researching, collecting, and compiling information, Mr. Rense authored the underground best-seller, AIDS Exposed, published in 1996. This 420-page book has been acclaimed as 'overwhelming,' 'invaluable' and 'the supreme public service' by broadcasters, medical professionals, and educators alike."

References

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

External links

• Jeff Rense Program official site, Rense.com.
• Concentration Camps In America - Are They For YOU ?! Primary link taken from a Jeff Rense article referring to internment camps for "troublesome" Americans.
• Meigs, James B. (2006). "The Conspiracy Industry". Popular Mechanics. Hearst Communications, Inc. Retrieved 2006-10-20.